THE LIAM SMITH SHOW
Episode 1.07: "Liamgate"
Written by Jason Donner
FADE IN
LIAM'S APARTMENT: DAY
Liam is sitting on his couch watching television.
TELEVISION
You're watching FOX!
LIAM
I am? Oh! Thanks!
Liam turns the channel. There is a knock at the door.
LIAM
Come in!
MISTER HILTER enters.
HILTER
Great news, my boy.
LIAM
What kind of news, Mister Hitler?
HILTER
Dammit, it's HILTER! HILL-TURR!!!
LIAM
I'm sorry, Mister Hitler.
HILTER
Forget it, dammit! Forget it! Great news!
LIAM
What?
HILTER
The President of the United States is coming
to Las Vegas!
LIAM
You're kidding!
HILTER
No! I'm quite serious!
LIAM
George Bush Junior is coming here!?
HILTER
No, Bill Clinton is coming here. Bush isn't
president.
LIAM
According to the news he is.
Liam changes the channel to the news.
DAN RATHER
...and so, given George Bush Junior's high
popularity and enormous bankroll, we the
media of America have forgone elections
and have just appointed Bush the president.
Liam hits "mute".
HILTER
Wow. Who knew the media had that much power?
LIAM
Oh, they're too powerful! Why, if only the
public knew that the media has been slowly
manipulating world events to get a stranglehold
on society! If only they knew that the media
have been responsible for everything from the
Gulf War to Watergate to even the assassination
of--
The screen goes black replaced by the UPN logo.
ANNOUNCER
The Liam Smith show, normally seen at
this time... has been canceled.
LIAM'S VOICE
See? Told you they were powerful.
FADE OUT
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THEME SONG (Sung to the theme of "The Beverly Hilbillies")
Let me tell you a little story that you just might know,
'bout this guy named Liam. He's a really big shmoe.
Lives in Las Vegas with a mighty weird clan,
just tryin' to figure out how his wacky world is ran.
Run, that is... Don't go away. Song ain't over yet.
The next thing you know this little sitcom is a hit,
even though the acting and writin' ain't worth a sh-[bleep!]-t
But though you can't see it on your television set,
you can always catch it right here on the internet.
Cyberspace, that is. Kick your shoes off.
My god! What a smell! Put them back on!
OLÉ!
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THE LIAM SMITH SHOW
STARRING
Dian Bachar
as
"Liam Smith"
Ed Asner
as
"Mister Hilter"
GUEST STARRING
Cameron Diaz
as
"Stacy VaVoom"
Robert Floyd
as
"Bippo the Clown"
and
The Stick
as
"Harry the Handyman"
SPECIAL APPEARANCES BY
John Stamos
as
"Ben Dover"
Tom Brokaw
as
"Himself"
AND SPECIAL GUEST STARS
Bill Clinton
as
"The President"
Hillary Clinton
as
"The First Lady"
and
Chelsea Clinton
as
"The First Daughter"
FADE IN
INT - UPDA CREEK APARTMENTS LOBBY: DAY
Mister Hilter walks though the lobby with HARRY THE HANDYMAN giving him
orders.
HILTER
...and since I've just heard that the
president has chosen one of the spare
apartments here to stay in during his
Las Vegas stay, I want you to really
whip this place into shape!
HARRY
Burn it down, blame Bippo, collect the
insurance, and build a new complex?
HILTER
If we had time, yes... But not this time.
Just slap on some fresh plain, mask that
urine smell, and make this place look
presentable.
HARRY
Check. How long do I have?
HILTER
One day.
HARRY
Only one day?
HILTER
Well, you did... yesterday.
HARRY
Wait a second, if I had a day to prepare
yesterday... that means...!!!
"Hail to the Chief" begins to play as several Secret Service guys bust
into the room. After a few seconds, they nod to each other that it is
safe for the President to enter.
HILTER
Oh no... This is so embarrassing! To
think that the president is going to stay
in the apartments with them looking so
trashy!
PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON enters followed by HILLARY CLINTON and CHELSEA
CLINTON. Harry immediatley gets down on one knee and bows.
