The F Plus - 41: Lemon Types In A Title For This Episode
Episode Date: March 22, 2011The multiple award winning screenwriter Billy Wilder once said "Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtitles obvious also." To that end, I think Mr. Wilder would appla...ud the fanfiction writers who we've profiled for this episode. We have Resident Evil and CSI screenplays featuring characters who actually speak their own stage direction along with the dialogue. And after that? A Star Wars crossover you probably weren't expecting. This week on The F Plus, dialogue won't be coming naturally.
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Hey there, welcome to the S Plus Podcast.
Terrible Things, Redwood Enthusiasm.
My name's Lemon.
Introduces himself, and I'm John.
What? Why? Why did you just do that?
Questions physically. I don't know what you mean.
Wait.
Leans forward.
Okay, that's great. You leaned forward.
Why are you narrating the things that you're doing?
Puzzled. I'm narrating things?
Yes, you're narrating
things. Why are you speaking
what are clearly directions to camera?
The realization
dawns on him. Oh, yes, it's because of
what we're reading today. Stands up.
It's because of the stories we're reading
that are poorly written and just have the
stage directions written right into the dialogue.
Sits back down.
Oh, okay.
And those stories are going to actually have stage direction inside of the dialogue?
Yes.
Takes drink.
That sounds terrible.
That makes me want to jump off a bridge.
Agrees with Lemon.
Yes, it does. to jump off a bridge. Agrees with Lemon. Yes, it does.
Jumps off a bridge.
Hands on the dance, nobody moves now In the room tonight we have Bunny Bread.
I'm Luke Skywalker and you can go fuck yourself.
Stog.
I'd like a sexy burger with sexy fries and a sexy shake
and put it all down the proton hole of the Death Star, please. Thank you.
Come, Quatsop.
It's fun.
I still don't know what an eight-letter word for humanitarian is.
It's here, Aquato.
Hey, ladies. I'm Bunny Bread.
John?
Oh, star, star, star, star, star, star, star.
Vortex?
No, it's star, star, star, star, star.
And Lemon!
Well, let's do this Resident Evil thing, and then we'll go from there.
Resident Evil Outbreak.
Aren't they all?
Episode 1, Outbreak. Aren't they all?
Episode 1, Outbreak.
Teleplay by Stephen Fisher.
Based upon the Capcom video games.
Teaser.
Scene 1, Raccoon City Sewers.
September 26, 1998.
This scene takes place from a rat's point of view.
The camera, i.e. the rat,
scuttles along the Raccoon City sub-sewer system
pipes fixed to the roof of that
section. Hearing voices, it scuttles back
as an Umbrella Biohazard Countermeasure Service
or UBCS team
comes into view above it, through a grate
separating the sub-sewer from the main sewer.
The sample's been retrieved
Delta-1, over. There's a moment's pause retrieved Delta One. Over.
There's a moment's pause before
chatter comes over the radio.
Understood.
Rendezvous at extraction point B.
Confirm.
Confirmed. Extraction point B.
Over and out.
Hunk places his radio back in this pack
and the squad continues down the tunnel.
A mighty primal roar echoes
down the tunnel. The rat bounds off
down the pipe scared.
So we don't have a camera anymore.
Wait, wait, wait. I thought this was
Resident Evil, not Dino Crisis,
whatever it is.
There's a difference?
Yeah, you're right. Whatever.
At least the zombie models with dinosaur models.
You're the extra right here.
Off-camera only voices can be heard.
Holy star, star, star, star.
What the hell is that?
Wait a second.
So hell is okay to say, but crap isn't.
This is a PG.
This is a PG movie.
Hostile.
Take it down.
The clatter of submachine
fire...
That's the fire that's beneath the machine,
folks. Not a super machine.
Yeah.
Only half a machine is firing.
Can be heard rattling through the sewer.
The footsteps can be heard overhead
bounding past the rat.
It comes to the next grate and sees
a UBCS soldier crawling backwards, firing his
submachine gun at an approaching mutant
which impales the soldier with its claws,
sending the submachine sprawling
out to the soldier's hands,
and it continues firing as it bounces to the floor.
What?
The rat runs up a pipe and enters
a main sewer. Continuing up,
it looks down from the overhead pipe
to see the monster's arm lash out
and behead one of the soldiers.
A case he was carrying smashes
to the floor, breaking open, and
several vials that fall out, and the monster's
foot crashes down upon the
viral contents of the sewer.
Take that, viral contents.
Oh no, my
computer's infected. The rats nearby
scuttle along,
including our camera.
What?
The camera rat.
Oh, the rats and the camera rat.
The rat-mrat, yeah.
The camera rat. Very specific breed.
And lap up the contents of broken vials.
We see a nearby rat's eyes have turned dark red.
Oh dear.
I've never seen a rat that has eyes that appear to be red.
I know.
You don't hang out with the right rats, man.
Perhaps that rat's been up too late.
We also know that a rat's
favorite food is virus.
The rats scuttle down the drainage pipe
into the sewer management's bathroom.
They lay eyes upon
two UBCS soldiers,
one of whom is dead,
the other fatally wounded and unable to move.
The rats move over to the body.
The soldier is unable to fend them off
as a swarm starts to devour him.
The camera now moves off the rat's perspective
and pans upwards out of the sewer management facility,
upwards to street level.
It's nighttime,
and it focuses upon the neon glow
over the overhead J's bar.
End of teaser.
Wait, as the audience member,
I'm assuming that the rat ate the man
and then was able to fly?
Yes.
Rats can fly.
Well, when they have red eyes,
the camera moves off the rat's perspective.
But how do I know that?
Only camera rats.
Only camera rats.
Because you'd see the inside of the rat's head's polygons and shit.
You'd see the back of the rat's head's polygons and shit. You'd see the back of its eyes
and its teeth.
Do you think he stole the fire from the submachine
and he was able to fly with that?
Levin, you clearly
haven't read the Resident Evil wiki.
You don't know enough about what the T-virus can
and can't do. It clearly can make rats fly.
You're right.
Act 1. Scene 2.
Jay's Bar. September 27th, 1998
It's around 8pm the next evening
The camera opens upon a day calendar
displaying the 27th and pans backward
and we see many people in the bar, roughly 14
including Officer Kevin Ryman
Wager Cindy Lindex, Security Guard and former
Vietnam vet Mark Wilkins with his friend and also security
of our Bob Johnson, Raccoon City Subway employee
Jim Chapman, former David King, reporter
Ellis Ashcroft.
