Imagination

"I'm With Busey" Episode 104

In this episode, Gary tries to get Adam to tap into the gift that is his own imagination.  Adam arrives at Gary's house, and Gary takes them to a grassy area where they can play with toys.  Gary insinuates that Adam's G.I. Joe is gay.  When Adam tells a story about losing his childhood imaginary friend, Gary tells him "that's called getting lost in your imaginatory vagueness.  And what has happened to you--your foresight and hindsight became a nimble vagrant and disappeared, and you can't find it any more."  Now that's some quotable Gary for you.

Gary later takes Adam to do some abstract painting, but Adam tries to be funny by painting a stick figure with a penis and an afro.  Gary tries a different tack and takes Adam to a poetry open mic night at a coffee shop.  Gary goes onstage and reads a limerick he wrote.  It goes:

Marmaduke Gump

Had an unsightly hump

All oily and covered with hair

But the young ladies loved it

They sought it to rub it

For the oil made their faces so fair.

Then it's Adam's turn.  Gary forces Adam onstage and then yells advice at him about not thinking about the words that will make up his "word salad."  Gary also yells out the helpful adage: "Fear is the darkroom where the devil develops his negatives."

After the coffee shop, this episode gets really weird, with Gary pitching an idea to a book publisher about a cookbook for road-kill.  We find that Gary has a frightening amount of pictures of road-kill for his presentation.  Needless to say, the idea doesn't go so well with the publisher, who was hoping Gary wanted to do an autobiography.

For some reason, Gary takes Adam to a wax museum, where Gary reveals to us all that "your imagination is the hood ornament on your car of creativity."  Then Adam gives Gary a Buddy Holly bobble-head doll, and Gary is moved to near tears.

Weird, weird episode.  But a good ride.