Tim Heidecker, Gregg Turkington, and Mark Proksch offer a peek at their twisted text thread

There’s nothing quite like a group text with funny people, a digital haven where you can lose yourself in roundabout conversations, running bits, and typos that then become running bits. One can rarely share the subsequent laughs with the uninitiated, due either to a lack of context or an abundance of bad taste, but every now and then a thread can spawn something that resonates for those outside the circle.

Take Marion’s Wish, a new text shared by Tim Heidecker, Gregg Turkington, and Mark Proksch, the trio at the core of Adult Swim’s On Cinema At The Cinema. “For the past 7 years or so, Gregg, Mark and I have had a text thread going that has brought me more laughter and joy than most anything other form of media I can recall,” Heidecker writes in the piece’s forward. “For years we talked about doing something with these ‘wastes of time’ and this little snippet; a peek into the thread for 24 hours, felt like it could be a way to test the waters. So here’s a taste.”

Heidecker, Turkington, and Proksch all play grotesque versions of themselves in the On Cinema universe, and Heidecker is quick to point out that Marion’s Wish exists outside of that particular realm. While that might be hard for fans of the show to process, it’s likely they’ll quickly be swept up into this twisted, fictional tale that weaves the Three Stooges into a tapestry of nude photos, funerals, and “Moe Memorabilia.”

Read the foreword below, download Marion’s Wish as either an e-book or a PDF here, and send us any videos of you performing it. This demands a stage adaptation.