The Perfect Blend-Drama Skit

The Perfect Blend-Drama Skit

Themes: Marriage; compromise in marriage; marital strengths and weaknesses; comparison of marriage to a good cup of coffee; marriage takes time and effort
Categories: Valentine's Day, Love & Marriage 
Summary:

Linda, a coffee connoisseur, stumbles into a coffee shop, hoping to seek marital advice from the local barista.  Speaking  mostly in coffee lingo, Linda explains that she and her husband, Joe, have just a terrible argument and she feels they are drifitng apart, or as she refers to it, "percolating in separate pots."  The barista assures her that this is not uncommon in marriage, and that she and her own husband went through a similar situation years ago.  It is then that Linda finds out how marriage is like a good cup of coffee: it takes time to percolate and a lot of care and hard work is necessary to brew up the best tasting coffee.  After some consideration, Linda decides to give things one more try and will no longer settle for "instant coffee" in her relationship anymore.   

 
 
Style: Comedy

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Characters: 3 (1 Male, 2 Female)
Length: 5-8 minutes
 
Excerpt (Sample)

This was taken from the MIDDLE of the script:

Linda:

Anyway, at first I thought I was brewing up some pretty good relationships but in the end they never worked out. 

Pam:

Any particular reason?

Linda:

Most of the guys turned out to be real drips, if you know what I mean. 

Pam:

 I know exactly what you mean.  (sits the coffee cup down in front of Linda)  Enjoy.  (she sits in a chair next to Linda)

Linda:

(takes a sip) Mmmm.  This is good, unlike the men I was going out with.  They’d either be too spicy, or too bland. 

Pam:

Surely some of them were sweet.

Linda:

Some, but a lot of them were just bitter.  Oh, but there was this little French Roast I went out with a couple times.  (getting “dreamy” just thinking about him) He was dark roasted…exotic and full bodied…really strong and intense…

Pam:

What happened with him?

Linda:

Turned out he was more of an instant coffee kind of guy.  He wasn’t interest in anything long-term.  I was beginning to think the right brew would never come along.

Pam:

But then you met your husband.

Linda:

(smiles) Eventually.  I was tired of drinking out of the cup of loneliness, so I decided to take a coffee break. 

Pam:

Then how did you two meet?

Linda:

I was standing in the coffee aisle at the grocery store. 

Pam:

You missed the aroma didn’t you?

Linda:

(shakes her head “yes”) Every beautiful whiff of it.  But it must have been destiny because as I was standing there in the aisle deeply inhaling, there he was: my beautiful cup of Joe.

Pam:

Let me guess, as soon as you looked up into his mocha colored eyes, it was love at first sight.

Linda:

Exactly! (smiling) He became my cup of inspiration and the ju-ju in my java.  A year later we were percolating together as man and wife. I finally had another mug in my cupboard.

Pam:

It sounds like you were very happy. 

Linda:

Oh, we were! He was the best part of waking up, and let me tell you, there was a whole latte lovin’ going on!  We were blended to perfection!  We poured cup after cup…

Pam:

(interrupting) I get it!  So, what went wrong?

Linda:

The daily grind.  In the beginning life was sweet.  My cup was running over, and I thought we were meant to live a cream and sugar life forever. 

Pam:

But?

Bob enters in the middle of Linda’s next line

Linda:

But now the coffee has gotten kind of stale.  I think it’s been sitting in the pot for too long, and it’s lost all its flavor.