"We're sinking in the ratings guys."

"I told you we should have gone further with Sayoko."

"People just aren't interested in our story of an ordinary college student
anymore."

"OK, then let's take a chance.  What have we got to lose?"

"Maybe some magical girl could drop in on him, like 'I dream of Genie'?"

"How about a goddess?"

Six months later:

"I wanna be on big brother's TV show!"

"OK, OK, let's see, wasn't there another norn?"

"Yeah, Skuld."

"You can be this be this Skuld, on one condition."

"Yeah, what?"

"You can't ever call him big brother."

Three months later:

"I was almost physically ill.  Next time you have me kiss him, I quit."

"OK, OK, we'll keep the script light."

"But, what if he tries something?"

"Hey, 'Skuld'!"

"Yeah?"

"You want to keep your brother's show going?"

"Yeah!"

"Then anytime he gets too close to 'Belldandy' here, we're going to send
you in to break it up."

Naturally after the show was canceled, Keiichi's life as a fantasy left
with the proper preparation for only one career path...

Roll the credits for the "Ronald Reagan Show".

	Henry J. Cobb	hcobb@slip.net          http://www.io.com/~hcobb
    Any sufficiently cool technology is indistinguishable from religion.