ROX #23 may have been largely improvised, but ROX #24 was the only show in the whole series that was entirely scripted. For the most part, we don't use scripts at all. If it sounds like we're just making this up as we go along, that's becuz we are. But for “A Badly Dubbed Foreign Film,” we came up with a different concept. While J and I sat in front of the camera, TBlack and Eric White sat behind the camera and read our lines for us. We tried to mouth along to the words. Of course we were way, way off. Our lips didn't match the words at all. This made it appear as if we were in a badly dubbed foreign film. Thus, the title. I wrote the script, so J had absolutely no idea what was coming next. This entire episode was shot in one evening at Mr. G's apartment. Mr. G also worked the camera. In fact, he's presented here as Camera Operator A. We didn't call him Mr. G until he started teaching. The lighting is uniformly atrocious throughout. Eric brought some clip-on incandescent lights, but nevertheless the whole program is dim, grainy and yellow — exactly the effect we were going for. Even though we never left the apartment, we did feature three short “foreign films” to break up the monotony. (I use scare quotes because these films were neither foreign nor, technically, films — Two were shot on video.)