From On Patrol #69: Grapefruit or Farts
June 2nd, 2014
Boyfriend Matt came from two different ideas. The first was that I kept meeting people who would mention having a boyfriend back home, and it seemed like every one of them was named Matt. So I decided that every character Morgan Ann played that term would mention Boyfriend Matt, and astute listeners would realize what was going on – and then he’d finally come on-air himself. The second was this joke Morgan and I had about a Pokémon named AYNRAND – I can’t remember which of us did it first, but we couldn’t stop saying it in this gravelly voice. So I sandwiched the two concepts together, and then added in these stupid puns about The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. You can hear Morgan break when she mentions AYNRAND snipping its scissors – she just couldn’t get past that. And then the thing really turns inside out when Morgan ends up talking about herself while playing Boyfriend Matt, and then has a conversation with him at the end. This was the sort of weird convoluted stuff I loved doing. I don’t know why AYNRAND is completely capitalized, but it always felt right.
