The 7 Stages of Being Sucked Into Looney Tune Land To Help Win A Basketball Game Against The Aliens From Moron Mountain

Eileen Mary O’Connell
3 min readDec 31, 2016

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1) SHOCK…that you scored a hole in one!

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Wow! I mean, the Looney Tunes being real is one thing, but a HOLE IN ONE?!!?!? You’ve been playing golf (and a couple of other sports LOL) for a long time and it finally happened! And to think, Larry Bird AND Bill Murray were there to witness it!

2) DENIAL…you can’t play basketball, you’re a BASEBALL PLAYER NOW!

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You promised your Dad that you’d play baseball! We all saw it!

3) BARGAINING…with the aliens that if you win, they’ll give the NBA players their talent back and if they win, they get YOU.

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It’s the ultimate gamble and YOU LOOOOooOOOooOOOVE GAMBLING!

4) GUILT…that you literally bet your life away, even though you have a family that needs you.

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LOL JK NOPE DIDN’T CONSIDER THEM ONCE OOOOOPS

5) ANGER…I mean, that Stan sure was annoying am I right?

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Lighten up, Stan! Geez!

6) DEPRESSION…I used to think that I could not go on

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And life was nothing but an awful song.

7) ACCEPTANCE…But now I know the meaning of true love

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I’m leaning on the everlasting arms. If I can see it, then I can do it.
If I just believe it, there’s nothing to ittttttttt.

I BELIEVE I CAN FLY

Eileen is a writer living in Los Angeles, though if we’re being real here, she wrote this in her childhood bedroom while visiting her family in Chicago. There’s a Lola Bunny sticker on her door. Follow her on Twitter!

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Eileen Mary O’Connell

Writer/Performer (iO West, The Improv Space, Guff.com, Memes.com, Ranker.com, various bathroom walls) | Space Jam historian