[mad_as_he$$]

Holy COW! Couldn't make this stuff up.! The best script writers in Hollyweird couldn't have come up with this twist.

[IVAXMAN]

Holy COW! Couldn’t make this stuff up.! The best script writers in Hollyweird couldn’t have come up with this twist.

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This will go down in history as the most bizarre election in modern times.

[IVAXMAN]

Holy COW! Couldn’t make this stuff up.! The best script writers in Hollyweird couldn’t have come up with this twist.

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This will go down in history as the most bizarre election in modern times.

[wally_bert]

I could see some British script writers of a generation ago coming up with something similar.

[MarMema]

This is classic Chekhov. And his being Russian makes this even better for me.

A literary element that, at first, seems to have no purpose but is later revealed to be important to the plot. This is commonly thought of as a parallel of foreshadowing, but it is more properly interpreted as "do not include any unnecessary elements in a story."

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

If somebody had written that script, it would’ve been shelved as being too patently ridiculous.