The season one finale of commodoreHUSTLE, in which the crew finally confronts their self-proclaimed nemesis.

In Season One’s second-last episode, the mystery is finally revealed. unfortunately, it’s still wrapped in an eminga, and the LRR Crew can’t even SPELL enimga.

The LoadingReadyRunners website is meant to be a fan club for cH and LRR and a portal to community participation and interactivity, as well as an outlet for bonus content and fan-made tributes. Some of the details on how these various aspects of the site will work are still up in the air, but that’s the nature of a community-driven endeavour. We look forward to getting your input and seeing the Runners evolve over time.

At launch, here are a few of the things you can see on the website:

• Downloadable bonus content, such as posters, wallpapers, MP3s of original music, and more.
• Fan-made videos and other fan-created content.
• Community challenges and events, also known as “Operations.” (The first of these will be launching in the next day or two.)

So, check it out and tell us what you think!

The Crew are easily distracted by shiny objects. Or furry objects. Let’s just say they’re easily distracted.

The crew enlists outside help to solve some problems, as they are clearly incapable of handling any on their own.

So, Operation: Viral Outbreak kind of… broke out. And that means the LRR crew has some serious thinking to do. Sadly they’re not good at “serious”.

HUSTLE has evolved out of a series of LoadingReadyRun videos we’ve made over the years, in which the cast played exaggerated versions of themselves.  The clearest example of this sort of video can be found in the Matt/Graham room-mate videos We produced during Season 5.  These videos would lay the groundwork for the character dynamics btween Graham and myself.  These Videos include:

Moving Out, Bandwidth Exceeded, Format War, and Son of a Bitch.

Paul’s character, the mad-scientist-y tinkerer type, also has a fairly rich history in our videos, including Brain Transplants Made Easy,  and Bagel Time.  Installation Anxiety is the quintessential video in this series.

You can trace the development of the other characters in films like Easy Bake Spore, Morning After, Worst Homosexual,  A Little Too Human, and Pull Yourself Together.

So that covers the history of the characters, but what about the in-episode references?  Well, there’s some videos you may want to watch through to get these as well.  I’ll break the references Up by episode.

Episode 1 - Laundry:

The only real references in this episode are to character establishers lisetd above, the Room-mate Quadrilogy, and maybe The Worst Homosexual.  There is also a brief reference, in the form of a voicemail message, to Those Games We Played.

Episode 2 - Red:

You’ll find the core reference in this episode is to: Rap-Star 64K (along with the other 64k Raps).

Episode 3 - Critical:

This episode doesn’t directly reference any previous videos, so you get off easy on this one.   We did re-use the music from How to Talk Like a Pirate, though, and it’s a great video, so go watch it.  ARR.  We did also reference This Skittles Commercial.

Episode 4 - Fixer:

This episode has a neccessary pre-requisite.  In 2007 we went to the Penny-Arcade Child’s Play Charity Dinner after conducting the first Desert Bus for Hope. While there, we filmed Lock Out, guest starring Jerry Holkis and Wil Wheaton.  Wil Wheaton reprised his role from Lock Out in this episode, as the LRR crew returns to the 2008 charity dinner.  Mostly though, this episode just follows up on previous episodes of HUSTLE.

Episode 5 - Street:

This is another episode that stays fairly self contained.  No real references to other videos that I can think of off the top of my head, aside from Paul rapping “This is Why I’m Paul” from Rapstar 64k, and a line lifted from AWESOME! We… Shot This.

Episode 6 - Viral: 

This is where things get fun, references all over the place.  For those not old enough to remember the 80’s, and early 90’s there’s Captain Planet and the Power Rangers. The happy ball comes from Inside D&D 4th Ed. There’s the obvious Warriors of Darkness, from The Truce, and Rapid Fire 2.  We also reference The Con, and Three PS3’s (I’ve linked the ripped off YouTube version with over a million views, and almost the same number of death threats.) .  To the extent that we intentionally named it in the scene, there’s a Geometry Wars reference. Oh, and you’ll find the baby meercats here.  Also, because we’re cool like that, if we talk about making fake virals and putting them on Youtube, it’s safe to assume we’re actually going to do it.  They are as follows: My Girlfriend Games, YouTube is Stupid! And so are its users, I heard you liek tits, The boy who cried wolf, Things On My Head, YOU HAVE SPACE JUMP!, and our biggest success story,  Epic Nunchuk Fail, which has found its way to Break.com, collegehumor.com, and failblog.org.

So, that about sums it up.  I’ll try to update when new episodes come out to document the references we’re making, just so everyone stays up to speed.  Enjoy!

-Matt

The crew needs to get more viral. But not in the way you are thinking. That would be gross.

As you saw, in Episode 06 (the aptly named “Viral”) we produced a bunch of fake videos that are the kind of stuff the internet likes. We’d like to see if one (or more) of these can actually get serious views. That’s right, we actually made all those videos.

But, and this is very important, it won’t work if word gets out that they’re fake. This is a very “Don’t talk about Fight Club” scenario. Don’t make a big deal about it… just pass them around. We’ll be doing the same. And above all, keep it a secret!!

When the next episode of cH comes out we’ll break the news, and hopefully make some people look a bit silly. If it works out, this will be hilarious.

Here are the links to all the YouTube channels for these videos:

http://www.youtube.com/user/mygirlfriendgames
http://www.youtube.com/user/georgegordon111
http://www.youtube.com/user/matt68735468
http://www.youtube.com/user/mckitkat01
http://www.youtube.com/user/thewolfcrier
http://www.youtube.com/user/thingsonmyhead
http://www.youtube.com/user/samus5959

All right internet, make us proud!

A lot of you might be saying, “What’s a commodoreHUSTLE?!?” Well, we’re glad you asked. cH (as we call it, to save on letters) is an internet comedy series from the creators and crew of LoadingReadyRun. It documents our trials and troubles as we try to strike it big in the world of online video.

Even if you’ve never heard of LoadingReadyRun, you’ve probably seen one of our videos over the years. The point being, that if you check out cH, and you like what you see, you might like to know that “the site” we talk about is a real place, and has over five years of video sketch comedy for you to check out.

Will our plans and schemes lead to our eternal e-fame? We don’t know. Join us and find out.

Thanks for watching!