And Junior’s seemingly foolproof plan for money? Falling pennies, as it happens, can be pretty painful. A wish the next day for new shoes yields a ton of shoes, none of which match. More soup? Why not? The family traipses out to the rope but while they do get a flood of soup it’s a little messier than they’d hoped. But more what? Over supper the family ponders the problem until suddenly they realize that they wouldn’t mind having more soup. After closer inspection they see that there is a little sign on it that reads, “PULL FOR MORE”. In The Rope Kulka presents the old-fashioned idea of “be careful what you wish for” and gives it a new and lively spin.Īn average farm family is flummoxed when one day Junior spots a rope hanging out of the sky near their cornfield. He has realized that in some ways there is nothing more mysterious and interesting than gifts from the great beyond. We humans walk around all day with the infinite above our noggins and we’re not supposed to be even a little bit scared of what lurks up there? That’s why there’s such a fascination with aliens, you know! I mean we’ve pictured everything from space creatures to God living and watching us from points unknowable, up up and away. I ascribe much of the success of Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs not just to the notion of gigantic food covering homes but also to the simple idea that sometimes that vast unknowable space that lurks above our heads can yield surprising glories and horrors. The old things-falling-out-of-the-sky storyline.
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