"Mutual of Omaha Presents" ("X-Men Origins: Wolverine")



Wolverine (c) Marvel


The admittedly juvenile premise for this joke came the moment I watched the trailer. I don't know where my mind was, but the movie was being called "Wolverine: Origins" (or at least until the heads at 20th Century Fox stepped in demanding it be rebranded to fit the entire X-Men film series.) As soon as I heard the title, my mind flashed to memories of the old nature shows on television after the Saturday cartoons were over. You know, the ones with a laid-back narrator having no qualms calmly explaining the mating behaviors of animals while also graphically showing it with the camera lens zoomed in.
Obviously we couldn't draw two wolverines getting it on (we don't run that sort of website), but a human viewer's reaction would be just as priceless. My original idea was having Erik, Kari and a few other people sitting in a theater expecting to see Logan unleash his Berserker Rage only to experience a nature program where the male wolverine embarks in a polygamous relationship with several female wolverines. But Jake, of sound mind, thought setting the premise in a museum made more sense. And when he brought up the idea of including a photo of Patrick Swayze from "Red Dawn" in the display, I was 100% on board.
"Wolverines!" - Tony