Actor Ray Wise plays a great Devil on the CW’s “Reaper” and last night’s exchange about the lottery was just priceless. Standing in a lottery ticket line with lots of working class folks in his $2k suit he asks the lead character (his “reaper” Sam that works at a HomeDepot type store) if he wants a lottery ticket. Sam says “No” and then. . .
Devil: You know, I got to say, this is one of my greatest inventions.
Sam: You invented the lottery?
Devil: You betcha. State-sponsored gambling. Minimum wage
earners spending their last buck on an 18 million to one long shot. (smiles and pauses) I
like to call it the Idiot Tax.
It was just one of those moments.
