308. Gopheria - Leslie

• FADE IN:


• INT. STUDY - DAY


• ERIC and RYAN sit in front of Eric's mac contemplating a blank page.


• ERIC
• Ok, ok...so maybe we're trying to find an idea in the wrong place.


• RYAN
• And the right place would be?


• ERIC
• Animals?


• RYAN
• Talking animals? Really?


• ERIC
• No no, it could be good. Think about it...we could have a society of intelligent....gophers.


• RYAN
• Oh really? And why gophers? Why not prairie dogs, or skunks, or giraffes?


• ERIC
• Stay with me here. How about a dystopian society run by gophers?


• RYAN
• You're truly mad, you know that?


• ERIC
• Come on, work with me here!


• RYAN
• Ok, ok, what does this world look like? Do the gopher overlords run a ministry of subjugation? Do they enforce their furry reign of terror with keen incisor-like wit.


• ERIC
• You're so not helping.


• RYAN
• Come on!


• ERIC
• Seriously, dystopic gophers? We're straining for something. Let's go...take a break, come back with something.


• RYAN
• I call it Gopheria.


• ERIC
• Good God man, you're mad. I'm going to go come up with a cliched love story about two charming and quirky, but ultimately one-dimensional twenty-somethings. Better than power-hungry rodents.


• RYAN
• Fine, but you'll see.


• Eric spins around in his chair thinking.


• ERIC
• Come on, we have to have something. Something different - creative. Something no one's seen before?


• RYAN
• Fascist pigs?


• ERIC
• Oy.


• FADE TO BLACK.