[Propertalk] Seat fillers

[Joe Parrish]

      tom in TN(USA)
      August 26, 2010
     




      ...The Emmy Awards will
      employ seat fillers. Because it is not just
      "about" TV shows but in fact IS a TV
      show, the producers want to impress the viewers
      that it is an Important TV show and so has no
      empty seats. So when a star goes potty or to get a
      drink or leaves early because they didn't win or
      whatever, their seats will be filled by nobodies
      who just want to be near the beautiful and famous.
      You can sign up to be a seatfiller at several
      agencies. I went to TV taping once where not
      enough live bodies came to fill the all free
      seats. So they moved everybody down front and
      loaded the back seats with cardboard cut-out
      people. When the cameras scanned the crowd there
      were at least silhouettes of folks in the back, so
      viewers at home new it was an important sold-out
      full house kind of show! I wonder if Jesus was
      just a seat filler at the dinner, or had an
      assigned seat? Who got to sit by him because
      somebody else didn't show up? I wonder if he would
      have had just as good a time talking to a
      cardboard cut-out?
      We should have seatfiller agencies for churches!
      Call up Saturday and say, "Hey, we have 3
      families on vacation. Send me 12 pewfillers
      tomorrow," or "Old man Smith is back in
      the hospital. Mrs. Smith will be with him. Looks
      like we'll need 2 pewfillers for the next
      month." Then, when the world looked at our
      full houses, they'd know we were doing something
      important and want to get in. We could make them
      reservations for the following week (not front or
      aisle seats mind you) and use fewer pewfillers
      then. Nothing succeeds like success! Isn't that
      what the Gospel is all about? Is that my tongue in
      my cheek? Am I asking too many questions again?


     
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