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The Friend Machine CAST: Malcolm, Dusty DUSTY: Oh, that awful racket! Malcolm must be building something again. (CALLING TO MALCOLM, WHO IS OFFSTAGE) Malcolm, will you cut the racket out? MALCOLM: (ENTERS CARRYING BOX. SPEAKS EXCITEDLY.) Wow, man, this is the best machine I've ever built! DUSTY: (LOOKS AT MACHINE OFFSTAGE) What kind of machine is that contraption? MALCOLM: It's a "Build It Yourself Friend Machine". I just got it and put it together today. Now all I have to do is add the ingredients. DUSTY: Wait a minute! Friend machine? Ingredients? What kind of machine is this? MALCOLM: It's a machine that builds the kind of friend you want. All you have to do is add the ingredients you think it takes to make a perfect friend, turn the machine on, and presto! Out comes your perfect friend! Neat huh? DUSTY: No! Weird. This will never work. You can't build a friend with a machine. MALCOLM: Oh, yes you can, and I am going to prove it! I'm about to add the ingredients in this box. DUSTY: (REACHING IN BOX AND TAKING OUT CANDY) Hmmmmm... Looks like you have a bag of candy hearts. MALCOLM: Right! A friend should be full of love and kindness, so I'm putting in plenty of that. DUSTY: (PUTTING CANDY BACK IN BOX) That makes sense, (TAKES GLUE OUT OF BOX) but what's this bottle of glue for? MALCOLM: Well, I think that a friend should stick by you, so I'm putting in lots of glue. Get it? DUSTY: With all this glue, he'll stick by you for sure! In fact, you may need to peel him off. I see one more thing in your box. (TAKES OUT SMALL BOX) Looks like a box of truth. MALCOLM: Right. Last of all, a friend should keep his promises, so I'm putting in a good supply of truth. DUSTY: (PUTTING SMALL BOX BACK) These are all good ingredients, but this will never work. MALCOLM: Yes it will, and I'm going to prove it. Just watch! (EXIT, BOX IN HAND) DUSTY: (WATCHING ACTION OFFSTAGE) There he goes, he's pouring all that stuff into his machine. Now he's turning it on, and it's on fire. Well, he's going to...(ALARMED) On fire! (EXPLOSION OCCURS. BOX FLIES ACROSS STAGE. MALCOLM STAGGERS BACK ON STAGE) MALCOLM: (GROANING) Oh...now I have no perfect friend machine...and no perfect friend either. DUSTY: (TRYING TO CONSOLE MALCOLM) Well, no machine can build a friend, perfect or not. But there is someone who wants to be our perfect friend. MALCOLM: Yeah? Who's that? DUSTY: Jesus Christ, God's son! He's full of love and kindness. He loved us enough to die for us, and he's kind enough to forgive us of all our sins! MALCOLM: But will He stay with you? DUSTY: Sure! He said in Matthew 28:20, I am with you always. MALCOLM: But does he keep his promises? DUSTY: Absolutely. MALCOLM: Wow! That sounds like the perfect friend for sure! And speaking of friends, I better clean up what's left of my perfect friend machine. DUSTY: (AS THEY EXIT TOGETHER) I'll help! Wow, that thing splattered glue everywhere. MALCOLM: Yeah. Cleaning this up is going to be a real sticky problem! (BOTH LAUGH AND EXIT) GO TO HOME PAGE mmmmm GO SEE PUPPETS mmmmm GO SEE PROGRAMMING mmmmm GET ON MAILING LIST |