Shakespearean comedies yielded a narrative arc for his fish-out-of-water tale, "Paradise News" (1992).
Standard fish-out-of-water tale, made for life lessons, a few high jinks and funny stuff, right?
Or you can catch another fish-out-of-water tale set in India at the Quad Cinema tonight.
The "Priscilla" film, written and directed by Stephan Elliott, was also a fairly synthetic mash-up of road movie and fish-out-of-water tale.
ABC has particularly high hopes for "Life on Mars," a fish-out-of-water tale that was developed by David E. Kelley based on a British series.
This is a fish-out-of-water tale in which the fish are Greek gods, the water is Mount Olympus and the opportunities for comic contrast are everywhere.
Mr. Alvarez, a passionate fan of Mr. Sedaris's offbeat essays, had long wanted to adapt "C.O.G.," a fish-out-of-water tale that finds a young Mr. Sedaris working on an apple farm in the Pacific Northwest.
A fish-out-of-water tale of missionaries in war-torn Africa, "Mormon" brought an exuberant irreverence to Broadway that seemed to rub off on the Tonys as a whole.
Amusing experiments like "Tetris," whose hero plays that unending video game until the end of the world, are sensibly brief; more disturbing is "Tennessee," a classic Jews-out-of-water tale in which the narrator seduces a 17-year-old girl by terrorizing her about suicide bombers before her first trip to Israel — a tactic equally indebted to Philip Roth and Larry David.
This fish-out-of-water tale can only end one way.
