Adventures of Mike

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Spring '99 Episodes
Painting people's toenails
Sockitumi Sosumi
Mike hangs out at home
The midwestern stirfry
Exploring people's dreams
Film Noir
Mike Wars: The Next Adventure
Mike-Bo
Sportsman Supreme

Fall '99 Episodes
Shopping Around Campus
Adventure de Poundo
Mike Eats Cereal
Squirrels
Mike gets a Makeover
Mike Plays with his Friends
Pimp Daddy Santa

Spring '00 Episodes
*NOTE: These are full MPEGs*
Not Funny
Rolling Across Campus
Mike goes to Preschool
Mike the Stylist
Sockitumi: Director's Cut
Run Mikey Run
The First Day of Spring
Final Adventure

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ADVENTURES OF MIKE! Officially it's all over, and is it ever all over. What a mess. Yes, after three seasons the Adventures of Mike series has come to a close. (pause) OK, I'm over it.

Show Data:
The Adventures of Mike began as an idea Mike had to give the student-produced news/talk show Focus on U a little comic relief. It became a weekly short segment for the show.

Short comedy stints seem to be what Mike and I are comfortable with. It's highly doubtful we'll ever do Adventures of Mike commercially, but it wouldn't be much of a surprise to see us involved in some other crazy project later on. In the back of our minds, we still have about two hundred adventures to shoot, some other miscelaneous sketches, and some other artsy pieces we just never got around to. Someday, perhaps.

Tasty Informorsels:

On several occasions our show has been equated to the Tom Green show. Not to get defensive or anything, but I finally saw Tom Green last summer, and have gotta say, c'mon, we're not that bad, aren't we? ;-)

Many eposodes are done in an almost entirely spontaneous manner, but we do like to plan things sometimes. Shining examples include the Star Wars episode, Sportsman Supreme, and one of my new favorites, The First Day of Spring.

All too often friends have trouble working together, but Mike and myself have never had conflicting "creative differences" to speak of. We do get pissed at the equipment sometimes though. Damn camera X...

Adventures of Mike Trivia:

The first Adventure of Mike, like many of the others, was shot, edited, and completed in a single evening.
Before Film Noir episode, we lugged our equipment and cruised around for well over an hour with no idea what to do for the adventure. Eventually, due to frustration we simply began shooting anything at all, pulled off into a park, and thus was born one of my personal favorites.
There was an entire ending sequence planned for the Midwestern Stirfry episode, wherein Mike would take his cullonery creation around and ask people to taste it. The footage was ruined by some mechanical fluke in the camera.
Though you'd never guess it by his performance in Sportsman Supreme, Mike is a very good tennis player.
Not Funny was not intended to be an episode. Two other ideas failed miserably that evening, so, frustrated, we shot ourselves griping about not being funny anymore.
Rolling Across Campus was shot in the morning on the nastiest day we could have possibly shot an outdoor adventure. It drizzled the entire time, it was just above freezing temperature, everything was soaked... What a perfect time to roll across the campus!
We were tossing around some different show ideas when suddenly a girl rode by on her bike and suggested we shoot her and two other RA's having their heads shaved. This of course became Mike the Stylist.
Out of the blue, Jake, a friend of mine, sent me a ragtime piano/violin duet he had composed. I knew immediately that it would be the accompanying music to the silent film episode we were beginning to brainstorm for. It all came together for The First Day of Spring.


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