The lookouts in the crow’s nest spot a iceberg with their binoculars, and sound the alarm. Unfortunately, in spite of the fact that the captain does everything right, the hull is breached, and the ship begins to take on water slowly. The first mate monitors the radio looking for the nearest ship, and when he makes contact, telegraphs his SOS, and the captain changes directions to head for the ship.
Everyone on board follows directions and is cooperative, so when the new ship is in sight, the passengers board the lifeboats and row to the second ship, women and children first, then the men who are passengers, then the hired workers, then the staff of rank. Virtually everyone is saved, except a thief who was imprisoned downstairs in the hull, and a few unfortunate people whose lifeboat capsized.
The second ship must turn around and head back to England, because now, with the extra load, it cannot cross the ocean, but it is welcomed back with fanfare, and the passengers who must cross are given free passage on the next ship out.
A robotics corporations creates a new model of automated defense drone for use by police. During the first test, the robot massively malfunctions and kills a few people. The police decide not to approve the contract, the CEO of the company is fired, and the new management decides to stick to self-vacuuming robots instead
A small college in a jerkwater town puts together a football team made up of lovable misfits. The local community rallies around the team.
The coach wants to put his school on the map, so he challenges Nick Saban to bring the Alabama Crimson Tide to play his team on their home field.
Saban snorts, “Why would I do that? We already have creampuff schools like yours signed to play us in our home openers for the next few years. You wanna play us, you come to OUR field and play us on September 1, 2019. We’ll give your athletic department $100,000 just so you can be our cannon fodder.”
The lovable misfits graduate without ever playing Alabama. Their replacements eventually go to Tuscaloosa in 2019, and get mauled 73-0 (Saban pulled all his starters in he 2nd quarter to keep it THAT close). The small town coach gets fired at the end of the season.
A police officer is chasing a criminal, who hops on a bus. The police officer flags down a passing car, flashes his badge, and announces that he is commandeering the car in the name of law enforcement. The driver gets out. The cop then realizes the car has a manual transmission, and he can’t drive it.
A young, idealistic science teacher accepts a job at a ghetto school.
He uses every trick in the book to help his apathetic students get excited about science. He develops rap songs about the periodic table of elements. He invites NBA stars to the class to help do chemistry lab experiments.
The kids all flunk Science anyway. The teacher gets a lucrative job offer at an elite lily-white prep school, and eagerly takes it. He can’t drive out of the Hood fast enough.
A physically small, but lovable and big-hearted boy grows up dreaming that he will play football at the university where his father was quarterback (until he died in Viet Nam).
When the boy reaches 18, he applies for and is accepted at the U. But he is nothing more than the ball boy, reduced to menial tasks of fetching and carrying. Secretly he practices constantly on his own, dreaming of the day he can play in the Big Game. His warm heart and cheerful good humor endear him to the whole team, and they make him a sort of mascot.
On the last day of the season, which is also the anniversary of his father’s death, the coach surprises the boy by listing him as a starting player.
On the first play from scrimmage, he receives the handoff. Almost at once, two opposing tackles crash into him, smashing him to the ground, where he fumbles, and one of the tacklers scoops up the ball and scores a touchdown.
As he is carried from the field, one knee irreparably shattered, bleeding from both ears, and destined to regain only limited control over his bladder, the fans give him the Wave.
Former pro quarterback is such an insufferable prick that after his DUI arrest, he is sent to prison. Fortunately, his lawyer plea bargains with the judge and gets him send to a minimum security installation where the warden isn’t crooked, the guards don’t have a football team, and both just generally want to do their work and then go home to their families. Everyone is kind of star struck by the QB but generally leaves him alone to do his time.
A tough new coach takes over a losing school sports team. He lays down the law at his first practice, making it clear that the country club days are over. Three of his best players quit the team in disgust.
They stay out all season, the team goes 4-16, and the coach gets fired.
Right, with the gruff but lovable Best Friend of His Father barking encouragement from the sidelines whilst his virginal sweetheart holds the stop watch.
After he gets creamed, they visit him in the hospital for the denoument, and tell him they have eloped.
Kirk: We’ve been ordered to stay away from Genesis Planet.
McCoy: Maybe you should retire – you could run a horse ranch in Montana.
Kirk: Hey, that’s not a bad idea.
Five friends visit a cabin in the woods. One young woman finds a tape recording of a professor discussing his work. Her boyfriend comes by yelling “What the heck is this crap?” he throws the tape and recorder in the well. They spend the rest of the weekend smoking, drinking and sexing. Everyone goes home Monday exhausted.
A Jewish boy is born in Roman occupied Judea. He goes into his father’s carpentry business, marries a nice local Jewish girl, has children, and dies of natural causes at age 55.
John Wayne (as a USMC Sgt) says “Captain, if those Nips want this goddamn island so bad, they can have it!” Then he drops his rifle, helmet, and web gear on the beach, heads for the water, and starts swimming back to the invasion fleet.