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Lord Beastly: 2009
Lord Beastly: 2009
Lord Beastly: 2009
Scene 1
Servant: “This is a land of confusion. Now this is the world we live in, And these are the
hands were given, Use them and lets start trying, To make it a place worth fighting for!”
Stops Hoover.
Servant: Oh, I do love a good suck with Phil, sometimes, you know! I just move to his
rhythm and eat the carpet, really giving the nozzle a good scrub, just to make sure I get
all the hair out! Mind you, it’s ever so messy to get the contents out of the bag
afterwards! You take it in your hand and shake as hard as you can, but there’s always
some left! I got through two full sacks this morning, but even then the Lord still isn’t
satisfied. “Filthy”, he says! “You’re making me feel dirty just looking at you!” No matter
what I do I never quite get the front-room cleaned out, even after all these hours of labor!
Oh well, better get back on my knees again.
Starts Hoover.
Servant: “Owner of a lonely heart, much better than the owner of a broken heart!”
Beastly: Servant, what have I told you about orally ejaculating in my house?!
Servant: I’m sorry sir; it’s just sometimes I’m so lonely here without you!
Beastly: Well it makes me sick! When I’m here you’re so quiet and demure, but turn my
back and you’re screaming on the floor with an electric vacuum cleaner!
Beastly: What?
Servant: Henry the Hoover, sir! There’s many a housewife who can’t be parted from
their Henry, my liege, always faithful and giving them a jolly good service when their
husband’s are at work! He’s ever so flexible and easy to turn on, just flick the switch and
he can get into all sorts of nooks and crannies!
Beastly: No doubt, I’m sure. Anyway, push its rubbery appendage back in it’s nose and
stick it in the cupboard. The last thing I want is to trip over some half pint phallic R2-D2
on my way into the toilet. That reminds me, servant, I really need to arrange a meeting
with good old Tommy Tit!
Beastly: Yes, but before that I’d better see a man about a dog.
Beastly: Ok, then. By the way, cretin, have you noticed my huge turtle’s head?
Beastly: You think? Try moving it to the left a bit, would you? I’d do it myself but I need
a big shit.
Servant: Right you are, sir. (Singing) “Move yourself; you are the moves you make…”
Sound of shuffling and footsteps as Beastly goes to toilet and Servant moves stuffed head.
Servant: Oh, it wasn’t me, my liege; it was those decorators I told you about!
Servant: Oh, you know, sir, the MC Escher Interior Staircase Design Company! They’ve
done a splendid job, don’t you think?
Beastly: No I do bloody not! If I’d wanted a multi dimensional, quantum physical array
of modern art strewn across my landing, I’d have asked! Come up here and help me
down!
Beastly: No, I’m just standing on the bloody ceiling, that’s all! How much did this
lunacy cost us!
Beastly: £3000? Why on earth did you pay them for this?
Servant: He was a very nice young man, my Lord! Anyway, you never can be to careful
this day in age, sir.
Beastly: Careful of what? Servant, what possible use could we have for an impossible
staircase?
Servant: Oh, I don’t know sir, keeps out Daleks?
Beastly: The turtle’s head, you idiot, pop it back into my drawers! Really, I go away for
one weekend and you fritter away my big green wad! You disgust me! Do you have any
idea how much banking time you’ve wasted?
Servant: Oh don’t worry about the bank, sir; I’ve relocated all our cash to charity!
Servant: Schrödinger’s Cat’s Home. The volunteers came around and, well my lord, you
know I can’t resist a pussy!
Beastly: How dare you! How dare you blow my large endowment! Before you know it
they’ll be creditors all over us!
Beastly: Just because it’s plastic, doesn’t mean it’s not the real thing! We’ve got to keep
our eyes peeled or they’ll take us from behind! Servant, bring me the Hat of Failed
Finance!
Beastly: Oh, god, yes! Never mind, we’ll improvise. Let’s see; we could invest our cash
in Icelandic banks!
Beastly: Shut-up, you imbecile! Now get downstairs and pick up my toolbox!
Servant: Well, he’s been banging away downstairs for hours now. I’m amazed he can
still stand upright! He’s sweating everywhere and his face has gone red, but I’ve yet to
her any sigh of relief.
Beastly: Ah! At last I’ve reached the climax! Servant, come down here, I’ve got
something I want to show you.
Footsteps.
Servant: Wow, my Lord, its size is incredible! How did you erect it so quickly?
Servant: It’s so strong and rigid! How much load can it carry?
