Hey Stryker-Heads! Here are some long overdue behind the scenes pics from episode 1 and 2. We came up with the first Stryker as a short fun shoot we could do in a day and, by golly, that's what we did! (It was also partly inspired by a bizarre coat Chris found in a thrift store.)




The triumphant return of (the Channy Nominated) Polly H. Squawkers III. After the success of Sandwich of Terror 3, Polly had several dressing room demands for this shoot: Evian water, filet mignon parrot food, and a selection of whores.

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Hello friends/loved ones/bitter rivals!

Here's some pics from our "47 Seconds" sketch. Chris wrote it many months ago and it was inspired by all the inane grammatically incorrect (and very entertaining) YouTube comments we get. We waited to shoot it so we could work with the fine folks at Waverly Films and use their spacious office digs. It was Jer's idea to add the awesome opening with Chris walking through the various Waverly shoots. All in all, a great day with our filming friends!

Jeremy sets up a shot with Waverly's Christopher Ford (last seen in Sandwich of Terror 4) and Chris.

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The Cardboard Tube Fighting League was in town in Brooklyn on July 12, so Chris cooked up a loose quick sketch, Jeremy made an awesome cardboard costume, and we shot it.


Originally, Jeremy was never going to participate in the cardboard fighting, but when we arrived everyone was buzzing about this unknown combatant. And in a matter of minutes, Jer was thrown into a match...which he won!


For some reason, the crowd referred to Jeremy as "Turtle" (okay, I can see a TMNT facial resemblance in the mask). Oddly enough, the first guy he fought looked like "Shredder."

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Here's a crapload of pictures from Sandwich of Terror Episode 4! For the first time, every shoot was photo-documented. Even though we were ingloriously cancelled at Channel 101: NY, we're all really proud of this one. It was a fun and challenging episode to make!

I appeared multiple times at the same time on screen in "The Life And Time Travel of Dr. Barnabus Perriwinkle." How'd we do it? Well, after watching "Multiplicity" a dozen times...we decided to use numerous split screens (or "halfsies" as they're called in the biz). Both Chris and Jeremy acted as my stand-ins so I could react to myselves (goddamn prima donnas!).

In this bottom picture, Chris is playing "TOM2." Later on, we'll overlay myself as "TOM2" but remove half of the--uhhh, this is really boring to explain...we used magic! We got ourselves a "production wizard" named Hank and he waved his arms and exclaimed "Wizardly Wiz Ta-zam!" and the effect was achieved. (I love that fucking wizard.)

Here's ace DP Josh Wolitzky and our director Jeremy Westphal either A) framing a shot or B) silently mulling dinner options. (UPDATED!! Jeremy was actually consuming his own hand to get Josh's attention...It didn't work.)

Mr. Greg Erskine whipped up these awesome "Important President" prop beers. They're so regal looking! And chock full of barley, hops, and Van Buren!
We had a large cast and crew for "Any Witch Way You Can" (FUN FACT!! If you look closely you can spot "Clyde the Orangutan" in the background of this story). This was our first big night shoot and you'd never believe how we did it...lights! After blindly fumbling and groping around in the dark for a few hours, we decided to try using lights while shooting. And boy, did they ever work! Yup. They really shed some light on the subject! (FUN FACT!! This is an inside production joke because movie lights are commonly stored in sheds.)

In this bottom picture Phil Pinto is holding something rectangular, Autumn Clark has her hand up for some reason, and Christopher Ford and I are looking up. This is how movies are made.

Here's Autumn in her awesome witch make-up that she put on herself. She played both "Sharon" and the witch to best illustrate the introspective duality that one encounters in life. Also, the other lady actress (or "lactress" as they're called in the biz) never showed up, so Autumn had to do both parts.

Eric Stoltz from "Mask" and Bill Clinton made a surprise set visit.

Rob Lathan (aka "Hard Hat" from Mister Glasses) was nice enough to help us in starring in our 1980s set PSAs. In writing the episode, we wanted to come up with some really lame and ill-conceived PSAs geared towards kids. And we've always enjoyed writing characters that love sports, but don't understand them at all, so that's why the "messages" make little to no sense.

It was a super hot day when we shot in McCarron Park. That's why I'm so disoriented and trying to get audio from a Twix wrapper (off-screen) instead of Rob.

(FUN FACT!! Jeremy is using a "camera tripod" in this picture. Scientists and film historians still have no idea what it's precisely used for, but they've theorized that one possible use is drying on-set laundry).

He took my water.

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Hello, Sandwich Enthusiasts! Just wanted to post a few behind the scenes pictures.

Sandwich of Terror began as an idea Chris and I had sometime around the second episode of Scissor Cop. We both loved the cheesiness of "Tales from the Darkside" and wanted to do something that was easy to shoot, as well as being a bit more geared towards our sketch comedy background. It's also a nice challenge to create two completely different "stories" in the span of five minutes...and have weird little WXZT station promos in between.







Yours in Sandwiches,
Tom

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Well, as the old saying goes, "All good action/comedy web series must come to an end," so through the following pictures (and extensive therapy sessions), let's all work through our grief and bid a fond adieu to Scissor Cop.



SPOILER ALERT FOR THE BELOW PICTURES/COMMENTS!! (just watch the goddamn episode already!)

This was the first "flash-forward." I've had the idea to end Scissor Cop with flash-forwardS for a while and I feel that we executed it very well. Scissor Cop was always viewed as an action-y show and likened to "24" or "Die Hard" or "Lethal Weapon 4." However, for me, "Lost" was always the biggest influence on writing and structuring the episodes, especially with ripping-off (I mean, "blatantly stealing") their brilliant flash-forward storytelling device.

Most of the episode was shot in the basement of my building where we had shot the bookends for Scissor Cop 6.

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Hello, my friends. Tom Silvestro here. Just wanted to post a few pictures of the "Get on The Winning Team" shoot. We shot in Barcade in early November.

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Hey everyone, Jeremy Westphal here.

It's becoming quite popular these days to kill yourself on the internet so that countless others may watch. Without further ado, I give you my death:

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Hello, bloggernauts! Tom here. I wanted to put up some behind the scenes pics of Scissor Cop 6 (aka "Verde: The Color of Evil").

With this episode, we finally had the chance to shoot in the creepy alleyway construction we had ours eyes on since episode 4. It was worth the wait, since it makes a handsome location for our back alley medical scene.

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Hello! Party like it's 2003: we finally got a blog! To kick things off I thought we'd do a little behind the scenes of the action packed Scissor Cop Episode 5!

We intially set our sights on using an alley way, but abandoned it (we had previously abandoned that poor little alley during episode 4, but finally used it in episode 6) after lucking out with a totally sweet warehouse.

For the car stunt we had 3 cameras, with 1 running at 60 fps for slow-mo. With some careful placement of actors, camera angles, and a wall of boxes, this stunt looks much more dangerous and spectacular than it actually is. That said, don't do stunts.

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