July 18, 2008 by me.

As we work toward our goal of posting “Bubble Tea and Sympathy” online, I thought you might be interested in ’seeing’ how our pilot might have played, as originally intended. Yes, compromises are the name of the game when it comes to shooting on time and on budget but it’s always fun to wonder “what if?” — if only to keep our dreams of possibilities alive.

So here for your ‘viewing pleasure’ is the last 3 minutes of what we hope is our first episode (insert mood music whenever applicable):

Act Two, Scene D

Int. Richard’s Car — Night (Day 5): (Richard, Julian, Hans, Aaron)

As before, Richard is sitting in the driver’s seat. Next to him is Hans. Julian and Aaron are in the back.

Julian: …so den I said to him, I says, “So lookit da bright side! Least we be savin’ a fortune on chest an’ back waxes!

Aaron: No man-o-lanterns for us..! God bless our Asian genes.

Hans: I’d cheer, except I can’t feel my legs. Or my chest, for that matter.

Richard: I have some Ben-Gay in my bag –

All (Except Richard): No!!

Hans: All these aches and pains and sore muscles… remind me that I’m still alive.

Richard: But that’s ridiculous!

Julian: Mebbe. But since we’s auditionin’ an’ y’aint, we calls it whats we likes.

Richard: Suit yourself. But don’t say I didn’t warn you.
Cut to shot of the four of them exiting the car. Doors slam and we see Richard — as fresh as a daisy, followed by Hans, Julian and Aaron walking stiffly behind. Smiling, Richard opens the door for the others –

Julian: Shure y’not comin’ wit’ us?

Richard: Thanks, but my beefcake days are over. Break a leg!

Hans: Thanks.

Julian: Tanks.

Aaron: Wuss. (Or some other affectionate insult)

Richard smiles and says nothing as they enter the restaurant, then closes the door after them. Returning to his car, he turns and looks back at the restaurant — and for just one second (or maybe two), a look of longing flits across his face. Finally Richard opens the door to his car, gets inside and drives away.

Dissolve to:

Act Two, Scene E

Int. Restaurant — Night (Day 5): (Leonard, Aaron, Hans, Julian, Extras)

As they enter, we see Aaron, Hans and Julian looking around.

Cut to shot of a crowded roomful of Asian American men — and all dressed to impress. Some are buff and others are downright studly. A few are even with their shirts off, and flexing.

Cut to shot of an increasingly dismayed Aaron, Hans and Julian eyeing the competition. Suddenly the crowd parts and we see an applicant talking to Leonard. Next to him and collecting applications is Sandy (the audition monitor).

Leonard [to applicant]: Fill out the front and back, staple your headshot on top and give this to Sandy.

Aaron/Julian/Hans: Hey, Leonard! Leonard, ma man! Leonard, over here! (Ad lib, etc.)

Leonard: Hey, you made it!!!

Leonard saunters over and high-fives them all around, followed by man-hugs, backslaps and knuckle punches — which the others return, but with less enthusiasm.

Leonard: What a turnout! Can you believe it? Isn’t this great?!?

Aaron: Yeah.

Julian: Uh huh.

Hans: Great.

Leonard: And you thought only a few brothers would actually show up!

Fade out.

END OF ACT TWO.

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July 11, 2008 by me.

Finally got a chance to write today (it’s been a while) and to figure out to which other sites we’d like to post our clips. Meanwhile, we’ve hit a bump in the music licensing arena, which we’ve been trying to accommodate.

Essentially it’s this: the one music publisher that responded to our request for licensing, has decided not to allow us permission after all. So now we have to recut our scenes without losing the scenes themselves. Fortunately the songs we used were self-contained in their scenes; there’s no ‘bleeding’ of the song anywhere else in the show. But it will certainly lessen the impact (and comedic intent) of the scenes that we have. Sigh. But (again) we will pr

According to the good people at metacafe.com, channel views don’t count in the tabulations toward their Producer Rewards program. Which is a challenge, since I just noted that we now have more channel views of our clips than views in all. So if you don’t mind, when you log in to metacafe.com, type “Wingmen” in the search line and that should take you straight to our clips. And please give us your ratings!!!

Thanks,

Marie

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