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Gigglebit: Twitter users storyboard their own Fifty Shades of Grey outtakes

12 Feb 2015

Troy McClure, you might remember him from such films as The Boatjacking of Supership 79. Still via The Simpsons

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The big screen adaptation of author EL James’s inexplicaply popular erotic romance novel Fifty Shades of Grey is almost here, though its arrival has been marred by a overwhelming wave of negativity following stories of on-set bust ups between the film’s director and author and a disasterous press tour that did little except underline that stars Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan have an intense, seething hatrid for one another.

Twitter users are determined to find something enjoyable in the film, however. Taking stills from the trailer, they’ve exposed Christian Grey’s alternative desires as perhaps even more “singular” than his famous taste for BDSM.

For context, here’s the trailer, with tweets below.

There’s no place like ponyland, amirite?

Joining The Stings. 

“What I have is a romantic abnormality, one so unbelievable that it must be hidden from the public at all cost.”

Is Christian a Niall or Zayn kind of guy?

And, because I couldn’t resist, here’s a couple of my own additions…

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Dean Van Nguyen was a contributor to Silicon Republic

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