Escape From Paradise: Difference between revisions

From The Joe Frank Wiki
time
m Text replacement - "data6 = Joe Frank|]]" to "data6 = Joe Frank"
Line 13: Line 13:
|data4  = June 30, [[1996]]
|data4  = June 30, [[1996]]
|title = [https://www.joefrank.com/shop/escape-from-paradise Escape From Paradise][https://www.joefrank.com/streaming/shows/?jfsearch=Escape%20From%20Paradise]
|title = [https://www.joefrank.com/shop/escape-from-paradise Escape From Paradise][https://www.joefrank.com/streaming/shows/?jfsearch=Escape%20From%20Paradise]
|data6  = Joe Frank|]]
|data6  = Joe Frank
|data10 = [[Mountain Rain]]
|data10 = [[Mountain Rain]]
|data11 = [[Reprise]]
|data11 = [[Reprise]]

Revision as of 14:42, 16 March 2021

Escape From Paradise[1]
Series
Somewhere Out There
Original Broadcast Date
June 30, 1996
Cast
Joe Frank
Format
Absurd Monologue, Narrative Monologue, 56 minutes
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.

Music

Commentary

Please see guidelines on commentary and share your personal thoughts in this section.

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.