Please read the following stories/concepts. Once you've done that please feel free to offer as much (or as little) criticism and praise as you like. Then chose your top three. Your first choice gets 3 points, your second choice gets 2 points and your third choice gets one point (like Eurovision) and at the end of the voting period the story/concept with the most points wins!
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The Actors Call Back
A young man is an aspiring actor. While working at a local coffee shop, he meets a young girl, very pretty, but very down to earth and humble. She is getting coffee with her friend. The friend is trying to be secretive about a party that will be taking place but the debutante knows whats up. She tries to turn the convo to something more real and sophisticated, the bombing in Norway etc. but the friend isn't a current events type lady. The young man chimes in with something smart and in line with the debutantes feelings towards the subject. They hit it off. He comments about how the media alienates groups of people then when the same people lash out, everyone wonders why. Instead of focusing on our differences why don't more poepl efocus on our similarites. something like that. They exchange words and whatnot, they're obviously into each other but the circumstances don't allow for further progress. She leaves. He gets home, he has a friend who's also trying to be an actor but biding his time until his next big break as a clown. He has a convo back at his apartment with teh clown friend still wearing teh clown suit, minus a top. The young man answers a craigslist ad for 2 young, and in shape. enthusiastic male actors. He contacts and gets the details for the shoot. Next day they arrives at the place and are immediately thrown off because its a bachelorette party for some rich debutante. The party planner shuffles them off and rushes them to the dressing room where they gets their costumes or rather lack there of(a speedo, cowboy boots, and the Tom Cruise "Eyes Wide Shut" masks). The clown friend is kinda pissed but down with dancing for a couple ladies, why the fuck not right? The debutante isn't entusiatic about her impending lose of single freedom. She's getting married to a rich, egocentric man. Kind of sad while her friends hope that some male entertainment will cheer her up. "I just don't know if he's for me you know?" "Katie, he's got bank and a cherry red Masarati, if he's not for you who's he for?" As they pops out of the cake, the young man immediately recognizes teh chick, a little bit more done up than at first in teh coffee shop. He sees teh same friend. They dnace, some old lady in teh crowd trying to take the party to the next level-she's trying to stick a rubber dildo in the friends ass. She's laughing off her inappropriatness to the other ladies(yes even male strippers expect a sort of ettiquette). The debutante watches but doesn't stay for long, the other ladies are too entralled to see her leave. The young man notices. His friend is doing some crazy gymnast maneuver that gets the girls all hot and bothered. As he has them entertained-he's really enjoying the female attention, the young man takes off after the debutante. Still wearing the costume, he makes his way dancing closer and closer to her. She tells him she's not into it. He sees his attempt to draw her attention does not work, he reveals his true identity. DUN DUN DUN!. "You? Why are you...who are you?" "Tim, I work at the coffee shop...we met.."
"no I know who you are but why are you here, are you a stripper?"
"No just trying to be an actor, they should really screen teh ads posted on craigslist." She giggles, "Wanna take a walk?" She gets a towel to wrap around his waist. They walk and chat-talking about her future, his future, their ideals and morals with respect to more current events. They come to a nice romantic spot in their little journey. They stare into each other's eyes, and she leans in to kiss him. He's taken aback at first. Then composing himself, plants one as rebuttal. As they kiss, her phone rings, she answers. Party party party in the background. "Katie where are you, the speedo's off and the whip cream's out!!" "I'm just clearing my head, I'm coming back now." She clicks it off, Tim and Katie look at each other. "You gotta go? " "Yea." "What do we do now?" "Nothing." "What do you mean nothing? What about...you know.." "I'm leaving tomorrow, for Paris. I can't do anything." "You can stay." "No I can't." They hold each other's gaze for a long time. She smiles, "I'm glad to have met you Tim. Maybe in another life" "Maybe..." She kisses him on the cheek and turns to walk. As she gets really far, she turns and Tim yells "look me up if you're ever in town, TIM GREEZY" Screams out his city and state... He sits on a bench thinking about the one that just got away (obviously Katie) and mutters..."stupid". The next day, he wakes up, he pours himself some cerial. He flips the channel. He lands on the news where a breaking story is developing, local debutante, runs out on fiance and family. Whereabouts unknown, last seen boarding plane train and automobile. Any info...etc.... He sees her picture, puts two and two together. All of a sudden, frantic "KNOCK KNOCK KNOCKS" He turns with milk trailing down his chin.
