So what is the progress of the episode? It's nearing completion. Sorry that there's still no airdate (or a tentative one at that), but here's another preview image to turn you off of it entirely:

Jesus.

Before you go, please check out the new Homeless in Denton/Slamfest store, courtesy of our good friends Jeremy Thorn and Sam Respess. If you have yet to discover either show, then head on over to Google Video before you buy any of their merchandise. You'd be silly otherwise.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go vegetate with my Arrested Development Season Three DVDs.

Neither of those captions are accurate... but if you were a member of the fan forum you might have had an opportunity to contribute those very speculations to the series of tubes that make up our website. And please keep the conversation civil... we're not a dumptruck.

Of course it'll be changed up a little, but I wanted to get it out there early so it could make its way onto the Merchandise page as the front of a brand new black t-shirt. Buy one, and cover up your innards-a-plenty.

Wait, where are you going? Do you want to stay and chat or something? Oh God, don't leave! So... so lonely.

Kirk!
Edgar!
Layme!

The episode isn't up on Google Video yet, but it is firmly entrenched in the SNL clip archive that is YouTube. Come for Joey Bagwell, stay for Ron the Farmer.

We just finished a 15-hour production day (10 AM - 3 AM), and will be picking up tomorrow, recording season 2 DVD commentaries for 201 - 204, doing some cast and crew interviews for some DVD special features, and finishing up this massive shoot for 205. Once that's done there will still be ten or so pages of the script left to shoot, which I'll be doing after a weeklong booze-and-hooker sabbatical.

What we shot today came off very well, and I'm anxious to see the dailies. But in the meantime, rest assured that 204 - The Puppet Masters will more than likely be premiering Monday, June 12. If I can, I'll post a production photo or two from the 205 shoot.

Right, I've got to wake up in slightly over five hours for another ridiculouly exhaustive production day. Check back here for more stuff, and feel free to discuss things on the forum. It won't bite. Hard.

We're going to be adding a variety of season two-inspired merchandise in the coming weeks, so keep checking back for more. Elvis and Slick Monty Gear: It'll baffle your friends.

And, as per usual, the new episode comes with the crop of new character biographies... Jeff Goldblum, James Vermouth, Newsman, and Will Vodka, New Man. Now that's what I call some well-proportioned men.

You also may have noticed that season 1 has been removed from Google Video.In doing this, it saves us the embarassment of having season 1 readily available to the public (apart from the DVD sets, of course, which are worth the cost for the special features). Apologies to the loyal army of "A Fish Called Bananers" fans, but we just couldn't take the shame any more.

Looking ahead, 204 has wrapped and I've cut together about 3/4 of the whole thing. The 205 script is complete, and we'll be shooting that in early June, hopefully for a July release to cap off the NTTV portion of the series... with a jam-packed DVD set hot on the heels of that.

And as always, hop on over to the fan forum and finger-bang up some discussions. You never know... you may end up meeting someone there, collaborate on a videogame fan-site for five years, go on to co-produce a terrible webcomic, return to the fan-site, then starting work on a cable access TV show. Crazier things have happened.

And here's something to get to discussing.... we've kept information about episode 203 under wraps, but it's almost out. I finished the final cut two days ago and it's now being scored by our new musician Jeremy Thorn (of NTTV's "Homeless in Denton" fame). We're still not ready to give away the title, but we're got a teaser in the form of delectable new wallpaper!

As for the rest of the season, 204 has completely wrapped, and I've cut together about a third of it. I'd say it's turning out well. Also, the first draft of episode 205 - the NTTV finale - is completed, and the script is currently going through a quick revisionary process to streamline it. We have a ton of ground to cover with 205, a ridiculous number of plotlines to service, and man it's a doozy. Chat it up in the forums, wouldja?

If you're lazy, you can also watch it on this very site. Right here, in fact. Rock your cocks off.

- the saucy Kathleenna Gin
- the pickly Officer Murtagh Boklovah
- the stereotypickly Oliv Gardino

The Google Video and YouTube copies will be online shortly, and we'll keep you posted. In the meantime why not try on a production update for size? Sunday night we shot with a gigantic cast until 1:30 in the morning. On a school night. That's right folks, episode 204 is well into production. Season two's penultimate episode is turning out fairly well, and I'll drop a screengrab or two in here once I finish 203 and turn my attention to editing that one. In the meantime, here's a lovely behind the scenes photo:

Whuh-oh, that looks pretty crazy! You'd better go to our forum and discuss it, quick!

Don't forget to discuss all new Elvis and Slick developments in our forum! We know you're dying too. Why wouldn't you be?

And while I'm here, I might as well give you a little something to kick off the discussion. The first ever screenshot for Episode 203: [title withheld].

I hope you enjoyed the framegrab from 202 in the last post. We shot that last weekend, and so far I've cut together a little under half of the episode. I think those of you on the second-season fence after having seen 201 will be knocked off with this stuff. It actually kind of feels like a real TV show.

