Q&A: If you are creative/have an imagination/really want to help someone then PLEASE HELP ME!!?

Question by Tommy: If you are creative/have an imagination/really want to help someone then PLEASE HELP ME!!?
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So for school I have to write a script which my classmates will act out. (2-6people)
We can do any kind of script we want with any topic so there are no limitations but it has to be between 4-8 minutes

My idea was to have an elderly, bumbling, old, forgetful couple living in their home. And their forgetful side and bumbling side could make for a lot of humor when they heckle with each other. Someone comes to their door (Maybe a neighbour asking for eggs, a jehovas witness, kids selling chocolates, who knows) and they totally misinterpret what the person is there for. And they go to some extreme measure in order to protect themselves. And I want the end to resolve in the viewer understanding how much the couple love each other despite their fighting.

I was wondering if anyone had ideas of things that I could incorporate into my vague plot line. Anything! Some line that one of them might say, a small issue they come across, something they could forget, what the person at the door has come for and what the elderly couple interpret it as, ANYTHING!

Please help!
Sorry for double post! It was accidental

Best answer:

Answer by lovestolaugh
One of my favorite jokes might provide you with some dialog ideas:

Myra, Betty and Gloria are three elderly sisters who share a home. One day Myra is going up the stairs and stops halfway. “Betty,” she calls. “Am I going up the stairs or down the stairs?” A little while later Betty is standing by the bathtub and calls to Myra, “Am I getting into the tub or out of the tub.?” Gloria is disgusted. “You two are so senile,” she says. “You can’t get anything right. I just hope I never get like that, knock on wood. Is that the front door or the back door?”

Hearing loss is also a good laugh getter, with nearly everything said being misinterpreted. “Can I have some more” is answered with “No, I won’t drive you to the store.” Stuff like that. The person answering the door could have the hearing loss and completely misunderstand what the person wants. A person looking for a petition or nomination papers to be signed could be misidentified as someone delivering a package to be signed for, with the resulting confusion. Much could be made of looking for the missing package, and with enough miscommunication, it could even be turned into a package of illegal drugs.

A breakdown in communications because of hearing difficulty, added to some dementia, has the potential of being pretty hilarious.

Good luck with your script!

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