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Battle: Anthony's Lawn
Anthony's girl is gonna b!tch if the grass isn't cut by the time she returns from X. If he can get the lawn cut fast enough he can watch the last quarter of the game! But the lawnmower is out of gas. He can siphon gas from his car, but the gas can in wife's SUV, must find and use an "unapproved container". Siphons gas from his car.
All gassed up, now the garage door won't open. Checks battery, checks circuit breaker, nothing. Pulls manual release lever and pushes up door.
Now the lawnmower won't start! Jump starts lawnmower from car.
Finally, he get's the lawnmower running. Despite all the shit in the yard and in the grass Anthony gets the grass cut, misses the last quarter of the game, but does avoid his wife's bitching!
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Elroy's Bread
Elroy want's to surprise his wife by making cheese bread before his she gets home. Finds recipe on line but the printer isn't working. Goto office supply to get more ink, loads cartridge. Notes he has everything but eggs. Gotta goto the store to get eggs.
Unfortunately some dummy put the empty milk carton back in the fridge. Distraught and despaired, Elroy turns off the oven and flops back on the couch.
It occurs to him to use condensed milk from pantry as substitute for milk. Bakes the bread and surprises his wife with the ugliest loaf of cheese bread ever.
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Mantis
Trevor, 18 and just graduated high school, is driving down a rural road on his way from Seattle, Washington to the coast to spend time with his friends at a graduation party they are throwing; "Senior Sunset" it's called. All of his friends have been there since Friday, and he's a day late because he had a college interview Saturday morning. He's speeding to make it there to spend as much time with his friends and girlfriend, Jessica.
Trevor pulls over to pick up a hitchhiker in a business suit carrying a brown aged leather backpack.
The two exchange some dialogue and Trevor has a real bad feeling about this guy. His backpack is perched on his lap and Trevor sees what looks like a long strand of blonde hair coming from inside it. The Hitchhiker is tense and is looking all around as if he's being watched. Finally, he asks to be let out and Trevor stops and the hitchhiker runs off into the woods.
10 minutes later, when Trevor reaches the destination, all of the kids have sad looks on their faces and are all staring at Trevor. He asks one of them what's going on, and they reply that Trevor's girlfriend, Jessica, had been brutally raped/murdered committed by who is believed to be a notorious cereal killer who decapitates his victims after he ravages them multiple times. They call him "Mantis".
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Gash
Four women wake up on a deserted beach. They're just normal, everyday gals who happen to be Victoria's Secret Angels. Slowly recollections from the previous night come back to them, especially flashes of being drugged, carried off in a van and taken away on a plane.
They realise that there's a mobile phone ringing right beside them and Miranda picks it up. A voice speaks to them and explains that they are on a desert island and that only one of them will be allowed to leave. The voice instructs them each to head in different directions where they will find the first clue to their survival. The voice hangs up and the girls set off with the appropriate amount of bikini clad hysteria.
When Miranda, Heidi, Adriana and Rosie arrive at their destinations they find a letter and a sack. The letter explains that in order to leave the island alive they have to kill one another and that, if they haven't done this, by nightfall that evening, they would all be killed. In the sack is an assortment of knives, machetes and swords. They each set off into the jungle.
What ensues contains a lot of gratuitous violence and emotional conflict as they all happen to be lesbians who are secretly in love with each other. However they have no choice but to kill one another and, ultimately, that's what they do.
Miranda wins.
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Top Mom
Mom's doing a bunch of loads of laundry. Afterwards she'd like to get started on supper. Gotta go pick up dirty clothes around the house. Loads and washes whites before cleaning kitchen. Whites are done! Start towels, dry whites. Whites are done! Dry towels. Fold whites.
Mom finds some socks are missing. Whatever. She gives up looking. There are a bunch of socks missing! Phone starts ringing
Mom in law (MIL) needs help finding not one but four things on the computer. Mom's never going to get dinner started! Finds two things for MIL, can't find a third, finds a fourth. Honey comes home and takes her out for being good to his mom.
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Swann Clean
ATE wakes up in a cliche filty apartment. Goes to interview for a job as a janitor. The janitor job involves both vacuuming and cleaning with spray bottle and rag. The boss, MR SWANN, notes Nate does well with the vacuum cleaner but doesn't do so well with spray bottle and rag. Desperate for a new office contract and despite shortcomings Nate is provisionally hired for the janitorial job with a warning to never sniff the cleaning solution.
