Transcript of: Lasagna Cat San-Diego Comic-Con DVD (2008)
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[08/18/1978]
Okay um, my name is Zack and this is--
My name is Jeffrey.
And we’re Fatal Farm, and we’re recording a commentary track for Lasagna Cat. The San Diego Comic-Con wanted to hand out discs to you guys and give you some original material. Sorry I’m gonna talk over the beginning of this one a little bit.
Here I should talk about this one first because this is one of the more popular ones. We knew that we would have to do something to appeal to the internet community, and what appeals more to the internet community than Final Fantasy? Um, I’ve played this Jeffrey’s not very familiar with these.
I don’t like role-playing games.
Aw I’m sorry. I wanted to do a Chrono Trigger one. But the graphics to mock Chrono Trigger would be way too sophisticated, and Final Fantasy III (aka VI) is really a lot easier to parody.
Didn’t someone uh-- figured out that you didn’t use Final Fantasy sound effects. You used--
That’s right I’m using Sonic the Hedgehog 2 sound effects cuz I could pull the sound effects on the--
Someone caught you.
Yeah, they caught me. I pulled the sound effects from Sonic the Hedgehog 2, cuz you can sample them in the options menu. There’s really no precedence for gaining a party member at the end of a battle in Final Fantasy III, but I went ahead and did that. And a lot of people really appreciated this dig at poor Mr. Davis.
He’s doin’ alright
Skilless-- yeah I don’t really sympathize.
[02/24/1979]
Wow these go really fast, this is going to be a difficult commentary track.
That’s me. I play Jon Arbuckle… FYI. And Zack is always in the Garfield costume. Um…
Wow yeah, that was helpful. Okay so this is one of the first ones Jeffrey did. This is a true <???> ballet one.
This project started off-- We were doing like-- We’re gonna do a hundred of these. Actually the first thing we were gonna do is we were gonna do the “Garfield of the Day” And we started like, prepping to do that. We the costume, we got some of the media. And then we would open the paper and like 4 out of 7 days we could like handle it. And we thought it would be fun to do like a daily update. And then, you know, Jon and Liz and Garfield would go to a movie. And that would prove production impossibilities to us. So we changed the course of the project. We’re like, okay we won’t do a Garfield every day, we won’t do the day’s Garfield. We’ll do a hundred days of Garfield. And then we shot about 80 and we just realized how not funny it was. Like, even just shooting… you know…
Yeah these um, the comic strips aren’t funny, and live action reenactments of them aren’t funny.
And-- So we were left with like-- We shot like 80 of them and we were like, “Oh shit this isn’t funny AT all. What do we do?” And later on in the thing we came up with these music videos, cuz we were just gonna compile them all together into a massive montage and just dump them all-- I’m really proud of my dancing here, actually.
That’s pretty good dancing.
I think it’s really good, I’m not even kidding around how good I think it is.
If you notice the… Odie costume in this one. This is the first appearance of Odie in our series. And we made that Odie head. We rented the Garfield costume, but we paper mache’d that Odie head. So… enjoy that.
I don’t know what else to say about-- We had some difficulty. The paper mache we left it sitting out and it smelled really bad. We don’t--
Yeah, the paper mache ferments. FYI don’t do it in your apartment, or just don’t leave the batter in your apartment. It fermented and we had to like-- ended up just like pouring it like underneath someone’s car… down in Koreatown.
Zack edited this music video. He’s very proud of it.
Oh yeah I didn’t-- Jeffrey did most of these. I only edited like 3 of them wholly myself, and this was one of them. I did the Final Fantasy one, and I also did the Jurassic Park one with all the movie quotes. Most of the high production value visual effects ones Jeffrey did. And then a lot of the rest of them a friend of ours, Rick Darge edited.
[04/25/1979]
We’re recording this in a Motel 6 in San Ysidro, Friday night of Comic-Con. And we’re going to be passing out DVD’s on Saturday to anyone who can recognize us. I’ll be dressed as Garfield and Jeffrey will be uh…
be in character as Jon Arbuckle.
We went through a lot of iterations of that shaking of the Odie head. Went through some wriggles, a lot of different After Effects filters to figure out vibrate.
This is one-- Jeffrey did this one. He did most of the really sleek looking ones. I think he’s better at the special effects than I am. But I really like how this one turned out.
