Old Time radio
Oct. 9th, 2011 09:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
likethebeerSkippy Hollywood Theater presents "Paper Mister?" In which food preservatives are introduced, by Skippy.
Everyone can check out what to do with the new Skippy peanut butter by putting a container of it into the pantry for several months and see that it still tastes fresh.
Suspense, "Death on Highway 99": they always get punished in the end (usually through death); sometimes the death comes from the main characters who are telling the story.
In the plot, the main character runs over a man, carts him around in his car, thinks the guy dies, kills his wife (who totally deserves it, b/c she's a screaming bitch who wants to stay married to him only to torment him - and they're only 23 years old), then drops off the guy he thinks is dead... who gets run over AGAIN. And still lives.
So the narrator (the murderer) is telling all this, b/c he expects the cops to come and arrest him, and they come, with the old guy who's been run over twice, who tells them he's not pressing charges; but it's the show Suspense, and the narrator had already taken cyanide. And was alive for like 5 minutes, b/c he's got to go through the reveal.
I just kept yelling to the old guy: "You got run over! Twice!" Oh, fiction.
Everyone can check out what to do with the new Skippy peanut butter by putting a container of it into the pantry for several months and see that it still tastes fresh.
Suspense, "Death on Highway 99": they always get punished in the end (usually through death); sometimes the death comes from the main characters who are telling the story.
In the plot, the main character runs over a man, carts him around in his car, thinks the guy dies, kills his wife (who totally deserves it, b/c she's a screaming bitch who wants to stay married to him only to torment him - and they're only 23 years old), then drops off the guy he thinks is dead... who gets run over AGAIN. And still lives.
So the narrator (the murderer) is telling all this, b/c he expects the cops to come and arrest him, and they come, with the old guy who's been run over twice, who tells them he's not pressing charges; but it's the show Suspense, and the narrator had already taken cyanide. And was alive for like 5 minutes, b/c he's got to go through the reveal.
I just kept yelling to the old guy: "You got run over! Twice!" Oh, fiction.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
BBC Radio Drama
Date: 2011-10-10 05:23 pm (UTC)Why can't American radio produce this level of quality?
Re: BBC Radio Drama
Date: 2011-10-10 06:24 pm (UTC)