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Show me the bafta
By sasquatch
20 February 2006
Yes

Bit obvious this one, but hey...

 

A daytime scene of a man in a garden mowing the lawn. He is whistling and appears of a cheerful demeanor. The scene fades out.

 

The same scene fades back in. It is later in the day (we can tell by the light) the man is still going about his duties and is weeding the flower bed. He stands and appears to have some mild back ache. We fade out again.

 

We fade back to the same garden scene, the light is failing, it is clearly dusk. The man is cutting the hedgerow with garden shears. He is somewhat exhausted and mops his brow with the back of his sleeve. We fade out.

 

We fade in to the same scene in almost total darkness but for the moonlight. An owl hoots.  We hear the clip clip clip of the shears before a loud exclamation of ‘oh fuck this for a laugh' breaks the night air and we hear the thud of shears hitting the ground.

 

 

A title appears - ‘the Constant Gardener'

 

 

 

Hilarity commences, perhaps on a global scale.

 

A toilet flushes. I get my coat.

Reviews
A grin, yes. Hilarity? A touch hyperboli
Written by gerardconnolly (1186 comments posted) 20th February 2006
Yup. Spot on. It was a bit obvious. But at least it was funny which is 99% of an advance on the majorty of lame garrulous fearadh I have been reading and actually bothering to review with as much constructive charity as I can muster so far. Put it in a cracker. 
 
Slainte
Yep
Written by givitsum (651 comments posted) 20th February 2006
Yes obvious, yes funny. Short and direct.

Written by Bottleblondesurfer (3352 comments posted) 20th March 2006
It would have been so funny if you hadn't spoilt it with the swearing.It was totally unnecessary ,it's not funny and it's not clever. A gentle little sketch about gardening, and a clever play on words about the constant gardener which only took me a few minutes to get. You, boys you think it's so cool and smart but let me tell you...........It's ok the valium is kicking in now.

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