Crapstick Doodle: Episode 8

This is episode 8. I actually ended up having things to say when I tried doing a ten facts list, so I'll try that again and see if it works again, so here we go:

1. At first I tried to have the songs that play at the beginning have something to do with the plot or theme of the cartoon. The episode where Murph is raped by a seemingly friendly homeless man features the verse from Still Alive where the computer chick laments being destroyed by a friend. The episode about Murph undermining authority at airports features Fuck Tha Police. By this point I've completely given up on that and just pick a song that I think is cool. This one is Stickshifts and Safety Belts by Cake, whose entire library of songs is badass.

2. I'm watching the entire series of Wonder Showzen right now, and that show matches and completely surpasses Six Feet Under for the all-time record for biggest nosedive in quality midway through the series. How could a show with such a shit-yer-pants amazing first season suck so hard in its second?

3. SHEILA and BERNIE's names are written in all caps while Corey and Gary and written normally, because the computer system characters' names are supposed to be acronyms like MS-DOS. I never came up with what exactly they're supposed to stand for.

4. I am mortally terrified of the number five.

5. AHHH!!! HOLY SHIT!!

6. I did not notice until rewatching this episode just now that Gary's hairstyle on the title screen and in the actual episode are different.

7. In addition to Youtube I'm posting these episodes on Funny or Die. I didn't get the idea to post on that site until after this 8th episode was done, and I want to space things out instead of uploading them all at once, so I've only posted 2 episodes there so far. I point this out because my profile picture at FoD is the image of Gary rubbing his penis on the phone. FoD users are 6 episodes away from seeing that, and I'd imagine they're really confused by what they're seeing.

8. At a funeral yesterday, a woman came up to me and told me that when her grandson was in elementary school he followed my spelling bee victories and read my monthly entertainment column in the newspaper, and he's always looked up to me as a role model and he wants to follow in my footsteps. I told her I was flattered and asked how her grandson is doing. She told me that he doesn't really have any friends and the people at school see him as the "weird kid." He's following in my footsteps more than he'll ever know. I virtually guarantee you a CSD episode based on this will find its way to computers in the coming weeks.

9. This cartoon is actually a sketch I wrote about two years ago for the live-action sketch comedy group, and the audio files of the girlfriend were made at that time as well. Making live-action sketches, which involved pulling my hungover friends out of bed and propping them in front of a camera, renting and lugging around heavy fucking equipment, obsessively poring over frustrating details related to lighting and sound, and sitting in an editing booth for 8 hours straight, is a bit more involved than making these cartoons, which involves an hour of writing, an hour of recording, two hours of drawing pictures, and a half hour of editing. For that reason I didn't want to go through all the trouble unless I was sure that the idea for a sketch was really good. Since making these things is so much easier I'm okay with going through with an idea that potentially sucks, so I finally dusted this one off and put it together.

10. I will give almost a 100% guarantee we'll never see SHEILA again