Synopsis

This third and last installment of “The Show Can’t Go On!” 90-minute comedy series
picks up where the prequel, “3rd Annual Matricher Falls Internationel Film Festival”
leaves off. One of the three main characters, Cherie, did walk off with Sheldon
Stankey for dinner—a meal “slathered with gravy.”

“It’s the Gravy,” opens as we see her in Stankey’s office with his partner, Al Kahn.
They tell her they want to take on her film (to distribute it) and they make her an offer.

She accepts.

They also offer a partnership, urging her to “put all her eggs in one basket.”

She is now officially ordained as a sales rep for (ITGU) –It’s the Gravy Unlimited
Film Distribution Company. In the initial “dealmaking” meeting, Stankey and Kahn
pour it on thick when they give her an offer to join their sham film distribution
company—an offer she finds impossible to refuse.

She will stay in Matricher Falls to help them grow their film distribution company.
“Besides,” she tells them. She has some friends in town, so she isn’t planning to leave
Matricher Falls anytime soon.

Their offer affords her the opportunity to regularly visit her pals, Maynard
Blankenship and Mitchell Brine, both of whom are serving 46 months in the MF
Correctional Facility for having stolen the Grand Jury Ladle Prize at the third annual
MF indie film festival.

Stankey and his partner, Kahn, talk Cherie into investing a sizeable sum into their
enterprise.

Eager to become a partner, she sells everything to do it. She’s all in.
The shady pair quickly teach her the ins and outs of the indie film sales business--
agentry, aggregating, and distribution. She proudly wears the title of Sale’s Rep but
finds it hard to sell the founding partners’ packages.

After dressing Cherie down for her inability to sell their “products,” the pair announce
a necessary trip across the globe to sell the company’s “packages” themselves. They
tell her they will be gone for a couple of weeks. She argues with them all the
way to the front door of the building—their exit route.

They pressure her to hurriedly sign paperwork that leaves her responsible for all the
company’s liabilities.

Soon after, Cherie visits Maynard and Mitch in jail. At first, she brags about her job,
then later, confesses that things aren’t going so well. She then hatches a sinister plan
with Maynard to get him out of jail.

Initially, she pretends she has gotten Maynard a job at ITGU, then confesses to him
that Stankey and Kahn have left town; and left her hanging. Her motive: She had
secretly hoped she could use what was left in the way of any remaining “credit limit”
balance on Maynard’s credit card to get back on her feet.

Shortly after she takes Maynard through the front doors of ITGU, she finally comes
clean in a meeting. They take to one of the nicely appointed conference rooms. She
spills the beans.

Soon, the two hatch a plan to galvanize a handful of workers from among those they
met a couple of years earlier at the Matricher Falls Internationel Film Festival.
Russell, the waiter at Zov’s seems to be a potential candidate. Mabel, concession
worker at the Frida Theater, is a potential. Roxy, a former beauty queen, who was one
of the MF festival award presenters, is likely to join the team. Bob, the MF festival
worker who couldn’t spell jack, is now back in town after his newly formed banner
company collapsed. Two of the Mumble Gang never left the Falls. They began
teaching karaoke at the Matricher Falls Bowl. And Cassie, still seeking her celebrity
hookup, doesn’t seem to have much else to do.

After assembling their team, Maynard and Cherie excuse themselves for a short
meeting outside the larger conference room doors. They discuss who will do what job.

The film opens with Cherie casting roles. Each recruit gets his/her own assignment.
Soon, the team frantically get to work to secure the company’s assets—they man the
phones in the ITGU’s lavish office quarters and make a number of calls to try to get
gullible filmmakers to buy their bogus film distribution packages. Maynard and
Cherie’s goal? To not only keep the company from going under, but to find a way to
spin a profit.

Why? Cherie wants to retrieve her life-savings investment, while Maynard is clearly
onboard so he can pay off his mounting credit card debt; the interest alone is killing
him. The others? They work nights so daylighting might afford them some extra cash.
Meantime, Mitch remains in jail, pleading for his release, though oddly enough, he
mentions that he is enjoying his work In the jail’s laundry room. His biggest joy
however he says, is that of bookclub “captain.”

No one is selling anything.

The two leaders continue pushing their star recruits. They inspire them to burn up the
phones for prospects—gullible filmmakers—in the hopes of raking in suckers to help
them keep the company afloat. They also send them out on the streets to the Frida
Cinema for the 5th Annual Matricher Falls Internationel Film Festival where they
hope their troops will sign some unsuspecting filmmakers as they descend on them.

Seems promising. For a while.

President Russell, who still works at Zov’s as a waiter at night, takes his daylighting
responsibilities seriously. He has a customer, he says, a numbers guy, who he might be

able to recruit to join the ITGU management team. Morty is his name, and he accepts
the offer to join ITGU.

When the company’s “Controller” finally reports that ITGU might crash, Mabel
suggests they find some fresh entrepreneurs – some influencers with whom they can
partner. President Russell mentions he knows a company across town who is in the
“beverage business.” The team suggests he invite them to take a meeting at ITGU.
This young group reportedly owns LMA, a company that is said to be making bank.
When they arrive, ITGU’s team is shocked. They are children! The LMA “suits”
range in age from 10 to 14 years old. They drill the ITGU team with questions. Morty
tries to take the lead. The dynamic and driven team from LMA (Lemonade My Ass)
walk out of the meeting soon after the ITGU team reveal none of them even know
what a business plan is.

The youngsters walk out confidently, when in truth, they, too, are in trouble: The
LMA group have been bootlegging gravy for the former mayor who, lately, has been
demanding more than his customary share-- pouring on thick his new commission
demands, so LMA, too, is heading downhill.

Russell and Morty later visit the “lemonade stand.”

Meantime, Mitch remains in jail, pleading for his release. Parole Board turns him
down. To make matters worse, both entities have gotten wind that the FBI is tailing
them.

The heat is on for both sides.

KSCM reporter Todd Tilleman gets a leak. He launches an investigative probe.

LMA execs meet in pairs to try to strike deals with ITGU influencers.

It’s all very “Hollywood.”

LMA even ups the terms of the deal and eventually ITGU relents and accepts.

It’s not long before all the “players” are out for themselves.

The same dynamic is at play over at LMA.

Lots of plots and logistics are in the offing.

It’s all very “Hollywood.”

Two Saudi princes—Mitch’s jail contacts--even thicken the plot when they cook up a
deal with the former Mumble Gang heads.

Mitch finally talks the parole board into letting him go. That is, with the help of a
“family member.”

Detectives Wheeler and Peeler get a tip from Todd that something is “up” at ITGU.