Monday Morning Mock Draft: Get The F*ck Out

Two more of these to go.

I had a topic in mind all day, but didn’t get around to it until after midnight best coast time, because I eventually got around to walking the dog, mowing and raking the lawn, and CHASING MY NEIGHBOR’S FUCKING CATTLE OFF MY YARD AGAIN!!  Totally my fault, of course, for having an apple tree, mowing my lawn, and not surrounding my yard with barbed wire and Bouncing Bettys.

The cattle, (2 bulls and a cow, all of whom are terrified of a leaf blower), are very nice.  The neighbor can get fucked.

Anyhoo, last week’s art topic went pretty well, so this week I thought we’d go with one I’ve been toying with but wasn’t sure would work.  This week we’re picking FICTIONAL characters, from any genre, (TV, movies, theater, literature, whatever), that need to leave whatever work they’re in, and the sooner the better.

Ideally what we’re looking for here is a character who adds nothing to the piece.  You can, however, take a character you just don’t like, but be prepared to be berated for it.  I don’t have a lot on my schedule tomorrow, and for maybe the third time in my 30 year legal career I am caught up on everything.  I’m sure that statement didn’t just jinx anything.

For instance, I just finished ‘Demon Copperfield,’ by Barbara Kingsolver.  Highly recommend, by the way.  Without spoiling anything there is a character named Dori in said book.  She should be fired into the Sun, but she is also integral to the plot.  Yes, she could be drafted, because she sucks, but no I would not draft her, because that would destroy the book.

Now, in a completely unrelated note, (dismissive wanking gif goes HERE), I have been watching the new Justified series.  It is…not good.  The whole series, (technically a miniseries, and I don’t see a new series coming out of this mess), is just way, way off the original.  In addition to a myriad of other things wrong with the show, they introduced Raglan’s daughter, Willa, as a character.

Fun fact, played by Timothy Olyphant’s real life daughter, Vivian.

Did I ask for an angsty teenager who guilt trips her father because his career, (as a US Marshall, who I’m guessing have less predictable hours than, say, an attorney), in my Elmore Leonard-based TV show about a bad-ass Marshall?  No.  No I did not.  Nor did anyone else.  Willa appears in the first two episodes, annoys the fuck out of everyone, gets shipped off to her mother in Florida, and may very well have been written off the show.    The character adds nothing to the show, and indeed during her brief appearances detracted significantly from it.  Willa Givens…

The rest of you are on the clock.

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Redshirt

Worf in Season One of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Until Tasha got stuffed in the fridge, his only purpose was First Guy Off the Bench.

BeefReeferLives

Captain Phasma.

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Brick Meathook

Froggy

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Brick Meathook

I mean other Froggy

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BrettFavresColonoscopy

Jane Payne from Ted Lasso. The chess stuff early is fine/cute but then she just sucks and other than serving as a way for Higgins to be a good friend, she doesn’t advance the plot/do anything worthwhile

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Jade

DJ TAJ

With the bad scrpipt writing this porcine talent was a waste, could of used a duck or a dildo for the role. Shame.

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Gumbygirl

Arnold Ziffel! Noooooooòooooo! He was integral to the entire series. Nearly as important as Mr. Haney. They could have 86ed Mr. Kimball though.

BugEyedBoo

If I watch Green Acres in small doses I think it’s one of the funniest programs on television. Completely surreal.

BeefReeferLives

Willie Scott. Just… ugh.

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BugEyedBoo

Yes she was.

bk109

She still is, for that matter and thanks to Wiki, I discovered why an actress on one of the shows my wife watched looked so familiar .. she’s the daughter of Scottiem, I mean Mrs Spielberg

BeefReeferLives

‘specially when compared to Marion Ravenwood, who was a bad ass.

bk109

Meh, both pale in comparison to the lovely Ms Elsa Schneider! Sure, she was an opportunistic Nazi, but … she was a enough of a woman that no single Jones could sate her 😀
… Plus, her actress is Irish and still looks good (she was in RRR), so that earns her extra points

BugEyedBoo

That’s doing a lot of violence to the phrase, “looks good.” Joan Rivers-level botox and lip injections.

bk109

Yeah, I’ll downgrade that to decently looking and append a “for her age”. In my defence, I watched RRR on a small screen, so she looked better than on my laptop’s screen when I googled her after your comment 😀 Still, in Crusade she looked fantastic 🙂

2Pack

Gary Cherone (briefly of) Van Halen

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2Pack

My bad… But in my defense… it’s been 4 hours since I briefly scanned over the rules…

bk109

Whoa,whoa,whoa. I thought we as a species agreed that there were only Dave and Sammy and that Van Halen III NEVER HAPPENED.

