I've lost count of the number of scenes, so . . .
NEXT SCENE. We open with FAST, DRAMATIC music, kinda like
Jaws but without the slow tempo and the suspense and the subtlety and the threat of danger and the man-eating shark and the ocean setting and the vengeful sailors and the shark cage and the popcorn. We are in WHIT'S END, where WHIT is at his WHIT'S END.
. . .
Get it? It's . . . a pun.
Anyway, WHIT and JACK are talking and stuff.
JACK: So, when's the trial?
WHIT: Oh, probably two episodes from now.
JACK: Two episodes?
WHIT: Yes. You didn't get the foreboding feeling that we were opening up an extended plot-arc?
JACK: Well, actually, now that you mention it, I have been having these strange dreams recently . . .
CONNIE: Who cares? Whit, there's something extremely important we need to tell you!
WHIT: Important?
CONNIE: Important!
WHIT: What kind of important?
EUGENE:
(clears throat) A matter which is of the utmost urgency and top priority, within lying crucial value of considerable relevance, being noteworthy in all respects of the --
CONNIE: Uber-important!
EUGENE: Well, there's a less diplomatic way of going about it.
JACK: We've learned of a very serious matter, Whit!
WHIT: What kind of serious?
EUGENE:
(clears throat) Lacking any expressions of humour or happiness, a somewhat or extensively grave manner or disposition, solemn, thoughtful, earnest, weighty --
CONNIE: Uber-serious!
EUGENE: Well, there's a less diplomatic way of going about it.
JACK: It could be world-threatening!
WHIT: What kind of threatening?
EUGENE:
(clears throat) Adjective, being in presentation of a threat or menace with the ill-intention of doing harm, frightening, intimidating, scaring, the potential for a --
CONNIE: Uber-threatening!
EUGENE: Well, there's a less diplomatic way of going about it.
JACK: Oh, will you two stop?
CONNIE: Hey, emoticons!
WHIT: What kind of emoticons?
EUGENE:
(clears throat) An emoticon is a term applied to a graphic manifestation of an emotion via the form of faces, similar to that of a smiley, but with a --
JACK: Oh, for heaven's sakes: Blackgaard's released the Ruku virus!
WHIT: The Ruku virus!
JACK: The Ruku virus!
CONNIE: The Ruku virus!
EUGENE: The Ruku virus!
HARLOW DOYLE: Great celebrated jumping frogs of Calaveras County!
CONNIE: Harlow, not now!
WHIT: Well, we'll have to stop him!
BLACKGAARD: Then, go ahead. Stop me!
WHIT: No, it can't be!
BLACKGAARD: Yes! It is I, Dr. Regis Blackgaard, as a virus in the Imagination Station!
CONNIE:
(gasp)
BLACKGAARD: You are correct to gasp, for I am intimidating.
CONNIE:
(gasp)
BLACKGAARD: You are correct to gasp when I announce, "You are correct to gasp, for I am intimidating," for I am intimidating.
CONNIE:
(gasp)
BLACKGAARD: You are correct to gasp when I announce, "You are correct to gasp when I announce, 'You are correct to gasp, for I am intimidating,' for I am intimidating," for I am intimidating.
CONNIE:
(gasp)
BLACKGAARD: You are correct to gasp . . .
Will this exchange loop forever? Keep tuned-in to find out!
Everything written in this post is false.