[Laughing] Our favorite moment, I think we’ve agreed is right--
There.
Head turn, Garfield.
Head turn Garfield is amazing.
He’s pretty serious.
Yeah… I don’t think this is funny.
No it’s not.
I just think it’s really like-- I’m just like taken away by this. And the graphics, the Garfield and Odie musical show hour is just perfect. It’s so spot on. I really--
There’s-- Yeah. I’m not-- I use that dancing like 3 or 4 times-- I’m genuinely proud of that. I’m not even kidding around.
Yeah these were kind of fun to do. Cuz we’d just take one and say, “okay.”
Ah and that accent on the upper-left, that’s just so… And the beveled corners on Jim Davis, Jeffrey really nailed that one. I think that’s probably the strongest-- one of our strongest ones.
[05/14/1979]
[Sigh]
Ah this one. We have to preface this when we get to the music video that the idea for this came from-- There’s a house in Los Angeles called “Youngwood Court”. And if you’ve ever seen it, you would know… why we like it so much.
It’s on 3rd Street just east of Highland, a few blocks east and um… I mean anyone who lives in Los Angeles I think will probably recognize-- Or anyone who’s driven around Los Angeles will recognize the massive number of statue of David. Because Norwood Young, who has been on a couple reality shows, has ornamented his house to look very similar to this frame right here.
[Laughing]
I mean like, this is basically you’re looking into the window of a man who lives in Los Angeles that is probably violating a lot of zoning codes.
I think it’s classy.
It’s really not. It’s not classy.
I think he should put more up.
And there’s Jim Davis between two uh, penises. This is not very subtle… Not very subtle mockery.
[05/22/1980]
That lasagna is frozen in this one. And I was eating a piece of bread with spaghetti sauce on it, to simulate lasagna.
You can see my tail being very clearly held up by fishing line. That kink there… not very subtle. And there’s a lot of distortion going on in Garfield a lot of times, because there’s some bulge filters to make my fatter and shorter. So, when I’m at bizarre angles, like not standing up, you can kind of see my warpage.
Oh here’s my other one. And this is like-- I guess this is it, we’ve already run through all of the ones that I”ve edited after this. I edited the front sections, I put together all the comic strips and really just left Jeffrey to the music videos. This was a bitch because I had to go and find all these logos to all these different-- like Philadelphia Daily News. They’re very accurate. Whenever I couldn’t find-- The Mountain Xpress, like that’s a legitimate logo and I had to recreate them all because you can’t find anything that’s high enough resolution online, like on Google image search. And I had to regenerate these logos. And whenever I couldn’t find a logo I just went with the standard newspaper font. You know with all the… whatevers, curlicues, I don’t know. Maybe this I found this though-- There you go. I don’t know if that’s it. I just went-- I went to that as a default whenever I couldn’t find it.
So I had an idea that this one was gonna be like 15 minutes long. And I was just going to run through the entire track.
How long is it?
It’s long, it’s the longest one by far.
Is it like, 5 minutes?
I don’t know, I’m not sure.
A.O. Scott, I like his reviews.
He does. Jeffrey repeatedly mentions that he likes his reviews. I like that these are all-- they’re all positive. Like these are the only positive things we could find about the Garfield--
[Laughing]
the Garfield Movie being said by critics. And there certainly not very uh…
Well you know, in all fairness,
What? In all fairness what?
I dunno I got nothing.
You’re not very good at this. Just trying to make these as epic as popular. Evoking 2001, these monoliths.
…yeah?
Didn’t-- Don’t know how to use After Effects actually, so we’re doing all of this in Apple Motion. A lot of people ask online how we’re doing these things. First of all let me address how pretentious this commentary track is, by the way. This is ridiculous, these are stupid.
We just-- We wanted to do original content for San Diego Con. And couldn’t get a booth in time. And just kind of, felt defeated and didn’t do like, exclusive Lasagna Cat San Diego content, so…
We however, considering doing a second round of Lasagna Cat stuff, but we don’t know yet.
That’s true…
And if we do it, it’s not going to be like this. It’s going to be very different.
Yeah, you never want to like-- I just don’t think there’d be any way that we could revisit this and have people-- not have like, you know, half the people say, “it’s not as good” or “not funny the second time”. So when-- if we do revisit this we’ll do it in a very different manner.
