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An Evening at DED HQ
October 26, 2004
7:30 pm - Brad arrives home from work. Usually Shane and Matt have arrived first and Shane is “playing” Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, if by “playing” I mean repeatedly driving cars back and forth over old ladies until money comes out of them.
8:00 pm - Decide on priorities for the evening. To date Brads repeated suggestion of “Forget Dead End Days and go see a movie” has been voted down 208 times in a row.
8:30 pm - Mike Thorn arrives to monopolize the Editing System 3000 (the editing machine of the FUTURE), drink all the beer, and thrill us all with mumbled recounts of his lothario-esque love life.
9:00 pm - DED catering staff serve a delicious five-course meal with carefully selected liqueur accompaniments. This weeks menu: “A course of whatever the hell Rob Finds in the Fridge” followed by four courses of “Shut the hell up.”
Sometimes on Wednesday we eat burgers!
10:00 pm - Everyone settles into the “tasks at hand” in earnest. Art Department materials are designed. Scripts are edited. Conference calls are made. Schedules are drafted. Scenes are edited. Footage is logged. Sound effects are recorded. Equipment is cleaned. Rehearsal is.
11:30 pm - Everyone settles into the “arguing about tasks at hand” in earnest. Art Department materials are criticized. Scripts are hackneyed. Conference calls are forgotten. Schedules are found flawed. Scene choices are questioned. Footage is lost. Sound effects degenerate into calling each other names. Equipment is still missing. Rehearsal isn’t.
12:00 am - Resolution! Everyone, now sick of each other finds a medium compromise in sometimes comically brilliant fashion! The ultimate “no, fuck YOU” technique is often cunningly deployed by crafty debaters.
12:05 am - The Daily Show and ice cream!
12:30 pm - Time to call it a night (except for Thursdays when we go late with mixing and episode encoding).
Repeat 4-6 times a week and Voila you eventually have a new DED episode!
Now you can play along at home. Using this chart as a handy guide along with a reasonably accurate clock set to Eastern Standard Time, you and your friends can while away the happy hours playing “What is the Dead End Days Team doing RIGHT THIS MINUTE.”
Enjoy!
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