#Brexit, American Style

First step's a doozy.

First step's a doozy.

Since we live in a post-apocalyptic swamp ruled by raccoons and madmen, we welcome any other state to join us. Given the "success" of the British exit from the EU, cleverly titled the "Brexit," we decided to come up with some campaign names in case any of these "United" States wish to join "land mass" in isolation.


Alascramba (Alabama)
Alascan't (Alaska)
Arigoneza (Arizona)
Arkansawwwhellnaw (Arkansas)
Coloradon’t (Colorado)
Califorgetya (California)
Connecticuttinout (Connecticut)
Delaweareouttahere (Delaware)
Florigo (Florida)
Habyeii (Hawaii)
I'mago (Idaho)
Ka'intsas (Kansas)
Michican’t (Michigan)
Mississayonara (Mississippi)
Mexit (New Mexico)
Nawbraska (Nebraska)
Gonetana (Montana)
WyGOming (Wyoming)
Ohbyeio (Ohio)
Nopelehoma (Oklahoma)
Oregone (Oregon)
Tennesseeya (Tennessee)
Texit (Texas)
Washingtout (Washington)
Vermonouttahere (Vermont)
Wisgonesin (Wisconsin)


FPJEROME

Law and Order: Fetal Attorney

The law office of Thad Pickens Heinz, Esq. Fetus Attorney.

Two things in life never change, despite new iterations. Anti-abortion activists, and Law and Order branching out into new, uninspired realms. Never have the two crossed, and now that they have, the result has gone directly into the trash where it belonged.

Alabama has been working with lawyers for embryos since 1987. It's about time someone dug through the Hollywood dumpster to find the script for the 2015 pilot: Law and Order: Fetal Attorney. The series was originally set on a riverboat, until someone discovered that the writers knew about as much about Alabama geography as they did human anatomy.

Someone did. And we found it. Fortunately for the sanity and excitement of our nonexistent readers,


The Courthouse of Ashby Hogworth Corpendal the IV, esq. Fetus Court Embro-Judge

Law and Order: Fetal Attorney

"In the criminal justice system the people are represented by two equally important groups separated only by a thin layer of tissue. The judge who tries to find a lawyer for the fetus, and the lawyer who represents it. These are their stories."

BZUH-WONG

Thad Pickens Heinz is seated at his desk, leaning back in the expensive wooden chair. Around him are the endless and repetitive shelving full of books, all of which have golden letters in the spine. Despite this, the office looks a bit rundown, there's a decanter of bourbon (clearly labeled: Bourbon) on his desk, and the inbox is empty.

His attractive, blonde SECRETARY (execs demand that the name be taken out) comes storming into the room. The audio cue is HIGH HEELS CLICKING.

"We've got a client. It's six weeks old. Judge thinks someone's trying to abuse it." She puts the sonographs on the table, by the bourbon. The decanter is mostly empty, the tabletop has dried spills near the glasses. The figure in the black-and-white images is clearly that of a fetus, or, perhaps, an oddly shaped groundhog.

[PRODUCER: Can we get everything cleaned up? I know this is supposed to be Alabama, but we're contractually obligated to only use brand new fashion and incredibly fancy sets. Maybe something else to indicate they're in the South?]

Thad is SWEATING PROFUSELY. His SECRETARY has the top of her business blouse undone, revealing CLEAVAGE, and a hint of a blue bra. Her sweating is not as disgusting as Thad's, but it's there, like a sheen.

"Where's she being held?" Thad asked, getting his jacket from the shelf as he reveals sweat-stained armpits. The fan in the background is going top blast.

"Some new unit, can't be more than 15 years old. Judge wants to get the grandparents involved, unit wants our client gone."

"What can you tell me about the unit? He? She? Do we have an age?" Thad asked.

SECRETARY pauses before she can answer this question. The door opens, and overweight southern Judge Ashby Hogworth Corpendal the IV enters. He is SWEATING PROFUSELY. Even MORE than THAD and SECRETARY.

[PRODUCER: I understand that we're making sure we stick with the old trope of having evil people be unattractive and if possible, fat and sweaty, but ever since CSI hit it big we've been very adamant about not having any unattractive people on the show. Just make him sweaty and use something else to indicate that this is taking place in the South]

Ashby bursts in. Liquid is just running down his face and arms. Dripping out of his goddamn sleeves. When he points at SECRETARY, she gets splashed by water, which is good, because she's dry now.

"She's gone!" Ashby blurts out. Why he is wearing his black JUDGE ROBES is not explained, but it's goddamn disgusting.

Also, everyone now has an accent so thick that Rhett Butler would not be able to translate.

"There's no way a fetus can survive outside the womb at that age! We're looking at a MURDER." Thad says.

"No, not the fetus, the..." He pauses, purses his lips. This is not something he has thought of often.

"...embryo?"

"Blastocyst?"

"Zygote?"

"No, the other thing. The unit. The carrier."

"WOMB." SECRETARY says loudly.

BZUH-WONG


The pilot was actually canceled midway through filming when two actresses burned one of the associate producers alive. The judge in the case let them go, citing their actions as "necessary improvements on the legal landscape."