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| Strip 1: Stiffing | From left to right, Frank, Guy, and Simon sit at a restaurant with a P.E.T.A. rib advertisement behind them. A waitress hands them the bill.
/ Waitress: Here's your bill. / Frank (slapping face): Shit! I forgot my money. How are we gonna pay for this?
/ Guy: Don't worry, I have a plan. Follow my lead. / Guy:... http://redbrickroadstudios.com/strips/?number=1 |
| Strip 2: Armchair Scientific Philosopher | Guy stands holding a coffee. Simon holds two books in his hands sitting on the couch.
/ Guy: What are you doing?
/ Simon: Well, this book uses science to prove that there is no god... / Simon: ...and this one uses philosophy to prove that there is. I'm going to put them inside my head and let them battle... http://redbrickroadstudios.com/strips/?number=2 |
| Strip 3: The Age of Sexual Machines | Frank and Guy sit in front of a television in the living room watching a Dead or Alive commercial.
/ Frank: I thought advertisements are supposed to make you want to be something else?
/ Guy: They are. / Frank: So what's this one saying? Buy D.O.A. and you'll be a lonely pervert who jacks off to CG girls?
/ Guy:... http://redbrickroadstudios.com/strips/?number=3 |
| Strip 4: Fro | Fro and his dad are in a kitchen. Fro sits with a book in hand. Fro's dad holds a knife.
/ Fro's dad: Since Al Queda probably put Ecstasy in the water supply, we'll be drinking out of my private spring in the mountains. / Fro: But that's full of sulfur run-off from the abandoned coal mines. / Fro's... http://redbrickroadstudios.com/strips/?number=4 |
| Strip 5: Fro Reloaded | Fro and his dad are in a meat locker. Fro's dad is cutting intestines. Fro is getting a popsicle.
/ Fro's dad: I tried to buy some beer, but Bin Laden was working the register. / Fro's dad leaving the locker with meat over his shoulder.
/ Fro: His name is Scott and his family has lived here for four... http://redbrickroadstudios.com/strips/?number=5 |
| Strip 6: Fro Revolutions | Simon sits in the living room reading a book while Frank lays sprawled out upon the couch. Guy leans against the wall with a coffee. Fro enters.
/ Fro: I need to get away from my dad. Can I stay here with you guys?
/ Simon: I don't know. We're kinda cramped the way it is.
/ Fro: I can live in this closet.
/ Guy:... http://redbrickroadstudios.com/strips/?number=6 |
| Strip 7: Mislocation | Chuff wakes up in the forest. Snow is falling.
/ Chuff: Ah man, where am I? / On a pay phone, Chuff smokes a cigarette.
/ Chuff: Guys, I ended up in Alaska somehow, and I don't have any money. I need you to wire airfare. / Guy and Simon looking out window.
/ Guy: Chuff, we can see you outside the win... http://redbrickroadstudios.com/strips/?number=7 |
| Strip 8: Metaphysics | Close up of Chuff standing in the woods, hand on his chin, contemplating.
/ Chuff: Why am I here? / Zoom out. Yellow highway lines. Simon holds a stick with a can on it.
/ Simon: Because you trashed our hotel at the beach and now we have to do community service.
/ Chuff: (thinking) Why do pointy things... http://redbrickroadstudios.com/strips/?number=8 |
| Strip 9: Reverse Psychology | Guy and Simon sit at Guy's drawing board.
/ Simon: You see, if we tell Frank we think he'll do a poor job, he'll do an excellent job just to prove us wrong. / Frank at his laptop in the kitchen with Guy facing his back to Frank.
/ Guy: Here's the comic, but don't even bother editing it since you suck. / Later.... http://redbrickroadstudios.com/strips/?number=9 |
| Strip 10: Adventures with DMT | Frank stands behind Simon who is at his computer in his room.
/ Frank: I had this wicked dream about the muppets last night.
/ Simon: As long as they weren't raping you, I want to hear it. / Frank stands silent. Simon types. / Frank has head down.
/ Frank: Nevermind. http://redbrickroadstudios.com/strips/?number=10 |
| Episode I: Getting the apartment (part 1) | Simon and Guy sit in a dorm room filled with boxes.
/ Simon: Man, college sucks.
