Sometimes people take things way too seriously.
Carmine had a long day. To long in his perspective.
He walked into the green room and perched himself on the arm rest of the couch, looking around the room. He decided to do something productive until the next time he had to go out and film.
Answering emails sounds good. He thought to himself as he made his way to the Mac computer that was sitting in the corner of the room. Carmine plopped down in the seat and signed into the computer and opened Safari. He quickly checked his email and found himself staring at the Google homepage. He looked at his watch, still had a good 3 hours before he had to be back out on set, so he decided to do some research.
His subjects changed almost every five minutes, from the Mets to the Giants to flesh eating bacteria. Wait... ‘How the hell did I get to flesh eating bacteria?’
Carmine quickly went back to the Google homepage when he thought of something. He quickly typed something into the search bar and found a lot of hits in front of him.
“Fanvids? What the hell are fanvids?” he asked himself.
“You know, Carmine, they say that talking to yourself is the first sign of insanity.” came a voice from behind him.
“Yeah, but answering yourself means you are insane. Hey Anna.” Carmine said not turning around.
“What are you doing?” Anna Belknap asked her costar as she sat down in a chair next to him, looking at the computer screen.
“I’m doing some research.” Carmine answered.
“On Danny Messer and Lindsay Monroe?” Anna asked giving him a look.
“Curiosity killed the cat, alright?” Carmine said, “Anyway, I haven’t seen this many… fanvids in my life.”
“Yeah, and they all want us to hook us.” Anna said.
“You’re married though.”
“I meant our characters, you thickheaded man.” Anna said and Carmine pretended to be hurt by the comment.
The two continued to go through the many lists of websites before one caught both of their eyes.
“Zoo Babies? Carmine, click on that one.” Anna said pointing to one of the URL links. Carmine nodded, clicking it. The first page opened up to many pictures, quotes and videos.
“Who are the Zoo Babies?” Carmine asked as Anna continued to look at the page.
“Scroll down.” she said and Carmine began to scroll.
Anna smiled, “They support Danny Lindsay. Look at all of this.” she said sounding amazed.
Carmine went through the posts and frowned, “Wait… no. No man deserves that.” he said pointing to one of the posts. Anna quickly read it and laughed.
“That’s funny.”
“But no man deserves that!”
“They have a good reason for why Danny deserves it. He cheated on Lindsay.”
“Yeah. But I play the part, that’s it!”
Anna smiled, “Oh, Carmine, I don’t think they would really do that.”
“Have you read this chick’s post? She sounds very sure she wants to do this to me.” Carmine said.
“Well, I’m just glad they’re on my side.” Anna said with a smile and Carmine frowned.
“Look, I’m not the bad guy.” he paused, “Why the hell am I arguing with you about this?” he asked and Anna laughed.
“Because you are a very defensive man. Don’t worry, these fan girls don’t mean any harm. Oh, Pam moved up our scene. We’re on in 20 minutes.” Anna said standing up.
Carmine nodded, “Alright, I’ll be out there in a minute.” he said and Anna left the green room.
Carmine refreshed the page and looked down at the last post.
Carmine, if you’re reading this, I’d watch yourself.
He jumped and sprinted out of the green room, making a mental note to give an interview to apologize to the ‘Zoo Babies’ for what the producers had done to his character. He still wanted to live.
HAPPY 50TH ZOO BABIES!