So I did.
Much like my "Island of Frankenstein" screenplay, I had no business writing it. Then I remembered years ago that someone wrote a spec episode of "Seinfeld" has if it was still on the air after 9/11. Back in the 90s, writers went through a phase of writing "retro" spec scripts of shows like "I Love Lucy" just to stand out from the crowd. I one time got involved with a theater "producer" who wanted to turn "Oliver Twist" into a TV series called "Fagin's Gang" and I wrote the pilot for that. I got involved with a Hollywood "producer" who kept pitching ideas at me, where I was actually writing loglines and sample pages (which I wrote about here).
It's done. Did anyone else think of this? While I was googling for images for this post, I put it as "The Quiet Office" and only got hits on the TV show. There's lots of sketches I've written that when I posted them here over the years, a search for graphics would bring up a lot of versions of it (like "The Walken Dead" sketch I wrote--man, that had a LOT of takes on it).
Anyway, it's here. It's pretty funny (IMHO) and I think I got the flavor of both...although, there's much more talking here than the movie creatures would allow. I wanted to write Office dialogue, what can I say?
so in that sense, spending a week working on a 1/2 sit-com episode is really small potatoes. And I've heard of enough people posting odd-ball scripts online to see if anyone notices. It often boils down to this: I don't know any better.
Look, it's my creation, based on other's copyrighted works and it's merely presented as a sample. And a fun parody of both shows. So, let's take a mid-series episode of "The Office" and run it through "A Quiet Place" and present "A Quiet Office." Or "The Quiet Office." I'm not married to it.
Meanwhile, the prose piece is still looking for an outlet. It'll probably wind up here, too, at some point.