The LoadingReadyRumble

For our Season 3 finale we present an epic showdown with more fan-service than we're probably allowed.

[Note: In this case, "epic" means "12 minutes". Settle in.]

Vital Statistics

Date: October 13, 2006

Category: Other

Appearing: Graham, Paul, Jer, Morgan, Gibb, Matt, Bill, and James

Writing: Graham and Paul

Camera: Almost everyone

Editing: Graham

Location: Pixpo Head Office, Graham's Bedroom, Cattle Point, Uplands Park

Special Thanks to: Kwiksilva, Ben, and Adam

Synopsis

An evil madman and his henchman have kidnapped characters from LoadingReadyRun's past, marooned them on an isolated island, and implanted explosive devices in their brains. If they don't fight to the death, they'll die!

The cast of characters includes:

• Graham and Paul, founders of LRR
• The PC from Rejected 'Get a Mac' Ads
• Jangles and Jones
• 64K
• The Chief from 30 Minutes or Less
• One of the nerds from Nerd Fight
• Jeremy Michaels
• Ted from The Danger of Cigarettes
• Gibb
• Story Guy
• The Head of Evil Inc and his Assistant
• The Guy Who is Super from Ways to Save the Day
• Mr. Tiddlywinks from Ways to Get Yourself Killed in a Horror Movie
• The Hampire (as a bowl of pork rinds) from Serious Cravings
• Killahbyte from Pimp My Chair
• Canadaman and his arch nemesis Jaques Francois from Canadaman
• Small Time Criminals from Small Time Criminals
• Thought Police from The 'C' Word

Trivia

• This video contains all of the main cast. And Gibb. It is the only LRR video to do so (Nanaimo Road Trip had all of the human main cast).
  • As of the beginning of the fourth season, Kathleen was part of the full cast, so the preceding trivia point is accurate no longer.
• The LoadingReadyRumble has twenty-five characters and took four days to shoot.
• The basic concept for this video originated with Kwiksilva, a fan on the LoadingReadyRun messageboards, who suggested a parody of Battle Royale right after watching that movie for the first time.
  • In the movie, a class of students is put on an island and told to kill each other until there is only one remaining.
  • The pot lid, which Graham says "Reminds (him) of something", is a reference to Battle Royale wherein the eventual victor of the movie used a pot lid as his randomly assigned weapon.
• The LoadingReadyRumble premiered on Friday the 13th.
• The note found on the body of Evil Inc.'s leader is a reference to a ReadyLoadingLive! sketch.
• There are a few minor continuity glitches.
  • Paul's watch is on his wrist when he and Graham enter the secret hideout, absent when checking the bodies, then present again when they exit.
  • When Graham and Paul wake up on the beach, boxes of equipment can be seen in the background, then vanish in the next shot.
• Because of the complexity of shooting and the need to avoiding having two characters played by the same actor dueling together, this was the only LRR video to be storyboarded.
  • At no time do two characters played by the same person come into direct conflict. When the Thought Police fight with Canadaman and Jacques Francois, Graham's characters fight only with Paul's.
    • The Hampire and The Guy Who Is Super represent the only exception to this principle, as James plays both.
• For a second after the PC is killed with the pot lid, two unidentifiable people are seen walking in the background.
• The Axe used by Matt in this video as made by James with a WoW item creator:

• For some reason, Evil Inc. has something against Edward James Olmos.