Dinosaur Office: Asteroid

By

Kevin Corrigan, Caldwell Tanner & Brian Murphy

          INT. DINOSAUR OFFICE - BREAK ROOM

          CRAIG and SHEILA, a stegosaurus with a brown beehive hairdo,
          glasses and lipstick, are drinking coffee.

                              CRAIG
                    Don't even talk to me until I've
                    had my morning coffee.

                              SHEILA
                    OK.

                              CRAIG
                    I was kidding.  You can talk to me.

          Beat.  TODD walks into the room.

                              TODD
                    Hey, put on the news, they're
                    talking about the asteroid.

          CRAIG turns the TV on with one of his horns.  ON SCREEN:
          SUSIE "THE MONSOON" STONE, a stegosaurus like Sheila, with
          no glasses and with long blond hair, does the weather.

                              SUSIE STONE
                    Good morning, Pangea.

                              SHEILA
                         Where do they find these
                         weather girls?  They're so
                         skinny.

          Susie gestures at a GREEN SCREEN MAP OF PANGEA.

                              SUSIE STONE
                    An asteroid warning is in effect
                    for all of the supercontinent.

                              TODD
                    I hope we can work from home
                    tomorrow.  Traffic is going to be a
                    nightmare.

          The green screen now shows the Earth.

                              SUSIE STONE
                    Expect scattered showers later...

          Susie points to swirly clouds on the screen.

                              SUSIE STONE
                    ...leading into a level 5 asteroid,
                    ending life as we know it.

          Screen displays a massive asteroid hitting the Earth and
          knocking it into the sun, causing it to explode.

                              CRAIG
                    They always blow these things out
                    of proportion.  It's all about the
                    ratings.

                              TODD
                    Like that volcano last week.  It
                    was supposed to scorch the Earth.
                         (beat)
                    It only scorched half of the Earth.

                              SHEILA
                    My neighbors across the street were
                    incinerated, but we didn't even
                    lose power.

                              SUSIE STONE
                    This just in: the asteroid is going
                    to be smaller than anticipated-

                              CRAIG
                    See?  It was a big deal over
                    nothing.

                              SUSIE STONE
                    -and it's headed straight for the
                    office of Dino Corp Incorporated.

                              TODD
                    Oh no.

          CUT TO: An asteroid crashes into the Dino Corp Incorporated
          building in an epic, slow motion explosion, destroying it.

          Back to break room:

                              TODD
                    I have stock in that company.

          END.