March 10, 1998
This was supposed to be the one. Of the pilots I have read and read for over the past month or so, this one had the best-fitting part for an every-guy like me and the script is very funny. And yes, OK, it's true, I'm missing a bit of the "party-hardy" edge this guy Bobby is supposed to have but I was hoping to win enough heart-of-gold points to counteract that.
The scene went fine. I did almost everything as I had intended to do it. But lo and behold, they just didn't bust out of their socks in love with it. A few chuckles, a smattering of titters, but really not the kind of rip-roaring support you might like to hear from a room "full" of people (three of them). And so I left there just feeling like I had stepped on the wrong boat down at the dock and found myself in a country very similar to America but not quite home. (Let's say Canada.) Pity.