Dr. George Hamilton. Student Yoko Suzuki.
Bartender Will Ferrell.
What?
He's filming semi-pro shoot.
Deepest bartender ever.
As well as a group of four friends.
Nobody else has friends.
Jamie Daniels, Colin Peel, Jackie
Burton, and Harry White.
You're a cleric in there and you got a full team.
I got to say that since he says Plumber David King, Plumber and David are capitalized but not King, so I'm assuming this man is the ruler of all Plumber Davids ever.
You know what's a good thing to do in the first scene of your movie?
Introduce 14 characters.
All the characters.
I like how Mark Wilkins
is a former Vietnam vet.
He's no longer a Vietnam vet.
He had to retire from being a Vietnam vet.
Well, it was really just sex tourism I was going
there for.
At least it's very descriptive.
I'm sure the next sentences will really set up the setting
as well as the characters.
The pump TV plays with some music from a jukebox
in the background.
That we guys can license.
I don't want to be picky.
It's like one of those old hockey movies.
TV reporter.
An exhilarating win for the Raccoon Mets today
in a victory of skill and teamwork.
I thought it was the team that won.
Thank you, Tom Brokaw.
Kevin Ryman sits at the bar
and waitress and former girlfriend.
She's a professional former girlfriend.
She treats everyone like a huge bitch.
The top of her CV says former girlfriend.
It's got to say Cindy, waitress, former girlfriend.
Cindy Lennox walks over.
Kevin, you all right?
I'm all yeah.
I'm fine, kid.
Pushes glass forward.
He says that.
Same again.
Thanks.
Refilling glass.
No, no.
Cindy says refilling glass.
Refilling glass.
So, what's really up?
Size.
Remember that test I took for the Special Tactics and Rescue Service a couple of months back?
Passing him drinks.
The aptitude test for S.T.A.R.S. Squad.
That worked out of R.P.D.
Oh, such good writing.
Yep, gulps down part of the drink.
You gonna drink that or just talk about it?
Weren't they disbanded
after they banded?
About?
That would be the progression of events.
We should have a band before you can disband.
Come on.
About those wild stories
about that mansion in
Arklay Mountains?
Apparently he ordered the exposition special.
Nodding.
Well, the results came back in the post
pauses. I failed
emphases again.
That was a hard class.
Clearly, because he's not emphasizing words properly.
Not the right material for special tactics and rescue.
They were all crack heads from what the paper made out.
Sharply, Chris Redfield was no crackhead size. They were all crack heads from what the paper made out.
Sharply, Chris Redfield was no crackhead size.
Besides, you shouldn't always believe what you
read in there, Raccoon Times.
It's in Chief Iron's pocket.
Chief Irons?
No, that's actually a guy from the game, I think.
Oh, good. Oh, well, that would make sense.
Raccoon City Police Chief Brian Irons.
Well, he actually shows up in
Resident Evil 2
This guy did his research
That means it's a good script
Irons seems like a good guy
There's two sides to every coin kind
One he shows in public
The other he keeps locked away
Or he tries to anyway
Conspiracy theories aside
Kevin
Don't you think it would have
been worse to land your dream
job that no longer exists
than to find out
Up didn't pass the test?
What?
Wow
I can see why he broke up with her
She always looks on the
confusing side of life
Not really
Gulp's down the last of his drink.
I wanted to prove to myself that I could do it.
Be everything I could be, but no,
it'll never get that chance.
Kev, you're a damn good officer.
That's so good.
And knowing you're working the streets
makes me sleep easier at night.
I like to work the streets, baby.
Oh, yeah.
He's dating a caveman or something.
He's just not pulling down enough money with his cop job,
so he has to start working the streets.
Hey, baby, you need a rest?
Head down, it his hands.
Kevin grumbles something.
What? Cindy gently rubs his hand with hers
and with her other hand lifts his chin up.
Chin up, Officer Ryman.
That's what I'm doing.
Your chin is going up.
Head on head, Officer Ryman.
Rubbing your head, Officer Ryman.
She smiles at him and he smiles back
as she walks off. Kevin gets up and
heads over to the jukebox which is behind Mark and
Bob.
Hey Will, you got
any good tunes on this
hunk of crap? I couldn't
name one of the songs on that,
but there's some 80s rock
to my life.
Slightly drunk.
Yes, that's good.
Looks at the Scorpions.
Yeah.
Kevin puts the money in the jukebox and presses the button.
Well, that is your dog.
The Scorpions rock you like a hurricane.
Comes on Kevin, inmates, with an air guitar.
Oh, baby.
It's pretty hot.
What'd you do to him, man?
I invaded him.
Oh, he ain't a virgin no more.
He ain't a virgin no more. I got jizzed on by a record.
You just got d-blocked to rock you like a hurricane.
The song is carried over to Mark and Bob
and can be heard while their conversation takes place.
Not your conversation, their conversation.
Eight weeks, Mark.
Asterisk, asterisk,
asterisk, asterisk.
Is that all?
Yeah, 26 years and
a bunch of stars.
All from M. Vesasas'
Mr. Sugar.
Oh, come on. He's not that bad.
What? Yeah. I sleep. To patriots like you, maybe. Oh, come on. He's not that bad. What? Yeah.
I sleep to patriots like
you, maybe. Oh, shit.
With a hint of sarcasm.
Yeah, what a bastard
I am serving my country.
Nom?
Wait, your country is nom?
He's not sure.
He was adopted. Well, no, because
an exclamation point from a word
indicates a click. What's a question mark
in front of the word mean?
Nom.
Nom.
Nom.
Oh, that's
really funny, buddy.
Sad face.
Seriously, did this conversation
become a me versus you
thing?
Shortly after it started.
Wow.
Mark looks at Bob. He starts laughing and Mark
joins in. Kevin can be seen in the background
headbanging away.
Kevin went from being
mopey and hanging his head down
to suddenly air guitaring and now headbanging.
He's being rocked.
Anyway, you'll get to spend more
time with Irene.
I love Irene more than anything
but I really don't want to spend all day
every day with her chuckling.
Speaking of the shackles of her life, how's yours?
Sarah's good.
