Greg's Return E-mails

E-mails sent during the time "Greg's Return" was being cooked up (messages reproduced here without a specific "to" line were sent to all the writers and production staff, all the actors, or both):

Hey everyone,
We need most of you for the Friday 2pm filming, which is pretty much just a Dodgeball game (but not your average Dodgeball game). Please show up. If you've got question marks by your name, let me know if you can or cannot make it (267-7669). As usual, meet at the radio station -- however, if you're there and you don't see the director/writer around, please just stick around for a little bit because we could be at the Daily Bruin getting the equipment and such (we have new check-out policies now.) Also, remember that we meet in Sproul Entertainment Center on monday nights at 10pm to watch the show.

Tuesday 1:30pm - Backwards Girl
Needed: Leah Sprecher(?)
Director: Myles Nye
Video: Myles Nye

Tuesday 4pm - Hosting Shots
Needed: Mike Pesses, Ben Larson(?)
Director: Sean Hart
Video: Sean Hart

Wednesday 3pm - Dance of Dishonor
Needed: Kris Holcomb
Director: Price Peterson(?)
Video: Price Peterson(?)

Wednesday 5pm - Michelle Kwan Epic
Needed: Jessica Moss(?), Jason Eason (?), Nasim Pedrad(?), Lawrence Givens(?)
Director: Sean Heckman
Video: Nelson Hung

Thursday 1:45 - Protest Songs
Needed: Myles Nye, Sean Hart
Directors: Myles Nye, Sean Hart
Video: Roberta Brodsky

Thursday 4pm - Thor Hates Everybody
Needed: Thor Erickson
Director: Sean Heckman
Video: Sean Heckman

Friday 2pm - Dodgeball
Needed: Faisal Ahmed(?), Lawrence Givens(?), Joe Walcek(?), George Velasco(?), Ben Feller(?), Sean Mount(?), Jason Eason(?), Buzz Reynolds(?), Roberta Brodsky, ANYONE ELSE(???)
Director: Tim Heiderich
Video: Tim Heiderich

From: Roberta Brodsky
Subject: Editing schedule - week 7
Received: 5.14.00 10:00 PM

Thor Erickson - TUESDAY 3:30pm - Satanic Family
Tim Heiderich - TUESDAY 9pm - Hosting Shots
Myles Nye - WEDNESDAY 9am - Backwards Girl
Tim Heiderich - WEDNESDAY 6pm - Know Your Popes
Roberta Brodsky - WEDNESDAY 10pm - Confessions
Sean Hart - THURSDAY 11pm - Jesus: Stand-up Comic
Ben Larson - FRIDAY 7pm - Jew vs. Christian (star wars-style)
Sean Heckman and Tim Heiderich - SATURDAY 12pm - Satanic messages in... & One of these things is not like the other.

From: Sean Heckman
Subject: Notes for editing this week and what's airing tonight
Received: 5.15.00 7:22 PM

Hello all,

Well it's 7:00 right now, and the show's pretty much ready to go. I
encountered a SHITLOAD of bugs over the course of the last 24 hours putting
this together, which has put me in a less than stellar mood, so this Email is
designed to eliminate some of these bugs for the future.

1. This idea that we have a lot of hard drive space is a myth, we need to
pretend like it's the old days for a reason. USE THE COMPILE TAPE. When
you're done with a bit, dump it down to DV tape like we used to, after a
couple of writers and myself have seen it, ERASE ALL OF YOUR FILES.

THE ABOVE NEEDS TO HAPPEN FOR THE FOLLOWING REASONS:
-because the hard drive has been maxing out, people are havign problems
saving stuff on to the hard drive. As a result, things are getting deleted by
people who aren't checking, and as a result we end up having problems like
missing sound clips, etc. This is unneccessary, get rid of your shit when
it's been approved.
-When we run things off of the computer in to the master time line, this
unexplainable "off sync" problem occurs. Basically, there are moments when
people's mouths are a little off of the vocals. I think I cured it for this
show, but I can't tell because my eyesight is really bad with this little DV
screen. However, this problem is cured when I'm able to log and capture a
file straight off the compile tape.

SO PUT YOUR BITS ON A COMPILE TAPE, and then erase your shit (after a couple
people have seen it)

2. PLEASE try and avoid still screens.

3. CD's are disappearing left and right, please try and keep thigns organized
in here. Some of the hosting music got mysteriously erased, so when I tried
to replace it last night, I couldn't find the damn CD's, and went through
this huge ordeal to get facsimile mp3's.

4. I need a hug.

That is all,
-Dipshit

From: Tim Heiderich
Subject: Are you ready fo' some Dodge-BALL?!?!
Received: 5.16.00 10:41 PM

Guys,
Don't spend your Friday afternoon wasting away in your regular wasting away spot and come join Faze, Sean Mount, George, Ben Feller, me & Roberta for the dodge-balling-ist afternoon ever.

Don't "DODGE" this opportunity to play dodgeball in the quad in front of Powell, as well as indulge Tim's attempt at 'concept humor'.

We're meeting at 2:00 at the radio station, FYI.

