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Boron's Frustration and Evolutionary Theory

from WAR OF THE WORMS

Written by Andrew Kurtzman, Anne Kurtzman

Three socially outcast friends lament their romantic failures and the perceived injustice of evolutionary attraction while sitting in a mall food court. As they navigate feelings of humiliation and intellectual superiority, they grapple with the realization that their intelligence offers no advantage in the high school social hierarchy.

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JACK: I can’t fucking believe we fell for that.

BORON: Again!

JACK: We’ve achieved a new quantum level of humiliation.

BORON: It’s like we’re at the center of a neutron star, and one teaspoon of our humiliation weighs a hundred thousand pounds.

WHITMAN: This is worse than when they told us Shatner w

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CharactersJack, Boron, Whitman
Duration3:30
Age RangeTeenager
GenderMale
GenreSci-Fi Comedy
PeriodContemporary
Formatgroup
SourceWAR OF THE WORMS
ToneFrustrated, intellectual, misanthropic, comedic
Suitable Foragent showcase, self tape, general practice
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