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Introduction with voiceover

Announcer
From Channel 34’s national news headquarters in Cincinnati Ohio this is Action News.

Dave
Hey everybody and welcome to Channel 34 Action News! My name is Dave Little and
you wouldn’t believe how excited we are for this show today...it’s the kind of excitement
you feel when…well… (trying to think of a comparison and ends up reaching for a bag of
marshmallows) when you’re cramming marshmallows into your mouth (Dave starts putting
lots and lots of marshmallows in his mouth) and you’re excited because you want to cram
more marshmallows in your mouth but then you realize if you do then you’ll run out of
marshmallows and then not have any to make smores (we can hardly understand what
he’s saying) but then you’re excited about making the smores…well….anyway...anyway
let’s get right to it.

Today we’re talking about temptation …temptation is that feeling you get when you think
about doing something that you know is not right. Here’s a question for you. Raise your
hand when you think you know which of the following is an example of temptation? (choices
will be illustrated)
A Thinking about washing the dishes after dinner.
B Wanting to steal a toy from a friend.
C Thinking about wearing a different shoe on each foot

All right…well it looks like most of you got it…the answer is “B”… wanting to steal a toy
from a friend. Thinking about stealing, thinking about lying, and thinking about not
following through on a promise are all types of temptation. Temptation is thinking about
doing something that isn’t nice or wanting something that isn’t good for us. Temptation
is something each and every one of us deals with each and every day. Why just this morning

(Dave looks upwards to the right as he fondly remembers…a thought balloon pops up
showing what he is telling us)

I was thinking about eating a chocolate cake for breakfast…and it was quite a tempting
thought because I love chocolate cake! But I knew that eating an entire cake wouldn’t be
a good breakfast.

One way to learn how to beat temptation is to know how other people have beaten
temptation…and to learn about that we go to our Senior Bible Reporter Frank Merkyl

Bible Reporting segment intro
Reporter will retell the bible story using action figures and whatever else is cool and
different. We’ll start with an intro of the reporter (who tells us where in the Bible this
story is which a cool graphic zooms through the Bible to the specific spot .Then the reporter
will then voiceover the action figure “action” with the Bible story. We’ll use face shots of the
reporter reading as he/she is acting stuff out with the figures…close up and wide shots of
the figure(s)…etc.

Frank
Hey everybody! The story we’re taking a look at is in the new testament in the book of
Matthew, chapter 4, verses 1 through 11. Here we go!

Jesus was led by the Holy Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil.

After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. The devil came to him and
said, "If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.” Jesus answered
saying, "It is written in Deuteronomy: Man does not live on bread alone, but on every
word that comes from the mouth of God.”

Then the devil took him to the holy city and had him stand on the highest point of the
temple. "If you are the Son of God," he said, "then jump off. For it is written in Psalm
91: He has placed you in the care of angels and they will lift you up in their hands, so
that you will not strike your foot against a stone. Jesus answered him, "It is also written
in Deuteronomy: Do not put the Lord your God to the test.”

Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of
the world and their splendor. "All this I will give you," he said, "if you will bow down and
worship me."

Jesus said to him, "Get away from me, Satan! For it is written in Deuteronomy: “Worship
the Lord your God, and serve him only.”

Then the devil left him, and angels came and took care of him.

That’s the story…straight from the Bible in the book of Matthew chapter 4.

I’m Frank Merkyl reporting for Action City News!

Transition to news room

Dave
Thanks Frank. Sometimes the details of a Bible story slip through the crack. Which is
why Skip Bellows goes digging in a segment we like the call “Details”

Details segment intro

Skip (with a dessert background behind him)
Have you ever had to skip or miss a meal? For some reason you couldn’t get lunch so
you went from breakfast to dinner with no food in between. Or maybe you didn’t get a
chance to eat dinner…was it tough to go to sleep because your stomach was growling?
Well imagine having breakfast and then not having another meal for 40 days. 40 days
and 40 nights (show some graphics to give some visual reference) That’s more days than
there are between Thanksgiving and Christmas. That’s 960 hours. 57,600 minutes.
Three million four hundred and fifty six thousands seconds. Anyway you look at it…that’s
a long time to not eat.

But that’s exactly what Jesus did. He didn’t eat anything for 40 days and nights. And he
was in pretty hot and uncomfortable dessert too!

So what does all this information have to do with my report. Well, I’ve decided to not eat
for 40 days like Jesus and I will report to you everything that is going on with me physically,
mentally and emotionally. So let’s prepare the clock (a clock pops up showing days, hours,
minutes and seconds)…wait a minute....(pulls a burger out and quickly gobbles it up)….start
the clock now!

Fade to black in a few seconds with the clock still counting (Like 24 the tv show). The clock
time changes to 10 minutes later and we fade back into the scene.

Skip (picking his teeth)
Some French fries would have been really good with that hamburger.

Fade to black and clock changes to 58 minutes. Skip’s tie is loosened.

Skip
Well. It’s been 58 minutes and I’m really hungry. I don’t like being hungry. But the good
news is that I’ve got almost one hour down and only nine hundred and fifty nine hours to go.

Fade to black and clock changes 1 hour and 34 minutes. Skip has since has his top button
shirt undone

Skip
It’s been an hour and thirty four minutes and now I’m really very hungry. And not only
am I hungry. This desert is ridiculously hot. My whole body is sweating. Even my eyeballs
are sweating. Can you see this (moves eye up close to the camera)…can you see the sweat?!