But the question remains can Nate maintain his job?
Nate and his new co-worker LARRY are assigned to clean both a small and large meeting room before a deadline. Vacuum silliness & spray bottle difficulties ensue demonstrating what an excellent vacuum operator Nate is.
However, he breaks his spray bottle and has misplaced his cleaning rag. Actually, he's starting to flip out and thinks he saw himself steal the cleaning rag! Larry kids him about sniffing the poisons in the cleaning solution. Fortunately, with Larry's help he fixes the bottle and finds the lost cleaning rag. All is well until Larry tricks Nate into locking up his vacuum! Oh, no! The Boss is going to fire Nate for sure!
Using universal paperclip skills, Nate unlocks the door, continues with cleaning the meeting room on time. Despite bottle damage, missing rag and vacuum attachments by Larry, Nate does an excellent job cleaning the meeting room! Supervisor is impressed. Nate dies of cleaning solution poisoning.
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Stopcock
Arguing brothers/friends/couple are cleaning up and winterizing a cabin which includes cutting off the water with the stopcock under/behind the house and draining water from pipes. While fixing the kitchen sink the argument seems to be resolving but then goes very bad, the other party leaves in their vehicle quite angry. Mad, angry and frustrated RON grabs after a dropped screw nut into the sink, getting his hand stuck in the garbage disposal.
Fun & games ensue as he fruitlessly pulls, reaches for nearby objects, and debates cutting off his own arm with the large assortment of knives nearby. No food. No water, though.
Finally his cell phone rings! Unfortunately it's just out of reach and unanswerable. But surely the caller/pissed friend/brother/girlfriend will realize he's not returned and will come looking for him in a day or two. Or three.
Ron understands he's been a jerk and wouldn't be surprised if no one has any intention of coming back looking for him. He resolves to cut off his hand. After a gruesome and miserable process he cuts loose and drives to ER.
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2nd John Verse 1
John, a nice easy going church man becomes obsessed with the teachings of a
traveling charismatic preacher he meets one night at a Revival Tent. Zeek, the
charismatic preacher, lures John and others into what is essentially a scam.
Zeek convinces his followers that the end of the world is neigh, and folks
leave all their property and riches to the “Church Of The Red Robed Christ”
John doesn’t stop there, he becomes more and more obsessed with the end of days,
hes gone too crazy for even Zeek to deal with so Zeek of disappears with all
John’s money and property. Everyone tells John he’s been scammed etc, but he
doesn’t believe them, he knows that something is about to happen.
John begins to preach on his own, his only goal to make a trip to Jerusalem to
be there on what he is sure, will be the day of the 2nd coming of Jesus. Mary,
a beautiful, rich woman helps him with money and material support and pays for
his trip.
As John waits in the Old City, a bomb goes off, out of the rubble comes a robed
and bearded man, at first John is sure it is Christ, but as the man approaches
John sees that it isn’t. The robbed man helps John out of the chaos and they
walk into the wilderness, John is in the wilderness for 40 days with the bearded
man.
John learns that he is to become a prophet and prepare the way for Christ to
come.
John wakes in a hospital bed, confused he sneaks out and finds his way home.
John’s family finds him preaching on the street, presumably crazy as a loon, and
have him committed for his own safety.
A nurse preps John for extreme electroshock; the DR enters the room and
dismisses the nurse. It is Marry! She pats him on the cheek and tells him.
“well done good and faithful servant” at the sight of Mary, John has
flashback\recall.
Mary set him up to carry the bomb to Jerusalem in which explosion he was
supposed to die, but lived and woke in the hospital after he was in a comma for
40 days!! Now show must silence the only witness. zaaaappppp sizzle, and John
drools..
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Bert's Bubbles
BERT can't blow bubbles with bubble gum and endeavors to learn how. He is introduced to NELL who gives Bert "special" gum. It tastes funny and Bert is reluctant to even try. However, with Nell's "special" gum BERT learns to blow his very first bubble!
He practices blowing bubbles in different places. Delighted with his modicum of success, he shows his nascent bubble blowing skills to his big brother TED, the Bubble King, mired in his own troubles as he considers leaving town for job/college.
Nell tells Bert he could become the new Bubble King! This angers Bert who loves his big brother very much, causing Bert and Nell get into relationship ending argument. Big brother get's job/acepted into college and leaves. Bert is now alone with no one as his friend.
