Original paper for this tape only. Not a frame from the show, and not somebody else's picture.

Season 3

Spontaneous Combustion

S03E0250% hitSnowy town

April 14, 1999 · Focus: Stan

The printer is foaming. Spontaneous combustion hits town, the mayor needs a cause, and the boys invent a theory involving romance.

The picture is losing itHolding still

The printer is foaming. Spontaneous combustion hits town, the mayor needs a cause, and the boys invent a theory involving romance.

Snowy town. Play sends the paper cutouts through a different gag every press. Stop drops it.

The printed calls

Scored against what aired. The wild card is allowed to be wrong and it will be dramatic about it.

plotPartialConfidence 91

Stan will try to leave town and the cabinet will block the door, because spontaneous combustion hits town, the mayor needs a cause, and the boys invent a theory involving romance.

Half of this matched "Spontaneous Combustion". The other half was the cabinet showing off and refusing to apologize.

characterPartialConfidence 61

Character call, shouted: Stan makes one choice that the town punishes out of proportion.

Partial on S03E02: right town, wrong porch, and it is yelling about it.

gagHitConfidence 75

The laugh S03E02 is small, mean, and losing its mind. The mayor's public-safety tips get more unhinged each scene.

The cabinet shrieked the shape of S03E02. The tape, rudely, agreed.

musicalMissConfidence 38

"Spontaneous Combustion" will close on an original showstopper about a meeting that will not adjourn. It will not.

Miss. S03E02 wanted nothing to do with the cabinet's wild card.

Stumble back to the drawer

Threading this tape into the theater. The sprockets are unhappy.