Religion E-mails

E-mails sent during the time the Psycho Mike episode 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):

From: Roberta Brodsky
Subject: MB #6 - Religion Episode
Received: 5.7.00 10:25 PM

Alright, most of you weren't home today, so lots of you have question
marks... PLEASE call me ASAP (267-7669) or email back, and let me know
if you can or cannot make it. Meet at the radio station each time.
The Wednesday at 6:30 shoot really needs a lot of people, it may require
you to jump in a pool, and will be at Heckman's apartment... Please, if
you love us, you'll go to this shoot.

Monday 11:15am - Eric talking
Needed: Eric Fagundes(?)
Director: Myles Nye
Video: Myles Nye

Monday 2pm - Fudgina
Needed: Sean Mount(?), Ben Feller(?), Judy Ashouri(?), Jessica Moss(?)
Director: Mike Pesses
Video: Roberta Brodsky
Props: Fudge, sign

Tuesday 3:30pm - Jew & Christian fighting to the death
Needed: TBA
Director: Ben Larson
Video: Roberta Brodsky
Prop: Oversized menorah and cross

Wednesday 2:30 - MB Host Shots
Needed: Mike Pesses, Ben Larson
Director: Tim Heiderich
Video: Tim Heiderich
Prop: Large Shepherd's Staff

Wednesdy 5:15pm - One of these things is not like the other
Needed: Jason Eason(?), Rebecca Rosenberg(?), Judy Ashouri(?), Myles
Nye, George Velasco(?)
Director: Sean Heckman
Video: Crystal Liu

Wednesday 6:30pm - MB Host Shots, Mass Baptism in the Pool at Heckman's
apartment
Needed: EVERYONE!!! (AND Joe Walcek, Leah Sprecher(?) -- for "Satanic
Messages")
Director: Tim Heiderich
Video: Nelson Hung(?)

Thursday 1:30pm - Jesus: Stand-up Comic
Needed: Myles Nye
Director: Sean Hart
Video: Sean Hart
Prop: Costume

Thursday 3:30pm - Christian Rock Group Sitcom
Needed: * *(?), Leah Sprecher(?), Sean Hart
Director: Thor Erickson
Video: Thor Erickson

Friday 2pm - Bruinwalk Confessions
Needed: Price Peterson, Ben Feller(?), Joe Walcek, Roberta Brodsky, Buzz
Reynolds(?)
Director: Price Peterson
Video: Roberta Brodsky/Price Peterson

Friday 6pm - Heckman needs the camera

From: Myles Nye
Subject: Religion hosting/Jesus/et al
Received: 5.8.00 3:33 AM

From: Kris Holcomb
To: Roberta Brodsky
Subject: Sean Heckman's Pool Party
Received: 5.8.00 9:38 PM

I may possibly be able to go on Wednesday to the 'Mass Baptism' skit at Sean Heckman's Suite pool. (Man, it's so sweet) There's just one problem: I can't swim, and I have a partial aversion to the deep end. It's a long story, involving me, a high school physics day pool boat race, and a case of mistaken identity. I just need to inform right now that I would appreciate it if everybody knew that I would not like to be pushed into the pool.

Thank you,

Kris Holcomb

Hello,
There is now one DV tape for each writer (and Mike, and Ben, and Heckman), and a "general" tape and a tape for final completed shows. There is a deck installed which you can use to record from DV straight to computer without a camera. Just plug the firewire into the back of the deck and you can use it like you used the camera.
The tapes will stay in the tv room. HOWEVER, the rest of the equipment (cameras - one for us, one for ML, audio stuff, batteries, etc) will be in the Daily bruin Conference Room. To get the equipment you need to go to the person at the front desk (always before 5pm), turn in a check-out form and your ID (license recommended for those who use their bruincards a lot.) The person will get your equipment and keep your card until you return everything.
If you keep the equipment until after 5pm, you are responsible for the equipment until the next morning.
To avoid the hassle of filling out forms, I will fill them out for you at the writer's meetings and I will leave the forms in YOUR PERSONAL MAILBOXES which are on top of the big black cabinet thing, so you can pick that up the day of your shoot and just turn it in.
Questions?
Thanks,
Roberta

From: Faisal Ahmed
Subject: Faze's E3 filming pitc
Received: 5.11.00 1:37 AM

Hey guys, Faze here, the other Indian on staff. Anyway I have some ideas that could be used at the E3 this weekend. Just wanted to run them by you and see what you think.