BERT realizes his foolishness, resolves his issues with both Nell and Ted before trying to become the new Bubble King. Devastated by learning Nell's "special" gum isn't special Bert carries on to blow his best bubbles ever with Nell's help.
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The Actors Call Back
A young man is an aspiring actor. While working at a local coffee shop, he meets a young girl, very pretty, but very down to earth and humble. She is getting coffee with her friend. The friend is trying to be secretive about a party that will be taking place but the debutante knows whats up. She tries to turn the convo to something more real and sophisticated, the bombing in Norway etc. but the friend isn't a current events type lady. The young man chimes in with something smart and in line with the debutantes feelings towards the subject. They hit it off. He comments about how the media alienates groups of people then when the same people lash out, everyone wonders why. Instead of focusing on our differences why don't more poepl efocus on our similarites. something like that. They exchange words and whatnot, they're obviously into each other but the circumstances don't allow for further progress. She leaves. He gets home, he has a friend who's also trying to be an actor but biding his time until his next big break as a clown. He has a convo back at his apartment with teh clown friend still wearing teh clown suit, minus a top. The young man answers a craigslist ad for 2 young, and in shape. enthusiastic male actors. He contacts and gets the details for the shoot. Next day they arrives at the place and are immediately thrown off because its a bachelorette party for some rich debutante. The party planner shuffles them off and rushes them to the dressing room where they gets their costumes or rather lack there of(a speedo, cowboy boots, and the Tom Cruise "Eyes Wide Shut" masks). The clown friend is kinda pissed but down with dancing for a couple ladies, why the fuck not right? The debutante isn't entusiatic about her impending lose of single freedom. She's getting married to a rich, egocentric man. Kind of sad while her friends hope that some male entertainment will cheer her up. "I just don't know if he's for me you know?" "Katie, he's got bank and a cherry red Masarati, if he's not for you who's he for?" As they pops out of the cake, the young man immediately recognizes teh chick, a little bit more done up than at first in teh coffee shop. He sees teh same friend. They dnace, some old lady in teh crowd trying to take the party to the next level-she's trying to stick a rubber dildo in the friends ass. She's laughing off her inappropriatness to the other ladies(yes even male strippers expect a sort of ettiquette). The debutante watches but doesn't stay for long, the other ladies are too entralled to see her leave. The young man notices. His friend is doing some crazy gymnast maneuver that gets the girls all hot and bothered. As he has them entertained-he's really enjoying the female attention, the young man takes off after the debutante. Still wearing the costume, he makes his way dancing closer and closer to her. She tells him she's not into it. He sees his attempt to draw her attention does not work, he reveals his true identity. DUN DUN DUN!. "You? Why are you...who are you?" "Tim, I work at the coffee shop...we met.."
"no I know who you are but why are you here, are you a stripper?"
"No just trying to be an actor, they should really screen teh ads posted on craigslist." She giggles, "Wanna take a walk?" She gets a towel to wrap around his waist. They walk and chat-talking about her future, his future, their ideals and morals with respect to more current events. They come to a nice romantic spot in their little journey. They stare into each other's eyes, and she leans in to kiss him. He's taken aback at first. Then composing himself, plants one as rebuttal. As they kiss, her phone rings, she answers. Party party party in the background. "Katie where are you, the speedo's off and the whip cream's out!!" "I'm just clearing my head, I'm coming back now." She clicks it off, Tim and Katie look at each other. "You gotta go? " "Yea." "What do we do now?" "Nothing." "What do you mean nothing? What about...you know.." "I'm leaving tomorrow, for Paris. I can't do anything." "You can stay." "No I can't." They hold each other's gaze for a long time. She smiles, "I'm glad to have met you Tim. Maybe in another life" "Maybe..." She kisses him on the cheek and turns to walk. As she gets really far, she turns and Tim yells "look me up if you're ever in town, TIM GREEZY" Screams out his city and state... He sits on a bench thinking about the one that just got away (obviously Katie) and mutters..."stupid". The next day, he wakes up, he pours himself some cerial. He flips the channel. He lands on the news where a breaking story is developing, local debutante, runs out on fiance and family. Whereabouts unknown, last seen boarding plane train and automobile. Any info...etc.... He sees her picture, puts two and two together. All of a sudden, frantic "KNOCK KNOCK KNOCKS" He turns with milk trailing down his chin.
