TV Sal and the Game Show from Outer Space
by Sheldon Oberman

A satirical romp. Tv Sal is sucked into her beloved TV by space aliens looking for parts for their space ship. She enters a game show where she trades the parts for a universal channel changer that puts her on any show in the universe. Then the fun begins.

There are 11 student parts. Sheldon takes the parts of JACK DEE DOOBIE and NARRATOR.  Students read out the underlined words. Students should read the words over a few times to prepare for the show.

TV SAL       most pages
FATHER        Pages 1, 2, 6
MOTHER        P. 1, 2, 6,
BROTHER         P. 1, 2, 6
4 ROCKONS        P. 4, 5  (must be able to shout loudly)
GORBEE NIGHT ANNOUNCER      P. 4
MONSTER MOVIE ANNOUNCER     P. 4
TALK SHOW HOST              P. 5
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          TV SAL AND THE GAME SHOW FROM OUTER SPACE

     NARRATOR
    TV SAL was watching TV at the cottage.
            She had been watching all week long.

    FATHER
 Her FATHER said,"That TV will suck your brain as empty as an old    grapefruit."

    BROTHER
   Her BROTHER said, "Your eyes will be as square as that TV
    screen."

    MOTHER
 Her MOTHER asked, "Would you like to do something different,
   dear?  Come out with us to look at the fog."

    SAL
     "No thanks," said SAL. "I want to watch the Pretty Piggy
 Supersweet Special.  Then The Top Fifty Video Thriller Countdown.
  After that, there's a cartoon show about monster garbage cans."

       MOTHER, FATHER and BROTHER speak together
 "Call us if you want us," they said.  "We won't go far."

       But something was wrong with Channel Two.
   There was no Pretty Piggy Supersweet Special.
   There was a game show that SAL had never seen before.
   She decided to change the channel.
 

    JACK DEE DOOBIE
    "Don't touch that dial!" yelled the game show host. "I'm
      JACK DEE DOOBIE, and you could be *!OUR * NEXT* BIG * WINNER!*"

     SAL
 "How?" asked SAL.

    JACK DEE DOOBIE
     "Bring me everything on this list," he said.  "Then
    *! LET'S * MAKE * A * TRADE!* "

      SAL read the list;   a litre of rocket fuel
                      eight expanding pressure straps
                         three quartz ball bearings
      SAL didn't know what they were.  So she found what she
 could around the cottage: a bottle of diet cola,
  eight rubber bands and some glass marbles.

    JACK DEE DOOBIE
      "Come on in!" yelled JACK DEE DOOBIE.

  Buzzat! SAL was buzzatted right inside the television.

    JACK DEE DOOBIE
     "Give me those parts," said JACK DEE DOOBIE. "And I'll
 trade you ... a chance to win!"

     SAL
 "Win what?" asked SAL.

    JACK DEE DOOBIE
 "A BIG PRIZE!" said JACK DEE DOOBIE.  "Just spin the wheel.
 If it lands on fifty-seven you try to answer the Hundred Word
 Puzzle.  If you're right, you tell us your most embarrassing
 secret.  If we laugh loudly enough, you pick the weirdest member
 of the AUDIENCE for a date.  If the judges like your choice,
 you can trade your date for a Big Prize. Isn't that easy?" asked
 JACK DEE DOOBIE, all smiles.

     SAL
     "No, it's not easy," said SAL. "And what is the Big Prize?"

    JACK DEE DOOBIE
     "A meteorite scale!" said JACK DEE DOOBIE.

    AUDIENCE
     "Ooh!" went the AUDIENCE.

    JACK DEE DOOBIE
     "Or an air tank in one of four shades of grey!"

    AUDIENCE
     "Aah!" went the AUDIENCE.

    JACK DEE DOOBIE
     "Or last but not least,..."

    SAL
     "Forget it," said SAL. "No trade."

    JACK DEE DOOBIE
     "Please!" he begged. "Those parts are for our space ship!"

    SAL
     "Aha! You tried to trick me," said SAL. "You're aliens
 from Outer Space!"

    JACK DEE DOOBIE
      "It's true!" said JACK DEE DOOBIE. "But we crashed and we
 need those parts to get back home. I'll trade you my Universal
 Channel Changer!  It puts you on any TV show in the universe."

     SAL
      SAL's eyes lit up. She said, "You've got a trade!"

      The AUDIENCE went wild.      SAL pressed Channel Five.
            *BRUM* {}GRUZZELBEEP{} !HAZAP!
    She was on another TV show. But not one from this world.
    It was the Planet Goofalot Cooking Show.  And SAL was the
 main dish.   The chef grabbed her by the ankles and stuck her
 in a pot.  Just before she was peeled, chopped and boiled, she
 switched back to Channel 2. Only to hear JACK DEE DOOBIE say ...

    JACK DEE DOOBIE
 "That's it for today's show, folks. Tune in again
 tomorrow for *!LET'S * MAKE * A * TRADE!*

     SAL
 "Wait!" cried SAL. Too late. Another show had already started

    GORBEE NIGHT ANNOUNCER
     "It's Gorbee Night Live!" an announcer said. "The greatest
 talent show in Outer Space.  Our next act is Al from the
 Planet Dirt - I mean SAL from the Planet Earth!" - foreign names
 always mix me up."