So are the boys.
Brady's still loving
that Game Boy you got him for your
birthday.
What? Got him a Game Boy?
No, because Game Boy isn't capitalized and it's
hyphenated, so maybe... Happy birthday to me!
Here's a Game Boy.
Ampersand, they say
all people are afraid of technology.
Ampersands do say that
Bob starts coughing
badly and after
rubs his forehead wincing
Mark rests his hand on Bob's shoulder
you okay Bob
feel like stars
yeah cause you can't
down them like you used to
what it's not that Yeah, because you can't down them like you used to.
Wiseass!
It's not that.
Started late last night after I had to chase that stupid flea infested dollar got the premises again.
Flea infested?
Bit me as well, the little bastard.
So I said wiseass and bastard and I feel like
stars. Okay.
It's a dirty word.
It is a dirty word, whatever it dirty word You don't look so good
Semicolon
Did you have it checked out?
I'll be fine
You haven't even touched your food
Mock seriously
Which really is worrying
You're an annoying friend Mark
Wise
Stars
Over in a small booth Jim Chapman sits mark. Wise stars.
Over in a small booth, Jim Chapman sits, crossword in his hands,
tapping his pen on the table.
David King drink in hand looks
around and sees
the least crowded area is
the booth. Jim's in, so
he proceeds to take a seat opposite
him. That gives me a very
rich visual image, like I know exactly
where all the characters are.
The David King drinking hand is looking around.
Establishing
blocking is important in a script.
Wait, I gave myself Jim, right?
Was I Jim? I don't know.
You're the leader.
Alright, here we go. Here is Jim's opening
line. Here we go.
Hi, I'm Jim.
Beautiful. Bravo. Hi, Jim. Hi, I'm Jim. Beautiful.
Bravo.
Hi, Jim.
Show, don't tell, Jim.
Show, don't tell.
David gives him the slightest of nods.
Oh, wow.
It's the slightest of nods.
But he does not give his name.
This crossword, man.
It's giving me a headache.
I'm usually good at this sort of thing.
I'm a conductor for raccoon rails
So I get some spare time and usually get myself thinking
With one of these
Usually a piece of cake
But this one's got me stumped
An eight-letter word for humanitarian
Any ideas?
Hey, I just met you
I'm going to tell you everything about myself
I was born in North Carolina
And I grew up in
Hey, I got to do a plot introduction for myself
Hey, this is all the things I do
It's great
I want to hear what David's doing right now Come on David is staring out the window Hey, I gotta do a plot introduction for myself. Hey, this is all the things I do. It's great.
I want to hear what David's doing right now.
Come on.
David is staring out the window at nothing in particular.
Oh my god.
Yo, mate!
David turns back round to Jim.
Eight letter word for humanitarian.
Any ideas?
No. No.
David returns to staring out the window
while slowly sipping his drink.
Oh, well thanks anyway.
Jim pauses for a moment.
So what is it that you do?
I'm a plumber.
Oh, that sounds interesting.
It's not.
Do you have any major floods
or anything like that?
No.
So finally we got some zombies in this damn picture.
Sighs!
You know when someone comes and sits down opposite me in a bar,
it generally gives the impression that they don't mind a little conversation.
Maybe you shouldn't generalize that.
Well, sorry to have bothered you!
Apology accepted!
Jim is shaking his head as David returns to staring out the window
whispers lots of stars
I wonder why he took exception to his
apology
I apologize to everyone but you
well I'm sure I'm glad we spent a lot of time
with these characters.
Like, you know, the...
Oh, yeah, that...
Yeah, that one guy.
That guy.
All right, there's a bunch of text from a narrator, which is clearly boring.
So, let's go back to Cindy.
Wait.
No, thank you.
Cindy nods and walks off with her tray.
She sees a rat scurrying down the bar floor
Lets a little yelp and drops her tray
Will rushes over
You okay Cindy?
Yeah I'm fine just saw a rat
Chuckles okay
It's not funny you don't know
What sort of things
They could be carrying
Sure Cindy here I'll get this cleaned up for you.
Oh, you sure?
Yeah, no problem.
Then I'm going to head off home to sally him late as it is.
Thanks.
I saw that video.
That rat could be carrying another rat.
Watch out for camera rats.
Cindy goes over to behind the bar counter.
Huddled together in a booth are university friends
Jamie Daniels, Colin Peel, Jackie Burton, and Harry White.
Second time we've seen them, and they've all been referred to as all the same.
I guess they can only be referred to the four of them together.
Jamie and Jackie, two girls sit opposite the two lads, Colin and Harry.
Alright, I'll take Jackie. Okay, I'll take Colin.
Alright, you got Colin.
Isvan, take Harry.
Harry got it.
And Stog, take
Jamie. Okay.
I think that's it, right?
Yeah, I think that's it. Alright.
Oh my god, no way!
Yo, he did it all right.
My, how I blushed.
The girls giggle together.
Yeah, it was one of my bigger stunts.
Thanks, that's enough detail, Harry.
Not enough detail for me.
Girl, you are sick!
I know, it happened when I met you!
Whatever!
Knows how to write for women really well.
I'd be happy to give a repeat performance.
She's as good of a writer for women as Aaron Sorkin is.
God, no, Maia. I still haven't recovered from last time, kid.
Do you do private showings?
Grings!
Frowny face shaking her hand, taking Jamie's arm.
Girl time!
Oh, God.
Girls say girl time all the time.
She pulls Jamie along into the bathroom.
Girl time, yay!
I think I know someone who really wants a repeat performance.
Thanks, but I don't bend that way.
That's real funny.
You working it long?
I did, actually.
Not long enough, huh?
Calling it really hurts my feelings.
I really hope zombie TV soon.
Strangely, though, I don't believe you,
but seriously,
Jemma really is
digging you right now.
My highly trained senses
did pick that up.
No,
she's proper digging you.
Proper digging me?
Well,
this is much more
serious now.
That's a whole
sum of different color.
I'm sorry,
this is much more
serious now. I'm sorry, this is much more serious.
No.
Hey, I'm getting another drink. You want one?
Yes. I'd love you to buy me another drink.
You just have to wear
a dick to your head. You know that?
I'm sorry.
Was that a poor attempt at humor?
I'm getting up and heading over to the bar.
You can't.
Colin gets up and heads over to the bar.
