Sit-Coms and their Non-Fiction Counterparts

Here's one I wrote just recently. I may add a few more, but I particularly enjoy the last one.

(We are in a board room setting, there are architectural plans strewn about)
Mike: Well, ladies and gentlemen, I thank you for allowing me to showcase my work for all of you today.
(Mike pulls out a poster tube and removes the poster. It is a picture of Huckleberry Hound.)
Mike: Oh. Well, it would seem my daughter and I switched posters... You see, we were at the state fair with Cousin Oliver, and it would seem...
Owner: Mr. Brady. You know I will not tolerate attempts at humor in my company! We are a serious organization! Clean out your desk. You're fired.
(We see a "For Sale" sign outside the Brady house.)



(the living room)
Lucy: Ricky, can I please sing at the club tonight?
Ricky: No.
Lucy:
Please?
Ricky: No, Lucy Now be quiet. I'm reading the paper.
(There is an awkward silence)
Lucy: I want a divorce.


Alice:
Ralph, you can't go to the bowling tournament! My mother is staying over next week.
Ralph: No way! NO way! That old bat hates me! She'll tear me limb from limb if I don't get her first!
Alice: Ralph, please don't speak about my mother that way.
Ralph: Alice, I have spoken. Your mother is not coming over! My foot is down!
(We see an old woman on the phone, sitting in a poorly lit apartment.)
Alice: (From the phone) I'm sorry. We have to go to Seattle for Ralph's cousin's wedding.

Posted by Ramso on May 30, 2003 with category tags of

5 comments
I really liked it. The skit delivered everything it promised. Especially the Lucy part.
   comment by anonymous on May 30, 2003, Rated it 4

Sitcoms are so dull to begin with, it's pretty tough to satirize them successfully. For instance, the first one--that could easily be a sitcom setting. It's no more "real-world" than a sitcom. Same for the others. You lost me at hello.
   comment by Bryan (#22) on May 31, 2003, Rated it 2

I think you may be missing the point. All three of those situations are from sit-coms (the first one directly out of the Brady Bunch, the other two are stereotypical happenings from I Love Lucy and The Honeymooners.) I simply attempted to put these situations in the context of a real-life environment, not an attempt to make a real-world sitcom.
   comment by Ramso (#64) on May 31, 2003

I understand... What I'm saying is that the new real-life context is no different than a sitcom context. I don't know what the initial context was for the Brady Bunch vignette, but it could have been an architectural firm. Other sitcom families have had architect dads or architect moms.

That's why, to me, your sketch still feels like a sitcom, not a satire of a sitcom.

My suggestion would be to choose real-life environments that you never see on sitcoms.
   comment by Bryan (#22) on June 1, 2003

Why? Why? Why?

Why?
   comment by funnyguy (#95) on September 16, 2003, Rated it 1

   

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