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As many of you, our loyal fans, have noticed, Trouser Shock has been doing very little lately. I have barely been blogging. We haven't posted any new videos. Hell, lately, we haven't even been on a fantasticly popular sketch-comedy TV show on a national network! Well, I'll explain it all, right here, in this blog.
A short while ago, Trouser Shock decided we should take it upon ourselves to do a major film/video project. After we took some time off from Stupidface, we got the bug to endure another major project. Jim and I had been focusing on our stand-up comedy, others needed some personal time and Tom needed time to sit around and read nerd message boards or something. Anyway, after this hiatus, Trouser Shock decided it was high time we did another project!
That project was a spoof of Around the World in 80 Days. You know, that book you had to read in 6th grade or something? The one you don't remember very well? Yeah... that one! Actually, the movie we made is more of a satire and less of a spoof. Based on the unparalleled success of Martin Did It, we decided another time piece would be in order.
Basically, we wanted to make a high-quality film, well, as high-quality as we could create on a shoe-string budget, under the leadership of Jim Bruce and Tom Griffin. Tom took on more of the Director role and Jim took on more of the Producer role. Jim did all of the location scouting and costuming, a daunting task to say the very least. Meanwhile, Tom was in charge of the script, from start to finish, and, of course, the actual filming of Around the World in 80 Days.
Little did Trouser Shock know what they were getting themselves into! First, we had to re-cast a major role with Paul Goebel (yes! that Paul Goebel!) which pushed back filiming an extra week. Then, what we thought we could shoot in 4 weekends, stretched out to over 6 weekends, plus, another weekday night for re-shoots! In addition, upon final edit, the video ended up being shorter than we thought. So, in sum, twice as long to shoot a video that ended up being shorter than we intended!
Although this video may sound like an odd project for Trouser Shock to do, you'll understand once you see it. The video doesn't require you to remember Around the World in 80 Days nor does it require you ever having read the book at all! After watching it, you'll realize, despite the kind of project it was, it is a Trouser Shock video all the way! Enjoy... oh, and vote funny!!! Around the World in 80 Days ...
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