fandomhigh | How to Not Be a TA, Thursday, Period One

It took a couple of minutes for Maeby to look up from her GameBoy and realize that April wasn't there. And a couple more for her to remember that she was the TA, which meant she was supposed to, you know, do something about that.

Ugh.

Reluctantly, she set down the GameBoy and took her spot at the teacher's desk.

"Right, so, I dunno, it looks like she's not here," she explained helpfully. "So ... do whatever you want."

Her phone rang, and she clicked it off. She'd been ducking Mort's calls for the last two days. No, she didn't know how to fix the script. She didn't see why that was her job. She was a producer, not a script supervisor.

Oh, look, an idea struck. And then Maeby was out of her seat, scribbling frantically on the chalkboard.

"New plan," she said. "I just found April's notes for what she wanted us to do today, and it's something to do with this shit. Ideas about creative projects that hit a stumbling block. She wants us to have a discussion, or you can just write down answers and pass them in. Who knows why. I'm just the TA, here."

Time for a good old-fashioned focus group.

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Like you're a movie star.

Discuss how completely believable it is that this is what April would leave, as an assignment. Or discuss whatever you like.

Three scenarios on the board. Either have a discussion amongst yourselves or write down answers on paper. Remember, there are no stupid answers, just stupid people. Maeby is desperate, here.

Big-budget horror movie: zombie apocalypse. Hero and love interest have made it to the attic, and the zombies are at the door. Script goes for the stupid bullshit "it was all a dream" ending. We want them to live, but not via deus ex machina. Ideas? Bonus if it leaves the door open for a sequel.

(Either talk out loud or write things down, your call. And if you ping, feel free to make it messy!)

Spring break flick, boy-meets-girl. She catches him with his ex, except it was all a misunderstanding. He gives a big speech to convince her that it's her he wants. It can't be Shakespeare: the demographic is teenagers, here, but it's gotta be compelling. Try to come up with something good.

(Like above: either talk out loud or write things down, your call. And if you ping, feel free to make it messy!)

Artsy movie, very pretentious and deep. Guy is in LA and has an epiphany about what's important to him, crap like that, and needs to go make up with his girlfriend in Tokyo. Except having him jump on a plane is anticlimactic, and this needs to be powerful. Especially good if there can be some DEEP SYMBOLISM going on.

(Like above: either talk out loud or write things down, your call. And if you ping, feel free to make it messy!)

That is, after all, her name.

Taking over class for the absent

hatesmoststuff. Scenarios #2 and #3 are swiped from Arrested Development (The Young Man and the Sea and The Ocean Walker, respectively) but #1 is just me making crap up.

Also, I am fleeing out the door for an appointment. I'll be back home in a couple of hours and can answer pings then.

Jeremy Darling

Juliet Darling

Juliet stared at the paper for a while before she started writing.Ms. Tyler's class had made her a bit of an expert on crappy horror movie endings.

The love interest was a witch, she supplied. You can kind of drop hints throughout the script so it doesn't come out of nowhere, but she doesn't use her powers. Then at the last minute she finds an old spellbook with a way to hold back the zombies so the hero can escape. Maybe she dies tragically to make the ending all bittersweet?

Buck Master K.

"So... Now we're doing things?!" Bucky asked, confused. "That sucks."

"What's wrong with just having them all turn to dust when the sun rises?" Bucky asked. "I mean, that's pretty standard, isn't it?"

Zombies, vampires, whatever. When were they going to come out with a big-budget horror movie about a vacuum cleaner?

"He should say, 'Hey, baby, you smell like food. Good food, like ham. I almost don't hate you.'"

Because this was inspiring prose.

"Could he use the Internets, and just fax himself over? I'm pretty sure there's a series of tubes or something."

Richie Ryan

"How 'bout the attic has a collection of antique swords and they start chopping off some zombie heads?"

Hey, write what you know, right?

Sparkle

Belated, but thank you so much!

How to Not Be a TA, Thursday, Period One

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