We needed some way to kill Cody off because, at this point, we thought he would be in the Navy before we could film anything else off. Kind of like how we “killed” Dalbey off in Satan’s Seat with his idle hands. No one wants to be around a guy with the devil’s playthings for hands.

This is all in all the most disturbing skit we’ve ever made, the licorice alone is enough to make you gag if you aren’t careful. Olivia made her final appearance here before she moved back to Boston, which was sad enough as it is. We wanted to ‘kill’ her character off too by having her break up with me in iSaber 4, but didn’t get to it in time.

What’s funny is we had a really scary, Edgar-like person approach us with his dog while we were filming in the park. He was dirty and mildly perverted, hitting on the girls we had with us and suggesting we put our videos on YouTube. His dog went about smelling our shoes as we awkwardly tried to get him to leave.

What angered me most, however, was that he was ignorant to the fact that we were already on YouTube. Apparently nobody knows. Not even dirty vagrant perverts.

Unfortunately we couldn’t find a van for the skit, which pretty much ruins the whole thing in a sense. It turns out we don’t know anyone with vans, least of all the creepy mafia/chimo vans we had in mind. I guess we have to have some sort of flagrant error or misstep in every video, that might as well be it.

OR the fact that we ended up recording in mono again… gosh dang it all to heck in a hamper. Actually in watching this again for the first time in a long while I did a terrible job editing it. It didn’t help we were trying to film as fast as we could before we ran out of daylight, but dang. Tons – of – errors.

Interesting fact: Dirty vagrant perverts are particularly attracted to anything being shot on camera.

Slightly less interesting fact: Budge (Edgar) covered himself with mustard to look extra dirty.

VASTLY less interesting fact: if you eat enough licorice while filming the same shots over and over again you’ll get sick.

This one was a lot of fun to film, we actually had lights set up and just had a good time standing around shooting for a few hours. There were, of course, a couple of errors, like recording in mono the entire time, but such is life.

Rainee Palmer made her debut in this one, the deaf hottie. Hot girls that are willing to be around us are hard to come by so we definitely try to treat them right when they do. Her sister, Rubie, one of our old roommates (from our 9-bedroom house featured in most of our early videos) can be seen on the couch in the background along with her boyfriend of the time, Harry.

This was where the pythons came from originally, I’d written this before the “Louis’ Love Corner” sketch and so it absolutely had to make it in. I definitely didn’t pull it off as well as Josh does, probably why it didn’t work…

The whole thing is delightfully ridiculous, IMHO, and we had fun fighting and yelling and pretending we knew what we were doing. The concoction of liquor Cody poured was incredibly strange and fruity, but ended up being pretty good in the end. Kind of like cough syrup minus the mediciney taste.

Another unfortunate oversight was that in the opening shot I wasn’t backed out of the frame completely, my arm is just hanging on the fence while they talk like I can’t hear them… I’m a tool. Should have noticed that in the editing process at least. Or maybe I did and just didn’t have a better take. Either way, suck.

Interesting fact: Cody plays the bartender as well as himself.

Slightly less interesting fact: I may have broken my bluetooth headset when tossing it on the ground.

VASTLY less interesting fact: The skull’s name is Frank, he was like a house mascot for a while. The crazy part was I named him about 30 minutes before seeing that episode of Lost where the skeleton falls out of the van and his name (according to the badge stitched into his jump suit) is Frank. We got a little weirded out by that for a while.

Lewis (or “Louis,” as he prefers to be called) came about when Jefe and I were joking about how we needed a character that was a sleazy ladies man. It stemmed from Jefe always calling me a ladies man, and in turn I started calling him Jefe the Womanizer.

Of course that spiraled out of control and we worked on figuring out a usable name. Finally the gag of Lewis wanting to be called ‘Louis’ (like the French kings) in his pompous egotism solidified the character. Used car salesman meets pompous gay guy is pretty much what we told Josh. Of course I had him in mind while we were creating the character, he’d wanted to be in a video for a while and it wasn’t too much different than a role I’d seen him play before in a one act at Eastern.

Olivia was a total sport in acting like a complete floozy, and taking that fall something like 5 times. Of course we hope to make louisthewomanizer.com sometime soon, relationship advice as you need it. There’s a whole development of his character  I have thought out and hope to get to, all in good time.

You can get a head start by asking your questions in the comments below and we’ll put it in the mix to get started.

Interesting fact: The python works best when you finish with the pointing to your toes.

Slightly less interesting fact: we did that video in one take (well, we used one take but took a few).

VASTLY less interesting fact: we hear girls like it when you tug their hair to get their attention.

What’s funnier (or more depressing, depending on how you look at it) is that I’m pretty sure every conversation I’ve ever had with any girl I had any remote level of interest in went similarly to this one. How else would I be so knowledgeable on destroying myself within a matter of sentences?

Lewis the Womanizer was another side of things that hasn’t come to fruition yet. Josh does an amazing job and we need to have more of him at some point. I still want to do an “Ask Lewis” section of the site, for all of your relationship needs.

Interesting fact: We found Olivia via Craigslist. The first and last time we’ll do that. Glad we did because we found her, won’t do it again because it makes us feel creepy to post “need hot girls for video” online.

Slightly less interesting fact: You can buy that shirt from me for $20.

VASTLY less interesting fact: I may have been influenced a bit too much by Charlie on this one… just saying.