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Eco, Tours and Uhuru

  
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
13:50 / 13.03.03
From a misreading of angel's post about skeevy and exploitative tourism elsewhere. That is a very serious issue. This is clearly proof of a man gone one-off man mental wrong.

Umberto Eco *is* Umberto Eco - a poststructuralist with a gun. He wants to know what happened to his brother, Luther, and there's NO LIMIT to how far he'll go - not even textual interrelation.

Pam Grier *is* Lieutenant Uhuru - she's the communications officer on the starship Enterprise - TRAPPED in a world she never made.

Tours *is* a the largest city in the Val de Loire. It's an hour from Paris, but light-years beyond your WILDEST IMAGININGS. And it has NO IDEA what's about to hit it.

Any ideas for wacky adventures resulting from this high-concept thought starter?
 
 
grant
15:12 / 13.03.03
You've been drinking, haven't you.
 
 
Sax
15:16 / 13.03.03
Angry, embittered, and on a mission. The last thing he expected to do was meet a woman like her. A woman in uniform. A woman with her communication channels definitely open.

Maybe it was the wine. Maybe it was the sultry French air. But for a moment, as he lay on top of her, gently thrusting, he thought "perhaps this is it. Perhaps I'm in love".

Or, more likely, it was just a phaser he was going through.



Er, I'm not exactly sure what's expected of us here, Haus.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
16:11 / 13.03.03
Wrongnes, my dear heart. Only wrongness.

Especially since the original thread added "in Australia". It's the ultimate fish out of water comedy.

A semiotician!

(Closeup on Umberto Eco pointing agitatedly to the television. As we pan away, Uhura is seen, apparently nodding in fascination. As we pan out a little further, though, we see she is wearing an enormous pair of headphones and nodding along to the music.)

A Starfleet Lieutenant!

(Cut to Uhuru, sitting on the bus next to a man wearing a hands-free mobile. Eventually she can no longer resist and delivers an ear-splitting version of the "Star Trek" hailing frequency)

They're the wrong people to share a flat in the regional capital of la Touraine!

(amusing pratfall as Uhuru pushes Eco by accident into vat of wine)

You'd think it couldn't get any worse...

(Eco opens the door and steps out, shielding his eyes against the blinding glare of an Australian sun. Tours is badly backmasked to appear to be right next to Ayer's Rock)

...until the entire town.....MOVED TO AUSTRALIA!

(the door clicks shut behind Eco. He checks his shut pocket for the keys, then mugs resignedly to the camera)

I'm thinking an episode where they visit the coast and Uhuru tries to rescue a whale so she can get home. The episode could be called "Free Willy Style".
 
  
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