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S**t restaurant

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JIM AND LIN ARE GOING INTO A RESTAURANT.

LIN

You'll like this place, it's very new and very healthful.

JIM

Well you know me I like a....

WE PAN AROUND IT'S A NORMAL RESTAURANT BUT EVERY ONE IS SITTING ON A TOILET AT THEIR TABLE, THEIR TROUSERS ROUND THEIR ANKLES.

ONE BLOKE SQUEEZES HIS EYES LIKE HE'S HAVING A POO.

JIM

This is a joke isn't it Lin, good joke?

LIN

No it's run according to Raj Pooski the guru and bottom expert. He

he cleansed Madonna's botty hole.

JIM

You mean Guy Ritchie?

LIN

Shut up, you never take me seriously. Raj Pooski says the less time the poop stays in your system. The less it can poison you. He says Hitler murdered all those people because he only pooed twice a day.

SHE GLARES AT JIM

JIM

Ok darling it is our anniversary after all. The marriage guidance counsellor said we should do more things together. It'll be adventuros like the Sushi place with robots and conveyor belts. Except with pooing.

LIN

That's better. Alice warned me about you stifling my creativity.

A WAITER APPROACHES THEM.

WAITER

Bon, your table is ready. Come this way monseiur, madame.

HE LEADS THEM TO A TABLE. LIN DROPS HER TROUSERS AND SITS ON A TOILET, JIM JUST SITS DOWN.

LIN

Jim...

THE WAITER APPROACHES HIM.

WAITER

Would monseiur like a hand with lowering his garments?

JIM

No sir would bloody well not. I'll eat here, but I will not excrete here. I'm not that European.

SNOOTY WOMAN AT NEXT TABLE.

Well really this is most rude. I suppose you take a knife and fork to a Chinese restaurants?

HER SNOOTY HUSBAND

A man who keeps his pants on in a restaurant, is a pervert whose come to watch others defecate. Back in Ragoon we'd have shot you for that.

LOUD MUM TO HER KIDS AT THE NEXT TABLE.

Don't stare at the nasty man holding his poo in.

KID

Err bet his colons full.

JIM

But there's no loo roll, and how do you wipe your bottom at the table?

LIN

That's what the bidet buttons for. Jim you're embarassing me. Alice said you would.

JIM

Ok, but you'd better make this a quick dinner, I don't want piles.

HE DROPS HIS TROUSERS AND SITS BACK DOWN.

WAITER APPROACHES THEM.

WAITER

Would madame like to order some starters?

LIN STRAINING

LIN

Ooh I'll just see if I've got any room.

TIM PICKS HIS NOSE ABSENTLY ROLLS THE BOGEY UP.

RESTAURANT GOES COMPLETLEY SILENT.

WAITER

I'm going to have to ask you to leave sir.

LIN IS WEEPING HEAD IN HANDS.

TIM

Fine, I don't care it was a shit restaurant anyway.

WAITER

At least monsoiuer, unlike you. We are not full of shit.

ALL THE DINERS RELEASE A CAVALCADE OF FARTS THAT SOUND LIKE A SLOW HAND CLAP

AS TIM STALKS OUT.

WAITER SHOUTING TO SOME ONE OOV

WAITER

Thanks God he's gone, MOnseuir Winner's table ready?

2ND WAITER

See boss.

WE SEEM LHIM AYING A TABLE WITH A TOILET, THE WASTE PIPE OF WHICH LEADS STRAIGHT ONTO THE PLATE ON THE TABLE.

Great.

Very funny. I would LOVE to see that done on TV.

Just imagine the word in the classrooms next day:

"Hey, did you see that sketch with everyone shitting in a restaurant?"

Don't know how your mind works, Joel, but this is fecking good. Very funny.

Nice idea but I can't say I was loling. However, as I seem to be in a minority it is definitely worth pursuing. :)

BTW, I wondered if you were going make reference to the toilet being a either pan - as in a cooking pan - or a finger bowl.

Actually, having re-read it, I think Jim could be less forthright with his views on the shitting for the first part of the sketch, and slowly become more uncomfortable. But 'tis Don, 'tis good.

Interesting idea - it reminds me a little of the Mr. Show sketch -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi5PFI3rMTQ

Although yours is substantially different, I should add.

Quote: Tuumble @ September 9 2008, 1:26 PM BST

Nice idea but I can't say I was loling. However, as I seem to be in a minority it is definitely worth pursuing. :)

BTW, I wondered if you were going make reference to the toilet being a either pan - as in a cooking pan - or a finger bowl.

Lookinfg at it could do with some language toning.

I think Raj's philosophy could do with some more explanation.

Wow, you made a v long poo sketch!

When did Jim Become Tim? Just the last 2 lines? Or when he shat did the bottom drop off the "J" into the sewers below?

Was decent, would be a funny visual sketch, thought the beginning faffed about a bit - e.g. the George Bush joke just seemed a bit self-satisfying than actually serving the sketch much

Yeh that lines superfluos, so off it goes.

Am I the only Luis Bunuel fan here?

There's a long scene in Phantom of Liberty where people have a dinner party sitting on lavatories instead of chairs.

Throughout the evening the conversation is about sewage, shit etc. Someone mentions food and everyone is disgusted.

Fernando Rey then asks to be excused and goes to a small room where he sits down and eats a small meal.

You must be, I haven't seen it.

Finite number of good ideas and all that.

Oh well view it as a tribute.

As an older bloke who was a telly addict in the 60's, 70's and early 80's I can tell you that there is almost nothing I see on telly now or in critique sketch-wise that is totally original.

Not because people nick stuff, but because there have been so many others before us doing comedy. There are a lot less gags than you think and at best you are just putting a new twist on an old gag, and/or continually reworking comedic ideas that others have had before you.

I know you younger people hate that thought and want to be 'fresh, new, original', of course you do, and you are in your own way, but it can only be your interpretation that is fresh, not the gags/ideas themselves.

But the nub is that it matters not one jot that others have done similar stuff. So what? That was then, this is now. If I want to write a sketch about a man doing a long fart I will. Nigel Kelly cannot copywright the idea, only his interpretation of it, otherwise there'd be no 'new' sketches.

Rant over.

It's a good sketch Sooty and will polish up well. That's polish, not Polish btw.

Fx

Quote: Frankie Rage @ September 10 2008, 8:43 AM BST

As an older bloke who was a telly addict in the 60's, 70's and early 80's I can tell you that there is almost nothing I see on telly now or in critique sketch-wise that is totally original.

Not because people nick stuff, but because there have been so many others before us doing comedy. There are a lot less gags than you think and at best you are just putting a new twist on an old gag, and/or continually reworking comedic ideas that others have had before you.

I know you younger people hate that thought and want to be 'fresh, new, original', of course you do, and you are in your own way, but it can only be your interpretation that is fresh, not the gags/ideas themselves.

But the nub is that it matters not one jot that others have done similar stuff. So what? That was then, this is now. If I want to write a sketch about a man doing a long fart I will. Nigel Kelly cannot copywright the idea, only his interpretation of it, otherwise there'd be no 'new' sketches.

Rant over.

It's a good sketch Sooty and will polish up well. That's polish, not Polish btw.

Fx

Copyright.

:D

Quote: Frankie Rage @ September 10 2008, 8:43 AM BST

I know you younger people hate that thought and want to be 'fresh, new, original', of course you do, and you are in your own way, but it can only be your interpretation that is fresh, not the gags/ideas themselves.

I dread for the day I start saying "You youngsters don't know nothing..."

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