Saturday, June 9, 2012

joke/ comedy comparisons/ The Listener

Jun. 2 Joke: I got this from Daily Silly:

A blonde was telling a priest a Pollock joke, when halfway through the priest interrupts her, "Don't you know I'm Polish?" "Oh, I'm sorry," the blonde apologizes, "Do you want me to start over and talk slower?"

Me: This joke is dissing blondes and Polish people.  It kind of reminds me of those other Daily Silly jokes where they diss both genders of men and women at the same time.

Jun. 3 Comedy comparisons:
Writing a movie that’s already been done:

On Family Guy, Brian was writing a screenplay and he tells the story to Lois.  She laughs at him and tells him it's been done and it's called Top Gun.  I couldn't find the clip on Youtube.

Prior to it, years ago on The Simpsons that joke was done.  Principal Skinner was going to write a movie that was basically Jurassic Park.  Apu then disses him that it's already been done.  Here's the clip:


The Listener: This show is on CTV on Wed. nights and airs again on Sun. nights.  The season 3 premiere is called "The Bank Job."  Toby is a telepath and a paramedic who works for the IIB.  It's a govt. agency.

Toby goes to a bank to withdraw money.  He bumps into a guy Robber #1 and sees in his mind that he will rob the bank.  Toby tells the security guard, but it's too late as the robbery begins.  Robber #2 puts up a sign that says "Closed for renovations" and covers the window with a blanket.  Robber #1 hits Toby in the head and everybody gets zip strips.  Those are plastic handcuffs.

Toby has his dispatcher on because he's on duty.  His friend/ paramedic Oz heard it.  Oz calls 911 and also class IIB agent McClusky.  Robber #1 gets the woman Bank Manager to open the safe.  There are no cameras, cell phones, and wallets because they're all taken away.  Cops come and the Robbers then notice Toby's dispatcher.  The ETF, (Emergency Task Force) enters the scene.

The woman Security Guard has a knife and she cuts the zip strips off.  Toby sees the Bank Manager's vision of the beach when he touches her.  T tells her that she's going to be on vacation.  I thought she may be in on this.  She is helping to steal money and go and live in a tropical paradise.

Security Guard pulls gun out of Robber #2's waistband and she holds him.  Robber #2 drops the gun.  Robber #1 shoots the Security Guard.

Toby: Let me help her, if she dies it's a different story.

That's how you raise the stakes in a story when someone gets hurt.  Also I've seen this a few times already on other shows like the Toronto- shot show The Bridge.  There was a hostage situation and a cop has been shot and is bleeding out, inside the building.  It's also been done on the Criminal Minds season 7 finale 2- part episodes "Hit" and "Run." 

A black man is the Hostage Negotiator.  Kind of reminds me of Forrest Whitaker in the movie Phone Booth.  The Hostage Negotiator talks to Robber #1 on the phone.  The doctor Olivia shows up on the scene.

Robber #2 has a name, Wallace.  Toby talks to Wallace and sees the vision that he has a wife in the hospital.  His daughter is there.  Wallace is forced to be part of the robbery so they won't hurt his family.

McClusky calls the bank again and talks to Toby.  She pretends to be a doctor on the phone.  Oz enters the bank with a stretcher and he gets Security Guard.  That reminds me of the Castle episode this season, called "Cops and Robbers."  It's where Castle and his mom are held hostage in a bank, and Det. Beckett comes in with a stretcher to get someone out.  

Toby has to put back on his zip strips after helping the Security Guard.  It turns out Toby has told Security Guard about the Robbers personal info like their names and what he sees like a warehouse.  Security Guard quickly tells McClusky all that information so McClusky can start to investigate.  McClusky's boss Klein asks how Toby knows this.  She finally tells him the truth that Toby is a telepath.  All this time Klein thought Toby could read faces.

Toby heard Robber #2's mind that he was in the military.  Toby had seen in his vision that after the robbery, the Robbers will go to a factory.  IIB is looking at nearby factories.  McClusky goes to a factory to find tunnels.  They set up surveillance on the 4 factories.  McClusky tells the Hostage Negotiator about letting the Robbers run, and it will lead to 4 locations and get them there.

So the 3 Robbers are surrounded by their hostages and they're to get into a van.  Toby has a vision that the van will blow up.  Robber #3 gets into van.

Toby: Is that your van?  It's going to explode!
Toby resists entering it, and Robber #3 starts the van.
Sniper shoots Robber #1.

Robber #3 is in the van, and it blows up.

Robber #1 is on a stretcher and he's alive.  He's thinking: "I will get Newman for this."

Toby and McClusky talk to Robber #2 Wallace to get him to give info.
Wallace: He will hurt my family.
They convince him they will protect him and won't face too much jail time.  Wallace then tells him that Newman owns a machine factory.  

Toby and McClusky talk to the Factory Owner.  IIB watch bank's security footage and there is a man with a tattoo on his arm of an atom.  Flashback of Toby's vision seeing the Bank Manager on her island vacation.  In the vision, there was an arm with the same tattoo.

Bank Manager was in on it.  I knew it.  Why would she be thinking about the beach at the bank?  They arrest Bank Manager with the money.

Bank Manager: They were robbers, no one would miss them.
Toby: What about us?  (Hostages.)

Toby had stopped working for the IIB for 4 months.  The doctor Olivia then checks up on Toby's vitals because his powers were hurting him.  Toby's fine.  The IIB boss Klein offers Toby a new position as a consultant on the IIB team.  Toby will still be an EMS on his off shifts.

Jun. 5 Short film: I've been trying to get my script produced and get a job at a TV production company for over a month now.  Now maybe I should start to produce a short film as my "calling card" so producers can see it.  I don't know what would be a good short film. 

Maybe I could use my sketch-comedy of my friend Leslie going to the principal to rant about a flag with a wrinkle in it.  lol.  However, what is the beginning, middle, and end to this?  

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