Friday, October 4, 2024

THE CHILDLESS CONSIDERATION: THE KID ON DEGRASSI STREET

 















Stevie Nicks: your court-jester face saves my world.
Garry Shandling: i'm ugly. that's why i'm a comedian. my job is to make people laugh, that's how i heal.
Stevie: are you Jewish?
Garry: i'm Buddhist. i want to show you something.
Stevie: let's go.

two hours later. after the two have had a chance to stroll through the Zen garden.
Garry: what was your favorite part of our garden path?
Stevie: the smell of gardenias, that fairy scent will lock inside my nose forever.
Garry: better than coke.
Stevie: i'm on a journey of healing.
Garry: me too. i'm on one of those healing journeys. how long has it been?
Stevie: forever.

the two take their third relationship-confirming date at Pizza Hut.
Stevie: we're solid.
Garry: now we are.
Rich Hall: Rich Hall for Pizza Hut. i'm not ugly, my face is cherubic. here with Gillian Anderson. how do you like your new pizza?
Scully: pizza can be new? has an alien taste to it.
Queensryche is the Pizza Hut band. the backing band in the background adding atmosphere and ambiance.
Stevie: i joined this band when i was feeling grungey in the '90s. play "One More Time"!!!
Geoff Tate: yes, "One More Time" is our masterpiece. but i do like to perform "My Global Mind" every once in a while, that's my personal baby.
Garry: do "Promised Land".
Geoff: can't, that song is too long, you're eating a personal pan pizza, you'll be done with it before that song is over...
Garry: why are we ordering two personal pan pizzas when we're on a date?
Stevie: may you always keep this personal pan pizza pewter peel the size of a dime that makes Pizza Hut more like Round Table. 
Geoff: keep it ye olde.
Stevie: we'll have the spaghetti pizza with the dry spaghetti in the shape of a horseshoe.
Garry: that's symbolic of our love.
Stevie: an old gypsy trick to bring people together. gotta keep pizza Medieval Romanescu.

the two lovebirds make a beeline to Stevie's bungalow and straight into Stevie's bed. fully-clothed. in pajamas.
Garry: silk pajamas for me. and for dessert, McDonald's apple pie?
Stevie: yeah what the fuck WAS that?!!! it's Genshin Impact but it's just on a couple of McDonald's apple-pie sleeves? THAT'S IT?!!! didn't make much of an impact. we stick with the McDonald's strawberry and creme pie. 
Garry: yes, honey apple.
Garry takes one end, Stevie takes the other end of the McDonald's strawberry and creme pie and the two eat in a line until his lips reach her lips and they kiss as they finish. the pie.

Andy Warhol: pastina soup is just Progresso's hack of Campbell's Chicken & Stars...

Saturday Night (2024).
Chevy Chase: i'm the American John Cleese...
Michael Che: so i'm playing Garrett Morris in this, right?...

Stu: every time a Kansas City Royals team wins a playoff game, Cord smiles from Heaven, my REAL angel in the outfield.

Carlos Alcaraz: there's nothing more tragic in life than when you don't convert a set point...

inspirational coach: i want you to imagine waking up tomorrow...
soccer players: that's it?

Will Smith: my favorite food is kugel...
Fairlight de Michele: the secret ingredient was cornflakes.
Will Smith: Shana Tova.
Fairlight de Michele: Christopher Kimball chose me not because i'm a Jewish milf but because my name is Fairlight...
Christopher Kimball: Christy was my mother's favorite soap opera...

Arianna Pasquini: Maiara Walsh in Rome...

Julie Patzwald: our new goth-band name: The Lonely Keyboards.

David Foster Wallace: i'm too old to write...
Simon Foster: David Foster Wallace was my father in the future, 1999, but i forgot...
George Orwell: Nineteen Hundred Ninety Nine...
Prince at a party: just dance like my real father David Bowie. not my "When Doves Cry" father, that was my foster father.
David Bowie: Y2K wasn't scary, the world got scary 20 years later...

Nana Visitor: as actors we must always be rounding.

Super Mario driving his trash truck: let's u-turn into this Safeway freeway, i need to pick up a couple pumpkins for my kid...
Billy Corgan: daddy? 
Princess Peach: that's what i USED to call Mario before he went into retail...
Billy Corgan: my dad never wore a mustache.

Three's Company Open: no, not the Three's Company open, with the flamingos and the tram and the San Diego Zoo, the Three's Company Convention!!!

Butterfly Tightrope: the name of a new competing jam band...

Maiara Walsh: the best glaze donuts are the glaze donuts that look like they're jelly donuts but AREN'T. no hole.

Uber Eats: i got T-boned.........juicy delicious T-bone steak available from Uber Eats...

