Snideful: Inside the Writers' Room

We're back! We took the summer off and now we're as refreshed as two thirtysomething men with failing nervous systems can be! So we're here to tell stories again. And this time around, we'd like to discuss Addiction. We've hinted at Tucker and Todd struggling with various vices over the years but never shined a light on the depth of the issue. So this month while we take a break from some of our unhealthy habits, let us explore where they come from and what they look like on the Outside!!!!

A year ago we made a list of mashups between subgenres that we don't often see paired together. One of our favorite combinations off that list was Fantasy-Western. Brickwork and thatched-roof fairytale towns plagued with bank robbers and cattle rustlers. A medieval civilization in its Wild West era. Six-shooters and spellcraft. So in this episode we do a bunch of worldbuilding!

We all know the story about the Grinch who got bumped off course to his home and ended up raised in a village of hedonistic Whos. But what happened to the baby Who girl bumped off her course? Where did she end up? What is her story? We’ll find out in this episode.

So two episodes back we brainstormed ideas for skits inspired by the #manorbear thought experiment. This week we recorded the dialogue for the skits we wrote. It's a bit of a silly, giggly mess but we had a lot of fun so we hope you enjoy it as much as we did.

A couple years ago, Todd was eating a bowl of Jell-o and observed that it was sort of insane to just eat a soup of sugar and bones, given that gelatin is boiled animal bits. Tucker observed that this was metal as hell. And thus was born Sugar & Bones the band, a blistering blues-metal duo who accidentally received possessed rock instruments as the result of a bungled Crossroads deal. In this episode, we flesh them out a bit more and brainstorm a concept for their upcoming third album!

It's the finale episode of Season 7! Tucker and Todd have been putting off writing their comic book all season but the battle raging throughout the Keep of the Code has finally provided them with the downtime to make some progress. They walk through the outline of their epic tale and discover some improbable coincidences between its plot and the harrowing events they've trudged through since Jay left. We tie up all the loose threads and plant the seeds for the second half of the Zodiac Saga!

Straight Woman and Anderson Keeper have followed the enigmatic biomechanics genius Galter the Grey to his secret lair but all three of them have different endgames in mind. Straight Woman wants to confront CongressJudge Deedee Megadoodoo, the dying woman she only just learned to be her mother. Keeper wants to learn more about his mysterious otherdimensional ancestry. And Galter wants to take advantage of that ancestry to escape to the Outside. Meanwhile in the actual Outside, Thinos and his army of zealots have successfully fought their way through the Keep of the Code’s defenses and restored the key to unleashing a pantheon of cosmic entities forged by the timeless art of storytelling.