Important News

The top is a good representation of the spot where B and D take their lunches.

The bottom will be saved for the last lines of the episode, a consistent parting shot.

And there only 20 feet away from each other in real life!

Hi guys,

We're looking at an April 22 permit acquired shoot date to get all of the park interiors, ie the bulk of the episode, while possibly using the couple of days prior to pick up shots with and without the actors and/or rehearse.

English, hope California is treating you, see you this weekend at work*.
CJ, you need to get a job* to make enough gas money for a New York road trip, roundtrip.

Eric and Gene, I think we said this works for you guys too. If not, I'm just around the corner*.

Working my ass off as well 'cause money talks! And it says shit!

C J

More Notes on the Opening

So, using the Odd Couple as an opening here are some shots to reference:

Long shots of each character walking toward the camera, pedestrian traffic, edited into a split screen side by side shot.

Closer now, and Dylan is getting coffee, Binky is perusing vinyl at a record store (and subtly pulls out a Japan Fried album) or Dylan is tieing his shoe, reveal to see his foot is posted up on the Wall St. bull's balls.

Quadruple split screen (did he really just type that?) with Bink and Dyl side by side both screaming, in the two remaining squares their feet to reveal their shoes, Bink's sneakers and Dylan's wingtips. Then the reveal, Dylan screaming into his phone on some business deal and Binky screaming into a microphone at band practice.

This maybe at the beginning, (and maybe not at all because I think they did this in the Devil Wears Prada) a shot of Binky coming up from the Subway and Dylan coming out of a cab.

Random shots of their tall office building and of the makeup of the park, pigeons, a lake, old men playing checkers, a jungle gym or see saw, a couple kissing.

Binky and Dylan now together, still in split screens, playing rock paper scissors, fighting on the monkey bars, spinning one another way too fast on the go-round.

The last shot, the title animation over a scenic shot of the park they are in, maybe we can steal a shot of Central Park for this.

Other ideas for titles, first appearances Craig Strauss as Binky, Chris Dunlop as Dylan, The Park as The Park et cetera.


The music: "See Saw" by Jay Reatard. Anyone know how to get an instrumental version of this? I saw some Karaoke software online but its forty dollars. The only problem with the lyrics being in the final 20 seconds of the song Jay repeats the verse, "She creeps me out, she creeps me out, she creeps me out" which is a terrible way to introduce the audience to our little show.

Title Thoughts

Other ideas for titles besides Friends From Back When and Ferraris and Fax Machines:

This is Your Lunch
We'll Do Lunch?
Let's Do Lunch
Real Business
Official Business
Lunch Meetings
Taking Lunch
Take A Lunch
Recess(ion)
Free Lunches
Second Square (a reference to three square meals a day)
Lunch Money
The Pot and the Kettle Black
Full at Noon
Friends at Noon
Same Time, Same Place
Power Lunches
Art + Commerce
Nothing in Common
On Break
Official Lunches

EPISODE 1 rewrite (beginning)

Ext. lunchtime. Episode 1

DYLAN

Here Binky, street meat, just like you asked.

BINKY

I think my favorite thing about this meal is the way I can feel it stick to my colon. Did you get extra special sauce on it?

DYLAN

Of course. Now sign here.

Binky signs a small notebook Dylan has brought out.

DYLAN

And initial here.

He does.

DYLAN

And date here, here and here.

He complies.

Then starts eating.

DYLAN

How is it?

BINKY

It's cold. What did you get?

DYLAN

Mexican.

BINKY

I know, I see it. But what did you get?

DYLAN

I got a burrito.

BINKY

It looks good. Is it hot?

DYLAN

Yeah.

BINKY

Is it hot spicy or is the temperature of the food what you are describing as hot?

DYLAN

(beat)

Do you want some?

BINKY

No, it's probably cold anyways.

DYLAN

I was going through the ledger the other day and I've come to realize that we're almost squared off.

BINKY

Can't be.

DYLAN

It is. After you finish that construction worker special, I owe you five more official lunches and we are even.

BINKY

So I've got a couple of months.

DYLAN

No, Binky. You're coming here once a week until we straighten this out because I don't owe debts, I am owed them.

BINKY

Free lunches remind me of elementary school when Binky Sr. was laid off and Mom had to start scrubbing semis at the local car wash.

DYLAN

(makes 'jerking' hand motion)

Scrubbing semis?

(beat)

So what'd you do this weekend?

BINKY

Not much. Wrote some songs. Watched a lot of VH1 Classics. You?

DYLAN

I got a new personal trainer. She's a former Cowboys Cheerleader.

BINKY

Nice, what did you do?

DYLAN

That IS what I did.

BINKY

I had a personal trainer for a while but it didn't work out.

Cut To:

Binky sitting on his couch stoned out of his mind and eating popcorn watching Jane Fonda mesmerized. Or watching Richard Simmons and laughing his ass off.

