B-TV: Forgiveness

410: B-TV: Forgiveness

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Airdate

October 10, 1998

Last Aired

Date Recorded

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Album

32: Hidden Treasures

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Theme

Forgiveness

Genre

B-TV

Scripture

Matthew 18:21-35
1 Corinthians 13:7

Written By

Phil Lollar
Torry Martin

Directed By

Phil Lollar

Produced By

Duane Harms

Executive Producer

Al Janssen

Post-Production

Duane Harms

Engineer

Duane Harms

Music By

John Campbell

Songs By

Unknown

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Rating

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Summary

With help from the Three Little Pigs, Goldilocks and the Big Bad Wolf, the gang from Odyssey goes back on the air with a valuable lesson on forgiveness.

Plot

Eugene Meltsner and Bernard Walton are at the garbage dump for the latest edition of "B-TV." Eugene hints that there is a special significance to having the show at the dump.

Bernard begins to tell the story of Cozy Creek, where Parson Brown tells his parishioners that he has invited the Big Bad Wolf to church. His congregation is shocked, especially Ralphie Pig, spokes-pig for the Three Little Pigs. Goldilocks defends her friend, Wally, the Big Bad Wolf, as does Parson Brown, who claims Wally has changed so much that he is now a vegetarian. Red Riding Hood is worried that this new attitude is just a trick, but Parson Brown encourages the villagers to encourage Wally, just as Old King Cole has.

Ralphie keeps refusing to forgive, so Little Red Riding Hood shares a letter Wally has written asking forgiveness for his treatment of her and her grandmother, though she admits she is still not sure Wally's changed. Wally comes to the church, supposedly to meet with Ralphie to ask his forgiveness for what he has done to the Three Little Pigs, but it turns out to be a trick! As the wolf prepares to attack, he suddenly has a change of heart and confesses that he is part of a scam by Ralphie to buy people's land cheaply and sell them brick houses because they think the wolf can blow their houses down. All the king’s horses and all the king’s men arrest Ralphie, and Wally asks their forgiveness for his behavior. They all forgive him and invite him to join them at Horner's Cafe.

An episode of "Israel's Most Wanted" features Bubba Servanti, a fugitive who - though he was forgiven a huge debt by the king - refuses to forgive his fellow servant who owes him a small amount.

An episode of "Forgiveness in Action," live from King's Way Elementary School, portrays Verna Shemphill's attempts to continue to forgive Billy Rebowski, who pulls her hair over and over again, each time asking for her forgiveness.

At the end of the show, Eugene reveals that the dump is the site for this episode because forgiveness is like taking out the trash and allowing it to be hauled off to be recycled into something fresh and clean.

Discussion Questions

1. What happened to Bubba when he didn't forgive the debt of his fellow servant?
2. Was the King right in doing this?
3. Why was it so hard for Ralphie to forgive the Big Bad Wolf?
4. Has it ever been hard for you to forgive someone?
5. Can you think of a time when someone forgave you?
6. How did that make you feel?

Cast

Characters	Actors
Bernard Walton	Dave Madden
Billy Rebowski	Unknown
Bubba Servanti	Will Ryan
Connie Kendall	Katie Leigh
Eugene Meltsner	Will Ryan
Goldilocks	Katie Leigh
Johnny Wellsberg	Pete Reneday
Little Red Riding Hood	Aria Curzon
Maude Achan	Unknown
Michael Leonardo	Unknown
Ol' Jack	Unknown
Ralphie Pig	Dave Madden
Verna Shemphill	Aria Curzon
Wally	Will Ryan
Parson Brown	Paul Herlinger

Notes

Trivia

• In the Bubba Servanti segment, while Bubba is trying to get the money out of the other servant he yells "Show me the denarii, show me the denarii!"...this can be a reference to the movie "Jerry Maguire" when Tom Cruise said "Show me the money!"

Quotes

Announcer: He who forgives ends the quarrel. African proverb.

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Parson Brown: You know we aren't the only ones doubting Wally's conversion. He doubts it himself. In fact I spent the better part of last night trying to convince him that Ol King Cole loves him every bit as much as he loves Billy Goat Graham.
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