Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 23:10:33 -0500

From: Daniel S Goodman dsg[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MAROON.TC.UMN.EDU

Subject: ?Movie/T.V. dumb laugh ending (fwd)



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Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 15:10:18 -0700 (PDT)

From: Kirsten Edwards kirstedw[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]rain.kcls.lib.wa.us

To: Stumpers List stumpers-list[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CRF.CUIS.EDU

Subject: ?Movie/T.V. dumb laugh ending



Okay stumperites, here's one that seems pretty tough to me:



What, asks the client, is the stupid laugh everyone does at the end of nearly

every T.V. show/sit-com (and a few movies) at the very end? For example, in

Star Trek, Dr. McCoy makes some crack about Spock, crew chuckles,

end-of-show. He wonders, if, in scripts, they have a phrase for this,

such ask "Cut to the gerplax" or "finish with a gerplax" where gerplax,

of course is the stupid laugh everyone does &etc.?



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