Sketch Comedy Writer Prompt

**Title:** "The Example Experiment" **Characters:** - *Professor Logic* (Enthusiastic science teacher) - *Alex* (Confused student) - *Jamie* (Class know-it-all) --- **Scene:** A classroom. Professor Logic stands at the front, marker in hand. **Professor Logic:** All right, class! Today we’re going to learn about cause and effect! Let’s start simple. If you touch a hot stove, what happens? **Alex (tentative):** You burn your hand? **Professor Logic:** Excellent! Jamie, can you give me another example? **Jamie (smug):** If you eat too much candy, you get a stomachache. **Professor Logic:** Perfect! Classic cause and effect. Now, let’s make this interesting. Alex, give me a wild example. **Alex (thinking):** Uhh... If you wear socks on your hands, your feet will get cold? **Professor Logic:** Now we're cooking! Not literally, though, or else—remember the stove! (Winks at the class.) **Jamie (rolling eyes):** Professor, what’s the weirdest example YOU can think of? **Professor Logic:** Challenge accepted! If you stand in a classroom, holding a whiteboard marker and talking to a bunch of students... **Alex:** ...you must be a teacher? **Professor Logic:** Not necessarily. I could be an example.* --- **(Lights dim. Dramatic music plays as the Professor freezes in place, holding up the marker like it’s the sword in the stone.)** --- **End.**