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Fun Squad Episode 4 — and you can view the first three Fun Squad episodes if you’d like — has been shot. My apartment is covered with scraps of construction paper, scotch tape and alumnium foil. I’m exhausted. You wouldn’t think that answering questions like “Should Rob kick Matt square in the nuts BEFORE the ukelele song or AFTER?’ would be a mentally tiring puzzler, but judging from my current lethargic mental state, it is.

The main problem I have with Fun Squad is that even though I’m the creator — or really, co-creator with Rob, Matt, Jinn and Cragg — I don’t really know what it’s about. It was originally just a lo-fi kids show. Not a parody of a kids’ show, just a kids show — the best one we could pull off given the restriction that we had to film it in 5 hours and couldn’t leave my apartment.

Now we’re making episode 4 and from episode to episode, I still can’t decide whether we should tell a story or just do kids show things. THIS one is designed to win over new fans at the next screening. We’ll see. Perhaps we’ll alienate the establish fan base of Fun Squad fans. But since that mostly constitutes people I know on a first name basis, I feel we could win them back if need be.

It’s ridiculous we’re doing a fourth episode anyway. More people should jump on the Channel 102 train and force Fun Squad out of town on a rail, before we realize whatever it is our show is about and really become unstoppable.