h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

That looked better in Courier. How interesting to discover that if you embed 3 spaces in the middle of a phrase the h2g2 parser kicks out 2 of 'em. That is unnecessary intelligence if you ask me.

Too scatological? Well, are we writing for the South Park Crowd?

oh, you flatterer
lol - i thought i was typing to myself for a while
i should be in bed
i have to be up at lunch time
its a hard life

speaking as chief screenwriter
*looks absurdly pleased*
this plot is dantesque in that DM must descend before he can triumph, so the theme is redemption, no?
or orpheus?

oh, just ignore me, im ranting again

Bloody hell Unch! Well done!

First off, I have questions:
What's disturbing about the Wizard of Oz?
Who's Sam Spade?
Faust story?

I like what you got. Still not sure about dogs shitting everywhere though *^_^*.
Did anyone else have great ideas they posted up there that we've forgotten about?

Redemption/revenge = good theme. We could use is it give an underlying message about honour and that. I like honour. And revenge.

*getting a bit camp*
ive just had a nervous breakdown in the cafe
not that i worked hard on it
and do i get paid?
hmpppphhhh
anyway
*secretly rather pleased*
the w of o is sickly sweet......ughhh but message is happiness/truth/wotever is wherever u are
sam spade is humphry bogart in maltese falcon (i think) hard-boiled detective fiction genre, where ff approaches pi to help her but really shes a hard hearted bitch and up to her neck in it all women are evil....
*oh god, hes having another nb*
faust is a horny git wot fancies this bird but cant **** her, so makes deal wiv devil who authorises access, faust v pleased, but forgets he must spend eternity in hell then dies and is v pissed off
and dante started inferno
honour tres bon and therefore rewarded by redemption, so DM must behave honourably eg perhaps G offers him a bribe?
*no, false alarm, but keep the horse tranquilizers handy*
lol

Bloody hell

thats what i thought
i dont think its that good, though
too dull
needs more off the wall stuff
as lil (knower of things etc) says, this is the south park generation, and not jumping the gun, or anything, but who owns the rights, how do we buy them, where do we get the money, and what do we do once weve got them? and how sound is the Kopiright on all this drivel?

I didn't think we'd be doing the film. I was thinking about how it should be done, for other people to actually -do-. Dig?

Yeah, who -would- do the film? Cosgrove Hall?

lets tell em weve got a script outline and ask them for money
they can only hit us, right?

Hie thee to the cafe for anticoffee

Ummm, quick interjection- the South Park film was in fact extremely clever. If you watch it closely you'll find that they've perfectly evoked the spirit of the old musicals, whilst burying it under all the crudeness. In this way they're ripping the piss even further from the idiot folks who don't get the joke.
Ok, you can look now.
Loving the storyline BTW.

i agree, and
a. i could take cosgrove and hall at the same time
b. and spielberg if he was there
c. cartman for president
d. if G sends a letter bomb to DM and wrecks the pillar box, then the revenge theme is satisfied too.

I'm not sure how much violence there was in the cartoons. A letter bomb, eh?

Goddamn, why is everyone else having the good ideas?!?!

right
so lets divide it up into acts and scenes
act 1 new HQ, dog shit bit (or other emergency if we come up with one)
act 2 underground
act 3 enter G, twists etc

*looks puzzled*
I R confused

I just need explaining about what "underground" means.

The massive baddie underground that Greenback has built.
Question- can you sustain this part for a whole act? What's the running time on the film? How far through pre-production are you? And what kind of budget are we working on? Underground lairs, letterbox bombs... sounding blockbusterish to me...
Sorry, mild outbreak of curiosity there.
Can I just borrow Freud for a minute...

correct - underground is not a lot to sustain a whole act, but it could be a short one/help?
so
act 1 scene 1 the pillar box
intro, things are quiet. DM wistfully recalls G. letter bomb. bang. tv still works. colonel K calls, opening his own letter bomb, bang.
scene 2 big ben
K introduces his new secretary, nice f. exit p and K. DM and nice f gaze out over london, romance about to develop.
scene 3 a vacant lot by the thames
suspicious looking amphibian sells land to K and p, and arranges for an equally suspicious looking firm of crows to build new HQ.
scene 4 big ben
romance about to develop, but some minor irregularity with the clock spotted by nice f alerts DM, via a dazzling train of deduction to a sinister plot being hatched by Duckula. from the tower, DM spots Duckula, and swings into action.
scene 5 london
DM collects p and they chase Duckula

feel free to borrow freud
but dont let him operate on you

*Yes, yes. Fine, ok. Bye, yeah, bye.*
*Slams door*
Jeez that guy just doesn't shut up...
And how much for 50 minutes? I think not.
*g* You could do an excellent mini-pastiche on Bond/Moneypenny with that little relationship. You know, stick DM in a tux and hat- he throws it on the hatstand (not the tux *!*), much flirting occurs etc...
Oh, oh subplot! Duckula's going through a mid-life (well, sometime through life- he's immortal, right?) crisis about being a veggie. His plot against DM results in his trying to bite the nice f and DM thinking she's dead whilst Duckula realises that blood's not for him and he joins forces with DM to seek redemption. Just as DM realises he loves the nice f she wakes up- she's not dead! Much rejoicing and smoochies *hoorah!*
Ok, I may be watching too much Angel but it's only a subplot

I think we ought to involve the new Ferris Wheel somehow.