Thursday, April 03, 2025

script for my graphic novel part 1 - five years ago

1. The Rest of Quiglet

When you comet o
To find you’ve always
Been as tar
Stuck to the hot sole
As tar ters pistol
Finds you gone

1. 

A. Schiegel by his keyboard with a telephone on the floor.
B. THEN…
C. Phone: Ring Ring
D. Schiegel goes to answer it
E. Schiegel: Schiegel residence/ Yes this is he
F. Miss Carleton: Schiegel
G. Schiegel Is that you Miss Carleton what a lovely surprise
H. Miss Carleton:  I have a job for you, my dear man, should you choose to take it/ (with musical notes) Do you have much on? 

2. 
A. Schiegel: Not a lot 
Miss Carleton (on phone) Ooh la la! 
B. Miss Carleton: Well hold that thought lover boy meanwhile the foul wretches at Screen Gems want to utilize your talents
C. [Soon] (Schiegel in his car driving through town)
D. (Reception) Schiegel: Schiegel to see Mr Lomax 
Receptionist: He’s expecting you
E. Receptionist: Go right in/ Yeah/ Plz
F. Schiegel: Lomax
Lomax: Shiegel thank you for coming in at such short notice. 
Schiegel: Not a problem
G. Lomax: I’d like you to meet Geraldo Impertinu
Impertinu: Mr Schiegel! 

3. 
A. Impertinu: No doubt you are aware of the Quiglet, no? / Yes the movie series of the Quiglet./I have the honour to create it again for television / But… it needs the music! / The music! 
B. Impertinu: The music it must be jaunty yet young/ Severe yet bold/ Of the street/ Yet suitable for a princess’s penthouse party/ Audrey Hepburn yet Katherine Hepburn yet a wild factory carnival

4. 
A. Impertinu: The music my little mother made the week before she die.
B. Lomax: $75 and episode, and a hundred for the theme song. Deal? 
Schiegel: Deal
C. Schiegel: I look forward to working with you Mr Impertinu / Sorry about your mother
D. Impertinu: Eh? / Oh the bitch / She live
E: SOON
F: Schiegel playing keyboard, it makes musical note. Schiegel: Hmm
G. Schiegel (singing): What d’you call a 5-legged piglet? 
H. Schiegel (singing): A baby swan’s a cygnet… a baby twig’s a… um…/ No! 
(Pot plant falls from keyboard)

5. A. Pot: Smash
B. Schiegel: Damn it
C. Schiegel (playing piano again): Hmm…
D. [SIX MONTHS LATER]
E. Elyse: Napeel Wait up! 
F. Elyse: Napeeel!
G. Napeel: Oh/ Hello Elyse
H. Elyse: You said you’d walk me home today

 6. A. Napeel: And so we’re walking
B: Elyse: Are you going to do anything fun tonight Napeel?
C. Napeel: Oh, ‘fun’? Yeah I’ll have fun. / Snort
D: Elyse: Yeah? Are you gonna watch the t. v. 
Voice off  (Bobo): Hey! Napeel! Who’s your friend/ She’s hott!
Voice off 2: Ha ha 
E: Napeel: Get bent/ Don’t even talk to me Bobo
F: Bobo: Ha ha/ Truth hurts/Moll! 
Boy 2: Ha ha stinks

7. A. Bobo: Boo hoo don’t talk to me boo hoo
Boy 2: Stinks
B. Elyse: Who even was that
Napeel [fume]
C. Elyse: Do you know those boys?
D: Elyse: They were so rude to us.
E: Napeel: Please just change the subject Elyse
Elyse: OK
F. Elyse: There are new shows on TV tonight!
G. Elyse: Channel 7 has ‘Robot Country’
H. Elyse: Channel 9 has ‘Adventures of Kreemy Pudding’
I. Elyse: And Channel 0 has
J: Elyse: ‘The Rest of Quiglet’/ Which one will you watch, Napeel? 

