Our Favorite Martian
by Mike Selinker
Answer: WRECKS
Each Marvin the Martian quote has had several letters cut out, forming a word of the length indicated by the name of the file:
- YOUR: "The earth? Oh, the earth will be gone in just a few seconds." = THIS
- PUNY: "Well, back to the old drawing board." = WORD
- EARTHLY: "Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth shattering kaboom!" = MEANING
- DEFENSES: "Oh dear, now I shall have to create more martians." = SHATTERS
- CANNOT: "This insignificant planetoid has been found guilty of crimes against the universe." = SOUNDS
- STOP: ""K-9, do you suppose all earth creatures behave like thataway?" = LIKE
- MY: "You have made me very angry...very angry indeed!" = AN
- BIG: "The Illudium Pu-36 Explosive Space Modulator! That creature has stolen the space modulator!" = ATM
- ZAPGUN: "That is an interplanetary flying space saucer. We are returning to Mars in it." = ANSWER
Or THIS WORD MEANING 'SHATTERS' SOUNDS LIKE AN ATM ANSWER. This refers to the puzzle Teller's Window in the ATM round. The answer to that puzzle was REX (clued there as a homophone of WRECKS), so this answer is, appropriately, WRECKS.