Thursday, August 27, 2020

"That's Entertainment" script, Scene D

This eight-page scene is set in "a typical doctor's examination room."  There's supposed to be "a pin up of a muscle builder" on the wall, but I've
never noticed it.  The skeleton drummer is supposed to have "a cigarette dangl[ing] from one lip" (what lip?) and "a fedora sits very jauntily to one side of the skull a la a very hip musician/drummer."  That would've been interesting, but I guess the prop department didn't go for it.

Shirley's entrance is much like on the episode, although she calls the mooing patient "Mr. Jackson."  But then "Shirley stops next to the muscle builder picture and lustily growls at it.  She sees the door open and quickly pulls down a chart in front of the picture, which shows the same pose, but medical chart style, depicting the veins, arteries, lungs, etc."

In the episode, she sits at her desk, but in the script she remains standing, so after Carmine enters "sexily" and asks if she wants him,  and she says she has a headache, she "pats him on cheek."

After she "raises his blood pressure" with a kiss and asks him to remind her to do that four times a day, there's this omitted dialogue:

CARMINE
Did you operate this morning, Doctor?

SHIRLEY
Yes, on Mr. Wolfson.  I gave him a heart transplant.

CARMINE
He was only supposed to have his appendix removed.

SHIRLEY
(SNAPS FINGERS) Darn!  I told him to get a second opinion.

In the script, Shirley is supposed to "growl" at the sight of Carmine's bottom.  On the other hand, her little spank before he leaves the room was added.

Instead of the "tongue depressors" joke, there's this:

SHIRLEY CROSSES TO MIRROR ON THE WALL AND EXAMINES HER EYES.

SHIRLEY
Look at those eyes.  (PUTS TONGUE DEPRESSOR IN MOUTH AND LOOKS)  Look at that mouth.  I gotta get a doctor.

In the script, Frank notices the sign about the rates so he exits and comes in again, while in the episode he just pretends he's been there before.  The episode omits Shirley's line, "We don't validate parking."

Frank's visit is very brief in the episode, while in the script it goes on for about four and a half pages, full of corny medical jokes.  Considering this is Frank's "fantasy," it's worth mentioning that he's not only a rather smutty Shirmine shipper, but he imagines this exchange:

FRANK
...Do you want me to take my clothes off?

SHIRLEY
Sure do.  But there's no rush.  First we'll talk... maybe have a drink.

And when Frank calls her "a pretty poor excuse for a doctor," she replies, "You're not so bad-looking yourself, buster," I guess in response to the "pretty" part.  But, yes, this is more memorably a scene about Shirley's lust for Carmine.  In the episode, she again kisses Carmine while he's lying down on the examination table, but in the script, she "grabs Carmine, drags him to the floor and kisses him passionately."

I'm not sure why this scene was toned down (unlike the "operetta," which we'll get to), but it's probably just as well it was shortened.

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  1. "I'm not sure why this scene was toned down (unlike the "operetta," which we'll get to),"

    WAIT HOW FILTHY WAS THE ORIGINAL DRAFT OF THE OPERETTA SCENE?!

    I completely forgot this was Frank's fantasy. Frank. These alarmingly horny thoughts about Shirley and Carmine. My dude!

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    1. LOL, I meant the opposite, that the operetta is relatively mild in the script.

      I know, this episode throws an interesting light on his feelings about Carmine especially. And he is such a Shirmine shipper!

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    2. Ohh! Well, heck now I'm excited for it.

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