British Comedy Guide

NJ: McScience Meals

I didn't send this one. Probably needs a rewrite I think.

Dan
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McScience Meals
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JUSTIN:
Scientists this week claimed that meat grown entirely from cow stem cells may be available for sale within the year. A good 11 months and 3 weeks longer than growing a new cast for Geordie Shore.

ATMOS:MCDONALDS

CUSTOMER:
Erm, hello. What's the... McStephen McHawking McMeal?

EMPLOYEE:
Well, madam, that includes a burger grown from stem cells, fries cooked with antiprotons in the Large Hadron Collider and a drink oxygenated with negative energy wormhole bubbles.

CUSTOMER:
Sounds cosmic! How much is it?

EMPLOYEE:
Half a million pounds.

CUSTOMER:
Woah! A bit out of my price range, I'm afraid.

EMPLOYEE:
You could get a research grant?

CUSTOMER:
For lunch?!

EMPLOYEE:
Then maybe something a little less cutting edge? How about a McBrian McCox McMeal? (WHIMSICAL) Amazing burger, amazing fries, amazing drink... You don't eat it -- you sit back staring at it in wonder.

CUSTOMER:
Sounds like it will only disappoint.

EMPLOYEE:
Don't worry: its background noise is too loud for you to concentrate properly.

CUSTOMER:
Have you got something a little more... utilitarian?

EMPLOYEE:
Ah, you're expecting pragmatism from your food! Then, you'll be wanting our McRichard McDawkins McMeal.

CUSTOMER:
What's that then?

EMPLOYEE:
"Unarguably dead cow" burger, "chips, they're just chips, nothing special" fries and sodastreamed, tooth-decaying fizzy soda pop. And, of course, it's free.

CUSTOMER:
Sounds good to me.

EMPLOYEE:
You will have to renounce God, and any other form of deity or religion though.

CUSTOMER:
Seems a high price to pay... but I am in a rush. Serve me one up.

EMPLOYEE:
No problems, madam. Do you want to go supernova?

CUSTOMER:
No, just regular thanks.

END

The descriptions of the meal options are very funny, and I like th research grant line but some of the other follow up dialogue is less relevant to the meal theme and so does not work so well. The punch feels like it is missing something.

[quote name="swerytd" post="856021" date="February 27 2012, 3:49 PM GMT"]
JUSTIN:
Scientists this week claimed that meat grown entirely from cow stem cells may be available for sale within the year. A good 11 months and 3 weeks longer than growing a new cast for Geordie Shore.

thats a great intro - strong joke and short and to the point. Not sure about the over use of the Mc bit overkill, but I get the feelingthat's the point and might work being spoken

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