From On Patrol #13: The Introduction of the Heart Condition
January 23rd, 2012
I remember staying up all night in some conference room writing this bit with Joe Fey and David Lewis – we’d done calls for both of these characters the week before, and from that idea arose the in-studio debate. We must’ve spent hours just making each other laugh, and thinking up more absurd ideas for this thing; at some point past 2 AM we decided to have David yell “Whoop!” at various moments, and that’s really when we lost our minds. I think originally PlumKilogram was supposed to be the more humorous of the two, but listening back now there’s something so disgustingly funny about OrangePound, especially when he says that he made his wife “wail.” The really long soliloquy about him taking the family to Disney World has to be Joe’s writing – that’s totally his humor. Both David and Joe left college after freshman year, and I’ll always remember this bit as the pinnacle of our collaborative writing – three guys who could truly crack each other up.
