Nick and Lucan: Six Sketches in Sixty Minutes

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Nick and Lucan: Six Sketches in Sixty Minutes
Basic Information
  Release date Part One - 8/8/18
Part Two - 9/16/18
  Runtime Part One - 8m 20s
Part Two - 13m 48s
  Series Other
Cast and Crew
  Directed by: Nick Geoghegan
  Written by: Nick Geoghegan
Lucan Stargiotti
  Edited by: Nick Geoghegan
  Starring: Nick Geoghegan
Lucan Stargiotti
Links
Part One on YouTube
Part Two on YouTube

Nick and Lucan: Six Sketches in Sixty Minutes is a two part series of seven sketches written and filmed in less than an hour by Nick Geoghegan and Lucan Stargiotti. The first part was released in August of 2018, and part two was released a month later in mid-September. Six of the seven sketches feature both Nick and Lucan, with one featuring only Lucan, and they vary in length from one minute to four and a half. Several videos feature a large stuffed Pikachu, similar to the one seen in an early PWN sketch, The Pikachu. The two videos are the second and third in the "Nick and Lucan" series.

Description[edit | edit source]

PART ONE[edit | edit source]

Part One of the series opens with Nick and Lucan frantically explaining the situation. They had only just come up with the idea, and where quickly proposing ideas for sketches. They mention one idea which did not make it into the video, "Eating Words", which had been proposed by Wes Davies several months prior. Desperate for ideas, the duo call Wes to ask for suggestions, and he presents a list of five random words that tie into the final sketch.

Sketch #1 - Fortnite Delight

Cast:

  • Lucan as Young Fortnite Addict
  • Nick as his Father

A young man is playing Fortnite in his room, when his father enters, declaring that the two will be going hunting. Shocked by the sudden enterance, the boy tries to turn off the game before his father can see what he is doing, but it is too late. The father pulls the hunting rifle on him, and demands to know who taught him to play "such awful games". Dramatically, the boy tells the father that it was him who he learned to play Fortnite from. Devastated, the father begins to weep as it is revealed the sketch was a "Friends dont let friends play Fortnite" advertisement.

Sketch #2 - The Great Tiger of Saskatoon

Cast:

  • Lucan as a Level 70,000,000,000 Player of an RPG

An experienced RPG player has one final mission in his quest, and that is to defeat a tiger/lion that he suspects will be an easy task. It turns out that he is grossly underprepared as the lion leaps from behind to attack. The player uses guns, a bow and arrow, and a sword to attack the lion, successfully scaring it into the neighboring room. He goes searching for it, but it again surprises him from behind, as he struggles on the floor to deafeat it. He switches to a more advanced sword, which he uses to slap the lion from the air as it lunges at him in slow motion. He lets out a one liner as he decapitates the lion, and completes the side quest.

Sketch #3 - War Never Changes

Cast:

  • Lucan as an American Sargeant
  • Nick as an American soldier

While in a battle implied to be part of World War II, two American soldiers carefully tredge their way through enemy fire to reach their objective. The soldier carries a camera to document the firefight. Jets fly overhead as they enter a destroyed building. As they take on fire, they discover an armed Pikachu has taken a fortified position within the building, where he guards what appears to be a charged time bomb. The Pikachu spots the soldiers and opens fire. They prepare to charge, but the younger soldier is hit with shrapnel from a launched grenade. With the soldier out of commission, the seargant charges the attacker and hits him with the butt of his gun. He kills the Pikachu, then frantically disarms the bomb. As he runs back to his fallen ally, he soon discovers that the soldier is dead. The seargant looks to the sky in horror and cries out, holding the corpse of his fallen brother.

After this sketch, text announcing a part two appears on screen, accompanied by heavily distorted Wii Sports Music.

PART TWO[edit | edit source]

Sketch #4 - A Fistful of Garbage

Cast:

  • Nick as Sheriff "Bullseye" Bravo
  • Lucan as Yeezy Pete

The video opens directly into the fourth sketch, as an armed western lawman enters his barn to find the outlaw Yeezy Pete waiting there for him. After an exchange of words, they agree to a good ol' fashion Canadian Standoff. The two men take aim, and fire. Bravo's fun does not fire, and Yeezy Pete hits him three times with his gun. The Sheriff collapses, and Yeezy Pete drops to help him, shouting for medical help. The Sheriff admits that he does not know the man he just dueled, but the outlaw reveals that he is Bravo's son. The Sheriff screams.

