The Chester and Woody Show Presents
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
By:Andrew Boush
SCENE 1: We open with an extreme close-up of Horst Mazarati, editor
of Fashionocalypse Now! magazine, and european consultant on fashion for
Mindless Crap Tonight, a leading entertainment television show. As we
pan out we discover that Horst is actually on the screen of another
television, and that Woody and Chester are watching. Behind Horst can
be seen a backdrop that says: Mindless Crap Tonight, Fashion Spotlight
(this could be bluescreened).
Horst: The concept of Couture arose from the desire of woman to
be identified as unique. Woman says: "I am my own country. Issue me
a Visa, and give me diplomatic immunity!" She does not want to be
dressed like every washer woman in Wisconsin. Now, glamour and couture
are becoming more accessable to more women. It is no longer only for
the staggeringly wealthy.
Chester: Wisconsin! Why is he running down Wisconsin! This is
the hipness capitol of the world!
Woody: You don't get out much do you, Chester.
Chester: What do you mean! I've been to Cadott. I've been to
Oakwood. Don't tell me I'm not hip to the current scene. I'm calling
up that Horst guy, and I'm going to give him a piece of my mind!
Woody: Yeah, you do that. Say, have you seen the nachos I had around
here?
Chester: (talking into phone) Hello? Yeah, this is Chester!
Is this Mindless Crap Tonight? I want to talk to that Horst guy!
You see, I'm from Wisconsin and- what do you mean I must be very
proud? Listen, I'm steaming mad about these anti-Wisconsin slurs!
Woody (to camera): While he's venting his spleen, let's begin our
movie for this evening: a film that can only be described as
sumptuous, Actually, it could also be described as classic, sub-titled,
and black and white. I am of course speaking of french director Jean
Cocteau's elegant adaptation of Beauty and the Beast. Enjoy.
Cut to first half of Beauty and the Beast
SCENE 2: Again we open with a close-up of Horst, who is actually
on a television in Chester's Castle. Chester and Woody are watching.
Horst: A viewer from Wisconsin writes: "Dear Weirdo, How come
you keep harping on Wisconsin as having bad fashion? Haven't you ever
seen Laverne and Shirley? Come on out here to Eau Claire and I'll show
you fashion!" Well, Mr. Chester from Wisconsin, today is your lucky day,
because I, Horst Mazarati, European Consultant on Fashion for Mindless
Crap Tonight, have decided to bless your home town of Eau Claire,
Wisconsin with my scintillating presence. I'll be seeing you tomorrow,
so have your haute couture ready!
Woody: Now you've gone and done it, Chester! That eurotrash fashion boy
is coming here, and we've got to show him some high fashion in Eau Claire,
or else he's going to be making a fool out of us and our fair state every
night on national television.
Chester: Well that won't be hard. We'll just make a run out to the
Old Country Buffet!
Woody: You moron. Don't you know what high fashion is? Its skinny
people with tatoos and pierced nostrils, and other things, running around
in stuff you wouldn't catch a circus clown dead in! Does the term Haute
Couture mean anything to you Chester?
Chester: Isn't that a dish they make out of sheep's innards?
Woody: Putting on a tie, and slicking your hair back is not going to cut
it when Mr. Fashionocalypse Now! arrives. We need some help from somebody
hip, and Timmy the tapeworm isn't around to help us anymore.
enter Dr. X
Dr. X: Guten haben mine kinder! I've brought you a new friend!
(Dr. X is wheeling in a large machine, that looks like a computer with a
glass human head attached)
Dr. X: Say hello to Sargon, our new computer. He has all the
knowledge I can give him, and is cybernetically augmented for maximum
coolness.
C and W: Hello, Sargon.
Sargon: Word.
Chester: Listen, Sargon, we've got a problem that maybe you could
help us with.
Sargon: Fire away.
Chester: O.K., now, see, there's this wierd guy named Horst on the
TV, who talks about fashion.
Sargon: Horst Mazarati. Mindless Crap Tonight. Fashionocalypse Now!
magazine. Go on.
Chester: Well you see he was saying these bad things about
Wisconsin, that it wasn't hip, and that we don't have cutting edge
fashion and everything.
Sargon: And...
Chester: So I called him up and gave him a piece of my mind.
And now, he's...uh...well...
Woody: Now he's coming here with a film crew, and we had better cough
up a few supermodels and some haute couture.
Sargon: Anything else?
Woody: Isn't that enough?
Sargon: I have developed a plan. Dr. X has equipped me with a
holographic pan-spatial omni-surround projection system. We will
fool Mr. Mazarati. Allow me to brief you. Perhaps our guests would
like to return to the movie...
Cut to second half of Beauty and the Beast
SCENE 3: This final scene is a special effects "tour de force".
It is done almost entirely with Bluescreen. It begins with the
regular Chester's Castle set behind our characters, but this also
is a bluescreen image. As we open, Chester, Woody, and Sargon are
standing in the castle.
Chester and Woody are both wearing silly high fashion outfits.
Chester is looking intently at something offscreen.
Chester: Here they come. Hit it Sargon!
Suddenly the background abruptly shifts to a fashion runway scene
that we have "borrowed" from Pret-a-Porter or E! fashion television.
Horst and a cameraman enter the room.
Horst: Well, well. On my way here I thought the environs
were rather dismal, but I must say this is something of an improvement.
Chester: Hello Mr. Horst! I'm Chester, and these are my
friends Woody and Sargon.
Horst: The pleasure is all yours. So where is this
Wisconsin high fashion?
Chester: Well come right this way and I'll introduce you to
some of our designers. (Chester leads Horst and cameraman off screen)
We now cut to a clip from a video interview with some real fashion
designer like LouisVuitton or Jean Paul Gautier, but we dub Woody's
voice over the image with some totally stupid dialog.
Woody/Gautier: My spring vision for Wisconsin can be described in but
two words: Glamour and Glamour. The time of understated elegance is
behind us. Give me fantasy or give me death!
Horst: Oh, I could not agree more!
Now a different video interview clip, say, Isaac Misrahi, but with
Chester's voice.
Chester/Misrahi: The message in my collection for '96 is color.
All of my ensembles practically scream color. The world does not
exist in shades of gray. Why should we?
Horst: Bravissimo!
Now we interview a female supermodel, like Linda Evangelista, with the
voice of Bando.
Bando/Evangelista: The Wisconsin collection is one of my favorites,
because it doesn't trap you into the expectations of the larger shows,
like Pret-a-Porter or Haute Couture do. Everything is a bit more
informal, more carefree in the Wisconsin show.
Horst: Well, Mr. Chester. I must admit that your little town
in Wisconsin has a lot more to offer the fashion world than I would
ever have guessed! I, Horst Mazarati, grant you my sincerest apologies
for representing your state in a bad light.
Chester: Oh, that's O.K. You just didn't know.
Horst: I'll see you...in the spotlight!
We now cut to a black screen with the words: Later That Same Day...
The scene then returns to C, W, and S watching television.
Horst on TV: Horst feels he would like to apologize to Mr. Chester
in Wisconsin for his comments about that fair state. Indeed, I was
greatly impressed by the Wisconsin fashion world on my visit.
In fact, I think I will plan to provide coverage of the
Eau Claire Spring Collection every year! See you next spring
Mr. Chester!
Woody: Oh-oh. Now we've really gone and done it.
Roll credits. Backdrop is a series of clips alternating fashion
runways with footage of people strolling down the halls of London
Square Mall.
Music is either Supermodel by Julianna Hatfield or Supermodel
Sandwich by Terence Trent D'Arby.
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