Game Breakers
Announcer/Himself…..Don Pardo
Jack Morgan…..Phil Hartman
Margaret Fletcher…..Jan HooksErica Kane…..Susan Lucci
…..Gene Rayburn
Siegfried…..David Spade
Roy…..Dana Carvey
[ open on game show set filled with glamorous prizes ]
Announcer: Look at this studio, filled with fabulous cash and prizes! All yours for the taking on.. “Game Breakers”! And here’s your host – Jack Morgan!
[ Jack Morgan enters game show set ]
Jack Morgan: Thank you, and welcome to “Game Breakers”! Thank you, Don Pardo! And welcome to our returning champion – Margaret Fletcher!
Margaret Fletcher: Thank you, Jack!
Jack Morgan: Now, let’s meet your challenger. All the way from Pine Valley – Erica Kane. Hello, Erica.
Erica Kane: Hello, Jack!
Jack Morgan: [ reading from card ] Now, Erica, it says here you’ve been married eight times?
Erica Kane: Ye-es.. but only six were legal!
Jack Morgan: And I understand that you, at one time piloted a helicopter to rescue someone from prison?
Erica Kane: [ slightly embarrassed ] Oh! Well, I was only trying to break my lover out of jail – I do wish I hadn’t told you that!
Jack Morgan: And.. you’ve been kidnapped, survived a plane crash, stared down a grizzly bear.. you have your own line of cosmetics, and you’re the editor of a major magazine.
Erica Kane: [ blushing ] I try to keep busy!
Jack Morgan: Alright. Margaret, you’re the mother of two, and what do you do?
Margaret Fletcher: Well, I work in the home. [ nervous chuckle ]
Jack Morgan: And I’m sure you’re all familiar with our game!
Erica Kane: [ seductively ] Oh, yes, I am, Jack! I watch you every day! And I hope you won’t think that I’m being too forward if I tell you that.. I think you just have such a commanding presence!
Jack Morgan: [ taken aback ] No-o-o.. that’s very nice..
[ close-ups reveal Jack and Erica staring intensely at one another, locked in sexual tension ]
Jack Morgan: Alright, let’s play! Don Pardo, tell them what they’re playing for!
[ show bedroom set ]
Announcer: This beautiful bedroom suite from Brayhill!
Jack Morgan: Alright. Margaret, you’re the champion, so why don’t you pick a category for us.
Margaret Fletcher: “American Presidents” for 200, Jack!
Jack Morgan: “He was the only President to serve two non-consecutive terms.”
Margaret Fletcher: [ buzzes ] Grover Cleveland!
Erica Kane: [ feigning ] Oh, Jack.. I.. uh.. excuse me, but.. I just.. I couldn’t get my buzzer to work. Could you show me, perhaps, what I was doing wrong?
Jack Morgan: Well.. it’s simple. You just put your hand on the button. [ grabs Erica’s hand and positions it on the button ]
Erica Kane: Oh.. look at how much larger your hand is than mine! You have an artsitic streak, don’t you?
Jack Morgan: Why, yesss.. yes, I do.. Just put your hand on the button like this. [ demonstrates by pressing button with Erica’s hand ]
[ buzzing sound effect ]
Erica Kane: Grover Cleveland!
Jack Morgan: Cor-rect! And Erica picks up 200 points! And control of the board!
Margaret Fletcher: Excuse me, Jack! I.. I.. I..
Erica Kane: I will take “Bodies of Water” for 400, please!
Jack Morgan: “Which of the Great Lakes is located entirely in the U.S.?”
Margaret Fletcher: [ buzzes ] Lake Michigan!
Erica Kane: Oh, Jack.. I don’t mean to be a problem, but I pressed my buzzer too late that time. Could I do it again?
Jack Morgan: [ uneasy ] Well.. there are rules.. [ chuckles nervously ]
Erica Kane: Please?
Jack Morgan: O-o-okay.. “Which of the Great Lakes is located..?”
Erica Kane: [ buzzes ] Lake Michigan!!
Jack Morgan: That’s cor-rect!
Jack Morgan’s Inner Thought: What’s happening to me? Am I losing all sense of fairness? I’m a game show host.. I’ve got to be impartial. But, God help me, she’s the most fascinating woman I’ve ever met.
Margaret Fletcher: [ waving ] Excuse me, Jack..? I-I-I believe that I-I rang in before Erica did!
Jack Morgan: [ scoffs ] Well.. Margaret, isn’t there a chance that you could be wrong?
Margaret Fletcher: Well, I think.. I think I ought to know when I rang my own buzzer, Jack!
