RICE vs. TCU

10/14/89

WORLD'S BIGGEST LIE

college pranks...

ANNOUNCER: The MOB - HOT, FRESH, and MADE TO ORDER, in conjunction with Whataburger, -- Z-One-Oh-Seven, and an abridged group of Houston area victims, um,

I mean volunteers, presents a look at college pranks. Do not try these pranks at home -- they can ruin your reputation.

ENTRANCE: MOB scatters into

FORMATION: VOLKSWAGEN

ANNOUNCER: The little Volkswagen Beetle has always found a place on college campuses -- usually on the second or third floor. Another prank involving the People's Car is seeing how many people the car will hold. This other form of cramming may be hazardous to BUG and BOD alike -- and no one, but NO ONE has ever tried to put 300 people in one Bug before...

MUSIC: MOTOWN

ACTION: wheels turn and fall off...

music ends and MOB scatters to

FORMATION: Heart

ANNOUNCER: The University plays some pretty good pranks on the students: like college parking and college food. The students do fight back. Free at long last from parental control, you can rely on them to play with their food.

Eating campus food will never be as popular as throwing it. But a food fight doesn't silence a growling stomach.

And the restaurants off-campus will go out of their way for our business.

MUSIC: DO YOU LOVE ME

music ends and MOB scatters to

FORMATION: Girl

ANNOUNCER: Many campus pranks have faded into the past. Things like climbing the greased pole, and dragging fish around campus disappeared with the rest of hazing. The largest catapult since the middle ages, the gezilchbomber, was brutally hunted to near-extinction because the ART of gezilching demanded expensive destruction. But here within the hedges an inexpensive prank that faded everywhere else with the seventies, continues:

Thanks to Club 13, STREAKING is alive and well at Rice.

MUSIC: Twist and Shout

music ends and MOB scatters to

FORMATION: MOB in script, that will "domino"...

ANNOUNCER: The biggest prank that RICE ever played on its Southwest Conference opponents IS the MOB --

And one of the MOB's biggest pranks is to just

fall on its face...

ACTION: we all fall down, in a salute to political science --

and then we all stand back up...

ANNOUNCER: Finally, the MOB's BEST prank is this: Everyone thinks that OUR rendition of a certain mindless, unintelligible, three chord-song is the correct one.

MUSIC: Louie[2]

EXIT: [ ]all 300 of us flee the field to the wild adulation of the 13 people remaining in the stands...

EPILOGUE: Less than 100 volunteers showed up for our "World's Largest MOB." The crowd was ~ 8000. It was hot. The students sat through the halftime. They didn't even stand up and scream mindlessly. The Volkswagen prop actually did slide down from the second deck to the turf. We were winning at halftime but not at wholetime. Oh well.