Production Blog I: Deciding the Setting

There's going to be a new episode, and it's going to have Bouncy.

So far that's the premise of the latest Arj and Poopy Episode. Gratuitous, sure - but it's time we get him involved. This ep will really be about introducing him, show a bit about his character and how he interacts with Arj and Poopy. But other than Bouncy, there still has to be some classic Arj.

Once we decide on that classic Arj joke, the next step is coming up with the Setting. Before "Unlucky in Love", we were getting claustrophobic always being inside Arj's apartment. We'd wanted to get out of the apartment for "Shpants" but that one couldn't really be anywhere else, as he was arriving home from shopping. So for Unlucky, we came up with the idea of Poopy train spotting out in the forest. The great thing about how Arj recorded Unlucky, (and most of his recordings), was there was nothing specific about the setting. "Unlucky in Love" could have been set in a cave or on the moon, it didn't matter.

So we're zeroing in on that joke now, and after a couple of episodes, it looks as though for this one we're going back to the apartment. Then we just have to decide on whether it will be night or day...