We've only seen an audience turn ugly once, but it very nearly happened at Monday night's showing of at the Roxie. Our previous ugly-audience experience was at an attempted comedy in the Indie Fest that had long, aggravating streches of Not Funny. Such was the case with several of the Scary, Mary pieces: clever ideas, streched so thin you could barely see them anymore. For example: Harigata, a splicing-together of clips from 50s sci-fi and modern dyke pr0n. The Good: an arched eyebrow that meant nothing in the 50s, but recontextualized with muff-divers made the audience roar with laughter. The Bad: Way-too-long shots of writhing women that left the audience impatiently silent, and probably revealed the real reason the piece was assembled in the first place. What a waste. Economize, people.

So were there any good shorts in the collection? Yes, in fact, thank God for Taco Chick and Salsa Girl, which was perfectly trimmed and economized, raucously adored by the crowed, and deserved to be feature-length. But first, let's examine some more of the sh**ty pieces.

Scary, Mary