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Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: I win hearts by saving lives
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Aug 3rd, 2003, 08:55 PM
w0rd.
At first you'll just think it's an episode of Three's Company. Short, wily visual anecdotes of all the characters - Jack biting his fist, Janet running around in short shorts, the blond ditz doing something blond and ditzy. Come and Knock on my Door, you fucking cocksucker! Fade out on a shot of Jack Tripper and the girls riding bikes on the beach.
Fade in on the apartment. The playah nieghbour guy is sitting on the couch and the girls are doing lines of coke off his hairy chest. For some unexplained reason he has leg braces - like he's been in a car accident... sorta like Rossana Arquette in Crash. Right. Anyway, Don Knotts comes barreling through the door on roller skates, sees what's happening and makes a disjointed face. He trys to look away, but can’t.
For ten minutes straight, its just one long take of this: the girls doing lines and Mr.Furley looking around in consternation and making contorted Don-Knotts-eek-faces. For ten minutes straight, there are no cuts. For ten minutes straight, just one long, endless haunting laugh track.
Then, all of a sudden, the camera makes a retro-70’s Velvet Goldmine zoom in on Mr.Furley’s face. He makes an affirmative "Bing! I've got an idea" face, gives a thumbs up, and winks into the camera.
* Cue the Who’s Pinball Wizard *
Cut to a close up: ("Ever since I was a young boy, I played the silver ball ... ") roller skates slide back and forth on metal bars. A revealing zoom out: ("... But that deaf dumb and blind kid sure plays a mean Pinbal ... l") Mr. Furley is staring blankly like Tommy and is banging Janet from behind - all while skating on poor Larry's legs.
Larry shakes his fist.
The rest writes itself.
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