/ Guy: At least you had the room to yourself half the year. / Flash to Simon's dorm room with his old roommate sitting in a chair, pants down, penis in his hand, belt around his neck and a naked woman on his laptop. His... http://redbrickroadstudios.com/episodes/?epsiode=1&part=1 |
| Strip 11: William Tell Practice | Fro holds a bow and looks in shock at Chuff who has an arrow in his left eye.
/ Fro: I didn't think it was loaded! http://redbrickroadstudios.com/strips/?number=11 |
| Episode I: Getting the Apartment (part 2) | Enter Frank (into the dorm room with Guy and Simon)
/ Frank: Check out what I inherited from my uncle Zampano! / Guy: (while reading a letter Frank hands to him) How do you inherit an apartment? Isn't there rent and stuff? / close-up to Frank.
/ Frank: Yeah, I know. This is AWESOME! http://redbrickroadstudios.com/episodes/?epsiode=1&part=2 |
| Strip 12: Lucky (He wouldn't wear giraffe pants) | Fro and his father stand in their kitchen. Fro's dad is in the background; he wears a PETA shirt. Fro holds and pets a rabbit.
/ Fro's dad: Whatcha got there, boy? / Fro : (holding up rabbit) It's my lucky three-legged rabbit. / SMACK. Rabbit falling in the air.
/ Fro's dad: You idiot! You got it b... http://redbrickroadstudios.com/strips/?number=12 |
| Episode I: Getting the Apartment (part 3) | Close up of Simon (in the dorm room with Frank and Simon)
/ Simon: Hey, we could all live together next year! And get out of these dorms. / Close up of Guy.
/ Guy: But this place is on the other side of the river, in the crappy part of town. / Cut to outside in the hall. Two people playing football.... http://redbrickroadstudios.com/episodes/?epsiode=1&part=3 |
| Strip 13: Asian Jimmy | Wal-Mart comes to China. A man in ancient Chinese dress holds a DVD player with a blank face.
/ Chinese man: I just made this last week... http://redbrickroadstudios.com/strips/?number=13 |
| Episode I: Getting the Apartment (part 4) | Shot of the students in the hall playing football. Guy, Simon, and Frank seen as shadows in the doorway conversating.
/ Simon: I think public transportation is a fair trade for not having to share a bathroom with fifty people.
/ Guy: Easy for you. You don't have to carry paintings around. / Cut to football... http://redbrickroadstudios.com/episodes/?epsiode=1&part=4 |
| Strip 14: Hung like a... | Picture of a horse hanging from a tree by a rope tied around its neck. http://redbrickroadstudios.com/strips/?number=14 |
| Episode I: Getting the Apartment (part 5) | Cut to students in the hall being sprayed by sprinkler. A girl is getting drenched. / Cut to Simon, Frank, and Guy standing on bed in dorm room as water floods the room. / Zoom to Guy and Frank.
/ Guy: Ok, I'll check it out. http://redbrickroadstudios.com/episodes/?epsiode=1&part=5 |
| Strip 15: It's a Wonderful Life | Simon and Guy stand in the kitchen.
/ Simon: So according to this article, people create a 'positive bubble', seeing their lives as better than they really are. This is a mental delusion and only the depressed are truly sane. / In walks Emily.
/ Emily: It feels so wonderful to be alive. / Guy and Simon... http://redbrickroadstudios.com/strips/?number=15 |
| Episode I: Getting the Apartment (part 6) | Shot of a large brick building with many colored curtains. A scraggly looking man stands at the bottom. One of the windows on the ground level is busted and boarded up with plywood. / Simon, Frank, and Guy stand before this building.
/ Frank: We're number 323
/ Guy: Well, it's on the same street as the... http://redbrickroadstudios.com/episodes/?epsiode=1&part=6 |
| Strip 16: My God, A New Comic | Frank is at his laptop in the living room. Simon stands behind him.
/ Simon: Man, broadband is awesome. Remember when we were stuck with dial up? / Flash to the past. Frank squirms in chair eyes closed. Guy and Simon are frantic.
/ Guy: My God, he's choking on his own tongue!
/ Simon: But we can't call... http://redbrickroadstudios.com/strips/?number=16 |
| Episode I: Getting the Apartment (part 7) | Cut to two characters walking down the street. Fro and Chuff.
