Other Character Email Tampo/chickens/Commentary

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Commentary Transcript

(Commentary by: Joshua, Color Printer)

JOSHUA: Okay, this is one of my favorite Season 1 emails. Along with "lazor beams," "2005," and "future." But anyway, this one was pretty good.

COLOR PRINTER: I agree. So were you actually going to give Brody and Stlunko a vacation on this one no matter what e-mail it was?

JOSHUA: Maybe not this exact email number, but I was planning on giving them both a vacation sometime and letting Tampo answer an email solo. The question on this one just so happened to be the perfect opertunity... let Tampo do something stupid without Stlunko around to intervene.

COLOR PRINTER: Which resulted in a hilarious e-mail. And there are Tampo's minions, who seem have to have poor computer skills.

JOSHUA: Actually, they're pretty good, considering they have to work together on a giant keyboard that requires them jumping from button to button, all the while listening to Tampo talk so they know what to type. In fact... how do they do that? ...and there's Stlunko. I made sure to stick the entire boss trio into every email. Never is one of them left out.

COLOR PRINTER: Yep. And there's the Holo-Room. So it's basically a room with v-screen walls? And ceiling? And floor?

JOSHUA: Yep. That's the idea. Because you can do anything with green walls.

COLOR PRINTER: Green is cool. And there's the chicken factory. This e-mail's making me hungry. Probably cause I'm eating chicken tonight. No offense to any chicken listening to this.

JOSHUA: Eww... that scene's pretty... graphic. I don't think you have to worry about any chickens watching or listening to this, ever.

COLOR PRINTER: I'm glad that's holographic. {pause} Wait, is he actually going to bring Brody to a chicken factory?!?

JOSHUA: Yeah, Tampo's impulsive like that. The sorta sad thing is that chicken factories are actally worse than this. To the chickens, anyway. And then the holographic Brody sends holographic puke straight through not-holographic Tampo's head. I dunno what I was thinking when I made this; this is a very gross episode.

COLOR PRINTER: And there's the puke. I think I'M about to puke. Tampo's right: this is digusting. Ew.

JOSHUA: {laughs} You just said this email was making you hungry, and now you want to puke. Anyway, it seems Brody faints. Puked and fainted. This email must have been real rough on Brody. {pause} And then Tampo decides to shut off the simulation before Holo-Brody gets up and rampages around.

COLOR PRINTER: Thus, he could not have foreseen what Brody would actually do when he stirs. {pause} The sad part is, those chickens probably won't last 5 minutes in the wild.

JOSHUA: Yeah, never thought about that. Brody doesn't exactly take them in under his care. Of course, Brody has a bunch of other chickens to take care of. Ones without bodies, wings and ones that are very fat and spit out bones. I wonder what the origins of those chicken mutants are. Never really thought into it. Hmmmm... {pause} And Tampo's so inconsiderate here, making Brody leave his nice day off to go someplace full of chicken torture. But really, what is it a day off from? The boss trio didn't really do to much. Is it a day off from email checkin'?

COLOR PRINTER: A day off from evil, I suppose. So what do you think the moral of this e-mail is?

JOSHUA: Probably something like... "Be considerate of other's feelings, or it might come back to bite you on the butt." {pause} And now the real Brody's been taken to a real chicken factory. This little section is pure laziness, right here. Just copy & pasted from the holo-room part.

COLOR PRINTER: Deja vu, eh? {pause} Anyways, Brody looks kind of...Disgusted about what he sees. I would be, too, if I was a chicken.

JOSHUA: Well, imagine a bunch of human corspes getting chopped up, cooked and sorted. PUKE'D!!! Eww... poor Tampo. I'd probably puke if I got puked on. But I don't think Tampo could puke. Brody falls down... and this is the part where Tampo stopped the simulation earlier.

COLOR PRINTER: Hmm...but what's this? Brody gets up! And he starts...{pause} destroying the factory. That's one angry chicken.

JOSHUA: I'm not even sure why the workers would even let him in there... unless they planned on killing him. Or were all on lunch break.

COLOR PRINTER: Yeah. Tampo, like, needs a chemical shower.

JOSHUA: And then there goes Brody, off to cause rampaging destruction upon the chicken monopolies of the town. Which eventually let to them being Mos Anted. And only cool guys will get that reference.

COLOR PRINTER: And here we are, at the closing of a very hilarious, yet somewhat graphic e-mail.

JOSHUA: Oh, my dear Poopaw. How I've missed you so.

COLOR PRINTER: Okay...Well, thanks for watching. And listening. But mostly listening.