IRS
Rule-Breakers
The Internal Revenue Service has admitted filming a pair of staff-made videos that parody 1960s television shows. In its defense, the agency says the video based on Gilligan’s Island is used to train managers (somehow that doesn’t sound as reassuring as it should), but admits that its decision to make a Star Trek parody, which was shown for entertainment at a 2010 conference, was as ill-advised as a taxpayer who calls the IRS help line. The six-minute epic, with a budget of around $40,000, has impressively realistic sets and costumes but is marred by acting that makes William Shatner look Oscar-worthy. In a just world, the IRS would face stiff fines and a possible jail sentence for the disallowed business expense, but instead it will probably receive its regular yearly budget increase.
—National Review
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