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Mon 5 Dec, 2005 02:21 pm
SCENE: A SMALL, DOMESTIC KITCHEN SOMEWHERE IN AMERICA. A YOUNG MAN NAMED STAN SITS AT A DINING TABLE IN THE DARK, WEARING ONLY BOXER BRIEFS. HE HOLDS A FROZEN DINNER IN HIS HANDS; THE BOX FEATURES A LURID PICTURE OF A NAKED CHICKEN; HIS HANDS ARE SWEATING. THE DOOR OPENS. HIS WIFE SARAH APPEARS.
Sarah: Stan, are you in here?
Stan: Oh yeah
Sarah: Why are you sitting in the dark?
Stan: You mean what am I wearing in the dark?
SARAH FLIPS ON THE LIGHT. STAN GETS UP AND RUSHES TOWARDS HER, DROPPING THE LURID CHICKEN.
Sarah: Ew, quit it!
Stan: Come on, you know youre hungry. Lets dine.
Sarah: Get your hands off of me! Jesus, is this why you had the lights off?
Stan: I thought it put you in the mood!
Sarah: [pushes him away, notices the chicken dinner] Stan
is that a Lean Cuisine on the floor?
Stan: No.
Sarah: [picks up the chicken dinner] I cant believe it.
Stan: It gets me worked up, all right?
Sarah: But you said youd hidden them!
Stan: Well, what did you expect?
Sarah: I told you: I dont care if you keep them around the house, as long as I dont see them. [Holds up the box, pointing at a breast] This makes you hungry? And Lean Cuisine of all things
you think that breast is all-natural? My father used to keep Stouffers around the house, so I can understand a good hearty meatloaf. But Lean Cuisine?
Stan: [quietly] Stouffers doesnt do it for me anymore
Come on babe, I wanna chow.
Sarah: Dont use that word.
Stan: Sorry
I meant, lets make dinner.
Sarah: Im not in the mood.
Stan: But we never have dinner anymore!
Sarah: Were definitely not going to now. I wasnt hungry anyway.
Stan: How can you not want dinner?
Sarah: Stan, we had dinner last night. You had dinner twice last weekend!
Stan: So what? In some cultures people eat dinner every night!
Sarah: Oh, so now we have to be like everyone else?
Stan: I didnt say that.
Sarah: I told you when we got married, I like dinner. Some nights theres nothing I want more than a nice, candlelit dinner, with you, you moron. Its just that I just dont need dinner
Stan: But I do! I love dinner. I love dinner regularly. When I come home I want to enter my house, I want to see my wife, and then I want to have dinner with her. Its what every man wants! Whats so wrong with that?
Sarah: Theres nothing wrong with that.
Stan: Exactly.
Sarah: Theres something wrong with that chicken though
Stan: Forget the chicken. Baby, Mr. Stomach is growling.
Sarah: [sighs loudly] So go have dinner with your friends.
Stan: Oh, so now youre Mrs. Funny?
Sarah: Better than having a Mr. Stomach.
Stan: You know Bob Wiley? He and his wife have dinner twice a day.
Sarah: So that would be
lunch?
Stan: Soon itll be Miss Funny if you keep starving me like this.
Sarah: Oh, so now youre starving. Now theres a famine around the house.
Stan: Last night wasnt exactly a big meal.
Sarah: Well, you ate pretty quickly, didnt you? And frankly I could have used a little dessert.
Stan: [laughs, pulls her toward him] Girls are all the same. Look, lets not fight.
Sarah: Honey, you know I like dinner. Im just exhausted, and Ive still got that cold. Cant we have dinner on Saturday?
Stan: Baby, of course. Well take our time. Maybe we can mix it up a bit. Ive got this fantasy going, where youre working in a restaurant -
Sarah: [pushes him away, leaves the room] Forget it, sicko, you can make dinner for yourselfand youre doing the dishes!
SARAH TURNS OFF THE LIGHTS AND SLAMS THE DOOR BEHIND HER. STAN PICKS UP THE LEAN CUISINE AND STARES LONGINGLY AT THE CHICKEN.
Stan: [whispers woefully] No one cooked like mom
So, the guy wants dinner once a week? Must be newly weds.