Raf Sanchez: like the puce PRESS flak jacket i'm wearing? i'm in a warzone, we've come a long way. Keith Haring taught me the guerrilla way of life.

Draymond Green: I'm 34 and i have gray hair.........i've had a rough life...

The Twilight Zone "Something in the Walls".
Wilson from House: i have an '80s face, you know?...
Wilson: origami, nice. my cabinets are napkin-holders.
Deborah Raffin: my great ancestor killed the Spartan leader. are you crazy? that's a waste of money, put china in your cabinets, China likes Ronald Reagan. that china with the blue patterns...
Wilson: IKEA isn't a thing yet, that happens later in the '90s. i should exercise more, my stationary bike is a napkin-holder. wait a minute, who's the patient here? i should be telling YOU to exercise more.
Deborah Raffin: sanitariums are known for their gyms. the faces that appear to me in the patterns of clothes and wallpaper are very subtle, a faint set of eyes and thin mouth, no nose, like the faces were drawn with chalk. don't you worry about me, i'll be okay in the long run. do you want to fuck me, doctor? i know i give off an Elyse Keaton vibe but i don't do nudes.

Garry makes a call form Stevie's bed.
Garry: hey is this ma? hello is this the woman i've known my whole life? i know i'm a failure to you, ma, but i'm gonna be a father.
Garry's mom: that's it? anybody can be a father. you gave up your dreams to be another deadbeat dad? i thought i raised a success. a successful son. without showbiz you are a nothing.
Garry: i know it's not much in your eyes, but my dream has changed. i have a dad dream now. i met a girl. she's pretty. she's talented. her imagination blows my mind.
Garry's mom: Stevie Nicks? never heard of her.
Garry: she does those cranberry juice commercials. i have to hang up now, ma, this is long-distance.
Garry: ma's cute.
Stevie: she is adorable. we have to change the world.
Garry: not for us, for our kid.
Stevie: we have to get to a place in the world where a healthline is not a helpline, a crisis phone-number, but rather the fortuneteller's health line, that long line that spans the width of your palm that gypsies read.

Tokyo cathedral: we're using this for climate-change rains, not for '80s anime...
Stephanie Abrams: climate-change training, as in climate-change heavy rains...

Golden Owl: not made of gold, an endangered species...
Humphrey Bogart: ...
Humphrey Bogart: what is all this Harry Potter shit i keep hearing about?...

The Lathe of Heaven: it always starts with a global nuclear explosion...
Wicked City: or a sex scene...

The Record Parlour: we're not the Rasputin Music of Los Angeles.........but we DO have Stevie Nicks...

Ms. Krause: this is perfect, i'll combine my two loves and audition for English Teacher on FX...
Stevie Nicks: are we long-lost sisters?...
Ms. Krause: yes, two brassy blonde bohemian babes doing Broadway.

Michael Jordan wearing NASCAR DJ headphones: you don't want to see me in court, you don't want me near ANY court...

Mordecai from Regular Show: i'm named after Three Finger Brown. i throw a mean curveball using my wing...

it was just a rug: it's mom humor, you know?...

Bjork: fjart is when i fart, yes, but it's a far fart. distant. distant art. you don't understand my fart. there's no cabin pressure in trains.

Stevie Nicks: so we've decided?
Garry Shandling: yes.
Stevie: we're gonna make a baby. let's make our own music.
she holds his hands hard and the two start to cry.
Garry: our child.
Stevie: our LEGACY.
Garry: what will his name be?
Stevie: Sprite.
Garry: magic, not the soft drink. i was thinking Sanford but yours is better. 
Stevie: he'll be a kid on Degrassi Street. he'll outlive us.
Garry: who will he be?
Stevie: he'll learn filmmaking in grade school and go to Hollywood NOT as a child actor, that was the '70s dream!!! we'll be a proper family.
Garry: a Kohl's family.

Stevie and Garry are in Stevie's bed in the middle of the soundless night. Stevie cradles Garry's crying face with her crying face, the two face-hug.
Stevie: in my dream it's Wimbledon. the air above is a silent sky. a red balloon comes into view.   
Garry: the balloon is a firetruck.
Stevie: the balloon is a red three-pronged waterpipe. and the announcer in his grave British accent tells us what to do.
British announcer: you're on the right court. tennis is the sport most cherished by families. there's a family discount available for those who line up in the queue below. tennis lessons for mom, dad, and sprout.
Stevie: sprite.
British announcer: give your kid the gift that lasts a lifetime, the game that keeps on giving.
John Isner: the game that keeps on going.
British announcer: teach your child the fundamentals, teach them tennis, play tennis with your little one...      
 

