SS Minnow (TV series)

SS Minnow title card "almost certainly" from Season One [99.8% stoch-prob rating].

SS Minnow is a television program loosely based on a military-industrial-criminal conspiracy on a purported "uncharted desert island" during the Second World War.

Premise

What appears to be a secret death camp on a Caribbean island run by Nazi officers during the Second World War in collusion with an unlicensed military industrial criminal transdimensional corporation based in the White House ⁠— is actually a highly realistic cover story for psycho-medical experiments of Lovecraftian dimensions involving the fictional yet illegal transdimensional drug Clandestiphrine.

Episodes

SS Minnow script excerpt showing the "SS MINNOW" stamp.

Several versions of two distinct episodes have been recovered as of June 2020.

Quantum steganography of program data received on June 12, 2020 reveals two episodes, both believed to belong to Season One:

• "Semi-Precious Evil"
• "Ratification"

No generally accepted sequence has been established, although there is some speculation [citation needed] that "Ratification" is the Season One finale episode; notably, Niles Cartouchian has spoken about his "warm, fuzzy-stochastic feeling that Ratification nicely wraps up the Lansky-Gottlieb-White conspiracy arc", and that the episode "secretly contaminates [the viewer] with enough high-grade Clandestiphrine to rewrite the history of neuroleptic retrotemporal interrogation."

Reaction

SS Minnow has been called "a reboot of Hogan’s Heroes as a death camp on a desert island in the Caribbean during the War. Like Hogan’s Heroes, except not funny. Hogan’s Heroes considered as a Möbius strip of semi-precious evil."

Controversy

Yeah but if your mashing it up with Hogan’s Heroes a Nazi cell on a Caribbean island makes more sense.

Exactly. One small qualifier – it’s a Nazi-American cell. Like the OSS, but run by a Devil who holds the soul-markers of Meyer Lansky and Sidney Gottlieb and George Hunter White.

Origin

The show was pitched by Karl Jones to a select cabal of investors and transdimensional drug enthusiasts on Friday June 12, 2020. The show was approved by both groups in less than twenty-three seconds, with a unprecedented 99.41% stoch-prob rating.

In an unpublished interview, Jones says that the idea came to him "while yammering on the Boing Boing comment board."

Jones wrote, in a comment on the Boing Boimg discussion board:

"My satire here is primarily Nazi-American history: ratlines, Paperclip, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gehlen_Organization Gehlen Organization], maybe throw in a little Philip K. Dick for color."

• Comment @ Boing Boing

Fiction cross-reference

• Clandestiphrine
• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles
• Scrimshaw abuse