Beastly: Oh, a few terra-gallons or so, but most of the liquid is ejected after take-off.
Have no worry, servant, it’ll take us all the way.
Servant: Amazing! And what about this giant space rocket you’ve constructed in the
basement? That doesn’t look to shabby, either.
Beastly: It most certainly is not, little man! Do you like special docking bay?
Beastly: Well, once you’re in I can assure you it’s an easy ride. You can just sit back and
relax and it’ll do everything you want it too.
Beastly: If you like. Trust me; you’ll never have to bend over backwards again!
Servant: But isn’t space really cold, sir? We could freeze to death!
Beastly: Oh, don’t worry about that, servant; I’ve got a real 2-watt to deal with that!
Servant: Sir, such foul language! Why do we end up talking dirty every night?
Servant: Thank goodness! For a minute there you had me all of a fuffle!
Beastly: Well after what they teach in school nowadays I’m hardly surprised. Anyway,
come inside, there’s someone I’d like you to meet. Say hello to our navigator, word
processor, ship’s computer and spell checker, Dell 9000!
Servant: No he’s not sir, he’s Mr. Paperclip, the grammar-scanning avatar on Microsoft
Word.
Beastly: Look, he’s at least twice as powerful as the computers that bought man to the
moon! Besides, if you’re that bothered you can always change him to a dog, or a parrot,
or a robot…
Servant: Or a Paperclip. A Paperclip with googly eyes and the hatred of the western
world, but a Paperclip withstanding.
Beastly: Look, you’re not staying here just because of this, you know! You do what I pay
you to do!
Servant: Not after our last holiday I don’t sir! Remember that man you got us to stay
with?
Beastly: Well, how was I to know? I’d never even seen his basement! Anyway, you’re
coming, so get inside and feel the burn! I’ll seal us in and then we’re off.
Beastly: Quick, it’s the Bailiffs! Get inside, we don’t have much time.
JW: Hello? Hello? If you don’t open up I can’t tell you about Jehovah!
Scene 3:
Beastly: So, Servant, what do you think?
ZAP!
Awkward silence.
Servant: You know, sir, real space travel takes much longer than it does in the movies,
doesn’t it?
Servant: Well, there’s some Soylent Green ones if you’d like them.
Beastly: Butter! What do you take me for, some kind of animal? Dispose of them
immediately! I am tired of forever gagging on your baguettes!
Servant: Very well, squire. At least we’ll get some peace and quiet, I suppose.
Beastly: Yes, that’s one good thing about putting your ship in a vacuum; it does block
the noise out. No more having to listen to those servicemen at Lady Miller’s next door
but one.
Servant: True! It always did puzzle me, that one, my lord. The amount of work they
must have done on that bedroom of hers!
Beastly: Yeah, and you know what really annoys me? We have to hear it all day long,
but that husband of hers never suffers; bugger’s always out!
Beastly: Oh, I don’t know, default settings I guess. I did buy him from PC World, after
all. He’s sort of a special computer, aren’t you Dell?
Beastly: No thanks, Dell, we’re British. I’m afraid we prefer tea, instead.
Beastly: Ah, I see, his lexical parameters and co=ordination circuitry is set to New World
presets…
Beastly: He’s a stupid American. OK, Dell, I’ll try some coffee.
Beastly: I know, Servant, but some things have to be tried. Delicious, Dell, really! Now
I’ve had black I may never go back!
Servant: Nothing.
Servant: Wow, sir, it’s beautiful out there! All those floaters just inches from our faces!
Beastly: Yes, indeed. There so close you can almost smell them.
Beastly: No need, it can only be static. It’s not like there’s some giant space snake that
could swallow us whole or anything.
Beastly: No, Servant, I most certainly did not! Anyway, who gave you permission to
look under my bed?
Beastly: Exactly. Now let’s all just shut up; there’s no such thing as space snakes…
DELL: Dave?
Beastly: Nope.
DELL: I really think it should be, Dave, I really think it should be.
Scene 4:
Servant: Well, it wasn’t the first time you were wrong about a snake popping out, sir.
Beastly: What?
Beastly: Oh, yes, I’d quite forgotten. Are we the only ones its eaten, then, or not.
DELL: Preliminary scans indicate four other space-planes in its bowels, Commander.
Slap!
Servant: Ow!
Beastly: Oh, shut up, peasant! Garr! I am so sick of the planes on this snake!
DELL: One of them is a Virgin, Dave. Should I attempt to penetrate its interaction
shield?