/ Fro: What are you three doing out here? / Cut to full shot of all five characters. Fro, Chuff, Simon, Frank, and Guy.
/ Simon: Hey Chuff. Hey Fro. We're checking out an apartment.
/ Fro: Well, uh...you sure picked a great place for that.
/ Frank:... http://redbrickroadstudios.com/episodes/?epsiode=1&part=7 |
| Strip 17: Total Information Awareness | Satellite map on a website with zoom in and zoom out buttons. / Fro's dad sits looking at computer screen, shotgun in hand.
/ Fro's dad: Try to sneak up on me now. http://redbrickroadstudios.com/strips/?number=17 |
| Episode I: Getting the Apartment (part 8) | Cut to inside the apartment. Simon, Guy, Fro, and Frank stand inside. Fro is opening a closet door.
/ Simon: Hey, this place is a lot bigger than it looks on the outside.
/ Guy: Good idea, Fro. Check the closets for squatters. / Cut to Fro kneeling before a small door inside the closet.
/ Fro: (thinking)... http://redbrickroadstudios.com/episodes/?epsiode=1&part=8 |
| Strip 18: Drumming up Support | Outside, a mob of protesters march in the background. Emily stands in the foreground.
/ Emily: This rally has been so successful. We're really going to send them a message. / A protester appears.
/ Emily: I'm glad you could make it, Mark.
/ Mark: Yeah, impeach Clinton, man! / Emily: Um, do you know why... http://redbrickroadstudios.com/strips/?number=18 |
| Episode I: Getting the Apartment (part 9) | Cut to main living room of the apartment. Frank, Simon, Chuff, and Guy stand there clockwise from seven.
/ Frank: I'm finally going to have my own room!
/ Simon: Do you think any of his stuff got left behind here?
/ Frank: Well he was blind.
/ Guy: What's that thing in the corner? / Cut to a black monolith... http://redbrickroadstudios.com/episodes/?epsiode=1&part=9 |
| Strip 19: Chuff's Adventures in Wonderland | Chuff as a caterpillar crawling in the dirt. / Chuff as a caterpillar reaches a stream of water. / Chuff looks up to see Fro as a butterfly. / A zoom-out shows a hose as the source of the water with Chuff at one end and the Fro flying back and forth across it. / Chuff (thinking): I hate butterfl... http://redbrickroadstudios.com/strips/?number=19 |
| Strip 20: Homeland Security | Fro's Dad kneels outside his house. Footprints are in the snow.
/ Fro's Dad: (thinking) Footprints outside my house. Must be prowlers. / Fro's Dad, pulling out bear trap undergoes the following thought process.
/ Fro's Dad: (thinking) Just hide this under some snow... / Later, at night, with the house... http://redbrickroadstudios.com/strips/?number=20 |
| Episode II: Baseball (part 1) | Chuff stares out into the blackness. Behind him lies the living room at the apartment. / Simon slams the door to the abyss shut. Chuff stands there.
/ Simon: What did I tell you about gazing into the abyss? / Close up shot of Chuff.
/ Chuff: But it gazes back into me. http://redbrickroadstudios.com/episodes/?epsiode=2&part=1 |
| Episode II: Baseball (part 1) | Chuff stares out into the blackness. Behind him lies the living room at the apartment. / Simon slams the door to the abyss shut. Chuff stands there.
/ Simon: What did I tell you about gazing into the abyss? / Close up shot of Chuff.
/ Chuff: But it gazes back into me. http://redbrickroadstudios.com/episodes/II/ep2.1.html |
| Strip 21: Reminiscing | Simon lays in a recliner with music playing from headphones.
/ Simon: (thinking) This song brings back fond memories. Two am, driving down the highway at 75mph, waking up to this riff. / Simon: (thinking) I killed a lot of people that night. http://redbrickroadstudios.com/strips/?number=21 |
| Episode II: Baseball (part 2) | Shot of Chuff and Simon beside the door to the great black nothing.
/ Simon: At least there are no monsters for you to battle with. / Cut to Fro looking tired engaging with the Evil Face inside Fro's closet.
/ Evil Face: Fro! How did your last mission go?
