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Carmen Jones is a 1954 American musical film produced and directed by Otto Preminger. The screenplay by Harry Kleiner is based on the libretto for the 1943 stage production of the same name by Oscar Hammerstein II, which was inspired by an adaptation of the 1845 Prosper Merimee novella Carmen by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halevy. Hammerstein also wrote the lyrics to music composed by Georges Bizet for his 1875 opera Carmen.

Kimmy gets a call from Cyndee, from the cult after Titus sends her a letter to her because he believes that she needs to talk to someone about her life in the bunker. Jacqueline takes Kimmy to her surgeon (Martin Short), prompting Kimmy to want to get a new face because she doesn't want to get recognized from the bunker. Titus auditions for a spot in a Broadway production, after Kimmy convinces him that he needs to be more confident in himself. Later, she also explains to Jacqueline that she needs to accept herself for who she is and not focus so much on her looks. Kimmy then realizes that she needs someone to talk to about the bunker and invites Cyndee to come visit her in New York.

Will becomes tabloid fodder after a confrontation with a gossip columnist on New Year's Eve, which threatens to undermine his credibility on a current news investigation. Meanwhile, Don urges Maggie to set Jim up on a date with her roommate; Mac's boyfriend pitches a story about the government's inability to prosecute financial crimes; and Neal tries out his Bigfoot theory on anyone who will listen.

Jack learns to appreciate Leap Day while Tracy takes the writers to a restaurant to spend an almost-expired gift card. Liz and Jenna try to seduce an internet billionaire.

Jack learns that he's been left a gift by Don Geiss. Grizz's announcement of his engagement leaves Liz dealing with both Tracy and Dotcom squabbling over who will be best man. Liz and Pete are suspect about Jenna's new boyfriend.

In this episode, Jan and Michael begin a relationship after landing an important client. Meanwhile, the rest of the office find a screenplay written by Michael and decided to read it together.

Bobby is excited thinking that he is going to get the lead in the Drama Club's presentation of Oklahoma!, only to find out that someone else got it. He begins moping around his bedroom, which begins to worry Peggy, who tries to encourage Hank to cancel a trip to the flea market in order to cheer Bobby up. Hank is unconcerned due to his lack of interest in either theater or Oklahoma, but after a father-son chat, Bobby states that he is upset that he isn't good at something like Connie is with the violin and Joseph is with football. In an attempt to cheer Bobby up and find him a new "thing", Hank takes Bobby with him to the flea market and gives him some money. While at the flea market, Bobby wanders around for a bit and finds a deck of tarot cards. The salesman tells Bobby that they can be used to predict the future, which fascinates Bobby so he buys them. He tells Hank who assumes that he's talking about poker playing cards. Bobby practices telling the future on Bill and predicts that something bad will happen in the near future. Later, when he is at the video store he runs into one of the employees, a nerdy 30-something named Ward. He notices Bobby's tarot cards and insults them stating that the only thing that he could predict with them is a coincidence. Bobby asks him to teach him about magic. He agrees and gives Bobby an address and tells him to bring chips. Later Bobby shows up and Ward introduces him to his "circle of power", a bunch of nerdy teenagers who all wear purple robes. Bobby gets off on the wrong foot but the others agree to teach him their ways. Over the next few days Bobby learns everything he can about magic. Later while at one of Joseph's football games Bobby leaves to be with Ward and the others. Hank assumes he's going to play poker and notices that he forget his cards and goes off to give them to him. He finds Bobby with the others performing a type of ritual dance and is appalled that this was what Bobby was doing the whole time. He drags Bobby away and tells him that he can't hang around those guys anymore and decides to not tell Peggy for her own good. Later at a pizza parlor Bobby tells the guys that Hank has forbidden him from hanging out with them. They convince Bobby that Hank is afraid of Bobby's power so Bobby continues to hang around them. At school Bobby tries to use his power to get a ball of the roof. Principal Moss catches him and calls Hank and Peggy telling them that witchcraft is forbidden under school policy. Peggy freaks out stating that this would definitely make Bobby a girl repellent and she wants grandchildren. Hank tells Bobby that he's forbidding this for his own good, but Bobby still believes that Hank is afraid of his power and goes to the others. They decide to perform a strange ritual and need a chalice holder. The others don't want to do it so Bobby agrees to. He is informed that he has to drink Canine Spiritus which is dog blood. Freaked out Bobby goes to the library to try to find some kind of loophole. He runs into John Redcorn and asks him about rituals involving drinking animal blood. John Redcorn is also grossed out over the ritual and goes to tell Hank when he learns that Bobby is involved in such plans. Once he tells Hank the two of them take off in John Redcorn's jeep to stop it. Meanwhile Bobby and the others have gathered at the baseball field. When it comes time for Bobby to drink the blood he backs down, angering Ward who says that they'll have to destroy him. They began making all kinds of weird noises and gestures that do nothing much to Bobby's amusement and he finally sees them for what they truly are: a bunch of nerds. He gives them back the robe and leaves. Ward asks if anyone else wants to be the chalice holder. Since no one volunteers they decide to just drop it on cars over the freeway. Hank finds Bobby and asks if he drank the dog blood. Bobby reveals that he didn't much to Hank's relief and they head home. Along the way Bobby tells Hank that Ward trul

