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MOB: GO RICE!

FORMATION: Duck

ANNOUNCER: Some people have complained that MOB shows seem incoherent. Those people are idiots. How could anyone miss the clear themes that form the basis for all MOB shows? Take today's theme: words that rhyme with "duck." (quack)  Change the "D" to a "B" and you get "buck".

MOB: BUCK!

FORMATION: $

ANNOUNCER: These days, people will do anything for a buck. They're willing to get married, eat rats, what's next? The MOB predicts that Americans will soon sell their own body parts for cold hard cash on "Who Wants To Be A Kidney Donor?"

ACTION: People selling their arms, legs, heads, etc.

ANNOUNCER: What other words rhyme with "duck?" Hmm... how about "cluck?"

MOB: Cluck!

FORM: CK

ANNOUNCER: "Cluck" is the noise that a chicken makes. Of course, your chicken dinner should never cluck, but, with Central Kitchen, you can never be too sure.

MUSIC: Chicken Dance

ACTION: Students' food comes to life and starts running around and doing the chicken dance.

ANNOUNCER: You would probably think that food that clucks sucks!  If you did, you'd have found another word that rhymes with "duck" - "suck!"

MOB: Suck! Suck-suck-suck-suck

FORMATION: Vacuum cleaner

ANNOUNCER: Of course, there are other things that suck. Vacuum cleaners, Black holes, Tulsa's mascot, is a hurricane. It sucks, because hurricanes have the lowest atmospheric pressure on earth.

MUSIC: Wipe-Out

ACTION: Signs representing various things that suck ("Astros season," "U of H," etc.) get sucked up the MOB vacuum cleaner. Vacuum cleaner bag expands.

ANNOUNCER: Tulsa. Anyone stuck there is obviously out of luck.  That's another word that rhymes with "duck" - Luck!

MOB: Luck!

FORMATION: Female symbol

ANNOUNCER: Frank Sinatra sang "Luck be a lady tonight" as if luck being a lady was a good thing. But what would the world be like if luck really was a lady? We need only show you a nun, a stripper and a blonde to remind you that there is good luck, bad luck and dumb luck.

MUSIC: Luck Be a Lady

ACTION: A nun, a street walker and a blonde try valiantly to change a light bulb

ANNOUNCER: And now, the moment you've all been waiting for, the most important of all the words that rhyme with "duck."

MUSIC: drum roll

ANNOUNCER: The MOB is proud to present its favorite activity:  running amok.

ACTION: Everybody runs around like crazy, cue cowbell and…

MUSIC: Louie

ACTION: Leave

ANNOUNCER: No chickens, ducks, hurricanes or women were harmed in the making of this halftime show. Well, maybe the chickens...  It's time to adjust my medication again, isn't it?

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