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To me, the only male synchronized swimmers are the ones above -- Martin Short and Harry Shearer, with a little added choreography from a spandex-clad Christopher Guest. However, we're about to get another variety, and I'm not sure what I think about that. The Hollywood Reporter posts that Disney and Scott Rudin have teamed up for Synchronicity, a project that's been in development hell at the company for awhile now.

Mary Scott and Toni Kotite, who recently sold Parent Class, are working on the script, which focuses on male synchronized swimmers, and of course, is said to be following the lead of Will Ferrell and Ben Stiller's sports comedies. But what's with this recent obsession? Variety reported back in March that Sweden is making their own male synchronized comedy.

If Christopher Guest did this feature too, I'd be intrigued. But as it stands, do we really need another typical goofy male sports comedy?

Oh, how I've dreamed of parent class. Some kids are the paragon of good behavior, and allow the kiddie cuteness to shine bright, but others ... the hellions that scream through a restaurant throughout dinner, ride over the toes of unsuspecting pedestrians with their tricycles, crawl all over you on a plane where you can't escape ... Or the parents who think corn chips are a healthy vegetable meal for their kids, or think boredom needs to be rectified by medication ... For them, I've always wished there was a mandatory parent class.

At least there will be one on the big screen. The Hollywood Reporter posts that Overture has picked up a pitch called Parent Class from Toni Kotite and Marty Scott. The project will focus on "a divorced couple who are deemed unsatisfactory parents and must enroll in a class on how to improve their child-rearing skills." Producer James Gibb says that he once attended a child-rearing class, so they do exist, but I don't know about the mandatory aspect.

If done right, this could be a fun flick, between learning how to deal with the energy of a kid, and having to go through this all with an ex. Side note: I wonder -- do they have finals? Do they lock an ADD kid high on sugar in a room with the students and see how they handle the situation?

Have you ever taken a child-rearing class? What goes on at these things? And is there detention?