But we just bought the Garfield suit.
Yes.
For a while we were renting it, and Zack before coming down to Comic-Con stopped in at the costume shop that we rented it from. And just ask if he could buy--
‘careerhope’ is a real user, you should probably just bother the person.
[Laughing] And so, you went there-- you went in there and what, you just bought it?
Yeah I was going to rent the costume for Comic-Con and I just queried, like you know, “Can I just buy this costume?” And uh, pretty sure they thought it was for something, you know, sexual furry thing… cuz they gave me--
Going the yiff?
Yeah I was gonna yiff it up. They gave me little looks, but they let it go for… a few hundred bucks. And we probably already spent that renting it.
So we own it now.
We own it. So I mean, we’d be a fool not to--
not to do more.
[06/01/1982]
We’re surprised by the number of subscribers we have on Youtube, we never thought it would get that high, and we kind of feel like we owe them more stuff.
Yeah. yeah, we thought we-- [Sigh] This is so stupid.
That’s also-- I’m-- Zack is always Garfield, and I was pretty much always Odie. So, I’m Odie and Jon. Um…
[Sigh] Yeah I apologize for the pretention of a commentary track. We really don’t think these are high art or anything. It’s just we want to give something special to… warrant handing this stuff out at the Comic-Con. Cuz I mean just to burn a DVD with a bunch of Youtube clips of pretty half-assed-- Not that a commentary track recorded in a Motel 6 isn’t half-assed but.
This is some really… intense things going on here. Cheesy-- Macaroni-- Macarena sounds like “macaroni” that’s the motivation for that?
Yeah…
That was your suggestion.
Yeah that was my suggestion.
And a good one.
[Laughing] Thanks.
[05/16/1985]
What do we got here? Which one is this?
Oooh yeah.
Yeah, I got moves.
Yeah. Several times you had to dance for these.
Yeah, the head-- Okay. The head is cavernous. The whole head is hollow and my head, you know, probably lands between the two eyeballs and the eye sockets. So like, whenever you have to flop around my head would always like, retreat into one of Garfield’s cheeks. I don’t know, that’s not very interesting, sorry. It’s just that you can see me adjusting the head because it’s just bouncing all over.
Pretty clumsy. But I mean you know, it pretty closely mirrors what’s going on in this strip, I would say. I mean, we tried our best.
What’s this, “I got a burr in my sandbox?”
Yeah.
<???> Is it called a burr, what is it called?
Yeah I think it’s a burr. But what’s confusing is… I don’t know what Jim Davis was thinking if he thinks that…
Cats don’t use sandboxes.
[01/19/1987]
What’s this one? I don’t even remember. Ooooh yeah.
Oh this is my favorite. This is unquestionably my favorite. And this one has been pulled, the audio has been disabled on this one.
Because Prince wrote this Bangles song, and we didn’t know that. We found out afterwards. And he’s very uh…
Prince is like the new Metallica
Yeah he hates his songs being online anywhere.
Yeah.
So he uh… If you try and find any instance of Manic Monday on youtube, good luck because I think Prince had them all pulled.
Which is really disappointing because I really really like Prince.
Yeah.
And I specifi-- I’m disappointed that-- and the whole Radiohead<?> cover, thing you know.
He’s kind of a jerk a little bit.
Yeah you hear about like, the evening with Kevin Smith referencing how he’s sane, and <???>
I really like this one, this one’s really good. Jeffrey did this one too. This is the first one Jeffrey did-- okay. I did it-- I edited one-- there’s one more I edited that’s just no good at all. Aw that’s so gross that’s disgusting.
I told you I was gonna do this and you were like-- and you just didn’t know what I was…
That was Tom Gravante<?>, no was that Tom Gravante’s idea?
I don’t remember.
A friend of our’s is Tom Gravante.
[05/16/1987]
This was Rick’s like, opus
Yeah Rick mostly did this one.
Opus?
Opus?
What does opus mean?
Mr. Holland’s opus
Okay. I think-- yeah that’s what I meant. I meant to say opus <???> say like opee or something.
Nah you meant opus.
Okay.
This was really good. I had to help him a little bit with some of the graphics but,
Yeah I think I did a couple things at the end too. Right didn’t I do that?
