This was.... an INTERESTING episode to make. Specifically "#172 - The Ragin' Cajun" and the surprise, last-minute stunt-casting/mixing for "Brogamers".

Let's start with "#172 - The Ragin' Cajun". You'd think a comic franchise as lucrative as the X-Men would develop a consistent aural/musical identity after so many years of adaptations and re-adaptations of their most popular storylines-- Well okay, actually you wouldn't, I guess. Not every animated series has the strong, consistent universe that Bruce Timm, Paul Dini et al created when they magicked up the width and breadth of the DCAU (along with consistent character themes and musical cues). Even the movies have had a different composer for each film - each composer giving a different treatment for a "main themesong" for the X-Men.

Basically what this all boiled down to was - I didn't really have a lot of memorable themesongs from the various X-Men series to use for backing the strip. And what memorable themesongs there WERE, only ever showed up in the opening sequences of their respective cartoon shows. Which was filled with distracting SFX from whatever cool actioney stuff was happening on screen at the time. Fortunately for all, it all worked out in the end! With a little bit of wriggling over what could be considered a "memorable themesong" that is in some way "connected" to the "X-Men". Quotation marks.

Now, "Brogamers". "Brogamers" came out only a couple of days a-bro-- I mean. ago. And after mixing the episode as it was and coming up a little bit short on the running time, I decided to embark on some last-minute STUNT CASTING to adapt "Brogamers". Not something I usually do, I tend to plan an episode about a month in advance: sending out lines to my actors, gathering music and sfx, image editing, audio editing (once I get lines in) - that all takes time and I like a little padding to prevent my going crazies as I also begin prepping what strips to use in the episode AFTER the next one and the casting that goes with it at the same time. Oh, and releasing the current episode, as well. So doing what I usually do for the other strips in this episode - but in the space of less than a week (actually four and a half hours - in the case of audio cleanup, audio mixing then video mixing after everything was gathered up for me) is ZOMG crazy and I will never do it ever again ever. Until the next time. Special thanks has to go to D-Mac, sonicmega and Darkwolf for agreeing to do lines/directing on such crazy short notice - and then going on TOP of that and adding a whole bunch of bro-tastic adlibs not in the original strip. Unfortunately, the process seems to have driven one of my actors crazy, as he couldn't speak a single sentence afterwards without some bro/brah-related pun. He has since been locked into a padded cell where he will bother no one else with his maniacal punning for the rest of his life and forever.

Anyway. Woof. Long liner notes for this episode. Many, many thanks to all my voice actors and for their time and effort in bringing out these episodes on a bimonthly basis. I really couldn't do these episodes without you, so thank you for sticking out with these series and providing great work time and time again. And of course, I reiterate the special thanks to D-Mac, sonicmega and Darkwolf for their awesome help in "Brogamers". And of course, a whole lot of thanks to Scott Ramsoomair for creating VG Cats! Please don't sue me.

[[EDIT: HOLY CARP! Featured on the front page of VG Cats itself? Thank you so much, Scott - insanely flattered right now. And: helloooooooooooooooo, new viewers! Boy, there sure are a lot of yous.]]

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Adaptations of the following strips in order of appearance:
#155 - High Ground
#172 - The Ragin' Cajun
#259 - The Comedian
#260 - Off Broadway Production
#261 - Call to Arms
Brogamers

Cast:
Edward "Darkwolf" Bosco as Count Dooku, Sentinel, Gambit and JR
Tamtu "seraphskye" Bui as General Grevious and Cyclops
Sean "sonicmega" Chiplock as Shwatzencop and Chet
Cody "YdocNameloc" Coleman as George Lucas and Pantsman
"D-Mac" Deven Mack as the Narrator
Lucien "luciendodge" Dodge as Palpatine
Stephen "Shard Spider" Lynch as Obi Wan Kenobi
Chris "Kirbopher15" Niosi as Anakin Skywalker
Rina-chan as Padme
Shockdingo as Darth Vader
Autumn Stroble as Aeris and Leo's Mom
Edwyn Tiong as Leo, Krug, The Blob and Leonardo the 2nd
Kimlinh "Hnilmik" Tran as Jubilee

VG Cats created by Scott Ramsoomair

Mixed by: Edwyn Tiong

Soundtrack: (in order)
The Noveltones - Left Bank Two
Star Wars Main Theme - Disco Version
Star Wars Republic Commando - Rage Of The Shadow Warriors
Star Wars - Episode III - Revenge of the Sith - Palpatine's Teachings
Star Wars - Episode II - Attack of the Clones - Across the Stars
Star Wars - Episode III - Revenge of the Sith - Battle of the Heroes
Star Wars - Episode III - Revenge of the Sith - The Birth of the Twins/Padmé's Destiny
The Hit Crew - X-men Theme Song
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Requiem (K. 626) - Dies Irae
X-Men 2 United - Suite from X2
Marvel vs. Capcom 2 New Age of Heroes - Player Select
X-Men Origins: Wolverine - Logan Through Time
Castle Crashers - Tricky's Song
Back to the Future III - Main Title
Ren and Stimpy - Golden Oldies
Ren and Stimpy - Veiled Threat (a)
Ren and Stimpy - Happy Feet
Ren and Stimpy - Tom Fool
Bezo - Ultimate Warrior Theme
The Secret of Monkey Island - Opening Theme
NFL on FOX Themesong
Powerglove - Zelda Theme Song

Sound Effects:
Back to the Future
BBC - Human Crowds
Call of Cthulhu - Dark Corners of the Earth
Final Fantasy 8
Guilty Gear X
Half-Life 2
Halo 2
Max Payne 2
Portal
Psychonauts
Rayman Raving Rabbids
Sacred
SiN Episodes - Emergence
Sony Pictures Sound Effects Series
Soundsnap.com
Star Wars - Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
Star Wars - The Phantom Menace game demo
Star Wars - Knights of the Old Republic
Team Fortress 2
Valentino Productions SFX Library
Miscellaneous stuff from online

Thanks for the listen! And watchin'!