Perhaps the most clearly formulaic plots characterize the romantic comedy genre ; in a book or film labeled as such, viewers already know its most basic central plot, including to some extent the ending.

The game session ( or " adventure ") can be metaphorically described as a play, in which the players are the lead actors, and the GM provides the stage, the scenery, the basic plot on which the improvisational script is built, as well as all the bit parts and supporting characters.

The basic plot created many other Gothic staples, including a threatening mystery and an ancestral curse, as well as countless trappings such as hidden passages and oft-fainting heroines.

To this basic plot ( which comes from the Yahwist ) the Priestly source has added a series of covenants dividing history into stages, each with its own distinctive " sign ".

The lawsuit claims that Blakeman's copyrighted screenplay had the same basic plot as Swing Vote.

The pilot featured plot changes and some minor visual touches, but retained the same basic storyline.

The story follows the basic Biblical plot.

Although no formal script had been completed or leaked, Leone came up with the opening scene and basic plot.

He tended to sketch out only a basic plot for the film, referring to the screenplay as a " blueprint " for action.

Kenneth Von Gunden's 1990 novel Starspawn takes the same basic premise into a Medieval setting: England in the time of the Third Crusade is secretly invaded by parasites from space who attach themselves to knights and gain control of castles, and whose plot is eventually foiled by a wise and dedicated monk.

The basic plot concerns Groucho, as explorer Captain Geoffrey ( or Jeffrey ) T. Spaulding, attending a party in his honor at the estate of society matron Mrs. Rittenhouse, and investigating the theft of a valuable painting during the party.

The basic plot line is derived from a 1911 thought experiment in special relativity, commonly called the twin paradox, proposed by French physicist Paul Langevin.

Little of the original plot exists, with only a few basic elements remaining ; notably the underground army base near the end of the movie, and some of the characters names.

In a foreword to a subsequent edition of No Bed for Bacon ( which traded on the association by declaring itself " A Story of Shakespeare and Lady Viola in Love ") Ned Sherrin, Private Eye insider and former writing partner of Brahms ', confirmed that he had lent a copy of the novel to Stoppard after he joined the writing team, but that the basic plot of the film had been independently developed by Marc Norman, who was unaware of the earlier work.

Her story is called " Ice ," and while she retains some of the main elements of the original fairy tale, such as the basic plot and the proximity of their houses and the window-box gardens, she does not mention the grandmother or much of the back story.

Some critics thought the basic plot of " Sanctuary ," and some of the descriptions and dialogue, were virtually identical to her work.

While the basic plot of the live-action adaptation of The Cat in the Hat rotates around that of the book, the film filled out its 82 minutes by adding new subplots and characters quite different from those of the original story, similar to How the Grinch Stole Christmas.

He fabricated the author ( Frederick R. Ewing ) of this imaginary novel, concocted a title ( I, Libertine ), and outlined a basic plot for his listeners to use on skeptical or confused bookstore clerks.

The Ass () is probably a summarized version of a story by Lucian and contains largely the same basic plot elements as The Golden Ass ( or Metamorphoses ) of Apuleius, but with fewer digressions and a different ending.

In June 1977, a Newsweek preview of the fall season written by Harry F. Waters panned the show while mischaracterizing some of its basic plot elements and offering exaggerated reports of its sexual content.

The basic plot remained essentially the same for more than 150 years.

The basic plot of the subsequent episodes involves Satan taking on the guise of a leading world figure in order to meet influential people, such as Queen Elizabeth II, whom he tries to convince to lead more of mankind to Heaven by encouraging them to change their ways.

The basic plot of an episode generally involved Satan trying to find out more about Edith's death, while Edith interviewed members of the damned about Satan's past.

Ken Russell's 1971 film version of the show, starring Twiggy and Christopher Gable, was an alternative interpretation, weaving the basic plot into a more complicated story in which a seaside dramatic company, performing the show, is visited by a film producer ( Vladek Sheybal ) on the very night that the leading lady ( Glenda Jackson ) has to be replaced by her shy understudy Polly Browne ( Twiggy ).

Before the emotions chip, Data was unable to grasp basic emotion and imagination, leading him to download personality subroutines into his programming when participating in holographic recreational activities ( most notably during Dixon Hill and Sherlock Holmes holoprograms ) and during romantic encounters ( most notably with Tasha Yar and Jenna D ' Sora ).

" Given her numerous earlier romantic escapades, including an affair with the married George, Duke of Kent in her youth, this may have been a change in degree rather than basic predisposition.

Pimba is a Portuguese term used for qualifying a variety of popular Portuguese pop and folk solo singers as well as bands, possibly inspired in Schlager, who focus on simplistic catchy songs with rough lyrics frequently driven by metaphors with sexual meanings, or focused on basic and clichéd romantic stories.

