Student Government Debate

Another Ron Mexico video has slowly but surely crawled its way to 1,000 views.




Where to start with this one? This is based on an urban legend from my hometown. There was this guy who lived on the way to my high school who owned a couple pet tigers. One morning, we saw that a whole bunch of cops were at his house and he was being arrested. The rumor that spread was that he was arrested for raping his pet tigers. He was actually arrested for being a pedophile, but that's beside the point.

Anyway, back when I was focused solely on trying to be a stand-up comedian, I did a bit about this guy and wondered what kind of awesome rep he would get in prison if he raped a tiger, because honestly, that's about the hardest crime you could possibly commit. Somehow that concept jumped into my mind while I was trying to write a scathing satire of college student governments, something that I'm totally not a fan of. I combined the two ideas and the satire went by the wayside, but a funny script came of it, so I'm not bitching.

Probably my favorite thing about this video is the clearly visible Ball State University logo. Me (I play the normal guy), Peters (the tiger rapist), and Jeremy (the moderator), just walked into the Student Center ballroom, swiped a podium, and started shooting. I was adamant that the logo not appear in the sketch, and Peters told me that the camera was framed so that you couldn't see it. Then after we finished shooting he told me he was lying. I'm too fucking lazy to reshoot, so I kept it. On the one hand I'm glad nobody from BSU administration has seen it and filed a lawsuit against me, while on the other hand I'm bummed I never got sued because that would totally get me press coverage and thousands of views.

There are also two clear problems with this video. The first is that the audio and the video don't perfectly line up and get more and more apart as the video goes on. I exported the video at a 44.1K quantization rate and the audio at 48K. What that means is, for every 44.1 seconds of video that plays, 48 seconds of audio plays. This is the second sketch I ever made and I was retarded when it comes to editing software. Ten months and eleven sketches later I've evolved into a decent editor.


UPDATE!!!!: I was looking through my hard drive and checking out all of my old footage and stuff and found that the original video that I uploaded didn't have any problems with the audio and video lining up. Youtube's server fucked this one up, not me. I may re-upload this sketch later.


Also at issue is the ending that doesn't really make any sense. Peters' character rapes a tiger, so the tiger saves him by raping me. What the fuck? That doesn't even make a lick of goddamn sense. In the original script, the ending switches to a first-person view of the tiger, and then a bigass tiger paw comes into frame and mauls me. That would have worked. Unfortunately, I didn't have any prosthetic tiger paws and forgot to rewrite the ending when we started shooting. We had to end it somehow, so Peters says, "Uhhh, how about we have the tiger rape you?" I thought it was hilarious at the time without thinking about how much sense it does or doesn't make, and we had to get the hell out of there because an organization was going to have a meeting in a half hour, so we went ahead and did it.