devil in a bottle

the following is a transcript of an actual conversation that took place between me, rick shanley, blodgett and josh loh from midnight to 2:00 am on june 14th, 1996. we were not under the influence of any substances at the time, nor can i explain why we said what we said. all i can say is that i'm glad it occured to me to write it all down.

 

(Rick attempts to open bottle of wart remover)

SAM: What is that stuff?

RICK: I dunno, but it smells like nail polish remover.

BLODGETT (sitting up out of bed): IT'S THE DEVIL!!!

JOSH: Congratulations, Blodgett, you've successfully passed Satan Identification 101. Now we have to take it out and burn it. Do you remember your stake specifications?

RICK (still struggling with bottle): Hey! This Satan is sticky! (Opens bottle and applies wart remover to foot.)

BLODGETT: What are you doing?

RICK: I'm putting it on my feet.

BLODGETT: Why?

RICK: So I can walk like the devil, naturally.

BLODGETT: I think it's later than I thought.

SAM: That's because the girls have left.

RICK: They have!? Then who's this on the couch with me?

SAM: That's Satan!

BLODGETT: I think this is definitely degenerating into one of those late night conversations.

RICK: What was your first clue?

BLODGETT: When the girls left.

JOSH: They've left!?

(All laugh for too long)

RICK: Y'know, I used to drink liquid Satan.

JOSH: That's gotta be a lot of work for your kidneys.

BLODGETT: Yeah. I mean, liquor's hard enough, but it's gotta be hard to filter evil.

SAM (impersonating a doctor): Sir, you have an evil kidney stone.

JOSH (applying wart remover to his toes): Hmmm. The liquid Satan seems to be having no effect on my blister.

RICK: Of course not. Liquid Satan only works on warts.

BLODGETT: Hey Sam!

SAM: What!?

BLODGETT: Made you look!

RICK: Hey Blodge!

BLODGETT (burying head in pillow): Nooo!

RICK: Made you stuff your head in a pillow!

BLODGETT: No!

RICK (picking up bear slipper): The bear went over the mountain

SAM: What!?

RICK: The bear looked at Sam

JOSH: That doesn't fit the meter.

RICK: The bear looked at Blodgett

BLODGETT (grabbing slipper and beating it): Nooo! The bear can't see me! The bear can't see me!

RICK: Sticky

(Pause all laugh.)

JOSH: What we need is Emily Ziff to come in and hold up signs saying "One o'clock, one fifteen"

BLODGETT: But she graduated.

SAM: Well, we'll have to get someone else to take off her shirt and hold up signs.

BLODGETT: But we can't, 'cause the girls have left.

JOSH: They've left!?

BLODGETT: We could get Rick to do it.

(RICK takes off his shirt and holds up pillow.)

No, I mean, we could get Rick to find a girl to take her shirt off. That seems to be his specialty.

SAM: But the girls have all left.

JOSH: They've left!?

(RICK sticks his head in a pillow.)

JOSH: Gee, Rick. When did your head become a pillow?

BLODGETT: 'Bout the same time the girls left.

JOSH: They've left!?

RICK (removing pillow and standing): That's it. I'm leaving.

BLODGETT: Where are you going?

RICK: I'm getting a sex change operation and going upstairs.

BLODGETT: That would take too long.

RICK: In that case, the kitchen.

(He exits, then returns with a box of pecan chocolate chip cookies and a plastic wagon wheel in his mouth, which he spits at JOSH.)

JOSH (throwing wheel back at RICK): Thank you! I'll treasure it forever!

RICK: The wagon wheel bounces! Like ketchup!

SAM: A wagon wheel is not a condiment!

RICK: You're right. It's a vegetable.

BLODGETT: Tomorrow we're gonna think, "What a waste of an hour."

RICK: We've been doing this for an hour?

SAM: Yeah. Since the girls left.

JOSH: They've left!?

SAM: Can I have a cookie?

RICK (passing cookie): No, but you can have a round chunk of Satan.

JOSH: Satan comes in chunks?

RICK: Well, ever since I put him through the Satan shredder

BLODGETT: I have to go to the bathroom, but I don't think I can stand up.

RICK: Is it just me, or is that impossible?

JOSH: My brain just invented the color green.

RICK (examining mosquito bites): Look Sam! I've been bitten by a vampire!

BLODGETT: YEAH BITCH! Bitch bitch bitch

RICK: That was you, Sam. Wasn't it?

SAM: I never said that!

BLODGETT (rising to his knees): Oh oh! OH OH OH!!! Half way there!

(Long pause.)

RICK: XEROX!

JOSH (diving to floor): Where!?

BLODGETT (falling on face): Ouch.

(With much effort, BLODGETT staggers to feet and exits.)

RICK (chewing on belt): Is it good or bad when someone bites your belt?

BLODGETT (entering): Can you do Hoo-Doo?

JOSH: You remind me of the babe.

RICK: What babe?

SAM: None. 'Cause they've left.

RICK: What!?

SAM: The girls have left.

JOSH: They've left!?

BLODGETT: They suck! Let's kick their asses!

RICK: Which do we do? The kicking, or sucking?

BLODGETT: In the morning, remind me to be bitter.

JOSH: At whom?

BLODGETT: At the girls.

SAM: Why?

RICK: Probably 'cause they've left.

JOSH: They've left!?

BLODGETT: Of course, this goes along with my theory that you should do all soldering with blowtorches. And that barbed wire is wimpy. Electric fences would be so much more fun!

JOSH: Oh yeah! Imagine the sheer enjoyment of hauling your shocked ass back home.

RICK: Hey Blodgett! Is this the stick I ate the other day?

BLODGETT: Um yep.

RICK: Oh. Regurgitation is such a nifty thing.

ALL BLACKOUT