Jeff Scudder
1/23/04
Period E
Mutiny on the Bounty Report: Script of Sitcom

Introduction: The sitcom script is being written based upon the Drew Carey Show. It is a television show about several people who work in an office, with their boss. This sitcom was chosen because its characters are similar to those in Mutiny on the Bounty. Like the novel, the sitcom has a character that despises the boss and her boss despises her. (Just like the ship's carpenter William Purcell in the book.) In the script, the characters of the Drew Carey Show end up overthrowing their boss because he is treating them unfairly and making them do extra work, just like Fletcher Christian, the second in command on the Bounty, who causes mutiny to his captain.

Character Comparison: 

Note: Some female characters in the sitcom will be representing male characters in the book, because of their similar personalities towards their successor.

Drew Carey, the star of the sitcom, is very similar to Roger Byam. Like Drew, Roger learns quickly, and follows orders. He befriends most everybody he comes across. Drew and Roger are never on one side of a conflict; they are neutral characters, who usually remain loyal to their successor. Like Roger, Drew will get pulled into getting blamed partially for the mutiny.

Kate is Drew's girlfriend in the sitcom, but very importantly she despises her boss. Kate is like a male character in the novel. The Bounty's carpenter, who goes by the name of William Purcell, despises his captain and their feelings between each other are mutual. But also like Kate, he is always doing the right thing, and he does not want to take part in the mutiny, even though he hates Bligh.

Oswald is not Drew's best friend, but they are good pals on the show. Oswald is like Robert Tinkler, in the fact that he helps Drew with his problems, and he always comes to the rescue. (Robert Tinkler is important to saving Byam's life, because of a conversation he overheard while drifting to sleep. He heard Christian talking to Byam about how if Christian doesn’t make it off the Bounty, to tell his father what happened. This conversation is important to the end of the novel. In that it is mistaken to mean something else because the Ship's captain only hears a portion of it, which makes the Captain believe that Byam is a mutineer.

Mimi on the show is like Christian in the novel. She is the secretary to the boss, which makes her second in command, like Christian was to captain Bligh. Mimi will be the one to lead the rebellion against her boss.
 
Lewis will be similar to John Fryer, in that he will go with his boss and accompany him, along with Oswald. John Fryer, who is the master of the ship, accompanies his captain on the launch in the novel.

Mr. Nigel Wick is the boss of the office workers. Similar to captain blight in the fact that he treats his workers unfairly, and taunts them regularly.

The Script:

	Drew woke up, and drove to his department store where he worked. When he arrived, he found his boss Nigel tied to his desk, with his pants off. Mimi, and several other office workers including have seized the upper floor of the building, and taken control of the workplace. The entire floor was under their control, and no longer the control of the unfair Mr. Nigel Wick.

Mimi: Listen Nigel, you were rude to me! You mistreated me, and all of us on this floor and you know it! I’m the boss of this office now, and by god I'll stand no more of your abuse!

Nigel: Oh come on, someone help, please! Where's Kate? Where's Carey? They are gonna do something bad to me and I know it. Help!

Mimi: You shut your mouth and don't open it again. (Mimi says as she takes the letter opener from her desk and holds it against her boss's throat.)

An office person: You can do it Mimi, show him whose boss, and make him go down the fire escape!

Nigel: Oh no not that! Why can't we all just work in peace again!

	Mimi had locked herself and her fellow rebels into Mr. Nigel's office and all Drew could do was look in and spectate the downfall of his boss. Drew wanted to help him, but he couldn’t. He wanted to go with him and accompany him if he was in fact going to have to climb down the fire escape, but he was only able to look on and wait. But Drew did notice that Kate and Oswald were both in the office, and that they would help their boss, even though they didn't like him.

Mimi: Down the fire escape it is! Mr. Nigel Wick, this is for taking bits out of our paycheck and keeping it for yourself, this is for your cruel ridicule of your workers, and this is for justice.

Kate: Wait Stop! I know Nigel hasn't been fair to us, but doing this isn't right, it's a crime.

Mimi: In that case you can go down with him; we don't need you to run this floor.

Oswald: That's not fair to anyone, you've gone mad...

Mimi: Well we don't need you either, I though you hated Nigel, but I guess I was wrong.

	Mimi ordered some office workers to open up the window to the fire escape. Drew was watching the whole thing. Mimi was ordering certain people to stay with her and assist in running the office floor, and she was letting and telling people to go with her boss Nigel down the fire escape. Drew didn't want to be part of this. He didn't want to get into trouble for this crime that Mimi had bestowed upon everyone in the office. He wanted to go with Nigel, and do what was right. Half the people in the office considered Mimi as a hero who saved them from workplace disaster, but in reality, she was only making the problem worse.

Lewis: I want to stay here, I can help work most of this machinery in the office and ... (Gets cut off by Mimi)

Mimi: No Lewis, you’re going with Nigel.

	Now Mimi knew how loyal Lewis was to the company they worked for. She knew that if she kept him on the floor, then he would most certainly betray her, so she ordered him off with everyone else.

Mimi: Now we must send them off and out of our office floor. It has to be done for our certainty that we will never again be the subjects of Nigel's crudeness.

	The people Mimi had told to go started moving out the window and down the fire escape. She had given them some crackers and such so they could hold themselves off for a while. There was so much weight on the ladder that it felt like it was going to break. Drew finally bust open the door but it was too late. All the office workers had gone. Drew was left with rebels. He knew that he would be stuck with this crime if he ever ended up going to court, and being tried for it. He knew that even though he did no wrong, he would also be considered a rebel.