Sketch #5 - A Few Decent Men

Cast:

  • Lucan as a wartorn Vietnam vet suffering from PTSD
  • Nick as the voice of his psychiatrist

A man in a psych office describes with great horror the hells of war, as the music slowly rises and the frame grows ever tighter. He speaks of his life before the war being mundane and meaningless. After deployment, he got a rush unlike any other, a rush of courage and challenge which kept him moving forward. He implies that after experiencing active combat he began to suffer from nightmares about his time in the jungles, as his fellow men burned villages in the north. As his friends died, he was transfered and later discharged but the nightmares continued. His wife and children left over the pain of a husband with PTSD, taking the house and leaving the veteran on the streets. He wandered through the streets of Chinatowns, suffering from delusions of beind a spy in communist Chinese territory, before his internment at an insane asylum. Pausing the story, he turns to his psychiatrist.

The doctor is a Pikachu with an outrageous jumbled accent of Italian, Asian, and unknown origins. The music halts momentarily, as he shouts that he too was a veteran. The music resumes and the camera closes in on the Pikachu as he recounts his own experience. On his first day of deployment, in 1973, he was immediately thrust into combat. He speaks of napalm and burning villages of Vietnamese orphans, and explains that his accent is the result of his chaotic experience. The veteran stops him, confused, and explains that he was merely explaining a terrible experience at a Vietnamese resturaunt, where the food gave him "the runs". Sitting up, the veteran assumes the role of the psychiatrist. He asks the Pikachu to start from the begining, and he concludes by saying that "it all began when I took the clarinet class".

We fade slowly into the sixth sketch...

Sketch #6 - The Final Sketch

Nick realises that with only eleven minutes remaining, Lucan is nowhere to be seen. He searches desperately through the house calling Lucan's name, demanding that they film the last sketch. He finds Lucan lying flat on the floor in the living room, foaming at the mouth. Terrified he finds that the foam is really whipped cream, shouting and calling him a custard pie. He threatens to divorce Lucan, and his high-pitched screams cause Lucan to laugh and choke on the cream in his mouth. He offers some to Nick.

The two decide that the sketch was not a fitting ending to the video, and set about filming a proper finale. With only six minutes remaining, they return to the five words suggested by Wesley, "therapudic, cult, compressed, disposable, and airspray". Nick declares that he has an idea.

Sketch #7 - The Cult of Compression

Cast:

  • Lucan as a young traveler who seeks the knowledge of an antient cult
  • Nick as an ancient leader of the cult, who uses the airspray to stay alive after hundreds of years

The sketch is presented in a found-footage style. Lucan speaks to the camera, explaining that his quest is the result of his brother disappearing to join the cult himself. Intrigued by the mysterious nature of the cult, he too goes out in search of the cult. He comes across an ancient chamber, where he finds the cult leader seated alone in the darkness. He announces his quest, and sits before the leader, who challenges him to a game of chess in exchange for the secrets of the cult. The old man explains as they play that the airspray is a regenerative canned "fountain of youth". The traveler explains his worth, but the man is unimpressed. He explains the sacred properties of the spray. Realizing that his time on Earth is almost up, and he allows the traveler to join the cult and take his first inhale of eternal life. Armed now with the secrets of the cult, the traveler agrees to teach the old man how to play chess.

Conclusion

Having completed the challenge with "only eighteen seconds left", with "no trace of tomfoolery". The two are overjoyed as they dance about to celebrate their success. They declare the series the worst content ever produced for PWN, and sing a song. Lucan asks everybody to "like, comment, subscribe, and hit that bell button" while Nick shouts "PWN!!!". He says as the music ends that Wes will murder him, and explains on Wesley's behalf that he had no part in the making of the video.

Behind the Scenes[edit | edit source]

Context and Making Of[edit | edit source]

The first couple sketches were more structured, but seeing how long each took, the two decided to improvise a little more with each ensuing sketch. The fifth, sixth, and seventh sketches in particular were entirely improvised. The seventh sketch was made with such little planning that Nick merely threw on a costume and told Lucan to just talk to the camera while he got ready, and they would decide a plot as they went.

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