From On Patrol #77: Haircut Makes The Man
November, 11th, 2014

This is a bit with a lot of moving parts to it, so much so that certain jokes get overshadowed. I don’t even remember writing that Drac ‘n Cheese line – that might’ve been something Ridley threw in there. I knew I wanted to expand this Zulu religion thing from the earlier bit, so we added Kip Hathaway as a High Zulu Priest or something. Kip is a super talented actor with this stellar voice that I wanted to do something with on air. I’d seen him and Ridley together (the lanky Hawaiian shirt bit is true – you could really spot Kip anywhere), so I think I just emailed them with the idea and got to work. This one has a lot of favorite moments: Kip’s lengthy story about his fear of internships, Ridley’s Tanksy persona, the Infinite Reverb Pedal – but the real gold is the little stuff, like Ridley quietly repeating everything Kip says, and them constantly blurting out: “Praise Zulu.” They both have such unique comedic voices that I was able to write for them again and again – their parts in Bar Mitzvah Crawl were written with them in mind, as were the additional Zulu bits. This is also the first appearance of Will’s unscripted pronunciation of Caprese Panini, which I added because I’d seen him eating one in the university’s café. From that point on I pretty much tacked it on to the end of every bit just to make him say it.