AS SEEN ON TV: BEN DRISCOLL

BENJAMIN DRISCOLL

CREATED BY:

Ray Bradbury

PORTRAYED BY:

Christopher Connelly

AS SEEN IN:

'The Martian Chronicles'

TV DIMENSION:

Alternate Toobworld

From Wikipedia:

World War III has occurred on Earth, and Mars was evacuated shortly before. Only a few scattered humans remain on Mars. One of them is Benjamin Driscoll, who lives alone in First Town. One day, he hears a telephone ringing in someone's home, and suddenly realizes that he should answer it to find companionship. Missing the call, and several others, he sits down with a phone book of Mars and starts dialing at A.

After days of calling without answers, he starts calling hotels, and then (after guessing where he thinks a woman would most likely spend her time) calls the biggest beauty salon on Mars (in New Texas City) and a woman answers. Tremendously excited and overcome with romantic dreams, he flies 1,500 miles to New Texas City to meet Genevieve Selsor.

She turns out to be thoroughly narcissistic and entirely obsessed with her own good looks. 

Disappointed, Driscoll runs away when she rejects his advances but still expects him to make a nice breakfast the next day while repairing her sauna.

BCnU!