Here’s the thing about all the memes John uses in TLT. Sure, Jod is horny for the 2010s, but I can’t believe that after 10,000 years he hasn’t bothered to get down with any fresh new material. Never mind a myriad of human culture developing its own linguistic quirks - I’m betting the original Canaan House 16 had plenty of time to come up with some of their own. For example:
Skeleton construct #230 (Scotty Boneman) and skeleton construct #39 (Grunkulous Prime) and their long-running feud
Excessively anatomical descriptions for normal actions e.g ‘don’t you elevate your supercilium at me, Valancy. Stop oscillating your cephalon in my direction.’
Responding to one of John’s unfathomable inside-joke references with a solemn nod and intoning the words 'glumpus glumpus’ to acknowledge Divine and Unknowable Wisdom
Forgotten objects that may or may not have been sex toys (Cyrus and Valancy’s nude portraits are a continuation of this)
[pointing at a picture of any animal that no longer exists] 'What kind of dog was this?’
Necromantically juicing up your muscles to insane proportions before e.g opening a jar, turning a key, writing down a note
Referring to any distasteful outfit as a 'sex ward’
'or as they say on the Eighth: if in doubt, slut it up’ (Mercy and Cristabel do not approve of this one)
Tendon loving care
Convincing one another of fictitious new slang from the other Houses.
[after summoning a bone construct/flesh monster/skeleton army] I can never get the nose right
How many of your own joints can you dislocate mid-conversation before somebody notices
Wearing your lyctoral cape any way except in the way that it was intended to be worn
I don’t think much of the locked tomb would work in live action, but what I would like to see is a What We Do in the Shadows style workplace horror comedy show adaptation of John and co. leading up to the resurrection. Taika Waititi as John. Loud noises drown out their real names every time they’re said aloud. You see the vision
