The Story So Far...

Episode 7 - "The Understudy"
Also known as "Jarrod, The Aussie Fan Of John Tartaglia's Show"

Monday, 2nd June. 6:58am. I'm fast asleep.
Not for much longer. *BEEP BEEP* goes my phone. I'm not happy. It's from Sean. What can't possibly wait until a reasonable time to tell me? John Tartaglia loved the show? He laughed his arse off? Okay, NOW I'm happy...

Sean had told me once he found out Johnny would be seeing the show, that I could have my own episode. I had made big plans for this episode. Including a song. One song to blow the world away. An ode to Johnny...
Sean and I talked, and decided that the episode would be made like I had abducted the show when he wasn't around.

Sean got the camera ready to film the episode, but the moron left it running. I came in once he left the room, and saw the camera recording... This was my chance... This was MY episode...
With a very well created parody of the opening credits, my episode was underway.

Sean has brilliant unlimited access to the internet, with an incredibly fast connection. So YouTube videos load up as quick as lightning, ready to be watched. Can you think of a better way to watch Johnny? I can't! It was here that I said the immortal line. The line that is going to sweep the world, be printed on mugs and t-shirts everywhere: "Who needs porn when they have you, Johnny?"

Time for a Johnny Fund update! Due to credit card payments, I had to spend $300 of the fund. This took it to $92. Though I completely forgot during the filming of this section that I had gained another $150 - which means my real Johnny Fund was (and, at time of writing, is) $242.65 - oops!

We then recorded the song, an ode to Johnny to the tune of Avenue Q's "I Wish I Could Go Back To College" I wrote this song weeks ago, and wasn't my first experience re-writing the song. Last year, Sean and I performed a song I wrote entitled "I Wish I Was Back In Year 7" for our final assembly at school (viewable on the Lazy Creations YouTube Channel). This time though, it was a solo song, all about my quest for Johnny, and the heterosexual love I have for him. We filmed me with my Johnny fund bag, and several things relating to Johnny, like one of those old fashion love song film clips...

I edited the video, excited that Sean hadn't caught me. Yet. He walked down the stairs, and caught me just as I was gloating about the fact he was a moron. As he chucked a wobbly, I realized there was something above his bed... A make shift marquee, one that looked exactly like the [title of show] one... He'd been having withdrawals because he couldn't see the real one.

Now, clearly Sean was present during the entire filming of this episode. I was just the star for once. And the editing process was just about as bumpy as it was in the show. See, as we were importing the footage from the camera to Sean's computer, it decided to have a spasm attack and freeze up on us. That was fine, we just re-imported the footage. It was at this stage I left Sean's house, and when I got home, I got the bad news - we hadn't saved "I Wish I Could Go And Meet Johnny" and it had been lost. Which meant my episode couldn't have the brilliant ode I had planned on... Thanks to some great editing by Sean, the episode was saved, minus the song. But soon that song will be made public!

So that was my episode.
The Johnny Fund: $242.65

And that is the story so far!