DETERGENT: The First Lost Episode

CAST: Kenas Detergent

Destiny Tutiani

Thate NeMoc

Celisira Bavecs

Sanchino Fernasandro

Schmoer Nanarkinson

ACT I SC I JOFFEE PT. I

[Lights fade on as Kenas and Thate are arguing over which is better

...Jolt Cola or Coffee. Both enter from Stage Left. Sanchino with a half-

empty bottle of soda enters from the audience.]

Kenas: Jolt Cola is better, Thate, since it has all the sugar and twice the caffeine.

[Holds up a can of Jolt Cola.]

Thate : [Smelling his cup of coffee.] Can you smell it, Kenas? [Breaks into horrible singing.]

The best part of wakin' up is coffee in your cup! Not Jolt Cola.

Kenas: Wrong, Thate! Wrong for the umpteenth...

[Sanchino comes running down the aisle spilling the soda all over the stage.]

Kenas: You idiot! Why'd you spill that all over my floor, Sanchino?

Sanchino: Jzzzt! J-J-J-Joffee...[Shakes and jitters and then goes to normal.] The janitor can clean it up, Kenas.

Kenas: Janitor?! Sanchino, I'm on the 22nd floor...I don't think a janitor should come to clean a little spill.

Sanchino: Jzzzt! You don't say...well, if it's so little, why don't you clean it up?

Kenas: I don't know what that stuff is...could be contaminated.

Sanchino: Jzzzt! It's just Joffee...and I gotta go make some more now.

Thate: Joffee? What the crap is that?

Sanchino: Jzzzt! Still gettin' a buzz from it, it'll pass...Joffee is a concoction confection

comprised of Jolt Cola and coffee...3 times the caffeine and more than enough sugar.

Kenas: Before you go, how much of that...have you had?

Sanchino: 10 liters and I'm clean as a whistle...this stuff flushes my system like nothin' else on the market.

Thate: 10 liters...isn't that a little extreme of a dose? If not, can I have a taste? You know, a sip.

Sanchino: If not for that guy, I wouldn't have tripped onto your floor.

Thate: What guy? This is real life, Sanchino.

Sanchino: Jzzzt! That buzz is still kickin'...and to answer your earlier question...Sorry, man, but

this hasn't been made for anyone but me.

[Sanchino leaves via Stage Left.]

Kenas: Now, there goes one overly-caffeinated skitzo!

Thate: Sure, 'bout that...

[Schmoer enters from Stage Left, looking rather panicked.]

Kenas: Begone, Schmoer! Your pestilence is not welcome here!

Schmoer: Kenas, do you know where Sanchino is? Today is our First Cousin's Second Sister

Twice Removed Son's Neighborhood Friend's Grandmother Who Is Actually Our Mother's Day.

Kenas: No. Nein. Non. Nyet. So long, Schmoer.

Schmoer: I'll be back...Kenas...[Evil laugh and exits Stage Left.]

Thate: Is that even a holiday and...

Kenas: Is that relationship possible? No, Thate, but there is a bigger fish to fry. We need to stop Sanchino

from makin' more Joffee...otherwise, we'll never be able to argue again.

[While the following conversation is occurring, Destiny and Celisira are looking at Kenas and Thate

through binoculars and sneaking/tip-toeing onto the stage from the audience.]

Thate: I see your point, but how? And when are Celisira and Destiny comin' over?

Kenas: You mean Destiny and Celisira...Soon.

Thate: Destiny and Thate sounds better than Destiny and Kenas, c'mon!

Kenas: Destiny's my girlfriend, that's why.

Destiny: Kenas, you're late...I'm leavin'. [Goes to stage right.]

Kenas: That's a closet, Destiny.

Destiny: Just testin' you...

["Weird music" plays as lights fade out.]

ACT I SC II JOFFEE PT. II

[Lights fade back on and the four are still talking.]

Thate: Celisira, why were you sneakin'?

Celisira: Thate, I drank with another man.

Thate: Who? What?

Celisira: Sanchino. Joffee.

Kenas and Thate: Joffee?! Sanchino?!

Destiny: I drank as well. Good stuff. Makes us really, really like him. Well, Celisira and I are leaving.

[Kisses Kenas and Celisira kisses Thate.]

Thate: Do we ever leave your living room, Kenas?

Kenas: Nope, Thate and I blame the government and aliens.

Thate: Frookular!

[Sanchino and Schmoer run in with a paper bag and tug on it.]

Schmoer: The formula is mine, Sanchino. Plus, I have a date tonight!

Sanchino: A date? Who? The Bearded Lady? The formula is mine and was not meant for love, Schmoer!

Kenas: As much as you two bickerin' back and forth is better than you two talkin' to me, I have to say that Joffee must be given away.

[Looks into the audience and points to a person.]

Kenas: Hey kid, want some Joffee? Trust me, it's probably just Pepsi or Coca-Cola.

[If the person says yes, then...]

Kenas: See me after the show.

[If the person says no or does not say anything...]

Kenas: Your loss.

Sanchino: He's right, let's get rid of this drink and start somethin' else...

Schmoer: We still got 12 minutes left of FCSSTRSNFGWIAOM Day.

Sanchino: You're right...let's go...

[Sanchino and Schmoer exit Stage Left.]

Thate: [Looks at his wrist.] Kenas, I gotta go...somethin's bound to come up. See ya tomorrow.

Kenas: Yea, see ya, Thate.

[Lights fade out and "weird music" plays again as the cast comes for the curtain call.]