The Adventures of Feelgood and Longbottom
The Adventures of Feelgood and Longbottom is a comedy film series written and directed by some moron named Chris G (Dr Furball), and starring his brothers David and James.
The series follows Irving Feelgood (David) and Carl Longbottom (James) as they journey through Science Fiction, Film Noir and other genres. Originally educational films made for David's science class, it was decided to be as funny as possible. In fact, the crew ended up having too much fun making them, to the point where the third film, Starmageddon is being made without an educational lesson to be learned.
As of this writing, the series consists of:
- Journey To the Center of That Planety Thing We Live On-Our heroes travel deep into the Earth to learn about the planet's layers.
- Hard Rock-In this Film Noir styled mystery, F&L investigate the murder of a fat guy by a rock.
- Also see the Hard Rock Gag Reel, a collection of Hilarious Outtakes.
- Starmageddon-A comedy Space Opera currently[when?] in development.
Tropes used in The Adventures of Feelgood and Longbottom include:
- Cold Open: Both films.
- Continuity Nod: There's not much in the way of continuity, but a mention of the events in Journey is made in Hard Rock as a "geology project".
- Creator Cameo: Yours truly, the writer/director appears as the murder victim in the second film. And as a supporting character in the third.
- Development Hell: Starmageddon, due to the busy schedules of the cast and crew.
- Edutainment Show: Originally.
- Film Noir: Hard Rock
- Funny Background Event: Look closely at Feelgood's gun at the climax of Hard Rock.
- Good Cop, Bad Cop: Feelgood as the good cop, Longbottom as the bad cop.
- Hilarious Outtakes: Played over the credits in Journey, Hard Rock got a seperate gag reel.
- Improbable Weapon User: Feelgood near the end of Hard Rock.
- Private Eye Monologue: Feelgood delivers one throughout Hard Rock.
- Product Placement/ Actor Allusion: David M (Feelgood) appears in another video directed by Chris G (DrFurball/The Fat Man). What's David's character doing when we first see him? Watching Hard Rock.
- Running Gag: "It's hot" and "The Core." in Journey. And "Totally a/the X" for the series as a whole.
- Shout-Out: To Mega Man X, Tex Avery, Airplane!, among others. Also, the main character is named "Dr. Feelgood"
- The Smurfette Principle: Totally a Scientist in Journey, but lessened by Igneous Rock and Princess Cowabunga in the others.
- The Stinger: Yep again.
- Stock Footage: Unashamedly.
- Title Drop: "Maybe he took it too literally when someone told him to headbang to Hard Rock?"