Ladybirds

A father and mother are watching their little girl play in the garden.

Father: How wonderfully pure and innocent our sweet little girl is.

Mother: She is a symbol of all that is right with this world.

The girl runs over carrying something.

Father: What have you got princess?

Girl: Ladybirds. Look one is on top of the other one. What are they doing mummy?

Mother: They're mating sweetpea.

Girl: Does that mean that one isn't a ladybird but a manbird?

Father: No princess they're both ladybirds.

Girl: Erhhh!

The Girl drops the ladybirds and stamps on them.

Mother: Emily! Why on earth did you do that?

Girl: I don't want f**king lesbian shit going on on our lawn!

Hehe -- I like this.

Needs a polish/rewrite but good concept and made me laugh.

Dan

I like it but I think you could lose mother's last line and just have the stomping followed by the girl's line.

Fantastic sketch but the first 2 lines feel a bit expositional.

Otherwise very funny twist pun ending, lotta humour piled into one line.

Good stuff Bigfella.

Maybe after Emily's last line...

Father:
Emily, how dare you! Get inside now!

Emily
But, but...

Father
I was enjoying watching that.

Agree with Sootyj on the expositional bit though, Bigfella.

I assume the first two lines are knowingly OTT, and are intended to sign post that the girl is going to do something yeuky. But what would work better is if you could find a way (and I admit it would be tricky) of setting up the parent's pride in their daughters innocence without making it obvious that that the point of the sketch is going to be an inversion, that way the lesbian thing would have more shock value.

Yeah, might be better if it was two mothers talking about the girl. Or a mother and a teacher or something like that.

Dan

Or just got a school report?

It's a small point I hope you find somewhere to stage it.

Thanks for the feedback folks.

I'll get my thinking hat on!

Thordox, sorry, I, feel it might be funnier if you had ants instead of ladybirds as ants are much more amusing visually. Or even stag beetles because then you could add a gag about them getting married and having to go on a stag party or something. Or hens and the subsequent hen party gag.

Hey bigfella,

I like it. I agree with sooty and co with regards the first few lines being exposition.

I would also have liked the final line to be more subtle from the girl. Perhaps take out the swearing.

Something like:

Girl: eeurrgghh lesbians!

Or just eeurrgghh lesbians!

Quote: sootyj @ April 30 2009, 2:41 PM BST

Or just eeurrgghh lesbians!

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Yea, that's what I said.