GE 1996-7 Season 3 Episode 19: What's That Noise?
Note: this is not a transcript, but a working draft of the script, so there may be differences in the aired version.
PAUL:	It’s time for the single most 
	popular game show on The Great 
	Eastern, yes, it’s time to play 
	... “What’s That Noise From 
	Nfld!”
	
	Some really really really 
	indigenous sound is recorded 
	somewhere in our great island 
	home.  You have to decipher it.
	
	We’ve had some wild guesses on 
	this one, and it even has me 
	baffled.
	 
	Hollis Duffitt, sound-wise guy, 
	let the nation in on the notion! 

LONG PAUSE

	Hollis ?  The noise, please ?
	
	It seems that Hollis has, ah, 
	received an important call, he’s 
	on the phone there on the other 
	side of the studio glass.  
	
	Hollis, we’re on the national 
	airwaves here, buddy, no time to 
	... ah ... check out.
	
SFX:	THAT NOISE

	Yowza ... that’s it.

	Mailbag bound am I, searching 
	for a correct answer to the 
	perplexing question, “What’s 
	that Noise From Nfld.”
	
	We’ve received an unbelievable 
	response to the contest from 
	outside the province.  And the 
	guesses have been pouring in all 
	week.
	
	And here’s one ... from 
	Cornwall, Ontario, on the lakes, 
	I guess, and it’s from David 
	Cull.
	
	And David writes:  “Dear Great 
	Eastern, I think I might have 
	the answer to the sound contest 
	of the 11th of January.  I am 
	part Newfoundlander myself (one 
	half from my father).  I go down 
	every year to where my father 
	was born for a couple of weeks.  
	The sounds of Newfoundland and 
	the fisheries are nothing new to 
	me, even though I was born and 
	raised in Cornwall, Ontario.  I 
	think the sound is a net being 
	hauled up by a gurdy.  It has 
	that same familiar high-pitched 
	noise that a boat rubbing on 
	fenders have.
	
	Anyways, that’s what I think it 
	is.
	
	Thanks for your time, David 
	Cull.”
	
	Thanks for writing, David, and 
	quiz master Hollis Duffitt, what 
	sayest thou ?  Hollis ... is 
	this a winner or isn’t ...
	
SFX:	THE HAPPY WINNER THEME

	We have a winner !

	David Cull, spawn of the Nfld 
	diaspora, resident of Cornwall, 
	Ontario, you are spot on !
	
	And a Great Eastern tee-shirt 
	will soon be wending its way to 
	you in the big metal bread box 
	that is a Canada Post delivery 
	truck.
	
	Regular players in the game that 
	is “What’s That Noise From Nfld” 
	know that, when we have a 
	correct entry, we just start up 
	with a brand new sound.  So, 
	Hollis Duffitt, why don’t you 
	give up on the Winner’s Theme 
	there, heh-heh, and give us a 
	clue on the new noise ?
	
PAUSE

	It seems ... well ... well, 
	ladies and gentlemen, I apol ...  
	I have no idea what’s happening 
	... Hollis Duffitt is ... 
	
	A little work to rule, perhaps ?  
	Understandable under the 
	circumstances, but, Hollis ?  
	Hollis ?  

	( incredulous )  Ish ?

ISH:	(THROUGH TALKBACK)  The 
	technicians have all walked, 
	Paul.  Remain calm.  I’m in 
	charge.

PAUL:	Okay, Ish, let’s hear the new 
	noise from Nfld.

	I don’t know where Hollis put 
	it.

	Well, ... what do I do ...

	Go to music ?

	Okay, not music.

LONG SILENCE

VOICE:	ONE MOMENT, PLEASE.

SFX:	“ONE MOMENT, PLEASE” MUSIC

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