That zoom was ridiculous, cuz I had to find out like the powers of like 2, and like extr-- I was like, all in one timeline. I had to like zoom things in like 2,000,000%. Ah it looks so grainy. Still, I don’t know what’s going on here. This is the theme song to M*A*S*H, a lot of people are pointing that out thinking that um, that they’ve discovered some secret--
Oh that--
That is so-- I’m so--
That is really good.
I did that unfortunately yeah thank you.
[Laughing]
Yeah I’m embarrassed by that egg crack I apologize.
It’s not-- it’s not so bad. It’s kinda, stylish and it’s--
It’s weak.
This got toned down. My mom calls me out on not liking this. Like, I don’t-- I don’t want to needlessly offend anybody-- That’s just so silly that I’m mentioning that. To think that something on the internet is gonna-- To apologize for referencing a crucifix. And being on the internet is pretty--
Yeah we did all-- [Laughing]
Did all those.
All three of those at the end are pretty incredible. I like those. But we toned it down. To try to not uh… needlessly offend.
[12/03/1991]
Oooh. We did the-- we shot most of these at like 2 in the morning in our apartment. And we were concerned about this one because I really yelled “yee haw”.
That’s right yeah.
And we live in Koreatown.
Yep.
And we live in a building with a lot of Korean people. And occasionally our blinds would be open and they’d see a big, Garfield costume.
[Laughing] Oh I love the trash bags. I did that, I added that.
Oh. They’d see a big Garfield costume in front of green walls and wonder what the hell we were doing.
Oh, alright, this was funny because this was like a three person image search. And like everyone got to put in images they thought represented America. And like if I see any that I really am proud of, or you’re proud of, just call it out.
Uhh… they’re going so fast I don’t even remember. I did that--
Troy Aikman?
I did Big Johnson.
We’re from Dallas. So we <???>
Big Johnson t-shirts.
There’s all these presidents and then at the end there’s Winston Churchill. No one’s actually called that out. There’s the most-- he’s not American.
Pay it Forward-- I demanded a Pay it Forward <???> there’s like 4 images from Pay it Forward the movie.
Ah, man.
We had to redo that graphic like 4 times-- like 3 or 4 times. Everyone took a stab at doing the Mount Rushmore.
Wouldn’t-- Yours got used?
My-- Yeah we used mine. Rick did a terrible one and you did a less terrible one. Then that one was…
[01/24/1994]
That’s Jim Davis’-- okay. <???> This is one of the first ones we did.
It’s the uh--
[Sigh] Yeah this is the candles one.
Is this the candles one?
Yeah.
I’m not really sure. Yeah you had to-- You spent a while punching this one up. That’s pretty-- that’s a cool gag.
Yeah, Rick did this.
We didn’t use that too many times I don’t think.
Yeah.
Just that one time.
The thing is like, we-- We did these music videos, and as the project would precede they just got more and more sophisticated. Then we would go back and then like our first batch was just like, insufficient and just wouldn’t hold up to the later ones. So we had to go back and like-- I went back and did all these candles and punched this one up. And it still-- I don’t think it holds up.
Mmm
It’s just not as-- it’s not exciting enough. I can imagine how boring this would be without the lighting effects and without the candles. Just for mood and, I mean that was it. We had to go back.
Look this head turn is pretty serious.
[Laughing] Maybe, you know, maybe women would like this one. That’s-- that’s sexist.
Women do not like Lasagna Cat.
I know that’s true, my mom hates Lasagna Cat.
We’ve met so many like, you know, guys and then their girlfriends hate Lasagna Cat. Nobody-- Lasagna Cat.
[01/26/1995]
Okay… this is the crowd favorite.
This is a good one.
Yeah you did this one. You did all the really good ones.
You did that eye effect though.
I’m not-- yeah I’m not particularly proud of that one.
It’s nice-- it’s fine. It’s pretty good.
<???>
[Laughing] Um…
Billy Idol
This song-- I started listening to this song. After we used it. It’s a good song.
[Sigh] This is so creepy…
I saw Billy Idol in concert. I drove all the way to Houston Texas to see him at a general admission venue. It was one of the most disappointing shows…
Sorry that was a real downer. Shouldn’t have said that.
[Laughing] What’s one of the best concerts you’ve been to?