One last thing before I go... I'd like to publicly declare a feud between File Two Productions and the schlock online encyclopedia, Wikipedia. For a few weeks, there was a page devoted to Elvis and Slick Monty, but it soon disappeared. I did some digging, and discovered the following dialogue between two Wikipedia administrators:

"I don't think this is material that we want to keep in any case (it's a sitcom airing only on what is apparently the University of North Texas' tv channel.)"
"Deletion permission granted. The result of the debate was: Delete."

I'm sure glad Wikipedia is keeping up appearances by deleting entries about superfluous, unintelligible attempts at comedy. If you'll excuse me, I'll just be praying to the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

Wikipedia.... you haven't heard the last of us.

Christmas may be upon us, but for our Jewish friends (and cast members, har-har) there's still some gift-buying time left. Hanukkah starts this year at sundown December 25. Why not finish your shopping in one fell swoop by buying eight copies of the Season 1 DVD set? It's how Mattityahu would have wanted it.

...oh, and there's that Complete First Season 3-disc DVD Set that you can order, if you really want to. Pay-pal only, folks. Sorry, no C.O.D.'s.

God, I'm tired. I'm going to get so fucking drunk...

WHOA!!!

The three-disc sets will be $10 for pick-up at North Texas Television, beginning January 2. Starting next week, there will also be an option to purchase the set online for $15 ($10 + $5 shipping) via PayPal. Quantities are limited to about 55 sets, so be sure you check back here in a few days to get in while the gettin's hot!

Also, I'm still working on 201. It's all cut together, I just need to add the score and tweak the audio a bit. 202 has been written, 203's being written, and the rest of the second season has been mapped out in detail. Yes maam.

*bearded director not included

This evening at 7:15 PM, we wrapped on episode 201... Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (Honkey Edition). It was two marathon days and nights of shooting, 7 hours on Saturday and 5 hours today. It all came together and everything meshed unlike any other episode. Things are going to be different this season, but I'm looking forward to it. It's going to be good.

I just realized, when I sat down to write this, that I had been holding a 3-chip DV camera and shoulder mount for upwards of 12 hours. The lactic acid present in my arms could dissolve chicken bones.

We had a pretty big cast in this episode, especially coming off the four-man shrink-wrap of season 1. The cast consisted of Greg Janda, Banks Lee, Mariola Schmid, Jeff Stebbins, Matt Muhl, Mark Moseley, Sam Respess and myself. We also had a new boom operator / PA, Matt Gibson, who saved my ass at least a dozen times throughout the shoot.

So thanks for sticking with us, guys. This is a good one, and I'm glad to have it in the can. I've just got to edit it all together, send it off for scoring (What? Oh, yes, that's new this season too), and we'll see what we've got. Here's a little sneak preview of what we got ourselves into:

Lastly, I thought I'd hit you all up with a preview of the Season 1 DVD set to whet your appetites... I just counted out the things on my gigantic outline, and there are 49 individual special features across the three discs, including three featurettes, some deleted scenes, a TON of outtakes, a METRIC ton of un-used script pages, and much much more.

I'll be looking into availability options more in the future, but right now I think that I'll do online sales through Paypal, so if you've got a credit card you'll be fine. And they'll be sold on the cheap... probably something like $10 plus shipping. But don't quote me on that.

Lastly, I want to give a big shout out to Mr. Matthew Muhl, who's breathed life into such thinly written characters as Anderson Tyrone, Ron the Farmer, and Sir Donny Q. Donderly. He's got his own show at NTTV called Deadly Cinema, and they just wrapped their series and held a huge theatrical watch party at the Denton Movie Tavern last Wednesday. The series finale comes on NTTV tonight at 7:00, so I urge you all to watch. And if you can't, then for the love of god, drop 8 bucks and pick up a copy of the three-disc Deadly Cinema Complete Series DVD Set. Well done, Matt. You deserve a nice long break... but unfortunately, we've got 201 to shoot! See you tomorrow night, buddy.

Hyle and I are hard at work on preproduction for the second season. Episode 201's script has been written, 202 is nearing completion, and the entire six-episode second season has been outlined. We'll see how many episodes actually get made. My bet's on four.

For those of you on the Internets that hate Google's bizarre Flash compression, know this: I'm currently working toward an eventual 3-disc Elvis and Slick Monty DVD set. It's packed with far more special features than actual content, so it should keep most of you pretty busy.

Look for gallery updates, episode guides, and character biographies in the coming days. And remember... I'm looking over your shoulder, but only because I've got your back.

In other news, last night Hyle made an amazing find. Some dedicated fan set up a wonderful bulletin board at Elvis and Slick Central. I swear this wasn't us at work... somebody is actually this nuts. Naturally, we jumped on this and became the second and third people to register. Won't you be fourth?

TWELVE HOURS LATER

Episode 104 is in the can. I'm tired and I just want to sleep.

I also know that this site has been seriously neglected in terms of image content and character bios. That'll all get fixed soon enough... just bear with Hyle. He's a slacker. Not me, though.

