You Can't Do That on Television · Season 5, Episode 11
Okay, all of you who want to hear nothing but silence coming from Lisa Ruddy...
Oh please, oh please, I know I must have a fan out there somewhere, if you write me I'll say your name, oh please, oh...
...Please touch the green square now!
Oh please, oh please, oh...
[The audience "votes" for Lisa to lose her voice. Lisa immediately shuts up.]
Aww, too bad Lisa, I guess all your fans were out to lunch today!
[Lisa holds up a sign that says, "I'LL GET YOU MOOSE!"]
[Lisa is still unable to talk and can only communicate through writing notes; reading Lisa's note] "My link is the introduction to the commercials, and if we don't have any commercials, we don't get paid." ... Oh, I get it! It's time to test the audience voting device again! Okay now, everybody who wants to see Lisa get her voice back and watch some commercials so I can get paid, go ahead and touch the green square on the bottom of your screen. Touch now!
[The vote fails. Lisa writes Christine another note.]
[Reading note] "Try something more imaginative." ... Oh, I know! Eugene, come here, sit down.
[Eugene Contreras walks over and sits down]
Now, all of you who want to see something really horrible happen to Eugene here, and see Lisa get her voice back and watch some commercials so I can get paid, touch the green square on the bottom of your screen.
[The vote fails again.]
Okay, I've got it this time. Now, all of you who want to see something really horrible happen to Eugene, and see Lisa get her voice back and watch some commercials so I can get paid, and see Vanessa... where's Vanessa?
[Vanessa Lindores walks over and sits down]
And see Vanessa here get hit with water, just touch the...
[Christine is drenched.]
...green square on your screen!
[This time the vote passes. Vanessa is hit with water, and Lisa laughs out loud.]
Wait a minute! What about the something really horrible that was supposed to happen to Eugene?!
[Eugene gets a pie in the face.]
And now it's time for the commercials!
[Vanessa and Eugene are on the school bus and are wearing TV wristwatches.]
These new wristwatch televisions are great. I don't miss the soaps anymore.
And I don't miss the football games anymore.
[Snakeeyes is also wearing one and watching it but he is not watching the road.]
And I don't miss... [looks ahead] ...THE TREES ANYMORE!! [they crash into a tree.]
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