Stanley
Ralph Ross recalls: "I
went right back to her comic origin. I adapted it essentially from
that first strip, while adding my own bits in. What you might find
interesting is that my original script was much funnier than the
one that went on the air, but Cramer wanted it to be "punched
down." He felt that it was too funny, so I had to cut some jokes.
Those jokes were what got the director, Leonard Horn, to do it in
the first place. He was disappointed, and so we told the actors
what happened, and told them if they wanted to infuse some of the
fun of the first one into the second one, it was fine with us." |