Um… well I don’t know, I don’t want to be like-- lame and say something-- I’ve gone and seen The Faint more than anything else. I’m disappointed that--
They’re fun though, they’re fun though.
Yeah, they’re playing in like, in a week in Los Angeles. And I can’t go see them because it’s 2 days after your wedding that you’ve got to go to.
Oh, my uncle is getting married. I gotta be there for that.
That’s really gross, yeah. That was-- Ah.
We also did this in our TV intros, our designing women TV intros, the eye effect. I’m in that designing women TV intro. But apparently Jeffrey and I just think that eyes not tracking properly is hilarious.
[03/08/1997]
This one’s really cool. Um…
[Laughing]
Because, the track we used-- The track we use is my Limp Bizkit and Snoop Dogg together. And uh…
This is uh-- Yeah, this is an example of Snoop Dogg working well-- I don’t like the Snoop Dogg Willie Nelson stuff that’s out now.
Yeah that’s terrible.
But this actually makes both artists a little better.
Your suggestion to me on this, I remember because I was editing this and I was putting
together--
Ah yes.
And you said, “Make it so that Fred Durst is Garfield, and the lamp is Snoop Dogg”.
That’s right.
And I’m very consistent. You can see and watch all the way through.
Yeah so, when you’re watching this music video you have to understand that that is Snoop Dogg, and that’s Fred Durst.
Lamp… the lamp is Snoop Dogg.
Yeah, cuz we’ll see-- Yes correct. Yeah, I think that was good enough.
“Cat Killa” We went over-- We went through several different iterations, we didn’t know-- We didn’t know what to write there.
Yeah.
[40/08/1998]
Aw you yelled loud on this one-- Oh my god-- This is the Nine Inch Nails one isn’t it?
Yeeeah.
Okay so. You were left to your own devices to shoot some of this stuff.
Yes I was.
And you shot some of the most emasculating and embarrassing stuff I’ve ever seen.
I-- What Zack is referencing is, we needed some like-- I needed to make this more like the Nine Inch Nails video. Because this wasn’t really enough.
[Sigh]
And he suggested, he has those goggles that <???> wears.
I wear those goggles when I ski.
And he had them and he was like, “Okay I’m going to sleep” and I was like, “Okay I’ll work on this more”. And I shot myself in those goggles, because you suggested that.
Yes I did.
And I-- Without playing any music or anything I just lip synced to Head Like a Hole.
Yeah.
And it turned out to be… wrong.
Jeffrey took off his shirt like this. That’s not his head detached. That-- I always think that’s like 2 layers but that’s actually how his head works. So Jeffrey takes off his shirt and puts on his glasses
[Laughing]
and films himself lip syncing to Nine Inch Nails. Which uh…
Is not cool!
Is really not cool. Oh my god <???> [Laughing]
That’s-- as if it wasn’t obvious, that’s his smile turned upside down literally.
Yeah but I watched that footage of you lip syncing with your shirt off that you shot by yourself in the middle of the night. And I told you, “don’t let that out, don’t put that on the internet”.
And it’s-- It has since been deleted and you’ll never see it.
Yeah.
So…
That’s a good move.
[04/04/2001]
“Where’s pizza?”
This is the first one we edited-- This is the first-- This is us-- This is the first one we edited.
Yeah, the first music video.
And that’s why it sucks. And uh…
I kind of like it.
The backgrounds got out of it <?> because it was just too much. This was the first-- yeah.
It’s kind of got like a Windows Vista vibe to it. I kinda-- It’s grown on me.
It’s more XP than Vista.
Yeah or XP, whatever… Yeah I guess XP is what I’m thinking of.
Well this was the very first-- Yeah, when we were still like troubleshooting like, “What do we do with all this media we shot? And this Hundred Days of Garfield just isn’t funny? What do we do?” And uh <???> We’ll just string it all together, let’s cut our losses, we’ll make a montage. And we threw it all together to the Green Day montage song, what’s it called? “Time of Your Life?”
“Time of your life” yeah.
So-- Yeah that’s the graduation song, and we just-- Just to dump all the media and move on because the project just wasn’t working well. And we just saw how funny it was just to put… just to raise the banal comics. To set it against music like they were more significant than they are is funny. And this was the first one we tried it with.
