Person: When haggling over just about anything:
"I'm gonna write a number down on this piece of paper"
Say the number! Just say it!!
Person 2: I didn't know people did that in real life until once when I was getting a raise, my manager wrote it down. (There was no haggling involved. That was what it was going to be.)
Person 3: I'd like to see the other person say, "And I'm going to draw a kitty cat on this piece of paper!"
Me: I think I saw this on some bank commercial. One couple writes down a number to sell their house. They pass it to the couple across from them on the table. The second couple writes down a number and passes it back. Each time they do it, the couples age a bit, and look older.
So there was a little bit of a parody of this take of "writing down a number."
Funny video: On Jan. 13, I was watching Jay Leno. Show real news report:
News reporter: A heart was supposed to be used for a heart transplant. It fell out of the box, but they still used the heart and the surgery was successful.
Cut to JL.
JL: I think they sugar coated it. Here's what really happened.
Cut the One Tree Hill video clip. I mentioned it before. I found it on the twop.com thread "Unintentionally Funny TV Moments."
Cut to a paramedic running in the halls of the hospital. He trips, the heart falls out of the box. A dog runs over and eats the heart.
Cut to JL's TV show. The audience burst out laughing.
Jan. 21 Comment: This is about the female news reporter saying something sexual in the news. I sent it to my friend Sherry.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8Bc7eRTdWY
Sherry: hmm, after she says 'you would know about that' her face looks.....wooden like emotionless? then when she says the 'we'll be back with' part, it does it again. dunno bout friends/enemies but right then it looks like he'd said something that hit a nerve with her, and that she'd gone for a return blow
Comedy comparisons:
Two people thinking the other one's dead: It was first done on The Simpsons. Homer fakes his death, and then lands in his own grave.
Old Woman: You awful, awful man! Get out of my son's grave!
Homer: Excuse me lady, but this is my grave. Wait a second. Mom?
Old Woman: Homer?
Homer: I thought you were dead.
Old Woman (holds up newspaper): I thought you were dead.
It was then done on Dark Angel. Max rescues a guy on her motorcycle, and Bruno is riding with her.
Bruno: Max?
Max: Bruno? I thought you were dead.
Bruno: I thought you were dead.
It was in the pilot where Max is running, and Bruno shoots at her. Max falls into the pool and sinks in it. Bruno assumed she was dead and ran. Max comes out of the pool.
Guy finds out he has a kid: It was done in movies like The Game Plan. It's about an NFL quarterback learns he has an 8 yr old daughter.
It was done on What a Girl Wants, but it's about a teenage girl going to Britain to look for her father.
It was done on The Simpsons where the Krusty the Klown meets his 8 yr old daughter.
The situation's been done, but it was all done differently with different characters and outcomes.
Reversal of situations: Comedy does this a lot.
The Sausage Factory: I remember on The Sausage Factory, Gilby plays a prank on the wrong person, and it's this big, built girl who's no one is to mess with. So Gilby says he likes her to avoid getting beaten up by her. He has to pretend he likes her and dates her.
Gilby thinks of: "I'll be the worse boyfriend ever, and she will dump me." I remember this date scene.
Gilby: I didn't bring any money, I hope that's not a problem for you.
Girl: That's okay, you can pay me back in other ways.
lol. Then Gilby actually does fall in love with her, and he becomes a good boyfriend. Then the girl doesn't like that. She likes it when Gilby is being stupid and immature instead of sweet and nice.
There was a time where on the show, JC got some gum without reading what kind of gum he was chewing. It was Nicorette, the gum that helps you stop smoking. He got addicted to Nicorette, and then he started going on the patch. Then he was smoking. Gilby then says: "You need to replace your addiction with another addiction." It was the ep where Gilby and Zack worked at the video store, so Gilby gave porn tapes to JC. Every time JC needs a cigarette, watch porn instead.
Parks and Recreation: On this TV show, April woos Andy back by singing his song. It's usually a guy who plays a song to win a girl back.
A Friend of the Family: I was channel surfing and saw that the TV movie A Friend of the Family was on. It stars my favorite Edmonton actor Eric Johnson. I saw this back in 2006. On imdb.com, it said it came out in 2007, but I remember it was in the summer before I started my first year in Professional Writing.
So anyway, I do remember it was a good TV movie. It's based on a true story about a woman who suspects this man is a serial killer in this small town, but she is finding it hard to prove it.
It's about a woman named Alison Shaw (played by Laura Harris) who escapes being raped by attackers in Toronto. She runs into a man Darris Shaw (played by Eric Johnson) who saves her. They then move to a small town and got married and had a baby.
Their neighbor and upstanding citizen David Snow (played by Kim Coates) is the suspected serial killer. I remember there was a missing poster of a blond woman. Alison looks like her, so she cuts off her hair which is actually a smart move. The entire time I was watching it, I felt tense and lots of suspense.
Alison was able to catch him. There was so much suspense at the end. Check out more info here:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0439578/
I also found that this TV movie has a blog on Blogger like I do with my The Vertex Fighter script. I thought that was cool. There's more info on the real case here. Check out A Friend of the Family blog here:
Marriage: Then I thought: "I saw this TV movie about 5 yrs ago, but I'm pretty sure, if I remember correctly, Alison's marriage to her husband ended after that ordeal." I then went and found Amazon.ca and found review of her book. It did said yes, the marriage ended.
http://www.amazon.ca/Friend-Family-True-Story-David/dp/1551990245
I had a flashback because in 2006, after I saw the TV movie, I wrote about it in my weekly email. I said something like: "Maybe it's because I've watched too much Dr. Phil, and have stopped, he still has an effect on me. If Alison and Darris didn't live next door to a serial killer, would they still have stayed married? The killer David Snow has seriously put a wedge between them and gotten between them because Darris (and everybody else) didn't believe in Alison. They didn't believe that David Snow was a killer."
What if Alison and her husband moved somewhere else and never met David Snow? Would they still be together? Look, the point is, is that Alison managed to stop a serial killer. If it meant losing her marriage along the way, she managed to save lives.
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