timing is everything

suit a - what the hell are we going to do about this damned writer’s guild strike?
suit b - i honestly didn’t think they’d do that, after how badly it crippled us back in the 80s.
suit a - no, that was the idea.
suit b - oh.
joss whedon - hey guys, i may be able to help here.
suit a - this better be good, josh, we have half a season of new programming to come up with.
joss whedon - well, i just happen to have thirteen scripts for a serenity tv spinoff here.
suit b - wasn’t serenity itself a spinoff of your failed tv show firefly? and didn’t both of those tank with the general public?
joss whedon - what would you rather have on the air mid-season? more firefly, or test pattern 2: the reckoning?
suit a - fair enough. you had these written before yesterday?
joss whedon - oh sure, they’d been done for awhile. you know, keeping busy.
suit a - why are they all dog-eared?
joss whedon - well, i mean, i had the cast over on weekends, doing some readings. in my garage. where i hid the set which i stole off the lot.
suit b - according to this you’re going to blow up at least one planet in every episode.
joss whedon - we can save money by blowing up a single planet, shooting from half a dozen angles with different filters and lenses, and reusing the footage.
suit a - this says you’re introducing two new characters, described as, and i quote, ‘teenage schoolgirls with telekinetic powers, who activate their alliance-engineered abilities by ‘kissing on each other” and you put that last bit in quotes yourself.
joss whedon - haha, yeah, i can’t wait to start casting for those two.
suit b - and you’re bringing in samuel l. jackson as ‘the pope of space’.
joss whedon - he’s shepard book’s brother.
suit b - that doesn’t make it make sense.
suit a - what else do we have for friday nights?
suit b - ‘please don’t watch battlestar galactica?’
suit a - all right, you’ve got thirteen episodes.