British Comedy Guide

Shopping Sketch

Int. Supermarket

A man is down an aisle looking at some tinned goods. He has a small boy with him who is making a gun shape with his fingers and making the noise of a sub-machine gun.

Man:
Stop it!

The boy does not stop.

Man:
STOP IT!

The boy continues.

Man:
I SAID "STOP IT!".

The boy stops and starts to sulk. The man shakes his head and goes back to looking at the tinned goods. The boy slowly makes the gun shape with his fingers again. He starts to make the submachine gun noises again, but this time, to his horror, real bullets start firing out of his fingers. Tinned goods explode everywhere and shoppers are gunned down. The bullets stop.

Man:
WHAT DID I TELL YOU?! LOOK WHAT YOU'VE DONE!

Boy:
It was an accident!

Man:
Oh really?!

The man takes a tub of ice cream from the trolley and gives it to the boy.

Man:
Go on! Take it back! Don't think you're having it now!

The boy takes the ice cream and slowly trudges off.

Man:
Unbelievable.

The man goes back to looking at the tinned goods.

ENDS

I think it's good and it's neat, but you're in my view 5% out.

The "you know how dangerous guns are" line foreshadows the punch too much.

I'd go with.

Stop that.

I said stop that!

BANG!

I warned you, not to do that again, now put the icecream back!

I see what you're saying, Sooty. That's a good point which I will appropriate into the edit. I don't want it quite so succinct with the action as I think letting it breathe a helps add to the ridiculousness.

heh heh. like that.

Really like the final image.

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