      SAL didn't know what to do.  She grabbed what looked like
 four rocks and began to juggle.

    ROCKONS
  "Rau-awk!" The rocks screamed.

    GORBEE NIGHT ANNOUNCER
     "You're juggling THE ROCKONS!" the announcer yelled.
 "They're the greatest rock band in the galaxy!"

     SAL dropped them on the floor.

    SAL
 "I'm sorry," she said. "Oh, I wish I'd never met Jack Dee
 Doobie. If he hadn't crashed his space ship, I wouldn't even be
 here."

    ROCKONS
 "Rau-awk," cried THE ROCKONS, hopping towards SAL. "Rau-awk SAL!"
     Quickly, SAL punched the Universal Channel Changer.
   *BRUM* {}GRUZZELBEEP{} !HAZAP!
     She got away and found herself on The Planet Barkaloon Comedy
 Show.  Barkaloons think only one thing is funny, slopping each
 other and slopping SAL with paint, over and over again. Just as
     SAL got her turn to slop paint back, THE ROCKONS showed up
  shouting,

    ROCKONS
   "Rau-awk - SAL!"

     SAL only just escaped to Channel Ninety-nine, where she became
 a CHUMPBALL in the CHUMPBALL CHUMPIONSHIPS. The worst part came
 when the ROCKONS rushed on trying to catch her.
  *BRUM* {}GRUZZELBEEP{} !HAZAP!
      She escaped to Channel One Hundred and One...

    MONSTER MOVIE ANNOUNCER
 "Welcome to 'The Meebly Mawbly Midnight Monster Movie,"
 the announcer said."Our movie tonight is called, 'The Horrible
     One Headed, Two Eyed, Ten Fingered Creature from Across the
 Universe.'"

     That Horrible Creature was SAL.
  She switched to Channel 1050 - The Planet Groan Exercise Show
 Channel 44,000 - The Mud and Crud Beauty Contest
     Channel 1,000,012 - a talk show on Planet Finkelouie
  where the host had five heads.

    SAL
 "Will one of your heads please tell me how to get home?"
 SAL begged. But the heads wouldn't stop asking questions,

   TALK SHOW HOST
 "Do you feel lonely with only one head?"
  "Are you embarrassed because you aren't purple?"
 "Why do you have all those hairs on your head?  Are they like
  antennae?"
 SAL switched channels all night long but by morning she was
 no closer to home.  Finally, it was four o'clock, time for
  *!Let's * Make * A *Trade!*   back on Channel Two.
   *BRUM*  {}GRUZZELBEEP{}  !HAZAP!

     SAL
     "JACK DEE DOOBIE!" SAL shouted. "I want to go HOME!"

    JACK DEE DOOBIE
 "You tricked us, SAL," he said. "Your parts were no good.
 We're stuck on Earth.  So you're stuck in Outer Space TV."

     ROCKONS
 Suddenly, THE ROCKONS landed, shouting,"Rau-awk - SAL!"

     SAL
 "Help!" cried SAL. "They've been chasing me ever since I
 juggled them on Gorbee Night Live."

     ROCKONS
 "Not chasing," said THE ROCKONS, "We're following.  Doobie's our
 friend!  He needs parts!  We got parts."

     JACK DEE DOOBIE
 JACK DEE DOOBIE hugged all four ROCKONS. "Thanks, pals!

     SAL
 "What about me?" asked SAL.

    JACK DEE DOOBIE
     "You showed them the way here," said JACK DEE DOOBIE. "So
 you win ... A TRIP BACK HOME!"

 The audience went wild.

    JACK DEE DOOBIE
     "Press this blue button once to go home," said Jack Dee
 Doobie. "Press it twice for your Earth channels."

    SAL
  "What if I press it three times?" asked SAL.

    JACK DEE DOOBIE
     "Three times rewinds," said JACK DEE DOOBIE.  "You return to
 the time when you first started."

      When SAL got home she could tell everyone had missed her.
      They all shouted,
 

   MOTHER, FATHER and BROTHER
  "Where have you been since yesterday?  We were worried sick.
  You're in big trouble!"

      SAL knew what to do.  She pressed the blue button.
 Once. Twice. Three times.
        "WHISHA WHIZZA PASSTA!"
 Everything was rewound -
     back to when her family was coming home from their walk.

    MOTHER
 "We had such an exciting time!" said her MOTHER. "We
 think we saw a squirrel or maybe it was a bump on a log."

    FATHER
  "It was hard to tell in the fog," said her FATHER.

    BROTHER
  "Anything special on TV?" asked her BROTHER.

    SAL
      "I've had too much TV," said SAL. "I'm turning it off."

    BROTHER
      Her BROTHER said, "Impossible!".

    FATHER
  Her FATHER said, "Unbelievable!"

    MOTHER
  Her MOTHER asked, "Are you sick, dear?  Would you like a
 cup of warm milk?"

    SAL
 "No, thanks. I'll read Waldorf his favourite book," said
 SAL. "But after supper, I'll pick a TV show we can all be on."

    MOTHER
 "But don't you mean a show we can all watch," said her MOTHER.

    SAL
 "Oh, no," said SAL. "I know exactly what I mean."
 

                   THE   END

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