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Battle: Anthony's Lawn
Anthony's girl is gonna b!tch if the grass isn't cut by the time she returns from X. If he can get the lawn cut fast enough he can watch the last quarter of the game! But the lawnmower is out of gas. He can siphon gas from his car, but the gas can in wife's SUV, must find and use an "unapproved container". Siphons gas from his car.
All gassed up, now the garage door won't open. Checks battery, checks circuit breaker, nothing. Pulls manual release lever and pushes up door.
Now the lawnmower won't start! Jump starts lawnmower from car.
Finally, he get's the lawnmower running. Despite all the shit in the yard and in the grass Anthony gets the grass cut, misses the last quarter of the game, but does avoid his wife's bitching!
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Elroy's Bread
Elroy want's to surprise his wife by making cheese bread before his she gets home. Finds recipe on line but the printer isn't working. Goto office supply to get more ink, loads cartridge. Notes he has everything but eggs. Gotta goto the store to get eggs.
Unfortunately some dummy put the empty milk carton back in the fridge. Distraught and despaired, Elroy turns off the oven and flops back on the couch.
It occurs to him to use condensed milk from pantry as substitute for milk. Bakes the bread and surprises his wife with the ugliest loaf of cheese bread ever.
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Mantis
Trevor, 18 and just graduated high school, is driving down a rural road on his way from Seattle, Washington to the coast to spend time with his friends at a graduation party they are throwing; "Senior Sunset" it's called. All of his friends have been there since Friday, and he's a day late because he had a college interview Saturday morning. He's speeding to make it there to spend as much time with his friends and girlfriend, Jessica.
Trevor pulls over to pick up a hitchhiker in a business suit carrying a brown aged leather backpack.
The two exchange some dialogue and Trevor has a real bad feeling about this guy. His backpack is perched on his lap and Trevor sees what looks like a long strand of blonde hair coming from inside it. The Hitchhiker is tense and is looking all around as if he's being watched. Finally, he asks to be let out and Trevor stops and the hitchhiker runs off into the woods.
10 minutes later, when Trevor reaches the destination, all of the kids have sad looks on their faces and are all staring at Trevor. He asks one of them what's going on, and they reply that Trevor's girlfriend, Jessica, had been brutally raped/murdered committed by who is believed to be a notorious cereal killer who decapitates his victims after he ravages them multiple times. They call him "Mantis".
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Gash
Four women wake up on a deserted beach. They're just normal, everyday gals who happen to be Victoria's Secret Angels. Slowly recollections from the previous night come back to them, especially flashes of being drugged, carried off in a van and taken away on a plane.
They realise that there's a mobile phone ringing right beside them and Miranda picks it up. A voice speaks to them and explains that they are on a desert island and that only one of them will be allowed to leave. The voice instructs them each to head in different directions where they will find the first clue to their survival. The voice hangs up and the girls set off with the appropriate amount of bikini clad hysteria.
When Miranda, Heidi, Adriana and Rosie arrive at their destinations they find a letter and a sack. The letter explains that in order to leave the island alive they have to kill one another and that, if they haven't done this, by nightfall that evening, they would all be killed. In the sack is an assortment of knives, machetes and swords. They each set off into the jungle.
What ensues contains a lot of gratuitous violence and emotional conflict as they all happen to be lesbians who are secretly in love with each other. However they have no choice but to kill one another and, ultimately, that's what they do.
Miranda wins.
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Top Mom
Mom's doing a bunch of loads of laundry. Afterwards she'd like to get started on supper. Gotta go pick up dirty clothes around the house. Loads and washes whites before cleaning kitchen. Whites are done! Start towels, dry whites. Whites are done! Dry towels. Fold whites.
Mom finds some socks are missing. Whatever. She gives up looking. There are a bunch of socks missing! Phone starts ringing
Mom in law (MIL) needs help finding not one but four things on the computer. Mom's never going to get dinner started! Finds two things for MIL, can't find a third, finds a fourth. Honey comes home and takes her out for being good to his mom.
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Swann Clean
ATE wakes up in a cliche filty apartment. Goes to interview for a job as a janitor. The janitor job involves both vacuuming and cleaning with spray bottle and rag. The boss, MR SWANN, notes Nate does well with the vacuum cleaner but doesn't do so well with spray bottle and rag. Desperate for a new office contract and despite shortcomings Nate is provisionally hired for the janitorial job with a warning to never sniff the cleaning solution.
But the question remains can Nate maintain his job?
Nate and his new co-worker LARRY are assigned to clean both a small and large meeting room before a deadline. Vacuum silliness & spray bottle difficulties ensue demonstrating what an excellent vacuum operator Nate is.
