This week’s Friday House of the Apes is coming early due to the Thanksgiving holiday…happy holidays everybody, hug an ape this weekend!
INT-NIGHT-A large house in Somerville, Mass. On the second floor RED-HAIRED GIRL lies asleep in her purple room under her big blue comforter.
CUT TO: Living room of same house, same night. APE #1 sits on the couch watching a basketball game and building a pyramid of empty beer cans. Once the cans are stacked 5 rows high, he smiles, then knocks the cans onto the floor with a loud crash.
CUT TO: RED HAIRED GIRL jumps in her bed, now awake.
CUT TO: Living room. APE #1 begins throwing empty cans up the staircase. Getting no reaction, he walks a few steps up and starts throwing cans at the closed bedroom door of APE#2, who opens the door and laughs.
APE#2 (laughing)
Not tonight, buddy, I’m wrecked.
He closes his door and APE#1 goes back downstairs to the couch.
CUT TO: RED HAIRED GIRL with her pillow over her head in bed.
CUT TO: INT-NEXT MORNING. RED HAIRED GIRL opens her bedroom door headed to the bathroom to shower. She stops abruptly when she sees the door of APE #2. There is a line of empty beer cans stacked against the door, waiting to crash when it is opened, and just in front of the door, a water-filled condom with an attached note that reads: PROPERTY OF APE#2–DO NOT TOUCH. She continues on to the bathroom.
CUT TO: INT-SAME DAY. RED-HAIRED GIRL in her bedroom after her shower. She hears APE#2’s door open, a crash of empty beer cans, and then a loud groan. A few minutes later she opens her door to leave for work and sees a towel on the floor where the water-filled condom once was. She steps over the towel, and leaves for work.
Fade to black.
Stay tuned for next week: The (belated) $400 phone bill
Filed by cynthia rockwell at 8:18 pm under Scenes from House of the Apes
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