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What's the Catch | 有何玄机
The devil offers a lawyer immense worldly success in exchange for the eternal damnation of his fa...
Lawyers in Heaven | 天堂里的律师
An engineer mistakenly sent to hell improves it with modern amenities, making Satan happy. When G...
A Blessing in Disguise | 因祸得福
A clumsy man, unemployed for months, finally gets a job at a chinaware shop only to break a valua...
A Chimpanzee and a Norwegian | 黑猩猩与挪威人
A humorous story about Sweden's first space mission with a chimpanzee handling complex tasks whil...
Where Am I? | 我在哪儿
An Englishman gets lost and asks a farmer for directions, only to receive a literal and humorous ...
Why Don't You Ever Phone Me? | 你为何从不给我打电话？
A mother visits her son who moved to a distant town for work and confronts him for never calling ...
The Same Duties | 相同的职责
A retired general rehires his former orderly, promising identical duties. The orderly's literal i...
From Alabama | 来自阿拉巴马
A new student excels academically, attributing his success to his Alabama roots per his father's ...
The Drunk Ice Fisherman | 醉汉冰钓
A drunk man ignores repeated warnings from a mysterious voice while trying to ice fish, only to d...
Making Love to a Ghost | 与幽灵共枕
A professor's survey on supernatural encounters takes an unexpected turn when a student misunders...
I Want Those Two Back | 我要那两人回来
Three colleagues find a magic lamp. The clerk and sales rep wish for lavish vacations, but the ma...
Salts | 泻盐
A pub-goer's cryptic statement about taking "salts" leads to a messy misunderstanding and a punny...
Trying the Hat | 试帽子
A husband, asked to fetch a turnip "about the size of your head," is later found by a neighbor tr...
Fantasy Island | 奇幻岛
A man stranded for a decade on an island is amazed when a mysterious woman arrives, producing fro...
The Cruise Deal | 巡航游交易
Two men fall for a cheap cruise ad, only to be knocked out and thrown into a river. While floatin...
Three Men in a Boat | 三人同舟
Three men on a bench pretend to fish, amusing a policeman who tells their friend to remove them; ...
Only Cash and Credit Cards | 只收现金和信用卡
A man misunderstands the motel clerk's question about "taking" children as a payment method inqui...
Five Months Older | 大五个月
During WWII, 16-year-old John谎报年龄参军，却被同一位军医识破，因为他刚为约翰声称同样18岁的哥哥做过体检。John情急之下说出了“我哥哥比我大五个月”的真相。 | ...
Redneck Letter | 乡巴佬家书
A mother writes a letter to her son, sharing a series of absurd and darkly humorous family news a...
What's Your Business? | 你的职业是什么？
A cowboy outsmarts a technologically savvy stranger who uses excessive resources to answer a simp...