Toren Atkinson’s Absolute Blog

So I went to my wardrobe fitting today. I tried on four different labcoats. Turns out the commercial is for some toys, not for a boardgame. Not quite as cool - but still pretty good (much better than beer or cars). So the way the film industry works is you find out you have to be somewhere–whether it be an audition or a callback or wardrobe or the actual filming–the day before it happens, which is putting poor Kenn (my day job boss) out. So even though I am super keen on acting, I don’t really want to get any more auditions for “Spanish male” or “suit-wearing engineer” for a couple weeks. Bring on the mad scientists, though.

So yeah, tomorrow I am getting picked up at 6:25 in the A.M. and being ferried out to Riverview mental hospital for shooting. That’s so crazy it just might work. But I still have no real idea what I’ll be doing or for how long. I didn’t know any of the names of any of the people (or, obviously, what the product was) until this afternoon.

The date is set: March 10 2007. Start time - let’s say 9am. My place (click on the image below for the address, if you don’t know). We’ll stop when everyone’s simply had enough. I now have a line on Booberry and Frankenberry, and various cereals from the UK! This will be the TENTH annual SMCP!

I haven’t settled on a theme yet, but here are a few in the running (these lists are incomplete!):

PIRATES

• Spider-Man: Night of the Villains
• Superfriends: Sinbad and the Space Pirates
• Real Ghostbusters: Sea Fright
• Powerpuff Girls: Mizzen in Action
• Mighty Orbots: Raid on the Stellar Queen
• Herculoids: The Pirates
• Rocket Robin Hood: The Ghost Pirates
• Star Trek: The Pirates of Orion
• Venture Brothers
• Jonny Quest: Pirates Below
• Bugs Bunny
• Captain Nemo
  

MUSIC

• Spider-Man “Fiddler on the Loose”
• Galaxy Rangers: Rainmaker
• BotP The Musical Mummy; Space Rock Concert!!!!;
• Mighty Orbots: Magnetic Menace
• PPG See Me Feel Me Gnomey
• Clone High: Raisin the Stakes
• Futurama: Hell is Other Robots
• Transformers: Auto-Bop
• Jem!
• Superfriends: Rock and Roll Space Bandits
• Bugs Bunny
• Ripping Friends: Muscle Magician
• Samurai Jack: Jack and the Rave
  

TIME

• Powerpuff Girls: Speed Demon; Get Back JoJo
• Big Guy & Rusty the Boy Robot: Patriot Games
  
• The Tick: Leonardo Da Vinci & His Fightin’ Time Commandos; Tick vs Prehistory
• Star Trek Animated: Counter Clock Incident
• Real Ghostbusters: Its About Time
• Futurama: Time Keeps on Slipping; Roswell that Ends Well;
• Transformers: A Decepticon in King Arthur’s Court
• Batman: Clock King; Time Out of Joint
• Thundarr: Portal Into Time
• Herculoids: Time Creatures
• Freakazoid is History
• Justice League: Once and Future Thing (2 parter)
  
• Superfriends: Elevator to Nowhere; Krypton Syndrome; Time Trap;
• Superman: New Kids in Town
• Rocket Robin Hood: The Time Machine
• Ripping Friends: The Man From Next Thursday
• Samurai Jack (any)
  

MIND GAMES

• The Tick vs Science
• Real Ghostbusters: Slimer is that You?
• Powerpuff Girls: Los Dos Mojos; Criss Cross Crisis
• Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot: Bicameral Mind
• Galaxy Rangers: psychocrypt
• Transformers: Traitor
• Batman: Mad As A Hatter; scarecrow; Over the Edge
• Thundarr the Barbarian: Harvest of Doom
• Birdman: Mentor the Mind Taker
• Herculoids: Ruler of the Reptons
• Freakazoid: The Lobe
• Superman: Two’s a Crowd
• Gummi Bears: If I Were You
• Bugs Bunny
• The Ripping Friends: Rip’s Shorts
  

WATER

• The Tick vs Reno Nevada
• Rocket Robin Hood: City Beneath the Seas
• Battle of the Planets: Ghost Ship of Planet Mir; Sea Dragon; Curse of the Cuttlefish; Siege of the Squids
• Transformers: Atlantis Arise!
• Big Guy & Rusty the Boy Robot: Lower Depths
• Galaxy Rangers: Progress
• Samurai Jack: Jack Under the Sea
• Star Trek: The Ambergris Element
• Fantastic Four: Danger in the Depths
• Namor Sub-Mariner: any
• Real Ghostbusters: Devil in the Deep
• Futurama The Deep South
• The Impossibles: Aquator
• Jonny Quest: Sea Haunt
• Justice League Enemy Below (2 parter)
  
• Superfriends: Return of Atlantis; Water Beast;Invasion of the Hydronoids
• Gummi Bears: Zummi Makes It Hot
• Bugs Bunny
• Captain Nemo
  

TENTACLES

• BOTP: Siege of the Squids; raid of the space octopus; tentacles from space;
• Justice League: The Terror Beyond (2 parter)
  
• Powerpuff Girls: Octi Evil
• Real Ghostbusters: The Collect Call of Cathulhu
• Freakazoid! Statuesque
• Superfriends: Attack of the Giant Squid
• Superman: Unity
• Captain Nemo
  

BUGS

• Transformers: Plague of Insecticons
• BotP A Swarm of Robot Ants; Beast with a Sweet Tooth; The Alien Beetles; Ghostly Grasshopper; attack of the alien wasp; invasion of the locusts; Peril of the praying mantis; spectra space spider;
• The Tick: Ants in Pants
• Frankenstein Jr: Spyder Man
• Powerpuff Girls: Insect Inside
• Venture Bros (any with Monarch); Incredible Mr Brisby
• Futurama: The Sting
• Herculoids: Destroyer Ants; spider man;
• Superfriends: Termites from Venus; Scorpio!; Coming of the Arthropods
• Looney Tunes
  

MIRROR UNIVERSES

• Powerpuff Girls: Deja View;
• Real Ghostbusters: Flip Side
• Justice League: Legends; A Better World (2 parter)
  
• Superfriends: Bizaro!!; Warpland; Universe of Evil!!!
• Superman: Brave New Metropolis