Jack Morgan: Please. Margaret, it’s Ercia’s turn.
Erica Kane: “Show Business” for 500, Jack!
Jack Morgan: “He won an Oscar for ‘Marty’.”
Erica Kane: [ buzzes ] Oh, um.. it’s on the tip of my tongue..
[ time-out buzzer ]
Margaret Fletcher: [ buzzes ] Ernest-
Erica Kane: Ernest Borgnine!
Jack Morgan: Cor-rect, for 500!
Margaret Fletcher: Jack, those are my 500 points! I know I said Ernest Borgnine first!
Erica Kane: Margaret, you’re lying. You know you are.
Margaret Fletcher: No! I’m not lying!
Erica Kane: Margaret, you’re tired and you’re desperate to win, and you’re lying.
Margaret Fletcher: No! I’m not lying, Erica! I rang in, and I started to say Ernest Borgnine-
Erica Kane: Oh, you started to say Ernest Borgnine! I hope everyone is listening here – you started to say Ernest Borgine?! I love it! You are so pathetic, Margaret! you and your tissue of lies!
Margaret Fletcher: [ near tears ] Those are my 500 points, Erica Kane, and I want them back!!
[ a catfight breaks out ]
Jack Morgan: Mrs. Fletcher! Please!
Erica Kane: She tried to hurt me, Jack!
Margaret Fletcher: [ crying ] It’s just that I know that I rang my buzzer in before she did, Jack! I know that, I did!
Jack Morgan: [ stern ] Leave her alone, Margaret. Haven’t you done enough already?
Margaret Fletcher: Well.. I-I-I know that-
Jack Morgan: Don. Let’s take a break.
Announcer: Alright, Jack! Transportation for “Game Breakers” is provided by TransEastern Airlines. At Transeastern, we don’t love to fly, but we keep the feeling hidden.
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[ dissolve back to Jack, still holding his game show cards, but in bed with Erica on the game show set ]
Jack Morgan: Oh, God.. we’re back. And, Erica.. you have control of the board.
Erica Kane: [ smiling ] “World Capitols” for 300.
Jack Morgan: “It’s called.. The City of Light.”
Erica Kane: Paris!
[ buzzer sounds ]
Jack Morgan: You’re right. You’re so very right..
[ show rear camera angle from between Jack and Erica in bed, to show Margaret faraway on the game show set ]
Margaret Fletcher: [ waving desperately ] Yoo-hoo! Jack! Hello? Could you speak up?! I can’t.. I can’t hear so well from here!
Erica Kane: [ yelling ] “World Capitols” for 600!
Margaret Fletcher: Oh.
Jack Morgan: “Argentina”.
[ Jack and Erica break into a passionate kiss, as Margaret struggles from far away ]
Margaret Fletcher: [ pounding buzzer ferociously ] Beunos Aires! Jack! I know the answer! Buenos Aires!!
[ dissolve to collection of prizes ]
Announcer: Some members of our studio audience will receive Party Improver; invite Party Improver to your next party, and watch your party improve. And Tick-Off; simply the finest tick repellent money can buy – and Tick-Away, its chief competitor. Jack, back to you.
[ dissolve back to Jack ]
Jack Morgan: Thank you, Don. We’re back, and Erica still has control of the board.. and she’s about to make me the happiest man in the world.
[ reveal Don Pardo serving duty as a minister, with Erica dressed in bridal gown next to smiling Jack ]
Don Pardo: Will the bride and the groom please join hands? She’s the most fascinating woman I’ve ever seen!
Jack Morgan: We’re ready.
Margaret Fletcher: Don’t do this, Jack! She’s only using you!
Don Pardo: If any man here knows any reason why these two should not be joined in holy matrimony, speak now. You have fifteen seconds.
[ the clock ticks ]
Gene Rayburn: I believe I have an objection!
Erica Kane: Gene!
Gene Rayburn: Yes. Yes, Mrs. Erica Kane-Martin-Brent-Carnegie-Chandler-Montgomery-Montgomery-Rayburn!
Erica Kane: [ aghast ] Gene, what are you doing here?
Gene Rayburn: I was in town taping “Circus of the Stars”! I believe you’ve met my friends Siegfried & Roy!
[ show Siegfried & Roy ]
Jack Morgan: You’re very clever, Rayburn. But it won’t work! I’ll have Erica Kane for my wife, and nothing and no one will stop me!
Erica Kane: [ screaming, as Siegfried & Roy’s panther tears her apart ] I am Erica Kane!!
Jack Morgan: No!
Announcer: Tune in tomorrow for another episode of “Game Breakers”. This is Don Pardo speaking.
[ fade ]