However, he breaks his spray bottle and has misplaced his cleaning rag. Actually, he's starting to flip out and thinks he saw himself steal the cleaning rag! Larry kids him about sniffing the poisons in the cleaning solution. Fortunately, with Larry's help he fixes the bottle and finds the lost cleaning rag. All is well until Larry tricks Nate into locking up his vacuum! Oh, no! The Boss is going to fire Nate for sure!
Using universal paperclip skills, Nate unlocks the door, continues with cleaning the meeting room on time. Despite bottle damage, missing rag and vacuum attachments by Larry, Nate does an excellent job cleaning the meeting room! Supervisor is impressed. Nate dies of cleaning solution poisoning.
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Stopcock
Arguing brothers/friends/couple are cleaning up and winterizing a cabin which includes cutting off the water with the stopcock under/behind the house and draining water from pipes. While fixing the kitchen sink the argument seems to be resolving but then goes very bad, the other party leaves in their vehicle quite angry. Mad, angry and frustrated RON grabs after a dropped screw nut into the sink, getting his hand stuck in the garbage disposal.
Fun & games ensue as he fruitlessly pulls, reaches for nearby objects, and debates cutting off his own arm with the large assortment of knives nearby. No food. No water, though.
Finally his cell phone rings! Unfortunately it's just out of reach and unanswerable. But surely the caller/pissed friend/brother/girlfriend will realize he's not returned and will come looking for him in a day or two. Or three.
Ron understands he's been a jerk and wouldn't be surprised if no one has any intention of coming back looking for him. He resolves to cut off his hand. After a gruesome and miserable process he cuts loose and drives to ER.
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2nd John Verse 1
John, a nice easy going church man becomes obsessed with the teachings of a
traveling charismatic preacher he meets one night at a Revival Tent. Zeek, the
charismatic preacher, lures John and others into what is essentially a scam.
Zeek convinces his followers that the end of the world is neigh, and folks
leave all their property and riches to the “Church Of The Red Robed Christ”
John doesn’t stop there, he becomes more and more obsessed with the end of days,
hes gone too crazy for even Zeek to deal with so Zeek of disappears with all
John’s money and property. Everyone tells John he’s been scammed etc, but he
doesn’t believe them, he knows that something is about to happen.
John begins to preach on his own, his only goal to make a trip to Jerusalem to
be there on what he is sure, will be the day of the 2nd coming of Jesus. Mary,
a beautiful, rich woman helps him with money and material support and pays for
his trip.
As John waits in the Old City, a bomb goes off, out of the rubble comes a robed
and bearded man, at first John is sure it is Christ, but as the man approaches
John sees that it isn’t. The robbed man helps John out of the chaos and they
walk into the wilderness, John is in the wilderness for 40 days with the bearded
man.
John learns that he is to become a prophet and prepare the way for Christ to
come.
John wakes in a hospital bed, confused he sneaks out and finds his way home.
John’s family finds him preaching on the street, presumably crazy as a loon, and
have him committed for his own safety.
A nurse preps John for extreme electroshock; the DR enters the room and
dismisses the nurse. It is Marry! She pats him on the cheek and tells him.
“well done good and faithful servant” at the sight of Mary, John has
flashback\recall.
Mary set him up to carry the bomb to Jerusalem in which explosion he was
supposed to die, but lived and woke in the hospital after he was in a comma for
40 days!! Now show must silence the only witness. zaaaappppp sizzle, and John
drools..
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Bert's Bubbles
BERT can't blow bubbles with bubble gum and endeavors to learn how. He is introduced to NELL who gives Bert "special" gum. It tastes funny and Bert is reluctant to even try. However, with Nell's "special" gum BERT learns to blow his very first bubble!
He practices blowing bubbles in different places. Delighted with his modicum of success, he shows his nascent bubble blowing skills to his big brother TED, the Bubble King, mired in his own troubles as he considers leaving town for job/college.
Nell tells Bert he could become the new Bubble King! This angers Bert who loves his big brother very much, causing Bert and Nell get into relationship ending argument. Big brother get's job/acepted into college and leaves. Bert is now alone with no one as his friend.
BERT realizes his foolishness, resolves his issues with both Nell and Ted before trying to become the new Bubble King. Devastated by learning Nell's "special" gum isn't special Bert carries on to blow his best bubbles ever with Nell's help.
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