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.
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Characters required, 1 doctor and four patients.
Props required, two chairs.
Scene begins with doctor sitting on one of the chairs.
First patient enters twitching their left arm.
DOCTOR: 'And what's wrong with you sir?'
Patient 1: 'As you can see doctor I have this terrible twitch'
DOCTOR: 'Just sit on my magic chair and you'll get better'
The patient sits on the chair and stops twitching, but the doctor's
left arm starts twitching.
Patient 1: 'Oh thank you doctor. you cured me'
The patient leaves, the doctor still twitching calls for the next
patient.
DOCTOR: ' Next '...... 'And what's wrong with you sir?'
This patient has the hiccups. The process of sitting in the chair
is repeated. The doctor now has a twitch and the hiccups.
The third patient is called in, both his legs keep flicking in the air. The
process is again repeated so that the doctor now has a twitching arm
the hiccups and both legs flicking in the air.
The doctor now calls patient four. This patient looks quite normal,
enters and sits in the magic chair.
DOCTOR: 'And what may I ask is wrong with you sir?'
Patient 4: 'I've got a terrible case of the trots doctor'
The doctor runs off the stage holding his stomach.
Note: TROTS is English slang for can't stop going to the toilet
 
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