GENTRY—RECOMMENDED LOCATION.
Open on a CLOSE-UP…of STEEMER and a HOMEOWNER, laying on the WOOD FLOOR, staring at DUST.
RACK-FOCUS…from the dust particles to their faces.
Woman: Lenny just turned 15 and these floors are messier than ever.
CUT…to them standing up as STEEMER says…
Steemer: That’s normal with dogs.
Woman: Lenny’s my son, Steemer.
Beat.
Steemer: Well that’s what you get for naming him Lenny.
CLOSE-UP…of STEEMER’S BOOT, kicking the machine on, as the VO SAYS…
VO: When clean enough is not enough…
OR…our Alt. Ending, which would work like this…
Woman: Lenny’s my son, Steemer.
Camera does a gentle PAN off the WOMAN…
VO: When clean enough is not enough…
…over to the couch…
…where her SON is sitting back…
…eatin’ a stalk of CELERY.
CUT…to STEEMER.
Steemer: Cover your ears, Lenny.
CLOSE-UP…of STEEMER’S BOOT, kicking the machine on, as the VO SAYS…
VO: When clean enough is not enough…
CUT…to END TREATMENT. The LOGO’d DOOR of a parked STANLEY STEEMER van CLOSES and an A CAPELLA CHOIR SINGS…
Choir: Call one eight hun-dred steee-mer!