The ongoing talks between the WGA and the AMPTP continued to look promising by means of the weekend, however the writers couldn’t assist however have enjoyable with the studios’ declare that they made their “best and final offer.”
After the assertion was made late Saturday earlier than talks continued at this time, union members took to X to have somewhat enjoyable with the AMPTP’s selection of phrases.
It impressed Mike Flanagan and some others to provide you with potential film titles, ought to Hollywood ever resolve to chronicle this scorching mess of a negotiation. “Best Final Offer. 2 Best Final. Best Final Offer: 3D. Off4: The Best & The Final. BFO 5: The Finalest Offer,” he wrote.
Eden Danger adopted with just a few of her personal: “OFFER FINAL OFFER BEST & FINAL OFFER LAST & FINAL OFFER SMART & FINAL OFFER FINAL OFFER TOKYO DRIFT.” And so did George Samir Nader: “B&F: The Motion Picket B&F: The Wrath of Fran B&F: The Search for Staffing Minimums B&F: The Best & Final Frontier B&F: The Undiscovered Contract B&F: Strange New Residuals B&F: Lowered Expectations Best & Final B&F: Into Darkness B&F: Beyond Yom Kippur.”
Warren Leight riffed on the phrase by drawing a comparability to David Brooks’ now notorious submit concerning the $78 he spent on a meal in a New Jersey terminal. “The AMPTP’s last, best and final $78 meal at a Newark Airport,” Leight wrote, subsequent to an image of Brooks’ supposedly expensive burger and fries.
SAG-AFTRA member Mike Puateri weighed in with “I said to my wife, “Okay I’ll wash the dishes tonight but you have to dry them. This is my LAST, BEST, AND FINAL OFFER. Then I dried the dishes.”
Comedy author Mark Agee shared that “I have given my best and final offer to the doctor with the last matching heart for my transplant. If he doesn’t take it I walk.”
Dan Signer posted an commercial from Smart & Final, which amongst different issues provides bananas at 49 cents a pound. His response: “Guys, I just got this (Smart &) Final offer. I think I’d better buy the bananas. If I don’t, I’ll never be able to get bananas again!”
Glen Mazzara mentioned, “When this strike ends, I will be out pitching my new show, BEST & FINAL. #CallingDibs.” Sarah Watson posted, “If you are in line to make a “best and final” joke, STAY IN LINE.”
The fake Carol Lombardini on X even got here by means of with a submit that learn “please WGA, just accept our last best and final offer so we’re not forced to come back again and give you the even-better last-last double-best bottomless Oreo dream extreme offer-tini.”
She then adopted up with “we’re having so much fun we’ve jointly decided to do a last best and final day of negotiations” when talks went into Sunday.
Speaking of the pretend Lombardini, actor Paul McKinney wrote, “The AMPTP made their “last best and final offer” however then forgot to insert language demanding the id of in order that’s why they’re assembly on Sunday.”
Some WGA members weren’t so amused on the phrase, despite the fact that many of us took the time to level out that the phrases have been straight-up legalese. “A “last, best, and final offer” is reserved for the negotiating social gathering who has all the ability,” wrote former Grey’s Anatomy showrunner Krista Vernoff. “The CEOs took 140 days to come to the table. It’s beyond irresponsible. It’s the opposite of powerful.”
Added David Slack, “When you’ve already made your “last, best, and final” provide thrice after which been pressured to make a greater provide as a result of you may’t make your solely product with out us — perhaps simply cease calling them “last, best, and final”?
Added Scott Collette, “Should the AMPTP’s final, finest, & closing provide not be appropriate, then I feel the WGA could make the case {that a} federal mediator is required. Would love to listen to CEOs defend their salaries & historic losses to the FMCS, & open the studios’ books to the gov’t to attempt to make their case.
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