British Comedy Guide

Supermarket quickie

INT- SUPERMARKET AUTOMATIC CHECKOUT LANE.

A WOMAN IS TAKING ITEMS OUT OF A BASKET AND SCANNING THEM. WITH EACH ITEM SHE SCANS THERE IS AN AUDIBLE BEEP AS THE SCANNER REGISTERS IT. THEN...

AUTOMATED VOICE:
Unexpected item in the bagging area.

THE WOMAN TUTS AND RESCANS AN ITEM.

AUTOMATED VOICE:
Unexpected item in the bagging area.

THE WOMAN FIDDLES WITH THE ITEM AND TRIES TO SCAN IT AGAIN.

AUTOMATED VOICE:
Unexpected item in the bagging area.

PULL-BACK TO REVEAL A MAN IN A TOP HAT BALANCING ON A PENNY FARTHING AND JUGGLING THREE ORANGES IN THE BAGGING AREA.

WOMAN:
Bloody new technology! It's always going wrong.

END:

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Don't know about the woman's tag-line? Maybe end on the reveal?

A decent sketch on a subject I'm amazed know one's covered before.

Yeah, even as I wrote it I was wondering whether it had been done Sooty. If it has I can't think of it but others might know differently.

Just been in Sainsbury's and used this service and it just came to me

Nice! :)

When (if) you buy DVDs at Sainsbury's do they have locking strip security devices that make it impossible to open them without a cashier first putting them into an unlocking device?

Thanks Tuumble.

I don't know the answer to your question Kenneth but when I buy a DVD I always take it to the checkout operative (hey how PC am I?) who fails miserably to get the plastic bit off the DVD / CD.

They then say:

'Ere Sharon, can you get these off?

And pass it accross to their fellow checkout operative who then wrestles with for a further 5 minutes before calling the 12 year-old manager who seems to be the only member of staff who's been on the "how to get the security devices off DVDs and CDs" training module

In addition the plastic security gubbins always obscures the track listing so I can't read it.

Bah!!!!

Nice little sketch that. Not sure it needs the last line though, the reveal was enough. For me at least.

Lost on me. Am I missing something?

Quote: Balf @ April 3 2009, 5:46 PM BST

Nice little sketch that. Not sure it needs the last line though, the reveal was enough. For me at least.

Last line was anticlimatic, I agree

I'd agree on scrubbing the last line. :)

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