-Tim

From: Sean Heckman
Subject: Mike and Ben/UCLAtv end of the year Banquet
Received: 5.16.00 11:57 PM

Hey guys,

I'm planning on setting up a Mike and Ben end of the year awards banquet. In
this we'll be giving out all sorts of serious and fun awards, and it'll be a
good way to send off the first ever year of UCLAtv.

YOU'RE ALL GOING. No, you don't have a choice. If you don't, you'll be
expected to supply a substitute asian girl in your place (and in the case of
Crystal, only one particular girl will suffice).

SO, to make sure you all go, I have a couple date questions. It seems
Thursday nights are the best, so would you rather have it during 9th or 10th
week. I don't when the big frat parties and final papers are, so I'm leaving
it up to you. PLEASE EMAIL ME YOUR PREFERENCE for a date, whichever gets the
most will win out. I'm EXPECTING EVERYONE WILL GO, SO HELP ME OUT HERE.

9th week, Thursday, June 1?
or
10th week, Thursday, June 8?

Let me know ASAP, i need to make reservations by the end of the week.

-Sean

Does anybody watch the shows that air Tues-Thus besides me? Mondays are a busy day for me, so I usually I don't tape the episodes that air until Tues, Wed, or even Thus (I program my VCR because I'm out from 7-11 on these nights). The last two weeks, I came back and checked the tape to find it blank. I recorded it on more than one night, and while one of these nights may have been error on my part, I don't think they all are. Tonight, I know for a fact the show started 13 minutes late, and even then it began by fast forwarding through half of Price's bit, and the sound cut in and out during Fudgina.

Am I the only one experiencing these problems? I set my VCR to record episodes 1-3 and it didn't give me a lick of trouble. If other people don't know what I'm talking about, I'll shut up, but if Riz is falling down AGAIN I don't want to let him get away with it.

From: Roberta Brodsky
To: Myles Nye
Subject: Re: Non-Monday screenings
Received: 5.17.00 12:56 AM

Myles,
If I were you I'd forward your previous email to Riz and then ask
him to resign or seriously change his act. The only reason the show came
on at all tonight is because I called Tim and told him that it wasn't on
and he needed to find it and forward through hall riot, etc. I heard the
sound problems too. Riz, meanwhile, was out on a date(??).
Also, because our shows are unpredictable as far as airing, it gives
us that much more clout to have the marathon during finals week belong
to Mike and Ben, so we can tape stuff from start to finish. As far as
I'm concerned, Riz needs to do this, or I'll kill him.
Roberta

From: Ben Larson
Subject: Re: Non-Monday screenings
Received: 5.17.00 1:07 AM

i too got problems with show. it not as good as i hope. lets burn something...

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This e-mail is about the date for the banquet. I'd like to tell you either week will be fine, but there are reasons why I don't. It could end up that there are an even number of votes for each week, and my decision will be (I know it will be) the tie-breaker. I don't want it to come down to that. So, I'll have to go for 10th week, June 8. That's about it.

-Kris

From: Sean Heckman
Subject: Transferring from computer 2 computer
Received: 5.17.00 8:13 PM

Hello again,

The whole reason that the sping sing footage didn't air was because it was
edited on the mainline computer and I had no idea how to transfer. So here
you go in case yo run in to the same problem.

1. go to "chooser" from the Apple menu, click on "Apple share," select the
UCLAtv drive.

2. The login is UCLAtv, the password is rizwank

3. Another drive will show up on the desktop, you can access stuff that way

-Sean

From: Roberta Brodsky
Subject: EDITING schedule for 2nd to last episode:
Received: 5.21.00 9:08 PM

EDITING for WEEK 8 --

Sean Hart - Hosting Shots with Greg - Thursday 11pm, and/or Friday

Sean Hart - Praxis/Nazi - Wednesday Night

Sean Heckman - Michelle Kwan Epic - Friday night

Myles Nye - Protest Songs - Friday 12pm

Myles Nye - Backwards Girl - Wednesday morning

Tim Heiderich - Dodgeball - Monday Night or Saturday afternoon

Price Peterson - Dance of Dishonor - Done

Please remember to bring in stuff that Mike and Ben can bequeath to other people. I will rustle up a frisbee and some shirts-- that's what we're looking for, valueless stuff, altho I will get it back to you. Textbooks? Spoons? Posters of bands that are embarrassingly out of date? All that stuff would be good.

Bring it into the editing room and put it in the bottom of the basket, the one against the far wall, to your left as you walk in.

P.S. Roberta, can you check out for tomorrow the handheld mic and the light on the camera? I won't need it in the daytime, but I will at night. Thank you.

From: Mike Pesses
Subject: Re: EDITING schedule for 2nd to last episode:
Received: 5.21.00 9:50 PM

YES, Wednesday night is me and Mike, not Hart, however hart you are welcome
to join.

-Sean

From: Roberta Brodsky
Subject: Re: EDITING schedule for 2nd to last episode:
Received: 5.21.00 10:15 PM

Ya know, after all that, it might be worth my while to read about the real Greg's Return episode.