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Half an hour late, Emo flapped and blinked onto the Hasty Pudding Theatricals' stage, awkward and gangly, wearing too-big checked pants, belt cinched somewhere around where his pectorals should be. Enthusiastic whines of "Eeeemoooo, "Eeeemoooo" rose from the audience...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Way, Way, Way Out There | 11/22/1986 | See Source »

...proboscis weighing his head forward into a bashful stoop, and his Prince Valiant hair clanking against his forehead, Emo introduced himself: "My name is Emo. As opposed to Emu...which is a tall, ugly skinny creature with a big beak. No resemblance there...." Laughter...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Way, Way, Way Out There | 11/22/1986 | See Source »

...Emo has created a stage persona more pathetic than Woody Allen, more whiny than The Pathological Liar and about as bizarre as Sid Vicious. He makes it clear from the start that he's a geek, a psycho, a loser, and that we should laugh...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Way, Way, Way Out There | 11/22/1986 | See Source »

Thrown in jail, Emo asks his cellmate what he's in for. "'Sodomy.' I figured he was a lawn installer or something....Well, it pays to increase your vocabulary...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Way, Way, Way Out There | 11/22/1986 | See Source »

...also get to see this innocent babe turn on the world that has twisted him. Emo goes to the zoo and starts to dream about the greedy, warring humans locked behind bars, and the animals free. The loose animals "start to jam to the Animals Square Dance...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Way, Way, Way Out There | 11/22/1986 | See Source »

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