Today’s episode of “A Closer Look” starts off with a single copy of “The Thorn Birds:”

A few minutes later, two more books have been added to the stack:
- “The Thorn Birds 3: Things Be Getting Tornier!”
- “The Thorn Birds 2: More Thorns”

The stack gets a little higher in the next scene with an all-anagram stack of “The Thorn Birds,” including:
- “The Borsht Rind”
- “The Third Borns”
- “The North Birds”

Then the stack becomes a lollapalooza of goofy free-association versions of “The Thorn Birds:”
- “The Born Turds”
- “The Torn Shirts”
- “The Sworn Words”
- “The Thin Boards”
- “The Shorn Brads”
- “The Corn Nerds”

And finally, the stack turns into a random pile of books we’ve seen in previous episodes, including:
- “The Thowd in the Bone”
- “A Blockwork Thornge”
- “198Thourn”
- “The Picture of Thornian Bray”
- “The Thord of the Rings”
- “Thorntnoy’s Complaint”