We started like pulling a track list to like-- “Okay now that we know we’re doing this, what songs do you want to use?” And there are a lot of songs that are in that playlist that ended up not getting used. But for a while we were pulling like, ballads, you know, and nice soft songs.
Yeah most of the early ones, I was referencing that Mariah Carey one was really nice. Most of the early ones were soft or a ballad.
[10/25/2004]
But um… at some point we kind of let that go and we started-- just any song that was kind of a joke song to us…
Yeah we um…
got put in there.
Yeah, the more we edited the more we wanted to… like you know, pull a Nine Inch Nails song to screw around.
We um… I really wish that lasagna eating one where Garfield is crawling and wanting the lasagna.
Yeah.
We were gonna use Eminem “Lose Yourself” for that.
That’s right.
But that got changed for--
What did it end up being? We just watched it, I forgot.
I don’t know what is it? Here I’ll look it up…
I don’t remember.
[Laughing]
I can’t--
[Sigh]
I don’t know them by date. I don’t--
This is pretty good, you did this one. I liked Garfield turning around on this one.
I had to-- That’s really the front and then I Photoshopped just more fur over his face to make--
That’s interesting!
like the back of his head.
I didn’t-- I forgot-- I didn’t know that.
Because we had shot everything and returned the costume.
You just clone stamped over the face to get the back of the head.
Yeah because we didn’t have the actual head anymore, to shoot more. So I just…
And I also like this star.
Pulled an Iran.
[Laughing] “Pulled an Iran”
Clone stamping.
How relevant. How timely-- we’re dating this commentary track.
Yes.
[01/05/2005]
We’re making 100 of the-- Look how long I am, this was an early edit. And I hadn’t committed to making myself that short. I’m really taking up a lot of the frame.
I hate this song so much. This, “The Lion Sleeps Tonight”. I really hate it, and I hate listening to--
Yeah I don’t like this one.
Just-- the video aside I just, hate this song.
Yeah I don’t like this one. Did I edit this one too?
Yeah you did this one.
Maybe I edited more than I can remember.
Because you bought all those plants of a--
I bought all these plants off like a, architectural like, design website. Like you’re supposed to use these plants that have these alpha channels-- the transparency around the leaves. And you’re supposed to make architectural mockups for like selling, you know, strip malls. Or whatever.
What’d you do with them?
I made a Garfield music video for the-- for Youtube.
All those animals in there, you snuck those in there too.
I did. <???>
Garfield touches Jim Davis’ face.
Oh you know what, I think Rick did this one and then I punched it up with all the leaves and stuff.
Oh.
Because again like, we had to back-- After Jeffrey did the mustache one, we had to go back and redo like 10 of them, because the mustache one where he was creating the original images was just so much more serious.
[05/20/2005]
When shooting all these we went through like, I don’t know, 3 or 4 iterations of like, how to shoot the table and the background. And like, we were shooting some things green and some things blue. And we had like, a red surface-- Trying to figure out like, what’s the best way to… color it?
Because we gotta do the like-- Sometimes we have to change Jon’s shirt color, sometimes we have to change the table color, sometimes we have to change the background color. And like, what element do you make green? And we just didn’t know. And this was a real learning process, but you can-- Are you referencing the purple bleed?
Yeeeah.
Yeah, clearly we didn’t know what we were doing.
Sorry, sometimes it’s not great.
That’s right, Rick did this one. It’s pretty good.
I pulled that, what’s his name, Muybridge.
That little horse gallop.
Yeah.
Lots of flames.
That’s Jeffrey’s face on the guy, I didn’t see that for a while.
That’s gross.
All three are.
And a baby Garfield-- I don’t know what that means.
I don’t either.
This is also really disgusting because, that’s a-- that’s a torso on a bar.
[Laughing]
It’s like, he’s not seated at a bar. I don’t know-- I pointed that out to Rick and don’t think he understood that he just like, severed Jeffrey beneath the chest.
I think, I mean obviously I know what he was trying to do. He was trying to do maybe leaning against the bar but--
Yeah, he failed.
doesn’t really work.
It’s funny but
[Laughing]
I don’t think he intended to make that joke. I think he just, didn’t understand the image.
[02/24/2006]
There’s the phone.
