What the customer asked for

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A game based on this cartoon. The "customer" asks for something. The "analyst" designs something inferior to what the customer asked for. "Operations" installs something inferior to what the analyst described. Anyone can submit some version of this process or take the role of the customer and ask for something, allowing others to respond as the designer or as operations with inferior versions of what the previous player described. Similar to "we have [x] at home" or Google vs. Bing memes. Each example is a variation on the same punchline. The rules are not strict, so one can add additional steps to the process.

I'll give several more examples to start. Obviously, these are jokes:

What the customer asked for: Dune (2024)
What the analyst designed: Dune (1984)
What operations installed: The Rise of Skywalker

What the customer asked for: Return of the King
What the analyst designed: The Battle of Five Armies
What operations installed: Rings of Power

What the customer asked for: King David
What the analyst designed: King Solomon
What operations installed: Benjamin Netanyahu

What the customer asked for: John F. Kennedy
What the analyst designed: Bill Clinton
How the business consultant described it: Franklin D. Roosevelt
What operations installed: Joe Biden

What the customer asked for: Karl Marx
What the analyst designed: Vladimir Lenin
How the business consultant described it: John Maynard Keynes
What operations installed: Joseph Stalin

What the customer asked for: Milton Friedman
What the analyst designed: Ayn Rand
How the business consultant described it: Adam Smith
What operations installed: Ben Shapiro
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What the customer asked for: Mechanical Engineering
What the analyst designed: Film Studies
How the business consultant described it: Computer Science
What operations installed: Gender Studies

What the customer asked for: Margaret Atwood
What the analyst designed: Hillary Clinton
How the business consultant described it: Susan B. Anthony
What operations installed: Amber Heard
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It would be fun to have each person add to the new thing
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Customer: Limited Edition Funko Pop Collectibles
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What the analyst designed: Mcfarlane Toys Game of thrones action figures 
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What operations installed: Mcfarlane Toys Game of thrones action figures, Season 8 edition
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am confused
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Just make a post using the following format:

What the customer asked for: Thing
What the analyst designed: Slightly worse version of thing
How the business consultant described it: Better version of thing
What operations installed: Butt of the joke

For example:

What the customer asked for: Dua Lipa
What the analyst designed: Kim Kardashian
How the business consultant described it: Scarlett Johansson
What operations installed: Your mom

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What the customer asked for: A swamp drainer.
What the analyst designed: Mitt Romney
How the business consultant described it: Teddy Roosevelt
What operations installed: Trump