2525 - Home and Why?

Another 2525 effort....

INTRO:They say home is where the heart is, more importantly for Riley and his dad, it's also where the remote control is.

DAD:What are you watching son?

RILEY:The Wizard of Oz.

DAD:I love that film.

RILEYad, where are your glasses?

DAD:They're, em, missing...I can see perfectly without them anyway...look, there's the Lion and Scarecrow and the Tin Man.

RILEYad....it's Top Gear.

DADh, I knew that.... wow, I didn't realise they were still alive.

RILEY:Well, if you can call being cryogenically defrosted and plonked in a four hundred year old Mitsubishi Shogun orbiting Uranus 'alive', then yeah, they're alive.

DAD:Alive??...I've seen more life in The Gary Numan Electric Friends Mausoleum. Am I the only person left in the whole world who welcomes the passage of time? Who...

RILEYmears his entire body in Dijon mustard and pepper 'cos some bloke down the pub said it would take ten years off him?

DAD:Yes, but ten years...not to be sneezed at.

DAD:But age comes to us all son, we need to embrace Mother Nature, we should rush forward unashamed when she reaches out to grasp us to her ample bos...

RILEY:Quick dad, Jeremy Clarkson is just about to be catapulted on to the moon from the cockpit of a reasonably priced car.

DADo rests my case for growing old gracefully.

RILEYo you won't be wanting this bottle of Elixir of Life I found in the garden next to your glasses?

DAD:Elixir of life?? Now why didn't I spot that when I was burying my gla, glass...oh, look, is that The Stig??

END

There is half a great skit there, the idea that celebrities don't die, they're still filming TopGear and the guy mourning the death of death.
All great, but then it seems to just well stop. And the mustard line, contradicts the dads accepting of aging.
I'd go for fixing on TV shows with characters who can't die.

I was aiming for the dad secretly looking for eternal youth hence the mustard line.
Cheery Sootyj, good idea on the developing the celebrity angle, I did struggle a bit with what way to take the sketch and think I had another ending which I've forgotten now.

That's a good angle but it's much more subtle, it could work, but it doesn't come over in this version.

Ah, interesting, cheers Soots.