You can't.
I love you too, babe.
Harry laughs to himself, and out of the window next to him,
we slowly see a figure lurching up the street.
We hear a jukebox start Rock You Like a Hurricane again, with Kevin
continuing to sing away to it.
I wonder if the narrator happens to
like Rock You Like a Hurricane at all.
That's a terrible jukebox.
The jukebox is just a CD player and one button.
Rock You Like a Hurricane.
Now there's two buttons.
Rock You Like a Hurricane, yes, no.
Yes and yes.
Please don't rock me like a hurricane.
Yes and hell yes.
Even though I know you're going to do it anyway.
Okay, on the table
near the bar, we see Dr. George
Hamilton with medical
student Yoko Suzuki.
Oh, this is like the Beatles, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Alright, Acer, you're going to
be the Yoko to my George.
Alright, then.
George Hamilton,
I should tan myself. She just moved one
beetle over.
Alright,
I'm tired of you, John.
I'm going to be hanging with George.
In fairness, George probably had the better drugs.
You have everything you need for the test,
Yoko. You're possessive
of one of the brightest students I've had
this year, Ampersand. If you
didn't spend so much time on that job
of yours, you'd be the
best, but regardless, you'll pass
with flying kaluers.
Oh, he spelled that right.
Nobody actually spells it that way.
Except everybody but Americans.
Except everybody but Americans.
Colors is illegal in your Hollywood scripts.
This is playing
right after Pooh's Heffalump movie.
Your mom's illegal in Hollywood scripts, but I don't bring that up.
I wonder if this is...
I wonder if this guy is
an American trying to
spell internationally because he misspelled
emphasized by
replacing the Z with an S.
I'm sure he's just being worldly and not a fucking
moron.
Alright, Yoko. My job is equally
important to me as my medical studies, and you
know how much effort I put into them.
That's not the accent I'd expect
from you, Yoko.
I don't know how much effort I put into them.
That's not the accent I'd expect from you, Yoko.
Yoko spent some time in India, apparently.
She's well-traveled.
Yoko just watches a shit ton of anime and just decided to change her name to Yoko Suzuki.
I'm one of the...
Yes, I'm very much...
Actually, I'm an Indian man,
but I like the anime so much,
I have to watch it.
Oh, gosh.
Okay.
I'm not disputing that, Yoko.
It's just perhaps you invest too much time elsewhere
bombarding yourself with pointless non-circular activities
isn't just going...
Oh, my God.
Sometimes your activities are in a triangle.
Eat lots of cookies
and go to
NASCAR
and draw zeros all the time.
Pointless non-circular
activities isn't going to help you become
a doctor. It's going to work against you
and if push comes to shove, when you
get your degree, you're going to have
to...
Full time! and if push comes to shove when you get your degree you're going to have to full time
i don't remember you talking like that when we got married
i don't mean to pass judgment i'm just trying to help you achieve the best you can.
Don't you think I want that as well?
Yes, but you should have higher aims than a lab assistant in...
Where did you say you were working?
Looking away. A pharmaceutical company.
Precisely.
Your computer skills are excellent, but that won't help you a great deal when it comes to saving la...
What?
It's a doc. Computer skills great deal when it comes to saving what? Computer skills
mean nothing when it comes to...
Oh god, I'm having a heart attack. Here, let me install
Word. Give me a second.
Good people at Pfizer are always looking for PHP developers.
Yeah.
Hey, you got a tumor? Let me replace your CPU
heatsink.
Doctors never use computers, ever.
Oh, look at Deathful's advocate
here.
We were trying to mock a
retard, thank you.
I don't want
an argument, again, about this.
I just want to go sleep.
Okay, fair enough. I suppose
you want me to help pick up the tab.
Er, me pick up the tab, rather.
Well, in barley scraping,
buy on student wages as it is.
Working the fields.
Barley scraping.
Oh, Jesus.
Alright, I'll pay.
Thanks.
Sure, don't mention it.
Hold on a minute, I'll walk you back to your place.
Thanks, Puzzigan.
Thank you.
Puzzigan. I you, Buzzigan.
Thank you, Buzzigan.
You even know if that's racist. It's just more perplexing.
We're mixing up our poor stereotypes.
That would be great if that's what
Apu said whenever he unpaused
that Simpsons game that came out for the 360.
Thank you, Buzzigan.
Thank you, Buzzigan. George heads over to the bar to pay the tab
we see the figure in the street
lurch past the window by Jim
who the band who
regards him for a moment
before continuing
on with his crossword
the door swings open and loudly
bangs into the side table as a figure
lurches in his
long hair draped over what will
soon be revealed to be his rotting face.
He stumbles forward almost drunkenly.
A rotting smell coming off of him and he just comes to a stop.
Oh, hey, Nick Nolte is in this.
He's finally?
Hey, who
is this fool?
I don't feel so go-hyphen.
Bob falls off his stool unconscious.
Oh, Bob!
Mark moves over to Bob's unconscious body, shaking him.
Will drops the broken glasses into the bin and heads over to the man.
All eyes are focused upon him.
Who is Will?
Can I help you, sir?
There you go.
The zombie raises its head and its rotten face
is seen. It lunges forward, sinking
its teeth into Will's neck.
Thank God he'll die.
What a character!
Will lets out a painful
scream, forces him off him, and
back onto the street, locking the door
and falling backwards, blood spewing from his neck.
More zombies appear. One presses
its face against the window.
Blown.
I'm playing the zombie here.
Put him on the glass!
No, wait, this is Resident Evil.
You get bitten by a zombie or whatever, you get superpowers.
It's true.
More zombies appear. One presses its face against the window.
By Jim, he's let out a frightened yelp
and half runs, half crawls out of his
window booth.
He jumps a little bit and then crawls for like five steps
and then gets up and runs a little bit more.
I need a drawing.
The controls for walking and crawling are real bad.
He can't really get back.
Tank controls.
He zigzags back and forth into the zombie's mouth.
You know how to get out of this booth.
Then he resets the game 12 times.
Kevin rushes over to Will,
grabbing his hand while Cindy stands
further back trembling.
George rushes over.
It's going to be okay. Will just held on.
I'm a doctor.
Please stand back.
Kevin does so and George drops
to his knees and examines Will.
His cartoid artery
has been carotid
Is that actually how it's spelled?