This one
Yeah it’s uh, sad for Jim Davis because I feel like he’s pulling from his life experiences to write some of these. And this is just too telling.
Whenever I’m positioned like that, the head is just like on top of the back of my head. I can’t contort my neck. When I’m in the bed I’m sometimes upside down with the head on my face.
So yeah you can see our apartment in some photos.
Yeah this is what our apartment looks like.
This is rough.
Yeah it’s--
Some emotion going on.
Yeah, yeah. We did a still photoshoot for this. And then I cut it.
Before getting back from the San Diego con I hear people walking around in the Motel 6 outside our room here.
Had to stick Garfield into a couple of these frames to--
Yeah.
I would’ve added more.
It’s interesting, it adds another dimension to the comic strip to see-- This is like the most like, I think…
[Laughing]
I don’t know, like penetrating of a fanfiction or something, because you get to see the photorealistic rendition of Garfield in his house with Jon.
That’s pretty deep.
I guess.
[08/15/2006]
Oh this one didn’t turn out-- This one started not great. And <???> now, it’s pretty-
Which one was this?
This is the Van Halen one.
Oh “Right Now” yeah.
Now this is the only one where we really paid attention to the actual music video.
Yeah.
Probably should’ve… made more callbacks to some of the-- of course like Canon in D Major doesn’t have a music video.
Actually, are you sure?
Yes.
Oh.
That head turn is pretty serious.
Yeah it’s pretty cool.
That’s really cool.
We bought um--
[Sigh]
You can see that some of the comics, you know, you can see like paper grain in them. That’s because we went and bought a lot of Garfield comic books.
Yeah we were-- first off we started-- we edited a lot of these using the um… what do you call it, the online Garfield library. You can view any Garfield comic strip at Garfield.com. But they’re just not high enough resolution for some of these like, some of that full frame. Probably is for Youtube, but we’re watching it in HD right now, and you’re gonna be watching it on SD on your DVD. So we had to go and, buy--
This is kind of… This is one of the instances where it’s not very subtle that we’re making fun of Jim Davis.
But anyway we went back and bought a lot of the comic strips. A lot of the strips aren’t available in print, and we had to recompile the strips.
[09/15/2006]
There’s crumbs coming. There’s crumbs coming out of his mouth.
Yeah, that’s some pretty good special effects. Psyche. It’s not good…
Yeah you really like that face I made. Didn’t you?
No… yeah…
[Laughing]
It’s kinda what Jon does here.
Um, whenever I’m on camera…
[Laughing]
Zack is directing me to make these faces at him <???> know what they’re looking like. And he’s like, “Do kind of like an overbite, and kind of lean back.” I have to look at the strip. and stuff, I dunno.
Man…
This is also a terrible song.
I hate this song.
What’s the other-- Barenaked Ladies a million dollars-- if I had a million dollars.
Oh yeah.
Yeah that was a pretty good song.
Barenaked Ladies.
Oh god… That was a Rick Darge one.
[04/16/2007]
Mmm… what’s this one? Oh I hate this one. It’s not good.
I hate this one too. This is my least favorite one.
We tried to make this one funny with some, baseball joke.
It wasn’t motivated-- like I don’t get it. And I told you the whole time you were doing it, “I don’t like it. I don’t like what you’re doing.”
It was motivated by hitting. Cuz hit-- fame… See? Baseball cards,
Yeah I get it.
Famous hitters. Garfield--
Yeah this sucks.
I don’t like it.
Sorry. If you like this one I’m sorry but your taste sucks.
That’s kind of funny.
[Laughing]
Doesn’t make any sense.
I like that, what is it at the end… inf, in…
In the park? The grand slam? I think it’s in the park grand slam.
In the park grand slam-- that doesn’t happen.
… This sucks.
America loves Garfield.
America doesn’t like this one episode of Lasagna Cat I hope though.
Yeah.
I don’t know.
Can’t all be winners.
Sorry if you like that, and I know you’re totally entitled to, for some reason we don’t like that.
[04/20/2007]
This one’s awesome.
Oh 4/20! I don’t that that was in, any sort of like… clearly based on any. You know we’re not making a joke.
