Script-of-the-Week: Dharma & Greg

by Dottie Dartland and Chuck Lorre (55 pages)

Awards: Nominated for a Writer’s Guild of America award for episodic comedy.

Points of Interest:

• Pacing: Quick without any dialogue for the first 5 pages.

• Screen Visibility: Some props are described by name brand or manufacturer (e.g. Ericson yacht or S.O.M.A. loft)

• Formatting: Standard formatting. Sound Effects (SFX) used for various scenes.

• Dialogue: Quite sparse in the beginning with likely more physical humor than written jokes. As more characters are introduced more jokes are set up.

• Action: All in CAPS with characters underlined when first appearing in the episode.

• Act Structure: Cold Opening, Scene A. Cold Opening, Scene B.

Act One: Scene A, Scene B, Scene C, Scene D, Scene E, (No F or G), Scene H, (No I), Scene J, Scene K, Scene L, Scene M, (No N or O), Scene P.

Act Two: Scene Q, Scene R, Scene S, Scene T, Scene U, Scene V, Scene W.

Note: This script did not have a title for the episode on the title page but presumably from the Cold Opening, it is the pilot for the series.