Gumbygirl

I object to Sammy too. Diamond Dave 4evah!

bk109

… Your objection is duly noted and overruled, because “Dreams” 😉

Gumbygirl

Pistols at dawn.

bk109

Getting shot at dawn won’t change the fact that while Diamond Dave had charisma, Sammy actually had a voice to go with his. Plus, tequilla!

2Pack

I’m Dave 90% Sammy 10% and Gary GTFOOH

2Pack

That’s what I signed.

Game Time Decision

Constable Bob Sweeney from Justified. I like Patton, but did not like this character, and this could have been played by any of the other officers without having an extra character.

Game Time Decision

if you mean a user here, an admin can remove the person’s rights to comment. As the site doesn’t need a login to read it, no way to prevent that. This also doesn’t prevent them from using a different email address to create a new user.*

*playing it straight to be more annoying.
/If you mean me and my bad drafting ability, then I pick Horatio Cornblower, as Lowatio is a much better thought out character

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Gumbygirl

Oooooh, snap!

Gumbygirl

Tattoo. Fucking creepy. And how timely, this image showed up in my soshals just this morning!

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LemonJello

I bet Lowratio has a white suit just like Tattoo’s.

Gumbygirl

And a greasy face, from…secretions.

Gumbygirl

Look, man, you’re the one with the greasy sex dwarf. It’s too late to be clutching your pearls now!

Brick Meathook

Pete Best

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BugEyedBoo

Guitar bands are just a fad, anyway.

Brick Meathook

Ok then, Stumpy Pepys

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BrettFavresColonoscopy

Should have been my first pick but….here ya go

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BrettFavresColonoscopy

And if you think it would negatively impact the “show,” I’d remind you of this masterpiece
https://youtu.be/c_CT13yyF2o?si=7whNC7BAOtJzFGYT

Gumbygirl

I realize that videotape doesn’t hold up well, but doesn’t that look like a relic from ages past? I was 20 years old. An adult, sort of! No stage of my life should look as archaic and quaint as a silent movie!

Brick Meathook

That was from a VHS recording, which destroys itself every time you play it.

This is why you should always shoot film. A ten minute load of 35mm motion picture film runs about $1500 with processing and transfer; this may seem steep for home movies but remember your memories are priceless.

BugEyedBoo

I’m gonna be like the cinematographer who shot Barry Lyndon, and shoot all my home movies in 35mm using natural light.

Gumbygirl

That was a gorgeous movie.

bk109

Or you can get a good to great automatic telecine machine and go that route? Basically even if you do a couple cans of film, you’re still saving up some money (plus having seen the output of certain digitization services.. you’re not getting really that good a quality from going professional either). Also, I thought that most US home video cameras were 8mm and not 35mm?

Gumbygirl

Ha, I was thinking pretty much every football announcer ever! But he represents the absolute worst of the worst.

BeefReeferLives

Well if real people (and not just fictional characters) are in play, I’ll take Trent Dilfer.

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Gumbygirl

Is he though? He looks and sounds like a Disney animatronic gone rogue.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

I’m appealing this

bk109

OOh, I know one – Kevin Sorbo as Captain Dylan Hunt of the Andromeda Ascendant. While the premise of the show was interesting, the more the show continued, it became less of an ensemble sci-fi show and more of … well, the Kevin Sorbo ego-trip power hour, going as far as having the guy the guy that created the show fired because he had the gall of actually wanting to focus on the rest of the main cast too. So, just as Xena managed to take the idea behind Hercules, jettison Mr Sorbo and be fun, so would’ve been Andromeda if they yeeted Kevin as soon as his ego outgrew his basic-cable show 😀

BugEyedBoo

I want to attribute this to Harlan Ellison. Gene Roddenberry had one good Star Trek story idea; that the Enterprise meets God (or a godlike being), and they’re a child, insane, or both. I am not a big ST:TNG fan, but I’m not going to let that stop me from picking Q.

