The scene opens with an establishing shot of Spanky’s restaurant on Franklin Street in Chapel Hill, N.C., from the adjacent sidewalk. The sound of roaring engines, passing pedestrians, and a distant police siren fill the air. As we zoom in on the restaurant, a hidden cut takes place by a moving vehicle. We are now on the same sidewalk as the restaurant and there is a long shot of the entrance. Eddie nonchalantly walks out of the restaurant and the music of “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” begins to play. He pauses for a brief moment while he casually, but merrily, glances at the surrounding scenery. His demeanor shows that he is just happy to be alive. After Eddie is Chance, who follows Eddie coming out the restaurant. He is carefree as a bird, strutting down the sidewalk behind Eddie in cool, black sunglasses. Then comes Randy behind the other two guys, stumbling out of the restaurant, nearly falling.

EDDIE is the voice of reason in the group. He is clever, collected, and plays the balance of the three.
CHANCE is wild and crazy, but calm and cool at the same time. He takes extreme as far as the word will go and just doesn’t give a crap about anything.
RANDY is the timid one of the group. If Chance is at one extreme, then Randy is at the other. He isn’t confident as the other guys in the group but has the brains of the CIA.

As Randy catches up with the others, they begin to laugh, joke and horseplay. Chance playfully puts Randy into a headlock and Eddie, who often plays the role of mediator, soon after, breaks it up. Randy, aggravated by all the horseplay, hesitantly and weakly pushes Chance into an anonymous, pretty woman (“Jane”) on the street. Chance bounces back and acts like he is about to clobber Randy in the head but stops because of the dramatic flinch of Randy. Chance and Eddie laugh and continue to walk down the sidewalk. The music fades out and then we zoom into a medium shot of the three walking.

“You know what I am going to get with my share of the money?” Randy asks.

Chance quickly replies, “What dweeb, buy that inflatable doll you always wanted?”

The guys continue to laugh and horseplay, pushing and ranting in celebration while they cross the street. A car comes to a screeching halt, nearly crashing the boys into oblivion. The boys yell and curse at the driver of the vehicle. Chance hits the hood of the car and flips the bird at the driver.

After a collective sigh, the guys finally cross the street. “I can’t die now,” exclaims Chance, “I have too much money to spend!”

“Speaking of which, where is the ticket?” Eddie asks the posse.

Randy searches his pant pockets and blurts, “I don’t have it, I must have given it to Chance.”

Chance then searches his pockets to no avail. Chance and Randy both frantically check their pockets but both come up empty handed.

“Stop playing, guys, where is the fucking ticket?” Eddie nervously exclaims after Chance and Randy have patted each other down.

“You had it,” yells Randy.

“No, you had it,” yells Chance.

“No, you had it jackass,” screams Randy.

“Jackass? You’re the jackass,” Chance clamors as he forcefully pushes Randy. Randy fiercely tackles Chance to the ground and falls heavily on top of him. Chance furiously exerts his strength to thrust Randy off of him.

“Stop fuckin’ around you guys and let’s find the ticket,” Eddie commands. Chance and Randy continue to lividly tussle on the dirty concrete as homeless people and passers by stare in awe.

Eddie attempts to stop the brawl, but in the process gets whacked on the head by a stray blow. Eddie, now pissed off, dives full-on into the fracas. The guys roll and continue to scrap as the growing crowd watches the three jackasses scuffle on the street.

The scene fades out. Across the street, another scene fades in with “Jane” in the foreground and the three fighting in the background. “Jane” picks up the winning lotto ticket and reconfirms the lucky numbers by checking the newspaper. “Jane”, in shock, joyfully leaps and loudly yells, “I’ve won the lotto!!”

The guys immediately and abruptly stop fighting. Still entangled in their spontaneous reaction to the lost ticket, the guys quickly look up to see that “Jane” has their winning ticket. “Jane” continues to leap and yell in rejoice. She then gleefully runs down the street, as the guys can do nothing but watch their winning ticket run away.

We then cut to a close up of the three guys still on the sidewalk with faces of disgust and disbelief. The scene then dissolves with the sounds of losing “Price is Right” music.

THE END

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