Friday, November 13, 2020

"Baby Show" script, Scene G

I don't know if it's because this is a "pink-page script," but it's worth pointing out that all the other L & S scripts I've looked at (except for the "Shotz Talent Show" one that had only five scenes) skip over the letters F and G, just going from E to H.  Anyway, here's the tag.

We're still at the funeral home, "some time later."

WE HEAR A BABY CRY.

LAVERNE
At-a-girl, Shirl.  You did it.  You did it!

DOCTOR
Congratulations, Mrs. Meaney [sic].  It's a boy/girl!

SHIRLEY
A boy/girl!  Laverne, it's a boy/girl!


FUNERAL DIRECTOR
The ambulance is here.

THE DOCTOR TAKES THE BABY FROM SHIRLEY.  LAVERNE AND THE FUNERAL DIRECTOR FOLLOW HIM OUT.  THEY ARE ALL TOO EXCITED AND EXIT LEAVING SHIRLEY ALONE AND STILL IN THE CASKET.

SHIRLEY
(NOT MOVING) Yoo-whoo.  Hello.

A WOMAN ENTERS QUIETLY.  SHIRLEY DOESN'T SEE HER.

SHIRLEY (CONT'D)
Yoo-whoo!  Someone.  Anyone.

THE WOMAN THINKS SHE'S SEEING THE LIVING DEAD.

SHIRLEY (CONT'D)
Oh, hello.  I just had a baby!

THE WOMAN SCREAMS AND RUNS OUT.  AS SHIRLEY CONTINUES TO CALL FOR SOMEONE, ANYONE, WE,

FADE OUT

END OF ACT TWO


So Shirley doesn't give birth on a casket, she gives birth in a casket, although at least not Gruber's casket.  Then she is abandoned by her best friend in the casket, and mistaken for the living dead.  And not only don't we know exactly what kind of workplace she and Laverne were supposed to have, we don't even know whether she had a boy or a girl.  (Plout would have a boy.)  It is an odd scene to end an odd script, but I still wish we'd gotten to see it onscreen.

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