If a fad is started in the FFML, and only one person follows it... is it
still a fad?

Disclaimers: Tenchi Muyo and the commercial spoofed are copyrights of their
respective creators and any distributors of their work and are used without
permission.

Camera directions are... okay, you're expecting humor here, BUT YOU WON'T
GET ANY! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!... umm... they're in [].

*****

[Open on a shot of a simple table on Mihoshi and Kiyone's spacecraft. On it
are a basin of water, a smaller basin of dirt, and a box of new Cheer with
Hyper-Advanced Color Guard(tm). A suitably percussive piece of classical
music is playing... say, the opening to Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an
Exhibition.]

[Kiyone walks stiffly on-screen from stage left. She unfolds a cloth
bandanna with the Galaxy Police logo on it, and proceeds to pour the basin
of dirt on it. She balls up the bandanna, smashes it a few times with her
fist, and flattens it out again. To say that it's dirty would be like saying
that Washu is somewhat intelligent.]

[Kiyone then takes one scoop of new Cheer with... ah, you know, and dumps it
in the basin of water. She swirls the detergent around with her right hand a
few times, then picks up the bandanna and drops it in.]

[She is immediately engulfed by an explosion, coming from the basin of
water, which leaves her upper body coated with soot. The music abruptly
stops, with the sound of a record being scratched. She stares in shock at
the camera.]

Mihoshi (o.s.): Umm... I guess I shouldn't have put so much potassium in the
soil sample, huh Kiyone?

[Kiyone stares at the camera for a few more seconds, then facepalms and
slowly shakes her head in exasperation.]

Mihoshi (o.s.): ...Kiyone?

[Cut to a placard with the Cheer box on it.]

PLACARD: Cheer: For your toughest stains.

[The placard has been amended, in Kiyone's handwriting: "Except alkali
metals..."]

Mihoshi (o.s.): Kiyone? Kiyone, I'm sorry, I'll make up to you...

[Fade to black.]

*****

If you can remember the commercial that inspired this, good for you!

--G. Falconar