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The Shaggy Dog (2006)
★ 4.9 · 585 ratings on TMDB
It's going to be a ruff day.
The tale of a workaholic dad-turned-dog who finds that being man's best friend shows him the most important job - being a great dad.
DirectorBrian Robbins
The emergence reading
The Shaggy Dog keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
zero-distanceUS
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E4geneticsa vaccine containing canine DNA rewrites a human's genome so the person physically transforms into a dog when exposed to typical canine stimuli (biology · personal)
Same rung, same subject
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