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Game Time Decision

the Q episodes always felt like filler or we’ve run out of ideas

BeefReeferLives

Cousin Chachi. Fuck him & fuck Scott Baio as well for good measure.

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Game Time Decision

Going to over look the wife (again) but pick Sgt. Doakes from Dexter. Other than the “surprise mf” meme, the character was annoying and one dimensional. He could have been any officer and the plot doesn’t change

Brick Meathook

Tracy Partridge

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BrettFavresColonoscopy

The man in the yellow hat. Just let the monkey be curious.

Gumbygirl

Cousin. Fucking. Oliver.

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BeefReeferLives

Lil John Denver lookin’ fuck…

Gumbygirl

Bastard! Pretty sure he’s dead. Good.

Gumbygirl

He’s not dead.

LemonJello

Cousin. Fucking. Oliver.

“There’s one in every bunch.”
-Alabama Family Reunion Organizers

scotchnaut

I’ll take Moby Dick. The lack of dialogue aside, the whale could have been anything-an island, a treasure, a new pair of boots, anything. It is an object that is obsessed over by Ahab so it’s just a placeholder.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

“Eh, I’ll give it a shot.” – Kareem Hunt

LemonJello

“I’ll race you there.”
-Britt Reid

scotchnaut

But, but, he was going to get destroyed by his obsession one way or another.

Game Time Decision

Tom Wambsgans ( the daughter’s bf) from Succession. I like the actor, just hate how week and whiny he is*. We watched MI5 and he kicks ass in that show. The bf character could be not there an no one would notice, also, if you look at bad caricatures of boyfriends, Tom has to be the poster child.

*Note that I have nawt seen the latest season.

bk109

MI5? Huh, I didn’t realize they renamed that show for other English-speaking markets. Why would they do that for <checks Google> Aaah, that explains it.

Game Time Decision

Me wife loves her some British Crime, so we have the “BritBox” streaming app, so in there, it’s has the MI-5 Name. Forgot it also went by “Spooks”. Good catch. Made the show extra hard to find to stream (leagally)

ballsofsteelandfury

LOVE BritBox!

bk109

Of course legally, it’d be wrong to pirate a show that was financed by the BBC using archaic laws to strongarm the populace into giving it money, regardless of their wishes or the declining quality of the programming. That said, in the post-coof world, I’d also suggest giving Survivors a chance (the 2008 remake) if it’s available on BritBox (I’m currently rewatching its first season an’ damn.. it’s as good as I remember)

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Could you imagine what would happen if the U.S. federal government tried to charge a “TV license” fee? Washington D.C. would be burned to the ground within a week.

bk109

Not too sure about that. Plus, you folks get overcharged and under-delivered when it comes to your local, state and federal taxes and outright assfucked when it comes to healthcare, so what’s one more fire-ant covered, glass-shard infused dildo for the average american 😀

blaxabbath

You know I’m right.

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BeefReeferLives

Tom Bombadil

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bk109

With my second round pick, I take Wonder Woman from WW84. It’s not for the accidental rape. It’s not for the hilariously shite acting on display (though I’m not sure how much that’s because of Mrs Gadot’s actual talent and how much the direction given how much better she was in something like Red Notice). It’s not even the blatant (inadvertant) racism of her character in that movie (seriously, though, how did that get that past all the levels of production to have her be ready to kill/maim the brainwashed Emir’s guards, yet tell nuCap’n Kirk’s character not to engage the equally brainwashed Secret Service in the White House). It’s as simple as if there was no Wonder Woman in the Wonder Woman sequel, we could’ve had a better movie centered on Pedro Pascal’s character’s downfall and path to redemption (fuelled by the love of/for his son).

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

2. And honestly this should have been my 1st round pick: Henrí from Cheers.

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ballsofsteelandfury

Who?

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I’m jealous that you were able to successfully scrub that character from your memory. But seriously, you don’t remember Woody’s girlfriend Kelly?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_BMyy-0lvk

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

According to Google, he was in 5 episodes.

Brick Meathook

I’m going large here, folks.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is considered the greatest American novel of all time, and usually ranks up there with the world’s best

And it is indeed great, except for the end when Tom Sawyer shows up and just bogs the whole thing down. This guy has got to go and get back to his own book.

blaxabbath

“Let’s kill off N-word Jim! In fact….

