Group Bonding (Part I)

As retold by RepairmanBob

(MR, KK, ED and TW are watching television in MR’s trailer. Bags of pork rinds cover the floor.)
TW: (Reaching into a bag of pork rinds) How many bags of these things did Allison have, anyway?
MR: (Grabs the bag) I have a shed out back filled with the rest. I think she filled her bedroom with them, and slept on the couch in the front.
TW: Sounds like Allison.
ED: (Grabs the bag from MR) Hand them over, Rosenbaum. (Starts rapidly eating pork rinds.)
KK: You might want to slow down their, Erica.
MR: Yeah, fatty. (Reaches for bag)
ED: (Slaps MR’s hand) No! They’re mine! If Bryan is going to put me into a pregnancy suit, I might as well get fat for real.
TW: Look on the bright side. At least you still have a job.
ED: You know, this is all Allison’s fault.
MR: I think being cast on a Sci-Fi channel show is punishment enough.
KK: (Looks at watch) Oh, it is time! (Grabs the remote, starts flipping channels.)
TW: What are you doing?
MR: Yeah, I wanted to watch House!
(TW and ED glare at MR)
MR: What? Bryan said –
ED: If you finish that sentence, you will never see your Wii again.
MR: What’s your problem with Bryan? He has some great ideas!
TW: He is calling me every few hours to set up a cape fitting.
ED: Or asking when the baby is due. (Finished bag, opens another one, continues eating.)
KK: (back to flipping through channels) Welcome to my world.
MR: Bryan said –
TW: Michael, so help me I will –
KK: (Stops flipping, stares intently at television screen) Silence!
(TW+MR): What?
KK: (Still staring at screen) There is a promo for the Battlestar Galactica spin-off during Eureka.
MR: I love that show!
TW: Poor Allison. Has anyone heard –
KK: (Staring at screen) I said silence!
Battlestar Galactica music stars. Text appears on a blank screen.

All of this
(Nude woman lying on her right side on a doctor’s table. We see her leg, hip and back from behind. She has pale white skin and long red hair. A man is standing over her, looking down at her.)
Woman: Who am I?
MR: Woot! Naked women!
TW: Hey now.
ED: I remember when I got to be naked on television. (Cries, eats more pork rinds)
KK: No talking!
(Office. One man is sitting at a desk. Another is standing speaking to him.)
Standing man: Mr. President, you cannot go through with this!
President: Justice Adama, the nice thing about being President is that I can do anything I want.

(Warehouse. A bearded man on a stage is speaking to a crowd of men and women. They are all dressed in rough, dirty clothing.)
Bearded Man: They took our jobs! They took our homes!

(Shipyard. Several craft that look like early versions of the Vipers fill the field. Figures can be seen working on them from a distance. A man and a woman in uniform are talking.)
Man: Chief, I have a bad feeling about this.
Woman: What do you mean, Atkins?

Has happened before
(Medical office)
Doctor: You are special. Unique.
Woman: (Sits up)

MR: Yeah she is.
ED: This is so unfair! Maxim said I was -
MR+TW: The sexiest Lois ever.
MR: Not if you keep putting those pork rinds away
KK: Shut up you morons!
(President’s office)
Justice Adama: You are an elected official, not an emperor! You cannot order the military to attack our own people!

(Warehouse)
Bearded Man: It is time we took back what is ours!

(Airfield)
Atkins: They are… I could swear those tin cans are thinking.
(Zoom in close on a Viper. It is being repaired by robots.)

All of this
(Doctor’s office)
Doctor: You are the first of your kind. A Cylon that looks human. (He touches the Woman’s arm.) Feels human.
Woman: No. I am… more than that
TW: A what?
KK: A Cylon. She a robot.
MR: Not just a robot! A naked woman robot!
ED: Damn, even I never got to be naked for that long. I need to get her agent.
(President’s Office)
President: (Stands up) I will do what is necessary to hold the twelve colonies together!

(Warehouse)
Bearded Man: We will fight! We will show them that we will not be used and thrown aside!

(President’s Office)
President: If that means sending in the military to put down rebels, then I will do it!
TW: What is going on with all this political stuff?
ED: And people complain our plots don’t make sense.
KK: Will you shut your damn mouths for two minutes? I am trying to watch this!
MR: Do the women robots on this show ever explode?
KK: No! (Pause) Well, they do occasionally set off nuclear bombs.
MR: I am so on the wrong show.

Continued...

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