Ep. 12 – “The Sinister Secret of StarNasty” (OR: “A Mike in the Mechanics”)

When Mike moves into an old dead storage room in the Hadron Bunker, he discovers a mysterious videogame. Two agents from the Transdimensional Trig stake out the Lab.  Mike and Oppenheimer debate pronunciation of videogame titles and a comic book artist. Mike fights for the Users. New information is learned, and quickly forgotten.

(Science fiction/Comedy. 44 minutes)

Written by

Richard Wentworth  and Michael McQuilkin

Starring

Michael McQuilkin as Mike Wilkinson

Richard Wentworth as Dr. Francis “Oppenheimer” Valdini/Commander Funk/StarNasty/The Omega Virus

Lisa McQuilkin as A.S.H. LE

Michael Atkinson as Cyrus

Kevin Harrington as Higgs_B

Phoebe Angle as SID

Shawn Carter as TROY 2.0

Paul Gannon as Paul

Steven Lyons as Simmons

Eli Silverman as Eli

With additional sketch material by

Katey Falvey

Note: This episode contains a fragment of Cory Doctorow‘s brilliant novel Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, used in accordance with Creative Commons license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd-nc/1.0/ Go check out Cory’s books. He’s an amazing futurist and end user rights advocate, and we hear he smells real nice, too!