EVERythING YOU NEVER KNEW ABOUT MR BIFFo'S found fOOtAGE: BRowN MIRROR

This was a bastard of an episode to put together. Partly that was down to being ill at the moment, and partly it was down to having had much less stuff edited and ready to go for this episode; everything was in pieces, so there was more work to do than usual last week.

Anyhow. Enough waffle. If you wish to discuss the episodes, I suggest you head over to Facebook, where the Brannigan's Vortex group share their theories as to the greater conspiracy. Or post a comment below. 

SPOILER WARNING: Do not read on unless you have watched Brown Mirror!

THE ELVI

This was quite a late addition to the ep. The phrase "12-ish Presleys" just popped into my head in bed at the start of last week. Originally, I intended to do something based upon the "12 Ronnies" - which was a fake teletext ad I did a while back. That might've been funnier, but might not have travelled as well...

GOUJON JOHN'S ARTESIAN SELECTION

Obviously, this was meant to be "artisan" collection, but - bless him - that's not what I got. So, I tried to make a virtue out of it. Sort of. This was one of the first pieces of footage I had stockpiled for the series, but never got around to finishing until last Friday... basically the last bit I needed was the stuff in the background with the goujon in the box/box in the bush.

CHEF COPS

Most of the Kenny and Yuri Masters clips in this ep was a case of letting Paul and Iain start improvising, while I lobbed in the occasional suggestion. I love these two together - they weren't even conceived as recurring characters, it just became obvious when you saw them side-by-side. I have since developed a whole backstory for them - and how they fit into the Xenoxxxverse.

BAXTER'S BUM FARM

One of the very first things I wrote for the series - here starring the great Larry Bundy Jr. Obviously, it's a one-gag sketch, but... like most things in Found Footage... has wider implications. In fact, it's one of the most important sketches in the entire series in that regard.

BENJI COLESLAW

You may remember Benji Coleslaw from Goujon John's Celebrity Ghostel... which had originally been Benji Coleslaw's Celebrity Ghostel, until I decided to replace most of his footage with GJ. Inexplicably, he has his fans, following that first, brief, appearance, and so... here he is again, delivering the news in his own inimitable style. 

And... oh... is that a callback to Biffovision and Digitiser there...? 

REFLECTIONS

I realised after the fact that this was a rather evocative of The Ponderers from Vic Reeves' Big Night Out. Entirely unintentional, as it was put together from outtakes from another sketch (that you'll likely see next week).

HAMMERDAY

This was meant to be used for the Tea Prancer sketch from Ep 1... until we realised that we'd accidentally given lovely Stuart Ashen a hammer instead of any tea cups. I knew I wanted to use the footage somehow... but didn't know how until about 4pm last Friday, when I put this little bit together.

CHEESE HOLES

Those of you who were at the series premiere will remember that Cheese Holes was originally part of episode 2. I chose to move it because it didn't fit in that ep somehow. I cut it down slightly to speed it up, and - weirdly - stylistically, it seems to fit in this one much better. 

Given that this was one of the first sketches I wrote, it's a good example, though, of how my approach to the series has changed. 

FLAPS! FLAPS! FLAPS!

This is just me playing around to see, once again, if I can use horror tropes as a way of getting laughs. It's that whole thing of laughing as a way of relieving tension. Plus, I always found the show Through The Keyhole a bit creepy and stalker-y. 

"WIGGIDA-WHAAAACK!"

It's my boy DJ Trendy Peanut. This has been sitting on the shelf for ages too, partly because I couldn't face editing it as I'd lost a bunch of the handheld footage from the shoot. Obviously, regrettably, I'm in this. Which I don't really enjoy, but - as ever - I didn't feel I could get anyone else to suffer the indignities I forced upon myself.

RUN FROM THE RUNS

So, yes... by now you're realising that there's obviously a bit of a poo theme to this episode. I decided early on to get all the poo out of my system (so to speak) by putting it in one ep - that way, anyone who didn't find scatological funnies to be funny could just skip it.

​Obviously, there's a bit of poo-jokery in some of the other eps, and the poo stuff IS actually very important to the ongoing story. But - hey - don't say I don't ever consider those of a sensitive nature.

BENSON'S BROWN HONEY

This was based on a spoof teletext ad that I did last year - you know: one of the ones which people keep mistaking for things which ran on Digi back in the day. We'd never have gotten away with this one on Digi. 

THE MULTIVERSE WILL TREMBLE

Is he a good guy? Is he a bad guy? Does it matter? Next Sunday's ep is the last one before the finale. Brace yourselves...