/ Fro: I smashed all the mailboxes just like you... http://redbrickroadstudios.com/episodes/?epsiode=2&part=2 |
| Episode II: Baseball (part 2) | Shot of Chuff and Simon beside the door to the great black nothing.
/ Simon: At least there are no monsters for you to battle with. / Cut to Fro looking tired engaging with the Evil Face inside Fro's closet.
/ Evil Face: Fro! How did your last mission go?
/ Fro: I smashed all the mailboxes just like you... http://redbrickroadstudios.com/episodes/II/ep2.2.html |
| Strip 22: Perspectives | The Delial photgraph from House of Leaves. A starving child in African lays i the grass as a vulture looks on. / Cafeteria. Fro, Guy, Simon, and Frank sit around (clockwise from 11).
/ Frank: The food here sucks! I hate my life. http://redbrickroadstudios.com/strips/?number=22 |
| Episode II: Baseball (part 3) | Close up shot of Evil Face in Fro's closet.
/ Evil Face: Bring me the smiley faces tattooed on Ozzy's knees. / Close up shot of Fro.
/ Fro: Ah man, where am I supposed to find Ozzy Osbourne? / Cut to the kitchen in the apartment. Simon, Chuff, and Guy are standing around.
/ Simon: All right! It's "Parrot... http://redbrickroadstudios.com/episodes/?epsiode=2&part=3 |
| Episode II: Baseball (part 3) | Close up shot of Evil Face in Fro's closet.
/ Evil Face: Bring me the smiley faces tattooed on Ozzy's knees. / Close up shot of Fro.
/ Fro: Ah man, where am I supposed to find Ozzy Osbourne? / Cut to the kitchen in the apartment. Simon, Chuff, and Guy are standing around.
/ Simon: All right! It's "Parrot... http://redbrickroadstudios.com/episodes/II/ep2.3.html |
| Strip 23: Reflexive | Simon and Guy stand at a laptop
/ Simon: This page should finish loading in a few seconds. But this is what we need to aim for. Just put a comic like this on the Internet a few days a week and with a large audience we can live comfortably. / Guy sips coffee.
/ Simon: Advertising and t-shirt sales can... http://redbrickroadstudios.com/strips/?number=23 |
| Episode II: Baseball (part 4) | Far shot (panoramic) of baseball field. / Zoom-in to the entrance gate. Guy and Simon stand before a stadium worker handing out free parrot heads.
/ stadium worker: (dropping a parrot head in Simon's hand) Here ya go, kid. / Close-up shot of parrot head in Fro's hand. http://redbrickroadstudios.com/episodes/?epsiode=2&part=4 |
| Episode II: Baseball (part 4) | Far shot (panoramic) of baseball field. / Zoom-in to the entrance gate. Guy and Simon stand before a stadium worker handing out free parrot heads.
/ stadium worker: (dropping a parrot head in Simon's hand) Here ya go, kid. / Close-up shot of parrot head in Fro's hand. http://redbrickroadstudios.com/episodes/II/ep2.4.html |
| Strip 24: Innovation | Chuff and Simon stand in a wooded area. Chuff holds out a glass bottle with a squirrel inside.
/ Chuff: Check out my invention, "squirrel-in-a-bottle."
/ Simon: That's alive! / Close-up of bottle with Chuff's hand placing an acorn inside, infomercial-esque.
/ Chuff: You feed them acorns through the bottle... http://redbrickroadstudios.com/strips/?number=24 |
| Episode II: Baseball (part 5) | Shot of Frank looking at parrot head walking with Guy. Fro is in the background entering an employees only door at the stadium. / Close-up of parrot head in between Frank's fingers. / Fro enters employee door as Chuff stares at parrot head bemused. Franks walks ahead. / Close-up of parrot head. It... http://redbrickroadstudios.com/episodes/?epsiode=2&part=5 |
| Episode II: Baseball (part 5) | Shot of Frank looking at parrot head walking with Guy. Fro is in the background entering an employees only door at the stadium. / Close-up of parrot head in between Frank's fingers. / Fro enters employee door as Chuff stares at parrot head bemused. Franks walks ahead. / Close-up of parrot head. It... http://redbrickroadstudios.com/episodes/II/ep2.5.html |
| Episode II: Baseball (part 6) | Players throwing balls on the baseball field. / Chuff, Simon, Guy, and Frank are sitting in the bleachers all in a row. The mailman sits behind them, a mother and child in front.