8. A. Elyse: ‘Robot C…
Napeel: The last one.
Elyse: Me too! 
B. [LATER…]
C. Elyse: Can I eat my dessert in front of the T. V. Mrs Lane?
D. Mrs Lane: What would your parents say, Elyse?
Elyse: They’d say yes
E. Mrs Lane (thinks): Sigh
F. Mrs Lane: Then/Yes
G. Elyse in front of television
H. Television: [Now]
I. (Title) The rest of Quiglet
J. (Theme song) A girl called Quiglet/ Can appear at any minute/ Like a pot plant breaking on the floor/ Or a naked woman on the telephone

9. A. [Starring]
B. (Theme Song): Just as there may be/ A wild factory carnival somewhere/ And death is in the streets/ But love is above and around.
C. [Grace Mannix as Quiglet]
D. (Theme Song): Quiglet’s just a girl but what a girl!/ She never rests/ She has a dog, a bird, a Daddy and a robot maid! Robot! 
E. [Patrick Delisle as Danny]
F. [Jane Hemingway-Pye as Billie]
G. [Rod Sims as Daddy]
H. [and ‘Biltong’ as Suzy Sprocket].

10 (all on TV)
A.     [Establishing shot of house]
B.     Daddy: Quiglet! Quiglet!
C.     Daddy Quiglet!
Quiglet: Yes Daddy
D.    Daddy: Have you seen my new glasses?
E.     Quiglet: Daddy we had this conversation/ Yes I have
F.     Quiglet: And they do not suit you [laughter]
G.     Daddy: But I need them to read!
Quiglet: Do you want to read or do you want to look good [laughter]
H.    Suzy Sprocket: Klik – Teenagers – Klik [laughter]

11. 
A. Elyse (thinks): Quiglet looks a bit like Napeel/ In the antlers anyway
B. Mrs Lane: That robot is very sassy
C. Elyse (thinks): Where did you learn a fancy word like that
D. Mrs Lane: I was sassy myself in my day
E. Mrs Lane: You’re lucky I lost my sass 
F. Mrs Lane: Else I’d sass you good Elyse

12.
A. Lomax [on phone]: So if we get both episodes done before she goes on break…
B. Schiegel [on phone]: Makes sense/ I think I can do it
C. Lomax [on phone]: It will be tight. 
D. Schiegel [on phone]: There can be no mistakes. No room for…
E. Lomax [on phone]: (giggle)/no room for error
F. Schiegel [on phone]: (laugh) I won’t let you down. 
G. Lomax [on phone]: (laughing loudly) You will need to come on set!

13 (all on TV)
A.     [Establishing shot of house]
B.     Suzy Sprocket: Klik - Ms Quiglet! You have water in your eye Klik!/Did you spill your soda klik? 
C.     Quiglet: Oh Suzy Sprocket/ I’m just sad
D.    Suzy: What is sad?
E.     Quiglet: It’s something silly… teenagers feel sometimes/ I’m missing my mom
F.     Suzy: Klik Missing? Like when your Daddy try to hit the golf ball? Klik [laughter]
G.     Quiglet: No, missing – like – I wish she wasn’t dead. [audience hush]
H.    Suzy Sprocket: Klik – Who do you wish dead? I am enabled to kill! – Klik [laughter]


14. 
A. Schiegel standing in corner taking notes
B. Ace: You thinking what I’m thinking, Schiegel?
C. Schiegel: I doubt it, Ace. I’m thinking a bass run under this dialogue
D. Ace: What… wow! / Our conversation? / You’re scoring it?
E. Schiegel [eye roll]: Under the conversation on the show.
F. Ace: Man, this show. Man!
G. Ace: It sucks like the final drag on a sweet doobie.
H. [Sees Grace Mannix] But that Mannix! /What a honey.

