The Flop House Movie Minute #20 - Pool Cleaning

[0:00] And now, the Flophouse Movie Minute.

[0:10] We are posting this Flophouse Movie Minute a little early in order to help you win big

[0:14] at your Oscar party by picking the Best Picture winner by the only scientific means available.

[0:21] Anagrams.

[0:23] It has been proven that the title with the awesomest anagram always wins, which was confirmed

[0:29] by last year's win by No Country for Old Men, a.k.a. Fry Monocled Nun Root.

[0:37] So let's apply the anagram system to this year's crop of nominees.

[0:41] First off is milk.

[0:43] The only anagram for milk is milk, and that's barely an anagram at all.

[0:48] So we can discard it as a contender.

[0:51] Next up, the reader.

[0:54] The best anagram for the reader is Earth Deer, which has a certain poetic, imagist

[1:01] William Carlos Williams quality, but lacks snap.

[1:05] We can safely bet against the reader.

[1:08] Frost Nixon is slightly more promising.

[1:10] Its letters rearrange into Snort No Fix, which is clearly an anti-cocaine statement.

[1:17] While the Academy typically rewards message films, usually they like messages that bludgeon

[1:23] you in the most overt way possible, rather than ones subtly hidden in the letters of

[1:27] the movie's title.

[1:29] Thus we can eliminate Frost Nixon.

[1:31] Now we get down to the real contenders.

[1:34] Slumdog Millionaire provides us with a veritable cornucopia of riches.

[1:39] A million sumo girdle.

[1:41] A limo oil mudslinger.

[1:44] A modeling oil is rum, just to name three, the last of which has the advantage of being

[1:50] a complete sentence, albeit an enigmatic one.

[1:54] Slumdog Millionaire may be a contender.

[1:57] However, the curious case of Benjamin Button reigns supreme in the anagram wars, yielding

[2:03] A Fusion Barbecue Conjoins the Mutt.

[2:08] Not only is it a complete sentence, but the image is vivid.

[2:12] A nuclear-powered cookout, resulting in a hideous Siamese twin canine.

[2:18] The Academy can hardly fail to sit up and take notice of such a horrifying anagram.

[2:23] So if you want to come out on top in your Oscar pool, bet the bank on Benjamin Button.

[2:29] As we say in the Oscar anagram business, ship a dialectic pen.

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