STEPHEN AND MATTHEW GET BACK ON THE TEAM
An apartment in Columbia, South Carolina. Stephen Garcia sits on the couch.
Stephen: Fuckin’ Tetrisphere. They don’t make shit like this anymore. Straight N64 pimpage, brah.
Floating Matthew McConoughey: No way, man. (Draws on enormous joint.) Strictly old school for brahs like you and me.
Stephen: It’s like I’m on a trip to Amsterdam on the train and playing Tetris at the same time.
FMM: With some Italian chick rubbing your sack like it was a Coach bag.
Stephen: Bitch, please. Mine’s a certified Fendi. Watch me knock this puzzle shit out with this long piece.

FMM: Double entendre, brah!
Stephen: What the fuck is double entendre?
FMM: Entendre is french for penetration.
Stephen: You’re damn right it is. Watch me entendre the fuck outta this tetrisphere, brah.
(The phone rings. Stephen pauses the game.)
Stephen: Fuck. Who’s calling me? I’m not answering a phone today.
FMM: You gotta answer that phone, man. Opportunity only leaves voicemails once or twice, and then your inbox gets full, and you end up missing the chance to make Failure to Launch Two. Wait, that wasn’t a bad thing, actually…
Stephen: Fuck. Beep. Hello?
Steve Spurrier: Okaaaay, this is coach Spurrier.
(Stephen covers the phone.) Brah. It’s the coach. He wants me to play football. I know it.
FMM: Fist-jab, brah. Up top. (They fist-bump.) You gotta make sure he knows who the alpha male is here.
Stephen: Dude, I can’t pee on him over the phone.
FMM: You have to pee on him over the phone. It’s what a mansaurus sex like you does.
Stephen: I’ll do it with words.
FMM: That’s so deep. I’m caressing your soul right now…WITH MY JUNK!
Stephen: Whatever. You’re loving it, bitch.
FMM: I am! Seriously, it’s making my skin even tanner wherever it touches me. (Inhales.)
Stephen: You want me back on the team, coach?
CSS: Well, um, Stephen, that’s exactly what I was gonna ask. You think you learned how to, um, behave yourself now?
Stephen: (hits mute.) I learned that you can’t tame a wild panther on acid, Steve. I’ve learned that a buccaneer is born with his boots on and is gonna die that way.
FMM: You can’t take the parrot off a pirate’s shoulder.
Stephen: You can’t bitch a bitchmaster, bitch.
FMM: You can’t ask Stalin to a tea party and expect him not to poison the tea, dude.
Stephen: You can’t pick up a mamba and expect it not to bite you in the face and drive off in your ride.
FMM: You can’t give a man like you a bull and then tell him he can’t rape it by the horns.
Stephen: Word.
(Unmutes the phone.)
Stephen: Yeah, I want back on the team, coach.
FMM: ERRR-ERR-ERRR-ERR-OOOOOOOOHHHH!!!!
CSS: Was that a chicken?
Stephen: No, coach. What you heard was a cock. Your best cock, ready to fire like he was made to, sir.
CSS: Um, okaaaay, Stephen. We’ll just see you on the field, okaaaay? Monday?
Stephen: With my feathers on, coach. (Hangs up.)
FMM: You gotta dance. (Bongos appear in his hands.) You gotta dance like the funky chicken you are.
Stephen: Damn right. (Hits unpause on Tetrisphere. Knockoff techno and bongo beats fill the room.)
FMM: SHAKE A TAILFEATHER! LEMME SEE YOU SHAKE A TAILFEATHER!!!
Stephen: Im gonna! I’m gonna!
FMM: OH HELL YES!!! Is that the sun I see coming over the horizon? Who’s gonna wake all these sleepy people up?
Stephen: ERR—
FMM: WHAT?
STEPHEN: ERR-ERRR—
FMM: Hit ‘em with the fullness, brah.
(Stephen flaps his arms doing the funky chicken and arches his head skyward.)
Stephen: COCK-A-DOOODLE-DOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!
FMM: We’re gonna entendre the hell out of this season, brah.
Stephen: Rape the bull by the horns.
FMM: (Takes hit off huge joint.) Rape the bull by the horns, baby.
(They fist-pound. END SCENE.)









1
Sage says:
Hee-hee!! You cuss so much! I feel so naughty, just reading all your meaningless, grunting ghetto slang. It’s pure genius! Get this man a Pulitzer! Except, we can call it a FUCKING Pulitzer!! And we can put it in ALL CAPS!!! Then it would be HILARIOUS!!
Brah!!
August 4th, 2008 at 9:39 am
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Orson Swindle says:
The Fucking Pulitzer would go to Big Daddy Drew, for the record.
