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'''Escape From Paradise''' is the name of a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[Somewhere Out There]]. It was originally broadcast on June 30, [[1996]].
'''Escape From Paradise''' is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[Somewhere Out There]]. It was originally broadcast on June 30, [[1996]].


== Synopsis ==
== Synopsis ==

Revision as of 18:31, 2 March 2021

Escape From Paradise[1]
Series
Somewhere Out There
Original Broadcast Date
June 30, 1996
Cast
Joe Frank
Format
Absurd Monologue, Narrative Monologue, 1 hour
Preceded by: Mountain Rain
Followed by: Reprise

I was a trucker, I had an eighteen wheeler.

Escape From Paradise is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series Somewhere Out There. It was originally broadcast on June 30, 1996.

Synopsis

Joe is a trucker who causes a massive accident. He begins smuggling immigrants, and is arrested and sent to an enlightened prison. Description of the prison and a prison rebellion. The wife of the transvestite prison director, Farrington, discovers his affair with a prisoner, Jones. Joe has a conjugal visit and questions his wife. Jones and Farrington fight. Farrington and his wife fight in the car. Jones kills and eats Farrington and they escape through a hole in the wall which had been disguised as a painting. They go to Mexico where Jones becomes an enlightened ascetic.

Commentary

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Spblat

Great program, wonderful absurd stuff. I particularly like where Joe tells his wife "I just have a few questions" then launches into a litany of questions about his wife's alleged lover.