…because Superglue is forever

2011
 

 






RAQUEL

Yesterday Salam Khamas, at the age of 93 married Mrs. Um Ahmed, at the tender age of 105, in the town of Basra, Iraq. It was sunny outside. The newlyweds were both found dead in their honeymoon bed this morning. Mrs. Um Ahmed was still wearing her wedding dress.

McKENNA

Yesterday Salam Khamas, at the age of 93, married Mrs. Um Ahmed, at the tender age of 105, in the town of Basra, Iraq. It was sunny. The newlyweds were both found dead in their honeymoon bed this morning. Mrs. Um Ahmed was still wearing her wedding dress.

NEWS ANCHOR

Surprised shoppers today, in a Little Rock grocery store. Take a look at this surveillance video. It caught a deer dashing into the Edwards Food Giant last night. After circling the store the young buck went back out the front door and across the parking lot. And while nobody was hurt we can’t say the same thing about the deer...

McKENNA

Oops! Now you're really gonna scream!

RAQUEL

Are we still on for dinner tomorrow?

RAQUEL

Are we still on for dinner tomorrow?

RAQUEL

Ok. But one thing. We can have sex, but
we can’t fall in love. Deal?

McKENNA

It’s like a line through the middle, like we’re in different rooms. I've seen it on TV before, like there’s a line through the middle...

McKENNA

Are we still on for dinner tomorrow?

RAQUEL

Ok. But one thing. We can have sex, but
we can’t fall in love. Deal?

McKENNA

What if I am already? In love? I mean...

RAQUEL

Well, you can fall out of love by
tomorrow...

NEWS ANCHOR

The online auction site eBay has removed a posting made by a 10-year old girl, after Zoë Pemberton tried to sell her grandmother. Advertised as annoying but cuddly and someone who likes wordsearches...

ZOE PEMBERTON

She was annoying me and she wanted me to make her a cup of tea but I didn’t want to do it. I wanted to put her on eBay and see what was gonna happen...

McKENNA

HAPPY-END #75: a letter to steelworker Tommy Klycesvec from his girlfriend Martha saying she loved him arrived 44 years late. ‘I thought she didn’t want to marry me’, he said. By the time he got the letter he was 62, retired and married for the second time.

McKENNA

Ok! Improv!

McKENNA

Can I ask you a question?

RAQUEL

Yeah, shoot!

McKENNA

How is your sex life?

RAQUEL

My... sex life?

McKENNA

Yes, well, I mean, do you think it’s just sex? Or love?

RAQUEL

Why do you care?

McKENNA

Just, because.

McKENNA

I forgot a line!

McKENNA

Can I ask you a question?

RAQUEL

Yeah, shoot!

McKENNA

Do you think it’s just sex, or love?

RAQUEL

Why do you care?

McKENNA

Just, because.

McKENNA

So, is it sex? Or love?


RAQUEL

Maybe both?

McKENNA

Oscar and Jenny met at a dance in 1939, married a year later and from then on were never apart. When Oscar turned 77, he had a series of heart attacks.


RAQUEL

He was taken to Cedars Hospital where Jenny visited him daily. July 22nd she complained of chest pains and was wheeled into a room near her husband’s. Everyone expected her to be released soon. But on July 30 Oscar died from a fatal heart attack while Jenny at once suffered a cardiac arrest.

McKENNA

At 9:09am her heart stopped at the exact moment her husband was pronounced dead.

NEWS ANCHOR

A letter postmarked February 1958 had finally arrived. It was signed: 'Forever Vonny'. The letter arrived on Friday and since then the University has been wondering how to find the student named Clark Moore...

RAQUEL

You think that I don’t think about it, but I think about it more than you think I think about it.

RAQUEL

Love has no logic, really. You love one, but marry the other.

McKENNA

I know. Why don’t we meet tonight, and tomorrow night and the night after that, but let’s not break up, please?

RAQUEL

I think we skipped one line...

McKENNA

The hardest line is the one... You think that I don’t think about it but I think about it more than you think I think about it.

RAQUEL

Wait! It’s been recording?


McKENNA

It's been recording this whole time!

McKENNA

You think that I don’t think about it, but I think about it more than you think I think about it.

RAQUEL

You think so?

McKENNA

I think about it every day, every minute, every second, I cannot NOT think about it.

RAQUEL

And I think about you so much it hurts!

McKENNA

Love has no logic, really. You love one, but marry the other.

RAQUEL

Why don’t we meet tonight and tomorrow night, and the night after that but let’s never break up, please?

RAQUEL

One... chooses... to love... for no other... reason... than to lose?

McKENNA

Come one! You have a crush!

RAQUEL

I don't!

McKENNA

You do! I can tell.

RAQUEL

Un-HAPPY-END #14: a 72-year old Dutch motorist hit a rabbit on the A... ...A6 freeway. Can I start over? Un-HAPPY-END #14: a 72-year old Dutch motorist hit a rabbit on the A6 freeway north of Amsterdam. He pulled over at an exit, walked back up the road to attend to the stricken animal, when he was killed by a car coming from the opposite direction.

McKENNA

No leaf stirred. No dog barked. Flies ceased to buzz and cuckoos to coo. And the goldfish beneath the water lily leaves, not a wave of tail, nor a flicker of fin. All was still, still, still...