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SC Pictures | Mansfield, Texas | Lazy River :75 | Director Stewart Cohen

11 Oct 2022 · 1 min

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In this brief, informal sketch from the SC Pictures "Lazy River" promotional video, two speakers—Speaker A and Denise, a lawyer— humorously debate the legality of extreme measures to keep people out of Mansfield, Texas. They consider installing barricades, employing attacking hawks, and even constructing moats, repeatedly questioning whether each idea would be legal. Denise offers tentative legal approval, while Speaker A enthusiastically proposes increasingly absurd solutions, referencing a Parks & Rec official. The dialogue is repetitive and playful, highlighting a satirical take on municipal control and legal loopholes.

Hey, Denise, you're a lawyer. That meeting earlier, that was all legal, right?
Which parts? So we can do the barricades around town?
Right, the barricades. That'd be legal, right?
Yeah, I could get behind that. Oh, fantastic. Okay, what if we had, like, hawks attack people?
Oh, yeah, sure. That'd be legal.
The animal hawks or the—
What's going on here, hon? Looks like fun I didn't start. We've been talking about trying to keep people outside of Mansfield. Oh, I got this. I got a great idea for this. You're gonna love it.
The Parks and Rec guy has an idea? Parks and Rec guy has an idea. You familiar with moats? Hmm.
Yes, I've got this. You're gonna love this. If I was responsible, I'd have him elaborate on his plan, but I guess we'll see what happens. Okay. We never talked.
Our city is lost. We're pretty busy right now.