"Dismisable Evidence" ("The Longest Yard")
Pencil Marks:Okay, so in order to really understand this, one must take into consideration that at the time of this posting, Star Wars Episode 3 had just opened a week before. And if you time travel back to that weeks picture (hit the "back" button above - jeez), you'll see that one of Jake's ideas was to take our beloved Crispie and toss him into a Darth Vader suit. You know, Crispie's all burned, Anakin’s a flaming wreck... see the connection? Well as fate had it, Jake just couldn't lock it down. Just couldn't get it right. Fortunately what he did come up with was probably twenty times better.
When it came to thinking up a picture for "The Longest Yard" I was at a loss. It’s about football in prison. Now aside from "Rudy" and "The Green Mile", I'm not really into either prison or football movies. Putting the two of them together? Well let us just say that it isn't as though Reeces is knocking down the door. My mind was racing just to think of something, but I didn’t want to ask Jake for he revelled in my indecision. The only thing that kept coming into my head was... "Gee, I sure wish he would have drawn Crispie in that Vader suit." So, I did it.
The basic idea was that ole Crispie showed up to the Blockbuster Gallery a week late, and ended up in the Longest Yard picture. Jake even went far enough to provide a nice well fitting reason for his lateness.
As it was going to be a silly picture I felt I had to go a step further and fill in a couple of jokes. A few you may notice, like that familiar grouping of people on the right, or that mysterious guy hiding behind the word balloon. A couple might not really be noticeable to most people, like Erik's jersey (hint: the clue is in the word "jersey").
In the end I really like this picture, and like it even more for Jake's corrections and additions. Not my best effort ever, but an amusing take that fits the Summer Blockbuster Gallery perfectly. - Tony
Ink Smudges: Joel Hodgson once said when he and the writers for 'Mystery Science Theater 3000' sat down to come up with an episode, it was never their idea everyone would get all the jokes. They always thought the right people would get all the jokes. And that's certainly the case with this picture.
Overlooking the sly comments of professional athletes getting in trouble with the law by using it in a picture based on criminals playing football - this drawing is probably filled with the most in-jokes and nods to previous works we've ever crammed together. Hell, I don't even get ALL the jokes and I co-created it!
I should point out that even though Tony drew a great picture, there was a lot of alterations to it in Photoshop. After inking it, I thought we had drawn an M.C. Escher piece. Weird angles, overlapping images, and a really screwed up perspective. So if there's one thing I take the most pride about this, it's that I was able to correct all the problems while keeping everything Tony drew in the original. - Jake