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03/30/2006: "Evening Reflection by Christopher Folino"

When I was eight I wrote my first script, it was a western, as I recall a new sheriff came to clean up a corrupt city. I had jokes like the sheriff telling the barber “I think I’ll just mosey on down to the bar and get myself something to drink” The Barber tells the sheriff “That’s a McDonalds, the bars the other way!”
Yeah, And I think I had electricity being brought into the town and a GE rep gathered the folks together and said “And on the fourth day, God said let their be light, and GE said let them pay for it!”
Wow, look at the awareness of product placement at the young age of eight. Impressive!
I remember watching “Three’s Company” with my father during that time and thinking “humor” is like religion, everybody has their own taste or no taste at all. For the record, I was more of a fan of “Airplane” and “Police Squad.” Then Jack Tripper.
Thirty years later and dealing with various distributors you start to understand which ones were fans of “Three’s Company.” They’re the ones who send you classic email responses to a simple question like this one “Hello Michael, I just want to confirm you got a screener copy of "Gamers?” Thanks, Chris”
Here is the response, unedited in all its glory.
“Hello Chris…and I watched it.”
That’s it, that’s the entire interaction; I sent a follow-up email trying to understand the response, however, he may have been to busy developing a new “Three’s Company” movie.