HARRY
Your majesty!
CLINTON
[laughing]
Now, now, now... Get up! Come on! Wow!
I haven't had someone go down that fast
since I first met Monica!
HILLARY growls. Clinton jumps.
CLINTON
[nervously]
Uh.. Er... Right. Are you Mister Hitler?
HILTER
I'm Mister Hilter.
CLINTON
It's a pleasure to stay here, sir.
HILTER
But... But, sir... The apartments are so
trashy and nasty and...
CLINTON
I'm from Arkansas! I'm used to it! Hell,
this place is nicer than the governor's mansion!
[looks at Hillary and Chelsea]
Oh, where are my manners? May I present
my wife... uh... uh...
HILLARY
[gritting teeth]
Hillary, dear.
CLINTON
Right... Hillary.
HILTER
[kisses her hand]
Ma'am.
HARRY
[does the same]
Enchantè
HILLARY
Ditto, handsome.
CLINTON
[oblivious]
And finally, my dear daughter, Chelsea.
CHELSEA
Hi.
HILTER
Hello.
HARRY
Hi.
HILTER
Well, now that that's out of the
way, shall I show you to your apartment?
CLINTON
[yawning]
Yes! It's been a looooooong day.
INT: HALLWAY
Hilter and Harry lead Clinton, Hillary, Chelsea, and several secret
service men to the apartment. As they pass Liam's door, it opens and
Liam's head pokes out.
LIAM
Say, Mister Hilter, aren't they...?
AGENT
LOOK OUT! ASSASSIN!
LIAM
Whu...?
The Secret Service Agents pile on Liam and beat the hell out of him.
HILTER
Uh... Guys? He lives here.
The agents halt the beating.
AGENT
My bad.
Chelsea walks over and helps Liam up.
CHELSEA
Here, let me help you, you poor man.
LIAM
I'm fine, really. Just a couple of ribs.
Chelsea's eyes meet Liam's and she is instantly attracted to him. Liam
is, of course, ignorant of her feelings.
CHELSEA
I'm Chelsea Clinton.
LIAM
Liam Smith.
CLINTON
Come on, Chelsea. Leave the man alone.
CHELSEA
I gotta go.
LIAM
Okay. Well, thanks.
Hilter, Harry, the agents, Clinton, Hillary, and Chelsea walk into the
apartment. Before the door closes, Chelsea takes one last loning look
at Liam.
INT - THE CLINTON'S APARTMENT
CLINTON
Yes, Yes... this will do nicely.
HILTER
If you need anything - and I do mean
anything - just let me know.
CLINTON
Actually, can you tell me if there's a
backdoor to this place?
HILTER
Well, yes... there's a secret passage behind
the stove that leads to a door in the alley
that no one knows about. It's dark and out
of the way and I doubt that anyone ever sees
or notices it. In fact, I'd be willing to bet
that even the most famous person in the world
could sneak in and out the back way with
whoever he wanted and no one would know about it.
CLINTON
[to himself, like Mr. Burns]
Excellent.
[to Hitler]
Thank you, Mister Hilter.
HILTER
My pleasure.
HARRY
[smiles]
Mrs. Clinton.
HILLARY
[smiles back]
Harry.
Hilter and Harry exit. The agents go out to stand guard in the hallway.
Bill and Hillary relax at last.
HILLARY
[southern accent]
Bill, I just knew you were going
to embarrass me!
CLINTON
[same accent]
Shut up, bitch!
HILLARY
Oh no, he didn't!
Clinton looks out a window and sees STACY VAVOOM walking up to her
apartment.
CLINTON
Hello, beautiful. How'd you like to shake
hands with my one-armed bandit?
HILLARY
Oh, there you go again! You can't keep that
thing holstered for five seconds, can you?
I don't know why I ever married you!
Clinton runs to her and dips her.
CLINTON
Then let me remind you, baby.
The Clinton's kiss.
HILLARY
You bastard!
CLINTON
Say you want me!
HILLARY
I want you!
Hillary and Bill run to the bedroom. Chelsea is disgusted.
