So I have gotten through two weeks working at The Andy Griffith Show, and so far it still mostly involves filing and copying and collating and highlighting and so forth. I have gotten to go to the set, though, which is really cool and fun. We're actually sharing a building with the detective series Columbo, and I sort of accidentally walked through their set on my way to breakfast last week (the food is still incredible, by the way). No sign of Peter Falk, though.
Anyway, I am increasingly aware of a problem on our show. The accountants (Angela, Kevin, and Oscar) and I are all squirreled away in an office away from all the action. At lunch, we sit together, and the producers sit together, and the writers sit together, and so on.
It is clear that there are cliques at The Andy Griffith Show. But here is the other thing: the accountants are not the cool kids. We are like math club, basically. We do a lot of stuff with numbers and seem to be eating all the time.
IT IS TIME FOR THIS TO CHANGE.
I have decided that I need us to be perceived as much cooler, at least so we can get invited to better parties. I have a few plans.
First, we are friends with someone on the lighting staff. This is not perfect, but it is totally a start. He is a real chatty Cathy, so we need him to spread the word about how cool we are to the crew, get them talking us up.
They will of course happen to mention how cool the accountants are while they're around the ACTORS. This part is key. Because everyone loves the actors, after all.
The actors will invite us to one of the Actor Parties that probably exist. But here's the kicker: We will not attend.
Everyone at the party will be like "I thought we invited the accountants? How come they're not here? Are they...are they too cool to come to this party?"
Yeah, we totally are. The word will get out, and like two weeks later we'll have a party of our own. And guess who will show up? EVERYONE. Sheldon Leonard, Don Knotts, and Andy Griffith. And by this point everyone wants to chill with us all the time. They're dropping by our office, asking us to come to set all the time, and so forth. This plan will definitely work, you guys. We just have to remember not to get too conceited, because I don't think that will work out either.
Anyway, I am increasingly aware of a problem on our show. The accountants (Angela, Kevin, and Oscar) and I are all squirreled away in an office away from all the action. At lunch, we sit together, and the producers sit together, and the writers sit together, and so on.
It is clear that there are cliques at The Andy Griffith Show. But here is the other thing: the accountants are not the cool kids. We are like math club, basically. We do a lot of stuff with numbers and seem to be eating all the time.IT IS TIME FOR THIS TO CHANGE.
I have decided that I need us to be perceived as much cooler, at least so we can get invited to better parties. I have a few plans.
First, we are friends with someone on the lighting staff. This is not perfect, but it is totally a start. He is a real chatty Cathy, so we need him to spread the word about how cool we are to the crew, get them talking us up.They will of course happen to mention how cool the accountants are while they're around the ACTORS. This part is key. Because everyone loves the actors, after all.
The actors will invite us to one of the Actor Parties that probably exist. But here's the kicker: We will not attend.Everyone at the party will be like "I thought we invited the accountants? How come they're not here? Are they...are they too cool to come to this party?"
Yeah, we totally are. The word will get out, and like two weeks later we'll have a party of our own. And guess who will show up? EVERYONE. Sheldon Leonard, Don Knotts, and Andy Griffith. And by this point everyone wants to chill with us all the time. They're dropping by our office, asking us to come to set all the time, and so forth. This plan will definitely work, you guys. We just have to remember not to get too conceited, because I don't think that will work out either.
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you're weird.
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