 







Wednesday, October 2, 2024

THE CHILDLESS CONSIDERATION: THIS BABY WILL SAVE THE WORLD. AND US.











Stevie Nicks: i'm adrift in bliss. are you ready?
Garry Shandling: oh yes. your bedroom is exactly how i pictured it in my fetid mind: rugs from India as wallpaper, the pungent scent of incense coming from all four corners, and a brimful of asha in the center of the bed. everything all in a swirl.
Stevie: a spiral.
Uzumaki: that poster on your wall is not a Fraser spiral illusion, you really do have a black hole in your head...
Uzumaki: why does Stevie Nicks's bedroom look like a Flower Child's college dorm?...
Brendan Fraser: Billy Corgan came to my house hollering at me at 1AM in the morning.
Billy Corgan: you made me blind. my eyes went blind when i saw you in The Whale. i was working on the Aeroplane Flies High box set...

Stevie: well, get in bed with me. let's get started. did you brush your teeth?
Garry: you're supposed to brush your teeth?
Stevie: crack open a new toothbrush and don't stain my toilet.
Garry: i love how the only waterbed is this blanket we're under.

Garry: dinner, check. time for the show.
Stevie: sorry for eating all the duck sauce. 

Garry: so i'm at the corner comedy club Furley's testing out my new standup routine.
Stevie: go on, i'm just getting my Pesto Penguin plush stuffed animal.
Garry: my opening act is Andy Griffith. 
Stevie: didn't know he did stand-up.
Garry: he doesn't. he just got up on stage and started hollering about how bad Don Knotts was in the Mr. Furley role on Three's Company.
Don Knotts: you can't say that!!! me as Furley, that's a sacred cow!!!
Jack Tripper: Three's Company had three pilots, one for each of us...
Garry: so i get up there and start talking about seeing yet another motherfucking truck with a bumper sticker, except this one said Vietnam vet. AND he had a child in middle school who was an honor student. THAT man eluded the Rambo curse. just then a heckler throws a bottle of Yakult in my eye.
heckler: that's disrespect, you Seinfeld wannabe.
Garry: the Yakult STINGS!!! son of a bitch. hey folks, remember when we were young and decadent and just casually bought Yakult?
heckler: when you're done with your set take it outside and i'm gonna give your ugly face my flying knee.
Stevie: it's very sad, Garry, people look at your face and ask me if you have cancer. so what'd you do?
Garry: i couldn't tell him i flying-knee'd, too, that i played Pro Wrestling on the Nintendo Entertainment System, nobody can do that. this is hard for me to confess out in public but.........*heavy sigh*.........my heckler was John Cleese.
John Cleese: you cheese-eating surrender monkey. that seems like something Monty Python would say, you know?...

Garry: here, i salvaged the day somehow.
Stevie: aw that's sweet. it's so lame that it's sweet. 
Garry: like me.
Stevie: a tiny round apple pie with I'M FALLING FOR YOU in icing. 
Garry: they only sell these in Autumn.

Garry: whatever you do, do NOT order pizza on the Uber Eats app...

Stevie: you know why i'm so short? the weight of my heaving tits is too much for my small frame.
Garry: your eyes are hypnotic.
Stevie: are they? hadn't noticed. you can't see your own eyes...

Garry using Stevie's phone: hello? i'm doing a project with child actors. are there any kid actors left in Hollywood? hey how about that Bobby Driscoll fellow? is he still around?.........he's probably working on Ciao! Manhattan right now?.........okay, goodbye...

Roger Federer: where do i redraw the country lines between Switzerland and Italy?
Lucio Rossi: we're cool state actors. you keep the snow, we get the cheese and chocolate. no glacier gerrymandering. this is Europe, not America, we're better, we don't cheat. 
Archer: save the skiing for me.
Roger: Switzerland has landlocked glaciers?...

Futurama "Otherwise": terrible title. anything else would have been better.
Zoidberg: Deja Vu.
Hermes: Pocket Series Finale.
Leela: The Many Ghosts of the Spaceship.
Fry: Mrs. Fry No Matter What.
Andy Warhol: my 9 Campbell's Soup Cans poster on the dirty can-opener's wall. he also has a bare can completely without a label on that wall, she's showing all her tin.
Sailor Venus: my legs are longer than the Vampire State Building...
me to Jen R: life, let's find out...
Billy Corgan: the ending made you cry. admit it. see? only country music can make you cry like that. my next country album will be entitled Mutineer...

Jackie Fitzgerald: put the cherry tomatoes on top of the spaghetti, not in the sauce...
Leslie Sbrocco: everything's on top of the spaghetti. the juicy tomatoes BECOME the sauce...
Jackie: like a salad. you can't put anything under the spaghetti.

