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SC Pictures | Mansfield, Texas | We're Pretty Busy Right Now 2:30 | Director Stewart Cohen

11 Oct 2022 · 2 min

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The video is a scripted, musical‑style town‑meeting sketch in which a group of speakers (A‑F) take turns praising various aspects of Mansfield, Texas – its highly‑rated schools, thriving businesses, top‑notch healthcare, abundant housing, and plentiful dining and recreation options. While the dialogue repeatedly extols the town’s virtues, a recurring comedic refrain emphasizes that the community wants to keep these benefits “hush‑hush” to avoid an influx of newcomers that could overwhelm local resources. The sketch uses exaggerated, rhythmic language and playful banter to both market the town and satirize the fear of rapid growth, ending with the line “We’re pretty busy right now.” The piece serves as a light‑hearted promotional tool directed by Stewart Cohen, blending genuine community pride with tongue‑in‑cheek secrecy.

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Let's start this meeting by going around and getting your thoughts on the state of our town. How are the schools?
I won't keep you waiting. The state of our schools, once again, a great rating.
On to our businesses. How are they looking? The same as last year. Business is cooking.
Our healthcare is the envy of all of the state. All the best care without all the wait.
We're building more homes than ever before, and if we run out, there's room to build more.
And when folks want dining and recreation, there's never a need to leave this location.
Everyone will want to live here.
Wait, everyone will want to live here?
Now listen, now listen up, one and all. There's so many wonderful things right here in our Mansfield. Uh-huh. There's so many wonderful things, but we'd rather keep it hush-hush.
Hush-hush, hush-hush, most secretly. Hush-hush. If we showed them around our happy town, people smiling, never a frown, millions would start relocating all their Kids matriculating, ha ha ha ha ha!
There's so many reasons they'd love it in Mansfield. Let go! There's so many reasons, but we're not prepared to share.
We hate to seem contrary, we're just a little wary that everyone will want to see how wonderful that life can be.
But what if our oasis made news in other places? Then right before our eyes, the place would grow! Oh no! Oh no! No! Then we'd not be able to get our Filling up each restaurant, acting oh so nonchalant. There's 7,000 things to love about Mansfield.
Yeehaw!
But you'll never hear a one from me.
Or me.
Or me. Or me. Or me. So please take this apology, we hate to be hard-nosed. Timpani maestro.
Starting now. Here in Mansfield, a city we all love. A most fantabulous city. Our city is closed.
We're pretty busy right now.