The Abridged Script
FADE IN:
INT. MOVIE STUDIO
STUDIO EXECUTIVE #1
Robin William's movies have become too good lately. He's Actually turned into a brilliant actor rather than relying on relentless mugging and maudlin sentiment. What can we do?
STUDIO EXECUTIVE #2
Wait, here's a true story about Dr. Hunter Adams. He believed in healing patients with laughter. It's got a mental hospital, kids with cancer AND a tragic murder!!
YES MEN/STUDIO EXECUTIVES
BWHAHAHAHAAHAAA! Sounds hilarious!! Oh, man, what a great opportunity for Williams to do his schtick!
STUDIO EXECUTIVE #1
The best part is, we don't need a script! We can just compile a Patchwork of all of Robin's other movies and pass it off as new!
STUDIO EXECUTIVE #2
Great idea! We'll call it "Patchwork Adams"!
STUDIO EXECUTIVE #1
Make it "Patch Adams". We'll come up with some lameass Excuse for the nickname later.
YES MEN
Great idea, great idea!
STUDIO EXECUTIVE #1
(Into intercom)
Roxie, fast-track the new Robin Williams movie. And send Sharon Stone in for my 3pm blow job.
INT. A MENTAL HOSPITAL IN THE 1960S.
ROBIN WILLIAMS
I'm depressed. I'm sad.
ROBERT DE NIRO
Wait, aren't you my doctor?
MICHAEL JETER
Hey, this ain't Awakenings, pal! No, it's The Fisher King. So I'm going to play the same crazy character I did in that one and teach Robin how good it feels to help people.
Robin mugs and makes some inappropriate jokes that aren't really very funny, a la Father's Day.
MICHAEL JETER
Hahahaa! Oh, Robin, you're really helping me! I feel like I could actually be cured someday-
ROBIN WILLIAMS
That's great! Gotta go!
INT. COLLEGE - 2 YEARS LATER
Robin is the world's most unconvincing medical student.
PHILLIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN
(Sweatily/Nasally)
I'm your roommate. I have bad skin and therefore will be a real prick to you. Aren't you kind of old to be a med student?
ROBIN WILLIAMS
What the hell are you talking about? You look 40!
PHILLIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN
Ssssssh!
ROBIN WILLIAMS
Why are you such a jerk?
PHILLIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN
Because this piece of crap movie made 100 times more than Happiness when they were released at the same time and that was a fucking masterpiece I was brilliant in.
ROBIN WILLIAMS
Well, you're not cute enough to be my sidekick, anyway.
DANIEL LONDON
Golly, jeepers, Patch!
ROBIN WILLIAMS
He'll do.
Robin enlists Daniel's help to perform some of his man- child Jumanji/Jack/Hook antics in front of sick kids.
ROBIN WILLIAMS
Now I need a perfunctory love interest.
STUDIO EXECUTIVE #1
Er...I kind of promised a role to Sharon Stone.
ROBIN WILLIAMS
No, no, I want a girl half my age so I can look really creepy chasing her around. Get me a Julia Roberts lookalike.
MONICA POTTER
Snarl. Growl. Fuck off, Robin.
ROBIN WILLIAMS
Oh, I love her!
MONICA POTTER
Why? I'm a two-dimensional bitch with no appealing qualities whatsoever and I hate men! Plus, Amanda Plummer played this role much better in Fisher King.
ROBIN WILLIAMS
But I love you!
MONICA POTTER
I love you, too, Robin!!!
ROBIN WILLIAMS
Super. Now you must die. It's very Good Will Hunting to have my love interest dead. I smell Oscar.
Monica Potter, who is bright enough to be one of only 6 female med students at the time, goes to a creepy house alone where a known psychotic lives. After her death, Robin goes and stands on the edge of a cliff remarkably like the one in What Dreams May Come.
ROBIN WILLIAMS
I killed her! I quit medicine! My life is over!
He turns around and sees a butterfly.
ROBIN WILLIAMS
A butterfly? In the middle of the wilderness in warm weather season? What are the odds? It's a sign! I'm going back to medicine!
BOB GUNTON
No, you're not. I'm expelling you.
ROBIN WILLIAMS
For teaching prep school boys to love Shakespeare???
BOB GUNTON
Er...sure. That makes more sense than my reasons.
There is a big trial where Robin makes a big, flowery speech and contorts his face into a grimace so that it looks like he's playing Popeye again.
ROBIN WILLIAMS
Please don't expel me.
All the sick kids Robin made laugh with his PG-Rated Good Morning, Vietnam act somehow manage to leave their sterile environments and come to the courthouse to stand up for him. A nice, empty gesture that worked much better in Dead Poet's Society.
RICHARD KILEY
Robin, your behavior is inexcusable. You have violated every rule we hold sacred to this institution.
STUPID AUDIENCE MEMBERS WHO HAVE NEVER SEEN A COURTROOM SCENE BEFORE
Oh, no, he's fucked!
RICHARD KILEY
However...
STUPID AUDIENCE MEMBERS WHO HAVE NEVER SEEN A COURTROOM SCENE BEFORE
What? Did he say "however"? Wait a second...
RICHARD KILEY
You're so damn loveable, we're going to let you be a doctor!
STUPID AUDIENCE MEMBERS WHO HAVE NEVER SEEN A COURTROOM SCENE BEFORE
Whoa! They tricked us! I thought he was screwed!
Everyone cheers. Robin gets to be a much funnier doctor than he was in Nine Months. At graduation, to show what a nonconformist he is, he dresses in women's drag and dances to "Dude Looks Like a Lady".
Suddenly, we see ROBIN WILLIAMS' ASS. This is supposed to be FUNNY, but it is actually VILE and VOMIT-INDUCING, much like the FILM.
END