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instead of being all bubbly, we’ll be sedate and talk in a monotone. It’ll be fun to write the cheers.” Just then, Chelsey realized she’d completely forgotten about Rob. She turned to him. “Rob, you’re having a horrible time, aren’t you?”
    â€œI’m having a great time. Your friends are fun.”
    â€œYou’d rather be home fooling around with me right now, wouldn’t you?”
    â€œThat would be a lot of fun too, but we can do that all Sunday and Sunday night, all next week. I’m not going anywhere.”
    Chelsey’s heart did a back handspring. She hadn’t thought this might be a long-term thing when she slept with him three hours after meeting him. Well, okay, she hadn’t really been thinking about anything but how cute he was. Did this relationship really have a chance to become something, despite having the fact they had sex on their first date?
    â€œI should probably get home and get some sleep before I have to get to work,” Rob said. “But let’s do brunch on Sunday. Come to my place, I’ll cook for you.”
    â€œYou cook?”
    â€œSure.”
    Oh dear. She could very well fall madly, deeply, and passionately in love with this guy.
    â€œCome by around 11. Is that too early?”
    â€œNo, that sounds great. I’ll see you then.”
    After Rob left, the rest of them worked on scripts for the show until 4:30 in the morning. Some of the ideas they worked on were based on characters who had popped up now and then in their improv, like Ramiro’s and Jason’s After-School-Special Hector and Bob, in which exchange student Hector explains his Brazilian heritage, and Bob explains about American culture.
    Jason/Bob and Ramiro/Hector stood up and started improvising to get some ideas out while Ana wrote it down.
    Ramiro/Hector: “Good international friend, what is this? We do not have such things in my country.”
    Jason/Bob: “Why, my good international friend, it’s called a china cabinet. White people buy dishes that are so expensive, they use them only once a year. And then they buy an entire piece of furniture to display these dishes they only use once a year. Then they buy bumper stickers that say, ‘Live simply so that others may simply live,’ and put them on all three of their cars and their SUV and their boat.” And so on. When they’d gotten all the mileage they could out of Bob and Hector, Scott chimed in with an idea.
    â€œI want to do something on the three-minute dating thing.”
    â€œWhat’s that?” Ana asked.
    â€œAna, what’s wrong with you? It was on Sex and City!” Chelsey said. “It’s where you go to these groups where they have like ten men and ten women and they pair up, two at a time, and every three minutes a bell rings and they switch to talk to someone else. The idea is you’ll click with somebody and see if you want to go on another date with them to get to know them better.”
    â€œThe scene will start at a bar so I can show off my cool moves.” Scott demonstrated his Roger Rabbit and Running Man moves. Because of his ganglyness, he was a natural at physical comedy. Just about any move he made was hilarious. “While I’m dancing, Jason or Ramiro can do a voice-over.” Scott imitated the voice of the guy that does every movie trailer ever made. “‘Chuck tried the bar scene. He took out a personal ad. Nothing worked. He was still just a lonely slob. Then he tried three-minute dating!’ Then I’ll sit at a table and interview you guys and you’ll all just be awful and then the bell will ring.”
    â€œWhat kind of awful?” Marin asked.
    Scott looked at her blankly. “I don’t know.” He thought for a moment. “Um, I need to flesh it out more.”
    â€œJust a little,” Marin said.
    â€œWhy don’t we all be in the sketch,” Ramiro said.