Category: Sketches

  • FSW: Borders Edition (Coyote’s Entry)

    INT. BEDROOM – DAY Matching pairs of twin beds, nightstands, and dressers mirror left and right. A line of duct tape neatly divides the room down the center, right up the back wall, splitting a JONAS BROTHERS POSTER right between Nick’s eyes. EMILY, 7 and sassy, enters the left and notices a shirt edging over…

  • BORDERS: Better Than Hunting Rats (David’s Entry)

    EXT. HUNTING BLIND – NIGHT Bobby Lee (Early twenties, thin with scraggly hair) and Jasper (Late forties, tall with a beer gut and a camouflage jacket) are hunkered down, staring out over the rail of the blind toward a chain link fence across a plowed field. The fence is torn and curled back. Beyond the…

  • FSW: The Heist (Ken’s Entry)

    Looks like I’m bringing up the rear today. Here goes:___________________________________________________________ INT. – ART MUSEUM – NIGHT GERARD and HENRI are in the middle of a laser-grid in a magnificent oak paneled room with a parquet floor. The two men are trim European men in their mid-40’s, dressed all high-tech looking black skin-suits, with black gloves…

  • FSW: Heist Edition (Coyote’s entry)

    EXT. RIVERBANK – DAY A secluded spot on the NY side of the Hudson River. The GW Bridge is recognizable to the north. The camera focuses out on the river. MARTIN (O.S.) Goddamn, it’s cold! PIERRE (O.S.) Oui. I could have stayed in Quebec if I’d wanted to freeze my tail off. MADELINE (O.S.) The…

  • FSW: The Heist Edition (Peter’s entry)

    Friday Sketch War The Heist Edition “The Team” FADE IN: INT. ABANDONED WAREHOUSE – NIGHT BILL sits at a table piled high with schematics, maps, and diagrams. Guns, rapelling equipment, and electronic gadgets sit on another nearby table. A nearby chalkboard shows the (heavily-annotated) floor plan of a large mansion. A giant photo thumbtacked to…

  • Cartoons Edition (Coyote’s Entry)

    The Acme Prize INT. TV STUDIO – DAY Toonday Show studio. MATT MALLARD sits with MEREDITH MEERKAT and AL ELEPHANT on the couch. MATT Exciting news from the world of science today. The recipients of this years’ Acme Prizes are about to receive their awards, including our own Toonday Show correspondant and Avery Institute fellow,…

  • FSW: Cartoons Edition (Peter’s entry)

    Friday Sketch War Cartoons Edition “Frank Defeats the Angel of Death” FADE IN: TITLE CARD: “Frank Defeats the Angel of Death” INT. LIVING ROOM – NIGHT FRANK, a cat, sleeps in a basket on a hardwood floor. He wears a collar with a name tag attached. A large Christmas tree sits in one corner of…

  • FSW: Cartoons Edition (Ken’s Entry)

    Happy New Year everyone! I unexpectedly took last week off (meaning I realized Saturday night that the day before was Sketch War Friday….ummmm…ooopps). This weeks theme was cartoons, and despite a promising start to a SuperFriends sketch (remember that red spikey thing in front of the Hall of Justice??), I ended up revisiting one of…

  • Resolutions, Inc. – R.A.’s entry

    INT. OFFICE BULLPEN – NIGHT Half-height cube walls provide minimal privacy and noise dampening between seat after seat of headset-wearing drones dressed all in white. Except, they’re not drones. They all have angel’s wings. MICHAEL shows CLARENCE the operation. MICHAEL That’s some nice work you did last Christmas, Clarence, really. We were all very proud…

  • Sketch War, "Resolutions" Edition, Peter’s Entry

    Friday Sketch War Resolutions Edition “Mount Waxahachie” FADE IN: INT. SNOWY FOREST CLEARING – DAY JERRY (20s) sits in a quiet spot in the woods on a cold winter day. He holds a hamburger wrapped in wax paper. RILEY (50s) enters, exhausted and weighed down with hiking equipment. He sits and takes in the view.…