In a what-if story, the author poses an unlikely, often absurd premise and traces its ramifications to their logical conclusion.
What results is so smooth that you overlook the video's absurd premise: Michael teaches the gangs to dance?
But "The Englishman" gets by on sweetness, a refreshingly absurd premise and its own sense of adventure.
His scripts always feature careful logical development from a slightly absurd premise to a farcical conclusion.
This bold statement by Euripides is the absurd premise upon which the whole play depends.
A movie like this can survive an absurd premise but not incompetent execution.
How do you get a logical foothold on a war that was nurtured from the beginning on absurd premises?
But what makes the ad memorable besides its absurd premise - a ferret and a slacker who hate each other?
"But we were taking the most absurd premise and trying to make it as real as possible."
The absurd premise of the film secured a great deal of media attention for it ahead of its release.