Intermission

April 1st, 2008

*Phone is picked up*

Sam (Retro): Hello?

Henry: Hi Sam, it's Henry here. Sorry for the random call, it's just I've got a little bit of a problem here.

Sam: What's up?

Henry: Well, they've just showed Episode One to the Lush managers, and well...

Sam: What?

Henry: There's not really any easy way of saying this... They hated it.

Sam: What? Why?

Henry: Well, from what I could gather, they just feel that the whole 'film noir' thing is just too dark for Lush, you know? It doesn't really mesh in with Lush's whole bright and colourful image thing.

Sam: Oh... dude, I... I don't know what to say...

Henry: Tell me about it. I mean, basically, we had a really long chat, and the outcome of it all was that they said that they would release the film, but that there would have to be some pretty extensive reshoots...

Sam: What sort of reshoots?

Henry: Well, the main thing is that to gear it to a more family-friendly audience, they want to replace your character with a talking cartoon fox. He'd still wear a fedora though, but we might have to rename him to something more like 'Inspector Foxy'.

Sam: They what?





Henry: Yeah, and they want to replace Honey Waffle with a talking cartoon giraffe. They said of course you're more than welcome to voice the cartoon fox, as they don't want all your hard work to go to waste, but obviously you'd have to put on a squeaky voice this time because foxes' vocal chords don't stretch that low.

Sam: Well, I...

Henry: I'm trying to swing them around to use animatronics instead of cartoons - Pixie said she's up for the challenge of making a proper robotic fox, and that way I think at least we can keep some realism. We'd have to fund those out of our own pockets though, so I'd kinda need everyone to chip in a bit if that's cool.

Sam (trying to keep anger out of his voice): Well, I suppose if that's what has to be done, that's what has to be done...

Henry: Sam, what's the date today?

Sam: Uhhh, It's April th-....
(long pause.)
(phone is hung up)



Oh, how we laughed....