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Dead Boat Sketch

Saturday, October 29, 2005

Mal's FIRST new ship purchase was a touch rushed, which leads him to confront the Shipyard owner...

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Title: Dead Boat Sketch

Author: Sam Timmins

Fandom: Firefly/Monty Python

Rating: PG - Mild cussin' and somesuch.

Summary: Mal's FIRST new ship purchase was a touch

rushed, which leads him to confront the Shipyard owner...

Timeline: Post- Du-Khang and Serenity Valley

battles, pre- "Firefly" .

Canon? Are you serious?: It can be taken as either parody or

seriously. It's fancy-schmancy like that. It aims to misbehave.

Where did this insanity start?: This link -

http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=14362&m=197305#197305 -

Thursday, October 27, 2005 : 11:30 - in which QUEENOFTHENORTH

went nuts and tied in "Monty Python's Search For The Holy

Grail" and "Firefly" . Blame her for this. I do. ;)

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A recently served customer passes the doorway, entering the

Shipyard's workshop.

Mal: Hey, I wanna register a complaint.

The Shipyard Owner does not respond.

Mal: Y'ello, Miss?

Shipyard Owner: Whaddya mean "Miss" ...?

Mal: Sorry 'bout that, I godda cold. I wanna make a

complaint!

Shipyard Owner: We're leavin' for lunch.

Mal: Enough of that crazy nonsense. Won't be goin'

nowhere yet. I wanna complain about this ship that I purchased not

a half hour ago from this here very anti-shiny boutique o'machinery.

Shipyard Owner: Oh yeah, the, uh, the "Norwegian

Blue" ...What's, uh...what's the trouble with 'er?

Mal: I'll tell you what's wrong with 'er. She's dead,

that's what's wrong with 'er!

The Shipyard Owner looks out at the parked craft.

Shipyard Owner: No, no, She's uh,...she's restin'.

Mal: Look here fellah, I know a dead bird when I see

one, and I'm looking at one right now.

Comments
ANONYMOUS
Saturday, 29 October 2005 03:10
Lol, pretty good. Just one little problem.

In Out of Gas, it was pretty well confirmed that the Firefly wasn't operational either when Mal bought her.
Saturday, 29 October 2005 03:26
Ah, but you don't follow how the Shipyard DIDN'T say she was flying YET.

Hell, he could have been about to say she was grounded but fixable when we "left".

(I own the same 14 episodes every other Browncoat does. ;) )
Saturday, 29 October 2005 05:42
That's cute. Although I think the one Python sketch that lends itself to a Firefly parody of it is the scene in LIFE OF BRIAN when Brian is painting the anti-Roman slogan and is interrupted and berated by a Roman centurion whose chastising him for his poor Latin.

I can imagine Mal as a pre-teen, graffittiing the side of an Alliance building, writing "Alliance go home" in Chinese with some spraypaint. A patrolling Alliance soldier wanders by, notices this, and clasps his hand on Mal's shoulder. But instead of turning him in, he berates Mal for poor Chinese grammar.

I tried writing the Chinese version of this, but none of the online translation places seem to work.

Saturday, 29 October 2005 12:28
I loved it, real parody. Except of course I kept seeing the dead parrot sketch while I read it!
Saturday, 29 October 2005 13:41
Reginaroadie: Tried the art form known as cartooning? That way you could use REAL Chinese symbols as opposed to english phonetics. Dong le ma?

Bookaddict: Thank you. I thought I HAD to at least keep:

- The parrot's breed/ship's name
- The sleeping/the dead engine
and
- The final outburst which cues the replacing.
ANONYMOUS
Monday, 31 October 2005 21:38
YAY! awesome! i was going to do something with "Do i bother you" with a River and Jayne, but this was a much better idea!
ANONYMOUS
Monday, 31 October 2005 21:38
darnit, coulda sworn i had signed in... Tranquility...
REAVERMAN
Sunday, 05 March 2006 04:54
Hah, that was good. I liked the Monty Python thing. You should try a parody of the crew questing for the Holy Compression Coil or somesuch!
ANONYMOUS
Sunday, 26 March 2006 20:30
if you are going to do a monty python parody at least use the best sketch of all time the exploding penguin

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