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OH Frick: I'm volunteering to write a short script for my local historical society for their YouTube channel and have five sisters in a kitchen bantering like only sisters can. They were all members of a local area family named Frick. Can anybody come up with an idea for a cute (and PG13) joke around the last name?
Search Frick Wiki yourself cause I got an additional page to that one above that listed way more notables in history but it won't copy the link properly for me, from a Civil War Union officer to a South African chess player.
That list has some pretty amusing notables, including Frick and Frack (even though not their real names)..
The obvious is that 'frick' is a well known euphemism for a word my husband (and half the world) uses on a regular basis, but you want to keep it clean.
Frick rhymes with Crick, you could go that route. Maybe the name was originally Crick but was illegible on paper and they got stuck with it and have had to endure jokes at their expense all their life, cause of their Daddy's bad handwriting. Maybe he was a German immigrant and had no idea what the name changed to, or preferred the more Anglo Crick.
One of the girls could mention Frick, Crick, that neither is better than the other, given their slang meanings. Maybe someone could pipe up with famous and notable Fricks in history.
Some further context might help. Can you post a little of what you've written already to give us a sense of character and what you're going for?
Of course there's also Trick. Lucky the girls didn't get lumped with that one. And I almost forgot Watson & Crick and Franklin and the DNA discussion.
Thanks for the reply. Our local Frick's were cousins of the industrialist Henry Clay Frick. I posted what is written below and hopefully it's not too annoying format-wise to read in a forum post. The video will use original photographs of each person that speak via the new D-ID animation technology. Lulu is the only one wearing a hat in the photographs of the women being used.
During opening title screen, a crash of plates is heard followed by sounds of a kitchen: the clanging of metal pots. Plates clinking together. Knife chopping hard vegetables. CUT TO: Photograph
MOTHER FRICK Girls that’s a lot of racket in there. Do you need my help?
ALL TOGETHER (O.C.) NO!
LULU I love my sisters, but I can’t stand them. We got together to make mama a special dinner to celebrate her birthday.
MEL (Irritated) Abby you were supposed to bring the greens!
ABBY (Snippy) I did! But apparently not the ones you wanted me to bring.
CORA They do look good though.
ALICE Yeah not like those from Magaw’s stand down on South street.
ABBY I got them fresh out of the garden. But what’s wrong with the one’s from Magaw’s? He’s a very nice man selling good looking vegetables at fair prices.
MEL So, he’s a very nice man with good looking veggies? Well, only if you like old vegetables he tries to pass off as fresh.
CORA There’s definitely something good looking and fresh at his stand and its not the vegetables. (O.C. you hear the other sisters giggling.)
LULU You all leave Abby alone. She brought the greens for mama to enjoy, not for you to speculate about her level of interest in that man.
CORA Wait is Abby courting Magaw?
ABBY (Exsperated) Who said anything about courting? All I said was he was nice and. (Gets cut off)
ALICE Wait till papa hears about that. You’ll get an earful about good matches and bad ones, and (all in unison) how to know the difference.
MEL The only good match in papa’s mind is a man who runs his own business. One that papa can invest in, and profit from. That’s Jacob Frick he makes your business, his business, the family business.
LULU A bad match is anybody else.
CORA Lulu, you’re just mad because papa put the kibosh on any designs you had on…
ALICE I never thought about that but Mel’s right. She married William Dexter Tyler, the grain merchant that papa partnered in business with and I married Frederick Imgard the merchant tailor that rents rooms in papa’s building. Cora married John Milton Criley the Wayne County National Bank’s head cashier where papa is President and John keeps track of all his money. If Abby drops any notions of the vegetable man and accepts the attentions of William Routson, maybe papa can add a pottery to his businesses. (O.C. you hear the other sisters giggling.)
ABBY Stop it. You all know, Will never had anything to do with his father’s pottery. He loves the railroad job he has. He’ll probably work there the rest of his life.
MEL It’s Will now is it; that’s OK papa is gonna like him. Railroads and all the connections that’s going to give him,(pause) business wise.
CORA Now all we need to do is get Lulu fixed up with the right sort of man.
ALICE Yeah, we don’t want Lulu ending up like our half sister Isadore who married Arch Megrew. His news stand business went bust along with their marriage.
CORA Maybe a man in the real estate business? Papa does not have one of those. Maybe there’s a Quinby boy that’s not attached.
MEL First things first, we’ve got to get Lulu gussied up. She’s not getting any younger. Maybe if we change her hair or a new hat?
Wanted to share the final produced movie for The Frick Sisters. Ended up using the obvious joke line at the end to try to get a giggle. See the movie at YouTube link below. https://youtu.be/WcS1JW_NVSI