Date:  Thu, 21 Sep 1995 00:20:23 -0700

From:  Anton Sherwood <dasher[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]NETCOM.COM>

Subject: stupid laugh



> 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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