It's another millennium in New York City, A man wanders aimlessly around Times Square, pondering the purpose of his life. He befriends a woman on the street who is passing out "promo" cards to "Booby World." Amazed at this sight, he talks to the woman. She inspires him to find new challenges in his life, and suggests he write a show about people "lightening up" in the city. And that's exactly what he does. What follows are several incarnations of the man's life from his temporary trip to this earthly plane.
At first, we are introduced to Max and Susan in "Cellular Fun." Single Susan is on her way home from work on the M42 city bus. She is sitting next to Max, who is getting off at Tenth Avenue. All Susan wants is a quiet ride home, but she doesn't come close to getting that. Max can't stop calling his girlfriend to "sexually convey" himself over his cell phone. Expression and repression touch gloves in this sex-sparring scene.
In "Let's Get a Physical," Palmer Atkinson hates to get physicals. The scales! The disrobing! The condemning! As he waits for his appointment, Palmer can't help spilling his fears and life story to a stranger.
Talk about "Insult and Injury!" Harmony Carillon and Melody Pitterpatty have been friends for years, but you would never know it by the way they speak to each other. Acid-tongued, the two exchange barbs, gossip, and malicious leers at anyone that comes close to them. They soon learn that no one will come near them, not even one to the other.
The 9 to 5 work day becomes skewed in "Temporary Insanity." Charles Dahmer arrives at his first temp job for Leona Harding, the "Executive Secretary." What should be an easy envelope-stuffing job turns into an executive nightmare as Charles is drawn into Leona's personality nightmare.
Join "Saturn Moon: Spiritual Nutritionist and Motivator" of Slim Spirits as he takes you down the spiritual path of good living. Saturn teaches the principles of good nutrition, demonstrates the fundamentals of colonic well-being and conducts a "Slim Seance" that is truly out of this world. Meat eaters beware!
"Weight Watchers" is very reminiscent of Waiting for Godot. A & B are sit on a bench in Central Park, waiting for salvation; waiting for the answer to all life's problems--waiting for the Wait Watchers!
In "My Father, My Friend," Celeste has just cheated on her fiance at a bachellorette party and is desperate for absolution. She quickly runs to a confessional where she pleads to a priest for forgiveness, but nothing could prepare her for what is sitting on the other side of that wall.
Nothing seems to go right for John and Mary, penned as "Mr. and Mrs. Sunshine." John just got a promotion to vice-president. Mary has just been cast in a Julia Roberts film. Then they win millions in a publisher's sweepstakes. Could anything be worse? Only Mr. and Mrs Sunshine can find this much darkness wherever there is light.
Finally, a man, remarkably similar to the one who pondered his life at the start of the show, enters Heaven to find four familiar looking angels waiting to give him the answers to all the questions he has about life.
