Watching the all-star game when the ad for Swing Vote just came on. Wow. Do you think the following conversation took place during the pitch of this movie idea to studio execs:
Screenwriter 1- Come on guys, we need a fresh new idea.
Screenwriter 2- Shit, well people seem to be all into politics and shit, how about something with voting or something.
Screenwriter 3- Eureka, I've got it! The movie is about a national election where everyone votes for the President and it comes out as a tie... until they find out one guy forgot to vote. So both candidates have to convince this everyday Joe to vote for them and hilarity ensues.
Completely sane, rational person who accidentily wandered into room- Um, seriously? Well, besides completely defying the impossibly long mathematical odds of an entire nation voting to an exact tie, this idea basically shits on the current political system of the electoral college and insults anyone who has the slightest semblance of knowledge of such.
Screenwriter 4- So I was thinking Kevin Costner or Joe Mantegna for the everyday Joe.
Oh, and for the love of your father Joe Buck please learn how to pronounce the names of all-star major league players.
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From the Oakland Athletics...starting pitcher....Justin Troy Aikman.
is that a really subtle "Troy Aikman is a douche" joke?
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