Podcast Scripts

The Golden Manatee - The Middlemoores are a married couple whose job as a lounge act aboard a cruise ship takes an unexpected turn when a climate disaster wipes out the world’s ports. Now they’re adrift on the ocean, trying to survive and stay sane as they entertain a collection of oddball passengers and a megalomaniacal captain.
Money Clip - This parody of a public radio finance show attempts to retain that famous NPR calm in the face of an increasingly insane economy.

One Act Play

Mote - A speck of dust lands in a woman’s eye and triggers an existential dilemma. This comedic play was a finalist in the New Milford TheatreWorks 2020 One Act Play Competition.

Spec TV Script

Invader Zim - “Instrument of Destruction” - This spec script for the Nickelodeon animated show follows alien invader Zim as he joins the school band as a cover for deploying a devastating mind control device.

Podcast

Odious Ari’s Hour of Misery and Light Entertainments - A 100-year-old down-and-out vaudevillian hosts a variety show in a self-storage unit. In this episode, Odious Ari presents a selection of low-brow entertainments while he tries to dislodge a coin from behind his desk. Co-written with Ari DeSano.

In this week’s episode (co-written by Roderick Cumming https://soundcloud.com/mrcathair)we learn the inspiring life story of our favorite musical cockroach, Scuttles, the leader of The Cockroach Quartet! Odious retells (Again. Yawn.) the story about the time he was asked to perform at Sinatra’s house in Palm Springs in the 50s. And the all-lady musical therapy group, The Bush Administration, performs their latest therapeutic hit “I Just Keep Getting Richer (While You Get Poorer)”.

Video

Holy Godfather! - This is the entire Godfather trilogy, distilled down to two and a half minutes. Written for the spec VH1 show Crash Course.

Roderick W. Cumming