August 4th, 2008 at 9:41 am
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SAWB says:
You must be a Tech fan, Sage. Only they can be so humorless…
August 4th, 2008 at 9:43 am
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yoyofutbawl says:
God Bless the USChikins. Never a dull moment in Cola.
August 4th, 2008 at 9:46 am
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GamecockTony says:
“Entendre is french for penetration.”
Nice…. brah.
August 4th, 2008 at 9:47 am
6
SEC Haiku says:
A trivial thing
Coach needs a sober QB
Tommy Beecher starts
August 4th, 2008 at 9:49 am
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One And Done says:
I PEED a little at this, I think:
I’m caressing your soul right now…WITH MY JUNK!
Wait, is peed cursing? I can’t tell anymore…
August 4th, 2008 at 9:52 am
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Orson Swindle says:
Ask Sage that question.
August 4th, 2008 at 9:53 am
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Sage says:
What you don’t find my sarcasm humorous? What’s wrong? You a Tech fan or something? Or is it just that you aren’t impressed by unfunny stupidity? At least we have that in common, right?
For the record, I’m a South Carolina fan and daily reader of this otherwise fine blog. But when you can sense barely-concealed juvenile glee in a conspicuously talented writer, who degrades himself by aping the most ingorant and degraded language as a means of getting cheap laughs from the equally ill-educated, it simply can’t go unremarked upon forever. Since I’ve been tracking the site for several years without a mention, I’d say one critical comment isn’t exactly a sign of total humorlessness on my part. Just good taste and a wistful sense of disappointment in seeing genuine talent so contemptuously wasted.
August 4th, 2008 at 9:54 am
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Sage says:
I don’t think it’s exactly cursing.
As you can see, I’m just angling for a job at EDSBS as a contrarian editor, my life’s one unfulfilled aspiration. Some day, Swindle and company will regret not hiring me on. In the meantime, I’ll just blog-stalk them until the FBI shows up.
August 4th, 2008 at 9:59 am
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Orson Swindle says:
In the meantime, I’ll just blog-stalk them until the FBI shows up.
See? Now that’s love.
August 4th, 2008 at 10:01 am
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burgler says:
Were I one of the ill-educated masses not blessed with reading comprehension skills, I’d unremark on the use of 47-word sentences when not necessary. However, I’ll just say that the prior missive is not providing my power animal with the appropriate wind beneath its bejeweled wings to fly higher than the highest treetops, into the shimmering air where only eagles and Gamecocks dare, brah, like every continuing example of SG and TFFM does.
Well soared Mr. Swindle.
August 4th, 2008 at 10:06 am
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hobeg8r says:
In honor of John Mark Stallings, ROLL TIDE!
August 4th, 2008 at 10:25 am
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croc says:
FMM says “War Cocks”!
August 4th, 2008 at 10:26 am
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kleph says:
Hithertofor my quasi-acrimonious musings in reference to the overly conspicuous variety of obiter dictum that invariably commence upon the review of the musings made public on this said vessel of quasi-juvenile multi-daily essays have been in a tacit form rather than overtly expressed. Yet given the passionate prose affected in such an etiologic manner by Mssr. Swindel’s excogitations am moved to comment in this instance. Invariably though, I find my sentiments expounded upon in a manner of excellence by another whose efforts outstrip mine own powers of humble expression, in this case a singular and incisive observation by Dale Carnegie: “Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain – and most fools do.”
August 4th, 2008 at 10:29 am
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Charlestowne says:
As funny as this is, I think that Florida lost its moral high ground when they “reinstated as a walk-on” the former leader of the AK-Mafia. Just saying.
(O: I will note here, for the record, that you did state your disgust for the addition of the player in question to the current roster. And the statement was for all to see.)
August 4th, 2008 at 10:32 am
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One And Done says:
Latin!
Nat’l. Department of Pomposity has just increased the Sesquipedalian Threat Level to “New York Times Book Snob”
August 4th, 2008 at 10:36 am
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Orson Swindle says:
Charlestowne, to paraphrase P.J. O’Rourke: we’re not worried about what’s right or wrong re: Garcia, we’re only concerned now about what’s fun.
That’s what the Great Eagle Spirit is telling us, anyway.
August 4th, 2008 at 10:38 am
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AlanInDC says:
“Entendre is french for penetration.”
Nice. Very nice.
August 4th, 2008 at 10:39 am
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okiedomer says:
i wish i could unread the comments and just pretend like all of them were praise for the use of FMM and trying to take a parrot off a pirate’s shoulder
complaining about the use of foul language is the last refuge of great depression-era ninnies and fans of an irrelevant college football program grasping at straws to deny the painful stagnation of the perpetually mediocre
i think i’m going to have to submit sage’s posts to http://mindofagamecock.blogspot.com/
August 4th, 2008 at 10:40 am
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Ltrain says:
Sage, you sensed “barely concealed jeuvenile glee?” – the irony of your 47 word “explanation” for your attempt? at sarcasm must elude you (or, my explanation of my sarcasm was itself sarcasm and now we are meta, brah), but in any event (a) Orson rarely if ever attempts to conceal his juvenile glee, and second, you’re gonna be fucking outnumbered on this one.
