Hey Folks, It's Intermission Time!

(typical 50's animation intermission add you would see at a drive-in)

anthropomorphic box of popcorn: his name is Poppy (P)

(P) "Hey folks - have you visited the snack bar yet?"

(wide-angle shot of an attractive young girl behind the counter)
back to (P)

(P) "You really should - you know why?"

(P) squints his eyes - leans closer:

(P) "Cause there are commies out there that want to take all the popcorn for themselves!"

(wide-angle shot of an man (M) in a suit behind a desk)

(M) "So sadly true Poppy - and it is getting worse everyday."

(M) gets up and walks towards the screen:

(M) "You see, the last war we fought was existential in nature; a kind of 'Dasein-ic' existentialism if we want to use Heideggerian concepts - but hey, I only have your attention for such a short period of time!"

(P) is in rapt attention: "Please go on sir!"

(M) Smiles paternally: "Ok Poppy - so here it is folks: this next fight will be fought in the battlefield of the soul - and there are many soulless men out there - kind of like The Hollow Men T.S. Eliot talks about."

(P) "How I hate them!"

(M) "And they hate you Poppy - and everything 'we' stand for."

(P) "Kill them all!"

(M) "Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius" - I could not agree more Poppy!"

(P) his face is becoming contorted with rage; butter is seeping from his eyes and mouth as if some sort of viral hemorrhagic fever has infected him.

(M) "Hey there Poppy - go get a nice ice cold soda!"

(P) "Sorry sir - it just makes me so mad!"

(M) "It just comes down to this - the paradox of trying to live with 'others' can only be solved if we will kill for that which makes us unique - this is the true doctrine of existence!"

(P) "Thank you sir!"

(M) picks up a box of popcorn and starts to eat it as he smiles - one can hear (P) screaming in pain off screen.

Hey Folks, It's Intermission Time!