Saturday, December 21, 2013

Masterpiece Theatre Presents: Dead Kitty Classical Vignettes (Midnight's turn)

Is this a picture of Midnight's performance, a used dishrag,
a dead monkey, or toupee for a bald Wookie?
One cannot imagine a worse cinematic anticlimax than the infamous shot of a bunny snuggling up to the radioactive corpse of D-movie actor Tor Johnson, in that accursed waste of celluloid known as The Beast of Yucca Flats. Self-proclaimed avante garde actor Midnight Smoke, however, snatched the booby prize from the cottontail's fuzzy paws.

For his entry in Masterpiece Theatre's Dead Kitty Vignettes, Midnight chose to re-enact the final death scene from Disney's Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day. The puzzled judges confronted Midnight with the fact that this particular film had no final death scene. It had no death scenes at all, in fact, unless you counted the demise of the honey that Pooh ate. Undeterred, Midnight squeaked that he rejected global proletarianization and supported the historic sociocultural class struggle against the exploitative and antirevolutionary didactic of feudal bourgeois sensibilities, then flung himself across the top of a sofa on the stage, cried myew (the signal that his scene was about to begin), and fell asleep.

Judges for the experimental theatre group, Sniff the Kraken, stared at Midnight for several seconds, looked at each other, then went to lunch. When he later awoke, Midnight  myewed that the Giant Space Hamsters from Saturn had told him what to say. Though he had not understood a word of it, he always did what the Giant Space Hamsters told him to do because they were his BFFs (a phrase he had learned from the TV actress Snookie). Midnight then ate an entire bowl of Little Friskies Gravy Sensations and promptly threw up.

The stunned judges unanimously gave the coveted Grand Jury Award to Midnight's prolonged barfing, as it so powerfully evoked the singular pro-capitalistic agit-prop of the prolonged barfing scene in Team America: World Police. Congratulations to Midnight Smoke and his promising vignette career!

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