Time Team 3012

EXT. A FIELD. ARCHEOLOGISTS ARE DIGGING TRENCHES AND LOOKING FOR ARTEFACTS.

PRESENTER:
Welcome to Time Team in the year thirty twelve. It's been a great day here, let's go and see Eric who's found something very interesting in the trench. Blimey that's a lot of round shiny discs isn't it?

ERIC:
Yes indeed. These, we believe, are tributes to the goddesses The Cheeky Girls. If you look you can still make out the name here.

PRESENTER:
Oh yes, That's fascinating . So what was the purpose of this site, was it just ceremonial?

ERIC:
Mostly yes, I mean, the Cheeky Girls would have been worshipped as powerful deities, so that's why there's almost four million of these tributes.

PRESENTER:
Thank you Eric. Okay, we're now going to talk to Jane about what she's been up to.

JANE:
Hi, Yeah I've been excavating this area here and made some pretty amazing discoveries.

PRESENTER:
That looks like a twenty first century pavement to me.

JANE:
That's right. You can see the dozens of small hard, brightly coloured lumps have been pushed into the concrete. This was a very popular style in some countries.

PRESENTER;
Of course, and that would have been a community effort. It's terrific to think that thousands of years ago all those people coming together to patchwork the floor in this dazzling array of colour and form.

JANE:
Yes boggles the mind doesn't it. If I can show you this. This is something we removed from a possible grave site.

JANE PRODUCES AND OPENS A PACKED SUITCASE

JANE ( CONT )
This would have been used to help passing into the afterlife and all these objects give us a good indicator of what kind of afterlife they believed in.

PRESENTER:
Fascinating. What kind was it?

JANE:
Judging by the markings on this toweled robe and bottled potions, it was called The Bay Hotel.

END.

Putting a cheeky bump on this as I've a few thoughts about re-setting the premise and changing around some of the elements but would like some feedback if possible before I re-approach the drawing board. Much thankness. SR.

Hi Scratchyr
First off It's a terrific idea, and not far off the mark as it is.

I think they seem to know a bit too much too soon I'd either reword it slightly or have an extra line or two of speculation or misdirection, even if it just makes the dialogue sound more like an
Archaeological programme.

Did they always travel in pairs ?

From what we can gather The Chee - Ky Girls would invite worshippers to cast aside all shyness and make contact with their posterior regions, this may be where the name Chee - ky comes from.

Worshippers would then cover their ears & scream at the beautiful tribal music.

I assume the next bit to be about Chewing Gum? not sure about that one & you may get more mileage from a different example, or even just stick to the Cheeky girla for the whole sketch & push that idea to the Max.
Then you could always make it a series of sketches with a different subject each time.

Again with the suitcase bit, you've got room for them to pick out an item or two and get the wrong end of the stick.

I'd play around with it, have some fun & write more than you need.
You may find that another pay off presents itself as you go along.

Ooh, you cheeky little bumper you.

Thought I'd commented on this before but obviously hadn't. Really liked the premise and the idea of the buried Cheeky Girls CDs, also the chewing gum squashed into the pavement was very nice.

Because I liked the build up so much I was disappointed at the end of it. Didn't really get the Bay Hotel reference, I guess.

You really do come up with some strong creative ideas, but it makes the need for a killer ending vital - IMO.

Cheers Steve. I have been toying with the idea changing it to aliens doing research on our long been lifeless planet far into the future as I thought it would give me loads more scope for misunderstanding. Agree about the chewing gum it is a bit vague.

Let further thought commence.

EDIT: Kasm, The hotel ref was about people stealing gowns and soap etc from hotel rooms. But have to concede that I still lack consistency in my endings as we saw in the courtroom sketch previously.

Quote: scratchyr @ January 6 2010, 5:00 PM GMT

Cheers Steve. I have been toying with the idea changing it to aliens doing research on our long been lifeless planet far into the future as I thought it would give me loads more scope for misunderstanding. Agree about the chewing gum it is a bit vague.

Let further thought commence.

EDIT: Kasm, The hotel ref was about people stealing gowns and soap etc from hotel rooms. But have to concede that I still lack consistency in my endings as we saw in the courtroom sketch previously.

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I don't think they need to be aliens to have the misunderstandings, but that could work as well.

Didn't get the hotel stealing bit first time round, It's not a bad idea
but I felt that the three examples don't link together as well as they might.

It's a nice idea, Srcatchyr. I like that you've chosen the cheeky girls as Goddesses of our times. I think you could include some directions that might help to create a mental image, if this is set in 3012 what amusing changes might there be to Time Team? As has been hinted at, I too think you could hold back on revealing that the Goddesses were/are the Cheeky Girls, may be have that as the punch line, dusting off some of the artifacts slowly revealing the letters. Just an idea, but as with a lot of your stuff the underlying premise is a strong one, but often I like it when there are amusing directions, painting a picture of how you are imagining the sketch to be physically, not only in terms of dialogue.

Hope that makes sense.