Since you've been oh-so patient with my downright glacial episode turnout, here's a little present: Two new downloads on our appropriately titled Downloads page. We've got an oft-aired station promo for episode 103, and a brand new celebrity.. eh... 'endorsement' from a member of the US House of Representatives. Looks like Doctor Leon's ambiguous sexuality from episode 103 is biting us in the ass.

After an exhaustive location scouting, the most beautiful faux french chicken shack was found to, very nearly, complete episode 102. But, I don't want to say too much so... I'll let a set of nondescript rhetorical questions totally NOT do the job.

-Does a female finally appear on screen with the gang?
-Does Elvis take a meeting with a politician?
-Does Dr. Leon get on Slick's nerves?
-Does Slick cry?

To answer these questions you'll have to wait for the premiere of episode 102 only on NTTV.

But what happened to the SECOND episode, you might ask? Well, it was delayed, but should be coming sometime in the next couple of weeks. It is set chronologically before 103, so you'll get to find out exactly why Elvis looks different than he did in 101. Stay logged in here for more information (but chances are you won't, because the show either frightens you or you just outright hate it).

Last Thursday, we filmed for about an hour on episode 103, which leaves that episode aaaalmost completed. You ladies should be happy to know that it's just as big a sausage fest as the pilot.

And speaking of euphemisms for the penis, on Friday I barked orders at a studio crew, like the asshole director that I am, as we filmed the pilot of Doctor Leon's spinoff series. You'll probably hear more about that later, but here's a small hint: think of how much smarter the comedy on Frasier is than that of Cheers.... now flip that around, adjust for inflation, and you'll begin to get the picture.

We dropped a bag of orphaned toddlers in a vat of water. God, I love my job.

Hey! Slick tells me that Chad has put together some of our latest escapades. But, I don't own a pair of ice skates. I always wanted a pair of ice skates when I was a little E or "e". Momma always said that Memphis is no place for ice skates.

Hey! Dr. Leon came over and played Peanut Butter Cyclops with me today. But Slick got mad and said that peanut butter only goes in sammaches. I said don't be cruel Wing Daddy. I just think Slick just needs a person to look up to like Peanut Butter Cyclops.

Hey! Slick says that I need to go to bed or he won't make me Bananer eggs in the morning.

Thankya very much,

-E

Today we knocked out multiple hours worth of filming for not one, not two, nor three, more episodes, but FOUR new Elvis and Slick Monty episodes for your festive enjoyment!

Some highlights:

--Goldfish

--Dr. Leon

--Tasteful Tiki

--A Yo-Yo

--Sound Effects

What does all this mean? Why is one of the stars of the show speaking in code? What reason could possibly be behind his sudden declaration in the news site? Why is he asking these questions?

Find out during the rest of this exciting season of Elvis and Slick Monty!

You might also notice a change up at the site's top. Well, Robert Penn has decided to move on to a lucrative pre-med school plan, leaving little time for pretending to be a dead 50-year-old rockstar. In response, my first choice for Elvis, Erik Klein, finally decided to step into the role he was born to play. You'll see him in future episodes, but check out the logo to tide you over.

Rock over London, rock on Chicago...
Elvis and Slick Monty - Monday night at 9:30 on NTTV.

In the meantime, we offer this cheap gift for anybody who may have slipped your mind this holiday season: "Slick Monty Has A Posse" and "Doctor Leon Has A Posse" car window stickers, available in our Merchandise page for the low low price of only $2.49. Now if you'll excuse me, this three-in-one popcorn tin won't devour itself...

So how can you help? Well, Denton community, you can write your Congressman and demand the Emmy for Elvis and Slick! It'll work, trust me. That guy's got deeeeep pockets.

January 2005. Are you stoked? It's a washed up should-be-deceased rocker and a human-fly boxing referee! Get your ass stoked.

Keep in mind, kiddos, that you can e-mail Hyle or myself by clicking our incredibly sexy photos in the top-left corner of any given news post.

Also, be sure and check out NTTV's official site, which can also be accessed at any time via the logo underneath the bananer menu.

Trouble? I thought your name was Trevor!

To tide you over, we've finished completing the rest of the site, sans the Fan Forum, which will be up eventually. You see, first we need to find at least two fans.

These words were spoken by some famous cripple, and they're completely irrelevant to this post. Welcome to the Elvis and Slick Monty official website. I'm Chad McCanna, co-creator and director of E&SM. You'll soon grow to despise me and everything I stand for.

Episode 101, "Kamikaze Pilot" premiered on NTTV at 7:30 PM on Thanksgiving night, 11/25/04. With that first step, my File Two Productions co-founder, Hyle Russell, and I decided to make this site public, so you can get your Elvis and Slick fix even outside the reach of the Denton, TX Charter cable system.

We'll have some more features such as an image gallery and message board in the near future. For now, check the links hovering over that bananer to your left and look around! Buy a shirt. Please don't leave.