Mind If I Fuck Around In Your Attic?

[handful_ofdust]

As recently told in cartoon form on Futurismic's Does Not Equal webcomic, my friends and I used to get together intermittently and do this thing where we'd cue up a random episode of Star Trek: Voyager, play it with the sound off and record ourselves improv-ing (and/or "improving") all the dialogue. My own habitual character was Captain "Hepburn", who I made into an insane, rapacious Mirrorverse sort of harridan with a plastique skeleton and an unshakable belief in her own overwhelming "mental powers" (did you ever notice that if the sound is off, whenever Kate Mulgrew interacts with anybody, she basically looks like she wants to eat them alive? Well, I did).

In my grantedly biased opinion, many of our Voyageur plots--demented though they might be--made far more sense than the originals; the one where Neelix tries to make cheese and it travels through the air-ducts infecting people, for example, which we ret-conned to be about "Spaft" (Tuvok, ie half-Spock, half-Shaft, ALL bad-ass) taking a bunch of Maquis infiltrators on a secret mission to sabotage the ship's heating system, leading everyone on board to try and take over command in increasingly less effective turn (Lt. "Friend", ie Paris: "Say, you mind if I take over the ship? Just once? While you're asleep, maybe?"). Or the one where we all got marooned on a seismic planet full of dinosaurs while aliens took off with our ship--"Hepburn"'s solution to that one was to rent out Ensign "Friend", ie Kim, to a bunch of other aliens in return for a new ship that happened to look exactly like it ("Just send him back when you're done!" "Uh...how will we find you?"). And who could forget our brief visit to the fabled planet of Breastia, complete with tour of their capital city, Nippleopolis? Good times.;)

Yeah, anyhow: This is TEN times funnier than those ever were. Behold the wonder that is “Happy in Paraguay”, a sampling of Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes with the sound removed and random dialogue inserted--apparently dictated by whatever it looks like the characters are saying--by the lovely boys at Dayjob Orchestra.

...eh? Eh?

In other news, now it can be told: "Hell Friend" will appear in Clockwork Phoenix 3. Grandmother Yau Yan-er, for the Dragon-boned Lady win!

Comments

[theonlytwin.livejournal.com]

ok, that wins. not only for originality (styrofoam nuns are win) but the time and dedication and cutting in led zep.

[sovay]

"Hell Friend" will appear in Clockwork Phoenix 3. Grandmother Yau Yan-er, for the Dragon-boned Lady win!

Congratulations!

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

Thanks! It's a sale I really wanted to make, so I'm happy.;)

[serrico.livejournal.com]

That is some hysterically perfect dubbing, there. Hee!

[tithenai.livejournal.com]

"What do you say we make apple juice, and fax it to each other?"

BWAHAHAHAHAH!

Thanks for sharing!

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

You're welcome! I've been laughing at it on and off for the last two days; it's a damn good distractor.

[benet.livejournal.com]

OMG that's brilliant.

Have you seen "The Sound of Marriage"?

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

I hadn't. But that rocks like GONADS AND STRIFE!

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

Oh, this week's Does Not Equal is about The Adventures of Phil Wade, i.e. the time we watched the pilot to UFO purely to try and spot your father, and he had exactly one line, which would made no sense on any other viewing but ours....

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

Wow. They really like apple juice, don't they?

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

Steve thinks "apple juice" is what they used for "Enterprise". (Which begs the question: What was "fuck a fruit basket"?)

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

Um, "something something transporter?"

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

I so want to see that.;)

[cathica.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the sale. I've been trying to sell to Clockwork Phoenix, too, but can't seem to hit the right percentages of demented and beautiful. But I'm looking forward to reading yours. 8)

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

Thank ya! I'm just happy it's doing so well, 'cause Mike has really good taste...;)

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

That's wonderful about your story being included in Clockwork Phoenix--way to go!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

In other news, that video makes me seriously want to try doing the same with other clips from other things.

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

It's very inspiring, yes. And thanks for the congrats. (You should send something, next year.)