THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE PRESENTS
A WORLD WITHOUT...
written by Bill Robens & Christine Breihan
directed by Jaime Robledo

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s 1954
“A World Without” series of educational films.

6 Episodes
Original Run: 4 Eps, 2/16/13 - 4/6/13
Playoffs Run: 2 Eps, 6/22/13 & 7/6/13

SUMMARY:  In the spring of 1953, two events - the fall of China to Communism and the New York Public School system's decision to teach ballet to 12-year-olds - inspired the following film: "The United Council of Pants and Leggings Manufacturers presents 'A World Without Pants', a United Council of Pants and Leggings Manufacturers film."  In the film, a young boy named Billy can't stand his uncomfortable pants, and wishes pants had never been invented. So the Council's President, Donald Greerson, shows him how American history would have gone had our greatest heroes never worn pants.

SUMMARY:  In this educational film from 1954, Templeton Pendergrass, President of the United Council of Napkin and Wet Wipers Folders & Manufacturers, teaches a recalcitrant Billy and his sister Suzie about the importance of napkins. We learn how a messy plate of ribs would have prevented the signing of the Magna Carta and how a sloppy joe led to the destruction of the Mona Lisa. And in the present day of 1954, Suzie asks gets a dream date to the dance with popular Johnny Battle, the most popular boy in school... only to find his messy table manners a horrifying turn-off.

SUMMARY:  In this educational film from 1954, Henry Singleton, President of the United Council of Chiropractic Specialists and Barcalounger Manufacturers & Distributors, teaches a family the importance of lumbar support by showing how a lack of it would have led to the Allies losing WWII.  The British pilots, without lumbar support, would have lost to the Germans and their "uber-spines," and at Yalta, FDR, Churchill and Stalin would have been laid low by back pain.

SUMMARY:  In this educational film from 1954, little Suzie announces that she's not going to have a husband when she grows up, but will instead be the C.E.O. of a Fortune 500 company.  She is set straight by Horace von Mounterbatten, President of the United Council for the Preservation of Familial Cohesion and the Stay-at-Home Mom's Alliance, who takes the family on a trip to the far-flung future of 1992 to show her how unhappy she and everyone else will be if she does not follow her traditional gender role.

SUMMARY:  Suzie bangs her knees at the dinner table and doubles over in pain.  Her knees are always getting in the way.  She wishes to live in... a world without knees!  However, the cast - and the film's reality - quickly break down as nobody is able to get through saying the name of this week's Society.  The cast ask for help from their award-winning director, Jaime Robledo, who is exhausted from his many theater projects.  He wonders why he's expending so much energy on a Serial Killers playoffs piece when he knows that Padraic Duffy and Padraic Duffy's Skit Slayers is going to win anyway.  After the cast praise the great writer Bill Robens, author of "A World Without," who would NEVER put his own name into his own scripts, Jaime decides he either wants to win the playoffs, or get his Saturdays back.  He wants to live in A World Without... PADRAIC DUFFY!

SUMMARY:  Pierce Beauregard shows Jaime a World Without Padraic Duffy.  Serial Killers has been cancelled and everybody's found other things to do with their lives.  Chairman Barnes has become a golf pro.  Rebecca Larsen has moved back to Utah and re-embraced her Mormon faith, and is happily married.  So far it looks like everybody's happier.  But then Jaime goes to Sacred Fools and finds Mandi Moss, now a crazy hobo who tells Jaime that his next show, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, isn't happening... because this is a World Without Sacred Fools!