(Note: one in a continuing series). Today’s Episode ADAM & EVE:
The Scene: God says he created everything including Adam and a nice place (the Garden Of Eden) for him to live in. He’s filled the garden with fruits and vegetables and animals – everything Adam might want.
“It’s all yours, kid,” God tells Adam, “Every bit of it. Oh – except that one tree over there.”
ADAM: Which one – the brown one?
GOD: No, the green one. Are you even looking where I’m pointing? What’s wrong with your eyes?
ADAM: I don’t know – you tell me.
GOD: The big tree. The colorful one. The one I’m pointing at! Never mind! It’s called the Tree Of Good & Evil and it’s the one tree ye shall not eat from!”
ADAM: Okay.
GOD: I mean it. Don’t eat from that tree or bad shit will happen.
ADAM: Okay.
GOD: You’ll die. Because I’ll kill you. I’ll have to – because you didn’t listen.
ADAM: Okay.
God wants to move on to other business. But he notices Adam is lonely. More to the point, God realizes that Adam can’t make more Adams all by himself. So (God says), he created Eve from one of Adam’s ribs. And, finally, shit gets real…
SCENE – The Garden Of Eden
Eve has just taken a bite from the fruit of the Tree of Good & Evil.
Eve stands beside Adam, half-eaten apple in her hand, the serpent cowering behind her. Adam isn’t exactly representing here either. He won’t look Eve in the eyes. He won’t meet God’s eyes either. And… FADE IN –
GOD: Look upon Adam, fallen woman! Do you not see how he cowers?
EVE: What are you even talking about?
GOD: You ate from the Tree of Good & Evil, the one thing I said ye could not do–
EVE: First of all, back your bony ass out of my space. Second, who the hell is “ye”? And third – you wanna talk to me, you lower your damned voice.
GOD: What? I’m GOD, you silly woman. I created everything here!
EVE: You keep saying that. I’m gonna need to see some evidence.
GOD: See some—
EVE: Receipts, motherfucker! Proof! Anyone can walk around saying they invented shit: “I invented the universe! I invented animals! I invented blow jobs—”
GOD: I did—
EVE: Yeah – you’re proud of the blow jobs, aren’t ya? Blow jobs, I’ll believe. What about the universe? Prove you invented it. Show me a bill of sale, a deed, a notarized note. Something!
GOD: I don’t have any of that—
EVE: Cos you didn’t do any of it – you just say you did. I bet you didn’t make light or water or the sun and the stars either. And don’t give us this shit about how you put all the animals here for us – we don’t know what half those things are and, frankly, we don’t want to know! And what about sharks?
GOD: What about them?
EVE: They eat people. What’s the point of that?
GOD: So don’t go in the water when they’re there. They think you’re seals. Have you seen what they look like on TV? Sharks are amazing.
ADAM: What’s a TV?
GOD: Did I say that out loud? Oy. What I meant was “someday”, okay? Someday, on TV, after someone invents it, sharks will look amazing. But – in the meantime – we have to deal with this. I’m God, okay? I’m God. Being God means I get to make up the rules. Look – I made you from Adam’s rib and I can unmake you just like that and replace you with another woman.
EVE: Bullshit!
GOD: What?
EVE: You heard me – bullshit. If it’s so easy to make a woman out of Adam’s rib then do it. Right now! Adam’s got plenty more ribs – and anyway – you’re God, right? Look at everything you created! Doesn’t seem that big an ask to squeeze out a few more ribs.
GOD: Who said it was easy?
EVE: You just did.
GOD: What I meant was I’d have to put Adam to sleep in order to do it—
EVE: Adam – tell him to put you to sleep so he can take another rib.
GOD: What I mean is—
EVE: You’re full of shit!
ADAM (as it slowly dawns on him): Wait—Are you saying he didn’t make you from one of my ribs?
EVE: Way to go, Sherlock! Frankly, I’m dubious about the whole making us out of dirt thing, too. Seems a little simplistic, if you ask me.
ADAM (finally looking toward God): God… have you been… lying to us?
GOD: What? Dude – don’t believe her. She’s crazy! I know – I made her that way.
ADAM (to God): In your own image, right? (to Eve): I gotta be honest – the whole rib thing never really added up to me—
EVE: Right? Everything he says – if you stop to think about it – it’s bullshitty and makes no sense. And he never says anything in a nice way.
ADAM: (now boldly looking God right in the eye): You are kinda bossy, dude.
EVE: Fuck “bossy”, he’s rude.
GOD: Okay, look – I see what’s going on here. I get it. But can we just – please agree to some ground rules:
EVE: Here we go again–
GOD: When I say don’t eat from the—
EVE: Why?
GOD: –From the—
EVE: WHY, goddamn it? Why can’t we eat from that one tree?
GOD: Cos—you know—“Good” and “Evil”. I was trying to make a point.
EVE (looks to the half-eaten piece of fruit): You’re insane. This wasn’t even a good piece of fruit. Who died and made you God – that’s what I want to know.
GOD: No one. I’ve always been God.
EVE: Well, isn’t that convenient?
Eve starts to laugh. So does Adam. Now it’s God who won’t meet their eyes because they’re laughing at him.
GOD: I am the alpha and the omega. I am the beginning and the—stop laughing, damn you! Stop it. Stop laughing or I swear I’ll—
(God stomps off angrily).
ADAM: Yeah, you keep walking. And when you get to the ends of the earth?
EVE: Keep walking — Bitch!
NEXT: NOAH & HIS ARK