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Date Posted: 18:19:17 03/29/04 Mon
Author: Eric
Subject: Too many chefs!
In reply to: Lurene 's message, "Re: March 26 2004 episode" on 18:34:53 03/27/04 Sat

Come on, Lurene! Bonnie needs you! Mark needs you!

Okay, I kinda know what you're saying though. And here's the problem and the solution.

Bonnie keeps doing these scenes with half a dozen or more characters in them, right? It's always chaos, and that can be funny given Bonnie's hectic life. The problem is Bonnie's show is still kinda new and we need to love the characters in her life before we "get" why the chaos is funny.

Jack Benny used to do this, he'd give all the spotlight and funny lines to his supporting cast. It worked for Jack because he was already a radio star before he hit TV, and his character traits were well-known by then. Bonnie is doing this with her actors because she's such a sweetie. But it might be a problem right now.

With so many characters in every scene, it reduces the amount of time we get to spend with Bonnie, and it reduces all the other characters to one-liner machines.

Think of that dream scene Bonnie did with Tom Hanks. What was good about it? It was simple. Two funny people playing off each other. It was so good!

Think of Christopher Guest's films...usually just a couple people improvising off each other. Basic, but it works.

We all know Bonnie is amazing at improv, so she and Don just need to structure their stories so Bonnie has more one-on-one scenes with the nuts in her life. It'll give those characters the depth they need in these first few seasons, it'll show how funny the actors Bonnie has chosen can be, and it'll give the audience a chance to love Bonnie.

Which us fans already do, right?

Or am I speaking authentic frontier gibberish?

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