A RATIONAL FEAR: Monorail! MONORAIL! MMOONOORAIILL!!
Channel: A Rational Fear
Date: 2012-03-31

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@danilic and @macleanbrendan set out to recreate the Simpsons classic "Monorail" to pay homage to the Sydney Monorail which has been slated for destruction.



Written & Performed by:
Brendan Maclean http://twitter.com/#!/macleanbrendanhttp:
Dan Ilic http://twitter.com/#!/danilic

Additional Writing:
Dylan Behan http://twitter.com/#!/dylabolical

Directed by:
Aaron Smith http://twitter.com/#!/the_aaron_smith

Music By:
Bryce Halliday http://twitter.com/#!/mrbrycehalliday
Brendan Richards http://twitter.com/#!/quizmaster85

Audio Surgery by:
Tom Lowndes

Thanks to Fairfax Media and City Centra for their coverage & participation, Deus Ex Machina for their Fixie, Hero Costume Hire for a discount, and thanks to Sydney's Lord Mayor Clover Moore for her cameo!


LYRICS:


PERSON 1: What's going to happen to the Monorail?
PERSON 2: I hear hobart wants to buy it..
PERSON 3: Really? That's sad.

DAN:You know a State with money is a like Premier with a bike lane..
Danged if he knows how he got it, and darned if he knows how to use it.
BRENDAN:  We come to you people with an idea, probably the greatest.... idea... 
DAN: no.. it's probably more of a Melbourne idea...
CROWD: Noo... hey... 
DAN: Oh okay.. let's not tell you our idea, let's show you.
BRENDAN: We've sold monorails to Southbank, Oasis Centre Broadbeach, and Seaworld... and by gun is sure put them on the map.
DAN: It goes in a loop for a whole 2.2 mile
PERSON 1: 2.2 miles....
PERSON 2: To think I was going to walk that far.
BRENDAN: Well there's nothing on earth like a genuine bonafide, electrictified. 6 car monorail..
PERSON:What'd he say?

CROWD: Monorail
PERSON:One more time...
CROWD: Monorail

LADY: I hear those things are awfully loud
DAN ON MEGAPHONE: It glides as softly as a cloud. (Subtitle)

TOURIST: Doesn't it just go to Darling Harbour?
BRENDAN: Yes and cockle bay and Darling harbour

BRAIN DEAD SLOB: What? $9.80 for a day ticket?
DAN: Thank the public private partnershipet

OLD MAN: Were you sent here by Devil..
DEMOLITION MAN: No I was sent by Barry Offarrel..

CLOVER: There's got to be a better plan (Clover)
HIPSTER: Take my fixie my good man.

I swear it's Hobarts's only choice.. throw up your hands and raise your voice.. monorail.. monorail.. monorail..

BRAIN DEAD SLOB: Tasmania? are you serious mate?
BRENDAN: It's perfect, they're still in 1988

Monorail.... Monorail.. Monorail... Mono.. Doh.