Flaws of the Fathers and a Global-Warming Denier
A character who doesn’t want to have kids because he is terrified that his numerous flaws (both physical and psychological) that he has been meticulously suppressing and hiding from the world will be exposed if his children have the same flaws and don’t do as good a job of disguising them.
Thinking of characters reminded me of a character I came up with for “Stuck in Delaware” (the theatrical musical sitcom that Joe Weisenthal and I wrote) but never used. We wrote two episodes of that sit-com, and started work on a third. That lost third episode would have involved a global-warming-denying-coot who always wears heavy coats on sweltering summer days to prove that global warming is a myth.
The other thing I remember from that episode is that the high school was going to put on a theatrical version of Daniel Quinn’s Ishmael - that book about the environmentalist talking ape lecturing a man about how humans destroy the world.
The coat-wearing coot was going to shout the play down.
4 years ago