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Post your fondest Mother memories here. Dont let them die!
I'll start with just one, which is a few years after my "going to Cagematch every week in level one while Mother is on a run and holy shit they're blowing my mind and making me love improv" stage, but still from a Cagematch show. I always liked their Cagematch shows best: I felt like they brought this crazy energy with them, and fucked around more without losing control of it.
Game of the scene: people holding babies in weird ways.
Tara Copeland: "You're holding that baby like it's a grenade!"
Jon Daly: "The baby IS a grenade! Duck!"
My internal monologue: "That was funny, but made no sense. What now?"
Someone tags in and does a PSA about the dangers of babies that are grenades. Jesse Falcon then tags in and talks about the time (back in Vietnam, I think?) when he fucked a grenade and had a grenade baby. Someone, of course, says "we cut to that". Jesse immediately snaps into miming the fucking of a grenade. I guess that's object work, but object work of a highly specific sort, as, if I had to mime-fuck a grenade... I don't know what I'd do, but it wouldn't be half as funny as what Jesse did. For those ten or so seconds, Jesse Falcon became a man who loves fucking grenades.
I always felt like Mother was the best team with controlled chaos. Someone would throw out a curveball like the baby randomly being a grenade, and then they'd all pile on top of that curveball and find a way to make it work. And they let that take them in weird new directions.
Later in the show, Jason Mantzoukas edited the show's one less-than-great scene by, at a slow point, saying "we cut to Jesse fucking a grenade". That's my favorite edit ever.
I'll start with just one, which is a few years after my "going to Cagematch every week in level one while Mother is on a run and holy shit they're blowing my mind and making me love improv" stage, but still from a Cagematch show. I always liked their Cagematch shows best: I felt like they brought this crazy energy with them, and fucked around more without losing control of it.
Game of the scene: people holding babies in weird ways.
Tara Copeland: "You're holding that baby like it's a grenade!"
Jon Daly: "The baby IS a grenade! Duck!"
My internal monologue: "That was funny, but made no sense. What now?"
Someone tags in and does a PSA about the dangers of babies that are grenades. Jesse Falcon then tags in and talks about the time (back in Vietnam, I think?) when he fucked a grenade and had a grenade baby. Someone, of course, says "we cut to that". Jesse immediately snaps into miming the fucking of a grenade. I guess that's object work, but object work of a highly specific sort, as, if I had to mime-fuck a grenade... I don't know what I'd do, but it wouldn't be half as funny as what Jesse did. For those ten or so seconds, Jesse Falcon became a man who loves fucking grenades.
I always felt like Mother was the best team with controlled chaos. Someone would throw out a curveball like the baby randomly being a grenade, and then they'd all pile on top of that curveball and find a way to make it work. And they let that take them in weird new directions.
Later in the show, Jason Mantzoukas edited the show's one less-than-great scene by, at a slow point, saying "we cut to Jesse fucking a grenade". That's my favorite edit ever.