/ Guy: So Frank, this is what a baseball field looks like.
/ Frank: Shut up! I know what a baseball field looks like. / Close-up... http://redbrickroadstudios.com/episodes/?epsiode=2&part=6 |
| Episode II: Baseball (part 6) | Players throwing balls on the baseball field. / Chuff, Simon, Guy, and Frank are sitting in the bleachers all in a row. The mailman sits behind them, a mother and child in front.
/ Guy: So Frank, this is what a baseball field looks like.
/ Frank: Shut up! I know what a baseball field looks like. / Close-up... http://redbrickroadstudios.com/episodes/II/ep2.6.html |
| Episode II: Baseball (part 7) | Simon, Guy, and Frank sitting in the bleachers at the baseball field.
/ Simon: (pointing) Look! It's the Walden Parrot / Cut to parrot mascot in the field, a smiley ball approaches in the background. / Same shot, the approaching smiley ball is closer. / Same shot smiley ball is rolling over the mascot.
/ Mascot:... http://redbrickroadstudios.com/episodes/?epsiode=2&part=7 |
| Episode II: Baseball (part 7) | Simon, Guy, and Frank sitting in the bleachers at the baseball field.
/ Simon: (pointing) Look! It's the Walden Parrot / Cut to parrot mascot in the field, a smiley ball approaches in the background. / Same shot, the approaching smiley ball is closer. / Same shot smiley ball is rolling over the mascot.
/ Mascot:... http://redbrickroadstudios.com/episodes/II/ep2.7.html |
| Episode II: Baseball (part 8) | Shot of Chuff, Simon, and Guy in stadium seats. The mail man is behind them.
/ Guy: (thinking) Come on. Where's the guy selling coffee?
/ Simon: Hey, we lost Fro.
/ Chuff: Eh, he's probably just getting hot dogs or something. / Cut to a man with his back turned covered in tattoos pulling parrots from a... http://redbrickroadstudios.com/episodes/?epsiode=2&part=8 |
| Episode II: Baseball (part 8) | Shot of Chuff, Simon, and Guy in stadium seats. The mail man is behind them.
/ Guy: (thinking) Come on. Where's the guy selling coffee?
/ Simon: Hey, we lost Fro.
/ Chuff: Eh, he's probably just getting hot dogs or something. / Cut to a man with his back turned covered in tattoos pulling parrots from a... http://redbrickroadstudios.com/episodes/II/ep2.8.html |
| Episode II: Baseball (part 9) | Same shot. Ozzy and Fro are facing each other in the employees only part of the baseball stadium.
/ Ozzy: Oh good, the knife I asked for is here.
/ Fro: Uh...yeah. / Close-up shot of Ozzy picking his teeth with the knife. Feathers fall out of his mouth. / Ozzy and Fro are facing each other.
/ Ozzy: (holding... http://redbrickroadstudios.com/episodes/?epsiode=2&part=9 |
| Episode II: Baseball (part 9) | Same shot. Ozzy and Fro are facing each other in the employees only part of the baseball stadium.
/ Ozzy: Oh good, the knife I asked for is here.
/ Fro: Uh...yeah. / Close-up shot of Ozzy picking his teeth with the knife. Feathers fall out of his mouth. / Ozzy and Fro are facing each other.
/ Ozzy: (holding... http://redbrickroadstudios.com/episodes/II/ep2.9.html |
| Episode III: Camping (part 1) | At the apartment in the living room, Guy and Frank sit on the coach while Simon stands behind them.
/ Simon: So we're graduating in little over a week. How the hell did that happen?
/ Frank: We passed all our classes?
/ Simon: No, I was thinking more along the lines of "How did time go by that quickly?" / Zoom-in... http://redbrickroadstudios.com/episodes/?epsiode=3&part=1 |
| Episode III: Camping (part 1) | At the apartment in the living room, Guy and Frank sit on the coach while Simon stands behind them.
/ Simon: So we're graduating in little over a week. How the hell did that happen?
/ Frank: We passed all our classes?
/ Simon: No, I was thinking more along the lines of "How did time go by that quickly?" / Zoom-in... http://redbrickroadstudios.com/episodes/III/ep3.1.html |