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Fifth Floor Common Room, Sunday evening

Bruce wasn't sure why there was already a Christmas movie on some channel. He really wasn't sure why it was being shown twice in a row. He wasn't sure why people would want to see a movie where Will Ferrell wore tights for the entire running time. But most of all, he wasn't sure why he couldn't stop watching.

He couldn't even blame the TV for this one. Yet another reason why Bruce hated the holidays.

[OOC: It looks like USA had/has Elf on twice today... consecutively... and it's not even Thanksgiving. Look, I love the movie, but come on. Wait a week. Ahem.]

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"Why... why would they show it immediately again?" Elphaba asked. "When there's so much terrible television, surely repeating itself is only going to make it seem worse."

"If I knew why, I wouldn't have to wonder if the station will do it again," Bruce said. "It seems unlikely, but unlikely things do happen."

"Unlikely things happen all the time on this island," Elphaba said. "You'd busy yourself all too often, testing them all."

She smiled, though. "But it is an admirable thing to keep checking on. Though... not much with the television."

"I think you can safely skip most of the seemingly impossible or random things. But the simply unlikely things? There's no compelling reason not to investigate those," Bruce mused. "Of course, the fact that this is a national cable channel probably means that it's just a strange programming decision and nothing to do with Fandom."

"I didn't understand that last part," Elphaba admitted. "But the rest, I agree with. Though not much around here is truly impossible."

"Almost nothing in the universe is truly impossible. But seemingly impossible? Where the likeliness is so low that you couldn't have even considered that it could even happen?" Bruce asked. "I'd put most of the strangeness here in that category. If it repeats, I'll look into it more."

Elphaba thought about that one for a moment. "So you're more interested in... things from your world, then?" she asked.

"I'm more interested in things I can witness being repeated," Bruce said. "When people changed genders a few weeks back, were you affected by that?"

Elphaba nodded. "It was... different. And not something that I hope I repeat, myself."

"From what I understand, it's happened before. Now that I know that it's possible for it to happen again, I'm prepared. I have a couple outfits for a female body and I've made note of what I did the day before it happened so I can have a comparison of the circumstances for the next time," Bruce explained.

"But if everyone turned into cheese, to pick something extraordinarily unlikely at random, that would be a first as far as I know. If it only lasted a day and never happened again, what kind of investigation could you do with it? You don't know the circumstances. The only thing you can say about it is that sometimes things like that happen in Fandom, which isn't a significant revelation at all."

"You can only study something if you can know about it ahead of time," Elphaba said, thinking she was following. "You're a very analytical boy."

"I am, but that's still not quite right. You could study the cheese situation, but if you want results, you're likely going to have to devote more time to it than I'm willing to justify. There are too many strange things and too many things to do that have nothing to do with strangeness to justify the time or resources that would be necessary," Bruce said. "It would have to take a lot to get me to put in that effort to an apparent one-off."

"You prefer studying women than cheese, then," Elphaba teased slightly, smirking.

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