Outline - Anxiety Enact!

Each episode somebody comes into a therapist’s office.   The shot is from waist-down. You just see legs walk in.   You hear the therapist saying niceties like: “Feel free to grab yourself a cup of coffee. Traffic good on the way over? So make yourself comfortable and tell me what’s on your mind today.”

 We see the legs sit down, then hear the voice of the patient which always begins with: “So what I’m worried about is-”

 Then almost the entire rest of the show is a depiction of whatever events the patient is describing. Which is always an escalation of insanity.   For instance:

 “-my son’s Birthday is coming up and he wants this specific kind of cake. It’s in a bakery across town which I’ll have to rush to from work.

 In my haste I might unknowingly run through some lights and go over the speed limit which’ll attract the attention of the police.

 I won’t realize the police are pursuing me, so they’ll think I’m evading arrest. Especially since my car matches the description of a serious felon’s who just escaped from prison.

 Once I get back home they’ll break through my door and in through my windows and won’t accept the misunderstanding until I’ve offered them some of the cake.

 All of which my son will have witnessed, so now his cake is ruined and he’s just plain mortified, so then he runs away from home to the outskirts of the neighborhood because he’d rather live under a bridge than be known as my son.”

Cut-back-to   The therapist’s office, still waist-down, where you hear the patient conclude, in just the most matter-of-fact, casual of tones: “And that’s, what I’m worried about today.”

A beat to let that sink in. Then the episode either cuts off there, or we Cut-to the therapist, same shot type, and they’re like: “Well maybe what could help....”

They always provide some solution that’s equal in nonsense to the story, like:  “...is if you got your son a pie, instead.”

 And on that line, we finally SEE the therapist:  Peter Keleghan*!

*a rotation of Canadian comedians will play the therapist. We never see the patient. They could be anyone. They could be you!