The Pilot [early draft script]
Written by Tracy Tormé Story by Tormé and Robert K. WeissMSTed by SL4ever
Script courtesy earth62.net
SL4ever: Will play for gumbo.Timmy Bighands: Good mimicker. Better at being irritated. Henry The Wonder Dog: Sliders, a rawhide bone, a water bowl nearby. Does it get any better than this?
<close up of calm, passionate man speaking directly into the camera> : "I'm running for Senate because I believe I CAN make a difference for the working men and women of this State."TBH: Because you can only contribute to my campaign if you have a job. <camera pulls back to reveal Crazy Kenny who is standing on an apple crate, speaking to a bunch of pigeons> SL4: The sad thing is, he's leading in the polls. CK: "It's time to overthrow the chains of capitalistic oppression." HTWD: I don't believe in capitalism either. I believe in looking cute, barking at stuff that isn't there, and fetching sticks. You get more food that way. CK: "Communism will soon sweep the world..." TBH: Oh yeah. Communism's doing great! What, two countries and my high school back in Hicksticks, Indiana still practice it? CK: "... and the days of the US imperialistic war machine are numbered." SL4: Look, I think that fat pigeon is being won over by his oratory magic. <Quinn hurries between Crazy Kenny and the statue of Abraham Lincoln.> CK <pointing a finger at Quinn> : "Heed my words, boy. The New World Order is at hand!" HTWD: The New World Order just called. They want you to take a shower or they quit. CK: "Join the revolution or suffer the consequences!" SL4: Just go back to trying to win the pigeon vote, Hodgie. Bread crumbs for everybirdy! Quinn: "Thanks for the warning." HTWD: I have GOT to change the way I walk to school! <Inside Professor Arturo's classroom. A dozen students pay rapt attention to the lecturing Prof> Arturo <pacing slowly> : "As any reasonably intelligent single-celled organism can tell you..." SL4: Reproduction by cell division SUCKS! Arturo: "the largest symmetry group of a single Dirac field is..." TBH: The shortest distance between two photon arrays? <dead silence from the students> HTWD: Come ON. That is EASY! I lick my >:-# 20 hours a day and I know the answer! Kids these days, I'll tell ya. Arturo: "The silence is deafening, my young friends." TBH: Much like the sound of you and SL4ever devouring a KFC buffet table. SL4: Spank you very much. Arturo: "You're supposed to be the best of the best. You are, after all, my students." HTWD: Suit by Brooks Brothers. Ego by William Shatner. Arturo: "Miss Zachery?" TBH: <mimicking female voice> Could you eat >:-# and die ... er, I mean, could you repeat the question?Arturo: "Montague?" SL4: I just look and dress like a nerd! I'm actually not very smart. Arturo: "Mr. Wing?" TBH: Um, I'm supposed to be in an easier class ... like Spatial Geometry and Statics Using Only Roman Numerals. Arturo <eyes falling on Quinn, who is doodling on a paper> : "Mr. Mallory, I've spent the better part of my life ..." HTWD: Single handedly trying to reduce the size of the world's cow population. Arturo: "...honing my intellect to a razor sharp edge so I could impart to you these pearls of wisdom." SL4: Prince turned down this role because Arturo's character was too conceited. Arturo: "The least you could do is PRETEND to pay attention. I won't bother inquiring whether you know the answer ... which, my dear, hapless babes in the woods, is..." TBH: Remember to phrase it in the form of a question! <Quinn writes answer on his doodle sheet and shows it to Wing> HTWD: Oh, you couldn't show me that two minutes ago when he was raking my balls across the fire! <Arturo flamboyantly writes "U (4)" on the board, spins, and points to Bennish> : "That's U4, Mr. Bennish, NOT U2!" TBH: <mimicking Bennish's voice> I can't wait until I get a chance to snitch him out in a Kromagg prison. SL4: Even back here in 1995 that was a dated cultural reference because they were has-beens who couldn't suck enough. <Arturo checks his watch> : "Now get out of my sight, all of you. You better shape up, people." HTWD: Look who's talking. Arturo: "This kind of work might get you a job at Chernobyl ..." SL4: Is the Professor stuck in the 80's or what???? Arturo: "Or NASA, but it certainly won't cut it with me!" HTWD: He's got a point there. NASA can't even figure out when they're using the metric system or aren't. <Quinn, Nan, and Wing leave the class and enter the hallway.> Wing: "I should have gone to law school like my old man wanted." SL4: Are we EVER gonna see you again on this show? Then kill the biography, Sherman. Wing: "This relativistic quantum pop cosmology is such a mind warp." TBH: I say that if you sign up and pay the tuition for a class with a name like that, you can't bitch when it turns out to be hard. Nan: "If you ask me, Professor Arturo is not nearly as smart as he thinks he is." HTWD: I'd like to see YOU cure a planet wide plague with some bread mold, a blender, and three days, Nanny. While you're at it, reinvent the nuclear bomb from scratch. Quinn: "The man should be a Nobel Laureate for his theory on 'Coset Wormholes in Keller Oribifolds' and I just read his thesis on Chiral Field Anomalies; it's killer." TBH: <mimicking Nan's voice> I think I just figured out who snitched me out for writing "Arturo is a Smeghead" on the board last month. Nan <looking worried> : "That's not on the reading list, is it?" HTWD: If you're this far into the class and haven't glanced at the reading list, it might be time to stick your head in the oven. Quinn <winking> : "Nah, just a little light reading." SL4: Given what we already know about his hygiene and now this arrogance, how does he have ANY friends? <cut to Wade showing a database system to two executives> : "There's really no sense in dropping twenty thousand on this system right now." TBH: <mimicking Wade's voice> That'll teach 'em to cut out commissions, those >:-#-ers! Wade: "Wait a month, CD-ROM seek rates are still within the 130 millisecond range," HTWD: Does anyone speak English in this movie? These people are more technical than Stoker_chick flaming a nonbeliever. Wade: "there's tons of screen flicker, and the new Pentium control chips from Intel will make these MX 480's obsolete." SL4: >:-#, my new coffeemaker has enough processor power to make those MX 480's obsolete. One of the Executives: "Now I know I'll be back." <Wade spots Quinn sneak in and head for the back room> : "Why don't you two poke around here. I'll be right back." TBH: <mimicking man's voice> Can I come with you to poke around instead?
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