It's by no means impossible to pull this off, but I can assure you it's really hard. You're telling the audience to root for a guy who's screwing over a girl we like. Unfortunately, the script didn't keep that up, and I believe it's because writers McPhail and McKeown fell into a lot of romantic comedy traps.įirst, it's hard to make this kind of set-up work. It was fun and promised a light-hearted marketable comedy.
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You had this amusing guy, dribbling a basketball around his agency, trying to figure out how to market it. I remembered the first ten pages of Ring Of Liar immediately. This leads to Jeff finding out that Sam is going to screw him over which leads to Sam finding out that Jeff knows she's going to screw him over, which leads to one whacked-out crazy wedding. The plan is to get him to the altar, call him out, and then leave him there, a total humiliation smackdown. She starts tempting him with a bunch of marriage bait such as promises of 3-ways, and even pretending to win the lottery. But instead of calling him on it, she decides to play right back. After a little investigating, she becomes keen to his plan. It's then that Sam realizes something is up. He even goes so far as to become a Rastafarian, something he knows Sam hates. He then pretends to like really kinky sex, hoping it will scare Sam away. But it backfires when the dog and cat become best friends. His first order of business is buying a dog to terrorize Sam's kitty. He'll just be the worst boyfriend ever and make Sam break up with him. over here is going to give him a taste of his brass knuckles. Which means, now, if Jeff breaks up with Sam, I.R.A. Jeff considers telling Sam the truth, until Sam's big scary Irish step-brother, SHAY, shows up ready to pummel anything that so much as glances at Sam. Before he's even fully awake, she's calling her friends and family. That night while Jeff is sleeping, Sam stumbles across the ring and thinks Jeff is proposing to her. In order to avoid those dreadful wedding bells, he's going to break-up with Sam! However, he doesn't want to go out on bad terms so, before the break-up, he buys her a friendship ring (huh?). She wants the house, the kids, the whole ball of wax.Įxcept Jeff's just fine with the wax he picks out of his ears. Sam (the aforementioned girlfriend) is ready to take that next step. And he's got a longtime girlfriend who he hasn't had to make the big commitment to.
There's an old saying that goes, "saving the best for last." Does Ring Of Liar give us Twit-Pitch's best? Or should she have stayed in Hawaii and left us alone forever? And so here we are, with the final Twit-Pitch entry. I figured, with that kind of rest, she'd be primed for a big return. She was able to relax, get some sun, and let loose a little.
I need a break." So after much deliberation, I paid for Twit-Pitch to spend a month in Honalulu. "Putting up my pages in front of the world, week in and week out. A month back, Twit-Pitch came to me and was like, "I need a vacation." I was like, "Vacation? But you only have one script review left!" "It's hard doing what I do," she told me.
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