No, say carotid identity
He actually spelled carotid artery
correctly
He can't spell emphasize
This guy's smarter than me
His carotid artery
has been deeply pierced
George applies pressure to Will's neck and blood sputters out of his mouth His carrot-ed artery has been deeply pierced.
George applies pressure to Will's neck and blood sputters out of his mouth.
Splutters?
George bit his tongue, apparently.
I play the blood and the zombies in this picture.
Quickly, we don't have much time. I need my med-ka-hyphen.
Screaming, I don't want to die.
Will's body starts to spasm uncontrollably and George loses his hold
on his neck and his artery sprays
blood everywhere. The spasms stop
and Will lies dead.
He lost a capital letter
when he died.
Solemnly,
he's dead.
Best doctor ever.
Cindy lets out a soft moan
and begins to cry
Cindy
thank you
everyone is silent
as the pounding on the door begins
scene three
Jay's bar women's
bathroom
supplying the foley for this scene as well you want a girl time Scene three. Jay's bar, women's bathroom. We suddenly switch to
supplying the Foley for this scene as well.
Oh, you want a girl time?
Here we go.
It's girl time!
The girls standing facing the bathroom
mirror applying makeup.
As girls do.
I'd like a private demonstration.
Yeah, I wouldn't mind
The girls giggle
But then hear a loud banging
Coming from the bar
Oh no more giggling
I'm a zombie
What's that
No idea but it don't sound right
Suddenly the vents grate
Next to where the girls are standing
Pops out in a zombie arm shootout
Grabbing onto Jackie's leg
She lets out a scream
And Jamie spins around to see her
See her bend pulled into the vent
Top half of her body is still showing
As she desperately clings onto the vent
Hold on Jackie into the vent. Top half of her body is still showing as she desperately clings onto the vent hatch.
Hold on, Jackie!
Jamie pulls on her arms. There's a tearing sound and Jackie
lets out a blood-curdling scream
and her eyes
roll shut.
There's a final
tear as Jamie pulls her free from
the vent, but the lower half of her body is gone
and her entrails are spread across
the floor. Jamie screams
hysterically at the sight of now-dead
friend literally ripped in half.
They pulled her in half?
Is a dead person or
a little girl strong
enough to pull a person in half?
One thing we didn't know about
was the other girl, whoever
she is. Girl one and girl two.
Might as well be their names.
Yeah.
Well, she's actually made of taffy.
She's delicious.
That's why the zombies want to taste like fashion.
All right.
A little bit more here.
The door burst open and Kevin is standing there with his customized.45 aimed at Jamie.
He sees what happens and lowering his gun,
he motions to Jamie to come towards him.
It's awk, come on.
She moves toward him and he lightly takes her hand
and guides her out of the bathroom
and into the arms of her boyfriend, Colin,
when she bursts into tears.
Mike, it's okay. Tell me what happened.
She's dead. Jackie's dead.
You seem more like it's more of a funny story now that I think about it.
You had to be there.
A shocked look registers upon Harry's face.
Harry?
Oh my.
There you go.
Scene four, Jay's bar.
Oh God, we're never leaving this bar.
Would you want to leave?
There's a Zambie out there.
Bob, Bob.
Bob opens his eyes.
Oh geez,ez Mark what happened
you just
collapsed
help me up will ya
Mark pulls Bob to his feet
and lets Bob get his footing
he holds his side in pain and moves with a limp
he sees Will's dead body
and looks to Mark shocked
what the hell happened here?
Who was that guy again?
Some
guy high on something came in and
took a bit of his neck.
Well, just a bit, though.
He tried to eat him? Yeah, pretty much.
Oh, the jackheads.
That's the last. That's the whole
movie right there.
The guy's face was rotting off,
and so they were just like,
yeah, he must have been on drugs or something.
And it just fades to the ending card.
Remember, drugs are bad.
So we've done Resident Evil.
Here comes some CSI instead.
Oh, awesome.
There's a Warnig.
It's only a rough draft.
That's so racist.
It's only a rough...
It's half a racist comment. Come on.
Warning. Only a racist joke. Come on. Warning.
Only a ralph darfed.
All right.
All right.
Start us off.
This is where Pulp can give Sorda an idea of what they would like to happen in the episodes.
Here is a script it wrote.
Please don't take anything out of it Of take credit for it
Cause it took a week to make
And it is still not done
There are a few bugs to work out in it
Here ya go
Script several gajillion tildes
Warning!
Only a rough darft!
That's a serious warning
Hey short and sweet I have a question for you
where are you currently sitting
oh I am
thinking under a giant oak tree
but I'm sitting in bar-dom
alright here we go
intro
shows some shots of famous places
in LA
and then it shows a house
I think these were the same notes for the room
okay
oh hi Taylor
it's not a rough darft
it's bullshit
and then it shows a house with the two victims
Mr. and Mrs. Stokes
are at home and starting a fire
in the fireplace. Then it zooms over
to Miss Tompkins' house
where he is given an Advil
by his maid and his
girlfriend leaves from a fight and says
you'll be sorry and runs out in a fury.
Then it shows Nick and Warwick at the scene
of the crime for the Stokes.
Hey, I'd like to point out scene of the crime for the Stokes. Hey,
I'd like to point out that Mr. and Mrs.
Stokes stoked the fire.
Thanks, Doc.
Stokes, you're silly.
This is why we keep you around.
That's why I married him.
Starts off, Nick is in the
break room.
Where the house is going.
Getting his wheels balanced.
The trains have break rooms in them.
That's how the trains stop.
Break room waiting for an assignment
while reading a letter from his brother.
The thing you described, I'm doing it.
What do you got there?
Swings around to see Warwick's face.
A letter from my brother.
He, his wife, and daughter just moved to Vegas.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Grabs picture of them.
Here is picture of them.
Takes picture in hand and looks at it.
Nice family.
No asterisks after that.
He's just really saying that.
Yeah, they are. My brother is
motor technician and my sister-in-law
is a lawyer. Gives picture back to
Nick. That's great for them.
Walks into break room
with Wark and Nick. Hey, guys!
Hey, Sarah. Hey,
Sarah. Goes over to coffee
machine and gets a cup of coffee.
That's her entire line of dialogue.
Yes.
Walks in. Hey, my CSI
buddies. Looks at Greg.
