GE 1995 Season 2 Episode 6: Intro
Note: this is not a transcript, but a working draft of the script, so there may be differences in the aired version.
SHOW 6: PAUL'S RETURN
DOUG: It's 10:35 NF Standard Time. Stay tuned for the Great
Eastern: Newfoundland's Cultural Magazine, with Paul Moth.
You are listening to the Broadcasting Corporation of
Newfoundland, 520 on the long wave.
MUSIC: VAMP BEGINS.
DOUG: (OVER VAMP) This week on the Great Eastern:
CLIPS, THEME IN AND PAUL'S BILLBOARD OVER
THEME
PAUL: Hello, Canada, hello ... gudinn dagin, Iceland ... how are
you, Nfld ? Welcome to the Great Eastern, my name is ...
Paul Moth ! Yes ... I'm back. This week on the Great
Eastern: what men really want; our spies bring back more
unreleased musical booty; orphan labour subsidises health
care cuts; radio royalty returns; an excursion to the attic of
my past; and much more for you, with me, Paul Moth, on
Nfld's Cultural Magazine !
SFX: THEME OUT
Hubba-hubba, what a week ! Well you know, yeah, I remain
hip, but ever more humble. Yup ... teevee. "Mostly Moth",
my Townie TeeVee sponsored, high-stakes, winner take all
gamble on the late-night talk show landscape, is mostly a
memory. The critics were unanimous in their verdict.
"Leastly Moth" was one headline, "Who Will Rid Me ..." was
another. But the one that stung me to the quick was "Moth
Presents Only Argument For Bringing Back Benmergui."
The trouble started in pre-production.
If you're from Canada or if you haven't seen the ads for
Mostly Moth, I'm folically disabled. I was kicking back a lot
of reflection so they had me wear a dorky hat ... and then
the guests were all hostile or whacked out on downers - I
think we were serving decaf or Postum in the green room ...
I got slapped ... the musicians got busted in the parking lot ...
ball lightening hit the transmission tower and knocked the
power out during my monologue (would have been the best
part of the show) ... all in all, an experience that the Nfld
televiewing audience would like to forget but, alas, cannot.
The long and the short ? I got canned. Fired. Eighty-sixed.
Thirty. Over and out. Hit the streets, brother. It was a wrap
after the first night.
But now I'm here again with my first love, radio. And even
though I got to start out again at the bottom of the pile with
no seniority, I'm back. I'm never leaving again. A little older,
a little wiser, and a little more litigated. Aaron Zagner and
Townie TeeVee ... *kiss* good bye.