{"id":8249,"date":"2020-07-05T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-05T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=8249"},"modified":"2020-07-24T12:06:20","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T19:06:20","slug":"contestants-on-a-game-show-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2020\/07\/contestants-on-a-game-show-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Contestants on a Game Show! part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The first installment of the Contestants on a Game Show! video series:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here’s the full script as written, though it may have been modified in performance or in editing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sarah: I heard that because of COVID, our congregation is losing lots of rental income.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John: How can we raise money to help? I’ve got it! We’ll be contestants on game shows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sarah: Whatever prize money we win, we’ll give to the congregation!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John: Let’s start with our favorite game show\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Offscreen announcer while Greg is on screen smiling: Here’s Alex Tribble!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greg: This is Lethargy, America’s favorite answer and question show. Today’s contestants are John and Francesca from Silicon Valley. And our returning contestant is Sigmund Freud, from Freiberg, Austria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John: Hi!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sarah: Hi!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sigmund Freud: Hi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greg: Here are the three categories for in this round: Famous Unitarians, Famous Universalists, and Famous Unitarian Universalists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sigmund: What is this Universalist Unitarian nonsense?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sarah: I’ll take Famous Unitarians for $200.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greg: She wrote the famous children’s book Little Women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Francesca [hitting buzzer]: Oo, oo, I know! Who was Louisa May Alcott?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greg: That’s correct.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John: I’ll take Famous Universalists for $500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greg: He started a famous circus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John [hitting buzzer]: Who was P. T. Barnum?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greg: That’s correct.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sigmund Freud: I choose Famous Unitarian Universalists for $1000!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greg: The answer is: The inventor of the World Wide Web.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sigmund [hitting buzzer]: What is the interpretation of dreams?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greg: No\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sarah [hitting buzzer]: Oo, I know! Who is Tim Berners-Lee?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greg: That’s correct! Now it’s time for Final Lethargy. The category is: Unitarian Universalist hymns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John and Sarah jumping up and down: OO! OO!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greg: Whoever gets this right wins $100,000! And the answer is: The hymn with a rose in wintertime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sarah (hitting her buzzer): I know! What is “Come Sing a Song with Me”?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John (hitting his buzzer): I know! What is “Come Sing a Song with Me”?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sigmund (looking confused): What? What is this rose? Are you all neurotic?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greg: John and Francesca, you each win $100,000! Today’s third place contestant wins a beautiful lounge suite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sigmund (looking furious): I hate lounge suites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John: Wow, we won!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sarah: We have $200,000 to give to our congregation!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greg: Tune in next week when I host another<\/em> game show\u2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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