The Extreme - Ministry Exchange (MX)

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Theme: Risk-taking and facing fears.
Humorous skit about pop-culture risk-taking.
Characters: Doug and Dana (think Bill and Ted-ish)
(Dana comes on stage first, hangs there a second, and then Doug walks up to
join her.)
Doug: Yo Dana, what's goin down? What is happnin?
Dana: Oh Doug, I think you already know.
Doug: That's right Dana, how could I forget?
Dana: You know it, it's time for life....
Both: IN THE EXTREME!
Both (high-fiving, celebrating): THE EXTREME, THE EXTREME! WOO! We love it! Oh
yeah.
Doug: I am there, Dana. A whole day of pushing it to the edge....
Dana: Oh yeah.
Doug: Taking it to the furthest limit.
Dana: Talk to me, Doug.
Doug: Today Dana, we look death in the eyes (both of them 2-finger point to
their eyes and then outward)...
Both: (maniacal) AND WE LAUGH! HA HA HA HAAA! (high-fives, merriment) The
Extreme! The Extreme!
Doug: Okay, okay, so what is first on the danger agenda today?
Dana: Well, Doug, glad you asked. First on the shedule....HIGH-SPEED,
BAREFOOT SKIING THROUGH A ROARING WALL OF FLAMES!!
Doug: Woo! I love it!
(high fives, frivolity)
Dana: Livin on the edge!
Both: The Extreme, The Extreme!
Doug: Uh, Dana?
Dana: Yes, fellow fearless one?

Doug: Just one small detail I neglected to mention.
Dana: Yes Douglas? Please share.
Doug: Well, the other day I got this BRUTAL, GRANDDADDY of a paper cut on my
left big toe. I'm sayin BURU-TAL! (serious) My toe is angry with me. Oh yes.
Dana: Wow man.
Doug: Brutal, huh? So, ordinarily I'd say barefoot skiing through a roaring wall of
flames? I'm there. Here's my signed waiver. (pause) But as I said....my
toe...angry! Unhappy with me. It may resign.
Dana: Yeah, but Doug....how'd you get a paper cut on your big toe?
Doug: Oh Dana, don't think I have to explain it to you! It's just part of life....
Both: In the EXTREME! (high fives, frolics) THE EXTREME! THE EXTREME! We love it!
Oh yeah!
Doug: Okay, okay. So what is our next perilous conquest, oh Dame of Danger?
Dana: Oh Doug. This one is only for those who keep a permanent residence at
Twenty-Two Hundred EXTREME AVENUE!!
Doug: Like it! Like it! Say more!
Dana: Dig this. It's time for a little thing I like to call... The JET AIRLINER BUNGIE
PLUNGE!!!
Doug: Woooooo! The Extreme!! I love it!
Dana: They say, once you've bungied from a jet plane at 500mph...you never
go back!
Both: The EXTREME! THE EXTREME! WOOO!! (high fives, joyful dancing)
Dana: But uh, before we catch that plane, there is one thing.
Doug: What's that, dude?
Dana: You are NOT gonna believe this, man.
Doug: Oh Dana, try me.
Dana: Well, you know how I'm protesting the oppression of women in our
society by not shaving my legs anymore, right?
Doug: Day after day, Dana, you dwell in the Extreme! You're the extreme,
baby!
Dana: Uh Doug, don't call me baby. Women's rights?

Doug: Right, right. My bad.
Dana: So anyway, I had a date the other night, so I decided to curl the leg hair
for the occasion!
Doug: Nice touch. Like it. Very fem. Very diva.
Dana: Yeah, I thought so as well. But the thing is I got this FEROCIOUS 3rd DEGREE
BURN on both my ankles, man. Brutal! Total brutality, man! So I'm not sure I can
deal with the hard-core bungie straps digging into my ankles (much as I usually
enjoy it). There's still some tenderness....I'm still healing....
Doug: Dana....3rd degree curling iron burns on both ankles?!!!.....Teach me to
live life as you do....IN THE EXTREME!!!! (high fives)
Both: THE EXTREME! THE EXTREME! WOOO!
Doug: Low five! (goes to grab her ankle)
Dana: Woah, woah....careful with the ankles!
Doug: Oh yeah, right, right. Listen Dana, I got an idea. And strap on your
five-point safety harness cause this one is, if I may say, a little out there, you know
what I'm sayin?
Dana: Like the sound of this, Doug. Like the sound of it! Lay it on me!
Doug: Okay, but keep an open mind here. Clear your mind with me, Dana.
Dana: All clear, Douglas. All clear.
Doug: Alright, well, I heard there's this new coffee shop that just opened down
the street, and it's called the "Java...EXPLOSION!" "Java...EXPLOSION!" Right, so
I hear that as far as a cup-a-joe goes, it is....THE EXTREME! (High fives) THE
EXTREME! WOOO!
Dana: Oh yeah, like it!
Doug: So here's what I'm thinking...we go, we order the usual...
Both: EXTRA GRANDE LATTE!!!!
Doug: Right, right, only this time...and watch this now...instead of decaf, we
order the real stuff!!! High Test!
Both: Wooo! I love it! Yeah!
Dana: Oh yeah! And, and, and...usually we go low-fat....
Doug: Sure, watching the waist-line, keeping the figure...

Dana: Right, but this time, check it out, we order it with REAL CREAM!
Doug: It's the EXTREME!
Both: (high-fiving, frolicing) The EXTREME! We love it! We love it! Woooo!
Dana: And Doug! Doug! I say this time we tell em, go ahead and throw on
some of those little colored sprinkles on top!
Both: (sprinkle high-five, moving their fingers together) SPRINKLES! IT'S THE
EXTREME! IT'S TOO MUCH! WOO!
Dana: Hey Doug....race ya there! (she sets to go)
Doug: Oooh Dana, I don't know....remember, paper cut? Toe is angry.
Dana: Oh yeah, right.
(Doug limps off the stage with his arm around Dana's shoulder for support)
Both: (as they walk off) The extreme! Latte! Alright! Love it!