Captain Bathwater: Saving Sexy America

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Two hundred sixty-seven characters, four sentences, and a parody stated in one register, broad, adult, and absurd. A note on the source: this is a thin listing that gives premise and road trip without dramatizing any scene, so this summary reads what is stated and marks the gaps. The stated chain: a hyper-masculine, cigar-smoking soldier discovers his bathwater is the only antidote to a spore turning America into seductive zombies. He welds a bathtub to his Hummer. He embarks on a raunchy, absurd road trip to save the nation from the all-powerful Thirst Queen. The comedy's engine is stated as logistics rather than jokes, a mobile bathtub as the only supply of cure, and the copy names its antagonist in full, the Thirst Queen, with all-powerful attached. The genre markers are explicit, the listing calls itself raunchy and absurd, and those two words are the copy's own content warning and its tone contract. What is withheld: the soldier's name, the spore's origin, the route, and how the Queen is defeated. The listing's economy is worth noting, since four sentences must carry premise, vehicle, antagonist, and tone, and each is assigned exactly one. Twenty-three episodes, complete, 514 views. The catalogue confirms the count; the scenes between the beats are the show's to supply.

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