MANAGER: The ability to psychokinetically transform matter does give them an edge, I grant you. (MENACINGLY) Maybe it is something we should look into.
Been thinking about this line, would this also get the idea across -
The ability to thoughtform matter does give them an edge...
Feel free to use it or loose it.
Quote: Tim Azure @ August 20 2013, 2:09 PM BSTI think wake week works better than shutdown. Humans go on wake weeks. Robots shut down.
It doesn't matter if you don't understand the term, it's whether you don't associate it with robots.
It absolutely matters whether the audience understands the term, given it's central to the sketch. A confused audience doesn't laugh.
Quote: Badge @ August 20 2013, 2:33 PM BSTIt absolutely matters whether the audience understands the term, given it's central to the sketch. A confused audience doesn't laugh.
Yeah, I was wondering which robot had died. Just say, "we're all taking our annual leave", or something.
Well I've been watching the big bang theory over the past few daya and I have to admit that a lot of what they say when quoting science goes over the head, but it's not left there, there is always an explanation of what has just been said often as part of the joke that leaves us with a clear understanding of what they were going on about.
if wake week was followed by a more layman's explanation then it could work even better than changing it!
This is critique at it's most pointless.
Quote: Tim Azure @ August 20 2013, 8:17 PM BSTYes, they do! Look at Little Britain! In fact most farces (and Fawlty Towers, and Blackadder contains elements of farce) absolutely depend on confusion.
If you consider "wake week" to be a punchline, no people won't understand it as a joke, maybe. But a sketch is more complicated.
My advice would be to keep it as "Wake week" and someone later may change it. Since shutdown doesn't work as as any sort of joke, even one with inside knowledge, wake week seems to win.
No.
Quote: FunyHaHA Not Funy Strange @ August 20 2013, 8:52 PM BSTWell I've been watching the big bang theory over the past few daya and I have to admit that a lot of what they say when quoting science goes over the head, but it's not left there, there is always an explanation of what has just been said often as part of the joke that leaves us with a clear understanding of what they were going on about.
if wake week was followed by a more layman's explanation then it could work even better than changing it!
No.
Quote: Ben @ August 20 2013, 10:35 PM BSTThis is critique at its most pointless.
No.
Quote: Ben @ August 20 2013, 10:35 PM BSTThis is critique at it's most pointless.
What is?
The constant debate about wake week. It's ridiculous. Tursiops is adept enough to alter that line, so I find this all rather strange.
ok.
If the whole of citv had a week off to celebrate Timmy Mallet's death would that be a; wideawake wake?
It would be a wideawake wake wakes week.
Or a wideawake wakes week wake.
I have no idea what you two are on about - you must be big Timmy fans?
Itsy bitsy ones? Oh yeah.
It took two edits to get that right and even then it wasn't worth it. Oh yeah.
I'm not sure, since I've never read the original, but you could be using the same basic plot here as Karel Capek's original play R.U.R which long ago coined the word ROBOT.
http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/c/capek/karel/rur/
His robots of course were not metal, they were made of artificial flesh & bones etc, what we might call an Android nowadays.
There are no new ideas...
I recall many moons ago reading Karel Capek's War With The Newts. I shall ponder the potential for humour in insurrectionist amphibians.
This thread has been most useful, but is in danger of reaching Cotteresque proportions.