And thankfully, it seems to retain the humor I originally intended it to. The problem is sometimes I begin a screenplay with this busting at the seams burst of idea energies, only to use my analytical skills to dampen it down. This time, I went wild with my imagination, sketching out the possible path of scenes in outline form. I chose the best one and placed it into the script. This worked for a few reasons, one being the outline helps me from aimlessly wandering around for 5 or 10 pages, and two, by doing this, it's almost like doing a partial rewrite on the fly. And third, this allowed me to focus in on the humor of the situations within each scene, instead of the overall screenplay.
By doing this, I feel it's consistently funnier than anything I've written. Sure, I had screenplays that were hysterical in spots, those spots I deemed needed to be so. There were too many peaks and valleys. But with this one, I have definite peaks of humor, and the dips never bog down so far as to be unfunny.
Now to sit back and let it stew for a couple of weeks...then tear it up again.
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