Playing Hims In Church

This would work so much better with pictures and sound as it doesn't look too good in print and needs a bit of visualising, but anyway.

I'm beginning to worry how my minds works and none moreso than on this one.

FADE IN

INT. CHURCH - NIGHT

SOFT CHORAL MUSIC PLAYS IN THE BACKGROUND.

An alter boy is carrying a tray to a priest, who is standing in front of a line of boys who are kneeling before him to receive Holy Communion.

Instead of feeding them bread and wine, he picks up a pair of wooden xylophone mallets from off the tray and bashes out a tune on the boys' heads.........where you hear a comical, wooden sounding tune like the Colonel Bogey March.

FADE OUT

You also have to try to imagine the noise of each mallet strike to make a wooden clonking sound, like a wooden xylophone would do.

Quote: ima_mazed @ February 26, 2007, 1:09 PM

An alter boy is carrying a tray to a priest, who is standing in front of a line of boys who are kneeling before him to receive Holy Communion.

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Kneeling before him to receive 'holy communion' - is that what they are calling it nowadays?

I think this is silly enough to work well - I have a feeling I have seen something like it before but like my wife's G spot - I can't quite put my finger on it. Perhaps not - good visual gag that would probably make me laugh - would certainly all be down to the filming that's for sure.
Andy

Good stuff ... but might be broadened I think around the same central gag.
For example, the first time choir boys sing notes of same tune, a bit off-key, when priest just flicks each of their ears in turn (this is called 'playing by ear'!). Cut to later when priest is seen alone poring through Music Theory books. Cut to next day with your xylophone piece as it stands but with priest now studying a bit of sheet music (held in view by alter boy) as he whacks the choir boy heads.
I can think of more ways to run this on and on ... but won't spoil your fun!!!
By the way, your profile is inaccessible because of the underscore in your user name ... the forum software seems to be stripping it out before completing the search and can't find anybody called 'ima mazed'. Maybe it shouldn't have allowed the underscore in the first place so as to handle consistently ... but that's computer programming for you!!!

Hi ima

At the end you want the choir boys to just say 'Amen' or something (or 'Body of Christ') beforehand, just to hit the communion point home, I reckon.

Dan

Yeah, I think this would be a quite funny short sketch. You could have the little-est boy's head at the end make a big heavy sounding gong noise.

Quote: ShoePie @ February 26, 2007, 4:37 PM

Yeah, I think this would be a quite funny short sketch. You could have the little-est boy's head at the end make a big heavy sounding gong noise.

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Never mind a short sketch, I'd like to see them do Bohemian Rhapsody in this fashion.

Reminds me of Python's Holy Grail when the song Knights of the Roundtable is sung. He plays a little solo on the their helmets (ohh- err Mrs).