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Trust us when we say that this came completely out of left field! The amount of goodwill and well-wishes and even negative comments has been astounding. I think we’ve all gone through a little bit of “Shock & Awe” about the thing, but needless to say we are humbled and honored that it could at least make people laugh….if only for 8 seconds.
In March, we shot a couple videos that day, both of which have long since hit the trash can, but we thought we had some time to do another. Dave (David Haysom) had come up with the idea of a news reporter who was continually getting hurt every time reported the news, thus Chuck Storm was born. We weren’t entirely sure how to work it, how it would pan out, so we just did a couple takes and I used my “reporter” voice and hit the pole.
The original idea for Chuck Storm was to be a continuing character that, as I mentioned before, would simply get hurt every time he reported a story. As the videos progressed his injuries would get more and more bizarre. As “KleenexDust” said in her comment on our YouTube version, “Chuck Storm….is the guy every mother wants for their daughter”. That’s what he was to us, just a fun-loving, really nice guy who loved to report the news, but had the worst luck of anyone imaginable. He was naive, hard-working and the most honest man in journalism. Even when he had all his ducks in a row, there was a part of you that just felt sorry for him.
After that we uploaded it to YouTube and continued on making our other videos. People around us liked Chuck Storm, people who saw it on YouTube liked it. So clearly the idea, from the get-go, was to have it recurring.
We put a lot of thought into what his follow-up would be and came up with a couple and decided to shoot the “Stung by Bees” which we in fact shot BEFORE the Chuck Storm craze started.
Mom liked it.
Needless to say this has been a wild ride for us and we’re excited, humbled and thankful. A big cheers to Videoblazer.net too.
What we have to decide now is should Chuck Storm effectively die? While we wanted him to be a recurring character, I’m not so sure any more….Perhaps he’s hit his peak. This would make a good poll. No pun intended. Really. As I wrote that I just realized….
Cheers,
Ryan Northcott
for FuddyTV
Chuck Storm should be retired if you guys decide it isn’t fun to do the character anymore. He may never end up on CNN again, but if you guys enjoy the character, then go for it.
Chuck Storm reminds me of such protagonists as Norman Paperman in Herman Wouk’s “Don’t Stop the Carnival,” and Gully Foyle in Alfred Bester’s “The Stars My Destination” — two books I couldn’t finish. I couldn’t stand watching these guys, whom I liked, go through life repeatedly getting the metaphorical crap kicked out of them.
As such, there will come a day when I will no longer be able to watch Chuck Storm’s bad luck. However, that day is not today. More Chuck!