Names:

Francis Monroy(Driver)

Shivesh Kumar

Faisal Ahmed

Another cast member: Approach anyone you want, preferably Ben or Joe.

Here we go with the ideas:

1.Approach Bruce Campbell about promoting Mike and Ben. Possible if we find him early on in the day. If anyone is not familiar with him, he starred in Evil Dead 1 and 2, Army Of Darkness, Hercules and Xena tv shows, and the current show Jack of all Trades.

2. Virgin Watch: Ask random nerdy non official people if they are still virgins.

3. Approach people and ask them if they know where are the Internet Porn Entrepeneurs are located.

4. Print out a coupon for a 25% off discount on a Playstation 2 redeemable at the Sony booth. Hand them out to a lot of people. This would just cause havoc, it would be funny to just see if we really cause a problem at their booth.

5. Might get us thrown out, so do this at the end. Ben or whoever wears their Hustler or Playboy shirt and approaches random non official women about posing for his respective website.

6. Now the good stuff, go to Nintendo and ask a rep. what they are doing about the "Gross underrepresentation of Luigi in the long running Mario Bros. series of games."

7. Approach Atari or someone and pitch a videogame idea to them. We just describe Pong to the guys and call it "Ping". Describe it as "tennis, only without the players, you control 'paddles' of some sort, and bounce a 'ball' back and forth until it gets past someone's 'paddle'. Ping=Fun!"

8. This seems to be the best according to some residents in my hall....We take a Playstation to the Sony Booth or not whatever is convenient, approach a rep. with this question, "Excuse me sir. I have heard there is some sort of 'modification' you can do to the Playstation to make it so you never have to buy another game again. And will the Playstation 2 be this easy to rip off also?"

I am open to suggestions. Assuming we do go on Friday most likely, we will need one more person from M&B, writer cast member whatever...we need funny guy....

You guys can call me at 267-9263

Faze

From: Tim Heiderich
Subject: RE: Faze's E3 filming pitc.
Received: 5.11.00 3:52 AM

I think this is a good thing, with many good opportunities; I can't do it... but someone really should. Unless E3's on a Saturday, then I could go. Other than that I'm busy, but thanks for asking.

-Tim

From: Price Peterson
To: Myles Nye
Subject: ideas for sunday's meeting
Received: 5.11.00 12:51 PM

Myles-

I won't be at sunday's meeting because I have PAC-10 championships in
Sacramento this weekend. I'm leaving today at 5, and won't be back until
late late Sunday night, early monday morning. Anyway I've had some ideas
that I was hoping you could share with those other writers at the meeting.
You probably know my sense of humor best, so I thought I'd share em with you
first...

"Who Wants to be a Ten Dollar-Aire" Starring the homeless of Westwood. I
would want a girl to host since it's not gender specific. We would invite
homeless people to play that game, with the same overdramatic music and
ludicrously easy common knowledge questions for increasing amounts of money.
I think it would be funny to quiz homeless people on really easy stuff, as
if there's a chance they wouldn't know it. Like "Who is the vice
president?' or 'What is a lesbian?'. Multiple choice questions, obviously.
Ok, yeah I just decided this idea doesn't sound as good on paper. Sooo...
on to the next idea...

A fairy (I'm thinking Leah with those wings) wakes up for her day, realizes
she's out of ritalin, and commences to go on a rampage on campus granting
wishes that no one asked for, and that people really don't appreciate.
Giving a girl a huge ass, turning some guy's hot girlfriend into Kris
Holcomb, turning a white guy black, etc. Also at some point along the way,
this "fairy" will dispatch several squirrels with high-powered firearms.
Hmmm, yeah ok so this one doesn't sound so impressive either, but It'd be
completely scripted and it's practically all story-boarded in my head.
It'll probably be a feature film someday.

Since I guess it's our last regular episode before the RIP episode, I think
it's long overdue to do a musical/dance piece. Where an ordinary scene
breaks into song with fully choreographed dance. With costumes and sets and
everything. Ok, so yeah I'm not a fan of live theater, but our cast and
writers are full of insanely talented theater people, especially you, and I
really think we should prove to ourselves we can do something relatively
difficult and highbrow. We could do something really funny and entertaining
with it. Whereas in the past production values have been crappy on purpose,
I think this should be the glossiest production we've ever done. Hmmm ok
yeah.

Alright there they are. You know what, nevermind. I never claimed they
were GOOD ideas. Ok I'm outtie. Please review and pitch em if you think
they have any potential at all. See ya soon...

Price