And another Dragons' Den sketch

DRAGONS' DEN

INVENTOR

Good morning dragons. Many of us find our jobs to be soul-destroying, but we endure them purely for the money. I've taken that principle and reversed it, to create a slot machine which actually replenishes your soul, by simply feeding it cash. Who wants a go?

SCOTS DRAGON

Aye! Hook me up!

FX: COIN DROPPING IN

Ooo, I can feel my heart warming up nicely. Amazing! But I can't help feeling you've missed a trick here.

INVENTOR

How so?

SCOTS DRAGON

Well look, if feeding it money boosts your soul, then why not reverse the principle back, and get it to pay out cash by letting it feed on people?

INVENTOR

But that's madness, who on Earth would want to do that?

MYSTERY DRAGON

Give it here! I'll do it!

FX: SOME COINS PAYING OUT

Ahh, lovely money! God I feel depressed. Must make more money!

FX: MANY COINS PAYING OUT

Oh the despair, I'm staring into the abyss; clearly I need more money! [SOBS]

PRESENTER

And there we must leave this special edition of Dragons' Den, and special thanks to our mystery dragon you just heard there, Chancellor George Osborne.

END

The idea behind the invention is a good one with plenty of room for laughs. For me ( and probably just me), the ending on a political type seems a bit easy. I think you could do more with this one imho. Good work though.

Quote: scratchyr @ October 11 2010, 8:12 PM BST

For me ( and probably just me), the ending on a political type seems a bit easy.

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Fair point. I did deliberate over who the mystery dragon should be, and didn't come up with an entirely satisfactory answer. I was going to end it with a note, suggesting that people simply insert the name of whoever happens to be the greediest person in the media at moment.