Greg.
Yeah!
Never say that again.
Okay.
Sit down. What's
that? Oh, it is just
a letter from my brother.
Oh, see his picture
of the family. Is that them?
Yeah, with Jennifer,
his wife, and Abby, his daughter.
I think it's...
Oh, there's Kathy.
Ace or Kathy.
Locks in! Hey, Warwick,
Nikki, Greg, Sarah!
Hey, Kathy.
We're all supposed to do that together
but whatever
Yeah that was pretty good
Walks into room
Morning everyone
Hope y'all got some good sleep last night
This room is crowded as hell
Are we busy today?
Excuse me, excuse me, excuse me
Alright, alright
Are we busy today?
No, not really.
Yeah, weird cases I get.
You guess.
Shugs.
I just give the assignments.
I don't make them.
Oh, here you go, by the way.
Shit.
Add paper to work.
You and Nick get this.
Can I get this case?
Grabs paper. Okay, come on, Nick. You and Nick get this. Can I get this case? Grabs paper.
Okay, come on, Nick.
Gets up.
Okay.
Leave.
They just yell that as they leave the room.
Leave.
Ninja vanish.
It's like they're in a comic book, but the writer didn't make the sound effects, so they have to speak them instead.
No, no, no, no.
This is an Elcor radio drama.
Sarah, you're possessive with me and Kathy.
Okay, let's go.
Grissom.
Both are in Kathy leave.
Grissom.
Yeah?
What about me?
Oh, sorry, Greg.
If Nick and Warwick need any help,
then you can, okay?
Wow, I'm sure I'm glad
we saw that slice of their life.
It's a fun look behind the scenes.
Then it goes
Nick and Warwick's crime scene.
Nick and Warwick, no.
Isn't that how it goes, really?
It does.
Nice neighborhood.
Yeah, sort of like my brother's neighborhood.
Shut up about your brother.
Short pause as they climb up the street.
Wow.
This is a high hill.
Yeah.
What number did they say it was at?
Looks at paper, 144Y.
Oh, that's gross.
Short pause.
God. No.
Starts running towards the house.
Nick.
Nick, what's wrong?
Starts running up towards the house to catch up
with Nick.
Runs into house, sees all of the blood rolling
down the victim's faces
how are they
do you know who they are
is he talking to the victim
who are you guys
no we're fucking solved this
if you don't tell me
it's just rude
you dudes
David
well no
we might have to
clean him up a bit I bet
to tell pauses
looks at body
and then looks at Nick
why
do you know him
looks at body I don't know I mean
I think but god I hope
not well
do you know her?
Point over to the
missus. Looks like
she may have bled
to death. Looks over at the
woman. Not sure. How could you
when there is so much blood?
Oh, is this me? Alright.
I think it's a narrator line.
Maybe? I think it's a narrator line.
Fuck it. Fuck it.
Alright, here we go.
He enters the house and sees Nick and the David.
Nick, what's wrong?
The David?
He sees Nick and the David.
Nick, what's wrong?
You ran off when I said the address.
I think
we are related.
Dun dun dun.
What?
Related?
Yeah, he was my big brother.
He is your older brother?
Yeah, by four years.
And he has a daughter?
Yeah.
Picks up a picture of his brother with his wife and daughter.
I.T.A. Playful laugh.
I remember, oh.
Oh no, Abby.
What the hell happened?
Words happen.
Abby.
Abby?
Who the hell is Abby?
David, did you guys
find any more bodies?
Yah.
Upstairs in the bathroom.
But it was a suicide.
You need some?
A suicide.
Yeah.
There was a note.
And everything.
Everything in the world was in that room.
Including a note.
Did you find a girl?
A girl?
A girl around 12.
Or maybe 13?
Oh, no, Nick.
No.
No.
Why?
Nick.
My niece.
Your niece?
Why is everyone doing the repeating the last thing he says? Why is everyone doing the repeating the last thing
he says? Why is everyone doing the
repeating? Because that makes
drama, don't you know?
Why is everybody doing the repeating thing?
I want to know what David's doing here. Hang on.
David! He's from the Solid Snake School of
Script Writing.
Stars at Nick.
Hooyah!
Hooyah!
Hooyah!
Runs up to the bathroom. stars at Nick. Hooyah! Hooyah! Hooyah!
Runs up to the bathroom.
Follows Nick.
Enters the bathroom, where
his brother lays in the tub on top of
a sleeping bag with a bullet hole through
his head.
At least he tucked himself in.
Enters
the bathroom behind Nick and sees the body.
Turns around
to work. I think Grissom's
phantom killer is
back. Gets really mad.
But why him?
Steps back from Nick.
Nick man, I'm sorry about your brother.
I know, but...
Pauses.
We need to find Abby.
If she is still alive.
Man, he mourns like crazy.
He just said shit right out of the way.
That brother's dead.
Alright.
I'm mad.
Alright, it's cool now.
I'll call...
I'll call Brass and have him form a search team.
Thanks, Warwick. Shows Brass and have him form a search team. Thanks, Warwick.
Shows Brass interrogating the witness.
Just a big ingot of Brass.
Out there.
Do it! Do it!
Don't make me call Copper in here!
Cuts to Grissom and Kathy.
Slob's blood for a sample
who do you think she is
I don't know
does she have an it on her
I don't know
we'll have to wait till the
coroner gets her in
ponder thoughts for a minuet
okay let me put on this minuet
it's a minuet
how do you think the guy well girl Minuet. Okay, let me put on this minuet. It's a minuet.
How do you think the guy, well, girl, person blew up?
Well, we might get a lead as slow as Greg has done with that blood sample that Sarah brought him.
Goes out to the other body.
Examine that body.
Let's see if the body has some sort of box box in her hand He picks it up and goes for a
Caffeine
It's like a fucking text adventure or something
To pick up the body
That's right King Graham
Could you come in here please
I'm Warwick Mighty Pirate
Enter his room with Gil
Holding up a box of liquid capsule Tylenol.
What the hell is that?
It's liquid capsule Tylenol.
Oh, thank you.
There's more.
I think we found out how victim number two died.
That's the box.
She could have taken all of the pills.
Opens the box.
Looks over at the open
packet, but there is only one
missing capsule.
Looks like it could be the only
witness to the crime. The pill saw it.
Carragate those pills.
