A Look Back

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The standard LRR opening plays.

A hand moves a mouse as the camera clicks a file labled "LRR_open.mov" or whatever format it is. The opening plays again, with a mouse arrow over it. Graham and Paul come into frame and laugh.

Graham: Isn't that a fantastic opening, Paul?

Paul: It sure is Graham. But you wouldn't believe the work that goes into planning for an opening sequence like ours. Sure, it could be considered a simplified version of our previous "website" opener...

The opener for the older videos with the www.loadingreadyrun.com plays.

Paul: But it still takes a tremendous amount of planning to figure out just what you want to happen.

Graham: That's right. Come with us in the way back machine as we take a look at the planning it took to make our latest opener.

What looks like the opener screen comes up, only it's a rewind logo and the text says December 2009.

Graham(Past), Paul(Past), Jeremy, Kathleen, and James are at a table, talking in the background. Graham and Paul from The Present come in to frame.

Graham: Wow, what a ride, huh?

Paul: Yep! Now as you can see behind us, we're currently having the meeting about the "new" logo.

Graham(Past) looks up and notices Graham and Paul. Graham(Past) looks confused.

Graham(Past): Uh, hey... Who are you guys?

Graham and Paul look horrified.

Graham: You told me they wouldn't be able to see us!

Paul: There weren't supposed to be able to!

Paul(Past): Can we help you?

Paul: (in a funny voice) Uh, no... No, we're alright. I think we just got confused.

Graham: (in a Kermit the Frog voice) Yeah, we were just looking around and thought this was a coffee shop.

Jeremy: There's no coffee here... James, get 'em!

James stands up and cracks his knuckles. Paul and Graham turn around.

Paul: Woah!

Graham: No need for that!

Graham(Past), Paul(Past), Kathleen, James, and Jeremy understandably freak out. Lots of what the hell, the fuck, sweet shit, all that.

Kathleen: Holy shit! You never told me you had a twin!

Graham(Past): I don't! Who the fuck are you!?

Graham: Ok. Now, don't freak out... I'm you. From the future.

Graham(Past): The future!?

Paul: The year (whatever year this is filmed) to be exact.

Paul(Past): But that's (Year this is filmed minus 2009) years from now!

James: How the hell did you get here?

Paul: We can't actually tell you that.

Jeremy: What? Why?

Paul: Well, if we tell you, then that expedites the process and suddenly we have the ability earlier than we got it, suddenly negating our presence and possibly tearing a hole in reality.

Cam (from behind the camera): Paradox. Just say paradox.

Here is a quick choose your own adventure point!

Graham(past): (if they already knew Cam at this point) Cam!?

Cam (from behind the camera): Word.

Alternatively

Graham(past): (if they didn't already know Cam at this point) Who the fuck is that!?

Paul: Oh, that's Cam.

Cam (from behind the camera): Word.

Graham: He's cool.

And then

Paul(past): (if you didn't know Beej then) Who the hell is running Boom?

Camera pans to reveal Beej. He waves.

Camera pans back to the group.

Graham: That's Beej.

Paul: He's cool too.

Beej (from off camera): Woohoo! My life is complete!

Alternatively

Paul(Past): (If you DID know Beej then) Is that Beej on the boom?

Camera pans to Beej. He waves.

Camera pans back to group.

Paul: Oh, yeah, he moved to Victoria. He helps us a lot.

Beej (from off camera): It's fun!

And that concludes the choose your own adventure portion of this script.

Graham(Past): Ok, this still doesn't explain what you're doing here.

Graham: Uh... Well, we kind of were shooting a video about how we chose our new opening and came back to look at this meeting.

Graham(past): What?

Paul: Well, it's not like we could recreate it or something. I mean, if you have time travel, why not just shoot the real thing?

James: You mean to tell me that instead of doing something practical, like, I don't know, bringing back the winning lottery numbers from the next five big jackpots so we're all rich, you came back to film a video about something as stupid as our opening?

Graham: Uhhhhh....

Kathleen: Hey, that gives me an idea for script!

Cam (from off camera): Hold onto that that one for a few years.

Jeremy: Well, is the opening at least awesome?

Paul: It's actually the same thing as now, only we removed the www dot and dot com...

Graham(Past): Wait, you mean we're so bereft of ideas that that becomes a viable video idea?

Graham: Uhhhh....

James: Can you tell us what happens to us in the future?

Paul: We can't tell you much. It'll have grave consequences on the future.

Kathleen: Like Doctor Who.

Cam (from off camera): You're gonna love Smith.

Kathleen: Who?

Beej (from off camera): Yes!

Kathleen looks confused.

Graham(past): Well, what can you tell us?

Graham: Um... Don't... don't get attached to ENN...