Find the Fish

[music]

STRANGE MAN:

I wonder where that fish has gone.

STRANGE WOMAN:

You did love it so. You looked after it like a son.

STRANGE MAN:

And it went wherever I did go.

STRANGE WOMAN:

Is it in the cupboard?

AUDIENCE:

Yes! Yes! No!...

STRANGE WOMAN:

Wouldn't you like to know? It was a lovely little fish.

STRANGE MAN:

And it went wherever I did go.

MAN IN AUDIENCE:

It's behind the sofa!

STRANGE WOMAN:

Where can that fish be?

MAN IN AUDIENCE:

Have you thought of the drawers in the bureau?!

RANDOM:

Shh!

STRANGE WOMAN:

It is a most elusive fish!

STRANGE MAN:

And it went wherever I did go.

STRANGE WOMAN:

Ooooh, fishy, fishy, fishy fish!

STRANGE MAN:

A-fish, a-fish, a-fish, a-fishy, ooooh.

STRANGE WOMAN:

Ooooh, fishy, fishy, fishy fish!

STRANGE MAN:

That went wherever I did go.

MAN IN AUDIENCE:

Look up his trunk!

MAN IN AUDIENCE:

Yeah, it's hidden in his trousers!

[gurgling]

FISH #1:

That was terrific!

FISH #2:

Great!

FISH #4:

Wonderful.

FISH #2:

Yeah!

FISH #5:

Yeah.

FISH #3:

Best bit so far.

FISHES:

[mumbling]

FISH #2:

Fantastic!

FISH #1:

Yeah.

FISH #2:

Yes! Really great!

FISH #6:

Very piscine.

FISH #5:

Ha ha hah.

FISH #6:

Yeah. Hee, hee, hee, hee.

FISH #4:

Oh!

FISH #6:

Ahh.

FISH #1:

Heh.

[pause]

FISH #2:

They haven't said much about the meaning of life so far, have they?

FISH #1:

Well, it's been building up to it.

FISH #4:

Has it?

FISH #2:

Has it?

FISH #3:

Yeah, I expect they'll get on to it now.

FISH #5:

Personally, I very much doubt if they're going to say anything about the meaning of life at all.

FISH #6:

Oh, come on. They've got to say something.

FISH #3:

They're bound to.

FISH #2:

Yeah.

FISH #4:

Yeah.

FISH #1:

Yeah.

[pause]

FISH #3:

What do you think the next bit will be, then?

FISH #1:

Caption, I expect.

FISH #6:

What? About the next stage of life, you mean? Oh, yeah. Here we go.

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