Who is your favorite historical figure and why? 

Todd Brotze: Sir Isaac Newton (or as I like to call him, "Gravity Man"). Why? Who gets hit on the head with an apple and comes up with F = M x A. I don't.

Sarah Michell: I'd also say Newton. Without gravity, we'd be all floating around and stuff, and it would be really hard to make a sandwich that way. 

Vanessa Rohrer (producer): Any dude who created a catch phrase while in battle. "Remember the Alamo!""The British are coming!""Et tu, Brute?" etc.

Andy Alabran (director): Oprah.  No reason.  Just cuz. 

Sally Clawson:  Dolly Madison. I love Zingers!

Patrick Russell: Napoleon, cuz he took "overcompensating" to new heights.  

Leslie Wagonner: Andy Warhol. Mostly for the outfits.

Joseph O'Malley: The Quaker Oats Quaker.  Not only is he a shining example of American endurance and reinvention - but he also figured out how to powder fruit and cream and make it taste like candy.  Delicious - healthy - candy.

If you had to live in another time period, which one would it be and why?

Sarah: The Pleistocene period. I'm talking about glaciers.

Sally: Ancient Greece, for sure. I’m a huge conformist and they did everything in groups – vomiting, sex, murder, and summarizing dramatic information to help the audience follow the performance.

Todd: Swing Era. That's the same as the Great Depression, right? But those people seemed happier than most. Maybe because they were so busy swingin'. Or maybe they just didn't care. Or maybe it was their way to cope with a deflated and hopeless economy. "Hey everyone, let's dance!"

Joseph: The neolithic era - because foot powered cars got WAY better gas mileage than my Prius. 

Leslie: I just want to ride a dinosaur. Is that too much to ask?

If you had to change the outcome of any one historical event, which one would it be, and what impact do you think that new outcome would have?

Patrick: Titanic. Not the actual boat, but the movie and the fact that, til probably the day I die, it will remain the biggest movie EVER. 

Sarah: Instead of "remember the Alamo", those Texans might have shouted "remember that skinny jeans will go in and out of fashion over the years, but that doesn't mean that everyone looks good in them!". Impact? I think the planets would rearrange. 

Andy: I think Oprah should've come out with her magazine sooner.  She was hella late on that. 

Vanessa: I mean, the obvious: if Clear Pepsi still existed imagine what a peaceful place this world would be!

What could teachers do to make studying history more interesting?

Todd: Reenact historical events in Claymation.

Joseph: Turn the gay pride parade into a MARCH THROUGH HISTORY, and make it funny, you know, with costumes and sketches and funny accents, or they could just COME TO OUR SHOW! 

Sally: Build a time machine, but not the H.G. Wellsian type. More like the one in the movie The Fly, where Jeff Goldblum gets into one telepod and then comes out the other telepod part man, part insect. ‘Member when his ear falls off? Ha! That was fucking sick!  Or when he breaks that guys arm off in the arm wrestle? Or when he throws up acid on John Getz’s leg? Or when his jaw falls off and it’s still moving on the ground? Or the best part, when he fuses with the telepod and crawls toward Gena Davis, until she blows his head off with a shotgun?!! AAAAAUGH... VISCERAL ENTERTAINMENT! AWWWWESOME....ahem... I don’t know how it would teach our youth about history, but them turning into flies would be freakin’ cool.

Sarah: Sequins. Glue guns? How about a little Leslie Waggoner in jazz pants and dangly earrings doing a choreographed routine to the FoodMaxx jingle. "Take it to the Maxx!"

If you were asked to redesign the American flag, what would you put on it?

Patrick: Tough one. I think that I would feel obligated to make sure that the Starbucks symbol is front and center, but I feel like I see more McDonald's flags around then American ones, so maybe that's saying something. 

Todd: Corn. And guns. And a peace symbol, just 'cause.

Leslie: TONS of glitter. And an otter eating a sandwich.

Vanessa: Probably an obese child eating a Happy Meal, with an eagle flying overhead carrying a banner that reads "Made in China." What is more American? Oh and some more stars.

Predict one thing that will happen in the future:

Vanessa:  I live in the present, asshole.

Patrick: In the summer of 2008, a revolutionary show entitled Killing My Lobster Springs Forward, Falls Back will redefine the way audiences view their relationship to the happenings of yesteryear, the way they see the world as witnessed through the lense of the power of creation and it will be monumentous...... and someone will be elected president.

Joseph: Three meals, plus desert: one sandwich. Only at Carl's Junior. 

Sarah: The United States will no longer be the super power country. It's going to be all about Canada. Canada is taking over. Move over bacon!

Leslie: Sarah Mitchell will never shut up.

Andy: President Oprah.  

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