The Bug House |
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Song Book JUST LINE UP FOR DRUGS STERILIZATION TANGO WARDEN’S SONG IN MY COMFORT ZONE WHO-DINI DINNER’S ON US LECTRIC SHOCK THERAPY I JUST GET NERVOUS & I CAN’T WHERE’D THEY GO? I’M TOO CRAZY FOR LOVE MP3 samples coming soon!
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Synopsis
- In 1884 Mortimer Cook founded a town in Northern Washington State and due to the high infestation of mosquitoes, named it "BUG". Shortly there after the name was changed to “Sedro Woolley”. In 1910 the state opened the Northern State Hospital there, the first local insane asylum - then called a hospital for the ‘harmless insane’. The locals immediately referred to it as the 'Bug House'.
Inmates
have been mysteriously disappearing at the hospital over the past 3
months, 5 to date. No one knows how they escaped or what has
happened to them, absolutely no clues.... State Officials and local law
enforcement ask for assistance. Enter the bumbling, fumbling but
mysteriously effective Detective Devlin Poltergister.
He is assigned, undercover as an insane inmate, to find out the
answers.
This show (and hospital) all takes place in the late 60’s / early 70’s. The main gates and side gates of the hospital grounds are all controlled by the newest invention – the state-of-the-art magnetic electronic locking mechanism. Unbeknownst to all except Who-dini (inmate who thinks he’s the real Houdini), whenever the doctors perform the electric shock treatment on a patient, the magnetic mechanism disengages for 10-15 seconds. Thus anyone could simply walk out. Who-dini actually thinks, however, that he is responsible for making them disappear. And who knows, perhaps he is.
Add to this mix the crazy cast of characters on staff (working names) such as Peter Bilecki (known as the Stumphouse Man because he actually lives in a hollowed out stump right outside the Hospital grounds) and is the grounds keeper; Cornelius Klinken, the Head Warden of the Bug House; Cleta Kettle, the head woman cook/nutritionist; Thelonius Fitt, the staff fitness guru – a Richard Simmons look-a-like; Gary Goodkind, staff Phsycologist who actually creates the very first frontal lobotomy procedure. Then add the slightly less than normal inmates/patients themselves and you have a hilarious romp through the minds and memories of one very unique sanitarium – the Bug House.
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– the name “BUG” is a true story, the Northern State
Hospital did indeed exist, and the stumphouse guy (Bilecki) was
real. And this
really is the first insane asylum that performed a frontal
lobotomy procedure. I
don’t make this shit up – well, sometimes.
I’m thinking the detective finally figures it out (although he goes about it completely wrong) but they don’t find the missing inmates. Last scene is of the inmates – outside – trying to figure out how to get back in... they have discovered that everybody’s crazier outside the Bug House. |
