Switzer Discovers What It's Really Like to Work On Sniffles(sniff!)
Switzer wanted to come down with me to work on the show with us. I stipulated that if he came down that he was going to have to take his own car because there was no way that I was going to take him all the way back to Denton. Actually I could have taken him back to Denton but he would have had to wait until after the weekend.
What we had planned to shoot was the sequence for Show 6 where Brian and I drag Chris to a doctor. The doctor was supposed to be played by Modester who Chris had made arrangements with earlier in the week to get together with for the week. When Switzer expressed an interest in being in the show, I instantly got an idea on how to use him. I would have loved to use him as a camera operator but since I've given up on the storyboards and with them all hope of having moving shots, it wasn't necessary.
I thought that it would be cool to have Switzer as Modester's assistant who is overly critical of how the camera crew(what crew?) is setting the shots up and blocking the scene. It would have been a good moment of self reflexiveness for the show.
So Switzer followed me down to Fort Worth to Chris' apartment. We waited there until Chris got home from work and when he did we loaded up into Chris' car to make the trip down to Brian's.
At Brian's Chris called Modester. Modester was already asleep when he called and he was absolutely unwilling to get up to spend an hour with us shooting the segment for the show since he had to be up at 6 the next morning. Modester said that we could get together Friday night since he wouldn't have to work all weekend long.
Basically all of this meant that we had absolutely nothing to do. Switzer had driven down for nothing. I decided that we shouldn't let the entire night go to waste so we decided to do one of the sketches Brian has been talking about doing, specifically Hot Dog Cleaner Man. Just as we decided to do this Kendra walked through the door, home early from work. The major event of the night was our going to Kim's to help move her entertainment center.
Switzer was very disappointed and Chris pointed out that this is how working on the show always is. Sometimes we'll get something done, but more often than not we'll be empty handed like we were that night. The only difference is Switzer had to drive 60 miles to learn it.