earth / dust / clay / local / indigenous / crude opium / unsophisticated / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1]
土
=
十
+
一
:
Tommy Turtle (tu) wants to fix a cross (十) on a flute (一) in the space station's living room (Ø3). He uses dust and clay (土) to hold them together.
Hamlet (h) recently got a lot of money, so he became a nouveau rich (豪). First he bought a new beret (亠). He then fulfilled himself a wish he had for a long time: standing on a swine (豕) and a porcupine (豪), he is riding out of the aorta's kitchen (ao2) into the world, eating a mandarin (口).
劣
=
力
+
少
:
Li Qingzhao (li) and the smiley (少) are battling to the death in a quiz about survival of the fittest (劣). Each of them has a power button (力) in front of them which they have to press if they want to answer a question. The inferior (劣) candidate will be expelled from the show.
绅
=
申
+
纟
:
Sherlock Holmes (sh) wants to become a member of the gentry (绅) and is reading a style guide (申) in front of the encampment ((e)n1). Unfortunately he doesn't quite get the book and subsequently dresses himself with live silk worms (纟).