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Faked Moon Landings

Yet another reject from Newsjack

Dan

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Faked Moon Landings
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MILES:
We have on the line now, an anonymous NASA employee who can confirm whether the moon landing was faked. Anonymous NASA employee, good evening.

NASA:
(D) Good afternoon, Moles.

MILES:
It has been suggested that the moon landings were faked.

NASA:
(D) That is correct.

MILES:
They *were* faked?

NASA:
(D) That is correct. The moon landings were, indeed, faked.

MILES:
But new images from a US spacecraft has captured images of Apollo landing sites on the Moon. You can see hardware and footprints and everything!

NASA:
(D) Yes. And if you follow the footprints along, using Google Moon, you'll see they lead to an enormous television studio just on the edge of the Sea of Tranquility.

MILES:
So, you're saying the moon landings *were* faked (BEAT) but on the moon!!?

NASA:
(D) That's right! To throw conspiracy theorists everywhere, we thought we'd catch'em out good and proper. So we flew to the moon, built a studio and filmed the fake moon landings in there.

MILES:
But you had to get there to fake it?

NASA:
(D) (PAUSE) What?

MILES:
You had to get to the Moon, to build the studio in the first place.

NASA:
(D) (PAUSE) We did?

MILES:
Yup.

NASA:
(D) (PAUSE – SHOUTS IN BACKGROUND) Hey Boys! You're not gonna believe this! We've only gone and landed on the frikkin' Moon!!

F/X:PHONE BEING DROPPED AND HANGING. JOCKS 'WOOHOO'-ING, 'YEAH'-ING AND HIGH-FIVING IN DISTANCE

MILES:
Hello?

F/X:DEAD LINE

MILES:
NASA there. Never let it be said they don't know what they're doing.

END

A nice Idea
I don't think this is very far off.
And you've definitely got the style spot on.

Can't really add anything to this other than to say I like it - particularly the 'woohoo'ing bit!

A very clever idea, D.

Nothing wrong with this at all. Good idea, well written, and funny.

Thank you people. Much appreciated.

Dan

Very good. Only quibble is it seems to have a couple of unnecessary lines in the build up.

Does DaButt read Critique? I'd like to hear his view! Laughing out loud

Can only add to what others have said. A lovely idea. They just went for another angle on the Moon landings.

When I read that I thought it funny, but not quite right.

Overnight, I decided in my opinion it ought to stop at this as a punchline:

NASA:
(D) Yes. And if you follow the footprints along, using Google Moon, you'll see they lead to an enormous television studio just on the edge of the Sea of Tranquility.

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