Flipping around the dials on the TV

[xiphias]

Just saw a brief flash of Yu-Gi-Oh, a cartoon in which the climactic battle is a card game every week. As we flipped past, Yu-Gi-Oh was saying, "But, I am now in a position to risk the entire game on one card: I play Blades!" With lightning and stuff flashing behind him and all sorts of dramatic music. Or something like that.

And it made me think of other possible cartoons that might work:
"You think that you have taken the trick! Because you played the Queen of Diamonds! And you know that the Ace and the King have both already been played! But you forget! The trump this hand is clubs! I play . . . THREE OF CLUBS!" (lightning, dramatic music)

Comments

[kimberly-a.livejournal.com]

You made me snort! Heh heh.

Imagine the effect the ellipses are trying to convey

[rmjwell.livejournal.com]

...Now... on ESPN... seventy-three...

Bad overdub... contract bridge... Hai!e

[copperpoint.livejournal.com]

You fool, you fell for one of the classic blunders! The most famous is "Never get involved in a land war in Asia," but only slightly less well-known is this: Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line! A-Ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha ha! A-ha ha ha-...

[phantom_wolfboy]

I watched that show once. I couldn't believe that the whole dramatic tension of the episode is the characters sitting down and playing a card game! Even with the monsters appearing as they're played, it's still just a card game.

Even the battling tops of Beyblade have more drama than that.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

jadasc treated me to a dramatic reading of this entry that had me ROTFL. ;)

A.
still giggling

And real life proves, again, to have predicted this.

[jadasc.livejournal.com]

http://www.operabreve.com/opera_breve_pages/operabreve_repertoire.html

In short, an opera from the 1950s that features dialogue like you've written. Of course, there it's all being used as a metaphor for an affair and a murder....