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”

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

In the next scene, a copy of “The Bourne Identity” appears on top:

Next, “The Thorn Birds” and “The Bourne Identity” seem to meld into a single copy of “The Thourne Identity.”

And finally, “The Torn Birds” reappears: