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- Hitch Hikers Guide To The Net
- Episode 4 - E.C. (The Extra Commercial)
-
- (Arnold Lint and the crew of the Infinity are on their way to Netrothea.
- They have successfully escaped both the Flamers and the Singles.)
-
- Xaphod: How much longer till we reach Netrothea?
-
- Martin: Too soon.
-
- Rod: Quiet!
-
- Gillian: I can't wait to get there!
-
- Arnold Lint:I'm just glad we're still in one piece.
-
- Martin: It doesn't take much to make you happy, does it?
-
- (All of a sudden, a blinding light fills the bridge of the Infinity. When
- the light fades, a small, sickeningly adorable creature is revealed. He is
- wearing a cap which says "I'm cute, buy me!")
-
- Gillian: What's that?
-
- Xaphod: That's E.C. - the Extra Commercial!
-
- Arnold Lint:The what?
-
- Rod: The Extra Commercial. The most commercialized being since
- Santa Claus!
-
- ["The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Net" lists Santa Claus as a being from
- Pluto who suffered severe brain damage when his space ship crashed on
- earth. Every year the silly old twit tries to fly an old sleigh and a
- flock of equally stupid reindeer back to Pluto. Unfortunately, his reverse
- gravity modulator is not 100 percent so he never quite gets out of Earth's
- orbit. This is just as well as the jerk lost all his deep space gear. Many
- people on earth have mistaken the boxes of Kentucky Fried Chicken he
- carries on his unlikely space craft (as rations for the trip to Pluto) for
- presents to be distributed to children. In actuality, the only reason Fred
- Glarn (his real name) ever climbs down chimneys is because he is totally
- wasted on Selurian Brandy and he is merely looking for a likely spot to
- sleep it off. (Why else would his nose always be red?).]
-
- Xaphod: I've never met E.C. before, I always though he was just some
- massive advertising ploy.
-
- Gillian: (To E.C.) Hello, I'm Gillian.
-
- E.C.: (In a heavy New York - Jewish accent) Oy vey, vhat a trip.
- Say goylie, you're cute.
-
- Xaphod: Huh?
-
- E.C.: Don't call me E.C., it's a meshugina name. My real name is
- Phil Moskowitz.
-
- Arnold Lint:Phil Moskowitz?
-
- Phil: Yes!, Vhat did you expect - Ricardo Montalban?
-
- Rod: You're the Extra Commercial?
-
- Phil: Don't laugh, my brother Saul owns Jordache Jeans!
-
- ["The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Net" states that the Jordache Jeans
- Company was actually a very clever marketing ploy by the makers of
- Preparation H. It was their intention to boost the sales of their rectal
- paraphernalia by inducing Americans to stuff their gludius maximus into
- overly confined garments. The ploy did not succeed.]
-
- Gillian: What are you doing here?
-
- Phil: I'm on my vay to the Net Christmas Special. This year it's
- being hosted by Johnny Arson and Bud McMolson. Vhen you're a
- purely commercial item like me, you have to travel a lot.
-
- Xaphod: But you're Jewish, what are you doing on a Christmas special?
-
-
- Phil: Believe me, it vasn't my idea. Some people out there actually
- think I'm Christ reborn. I knew a kid in Brooklyn name Jesus
- Martinez, but that's as close as I ever got. Anyvay, I'm hot
- right now in the market, so I go on any show they can get me
- on.
-
- Arnold Lint:That's unbelievable! How'd you get started in the business?
-
- Phil: Vell, I tell ya'. One day I'm sitting there, eating a lox on
- rye, and some movie man comes up to me and says: "I'm gonna
- make you are star". Next thing I know I'm in some nutso movie
- vith a bunch of little kids. I hate little kids. No sooner
- does the movie hit the screens than there are E.C. video
- games, clothing, silverware, contraceptives, books, posters,
- and kinky undergarments. You name it and I was on it. Then
- came the TV shows and all the publicity events - I actually
- cut the ribbon on the Jimmy Carter Memorial Brothel and Pro
- Shop! Then I had to appear at the opening of "Nukes are Us" -
- a store for budding nuclear powers.
-
- Xaphod: Wow, that's wild.
-
- Phil: Vell, I gotta run.
-
- Gillian: Bye!
-
- (The bright light once again fills the bridge, it fades and E.C. is gone.)
-
-
- Arnold Lint:That was incredible!
-
- Martin: If you say so!
-
- Rod: Quiet!
-
- Xaphod: Well, we're here . . . Netrothea!
-
- Martin: Oh joy and yummies.
-
- ******************** End Of Part 4 ********************
-
- What will Arnold Lint and the crew of the Infinity find on Netrothea? For
- the answer to this spine-tingling question . . . Tune in next time . . .
- same Net-time . . . same Net-channel. Also, be sure not to miss the BIG
- NET CHRISTMAS SPECIAL starring Johnny Arson, Bud McMolson, Richard
- Nixon, Barry Manilow, Richard Simmons, and Teddy the Wonder Lizard.
-
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- danielle