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178 Chapter Twelve: The Finished Script and Writer’s Check List
Life in Hopeful Village Page 9 of 10
Episode #36
Draft: Final
Writer: Elaine Perkins Date: July 1992
126. FX. COW MOOS OCCASIONALLY.
HOLD THROUGH SCENE
127. LJ: Good girl! Good girl! That’s it...
That’s it.
128. 30 SECOND AD LIB AS COW GIVES BIRTH.
ENCOURAGING WORDS FROM ALL
THREE.
129. MISS B: (HAPPY) It’s a little bull, Littlejohn.
130. ROY: (IN WONDER) A champion.
131. LJ: Don’t talk too soon.
132. ROY: (LAUGHS HAPPILY) It works,
Littlejohn. Artificial insemination works!
133. LJ: Make sure the calf can get up before you
start boasting.
134. ROY: (ANXIOUSLY NUDGING CALF).
Come on, son, stand up....Stand up!
135. FX. ANIMAL MAKING EFFORT.
136. MISS B: Ooh, look at him. He’s rising up....He’s
standing.
137. ROY: (ENCOURAGING CALF) That’s it.
Rock and come back, baby. That’s my
boy. (HAPPILY) Look at the markings,
Littlejohn. That is what you call a first
rate upgraded Holstein.... Look at the
size of the back leg. My mother Jemima!
What have you got to say about artificial
insemination of cows, now, my boy Eh
What have you got to say about this
injection calf
138. LJ: I reserve my opinion.
139. ROY: You learned a thing or two here today,
eh
140. LJ: Well the Bible says, the more you live,
the more you learn.
141. MISS B: That’s the living truth, darling....
Straight out of the good book.
142 MUSIC. BRIDGE TO CLOSING NARRATION.
FINAL NARRATION
The resolution of the immediate crisis of this
scene occurs with the safe birth of the calf.
Nevertheless, the crisis of Littlejohn’s illiteracy has
yet to be met.
The scene ends on a very positive note, and a
sense of joy, BUT...