The two women approach Jesus' tomb early Sunday morning and find
the stone rolled away.  From inside the tomb they hear voices...laughing?
Perplexed, the women enter, expecting to find the body of Jesus and
those who have desecrated his resting place with their frivolity.  Instead,
they find that Jesus' body is missing and that the voices belong to two
young men dressed in white who appear to be...cracking up...over
something.

Young man #1: Boy (heh-heh-heh), wasn't that great?!

Young man #2: I don't think he ever saw it coming.

#1: Did you see the look on his face when he...

#2: Oh, that was priceless!

#1: There's ol' Scratch on Friday afternoon, standing at his throne when
Jesus falls through the gate, and Scratch is standing there all imperious
and everything and he says in this James Earl Jones voice, "I have you now."

#2: Yeah, like he's Darth Vader or something.

#1: Yeah, but Darth was really scary; Scratch was just imitating.

#2: How about when Scratch had his baddies chain up Jesus in the court
of hell in front of all the demons and with all the lost souls locked in
their cages?  He turns his back on Jesus to face the demons and launches
into this oh-so-boring speech about how he's "sundered the Godhead" and
"unhinged creation" and goes on and on about how "he...is...the...greatest!"

#1: You see?  Not a single original idea in his head.  He'd better watch
out that Cassius Clay doesn't deck him for stealing his motto.  At any
rate, while Scratch is going on and on and on, world without end, Jesus
is standing there behind him, listening to him rant and just shaking his head.

#2: Dante had it wrong; the worst torment of hell is having to sit through
one of Scratch's speeches.  Man, talk about being "bored again"...

#1: Yeah, and again, and again, and again.  I've heard from some of the
patrols that ever since he got those theology degrees a while back he's
become even more insufferable.

#2: Oh, yeah; "with authority" he pretends to know what he's talking about.
Anyway, he's droning on and on and Jesus is standing there behind him just
looking at him and all the demons.  Then Jesus looks to his left, looks to his
right, lifts his arms and the chains just fall off his arms like they fell through
'em.

#2: Did you see the demons then?  They were all gasping and pointing,
but ol' Scratch was so full of himself he thought they were just terrified
of his "low and mighty" routine.

#1: And while he's keeping on with his speech, Jesus just turns around
to the cages, the locks fall off and he and all the lost souls just disappear!

#2: Now that kicked!  No smoke, no mirrors, just BOOM! they're gone.
A perfect jump cut.  You know, I really have to hand it to Gabriel's special
effects team; they've come a long way since that "cartoon pillar of fire at
the Red Sea" stunt.

#1: Uh...that was DeMille, not Gabriel.

#2: Oh...oh, yeah, right.  Anyway, Jesus and the lost souls just vanish like
ghosts and ol' Scratch is still goin' on and on with his speech like Ethel in
that episode where she's singing really bad and Lucy, Ricky and Fred are
doing that Vaudeville act behind her with the plants and ropes and Ethel
doesn't know it but the audience is laughing their heads off.

#1: But the best part, the killer, was when ol' Scratch realized that his
demons were pointing to something behind him, he turns around, and Jesus
and everyone else is gone!

#2: I about burst a seam, I was laughing so hard!  "Hey, Scratch: APRIL
FOOL!!!"

#1: Yeah!  (heh-heh!)  But did you hear what ol' Scratch started yelling
when he saw he'd been hoodwinked?

#2: No, by then I was on my way back up to help out with crowd control
topside; what was he saying?

#1: He was standing there in front of the empty cages and the loose chains
and looking up all wide-eyed and yelling, "NO FAIR!  NO FAIRRRR!"

#2: Oh, yeah, like he's the paragon of virtue!  "NO FAIRRRR!"

The two young men collapse together into a heap of laughter as the women
look on, mystified as to what this could mean.  Eventually, the two men's
hysterics subside to giggles...until they notice the bewildered women.  The
men look at the women, then look at each other, and collapse into more
laughter.  The women finally address the men:

Woman #1: Why...why are you here?  Who are you?  What's going on?

The young men continue laughing uncontrollably until one regains something
of his composure:

#1: You...(heh-heh-heh) you're looking...for Jesus, right?

Woman #1: Well...yes...

#1: Well...guess what?  (ha-ha-ha)

#1 and #2: HE'S NOT HERE!

Both men are rolling on the floor of the tomb in paroxysms of laughter as the
women decide that they are in the company of grave-robbing lunatics:

Woman #2: Well, if you would just...if you would just tell us where you have
put him, we'll...

#2: No, no, no, you don't understand (heh-heh); he's not here...HE'S RISEN!
HE GOT UP!  Just like he said!

Both men are still laughing but compose themselves enough to speak
intelligibly:

#1: He's gone on to Galilee, like he said to his groupies...

#2: Disciples (heh-heh).

#1: Whatever.  Listen, he's gone on to Galilee, just like he said he would.
(The young man clears his throat and attempts to sound professional)  Go
and tell Peter and John and the rest of the disciples to meet him there.

Somewhat perplexed, the women leave the tomb, not really sure what to
make of what they have just seen and heard.  They decide to tell Peter and
the others what has happened (well, most of what has happened), and as
they leave the garden they can still hear laughing voices echoing from within
the tomb:

#1: Hey, hey, listen: "Luuuuu-cifer, uuuuuse the forrrce..."

The laughter fades away as the women decide that somehow, somewhere,
Someone has just pulled off the biggest practical joke in the history of the
universe.