Kathy and Gil are a crime-fighting duo
of a cheerleader and an animated beaver.
Also, this is the worst
conceived
product placement ever.
Now, Tylenol, I know you give
fast-acting relief for headaches, but you've got to
tell us who the killer is.
I absolutely do not want to see the
porno parody with Gil and
Kathy.
I think I'll look at
the yard. Maybe there's some evidence there.
Bo-chicka-waw-waw.
Look into the girl's face.
Fuck.
This ain't a shitty script written on the internet, XXX.
Wanderers out into the backyard.
Searching for some kind of answer.
But finds a body instead.
Kathy! Runs over to the body.
It feels far apart, and there is one.
Kathy, get out here.
Hey, lady.
It's on phone calls for help.
Yeah, I need an emergency medical assistant on scene.
Young girl, white.
Thank God, now you'll show up.
Maybe 12, 13 years of age.
I think, looks at the girl and thinks
it is! it is the girl from the end of the world
it is Abby Stone!
drives to assist the girl and hangs up the phone
guest starring Rip Taylor
throws confetti all over the place
actually I'm
sensing a little bit of Andy Dick in there too
just took an amalgam of all things gay there.
Comes outside to see Gil
leaning over a body.
My God, is that?
Looks at face of the girl.
Did you not hear me before?
Yeah, Anna's the girl with the after alert.
And next day, look at Kathy.
Oh my god.
Look at you.
Just really staring at her.
Maybe this was written for like autistics
that couldn't read like facial expressions
so the character was just saying what they're feeling.
Jesus Christ.
They all stand in one room together.
Yeah.
Do that dialogue.
Cuts to crime
scene with Nick and Warwick.
Yay. Nick and Warwick.
But apparently Brass is there too.
Arise to tell Nick about their
finding of Abby.
Enter the house to find Nick kneeling down to
swab a stay blood sample.
Stay. Stay blood sample. Stay.
What you doing, Brass?
Looks up to see Brass and stands
up straight. Did you find her?
Yeah, but
I couldn't. Gets
erupted by Nick.
Oh, God. Nick.
Nick's a volcano god.
What? But what?
Is she okay?
Well, she was pretty beat up, so I don't know.
Size.
Damn.
Who the hell would do this?
Looks at brass.
Well, it wasn't fucking me, sure.
You should consider her lucky.
I beat bitches worse than that most days.
I do.
Where is she?
Right now, she's at the hospital.
You're going to have to race me there. I'm going to kill her.
She was pretty beat up, like I said.
Like how?
She had some pretty serious boozing.
No, that's not it.
Oh, she had some pretty serious busting.
She was in an integrated school.
She took a greyhound
all the way here
from the coast. Serious!
Okay,
um, Getscoat, could you
call someone to cover this?
I have to go get her.
Miles. Sure!
Leaves.
Leaves. Leaves.
I am out.
Drop the mic.
Comes down the stairs.
Where did Nick go?
Well, we found Abby.
You did.
We're.
We were by her house.
And she was on the side of the road.
Where is she now?
God, it's got an H in it.
What the fuck?
Maybe they're talking about werewolves.
You guys don't know.
Okay.
She's at the hospital.
Cuts to the hospital.
Yay!
Just capitalized, so I'm assuming the sign outside the hospital
says the hospital.
Oh, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
Cuts to The Hospital.
Well-known medicine place.
Walks up to the front desk.
Come quiet, your secretary.
Welcome to the L.A. Hospital.
How may I help you?
Abby Stokes.
Abby Stokes, what room is she in?
My name is
Sectetary.
Are you family?
Yeah, I'm
her uncle. Luke said paper.
Abby Stokes, room 144.
The paper is blank.
Thank you. Rushes off to room
144. Finnelly
finds it and enters it and sees Abby with a cast on her right arm and slowly walks up to her.
The cast slowly walks up to her?
Abby looks at her face and all of her cuts and whatnot.
Abby.
And such.
And so on.
What have you?
Grievous wounds, injuries, blah, blah, blah.
Abby, are you awake?
Slowly opens eyes.
Sighs with relief.
Abby walks up to her bed side.
Yeah.
I'm your uncle.
I know who you are.
Looks at him.
I have seen you in pictures before.
Abby, I have to tell you
something about your mom
and dad.
They're dead!
Pause is what?
Abby's autistic.
Pause is what?
They're dead, aren't they?
How did you know?
I was there!
Wait, flashback to where Abby sees her mother get abandoned.
By the light of the full moon, she turns into Abby.
Man by day, Abby by night.
You saw who did it?
I saw the back of her head.
Flashback.
I saw the flashback there.
She was playing flashback.
She does that, just don't worry about it.
But then something
hit my head and that is all
I remember.
Grabs Abby's right hand.
Begins to tear.
Ah!
Ah!
Yeah!
Looks at Abby's tears.
Abby is the worst
whipping for it.
She begins to cry.
What's going to happen to me?
This is only half of it.
It's the only half we need.
Yeah, no, no, narrator,
you need to just read the
reporter quotes by short and sweet.
By the way, that'd be really great
as if an actual episode
of CSI or something ended. Just the
director pops up like, this is only half of it.
Yeah!
We're done.
October 20th,
2004, 1.31pm.
What do you think? I know it is very
choppy. It has parts missing because Ty won't
let me put all of it in.
October 21st, 2004.
1.03pm.
Guys? Hello?
October 24th, 2004.
12.05am.
You guys are talkative.
6666!
Big O! Underscore!
Little O!
November 11th.
Almost two weeks later.
And then...
And then...
And then...
And then...
I was really
enjoying reading this.
Have you finished it?
I'd like to read the rest.
And that went from, the one before that
was November 11, 2009.
The date on that post was March 4th.
I mean, it was 2004, and now it's March 4th, 2009.
I'm a slow reader, but I just got done with that part.
Speaking of dialogue, is it really any worse
than the actual CSI?
All right. The last thing I have for you is a character by the name of
Luke Skywalker
Luke Skywalker
he is a character in
Star Wars
for that character Luke Skywalker from Star Wars
who would you most like to see him
paired up against
I think Goku
I think you'd have a chance
against Goku. Wrong answer.
Sonic the Hedgehog.
Oh, you're close.
Okay, Crash Bandicoot?
No, Dr. Robotnik.
Oh!