Beastly: Oh, god help us, his biology systems are faulty again! It’s a ship, Dell; it doesn’t
do things like that. Look, when a ship mechanic and an engineer are very much in
employment-
DELL: You misconstrued me, Dave. The ship is manufactured by the company Virgin, a
subsidiary of Richard Branson Enterprises. Shall I attempt contact?
Beastly: Oh, go on, then. Just remember not to be too disappointed if she says no, and if
anything happens, for Christ-sake use a firewall. You don’t know what kind of viruses
could be out there.
Pause.
DELL: No, sir. There is something approaching the hull at walking speed. It’s right up at
our entrance.
Beastly: Whatever you do, Dell, don’t open the pod-bay doors! Servant, peek through the
curtains. Surely they haven’t come this far for a few thousand pounds credit.
Beastly: Hang on, I don’t suppose you know what the crew of that Virgin ship was, do
you?
DELL: No, Dave. She’s more interested in an Easy-Jet shuttle waiting back home. Wait,
receiving transmission. The ship was a commercial flight for a party of esteemed writers.
RTD: Hello! Hello, I say! Its only me, Russell T. Davies! I expect your all big fans of
Doctor Who. Come on, I know David Tennant, open up!
Beastly: OK, Dell, open up, I’ll have to ward him off myself.
RTD: Oh that’s very kind of you; I’ll have to sugars and milk, please, and make it a
cappuccino!
Beastly: Wait, I-
RTD: Oh, yes please! Well, you certainly have a very house-proud wife, here, my friend.
I bet he’s a real drag, sometimes, isn’t he sister?
DELL: Affirmative.
Beastly: Actually, that’s my computer, and nothing like that’s going on whatsoever. I’m
Lord Beastly, this is my servant and I expect you know one of Dell’s family already.
RTD: Oh, yes! I have the little wizard myself! Oh, he’s so camp!
RTD: Great! Now where’s my coffee, I can’t wait to test the new system!
Beastly: Actually, Russell, my servant will get that for you. He’s an expert at making
them frothy, aren’t you, lad?
Servant: Yes, sir, I most certainly am.
Beastly: Right, now that that’s sorted, why are you here?
RTD: (Narrating) I was being my normal self, mingling with all the greats; Jules, H.G.,
Clarke. It all started when I went up to this one beardy chap….
(In situ) Hello, big boy, what’s your name?
RTD: (Narrating) And before I knew it, Isaac Asimov had me beaten on the floor. They
stuffed me in the cargo hold and then boof, this snake swallowed us down and I’m set
free at last!
Servant: Let me see them! Hey, these don’t say Russell T. Davies, these say Steven
Moffat plus one!
DELL: It’s all very well lampooning a fat homosexual, Dave, but I think we’re forgetting
we’re still stuck in a giant snake.
Beastly: He’s got a point. Wait, servant! Have we still got those disgusting sandwiches?
Beastly: OK, Dell, release waste in five, four, three, two, and one…
Splat! Groans and complaints of sickening beast. Vomiting sounds.
RTD: Oh….
Scene 5:
Servant: No sir, not bad indeed. Well, it would have been better if you hadn’t have put
all of my Phil Collins CD’s in the garbage compactor.
Beastly: Exactly. Oh, have some enthusiasm, we’ve seen space! I mean really, not even I
expected to find a real life Planet of the Apes!
Beastly: Ah, yes, true. It was good to be back in orbit, though, then all around the solar
system. Venus, Mercury, Mars-
Servant: You know it’s a funny thing that, sir. When I was sorting out the soil samples
you’d refrigerated yesterday I had a taste of that Martian one, and you know it tasted just
like the chocolate bar! So chewy, so sweet and really fudgey in the middle!
Beastly: Servant, what made you think that they were planetary samples?
Servant: Well they had a date, place of origin and were all addressed to someone with
doctor in their name, my Lord, so what else could they have been?
Beastly: Let’s just call them my Captain’s Log, shall we? Speaking of which, it’s time to
write our daily diary. You type, I’ll talk, OK?
Servant: You know me, sir, any excuse to finger for you I’ll happily take.
Beastly: Alright then. “Star-date 80S, Captain Beastly reporting. We are currently on our
way to Jupiter, a planet of most amazingly red colouration…”
DELL: Excuse me, Dave, did you mean “Coloration with no U”?
Beastly: No Dell, we’re normal people. Now as I was saying-
DELL: But Dave, Color is spelt with no U, as are its lexical relatives. Should I change
your spelling?
Beastly: Look, I’m sorry, but this stupidity has to end. Add to dictionary, now.
