Ah, my all-time favorite knock knock joke.
In all of my reading, I've yet to find an explanation of how to format screenplay dialogue when two characters are speaking simultaneously. Should the narrative simply state that fact and type the dialogue as normal or would a side-by-side work? Or would even thinking of typing a scene that way instantly get me a pass from a reader? I understand that characters generally don't speak on top of one another, but people do. How can an audience relate to characters who always wait for their turn to speak? It's not realistic. I don't know many people that are that courteous.
You know, I don't foresee actually needing to know this any time soon, but that didn't keep the question from entering my mind.
**Update: Fortunately, Final Draft has a menu option for dual dialogue. Problem? What problem?
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