There were-- We should comment on-- First of all that’s a Korean newspaper that Garfield’s reading if you can make that out. There’s some Korean characters. Also, every once in a while Jim Davis…
[Laughing]
will write a comic strip that’s way too politically charged. It’s just like once every few years he’ll write one that’s like ”Why?” Are you…
Yeah.
Where do you come off Jim Davis?
[Laughing]
And this was one of them.
He thinks he’s Doonesbury for like a day.
So we decided that we needed to do this one.
“Get a Lirbary card”?
That’s coming up yeah. There it--
[Laughing]
A lot of people catch that.
I didn’t think very many people would catch that, but it was spotted pretty early on.
Yeah you like that.
I do.
Zoom <???>
We got that-- Oh that blast is photo-- like point-by-point-- it’s identical to Kurtis Blow, Basketball.
That’s right we really like that music video.
If you go to the music video for Basketball-- Kurtis Blow Basketball, we totally copied the font, everything about it. That’s where those fonts came from.
[06/15/2007]
We should talk about this one. A lot of people like this one.That’s Katy Rosel<?>. She’s a friend of ours from high school, Dallas Texas.
Yeah she’s working in the film industry. I think she’s a <???> right now. Good for her.
And she was a very good sport, helping us out playing Liz.
Yeah we shot 3 or 4 with her, and as I said there were 80-something of these, and we only finished 27 of them? Just because we really didn’t anticipate that these were gonna go over well.
Purses coming out of Garfield’s mouth.
A lot of people quote the text from this one.
<???> yeah.
This was an early one we edited too. Yeah, “you cannot eat a purse” people like saying that. “A purse is not food.”
Yeah, that seems to be… a mini meme of uh…
It’s just cool. I guess.
Yeah.
Aaaaand what’s next?
[10/26/2007]
Is this… A haunted hamburger. You got the burger floating a little.
Yeah I did.
Good job on that.
This is um…
It’s a plastic hamburger, we considered using a real hamburger. And then decided that would be disgusting. And it’s much… is that why we…? I thought that’s why we said no to a real hamburger. The plastic one would look better.
I think we just got it because it would keep better.
Oh that’s true.
I just don’t think the hamburger--
[Laughing] that broken image. This is a reference to Neil Cicierega’s… who is the author of the Potter Puppet Pals, you might know that from Youtube. It’s like one of the most viewed Youtube things. But before that, and before Greatist Internet Battle whatever, which is another huge success he had. He did these things called animutations. Which looked similar to these, and always featured Colin Mochrie. Who’s from “Whose Line Is It Anyway.”
There’s a triple misidentification there. He’s labeled “Bob Saget”-- There’s Colin Mochrie-- Labeled “Bob Saget”, it’s uncle Jelly, but the text says Uncle Jesse. I’m really proud of Jeffrey getting all 3 of those.
The voice, the voice says Uncle Jesse.
That it, that’s what I mean.
That’s Neil Cicierega.
We’re a big fan of his stuff.
Yeah he’s really, a cool guy.
[11/01/2007]
I really-- this might be my favorite.
That’s okay.
This one-- This I think is the nicest video we’ve ever made, and I’m not joking around, I’m not being sarcastic.
[Laughing]
This is just, very good hearted.. This is so nice. Look at that, they’re hugging. This is a great song about coming together and, you know, accepting differences, and just being friends. Look at that hug it lasts forever.
It does last a long time, it’s looped.
Yeah. Ping it back.
Ping-pong’d back and forth. Like, goes in reverse, then it goes forwards, and back.
I-- You know, I did this when I don’t really--
You did this one in like 20 minutes.
Yeah this one was really fast.
You didn’t take any time at all to edit this.
But I put Odie and Garfield in the picture frames. And I think looking back at it--
Gotta wrap it up fast. Coming to the end of the commentary track.
I think it’s kind of weird that they have their own pictures in their house. Or is that their house? Did they break in somewhere or?
That’s Jon’s house man, that’s the Arbuckle residence.
Oh okay.
Come on.
Alright.
It’s not weird for a house cat and a house dog in the house.
Yeah I guess that’s true.
Oh look at this magic trick.
It’s coming up.
It was Garfield. Slide it over. It’s Jim Davis.
And I think that’s the end of our commentary track.
Yeah.
That’s it.
We got this.
Oh I got the logo.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You did the sound effects for this. It’s gross.
It’s really gross. It’s really disgusting.