What do I
win for getting the closest? You get to read this.
That's what you win.
You're Skywalker versus Dr. Robotnik. Do I really get to read this. That's what you win. Luke Skywalker versus
Dr. Robotnik. Do I really get to read
this or do I not?
I thought you already were.
My name is Better Man.
I'm a senior member.
My gender is male and my icon
is knives.
Luke Skywalker versus Dr.
Robotnik. The Rebel Alliance
have discovered a new Death Star
being built over a planet called
Mobius. Discovering that
the Empire never built it, but an
ex-imperial skintist
by the name of Dr. Ivo
Robotnik, but most people call him Dr.
Eggman, and he called the weapon
the Death Egg.
Clever. This Death Egg has the same design as the Death Star, but it has a face on it! Eggman and he called the weapon the death egg.
This death egg has the same design as the Death Star, but it has a face on it!
Thanks for the help!
Explain, Madeen.
Wow.
So what? There's another hole for a proton torpedo to go through?
Oh, that was sexy.
Taunted Witch.
No, this time
it has to be flown inside to blow up
the main reactor, but there's also a problem
there. You have to destroy
a tick armor plating and an
energy shield behind it, then fly in
and destroy it. Too bad the
D.A.R.D. didn't hear about this, otherwise
he would have made his own Death Star again
and make a challenge.
Han Solo?
Stated? Question mark?
That sounds... It's totally Han Solo.
I'll make this!
This Death Egg
has turbo lasers that also
shoot missiles, so
you will have to fly quick to evade
them. The lasers shoot missiles?
Yeah.
Though unlike the first
Death Star, we are sending
50 fighters to attack this one as it
will be led by General Solo.
Good luck, men.
Afterwards, they arrived at Mobius and saw
the egg. If it didn't
have a face, I would almost
admire it. Scoffed
Han, who was totally Han Solo.
I
still wouldn't underestimate it.
Replied Luke, and that's
definitely Luke.
Really hit his growth spurt there, pretty hard.
Then a transmission came to Luke and Han's ships,
and Robotnik appeared on the holoprojector.
Rebels!
Here to destroy my creation, I presume!
Robotnik!
Why create another Death Star?
As to Luke.
Because of the Empire!
I want to rub it in that any person
can do what they can!
Replied Robotnik
in with the greatest adaptation
of Sonic Adventure of ever.
That really is the best Robotnik of ever.
It probably is.
Why leave the Empire?
As to Luke, who is
clearly showing he's Darth Vader's son.
Here comes my backstory.
They killed my daughter!
I was a scientist for the Empire,
but apparently my Maria was giving
rebels information or doing something
against the Empire that I never
had a reason. So when
I was gone and she was alone,
stormtroopers came marching through the
door and killed her.
I didn't know if I should stay, so I left at the right time because a day afterwards the Death Star was destroyed.
But sometimes a part of me thinks I should have stayed on that station when it blew.
So I swore to myself I can do what no empire could not.
And here it is, the Death Egg.
Unlike the first Death Star, I gave
it more complicated way to destroy it.
But I'm sure you rebels figured out a way.
Dr. Robotnik
makes the best smoothies.
Hang on, I'm making a smoothie.
Who wants margaritas?
Dr. Robotnik, give me a Slurpee
and I won't blow up your Death Star.
There's still a chance to join the Rebel Alliance.
Said Luke.
Sunday, Sunday, Sunday.
Believing in the Rebels is what killed my daughter.
Launch fighters!
A legion of incredibly homosexual fighters
come out of the Death Egg,
and the X-Wings, A-Wings, and Y-Wings
responded back along with the Millennium Falcon.
Luke, watch out.
Two micelles on your six.
Yelled Wedge as Luke dodged the mueslis.
As you say, may the
force be with you!
Said
or rather sang or
something robotic while watching
the fighters fly outside.
Alright,
and I eat kittens.
My name is I Eat Kittens
and this
sucks.
is I eat kittens and this
sucks.
Fuck you!
I have written the best story ever.
No, fuck you
boy.
You're so resonant.
Lemon comes in for the end bumper.
Speaks to John.
So, what do you think you learned today?
Well, what I really learned is that consuming a lot of media doesn't necessarily make you able to make any of that medium oh god i know like these guys like this like what for csi or for
resident evil especially for a script for a freaking fucking video game they're like oh man
i play a lot of games i love the cut scenes in those i could write a script sure let me just do
that i know how this works.
Without, you know, probably no
didn't read any other scripts.
Didn't take a class. Didn't even look on
didn't even look and see, oh, let me read a screenplay
see how they do it. No, just type
words and people talk in scripts, right? There we go.
Done. It almost makes you
think that it's stealth marketing on behalf of
I mean, I've seen not all of them, but I saw
like the first two or so Resident resident evil movies and those are terribly written they really
are it almost makes you wonder if some guy just went on the internet and did a fan script just
so he could go see by comparison this is pretty good right i'm just i write just as shitty as
people get paid way more than i do. And it's all just fucking fan
service and oh, it's just
it really, you start to want
you start to be impressed of why movies
are as well written as they actually are.
Oh yeah, and it's just got this amazing quality. It's like
okay, maybe they're not great writers, but you
think they know how a human being talks.
Yet you read every one of these and nobody
talks. Like, nobody
would, that's what i love about these
podcasts is that we read them out loud and you know they didn't the people who wrote it never
read this out loud and said is this something a human being who's actually a person would say
no i'll just put it there whatever and we've got more of it for you matter of fact uh right before
we started to record this i found deadwood slash. Finally. I am totally excited about Swearingen and Seth Bullock.
Oh, yes.
I'm trying to find one where E.B.
Farnham is involved.
But anyway, that's somewhere on the horizon, hopefully.
Until then, the website, thefpl.us.
And yeah, that's all I got for you.
Yes.
Thank you for listening.
Have a great one.
Ends the podcast.
Ace,
I'm really wondering what
Han Solo would have to say to that
No I'd say
Fuck you more
I would shoot you first
You guys are a bunch of
Tings there I forgot
Fuck me
I am strangely curious
People are writing fanfiction For my fanfiction it's great What the hell is happening? I am strangely curious.
People are writing fanfiction for my fanfiction.
It's great.
How is it you do?
We do that thing.
How is it what you say?
The slash, huh? Thank you.