I have been watching a number of movies and television series that involve mentally ill people. The list includes Quills (involving the Marquis de Sade) and the latest episode of Lost where Harley is in a mental institution with an imaginary friend who makes him compulsively eat. What I have noticed as a general trend in videos involving the mentally handicapped is that generally they include a scene involving an incompetently played sport. For example, Ben Stiller playing frisbee with a catatonic schizophrenic and hitting him in the face every time. Or in the Lost episode, a basketball game where the player just slams the ball into the ground when he gets to the basket. Even in the Quills movie when the inmates are getting ready for a play they have a strange quasi ball game that they are playing incompetently. So apparently it is nearly impossible to see a movie with mentally ill or retarded people in it without a weird sports scene. Hollywood requires it in order to get the script past the editors. So this goes as a challenge to any rogue screen writer looking to make a script involving crazy people. Try making a script without the scene where they bonk the Down syndrome kid repeatedly on the head with the ball.