Palindrome or Flatline?

Every so often, whether you're playing telephone or TeleFictionary, something happens.  When you get to the end, you're right where you started!  The input and the output are the same.  Nothing has changed.

In a game of telephone, that's a telephone FAIL.  But in TeleFictionary, it could either be a palindrome or a flatline.

In a palindrome, the interpretations drift away from the original sentence, only to return by the end.  The palindrome can be read from top to bottom or bottom to top without any significant difference.

In a flatline, nothing ever moves.  The interpretations never really change.  The beginning, middle, and end are the same.

Here's an example of a palindrome.  
(note: Colbert is the family cat.  Snaggletooth is a local stray with extra toes.  They're both all black)

I've posted a couple of Telefictionary Flatlines after the jump.

Mother's Day 2010: You had to be there.

The wind howled

The sky was grey

The temperature dropped

on Mother's Day.

So we played games inside. I finally introduced my family to TeleFictionary! There were five of us. Because we only went around once, our games were short and quick.

Convincing my mom to play was a triumph. She inherited atrocious drawing skills from her father; a family round Pictionary was always hilarious for the rest of us but humiliating to her. But TeleFictionary is not about winning. It's not about getting things right. There is no wrong or right.

In the end, the funniest and best results always came from the games in which Mom drew a picture. That's when interpretations would diverge wildly. Take, for example, this round.  Mom drew the first picture.

Other highlights after the jump.