LET’S KILL ALL THE N-WORDS!”

-J Jones (Dallas, TX)

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

getting a shot in the ass causes myocardia, ppl forget that

ballsofsteelandfury

The wife in Breaking Bad is not only hateable, but could have been erased from the show completely. Replace her with any other random family member and you still have the guilt aspect.

blaxabbath

I considered Skylar just because of her weight. But she really did hold back Walt.

2Pack

Father John from M*A*S*H. Sure chaplains are an element of every military unit battalion level and above. And especially important in medical units. But they could have made him a baptist that chased skirts at least. Would have flowed with the plot better and made the character much less boring.

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ballsofsteelandfury

I thought he was there for the gay undertones…

2Pack

Could be…

blaxabbath

I, too, am cautiously selecting PERHAPS a new recreational book to check out from the library.

I think something else will come up and step on that though.

2nd Round Pick Is In!

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Gumbygirl

When will our boy come home? Rockingdog, we miss you!

Redshirt

Storm from the X-Men film series.

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BeefReeferLives

Mark Brendanawicz

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

1. Feels weird burning a pick on this guy, but I’m having a hard time coming up with anything good so I’ll go with the “real” Seymour Skinner.

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Fun fact: Remember that Simpsons joke about “daddy hitting the referee with a whiskey bottle”? It’s a reference to the original “Hail Mary” game, when the referee who declined to throw a flag for offensive pass interference later got knocked unconscious by a whiskey bottle thrown from the stands. The name of that referee? Armen Terzian.

DJ TAJ

I’ll take that evil walking pile of hairy shit from “The wizard of Oz” didn’t you just want to see the flying monkeys light it on fire? In the book it had a more signifacant role but in the movie? Worthless heap of dog nothingness.

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BeefReeferLives

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BeefReeferLives

any explanation really needed? No? Didn’t think so.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

The theory that Jar Jar was a Sith Lord disguising himself as a buffoon (the same way Yoda introduced himself) makes him a much less hateable character.

bk109

Plus, there’s also the sequel trilogy that immediately conveys +3 charisma for every PT character 😀

Game Time Decision

My old neighbour worked with the guy that created Jar-Jar. He was not in a good state after the movie came out and how badly Jar jar was received.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

It was like that with the poor kid that got cast to play Ed in the live action Cowboy Bebop. Not the actor’s fault at all, just a character that was virtually impossible to translate into real life.

Gumbygirl

The Disbelief Suspender.

BugEyedBoo

I thought Unser did what he did because he had an unrequited crush on Gemma. Dude, she ain’t sleeping with you.

Game Time Decision

Tara Knowles ( Jax’s wife) from Son’s of Anarchy. (spoiler) They eventually got rid of her, but no change in the plot after it. She stuck out like a sore thumb with the rest of the characters

Game Time Decision

With one of the worst endings of all time
/took this in a previous draft

DJ TAJ

Best pick there could possibly be.

BugEyedBoo

I kind of had a little crush on Tara. Tara got back.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I miss the “We Need to Talk About Last Night’s Episode of Scandal” series that Danger Guerrero did. I miss everything about warmingglow, really.

BugEyedBoo

It went to shit season 3? 4 sucked for sure. I watched all of it.

BugEyedBoo

Ireland. How did they get their choppers to Ireland? Yeah yeah just go with it.

bk109

You can ship those rather easily – both using normal vehicular transports and via general cargo. If you don’t mind paying premium, you can also use an airborne vehicle transport service (or could, I’m not sure if those aren’t currently making a killing shipping cast-off military gear donated to Ukraine)

BugEyedBoo

IIRC, the Sons were on the clock, and had to get to Ireland NOW to get Jax’s kid back I think. I didn’t think it would have been impossible, I thought it would have been to expensive to do. And Harleys over there are probably thin on the ground, and expensive to rent.

They should have put them on tricked-out scooters, a’la scooter gangs over there.

bk109

Not really, Harleys are pretty common over here too and are bought by the same types of people. In fact, it’d appear that outside Limmerick, the big cities in Ireland have at least one official dealer. As for rent? Same dealerships are an option, plus there are some services as well (if I remember correctly, up north in Belfast you can hire one of ~200$ a day, which was like BMW X3/5 money.. and the Beemer’s more appropriate for our weather :D)

BugEyedBoo

Cool!