15.  
A. Impertinu: This… how to leave from this.
B. Raydot [consulting script]: Well, Daddy comes in with a pie.
C. Impertinu: Is that real? / My Daddy hated pie.
D. Raydot: It leads to the whole pie and cream storyline, Impy
E. Impertinu: Do you feel it? / Do you?
F. Raydot: I… Who’s that

16.
A. Raydot: Excuse me, do you work here? 
B. Schiegel: Sure, Raydot, we’ve spoken four or five times today
C. Raydot: I’m Raydot, Mr. Impertinu’s continuity. We’re looking for someone to insert here
D. Raydot: Just knock on the door, and come in with the pie
E. [Door] Knock Knock
F. Quiglet (drying eyes): Who could that be? 

17. 
A. [Door opened on Schiegel] Schiegel: I… I have the pie
B. Their eyes meet.
C. Impertinu: CUT!
D. Impertinu: That was the best I have ever… everybody! / everybody!
E. Impertinu: You have just witnessed born a star

18. 
A. Impertinu: I want him under contract
Raydot: He already works here. The music.
B. Impertinu: He is perfect. In every way. / I love the music. 
C. Raydot: Can you come back tomorrow?/ We need more you this episode. 
D. Schiegel: I have a studio date/ Music for the two…
E. Raydot: This is more important
F. Ace: I know a musician. 

19. 
A. Elyse: Napeel 
B. Elyse: Napeel!
C. Elyse: I said have you heard the Suzy Sprocket album?
D. Napeel: I don’t know what that… means
E: Elyse: From The Rest of Quiglet! Suzy Sprocket. She’s made an album!
F. Elyse: You like albums! I do too! 

20. 
Biltong is… Suzy Sprocket MAID OF TITANIUM

Quiglet Theme
This Wheel’s on Fire
I’ve Grown Accustomed to Your Interface 
To Circuit With Love
I Want to Hold your Handle
TV Eye
Serve and Destroy
Cog in my Sprocket
And two more! 

Klik Groovy Klik! 
Conducted by Schiegel

21. 
A. Elyse: Napeel, Biltong was a refuggee.
B. Napeel: It’s pronounced refugee. 
C. Elyse: They run ball games right? 
D. Elyse: They tell people, like ‘that was in’ and…
E. Elyse: They say ‘It’s a goal’ and…? Napeel?
F. Napeel: Leave me alone. Just leave me the frig alone. 

22. (all on TV)
A.     [Establishing shot of house]
B.     Schiegel: Gee, Quiglet. Gee 
C.     Quiglet: I know Schiegel. Gee.
D.    Schiegel: It’s all happened so fast.
E.     Quiglet: Too fast? Is it too fast? Because… 
F.     Schiegel: No, no, not too fast. Just fast enough.
G.     Quiglet: I’m glad you think so.

23. 
A. Impertinu: End the scene. Camera off. 
B. Raydot: Cut! 
C. Impertinu: Yes, yes, is the way it should be.
D. Raydot: Schiegel’s people want to renegotiate his contract, Impy.
E. Impertinu: Why are there people. Who needs people?
F. Raydot: He’s basically equal star with Grace now. They make Schiegel dolls, Impy.
G. Impertinu: He should be glad of exposure. My Daddy…
H. I know, Impy. Died of exposure. It’s not what I want to hear.

24. 
A. Schiegel and Grace in the conversation pit.
B. They kiss
C. THEN…
D. Phone: Ring Ring
E. Schiegel answers it
F. Schiegel: Schiegel residence/ Yes this is he
G. Miss Carleton: Schiegel
H. Schiegel: Miss Carleton what a lovely surprise

25. 
A. Miss Carleton: Is she there? 
B. Schiegel: You mean Grace? 
C. Miss Carleton: You know who I mean. 
D. Schiegel: Then you know that she is.
E. Miss Carleton: I’m pulling you from the show, Schiegel. They’re not agreeing to our needs. 
F. Schiegel: The money doesn’t matter Barbara. I have everything I want. 


script for my graphic novel part 1 - five years ago

1. The Rest of Quiglet When you comet o To find you’ve always Been as tar Stuck to the hot sole As tar ters pistol Finds you ...