Is it the writing, the acting, the direction, or the advice from Harry Fletcher that makes for such an implausible scenario?

"It's such an implausible scenario that even a gonzo hack like myself wouldn't try to sneak it past readers," Mr. Hiaasen wrote in his newspaper column a few days later.

They compellingly convey the atmosphere of modest American neighborhoods, their homes and the ordinary people who inhabit them, not often revealing the implausible scenarios that scroll through their heads.

He's good, too, at setting out in these surroundings the implausible scenarios that wind through their occupants' heads.

"It's an entirely implausible scenario that we'd fight two wars at once," Mr. Perry told the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee last week.

And this book contains some rather implausible scenarios.

During that time, Madoff reported only four losing months-- an implausible scenario that Markopolos said could only be achieved by fraud.

He described the story as "one of Trek's classic allegorically powerful, common sense implausible scenarios."

While critics praised the special effects and cast, they heavily panned the film for its implausible scenario, predictability, and lack of realism.

Peter Cannon in his review for Publishers Weekly said that "the authors have avoided the implausible scenarios and interservice rivalries of some past volumes.