From: fong_jh@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Julian H Fong)
Subject: Re: The Net.Script!  Accept No Substitutes!
Organization: HAC - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 03:14:01 GMT

In article <9207272037.AA23044@acs1.acs.ucalgary.ca> gsbrande@ACS.UCALGARY.CA (Geoffrey Sean Brandenburg) writes:
>
>
>  BABSIE ON BOARD
>  Written by (in alphabetical order):
>                Sean Brandenburg
>                Christina M. Callihan
>                Julie Hazeltine
>                Robert Jung        
>                Kevin J. Podsiadlik
>*******
>
>Copyright 1992 by The Association of Amateur Alt.Tv.Tiny-Toon Net.Writers.
>No part of this document may be copied, transcribed, produced or animated, in
>whole or in part, without the written consent of the writers mentioned above.

[snip]

>Babs pauses and looks at the permit as the camera goes to a close-up on the
>card.  All that is visible of the card is a photo of an out-of-focus monster,
>done like a police mug shot. The name under the photo reads "Babra Anne Bnny".

	I presume the rest of the card is obscured by her thumb?  Maybe 
can use some handy trivia from "The Acme Bowl" and include a line on the
permit reading "EYES: Brown.  RESTRICTIONS: Corrective lenses."  I'm 
guessing those blue contacts are prescription -- Babs doesn't strike me
as being so vain that she'd get contacts just to change her eye color.

>                                        BABS
>                            Except I think the photographer had
>                            a brain aneurysm.

	I think it was agreed by a number of people, before the last
draft of the script came out, that this line should be changed to 
"Except I've seen better photos on the side of a milk carton."  Would
the poster who first suggested this please identify him/herself so
that it can be attributed properly?

>                                        BABS
>                             Yeah, tell me about it!  Mom even
>                             wanted to sign me up with that new
>                             driving school... yeah, that's the
>                             one--Acme Driving School and Scrap
>                             Metal Emporium. Luckily I talked her
>                             out of it--what a waste of time. I
>                             mean, how hard can driving be?  You
>                             point the car and floor it!

	FWIW, I think the scrap metal joke should stay in.

>Camera pulls back to show the family CAR parked behind Babs and the burrow
>hole. Babs turns and looks at the car; a HEAVENLY LIGHT falls from the
>sky, illuminating the car. Off-screen, angels start to sing. Camera changes to
>a close-up of Babs. She blinks and shakes her head. The camera moves back to
>where it was but the light and hymns have stopped.

	Has Babs' parents' car been seen in any episode other than TA3?
What kind of car is it, anyway?  We can already deduce, from looking at
hood ornaments in HISMV that Hamton's parents' car, Old Bessie, is a
Cadillac, and that Elmyra's parents drive a Volvo.

	You know, it occurs to me that we still haven't resolved the
problem that NONE OF THE TTA CHARACTERS (except Arnold) IS TALL ENOUGH
TO DRIVE A CAR -- especially with Babs' mom to provide a scale 
reference.

>View changes to Babs' perspective. The car is barreling down the street
>faster and faster.  Everything outside the front window begins to take on 
>a bluish tinge.  Suddenly a STOP SIGN appears directly ahead.
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
	Ever see "Voyages in Space and Time" from Carl Sag's COSMOS, where
the motor scooter attains relativistic velocities?

>                                        POLICE OFFICER (O/S)
>                              What is dis!??

	Maybe that should be spelled "Vhat"?  :-)

>Babs looks to her right and sees Arnold in a Police Officer Uniform (complete
>with sunglasses and ticket pad) looking through the passenger window.

	I thought the major reason for making Arnold the traffic cop
was to include a Terminator 2 reference.  What would be a good one --
"Say, that's a nice bike"?  "Hasta la vista, Babsie"?  Some sort of
sight gag?  Better suggestions?

>The light turns green and Babs floors the accelerator.  The car shudders
>and takes off somewhere close to light speed.

	Someone suggested, at one point, to have them pass Steven
Spielberg piloting the Millenium Falcon.  This idea was discarded
because Spielberg obviously has no connection to Star Wars.  So
how's this for an alternative:  Spielberg overtakes them in the
DeLorean time machine!  As it draws alongside we hear three
detonations, and it vanishes in a flash of light leaving twin 
trails of flame behind....

>                                        BABS
>                              Let's see....  Madonna?  No....  
>                              M.C. Hammer?  No...  Soundtrack to How I 
>                              Spent My Vacation?  Naaaahhhhh.... 
>                              The MILLS BROTHERS?!  How did _that_ get 
>                              in here?

	Shortly before the net.script died its first death, it was
suggested that, as our heroes enter the freeway, Babs is jolted
forward and slots the last tape she holds in her hand, and "fast
driving" music begins to play.  I'd like to offer this suggestion:
suppose the music is completely incongruous -- something maddeningly
soothing that plays while chaos is breaking loose on the freeway?
Something like, I dunno, Pachelbel's Canon?  This could work if the
fast pace never lets up for a second.

>The guys watch nervously as a large FREEWAY ENTRANCE sign looms before them,
>with a RIGHT LANE MUST ENTER sign underneath.  Can you guess what lane our
>heroes are in?

	I can't recall ever seeing a RIGHT LANE MUST ENTER sign on a
road.  RIGHT LANE MUST EXIT signs I've seen plenty of, though.

> Some marvelous transformation takes place and Babs is weaving in and out
>of traffic like an Indy car driver.  

	Maybe not.  IMO, this would work best if she were on the edge
of panic throughout.

>Camera cuts to an exterior shot.  Sign reads "Next exit 1/4 mile"

	DYN opportunity: Sign behind it reads "FOOD (in the loosest
sense of the word) NEXT RIGHT: WEENIE BURGERS"

>[That's all we've got for now, folks.  Post those ideas!]

	Only too glad to oblige.  :-)


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