In March 1938, Sennett was presented with an honorary Academy Award: " for his lasting contribution to the comedy technique of the screen, the basic principles of which are as important today as when they were first put into practice, the Academy presents a Special Award to that master of fun, discoverer of stars, sympathetic, kindly, understanding comedy genius-Mack Sennett.

The basic premise comes from a stand-up routine ( included on his debut comedy album, Let's Get Small ), in which Martin claimed to have been " born a poor black child ," and how, after hearing his first Mantovani record, he " decided to become white.

His storylines tend to follow the basic black comedy formula.

Not only does the older woman fail to recognise CCF is a comedy, but her family own farms and hires labourers and managers rather than actually working the land themselves ; nor have they ever had to try to make a basic living from their own manual labour.

The series, which followed the same basic format as that of his predecessors ( an opening monologue followed by comedy routines, interviews and performances ), ran until May 29, 2009, after which Leno was succeeded by Conan O ' Brien.

The comedy group uses the basic theme of a fraternal organization, and their stage costumes are identical to the ones used in the movie's organization.

These few plot devices provide the basic storyline throughout the entire series, on which are hung classic farce set-ups, physical comedy and visual gags, amusingly ridiculous fake accents, a large amount of sexual innuendo, and a fast-paced running string of broad cultural clichés.

While the basic premise of MXC is that of a legitimate game show, its true premise is that of a comedy not intended to be taken literally.

His four basic emplotments are provided by the archetypical genres of romance, comedy, tragedy and satire.

Although never cited in the onscreen credits or in any supplemental material by the producers or writers, the basic premise of a luxury hotel maid being mistaken for a famous hotel guest after being seen wearing clothes that were meant for someone else was explored earlier in the 1935 Warner Bros. comedy, Page Miss Glory.

Six years later, the basic " Beachball with Claws " subplot of the film was reworked from comedy to horror, and became the basis ( along with an unpublished story about gremlins aboard a B-17 ) for the O ' Bannon-scripted science fiction horror classic, Alien.

On August 6, 2011, FX announced it had picked up the show for an additional two seasons ( the show's eighth and ninth ) running through 2013, which would make it the longest-running live-action comedy in basic cable history.

* The basic plot of Brideless Groom is not unique, having been used in ( among others ) Buster Keaton's 1925 comedy Seven Chances ( remade in 1999 as The Bachelor starring Chris O ' Donnell ).

The content is not the same, however: rather than individual security, it is the security and continuing existence of an `` ideological group '' -- those in the `` free world '' -- that is basic.

Whitehead contends that the human way of understanding existence as a unity of interlocking and interdependent processes which constitute each other and which cause each other to be and not to be is possible only because the basic form of such an understanding, for all its vagueness and tendency to mistake the detail, is initially given in the way man feels the world.

The basic premise of all mystery stories is that the distinction between good and bad coincides with the distinction between legal and illegal.

Furthermore, the network in Figure 3 is only the basic net through which other networks pertaining to logistics and the like are interlaced.

We are reminded, however, that freedom of thought and discussion, the unfettered exchange of ideas, is basic under our form of government.

The basic truth in the reactionary response is to be found in its realistic assumption of the primacy of the real over the ideational.

When the reactionary response is thus bolstered by an intellectual defense, the characteristics of that defense are explicable only in terms of the basic attitudes of unanalyzed reaction.

The maturity in this point of view lies in its recognition that no basic problem is ever solved without being clearly understood.

The strongest appeal of the Copernican formulation consisted in just this: ideally, the justification for dealing with special problems in particular ways is completely set out in the basic ' rules ' of the theory.

This of course was not true of the educated and sophisticated people we met, who loved their pets, but kindness is not a basic human instinct.

There is a clear relationship between their educational evaluations and their basic pattern of general values.

There is impressive consistency between specific occupational preferences and the student's basic conception of what is for him a good way of life.

Now the basic question to be asked in this situation is what motivates the manipulators, that is, what are their values??

Yet this basic condition of outlawry and anarchy is not the work of Katanga.

Mr. Richard Preston, executive director of the New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission, in his remarks to the Governors Conference on Industrial Development at Providence on October 8, 1960, warned against the fallacy of attempting to attract industry solely to reduce the tax rate or to underwrite municipal services such as schools when he said: `` If this is the fundamental reason for a community's interest or if this is the basic approach, success if any will be difficult to obtain ''.

In still others which are barely on the threshold of the transition into modernity, the decade can bring significant progress in launching the slow process of developing their human resources and their basic services to the point where an expanded range of developmental activities is possible.

The basic mapping phase of the program has been completed and the inventory phase is scheduled for completion July 1, 1961.

Since the validity of all subsequent planning depends on the accuracy of the basic inventory information, great care is being taken that the inventory is as complete as possible.