BELLA
dad! will you get me an arial princess playland?
TROY
i don't know. what is it?
BELLA
it's this really, really neat thing that arial the princess sits in and it spins around and you can comb her hair and ohhhh father it's so wonderful and i want one soooo bad.
TROY
did you see it on a commercial?
BELLA
what's a mercial?
TROY
it's those things that talk about toys during your saturday morning shows.
BELLA
no, it wasn't a mercial. i saw it when they took the break in the show to figure out what to do next in the story.
in bella's mind, it seems, the mercials are all part of the show, they just aren't acted out by the feature characters. i'd love to see bella's mental picture of the animated justice league characters huddled up, arms entwined talking through what should happen in the second half of the animated story, while the mercial actors distract the audience with their short skits and plays about toys. isn't the fruitless knowledge we adults possess bizarre and isn't kids take on our programmed world just so super-great.
although, i think in bella's world aqua-man would be a total pain in the ass to work with on the fly. i see him forever bitching about not getting more screen time and threatening to walk off the set unless he's written in during the ninety second planning window. then again, this may very well be the reason he's not more of a player. bella's notion just may have legs after all.
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