As Nixon scrounges for his favored whiskey, Vat 69, Easy Company enters Germany. Some of the men on patrol stumble across a concentration camp near Landsberg and free the prisoners after realizing that the guards had abandoned the camp. The sight of the victims leaves many shocked and disgusted.

Lois is appointed the director of Quahog's theatre company after the former director dies and attempts to produce The King and I. She appoints Peter as the producer to keep him out of her way, but his plans to recreate the play send him on a power trip that replaces her as the show's director.

Helmet for My Pillow is the personal narrative written by World War II United States Marine Corps veteran, author and military historian Robert Leckie. First published in 1957, the story begins with Leckie enlisting in the United States Marines shortly after the 1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor.

The play takes place partly in Budapest, Hungary, and partly in Heaven. The story concerns Liliom, a tough, cocky carousel barker who falls in love with Julie, a young woman who works as a maid. When both lose their jobs, Liliom begins mistreating Julie out of bitterness, although he loves her (he even slaps her once). When she discovers that she is pregnant, he is deliriously happy, but unbeknownst to Julie, he agrees to participate with his friend Ficsur, a criminal, in a holdup to obtain money to provide for the child. Liliom is unwilling to leave Julie and return to his jealous former employer, the carousel owner Mrs. Muskat, and feels that the robbery is his only way left to obtain financial security. The holdup is a disaster, but Ficsur escapes, and Liliom kills himself to avoid capture. He is sent to a fiery place, presumably Purgatory. Sixteen years later, he is allowed to return to earth for one day to do a good deed for his now teenage daughter, whom he has never met. If he succeeds, he will be allowed to enter Heaven. He fails in the attempt, and is presumably sent to Hell. The ending, though, focuses on Julie, who obviously remembers Liliom fondly.

Carmen Jones is a 1943 Broadway musical with music by Georges Bizet (orchestrated for Broadway by Robert Russell Bennett) and lyrics and book by Oscar Hammerstein II which was performed at The Broadway Theatre. Conceptually, it is Bizet's opera Carmen updated to a World War II-era African-American setting. (Bizet's opera was, in turn, based on the 1846 novella by Prosper Mérimée.) The Broadway musical was produced by Billy Rose, using an all-black cast, and directed by Hassard Short. Robert Shaw prepared the choral portions of the show.

The story revolves around carousel barker Billy Bigelow, whose romance with millworker Julie Jordan comes at the price of both their jobs. He attempts a robbery to provide for Julie and their unborn child; when it goes wrong, he has a chance to make things right. A secondary plot line deals with millworker Carrie Pipperidge and her romance with ambitious fisherman Enoch Snow.

Set in Oklahoma Territory outside the town of Claremore in 1906, it tells the story of cowboy Curly McLain and his romance with farm girl Laurey Williams. A secondary romance concerns flirtatious Ado Annie and her long-suffering fiance Will Parker.

The story takes place in the Canadian Rockies and concerns Rose-Marie La Flemme, a French Canadian girl who loves miner Jim Kenyon. When Jim falls under suspicion for murder, her brother Emile plans for Rose-Marie to marry Edward Hawley, a city man.

South Pacific is a musical composed by Richard Rodgers, with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and book by Hammerstein and Joshua Logan. The work premiered in 1949 on Broadway and was an immediate hit, running for 1,925 performances. The story is based on James A. Michener's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1947 book Tales of the South Pacific, combining elements of several of the stories. Rodgers and Hammerstein believed that they could write a musical based on Michener's work that would be financially successful and, at the same time, would send a strong progressive message on racism.