Animation
Comedy
Directed by Richard Condie
1985
10 min
A couple has a fight over a game of Scrabble unaware that a full-scale nuclear war has started.
Jay Brazeau
Husband (voice)
Ida Osler
Wife (voice)
Randy Woods
"Sawing for Teens" Host (voice)
Bill Guest
Station Announcer (voice)
Richard Condie
Director
Story
Producer
Michael J.F. Scott
Patrick Godfrey
Original Music Composer
Ken Rodeck
Sound Editor
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Anyone who has ever played Scrabble with a loved one will know just how dangerous it can be if someone has a nice seven letter word and the other a collection of vowels that might only make a word used by a kid in a playground! Well that's what happens here when the couple are having a game and he is stuck. She's bored waiting, so goes and hoovers their home whilst he puts the television on and watches some of his favourite pastime - sawing! Yes, that's using a saw to cut through things. Not surprisingly, it has a rather soporific effect on him (and their dog) and when he awakes after a few idyllic dreams of days gone by, he takes a quick squint at her letters but is caught. She throws a bit of a paddy and he has to find a way to placate her. Meantime, the television announces that there's a nuclear war ongoing and that they mustn't smoke! It's a simple animation with bulging bodily features and a slightly surreal slant to it before a denouement that I did rather enjoy.