Entertainment Weekly has committed a few near-unforgivable mistakes in the past year. (For instance...) But none of them stings quite so much as the continuing employment of one Jim Mullen. The man is just not right.

Last summer, Glark and Wing Chun were in Los Angeles, visiting dear friends Pamie and Stee. At some point, the conversation turned to magazines, and specifically to EW and Jim Mullen. None of us understood what the hell his Hot Sheet was, and why anyone in EW management liked it well enough to continue running it. Certainly, no one we knew ever even read it. Pamie picked up the latest issue of EW and read out a few Hot Sheet entries to demonstrate how painfully unfunny and predictable his "jokes" were. We agreed that any one of us could do better.

As the conversation wore on, a brilliant idea was hatched: combining the raw material of Jim Mullen's Hot Sheet with a classic party game in which the players are given a set-up -- be it an obscure vocabulary word, a set of initials, a date, a movie title, what-have-you -- and must try to fool one another by bluffing a believable-sounding answer. What if we read out the set-ups of Jim Mullen's Hot Sheet entries, and everyone in the room had to come up with an appropriately Mullenesque punchline?

Thus, Mullendash -- the best game ever made -- was born. And now we give it to you. We expect you all to be experts by 2004.

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