British Comedy Guide

Alternate Eastenders

Given how dreary and depressing EastEnders has become (or has always been) I thought it might be an idea for the people to take creative control. I'll start with a twist on a typical 'Enders trope.

int.queen vic - day

The bar is half full of unfeasibly wealthy market traders and casually dressed extras who have no lawful business getting drunk on a tuesday afternoon. SHIRONKAT a no nonsense, hard faced, east end tart wiv an art of gould is serving behind the bar. BILLY and SOPPY MARY enter.

SHIRONKAT

Allo love, ow was the scan?

SOPPY MARY bursts into tears and runs into the toilets

BILLY

Not good, Shironkat. They found some anolomalomanies

SHIRONKAT

What kind of anolamonieseses?

CUT TO

INT.Toilets - queen vic

SOPPY MARY is crying in front of the mirror. JANE enters.

JANE

Mary? What's wrong?

SOPPY MARY

It's the baby

JANE

The scan? What happened?

SOPPY MARY hands a scan picture to JANE and then turns back to the mirror crying again.

JANE

Oh, Mary!

SOPPY MARY

I don't know what I'm going to do, Jane. How are we supposed to raise an a three headed alien snake baby on Billys wages?

JANE

I thought he was flush this month?

SOPPY MARY

THat was last month. We can't start a new Christmas club til June and no-ones doing any collections this month.

JANE

DOes the father know?

SOPPY MARY

No. And he can't never find out!

TRYCLYDE the 3 headed snake from Super Mario Bros enters

TRYCLYDE

Find out what

CUT TO

Do male characters habitually wander into the ladies loos in 'Stenders? I don't know. I haven't watched it since about 1986.

But from the stuff on the internet, your characters seem completely believable.

I didn't say they were in the ladies toilets.

Regardless, Tryclyde goes where Tryclyde likes.

So what the girls doing in the blokes?

Tune in next week to find out!

Or passively read it on the front of a TV magazine in the queue at Morrisons.

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