Every time I see the title Little Dorrit, I can’t help but think of “Little Dorito”, as in
Doritos corn chips. So after resisting for many long months, I will finally
give in to this idea, and make a joke ad based upon this idea of “Little
Dorito”, even though it is silly as the Dickens. (PBS is accepting more advertising these days, so it would be perfect for running before Masterpiece Theater.)
In this silly ad for Doritos, a television production of
Little Dorrit is being produced, with a Doritos corn chip as Little Dorrit (and
also with all the other cast and crew members as Doritos corn chips, with animated eyes and mouths, dressed up
in clothes, etc.). So the director calls out for Little Dorrit’s scene to
start, and the assistant director calls out: “I’m afraid someone has eaten her,
sir!” And then it becomes a whodunit about who ate Little Dorito (like an
episode of Masterpiece Mystery), with
a trail of crumbs, people with cheese powder on their clothes (like hair &
makeup people who helped Little Dorito, wardrobe people who dressed her), etc.
And like I said before, they are all Doritos corn chips, so after a little bit
of sleuthing, and the suspects being rounded-up for the big reveal (like in Poirot), a big hand reaches into the stage through an open stage loading
door and starts grabbing them one by one and pulling them out, as we hear
crunching and screaming, etc. Then we cut to a guy reaching into a bag of
Doritos and pulling a chip out and eating it (suggesting that this is what’s
happening on the outside, and the stage and all is what’s going on inside the
bag of Doritos). Then the announcer says: “You never know what exciting things
are going on inside a bag of Doritos! So reach on in, and grab yourself a
handful of fun!” (The End.)