Fade to black and clock changes to 4 hour and 25 minutes. His jacket is off

Skip
Ugh. It’s been almost four and a half hours since my last meal. Right now I would be
usually having another meal. Bu only 39 days and 20 hours to go! (we see one of his eyes twitch)

Fade to black and clock changes to 6 hours and 14 minutes. We fade in and see that Skip
has his tie around his head…his shirt is mostly unbuttoned and sleeves are rolled up.
Maybe his pants have been turned into shorts. He’s completely lost it. And somehow he has
a five o’clock shadow. It’s been a rough 6 hours and 14 minutes.

Skip
Six hours and I don’t know how long without food. This is crazy. I can’t take it anymore.
I’m hungry and it’s hot and I’ve been sweating non-stop from places that shouldn’t sweat
and I haven’t even moved yet! This is too much. Folks I’m sorry but there is no way I
could walk around in a desert for forty days and forty nights with no food. Jesus is the
man. I don’t know how else to say it. I am not going to make it anywhere near a day without
food let alone 40 days in a row. That is an incredibly long time with no food. I’m outta
here…I gotta go find a buffet somewhere near by. This has been Skip Bellows reporting
for Channel 34 Action News.

Transition to news room

Dave
We’ll be right back

Commercial: The temptation detector (similar to a water stick)
Another over the top commercial that is trying to sell us a product that will help us spot
temptation. It will start working well enough…beeping at candy and tv…but then it will
go astray…start beeping at family members, light sockets, walls, etc.

Transition to news room

Dave
Welcome back…for our next segment we turn to our very own senior garden gnome
correspondent Noel Gnomon

Gnome intro: sound with intro will be similar to the “charge” at a baseball game but we’ll
substitute the “dum” with “gnome”…so it’ll go something like “gnome gnome gnome gnome
gnome gnome gnome…da dah da dah dah dah…GNOME!”…it’s easy to say than write but
you get the idea

Dave
Noel is with us live via satellite from an undisclosed location. Noel what have you got to report?

Gnome just stands there.

Dave
My script tells me that you are going to attempt to defeat temptation today…would you like
to tell us more?

Gnome just stands there.

Dave
Is this one of your quiet days?

Gnome just stands there

Dave
Okay…(looking at notes) well my understanding is that you are going to try to resist the
temptation to throw a peanut butter strawberry jelly and banana sandwich into a large fan.

Gnome just stands there while a gnome sized table with a sandwich on a plate and a large
industrial fan are placed in camera view

Dave
So how do you plan on resisting this temptation?

Gnome just stands there.

Dave
Have you considered walking away from the temptation? I know one way for me to avoid
a temptation is to get away from whatever is tempting. So this morning when I was tempted
to eat chocolate cake for breakfast I put the cake back in the fridge so I wouldn’t have to look
at it. Are you going to walk away?

Gnome just stands there.

Dave
Noel we don’t have all day to watch you resisting temptation. This is a short news show and I….

We hear a loud sound off camera…it sounds something like a peanut butter strawberry jelly
and banana sandwich hitting a large industrial fan.

Dave
…Oh my goodness…

We see that Gnome was unable to resist temptation and threw the sandwich into the fan…
however there isn’t much left sticking to the fan since it all blew back to Noel. We are all
now looking at a garden gnome covered in peanut butter strawberry jelly and banana
sandwich pieces.

Dave
Wow…Noel...I don’t think we’ve ever seen someone with you style of reporting.

Gnome just stands there.

Dave
Okay…well…we’ve seen how Noel tried unsuccessfully to resist temptation…but what he
didn’t have to help him that we do have is this next segment…Dear Shawn.

Dear Shawn transition intro

Dear Shawn: How do I defeat temptation?
We’ll see the kid writing the email or with a kid voiceover and then switch perspectives to
Daryl and see him write a response with a voiceover.

Lowell
Dear Shawn. I try really hard to resist temptation but it’s difficult to do. It seems like any
time I see a donut I want to eat that donut and then four more! And when it’s time to go to
bed and I want to read and I am tempted to sneak into my closet and turning on the light.
When I don’t know an answer on a test I am tempted to look at someone else’s paper.
Please help! Sincerely, Lowell Willpower

Shawn
Dear Lowell. Thanks for writing. It’s easy to understand why you get tempted sometimes.
Donuts are good, I like to read in my closet too, and sometimes teachers aren’t easy to listen to.

Being tempted is perfectly normal. We all get tempted from time to time by things that we
know aren’t right or good for us. When you’re tempted by something you need to ask God
to help you resist the temptation. Resisting temptation may sound easy but it can be really
hard. Let’s say there is someone in your class that everyone is picking on. You could be
tempted to say something mean too. But you know it’s not nice. So pray to God and ask him
to help you.

Sometimes we don’t resist temptation and we do some things that are wrong but that
doesn’t mean that we are bad people. And when we give into a temptation we need to
forgive ourselves and ask God to help us. And if you’re not sure if you are being tempted
you can always ask your family for help. Temptation is something we will all deal with
every day. But by asking God for help we have a better chance of not doing the things
that tempt us. Have a great day and thanks for your question. Sincerely Shawn.

Transition to news room

Summarize

Dave (he’ll have a fire on the news desk and will be making smores)
That’s our show for today. Special thanks to Gil for letting Noel borrow the industrial sized
fan…we’ll clean that right up. Hopefully you’ve learned something about temptation and
you know that God loves to help us with everything…including helping us to resist temptation.
Have a great day!

Fade out