Microsoft TV: Too True to Be Funny!
Two incompetent window installers. Scadsof irate customers. Thank heavens it's fiction!
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Friday, May 30, 2008; 1:19 AM
Some stuff you can't make up.In April, Mediaweek really did reportthat at a Microsoft event, MSN's Gayle Troberman announced new online TV concepts. Among them: In Need of Repair, described as "a male-skewing home improvement series featuring a pair of sophomoric, mostly inept, hosts."
Troberman said the shows could be tweaked to advertisers' needs, but the first script seems destined for a major overhaul. I can't vouch for its provenance, but the informant who sent it to me claims to have fished it out of a Recycle Bin at an undisclosed location in Redmond, Washington.
FADE IN:
Bilgey and Butthead, in overalls with "B & B Windows" emblazoned across their chests, confront an irate customer in his home. Bilgey has a whiny voice and a really bad haircut; Butthead is all bluster, no hair.
CUSTOMER: Look at this! You said you'd fix my windows!
BILGEY: Replaced 'em! All new! Innovative!
BUTTHEAD: Great job! Great job!
CUSTOMER: It's like looking through a fun-house mirror!
BILGEY: That's our slogan: New windows! More fun!
CUSTOMER: Can't you see how distorted they are?
BUTTHEAD: They're high tech. And green! Recycled!
BILGEY: They're our new Blista Windows.