August 4th, 2008 at 10:41 am
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This Guy says:
So the Freek is doing commission work now? You think he could get me sacking Troy Smith like Earl Everett did?
August 4th, 2008 at 10:43 am
23
Tater Salad says:
This site sholl is gettin uppity…
August 4th, 2008 at 10:44 am
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InsaneCoachPosse says:
to paraphrase a greater sage:
you use your mouth prettier than a french whore….
God bless you, Slim
August 4th, 2008 at 10:46 am
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Jonathan says:
Hmm, so you picked a Mamba as your snake of choice? How much time did you spend in Africa?
August 4th, 2008 at 10:47 am
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chum1 says:
Well said, Sage. This garbage has got to go.
August 4th, 2008 at 10:49 am
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Sage says:
you’re gonna be fucking outnumbered on this one.
I never would have fucking thought otherwise, Ltrain. Not sure what that proves, though. At any rate, Orson knows good and well that nobody will ever love this site like me. Nobody.
August 4th, 2008 at 10:54 am
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Joshua says:
Sounds like someone has a case of the Mondays.
August 4th, 2008 at 11:20 am
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blon57 says:
#20
I like grads (or fans) that have a sense of humor about their own football program. Those of us in Texas have an especially well-developed one.
Especially entertaining comment from the Gamecock blog:
- …Garcia has earned his way back onto campus. He has paid the price and has been given a second chance.
*editor’s note: For those keeping count, this is Garcia’s 4th chance.
August 4th, 2008 at 11:21 am
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One And Done says:
29
Sorry, sir, this is the SEC.
Ergo, this is Garcia’s 3rd 2nd chance
August 4th, 2008 at 11:32 am
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burgler says:
#25
When it comes to Mambas, I think it’s more “How much time did you spend at The Lodge and Spa at Cordillera?”
August 4th, 2008 at 11:37 am
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PW says:
Seems like it would be difficult to parody Garcia and McConoughey without using the f word a few times.
August 4th, 2008 at 11:53 am
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blon57 says:
I like grads (or fans) that have a sense of humor about their own football program. Those of us in Texas have an especially well-developed one… and especially when it comes to one of UT’s more infamous grads, McConoughey.
I used to think McConoughey was a moron but I then I saw Donny Deutsche interview him on The Big Idea and he comes across as very articulate, intelligent and very highly driven. Who knew.
August 4th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
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utah says:
#33:
And high as a kite.
August 4th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
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Wooderson says:
Sage, if you can’t handle this tiny bit of innocent ribbing, you wouldn’t last 2 hours as an ND fan. I should think you’d feel honored to have your school garner some sort of acknowledgement here, and not bitch about it.
August 4th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
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spartymike says:
Godspeed, Stephen. And don’t let the fire extinguishers taunt, brah.
August 4th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
37
Flatlander says:
Brilliant!
Only 26 days until I get to watch Pelini’s new defense “entendre” the Western Michigan offense.
August 4th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
38
Darknesssesss says:
#25: Orson likes his Mamba’s like he likes his women, his coffee, and his memory.
August 4th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
39
NRBQ says:
@38
Short and black?
August 4th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
40
FrenchSaintsFan says:
hey hey.. funny !
clever “play on words” about the “double entendre”… is Garcia as gullible as this ???
tips for Garcia: “double penetration” is “double penetration” in french.
August 4th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
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impiri says:
I will be at the opening Carolina game versus NC State. I hope they’ll let me in with my giant “RAPE THE BULL BY THE HORNS” sign.
August 4th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
42
blon57 says:
#34
With bongos.
August 4th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
43
Gen. Stoopnagle says:
How… expected? Cackalacky gets some attention and a Cackalackite gets his panties in a wad. Pull em out dude!
30: cocktail!
37: Will you be playing the Bo Pelini Polka in the background?
August 4th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
44
iggy says:
#37
Hell yeah brother….. I’ll be there…North-Endzone getting cancer fromt he big board and watching Bo Pelini’s ’shirts knock some poor motherfucker into 2010!
As for the actual essay as it were. It is low comedy like this that make me check this site 5-6 times a fucking day. I swear between this and mr AK a few days ago I have been a happier healthier person!
August 4th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
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Flatlander says:
@43
Yo ho ho! Everybody knows!
There is no quicker way to clear my girlfriend from the room, unless it involves flatulence.
August 4th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
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Carolina_girl says:
Well played sir. I only wish I had my own personal TFMM… imagine the possibilities.
August 5th, 2008 at 8:31 am