Rapidfire continues with our second episode, Take the Shot!
Comedy so fast even cheetahs are like “dang dude, can you slow down?”
Of course, other videos from this week:
CheckPoint: More Features We Won’t Wii-Use
Feed Dump: Drug Lobsters
Loading Time: Raindrops Keep Falling
Unskippable: Armored Core V
As many long-time LRR fans will notice, today’s video is the first episode in Season 3 of Rapidfire!
“But,” I hear you saying, “I’ve been watching for years and I haven’t seen the first two seasons… and aren’t you guys in your ninth or tenth season? What is this Rapidfire thing?”
Good question strawman! Rapidfire is the name for a series of videos that take our traditional “one sketch per video format” and replace it with a sketch that is itself, a series of sketches.
Comedy so fast theoretical physicists have a real problem with it.
Inspired by the seminal The Fast Show, Rapidfire combines one-off jokes and re-occurring characters that go from episode to episode, and then intercuts them with the longer mini-sketches that serves as the frame for a specific video (this week it was the ongoing trials and tribulations of the world’s least sensitive Angel, Gabrielle.)
You can look forward to seeing some old LRR characters like Kane and Crowthorne coming back — handy, since it lets us re-use popular characters that can’t really support another full sketch — and new characters invented just for Rapidfire, such as “Worst Spokesperson Ever”.
The first season of Rapidfire aired between June and December 2006, and the second season aired between September and December 2008.
Of course, we did put up some other videos this week too.
CheckPoint: The Price of Progress
Feed Dump: Machete Party Crasher
Loading Time: On the Case of Cats
Unskippable: Lollipop Chainsaw
TL;DR
Rapidfire is back.
Today’s late blog update brought to you by Word Press. It’s what eats blog posts the first time around.
So what happens when James goes away on vacation and Kathleen tries to start yet another side business? This week’s Commodore Hustle, On the Case. Once again, we all play terrible, alternate reality versions of ourselves, but I assure you that in real life, Graham is not nearly as dumb as he plays here.
So much shipping.*
Other videos that went up this week:
CheckPoint: Games are really big
Feed Dump: Expensive Tastes
Loading Time: The Horrors of Dirty Underwear
This week also sees the two part Unskippable for Prototype 2 come to an end. If you haven’t seen both parts, check them out, they were particularly good.
Unskippable: Prototype 2, Part 1
Unskippable: Prototype 2, Part 2
We’d also like to send our thoughts to our all friends, family and fans on the East coast in the path or Hurricane Sandy. Stay warm, dry and safe. <3
*As in packages. Pervert.
IT’S A HALLOWEEN SPOOKTACULAR!
Well, it’s the annual LRR Halloween video! This year we parody the generally awful Paranormal Activity films with:
Loading Ready Run: Normal Activity
Written by Graham, Paul and myself, this video really is scary, since it seems so much like a video that the Graham, Paul and Kathleen of the Commodore Hustle universe might write! (Watch and you’ll see why.) We’re aware this is a little early, but we’ve been very busy building up a backlog for Desert Bus and other projects, and sometimes shoots fall the way they do. Think of it as bonus Halloween time.
Other videos we put up today were:
Unskippable: Prototype 2, Part 1
CheckPoint: A Blue Streak of Sadness
But let’s not forget last week’s Feed Dump and Loading Time!
Feed Dump: Panda: The Other White Meat
Loading Time: The Gangnam Style Expo
And to answer two common questions about last week’s video, the “bears” in the title was indeed a sex thing — bears in this context was to refer to a hairy gay man, and the leather bra thing was a bit of a costume from Value Village. It was paired with an old belt of Kate’s.
This week’s LoadingReadyRun video is rather dirty, but everything else is probably PG13.
Loading Ready Run: The Birds, The Bees, and the Bears
Unskippable: Darksiders 2
CheckPoint: Trouble Down on the Farm
But let’s not forget last week’s Feed Dump and Loading Time!
Feed Dump: Snug as a Snuggie
Loading Time: The Crazy One Time
Have any questions about the videos? Let me know in the comments!