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Jurassic Fandom
| Convention skit | |
|---|---|
| Title | Jurassic Fandom |
| Author(s) | Lezlie Shell |
| Date(s) | 1995 |
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Jurassic Fandom was a con skit by Lezlie Shell.
It was preformed at the 1995 Escapade.
Summary
"A scientist has come up with a way to clone our heroes for a theme entertainment park, and as she shows her sponsors through, they pass little dioramas of Kirk & Spock, Starsky & Hutch, Bodie & Doyle."
Fan Comments
1995
"Jurassic Fandom" [was] written by Lezlie Shell, long may she reign. A scientist has come up with a way to clone our heroes for a theme entertainment park, and as she shows her sponsors through, they pass little dioramas of Kirk&Spock, Starsky&Hutch]], [[Bodie&Doyle]]. In order (and these are NOT direct quotes): "Spock, looks like Fleet has cancelled your home leave on Vulcan, what a shame," "Captain, it is imperative that I return home..."; "Starsky, my electric bill came today <choke>--it was over $100," "Oh, buddy, I'm there for you!"; "Christ, I hate going undercover as a prostitute," "Christ, I hate going undercover as a gay man." [At every mention of being gay, all actors turn to the audience and chant in unison "Not that there's anything wrong with that!"] Somewhat alarmed by the direction these little scenarios seem to be taking, the scientist discovers that the person she hired to program the clones with fans' imaginings was none other than Leslie Fish (played by yours truly, and having a wonderful time), which Explains All. [1]
2008
I think it was 1994 when I went, and my most vivid memory is of course, Lezlie Shell's brilliant play, Jurassic Fan Park. I may still have my copy somewhere. I sure hope I do. That was the most fun ever, and considering how little time we all had to rehearse, I thought it went off splendidly. [2]
2015
RS: And, so, at that point in time, [the Escapade organizers] started saying, “Oh, well, some other cons do skits. Maybe we can do some skits.” And we did. We had skits written by one of the really good women from the Houston Whips group, came to Escapade a couple of times, and wrote Jurassic fandom, or something like that. Was just, (a) adorable, and (b), hysterical. So those were real crowd pleasers, so they did like two years in a row, and after that, you know, we couldn't get, we couldn't get a new one, a new play written every con. So that was when they started getting the singing group, and doing the filks, fannish filks, and doing them between the vid show intermission and stuff like that after, as time went on. [3]
References
- ^ quoted anonymously with permission from Virgule-L (Feb 15, 1995)
- ^ comment by alexfandra, Escapade's past?; archive link (2008-11-25)
- ^ from Media Fandom Oral History Project Interview with Rachael Sabotini