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Bedevere stands on a stage in front of a large crowd of wild villagers. Villager: We have found a freeper, may we burn her? Crowd: BURN!! BUUUURN HER! Bedevere: But how do you *know* she is a freeper? Villager: She looks like one! Other Villagers: Yeah! She looks like one!!! Bedevere: Bring her forward. (a young woman is pushed through the crowd of villagers to the platform. She is dressed all in black, has a carrot tied around her face on top of her nose, and a black paper hat on her head. She talks funny because her nose is closed by the carrot.) freeper: I'm not a freeper, I'm not a freeper! Bedevere: Er,...but you are dressed as one. freeper: THEY dressed me up like this. Villagers: No! nooo! We didn't! We didn't! freeper: And this isn't my nose, it's a false one! (Bedevere lifts up the carrot to reveal the woman's real nose, which is in fact rather small.) Bedevere: Well? One Villager: Well, we did do the nose. Bedevere: The nose? Villager: And the Hat. But she's a freeper! Villagers: Yeah! Burn her! Burn! Burn her! B: Did you dress her up like this? Villagers: NO! No, no, no, no, no, no... One Villager: yes. Villagers: yes. yes. yes. A bit. yes. a bit. a bit. Another Villager: (hopefully) She has got a wart... B: What makes you think she is a freeper? Villager: Well, She turned me into a newt!! (pause) Bedevere: a newt? (long pause) Villager: I got better... Villagers: BURN HER anyway! BURN! BURN! BURN HER! B: Quiet, quiet, quiet, QUIETA There are ways of *telling* whether she is a freeper! Villagers: Are there? What? Tell us, then! Tell us! B: Tell me. What do you do with freeperes? V: BUUUURN!!!!! BUUUUUURRRRNN!!!!! You BURN them!!!! BURN!! B: And what do you burn apart from freeperes? Villager: More freeperes! Other Villager: Wood. B: So. Why do freeperes burn? (long silence) (shuffling of feet by the villagers) Villager: (tentatively) Because they're made of.....wood? B: Goooood! Other Villagers: oh yeah... oh.... B: So. How do we tell whether she is made of wood? One Villager: Build a bridge out of 'er! B: Aah. But can you not also make bridges out of stone? Villagers: oh yeah. oh. umm... B: Does wood sink in water? One Villager: No! No, no, it floats! Other Villager: Throw her into the pond! Villagers: yaaaaaa! (when order is restored) B: What also floats in water? Villager: Bread! Another Villager: Apples! Another Villager: Uh...very small rocks! Another Villager: Cider! Another Villager: Uh...great gravy! Another Villager: Cherries! Another Villager: Mud! Another Villager: Churches! Churches! Another Villager: Lead! Lead! King Arthur: A Duck! Villagers: (in amazement) ooooooh! B: exACTly! B: (to a villager) So, *logically*... Villager: (very slowly, with pauses between each word) If...she...weighs the same as a duck......she's made of wood. B: and therefore... (pause) Villager: A freeper! All Villagers: A freeper! (they do consequently weigh her across from a duck on Bedevere's largest scale, and she does indeed weigh the same as the duck.) freeper: (to camera) It's a fair cop. Thereafter follows the knighting of Bedevere and the reading of the list of other knights: Sir Bedevere the Wise Sir Lancelot the Brave Sir Galahad the Pure Sir Robin, the Not So Brave As Sir Launcelot, who had nearly fought the Dragon of Angor who had nearly stood up to the vicious Chicken of Bristol and who had personally wet himself at the Battle of Badon Hill. and the aptly named Sir Not Appearing In This Film.
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