CHELSEA
Everyday it's the same thing. Mom and dad
fight and then Dad lays on the sex and Mom
stays all while Dad is boinking everything
on two legs. Well, I'm sick of it! Two can
play at this game! If dad can sleep around,
so can I! I am Chelsea... hear me roar!
Liam Smith, eh? How'd you like to be my new
boyfriend? Bwaaaaa ha, ha, haaaaa!!!
FADE OUT
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FADE IN
THE HALLWAY OUTSIDE THE LIAM'S AND THE CLINTON'S APARTMENTS
The secret service guys are standing watch when Chelsea sticks her head
out and points to something offstage.
CHELSEA
Hey, guys. Isn't that Saddam Hussien
over there?
AGENT
Let's take him down, men.
The agents run off camera. Soon the sounds of a fight can be heard.
BIPPO'S VOICE
No, not Saddam Hussien! I'm So-Damn
Insane! Oh, my back! Hey! Do that
again!
Chelsea sneaks over to Liam's door and knocks.
LIAM
Come in!
INT - LIAM'S APARTMENT
Chelsea enters while Liam sets on the couch watching TV.
TELEVISION
...and as the four alarm fire rages out
of control, we can only ask ourselves
who could have set fire to this
marshmallow factory and, most importantly,
where are the graham crackers and
chocolate?
CHELSEA
Hi, Liam.
LIAM
Oh, hi... uh... Chelsea. What're you
doing here?
CHELSEA
I was lonely.
LIAM
Oh... that's too bad. Wanna watch Beverly
Hills 90210? I think they finally get
cancelled in this episode.
Chelsea moves in.
CHELSEA
I was wondering if we could, instead... snuggle.
LIAM
Sn-Snuggle?
CHELSEA
You have any idea how boring it is
to me a good girl, Liam?
LIAM
What do you mean? Being good or being
a girl?
CHELSEA
I want to be bad, Liam. And I want
to be bad with you!
LIAM
Wha...!?
Chelsea kisses Liam and they both fall back onto the couch. There is an
inexplicable flash of light and Chelsea pops back up.
CHELSEA
There. That didn't take long.
LIAM
[embarrassed]
How'd you know!?
Chelsea looks at him confused.
LIAM
D'ah mean... What do you mean?
CHELSEA
Sorry Liam, but I was just using you to get
even with my dad for all his affairs. That
flash you saw was a camera from one of those
supermarket tabloids.
LIAM
But I didn't see the photographer!
CHELSEA
Nano-technolgy. Paperazzi are everywhere these
days, you just can't see them becasue they're
microscopic and invisible to the naked eye.
Why, when you sat down a little while ago, I
bet you crushed several thousand of them.
LIAM
I'm never getting undressed again.
CHELSEA
Well, see ya.
Chelsea goes for the door. Liam follows.
LIAM
What do you mean, see ya!? What
about...!?
Chelsea opens the door and the Secret Agents see Liam and Chelsea
together.
AGENT
He's got the first daughter! Get him!
The agents jump on and beat the crap out of Liam.
FADE OUT
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FADE IN:
Newspapers twirl up to the screen with the following headlines:
New York Times:
"CHELSEA CAUGHT WITH HORNEY NERD"
Las Vegas Gambler:
"LOCAL BOY CAUGHT IN AFFAIRS OF STATE"
San Fransisco Chronicle:
"LIKE FATHER, LIKE DAUGHTER"
New York Post:
"HEADLESS CHELSEA FOUND NUDE IN LAS VEGAS SUBWAY"
Weekly World News:
"BAT BOY BACKS BUSH"
INT. LIAM'S APARTMENT: ONE WEEK LATER
Liam and Mister Hilter are reading the newspapers.
LIAM
Can you believe this? "Chelsea Does the
Deed With Dork"! They've blown this totally
out of proportion! We didn't even do
the deed! It's been a week since Chelsea and
the Clintons went back to Washinton... you'd
THINK the news would move on!
HILTER
It looks like you're the new Monica Lewinski,
my boy. The media is never going to leave you
alone. It must be hard for you.
[a pause]
Well, gotta go.
