Production Meeting Recap

PIETER: Okay, folks, we have got quick-sanded down into the business of office set-up. I motion to euthanize that topic for right now and move on to some Wonder Glen show ideas. Let’s remember: we are here to make money on movies and T.V. shows!

AIDAN: Meaningful television. From humble hearts.

[Miriam K. note: huh?]

PIETER: Let’s begin to throw our bones in the idea-stew. Ideas?

SARAH: I’d like us to do a reality show about dogs. I have read about a beagle that is being trained to sniff out breast cancer in women.

[Miriam K. note: Breast cancer also affects 2,000 men per year.]

PIETER: Let me start with an idea about Bill Bouchard. This is a guy who removed his own appendix during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. He is now a game warden, somewhere in Wyoming. He’s conflicting a lot with the poachers up there. I’d like to get this on film - Bill confronting these cowards. Real good drama, and a justice angle.

NICK: I’m gonna drop a bomb right now from left field, y’all, but hear me out: Everyone knows that you can synch up ’’Dark Side of the Moon’’ with ’’The Wizard of Oz.’’

AIDAN: Oh yeah.

SARAH: Huh?

MIRIAM: It’s an album by Pink Floyd.

PIETER: Roger Daltrey is a cunt.

AIDAN: The Who.

PIETER: Roger Daltrey. He trashed my sailboat.

AIDAN: No, Roger Daltrey is from the band The Who. Not Pink Floyd.

PIETER: He is still 1,000% of a cunt.

[Miriam K. note: shall I edit out profanities in these notes? Also, Sarah, here is what Nick is talking about. Apparently there are some coincidences, such as the munchkins seem to dance to the rhythm of the guitar solo on ’’Money.’’]

NICK: So I have been messing around with pushing this idea further. If my early tests are right, you can do the same thing with another Pink Floyd album and another film. ’’The Wall’’ -

AIDAN: Oh my god.

NICK: — and ’’Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.’’

MIRIAM: I am a huge Gene Wilder fan.

NICK: And trust me there is a big audience out there who would watch this kind of programming, late night.

NICK: But I think the synch only works with the Spanish version of ’’Willy Wonka.’’

SARAH: Willy Wonka y la Fábrica del Chocolate.

[Miriam K. note: why does the language matter?]

PIETER: Are you fucking [with] me, Pipo?

[Miriam note: accoding
to the Internet, Pipo is a Dutch clown from the 70's. I found a video of his show in case anyone's interested.]

AIDAN: This is totally cutting edge - an update of 70s psychedelica for the YouTube generation.

[Miriam K. note: Pieter took a cell phone call at this point and waved us out of the room. Meeting adjourned?]