Although the line: "The Matrix crashed when Johnny Mnemonic 'boinked' Hobbes against Ted 'Theodore' Logan and Bill S. Preston, esquire, played songs on Dogstar's shitty album." Doesn't make any sense grammer wise. People really need to pay better attention to previous posts.

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The Matrix crashed when Johnny Mnemonic 'boinked' Hobbes against Ted 'Theodore' Logan and Bill S. Preston, Esquire played songs on Dogstar's shitty album.

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The subject is 'The Matrix'
The verb is 'crashed'
A dependant clause (which by itself is a compound sentence), pursuant to 'when' modifies 'crashed':
The clauses' subjects are 'Johnny Mnemonic'
and 'Bill S. Preston Esquire'
'Johnny Mnemonic' is the noun
''boinked'' is the verb
Hobbes is recieving the action, of being boinked against Ted 'Theodore' Logan.
starting a new clause
'Bill S. Preston Esquire' noun
'played' verb
songs on Dogstar's shitty album.

So the action was the Matrix crashing, and it had two causes
1)Johnny Mnemonic boinked Hobbes against Ted 'Theodore Logan'
2)Bill S. Preston Esquire played songs on Dogstar's shitty album

Here's a sentence structured the exact same way, but less unwieldy (due to our proper nouns):

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The Enterprise-D exploded when photorps exploded against the hull and Geordi hit buttons on engineering's failing controls.

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[ October 30, 2001: Message edited by: CaptainMike ]

What he said.