Pete Rose: i earned every one of those hits. i got a charlie horse from baseball. O.J. Simpson was not my friend, he was my business partner. you better let me in the Hall of Fame, the goddamn Baseball Hall of Fame, it's my only home now. the WWF World Wrestling Federation Hall of Fame ain't the same. the Las Vegas Reds, it's gonna happen. and then shall i be redeemed. there's a slushie named after me.

Gina Little: for my birthday i got a time machine and went back to the FIRST Twilight movie. a special boy took me to see it, one who took a gap year in 2008 to do the important stuff, go on dates rather than study Finance in college.
me squeezing the last bit of Go-Gurt down my throat: that was back when i wanted to be an Elector. to meet a Kardashian or a West. you qualify to be a United States Elector by playing cycle polo in Portlandia...

Stevie in bed with Garry: ready to binge 14 hours straight of Degrassi?
Garry in bed with Stevie: i know, right? this show becomes a cult after a few episodes, you get hooked.
Stevie: not hooked, addicted. you can't stop even if you want to. the cult lasts 5 years. for those 5 years you watch every of the Degrassis: grade school, junior high, high school, and college. every line of dialogue, every character nuance. 
Garry: how'd you get out of the Degrassi Cult? how'd you break the curse? aren't you a witch?
Stevie: thankfully Degrassi: Next Class sucked balls, that was the only way, i wouldn't have escaped otherwise.

Garry: well that was fun. got any more VHSs?
Stevie: this one.
Gary: Wicked City? i dunno about this one, it's an '80s anime distributed by a porn company.
Stevie: we'll skip over all the tentacle gang rape scenes. that leaves 10 minutes.
Garry: why are all these English voices hammy Love Boat voices? i believe this is the first time i've seen a blowjob animated.
Stevie: Spider-Woman but not what i was picturing. why is her vagina a zippered Kate Spade bag?
Garry: foggy airport, very Casablanca.
The Pope: plenipotentiary sounds like cotton candy.
Stevie: that little troll pervert freak is named Maillard? as in the Maillard reaction, i had a boyfriend tell me he knew why the Maillard reaction made food taste good. it was because of the browning.
Garry: oh Lindsey. 300 years, we need this peace treaty for the Middle East. no terrorism, that plane was just a Boeing.
Stevie: in the tunnel, demon cum or a Washed Out carwash?
Brad Pitt: even hitmen fall in love.
Stevie: take it from me, honey, always best to have a LOT of ex-boyfriends...
Spalding Gray: really all those soapland things are there just to clean you, that's it.
Stevie: you know the romance has arrived when you hear a Hawaiian hula girl singing in the background and it's just the two of them driving in a car at night, there's no other car on the freeway... 
Fuerza: they fucked in a church? now THAT is spicy. they fucked in front of the Virgin Mary?
Stevie: yeah people did this all the time, like the princess of France would marry the prince of England and have a baby to unite the two warring countries.
Brandon Lee: this ending is like the roof ending of The Crow
Hinata: this ending is like the Lost Heaven ending of Episode 500 of Naruto: Shippuden...
Steve McQueen: nah, it's one of MY endings...

Boris Johnson: BE A MAN!!! 
Prince Harry: i can't take you seriously with that hair.
Boris: you minger. you miserable git. being a Royal is fun. all i ever wanted was to be a Royal, they have the best parties. with this hair i can only dance the Court Jester Dance.
Prince Harry: don't give me your secret cancer.

Stevie: whoa, one of the collected memories from the Twilight Zone episode "The Mind of Simon Foster" was the school from The Kids of Degrassi Street!!!
Kurt Cobain: that's me in the high school yearbook!!! high school sucked.

Morgan Bolling: i don't know what it's like to have your house flooded. wait yeah i do, my washing machine leaks all the time. getting down on your knees is hard, it HURTS.

Waldo: why does every man in Paris wear the Where's Waldo shirt? to attract Mireille you really need to be wearing a Yale sweater like me.

Alan Watts: mushroom trees!!!

Big Ben: remember, at all times it's always 6PM...

Drake Hogestyn: i hate hoagies. i'm getting into this thing called pizza. it's not a mullet, it's my hair. i may just be an actor, but everyone becomes Rambo with duct tape. i raise my eyebrow when i'm acting because i don't know which camera i'm supposed to be looking at...

Garry: stick your finger up your hole, then out comes a Tootsie Roll.
Stevie: i do. but take a closer look, this Tootsie Pop we're sharing is actually a new flavor.
Garry: oh yeah, Milk Chocolate, not just Chocolate.
Stevie: nobody sucks on the Chocolate ones so nobody notices.