Scouting: Skit Files p1
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This article is from the Scouting FAQ, by Bill Nelson nelsonb@nospam.aztec.asu.edu, Soaring Golden Eagle eagle@rangernet.org and Alan Houser troop24@emf.net with numerous contributions by others.
Scouting: Skit Files p1
From: Jim Speirs <jim.speirs@canrem.com>
Timothy Eaton [in the USA this could be J.C. Penny or Montgomery Ward]
Number of participants: 4 or more
Props: Articles of clothing
# 2 enters and passes # 1, wearing a hat.
# 1: "Where did you get the hat ?"
# 2: "Timothy Eaton."
#3 enters and passes # 1 carrying a pair of pants.
# 1: "Where did you get the new pants ?"
# 3: "Timothy Eaton."
Others enter carrying new articles of clothing and offer similar
explanations. Finally # 4 enters wearing just underwear.
# 1: "Who do you think you are dressed like that ?"
# 4: "I'm Timothy Eaton !"
The Operation
By setting up a white sheet and using a light behind it, a
hospital operation can be silhouetted onto the sheet, which is
set up like a screen. Ham it up with humorous dialogue,
occasionally throwing a peeled tomato or a piece of raw liver or
spurt of ketchup out to the audience. A good creative
imagination would be an asset here.
The Lost Quarter
Number of Participants: 5 or more
Props: None.
Scene: One person acts as a lamp post, shining a flashlight on
the ground. Another is groping around in the pool of light.
(He's # 1).
A third person enters, sees # 1, and asks: "What are you looking
for ?"
# 1: "A quarter that I lost".
He joins # 1, and helps him search. A fourth and fifth enter and
repeat the above scene.
Finally one of them asks # 1: "Where did you loose the quarter ?"
# 1: (Pointing away) "Over there:.
Boy: "Then why are you looking here ?"
# 1: "Because the light is better over here !"
The Dead Body
Number of Participants: 2
Scene: One person lying on the ground, dead. Another sees him
and runs for the telephone and, panicking, gasps: "Police,
there's a dead person here... Where ? .... Un, (looking for a
sign), "I'm at Montgomery and Westchester... Spell it ?... Uh,
M-o-t-n... Uh, M-o-t-g,," (confused), "Just a minute, I'll drag
him over to King and Elm !"
The Short Runway
Number of Participants: 2 (If more are desired, they can be
passengers, with suitable sound effects and actions.)
Props: Seating for pilot and co-pilot, and for passengers if
required. A compass.
Announcer: This scene is on board a very low budget airline.
Pilot : Well, are we anywhere near the airport, co-pilot ?
Co-Pilot : (peering out the window) I don't know... I see lights
over there to the port. That's likely it. Bring 'er
around and have a look.
Pilot : (lurching plane hard to the left) Boy, I can't tell.
I wish the company would buy us some instruments.
Co-Pilot : (pulling compass from pocket) Oh, I've got my trusty
compass and the sun went down about 20 minutes ago, so
we've got to be on course. (Excited) Look, see that
spot down there, that must be it.
Pilot : Okay, here we go. Give me 20 degrees flaps, I'm going
in. (Puts plane into a nose dive, sound effects.)
Pilot : This is going to be tough. Give me more flaps, cut
back the engines. (Louder) More flaps, less throttle !
Co-Pilot : (Appropriate actions and sounds, acting panicky.)
Pilot : QUICK, cut the engines, give me brakes. MORE BRAKES !
Both : (Sighs of relief) We're down, we made it !
Pilot : Boy that was a short runway !
Co-Pilot : (Looking right, then left) Yep, and wide too !
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