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**Robert Vermaat** · 04-25-2004, 03:45 PM

[CUT TO NEW SKETCH] 
Dear Old Lady: This is Uncle Ted in front of the house. (she hands over the photo and the young lady tears it up) This is Uncle Ted at the back of the house. (she hands over the photo and the young lady tears it up) And this is Uncle Ted at the side of the house. (she hands over the photo and the young lady tears it up) This is Uncle Ted, back again at the front of the house, but you can see the side of the house. (she hands over the photo and the young lady tears it up) And this is Uncle Ted even nearer the side of the house, but you can still see the front. (she hands over the photo and the young lady tears it up) This is the back of the house, with Uncle Ted coming round the side to the front. (she hands over the photo and the young lady tears it up) And this is the Spanish Inquisition hiding behind the coal shed. (Friend takes it with the first sign of real interest.) 
Young Lady: Oh! I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition. 
[JARRING CHORD] 
[The door flies open and Ximinez, Biggles and Fang enter.] Ximinez: Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! 
[Cut to film: moving over Brengel drawing of tortures; epic film music.] 
Voice Over: 'IN THE EARLY YEARS OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY, TO COMBAT THE RISING TIDE OF RELIGIOUS UNORTHODOXY, THE POPE GAVE CARDINAL XIMINEZ OF SPAIN LEAVE TO MOVE WITHOUT LET OR HINDRANCE THROUGHOUT THE LAND, IN A REIGN OF VIOLENCE, TERROR AND TORTURE THAT MAKES A SMASHING FILM. THIS WAS THE SPANISH INQUISITION . . .' 
<img src="http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/paulfitz/spanish/tt8.jpg" style="border:0;"/> 
[Torchlit dungeon. We hear clanging footsteps. The footsteps stop and keys jangle. The great door creaks open and Ximinez walks in and looks round approvingly. Fang and Biggles enter behind pushing in the dear old lady. They chain her to the wall.] 
Ximinez: Now, old woman -- you are accused of heresy on three counts -- heresy by thought, heresy by word, heresy by deed, and heresy by action -- *four* counts. Do you confess? 
Wilde: I don't understand what I'm accused of. 
Ximinez: Ha! Then we'll make you understand! Biggles! Fetch...THE CUSHIONS! 
[JARRING CHORD] 
<img src="http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/paulfitz/spanish/tt10.jpg" style="border:0;"/> 
[Biggles holds out two ordinary modern household cushions] 
Biggles: Here they are, lord. 
Ximinez: Now, old lady -- you have one last chance. Confess the heinous sin of heresy, reject the works of the ungodly -- *two* last chances. And you shall be free -- *three* last chances. You have three last chances, the nature of which I have divulged in my previous utterance. 
Wilde: I don't know what you're talking about. 
Ximinez: Right! If that's the way you want it -- Cardinal! Poke her with the soft cushions! 
[Biggles carries out this rather pathetic torture] 
Ximinez: Confess! Confess! Confess! 
Biggles: It doesn't seem to be hurting her, lord. 
Ximinez: Have you got all the stuffing up one end? 
Biggles: Yes, lord. 
Ximinez [angrily hurling away the cushions]: Hm! She is made of harder stuff! Cardinal Fang! Fetch...THE COMFY CHAIR! 
[JARRING CHORD] 
[Zoom into Fang's horrified face] 
<img src="http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/paulfitz/spanish/tt11.jpg" style="border:0;"/> 
Fang [terrified]: The...Comfy Chair? 
<img src="http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/paulfitz/spanish/tt12.jpg" style="border:0;"/> 
[Biggles pushes in a comfy chair -- a really plush one] 
Ximinez: So you think you are strong because you can survive the soft cushions. Well, we shall see. Biggles! Put her in the Comfy Chair! 
[They roughly push her into the Comfy Chair] 
<img src="http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/paulfitz/spanish/tt13.jpg" style="border:0;"/> 
Ximinez [with a cruel leer]: Now -- you will stay in the Comfy Chair until lunch time, with only a cup of coffee at eleven. [aside, to Biggles] Is that really all it is? 
Biggles: Yes, lord. 
Ximinez: I see. I suppose we make it worse by shouting a lot, do we? Confess, woman. Confess! Confess! Confess! Confess 
Biggles: I confess! 
Ximinez: Not you! 
 
THE END

Hibernicus · 04-25-2004, 04:03 PM

CASTLE ANTHRHAX!! 
 
Zoot Zoot!! 
 
Max Min

Crispvs · 04-26-2004, 11:19 PM

Enter Husband: "There's trouble at 'mill" 
 
Wife: "What was that Dear?" 
 
Husband: "Trouble at 'mill, I said" 
 
Wife: "Well what does that mean?" 
 
Husband "Look, I don't know. Someone just told me to say it! I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition!" 
 
Jarring chord, followed by the sound of a hurried entry. 
 
Enter Cardinals Ximinez, Fang and Biggles 
 
Ximinez: "No-one expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our main weapon is surprise - fear and surprise. Our TWO main weapons are surprise, fear and a ruthless efficiency. THREE! We have THREE main weapons: Surprise, fear, a ruthless efficiency and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.... AMONGST our weapons are fear..." 
 
Biggles: "Surprise" 
 
Ximinez: "Yes. Surprise, fear, a ruthless efficiency and, and..." 
 
Biggles: "An almost..." 
 
Ximinez: "What?" 
 
Biggles: "An amost..." 
 
Ximinez: "Ah yes! And an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope! Cardinal Biggles!" 
 
Biggles: "What? Yes? Oh, sorry" 
 
Ximinez: "I think I'll come in again." 
 
Sound of shuffling, door quietly closing. 
 
Husband: "I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition." 
 
Ximinez: "No one expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapons are surprise, fear, a ruthless efficiency and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope! What's that Cardinal Fang?" 
 
Fang: "They've all gone." 
 
Ximinez, looking around: "Oh" 
 
Edited by: <A HREF=http://b30.ezboard.com/bromanarmytalk.showUserPublicProfile?gid=crispvs>Crispvs</A> at: 4/27/04 1:21 am

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