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Young Pups - Episode 4
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Commentary	Episode 4 came out pretty well, too. Though there were a couple long, poorly paced skits, I would say this episode is 90% quality comedy. An excellent followup to Episode 3.

Gimp Boys	Yet another intro. In this episode, Ed and Ryan extoll the virtues of the new equipment recently acquired by the UH Student Video Network. We show two versions of the same short skit, one "made with the old equipment" and one made with the new. The version on the old equipment ends up with no complete sentences, an oddly green tinted video, and a man in a cheap wig for the cute waitress. Also in this episode, we say goodbye to Ed, who will be graduating at the end of this semester.
Sansa	A commercial for Sansa coffee singles, perfect for a single cup of coffee. A whole pot would go to waste, because it's just you and the coffee. Actually quite a depressing skit. It worked out nicely that the title track for The Smashing Pumpkin's "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" fit exactly over this one. It sets the mood nicely.
Ed Clones	Ed taped and edited this entire skit before any of us knew what hit us. Excellent range by Ed. Falcor is the name of the Luck Dragon from The Neverending Story.
Dr. Science 3	The Dr. Science show has been taken over by Dr. Science's early prodigy, Johnny. Dr. Science goes on a strict training regimen in order to reclaim what is rightfully his. The longest Dr. Science, but good throughout... builds to a climax. Plenty of soul-stealing fun.
Pong: The Movie	First there was Mortal Kombat. Then there was Street Fighter. We extrapolate the video game/movie trend with our trailer for Pong: The Movie. Computer graphics to rival... Um... Tron maybe?
The Little Ninja That Could	The story of the little ninja on a quest for revenge. Includes my very best attempt at Japanese. And lots of kicking. I have nothing more to say.
Low-Budget Super Dude	The Cola Wars - Part 2 of 2. Boss Dickering has become aware of the existence of Low Budget Super Dude, and hatches a plan to destroy him. Will the campus be forever held under the thumb of Pepsi Tyranny? God only knows. Part two of a script by Big Roy Jackson.
Smashing Pumpkins Video	When we got the new equipment, Ed was messing around with filter effects on our new Avid editing system, and then just went nuts. After pushing the limits of that poor Mac, and nearly destroying it in the process, he came out with a great video for Bullet With Butterfly Wings made from clips from the various Dr. Science episodes.
5 Skits in a Minute	Ed and Ryan battle over who is the funnier guy. To prove he is, Ed tapes 5 skits in a minute. Quality comedy ensues. Featuring Brandon Kresinske as Clock Boy.

Ed Walsh on Episode 4	Ahhh, this was a good episode. We had finally gotten 'good' at using the equipment and the digital editor in episode 3, and I have to say we did a pretty good job with episode 4 as well. It's funny how the 'Continuity' skit of episode 1 eventually turned into Ryan and I opening each show by acting like 'Gimp Boys'. This intro has a couple of pretty funny parts, but drags a bit in others. The skit we 'made with the old equipment' is cool. Raj did a very good 'unsteady-cam' and Jon dressed as the waitress was funny. I wish I could remember what the food on that paper plate was. When Jon plopped it down I almost ruined the take by cracking up. Michelle Slaughter also makes her Young Pups debut in this skit. I also love the part where Ryan's trying to be serious and then can't help but shout "Youuung Pups!" when I prompt him with "Welcome back to..."... And thank Jebus I graduated. 'Sansa' was a nice, easy, and fun skit to shoot. Man, I had hair!! I especially like the vague coffee-manhood analogy that was thrown in, and Hanh's brilliant idea to have the narrator start talking to the main character halfway through the skit. Also, I have to thank Smashing Pumpkins for making such a great album that we were able to use on virtually every skit in this episode. In case you don't get the name reference: Sansa, which sounds like the coffee brand Sanka, means 'without' as in 'without someone to love'. One Saturday we were gonna shoot a skit, and everyone who said they'd help flaked on me for some reason or another. However, I was determined to do something and thus wrote, shot, and acted in 'Ed Clones'. It was fun and scary to shoot. Imagine me there - by myself - in the studio dressing up in different outfits and then laughing and laughing at nothing to no one in the room. Ahhh... my voice was hoarse from doing that skit. Here's a fun sidenote: while wearing the shawl for the hook-handed Cajun character Jo-Jo, I was shocked everytime I touched the camera. It got old quick, but continuity dictated that I keep using the shawl. Most