Redshirt

Ross from Friends. If you removed him from the series, would anyone really notice?

Gumbygirl

I thought Monica’s apartment was the worst character. Like any of those slackers could afford a place in New York that big, that didn’t have Rottweiler sized rats.

bk109

Could be way worse y’know. I just got my travel itinerary for September for my day job and while I was digesting that*, I “quite coincidentally” got a summons to show up for briefing about my extra-curricular activity.

*Amusingly, I have less issue with noted tourist hot spots like Riyadh, Tehran and Lagos than I have with a 3 day trip to the Bay area, or the “week+” I’m going to be stuck in the general DC area. On the plus side, my glorious faceless multinational corporate overlord also seems to be ramping shit back up in Russia (because only Euro-based corporations were stupid enough to actually leave that market, lol), so yay for that 🙂

Alex_Demote

Here’s one that’ll start a fight. I’m drafting Indiana Jones from Raiders of the Lost Ark. That fucker didn’t do a single thing to affect the plot; every single thing that happens in that movie would still happen whether he was there or not, and I think he could play a decent tight end.

Alex_Demote

Without Indy, WW2 might have been averted

Alex_Demote

Nah man, Wilt Chamberlain, Neville was my father

Redshirt

Well, without Indy getting involved, they would’ve taken the Ark to Berlin and opened it in front of the entire Nazi Party.

bk109

Ah, would that be the same wacky Nazis that weren’t even digging in the right place?

BugEyedBoo

No. Bellocq wasn’t gonna open it without a trial run first.

BugEyedBoo

That turns out not to be the case. Assuming no Indy, the Nazi’s are just gonna say fuck it, and dig up everything. They’ll get the Ark sooner or later, run it out to their secret island, and blow themselves up with it through incompetence. The Ark is still on the secret island, and eventually someone in a sub or at Nazi HQ is going to wonder why they haven’t heard from the secret island lately.

bk109

Of course, this also kinda ignores how George Lucas and Steven Spielberg neglected a tiny bit of trivia that would’ve rendered the plot of the movie outright impossible. Egypt was under BRITISH MILITARY OCCUPATION at the time (a common occurance pre-1945) from the late 1880s to all the way to the Suez crisis, so having a massive dig site staffed by Nazis (and conveniently wearing Nazi uniforms) would be about as likely as the White House allowing a Sino-Russian military expedition in goddamn Puerto Rico (or Alaska, or Hawaii).

BugEyedBoo

It was in Italian-controlled Ethiopia! That’s not Cairo – that’s Addis Ababa.

bk109

Unless Georgie boy decided to tweak Raiders the way he did the OT and changed some place names, no it’s not in Ethiopia. The excavation was in Tanis (in Northern Egypt), which is nowhere near Ethiopia. In fact, you might argue that it’s on the opposite side of the country from Ethiopia 😉

Redshirt

Redshirt

Gumbygirl

Nah, he’s a keeper.

blaxabbath

Know what? THIS OFFSEASON SUCKS!

blaxabbath

Buncha dicks…..

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Gumbygirl

For a second, I thought you meant Barney Rubble, and shit was about to get REAL!

BugEyedBoo

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BugEyedBoo

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bk109

DIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDI… I mean fantastic pick, we can all call it a draft since you win by default here 🙂

ballsofsteelandfury

In honor of the banner image, and because I wanted to be mocked relentlessly, I am picking Turtle from Entourage. Completely useless character. Didn’t contribute anything. The show would have been the same with a group of three friends instead of four.

bk109

With the second overall pick, I pick Wesley Goddamn Crusher. I struggle to think of a single episode of TNG where his presence was a net benefit to the plot or vibe of the show.

ballsofsteelandfury

I’m struggling to defend him because I like the character but you’re absolutely right.

bk109

I’d wager a guess that it’s less “the character” you liked (since Wesley was little more than “generic boy wonder… IN SPAAAAACE”), but the actor playing him having enough charisma to at least elevate the character above someone like Boo’s pick for example.

BeefReeferLives

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“Wesley Crusher, report to the Captain’s ready room immediately for the strapping of your life”