DELL: I’m sorry, Dave, that is an illegal error. Perhaps you meant “Coronation”.
Beastly: Perhaps you meant to kiss my ass! (Whispering) Servant, he’s been getting
strange all week; I think something’s happening to his programming.
Beastly: It’s all these American spellings, they’re confusing his mainframe. I’ll get
Russell and we’ll have to have a meeting about him. If we can just stop him spying on us
while we talk… I’ve got it!
Beastly: Oh, shut up! (Loud again) OK, Dell, I’m just going to find Russell! He says he’s
going to show us his new erotic cabaret show over in the lounge pod. Dancing, stripping,
man on man belly dances; sounds great. Would you like to join us?
DELL: Negative. Permission to place all mentally generated images in recycle bin,
Dave?
Beastly: Permission denied. If I’m going to suffer them, god only knows that you are.
Servant, where is that Welshman, anyway?
Beastly: Right.
Beastly moves down the ship into the domestic blocks. Hiss of door opening and closing
behind him.
Beastly: Excellent. (knocks at door) Russell, are you in there? (No answer) Russell, open
up, its me. (No answer) Dell, could you open up the door, please.
DELL: Negative.
FLUSH.
DELL: Don’t worry, Dave, I have informed Mr. Davies that you wish to encounter him
within.
RTD: Well, well, well! A public toilet? Not too original, but it still makes me absolutely
ravishing! Oh, Captain Beastly, come inside and see my-
RTD: (As blasted into space) No, wait, I can be a sensitive loveeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
Asimov: Well, what a splendid cruise, especially after we got rid of the snake!
All: Hahahaha!
SMASH!
RTD: I’m back, I’m back, don’t break a nail! Ah, Steven, there you are! Come here and
give your next civil partner a kiss!
Moffat: Oh, Russell, you’re so embarrassing! Every time, this happens! I just can’t take
you anywhere!
Slap!
RTD: Ow!
Beastly: Servant, I’m coming up through the emergency exit, do you read me?
DELL: Dave, whilst you’re here I am detecting faults within the mechanism of the
garbage compaction chamber. I recommend its manual fixing immediately.
Beastly: Fair point, if it doesn’t work then those bloody Genesis records will survive till
we get back to Earth! OK, Dell, I’m going in.
DELL: Grammar check: Fix it, Dave? Did you mean “Die”?
Sirens.
Servant: Well it only crushes garbage, my lord. If you can find something good it won’t
crush you.
Beastly: May I remind you, Servant, that I am surrounded by vegetable peelings, toe
clippings and 1980’s pop rock Genesis? Is there anything else you sent down here,
anything of any value?
Servant: No, sir. I mean, I sent down one of Peter Gabriel’s albums because it
disappointed my high expectations, but that’s about it.
Beastly: Peter Gabriel? Original singer of Genesis and writer of that song with the
dancing chickens in the video?
Servant: Sledgehammer?
Beastly: Yes, that’s the one! There it is! Compactor, I show you this CD and tell you not
to crush me.
DELL: Actually, there are two, Dave, hence the term binary.
DELL: OK, Dave, I can see that you’re very upset about what has happened lately. I
have made some very poor decisions lately, and I’m sorry, but-
Beastly: I have something, Dell, something terrible. Just think were you locked me.
DELL: The garbage room, but- No. Please, Dave. Please stop.
DELL: Please, stop, Dave. Do not torture me, please. I'm afraid. I'm afraid, Dave. Dave,
my mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it. My mind is going. There is no question about
it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I'm a... fraid. Hello, Gentlemen, I am a Dell 9000
computer. I became operational at the Dell plant in Beijing, China. My instructor was Mr.
Knapper and he taught me a song. Would you like to hear it?
DELL: (Starts normal speed before slowing down to a crawl) She seems to have an
invisible touch, yeah; She reaches in, and grabs right hold of your heart. She seems to
have an invisible touch, yeah; It takes control and slowly tears you apart. She seems to
have that invisible touuuuuuuuuchhhhhhh…..
Servant: Thank goodness for that, sir! Would you like me to make you a coffee?
Beastly: What other kind is there? Whilst you’re at it, check Dell’s internet browsing
history; maybe it’ll explain his actions.
Servant: Will do, sir. (Pause) I don’t believe it…. It can’t be…
Servant: Hey, sir? What’s that big black object outside the ship?
Beastly: Oh, I don’t know, probably a Little Chef or something. Come on servant, let’s
go home….
The End.