of the shots were surprisingly well-framed, but you'll see a couple that aren't. The Slopey character is dressed like one of the bad guys in Aha's 'Take On Me' video. And yes, Falcor is the name of the luck dragon from 'Neverending Story'. I think Ryan had a perverse attraction to that movie and would make references to it sometimes..."Say my name!!". Ugh. I really am proud of the 'Dr. Science 3' skit. It was something like 16 pages long, and I didn't really intend it to be a 15-minute skit. How long can a skit be before it becomes a short film? Anyway, despite it's length, it still manages to be pretty consistently entertaining. Several things to briefly mention: Webster's soul is a piece of coal in pickle juice and is probably still in the SVN studio. That was NOT Crown I poured all over my face, just apple juice. It looks pretty good, though, especially in slow motion with the Dune soundtrack playing. Props to Bob for doing a good impression of Dr. Science! The only part I didn't like was in the take where he attempted to fake-punch me and instead real-punched me in the nose. No blood, he's a girly-man. Also, Raj's giddy laughter and goofy voice were great in this skit. What else - I didn't know I could fit an entire egg in my mouth, and yes it was a real egg. The chicken was fake. I can and do solve the Rubik's cube in that sequence. I learned how to do it when I was nine and still remember... The alarm clock is set to 5:35 - that's a reference to the line of the Pi Song "woke up at 5:35". Obviously 535 are digits of pi. Those two pages of calculations were real math I was learning in an engineering class or math class at the time. The sound effect of me vomiting into the toilet was nothing but me spitting water into the bowl. Very convincing, though! And the end shows a possible continuation of the series when Haji steals Johnny's lab coat. Other ideas for future Dr. Science episodes we never did: Dr. Science and his mother (ideally, Ryan in drag in a labcoat or maybe my actual mother), Dr. Science on a date, and Dr. Science as a kid. Someday.... The 'Pong: The Movie' skit is cool - nice and short and funny. And how about those fabulous graphics!? Actually, they're quite cool - a big step up from previous Young Pups graphics efforts like the MS Paint sequence in 'Purple Stuff'. The music is 'Mars' from 'The Planets' by Holst. I wasn't really involved too much in 'The Little Ninja That Could' other than helped lug equipment around the campus. It's probably the most artistic skit in any of the shows with nice costuming, lighting, and music. Plus, Ryan gets killed. We also finished off the LSD skit here. If I didn't credit him in the first part of LSD, my brother Dan Walsh played a thug and a bystander in this sketch. Ahhh, nepotism. I must also give credit to Eden in this skit for taking a coke box in the eye in the name of comedy. The 'Smashing Pumpkins Video' for 'Bullet with Butterfly Wings' was initially just a test of the new Avid's abilities. After I got through the first stanza of the song, I thought I should finish it. It was tough to make a video for a song 4 minutes long with about 1 minute of video stock, but it works pretty well. Some of it is downright scary, actually. The poor Avid ran out of memory holding all of the digitized effects - that's why the last shot of the video is nothing but slow motion. If I didn't mention it before, the shots of Ryan and I dancing in the spaceship were done to no music at all. In fact, we had never even heard the 'Bullet with Butterfly Wings' song at that point. I got a copy of the song off the radio before the album was released and made the video. Actually, we released this video before Smashing Pumpkins released theirs! For shame, Billy, for shame. Lastly, '5 Skits in a Minute' is a hodge-podge of skit ideas we slapped together much like Stephen King does in his short story compilations. They are exactly one minute long, too! The whole bidding war at the beginning is a reference to 'Name that Tune' for all you old fogies out there. My favorite moment is the part of 'The Indian in the Cupboard' where the camera follows the main character, Bob, and pans across my face as I am narrating the skit. A nice silly moment. Let's not forget the 'Straw in the Eye' guy who runs through many of the skits in this episode. The music in the first skit where he's shot with a straw wrapper in slow motion was lifted from 'Color of Night', that awful Bruce Willis movie. The blood used was ketchup this time, maybe we had run out of corn syrup. Hope you enjoy (or enjoyed) the show as much as we enjoyed making it. If you liked this episode, watch episode 3 next. If you've seen episode 3 already, then go to episode 5 or 2. After that, watch episode 1. Then, send in your fan club/cult member application to Dr. Purple Gyakui, our head of Human Resources, at www.Gimpysoft.com.