Back:

DYLAN

That's good. It's really important to stay healthy.

BINKY

I know, preventative medicine saves lives.

DYLAN

Well, no, a good healthcare plan saves lives, but if you want an enviable sex life and career you have to look good.

BINKY

I talked to Lola this weekend.

DYLAN

You keep up with Lola?

BINKY

Yeah. Kind of.

DYLAN

Where is she, she's out West, right?

BINKY

Yeah, she' in LA. She's been really busy with the photography. She sounds good though, I might try and visit her over the summer.

DYLAN

You should let me know, maybe I'll come along.

BINKY

Oh, right. Are you going to fly coach with me?

DYLAN

Coach? Look at this belt I'm wearing.

Dylan stands up with his crotch uncomfortably close to Binky's face.

BINKY

It's a nice belt.

DYLAN

What do you think that it is made out of?

BINKY

I don't know. Felt?

DYLAN

Felt? What the, what kind of answer is that.

BINKY

It's not felt.

DYLAN

No. It's not felt.

BINKY

Well it looks nice anyways.

DYLAN

Take another guess.

BINKY

Nylon.

DYLAN

What?! No. It's ostrich. Ostrich leather.

BINKY

Wow. Cool. I've eaten Ostrich once, a long time ago.

DYLAN

Well this, Bink, you cannot eat. Do you know how much I paid for this?

BINKY

Should I?

DYLAN

Absolutely not. But take a guess.

BINKY

Was it on sale?

DYLAN

It was not on sale.

BINKY

Did you get it at a department store?

DYLAN

No, Binky, I did not get it an department store.

BINKY

Did it come with a pair of pants?

DYLAN

Eleven hundred dollars. I paid eleven hundred dollars for this belt, because it was handmade from an ostrich hunted down in it's natural habitat, not slaughtered on a farm.

BINKY

That's cool. I don't imagine ostrich are that elusive of a predator. But that's cool man.

DYLAN

Eleven hundred dollars!

BINKY

That's more than I have in my bank account. How can you tell it is ostrich?

DYLAN

I mean, it doesn't look like any of my other belts. And I don't have any other ostrich belts.

BINKY

What about shoes? Do you have any ostrich shoes? You could compare.

DYLAN

I don't have ostrich shoes. Why would I want ostrich shoes.

BINKY

I've had ostrich before. That definitely looks like ostrich.

DYLAN

This british guy that sold it to me, he said it was Ostrich.

BINKY

Dude was British?

DYLAN

Yeah, and he wore a safari outfit.

BINKY

Why?

DYLAN

Why?

BINKY

Yeah, why? There's no safari in England?

DYLAN

He looked legit.

BINKY

I'm sure he was.

DYLAN

He said, "This belt is made from the finest Ostrich in Europe, expertly hunted down by a friend of mine with a bow and arrow from 200 yards." I mean, he was definitely legit.

BINKY

Definitely not fraudulent. Dylan. Show this weekend, you're invited.

DYLAN

I'll be there.

BINKY

You always say that.

DYLAN

Reference Opening

Especially the latter half and without narrator

Ostriches

Ostriches are classified as dangerous animals in Australia, the US and the UK. There are a number of recorded incidents of people being attacked and killed. Big males can be very territorial and aggressive, and can attack and kick very powerfully with their legs. An ostrich will easily outrun any human athlete. Their legs are powerful enough to eviscerate large animals.

Ostrich leather is often described as the finest quality leather in the world. Ostrich leather is suitable for articles where durability is an important element. It is one of the toughest and most pliable skins available on the market today. The ostrich hide is full of natural oils, which makes it resistant to stiffening, drying or cracking.

They Must Be Hunted Down Mercilessly and Worn as Belts and Shoes!

WANTED

Guys, looking for suggestions:

Series title

Lola

Opening Credit Sequence Activities
(somewhere in there we'll show that they have lunch at noon to place each episode at lunch)

A name for the interviewer Binky meets with

Something to break up the first episode

Lists

Underemployment
Bridge Job
Defaulting
Boom and Bust Cycle
Freefall
Mortgage Crisis
High Yield Stocks
Stagnate
Credit Crunch

Parlay
Over Under
Giving/Getting Points
"What's the line?"
Action
Cover
Exposure
Push
Scratch

Japanamaniacs
Japanthem
Japandora's Box
Japant Hill
Japanama Beach
Japain in My Ass
Jahankie Panky
Japanne Frank
Janpank You Very Much
Japandemic
Japanarama
Japan Dunk
Japan Fried
Japandroid
Japanasauras
Japancreatic Cancer
Japant Suit
Japant's are on Fire
Japansexual
Japantomime
Japantera
Japansies
Japandemonium
Japaunt Jemima
Japanna Karenina
Japeter Pan
Japantie Hose
Japaunt Jemima