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 basic plot of a romantic comedy is that two characters, usually a man and a woman, meet, part ways due to an argument or other obstacle, then ultimately reunite.

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.

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 ).

The wineskins episode near the end of the interpolated tale " The Curious Impertinent " in chapter 35 of the first part of Don Quixote is a clear reference to Apuleius, and recent scholarship suggests that the moral philosophy and the basic trajectory of Apuleius's novel are fundamental to Cervantes's program.

Ovid's first century Roman audience would surely have had a basic knowledge of Polyphemus ' role as an uncivilized cannibal in Book IX of the Odyssey, and this episode gives an amusing contrast to that characterization.

Sesame Street used animations and short films commissioned from outside studios, interspersed throughout each episode, to help teach their viewers basic concepts like numbers and letters.

") and Hal Gibney describing the basic premise of the episode.

It is in many ways a " no frills " site, giving basic episode titles and airdates, and very basic notes for some shows, leaving more extensive coverage to other websites.

** In a variation on the basic definition of a bioship, the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode " Emergence ", features a story in which the Enterprise-D develops an artificial intelligence from the sum of the ship's experiences, for the sole purpose of creating a biological life form which is released into space.

In 2005, an episode of MythBusters was aired on the Discovery Channel in which a basic test of pyramid power was performed, using pyramids built to the specifications found in pyramid power claims, such as using the location of the King's Chamber in the Great Pyramid of Giza.

Richard Rodgers contributed twelve basic themes for the series, with three earmarked for the first episode, but those who worked on the series attribute its eleven-and-a-half hours worth of music principally to Bennett.

In his final moment, his character fulfills a foreshadowing from the pilot episode uttering a reverberating battle cry ( which he was unable to do convincingly during basic ).

" The title and basic plot of the episode are a reference to The Wizard, which prominently featured the Power Glove.

Every episode starts with a brief explanation of the basic running plot and features a sequence showing Cassie's father being taken away.

The debut episode was seen by almost 4. 1 million viewers, ranking # 8 all-time for series premieres in basic cable.

The same basic theme was used in an episode of The Simpsons when it turns out that Principal Seymour Skinner is actually Armin Tamzarian ( an orphan from New Orleans ) who assumed the identity of Sergeant Seymour Skinner when the latter was missing and assumed dead.

In the episode " Mother's Day ", it is revealed that some of her bitterness originates from an ill-fated romance with Professor Farnsworth 70 years earlier, who, while reformatting the basic robot design, terminated their affair following savage rows about his work.

For most of the episode, the plot stays relatively faithful to the novel's basic story.

The same basic theme was used in an episode of The Simpson when it turns out that Principal Seymour Skinner is actually Armin Tamzarian ( an orphan from New Orleans ) who assumed the identity of Sargent Seymour Skinner when the latter was missing and assumed dead.

The episode followed the same basic plot outline as the films and used elements from the original film's score by Bernard Herrmann ( which was also used in the 1991 version ), which, after this episode, became Sideshow Bob's theme.

* Free Culinary School Podcast Episode 1 A podcast episode that talks about how to choose a chef's knife and basic knife skills technique.

He is introduced in the episode " De-Mole-Ition ", which uses the basic plot of Fantastic Four # 1, adding elements from later stories.

* A classroom session, featuring Prof. Capretz explaining the basic ideas of the episode to a group of international students.

The episode features two of the biggest hits from 1987, " Never Gonna Give You Up " performed by Rick Astley and " Never Can Say Goodbye " performed by The Communards, both of which have some relevance to the basic themes of the story.

Parker mentions that they almost did not make the episode as they did not believe that there was enough going on in the episode, that it was too " basic and easy ".