Hilter opens the door to leave revealing dozens of reporters and
photographers outside flashing cameras and asking questions.
REPORTERS
[overlapping]
Liam! Liam! Did you have sex with the first
daughter? Does she have any distigushing
features? How was she? If you were a twee,
what kind of twee would you be?
Hilter exits closing the door.
LIAM
This is too much! I need to relax!
Liam turns on the TV.
TOM BROKAW
Horney First Daughter: Day Seven. I'm
Tom Brokaw. Continuing our round the clock
coverage of Liam Smith's apartment, we now
go live to Las Vegas where I am told that
our affiliate there has secured an interview
with one of Liam's closest friends. And
now, a regular-looking reporter with a funny
name.
The sceen chanages to show BEN DOVER standing outside Liam's apartment.
BEN DOVER
Thanks Tom. Ben Dover here at Upda Creek
Apartments with a Miss Stacy VaVoom.
Camera pans over to reveal STACY VAVOOM.
BEN DOVER
So, Miss VaVoom, tell us about Liam. What do
you know about him as a person.
STACY
Look, I'm not about to blab about one of my
friends on national TV.
BEN DOVER
Very well... how about $50,000?
STACY
He's a sexual predator whose apetite is
voracious. He should be locked away!
Locked away I tell you!
Liam shuts off the TV.
LIAM
This is ridiculous! I've got to put a
stop to it... right here, right now!
Liam goes to his bedroom and draggs out a large box. He writes: TO THE
WHITE HOUSE c/o BILL CLINTON and then gets inside tapping up the
corners.
FADE TO:
Montage of shots:
A FedEx guy pick up the box and throws it into a truck.
The truck drives to the airport.
Handlers chunk the box onto a plane.
The plane flies through the air.
A map. A red line indicates the plane's position. The line starts at
Las Vegas, goes to Canada, then Michigan, then Texas, then Florida,
makes several loop-de-loops, and then goes to Washinton DC.
CUT TO:
A FedEx plane come in for a landing at Washington DC but an engine
explodes and it crashes into the ocean. Camera pulls back to reveal a
couple of handlers unloading Liam's box from a different plane.
HANDLER
Wow... glad that wasn't our plane.
THE WHITE HOUSE: A FEW HOURS LATER
A FedEx truck drops Liam's package off. Secret Service guys take it
inside.
INT: CHELSEA'S ROOM
Chelsea is lying on her bed reading all of the tabliods about her
"affair" with Liam. The Secret Service guys bring the package in.
AGENT
Pakage for you, ma'am.
CHELSEA
Just leave it there.
The agent put down the pakage and leave.
CHELSEA
It's from Liam! I wonder what it could be.
Chelsea opens the box and Liam pops out.
LIAM
[gasping]
I knew I should have punched air
hole in that thing!
CHELSEA
Liam! What are you doing here?
LIAM
I had to come. I want you to tell the
world that nothing happpened between us
in Vegas. I mean, my life has become a
living hell since then! It's always
Flash! Flash! Flash! Can we ask
you this, can we ask you that! Flash!
Flash! Flash!
CHELSEA
I've got to admit... this whole sex scandal
thing isn't exactly fun for me, either.
LIAM
Really?
CHELSEA
No. I thought that by having an
embarrasingly public affair I could
get a little attention like my dad did
when he boffed that human swine, Lewinski.
LIAM
But it hasn't happened?
CHELSEA
Alas, no. Instead I just feel all bad
and dirty on the inside like I've done
something wrong.
LIAM
You have. You've ruined an innocent man's
life. Think, Chelsea, what kind of life
would Monica Lewinski had if it hadn't been
your dad? What about Jennifer Flowers or
Paula What's-her-face?
CHELSEA
Yes. Yes, you're absolutely right, Liam.
I've done a bad thing and it's up to me to
set things right.
She takes Liam by the hand.
CHELSEA
Come with me.
LIAM
Where are we going?
CHELSEA
They're having a press conference downstairs
about US/Russian relations downstairs. We'll
just inturrupt it and set the record straight.
Chelsea opens the door and a dozen secret service goons pile on Liam.
