A website it would really behoove you to visit

Friend to this blog Spencer Green (he contributed this ingenious Fall-TV schedule last September), has taken on a project that only a genius or a madman would dare tackle: The Parallel Universe Film Guide, a Bizarro-World imdb.com-style site listing, at this point, along with cast lists, dialogue, factoids ("This was the first major American film to link A-bomb testing and high cholesterol") and critical reviews ("I was on the fence about racial bigotry but this movie convinced me that it is, indeed, bad"), 1,000 movies that don't really exist.

Except if you read closely, they do. Try, for example, 2007's "Slack-Jawed Yokels Feelin' Philosophical" (which follows the Rave Brothers' other movies, "Slack-Jawed Yokels in Minnesota," "Slack-Jawed Yokels on Parade" and "Slack-Jawed Yokels Picaresque"), and this famous exchange:

Filip Knoroz holds out his closed hands in front him.)

Knoroz: I've got a marble in one of these hands. Choose which one.

Toby: I don't want to.

Knoroz: Choose.

Toby: I don't want to.

Knoroz: Choose.

Toby: Why? Why do I have to choose?

Knoroz: Just play along.

Toby: Why? You're gonna kill me anyway.

Knoroz: True. But this way, it seems more cosmically important, huh? Randomness and fate, see what I'm getting at?

Toby: Fine, the left one.

(Knoroz opens his left hand. No marble. Knoroz opens his right hand. No marble.)

Knoroz: Or, maybe I just like to kill people.

(Knoriz kills Toby with a Patriot missile.)

That might remind you slightly of a recent Oscar-winning film, and its predecessors listed may remind you of the Coen Brothers canon. The Parallel Universe Film Guide is funny if you don't know your film history and utterly hilarious if you do, and an entertaining game to figure out what movies directors and actors Green is referencing. I particularly enjoyed the listing for the 2005 bewildering Oscar winner "Crash" (which I like to call "Los Angeles: City Without Tact"), which, of course, is not its title in the Parallel Universe. See if you can find it (in fact, first one that does and reports back in the comments section will win some TV Press Tour tchotchkes, or something.)

It's obsessive and a little confounding (I'd love to see the reaction from someone who just stumbles upon the site by accident) and it's not just hours of fun, it's days of fun.

In an Email, Green said simply, and cryptically, "Yeah, it took...a while."