Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for August 19, 2016
Transcript:
Billy Dare Boy adventure with quentin -smugglers cap' cape Chuxcxi: Three-act structure This is your antagonist, Son meadows! You have one hour to write a screenplay using the precise Three- Act- Structure , or I will blow up Town Hall! You madman! Ha-ha and don't warn anyone else! Billy: Come on, Quentin! We've got no time to lose! Sally Sweet is on a field trip to Town Hall today! This event has incited me to action! While Im writing the screen play, I'll escalate the action by trying to warn Town Hall to evacuate, using a secret code to my buddy Police Chief O'Malley! BOOM Crook: A midpoint complication you didnt count on, Mr Dare. I was hidden in your home watching you the whole time! Billy: All is lost! In no "Boy Adventurer'! Im a fraud and because of that dozens will dies, including -choke- Sally! Crook: And now, with a press of this button , say goodbye to town hall.... Billy: Wait a minute! From the depths of my despair from the pieces of my defeat.... Crook: Printed screenplay pages striking me in the head, knocking me out before I can press the button! No! This plot has been.... Billy: resolved! Guy: Im a hollywood producer walking by and I want to buy this perfectly constructed three-act screenplay and make it a hit movie! Billy: Titled.... "Three act structure"
Is that Billy’s mom in the next room? Thrilled to have him home for a change, no doubt.