Sketchy

I've been working on some projects besides my thesis. A couple of essays, a spec script, but mostly some sketches. There's an open sketch night at Upright Citizen's Brigade that Val and I and some friends are going to participate in. These are just some excerpts from a few I've been working on.


The Hardy Boys and the Time of the Month


(Joe Hardy is looking up, squinting towards something above his head. Frank Hardy runs in.)

Frank
Joe Hardy! You crazy Injun! Aunt Gertrude will have our hides for this!

Joe
Pipe down, Frank. We’re here on detective business.

Frank
Yeah, geez, Joe. That note you left sure was cryptic. I really bent my noodle on that one!

Joe
Golly, Frank, hold your flapper. You wanna blow this, Mr. Loudski? Now didja bring the binoculars?

Frank
Yeah. (searching his bag) Yeah, I’ve got them. Why don’t you check my keister for them? Take a good look up there…

Joe
Are you saying something?

Frank
Just crime fighting stuff…Cup of Joe, Joe Joe Bees…here it is!

(hands him the binoculars)

Joe
Swell. That’s what I needed.

Frank
So why are we outside Nancy Drew’s window? Is she going to help us solve the mystery?

Joe
No, Frank. She is the mystery.

Frank
Nancy? Jeepers, I can’t believe it. Is she a pirate? I bet she’s a pirate.


Joe
No, Frank, listen…

Frank
Or a jewel thief? Or a foreign spy? I’ve always thought she was queer, you know? Always wearing those mock turtlenecks and never going all the way and all that?

Joe
Dry up, Frank! She’s not a spy. Exactly. Golly, how do I say this? She’s a foreign something alright, cuz she’s a girl.

Frank
Has she got hidden loot? Like in a cave?

Joe
Sheesh. You’re making me blush, dum-dum. No, listen, Nancy gave me the brush off yesterday. We’ve been necking up and down Bayport and suddenly she doesn’t want it. Just like that. Then I hear some clue from her maid. Something called The Time of the Month. That’s what we’re here to solve.