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April 29, 2006
Bazooka Joe Comics Spec Script
Bazooka Joe at His School Play Rehearsal: Extended Gum Rapper Proposal
Bazooka: Terricklae Endread! ... Wait, that's not the line. Cheroklee Entead! Hey, you! That's my coat and stuff next to you... yeah the blue one - can you hand me my script?
Mort: (pause)
B: How'd you do that?
M: What do you mean?
B: How did you say that word and have the round brackets be around it?
M: Oh, that. That's the thing - you don't say anything. You just act it out.
B: (stunned)
M: Exactly.
B: (in Hebrew) I'VE ALWAYS WANTED TO BE IN MY OWN COMIC STRIP.
M:I don't understand Hebrew, but I understood that what you said was in Hebrew.
B: Are you getting bugged by this colon always to the left of us? You just ran into it.
M: On stage, our words will be printed upon giant two-dimensional "speech bubbles." So the colon is just a temporary thing.
B: I see, I see. When you say "on stage," you mean, "in the comic strip?"
M: I like to consider ourselves performing a play - in sequential box form.
B: Uh-oh. Here comes the punchline.
M: This play about boxing is going to be great!
B: Yeah, if I can remember the punch line.
B: Also, who in the world calls me "B"? I didn't go to all the trouble making sure everyone called me "Bazooka" so that people could shorten it to "B." Sheesh.
Posted by marxy at April 29, 2006 12:59 AM
Comments
I'd recommend you edit out the bit in this script that says that Japan is in terminal decline and will never again reach its 90s peaks.
Oh, I see you've already done it. Nice work!
Posted by: Momus at April 29, 2006 1:24 AM
Oh hush.
Posted by: marxy at April 29, 2006 1:31 AM
L: (chuckles at the bickering)
Posted by: Lex at April 29, 2006 4:37 AM
9 to 5 wa, evil evil
Posted by: Sho at May 1, 2006 6:47 AM
I always thought that the israeli bazooka joe strips were much funnier than the american ones. They always had a much stronger post modern undercurrent.
also: "tamid ratziti lihiyot be komiks misheli", in case you want to edit that in.
Posted by: Mike at May 1, 2006 9:14 AM
I don't think that anything could be less funny than the American ones. Years ago, my sister got me a Bazooka Joe ashtray in Israel. (I don't smoke.)
Thanks for the translation. Perhaps I will use that.
Posted by: marxy at May 1, 2006 10:38 AM