AGENT
Get him! Tear him up! Kick his ass!
CHELSEA
Guys? Cut it out.
The beatings stop.
AGENT
Our bad.
CUT TO:
THE PRESS CONFERENCE - A FEW MINUTES LATER
Clinton is speaking to a bunch of reporters as Hillary looks on.
CLINTON
...and so I says, "Well screw you and
your wussy little nuclear stockpile!"
And Yeltsin is so drunk on Vodka that
he can hardly...
Chelsea and Liam enter.
CHELSEA
Wait!
CLINTON
Chelsea!
HILLARY
What are you doing here?
CHELSEA
I've got something to say!
Chelsea steps in front of the microphone. Liam stand by her side.
CHELSEA
Ladies and Gentlemen on the press, I am
Chelsea Clinton and, for the past week,
there have been insinuations in the press
that I had a wild and torrid affair with
this man, Liam Smith. These reports are
false... and the press's coverage of the
affair is my fault. You see, I've learned
something today. Revenge is a dish best
served cold, but try not to get any food
on innocent people. I guess what I'm
trying to say is, Liam is innocent. There
was no affair.
REPORTER
Excuse me, but what proof do you have that
there was no affair?
CHELSEA
Have you ever seen American Pie? Well,
let's just say that Liam is just as excitable as
that kid was.
The reporters laugh. Liam blushes.
CUT TO
LIAM'S APARTMENT - A FEW DAYS LATER
Liam and Chelsea are there.
LIAM
It's great that you and your parents came
back to Las Vegas. Now maybe you can enjoy
this city for all it has to offer.
CHELSEA
Well, I actually came back for you. To
apologize. Even though I told the truth
about you and me, the media still won't
leave you alone... at least, not until
the next Presidental sex scandal.
LIAM
I guess I can live like this for a few
more months.
CHELSEA
With my dad... it'll only be a few days.
LIAM
So... would you like to go out on a real
date sometime?
CHELSEA
Gee, Liam. I would... but... Well... I'm
not into minutemen if you catch my drift.
Besides, we're from two seperate worlds.
It just wouldn't work.
LIAM
I guess not.
CHELSEA
[kisses his cheek]
See ya, Speedy.
Chelsea leaves. Liam, a little sadder, sits on his couch.
LIAM
So, my life won't be back to normal until
the next presidental sex scandal. How long
will that take?
INT: THE CLINTON APARTMENT
Bill Clinton enters with a supermodel on each arm slugging back tequila
and laughing.
CLINTON
...and so I said to her, "How'd you like
to see the real executive branch?"
Clinton and the models laugh.
MODEL #1
Oh, Billy....
MODEL #2
You're so funny.
MODEL #1
[sultry]
I want you, Billy.
MODEL #2
No! I want him!
The models argue.
CLINTON
Ladies... Ladies... please!
The models stop.
CLINTON
There's plenty of me to go around. You
can both have me!
Clinton and the models giggle as Clinton opens the door to the bedroom.
INT: THE CLINTON APARTMENT BEDROOM
Clinton and the models enter laughing. Clinton turns on the lights and
reacts in shock to something on the bed.
CLINTON
Mary Mother of God!
REVEAL:
Hillary and Harry the Handyman in bed together hiding under the covers.
HARRY
Don't look at me like that! Mister Hilter
told me to make your stay here as plesant as
I could and that's just what I'm doing...
for your wife, I mean.
HILLARY
[smoking cigarette]
I love Las Vegas. Maybe I'll run for Senator
here!
CLINTON
Hillary! But...! How...? How...?
HILLARY
If you say "How could you?" I swear, I will
strangle you.
There's a quick flash of light.
CLINTON
The hell?
CUT TO:
Montage of newspapers as "Hail to the Chief" plays:
London Times:
"OVAL OFFICE ORGY!"
Houston Post:
"CLINTON'S KINKY ROMP!"
National Enquirer
"HARRY THE HANDYMAN'S MIRACLE DIET!"
The Globe:
"BOY TRAPPED IN REFRIGERATOR EATS OWN TESTICLES"
THE END
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