Early evening.  Long shot of a National Express Coach entering city centre.  Cut to close up on the face of our student through the coach window.  Full of anticipation.  We see him getting off the coach, waving his thanks to the driver.  Tinny music comes from the student’s headphones.  Cut to exterior of pub.  Student braces himself to enter.  As he takes off the headphones the soundtrack bursts into full volume.  In the pub his mates are waiting for him and the mayhem begins.  We follow them from pub to café bar to burger bar to club.  Lots of fast-cut action – dodging cars, banter with bouncers, chatting up girls etc – and all the time quick close ups of money being handed over for drinks, food, entrance.  This much fun doesn’t come cheap.  Then as the night reaches its climax – disaster.  One of the group has ordered a round of drinks.  Opens wallet to find it empty.  Turns to second mate.  Skint.  Third mate.  No dosh either.  They all look doubtfully at their student mate.  He opens his wallet and we can see a National Express Discount Coachcard, a return ticket and a few fivers.  V/O: Why spend money getting there when you can spend it being there? Cut back to mates looking relieved and impressed.  Cut to happy student.  Final frame: National Express logo then words and graphics comes up underneath in succession -  Going, Going, (Graphic of Discount Coachcard) Gone. (Final word shoots off screen.)

Close up shots of football match.  Amplified sounds of boot against ball, grunts and groans à la Match of the Day intro.  It’s a hard, physical game. Whistle blows. Cut to steamy changing room with showers.  From the voices we realise for the first time that this is a women’s team.  Lots of jokes and ribbing etc.  Cut to women leaving changing room. Our heroine waves goodbye to her parting mates and just before she leaves herself, picks up a bottle of Parozone and applies it to plug-hole of shower.  Magic from her hand holding bottle in changing room to her applying Parozone to toilet at home.  V/O:  Parozone has the power to keep your home safe from germs.  Enter son dribbling toy football, which Mum expertly dribbles from him. V/O: There’s no better defence.  Pack shot.  V/O:  Parozone’s Active Power Protects.
 

(Alternative ‘knocking’ ending.  Mum picks up empty bottle of bleach which looks suspiciously like Domestos and kicks it into the bathroom bin.)

Open on two baby buggies, side by side, seen from the back.

A baby’s arm emerges from the side of one buggy and points at the other one.

Girl Baby (female adult voice):  "Nice set of wheels you’ve got there, Dave."

The second baby’s buggy bounces up and down.

Boy Baby (male adult voice):  "Yeah.  The old lady treated me."

Girl Baby:  "Speaking of which…"

Two young mums walk into frame from either side.

They wheel off the buggies.

Dissolve to mums, babies and buggies arriving at bus stop.  Our view is still from behind them.  A bus pulls up almost simultaneously.  The door opens.

Boy Baby:  "Oh no, bumps a daisy, here we go."

Focus on the platform lowering.

Girl Baby: " ‘ang on, what’s this?" 

Close up on wheels of buggies crossing smoothly from pavement to platform.

Boy Baby: "Smooth as a baby’s…."
Girl Baby: "Do you mind?"

Cut to buggies being positioned side by side in buggy zone.  Mums sit down either side.
We see the babies’ faces for the first time.  They turn and look at each other.

Boy baby:  "Gurgle, gurgle."
Girl Baby: "Goo, goo, goo."

Mums exchange a look, slightly apprehensive.

First Mum: "You’d almost think they were talking!"

MVO:  "Easy access buses from Travel West Midland.  Buggies and babies?  No bother!"

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