MaxMajMan -
Your episode (the first one you sent) will be Episode 4 in Season 3.

The First of Episode of the new season is an episode titled "Instant Karma"

my episode rocks the house, heh

Bruce, I'll write more for you, there's one more in me, but it's having a hard time.

Well the show has gotten a lot of praise but their has been some...interesting output ont he show.

Here's what one reader had to say:

"...the series is getting statle...there hasn't been a good episode since season 1...all the episodes are the same...the characters are the same it's like 6 versions of the same person..."

I'm not mad or anything. Kinda wanted to hear it actually.

The episodes do have a similarity to them, but they are different enough, you know? Yes, there could be more character development, it's just a matter of what is in the form of our show or not.

Okay, Okay. Here is our Tenative Season 3 Schedule

01. Instant Karma
   Written by Bruce Snyder

02. Master Debaters
   Written by Edward Drogos

03. Nearer My God To Thee (1)
   Written by Bruce Snyder

04. The Passion of the Atheist (2)
   Written by Bruce Snyder

05. Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except For Me and My Monkey
   Teleplay by Max Majernik & Melinda Waterman; Story by Max Majernik

06. Waiting Room
   Written by Bruce Snyder

07. God Hates Actors
   Written by Brian Stempian

08. Home Is Where The War Is
   Teleplay by Bruce Snyder; Story by Alan Holman

09. The Camping Trip
   Written by Vincent Biga & Edward Drogos

10. We Didn't Start the Fire
   Teleplay by Bruce Snyder; Story by Alan Holman

11. With Friends Like These...
   Teleplay by Melinda Waterman; Story by Bruce Snyder

12. The Legend of Christopher Hughes
   Teleplay by Bruce Snyder; Story by Alan Holman

13. Heart's Place
   Written by Bruce Snyder

14. Slow Fuse
   Teleplay by Vincent Biga; Story by Bruce Snyder

15. Untitled Season Finale
   Written by Bruce Snyder
   

Episodes can be put in different order at any time.

Also. Frequent writer, Vincent Biga, is taking some time off to write something else. This explains why he only contributes to 2 episodes.

If you would like to send an idea in for the Lunchroom, email me at glick12345@yahoo.com

Also, if you would just like to write an episode out (example: I give the storyline outline, you write it out in script form) feel free to contact me.

Interesting Facts and Comments:

Season 1

Episode 01 "Things Fall Apart"
    -Original Titles: "Pilot"; "The Lunchroom Pilot"; "More Than This"; "Welcome to the Group"; "Welcome to Centerville"; "The New Guy"; "The Group"; "Will's Proposal"; "Another Day".
    -This episode establishes a lot: Will as the leader; Joel being his closet friend (sorta like a sidekick); Casey being an outisder and then the new guy; Brock being the angry one; Reicther as the crazy one; Brian as the one who is in love with fantasy (and has the slightly dumb one)
    -First appearnce of the Recurring characters Rene David and Emily Lucas.
    -Based on true events. The real life Emily did have a picture drawn of her the same way it is like in the episode.
    -First appearnce of Lacey, Casey's wild ex-girlfriend.
    -Originally, Rene and Will were going to be boyfriend and girlfriend and have their relationship be one of the main focuses of the show. This was changed when I decided not to have will tied down to a girl.
    -It is revealed that Brock lives with two lesbian moms. This might hint were most of his anger comes from.
    -Overall, I think I did a pretty decent job for a first episode but I wish I could have added more to the Joel character.

Episode 02 "A Tale of Two Brides: A Mormon's Tale"
    -Originally titled "Gays Can't Do That"
    -First appearnce of the repulican bigot Jordan Jones
    -Based on true events. There is a real life Jordan Jones who does hate gays and democrats. To date, he has said nothing about the way he is in the series.
    -My little brother suggested the title, feeling that no one would get the joke.
    -Brian appears only briefly.
    -If this was ever on HBO (the channel I would love to get the series on) this and the 1st episode should probably be shown back-to-back.

Episode 03 "Screw Your Spirit"
    -First episode to hint at the group's strong anti-socialism.
    -Based on true events. When I was in High School, me and my friends did the same thing at pep rallys.
    -One of my favorite episodes.
    -Joel doesn't appear in this episode. He's supposedly on vacaction.

Episode 04 "Hope for the Best, Expect the Worst"
    -Vincent Biga's writing debut.
    -I thought this was a good episode considering it was the first I didn't write.
    -Was originally just called "Hope for the Best"
    -Features the most music in any Lunchroom episode.
    -First appearnce of Brock's little brother, Bryce and Brian's mom, Debbie.
    -This episode reveals that Brian is madly in love with Cathy.
    -Vincent wrote this episode to build on the Brian character who was used very little in the first 3 episodes.
    -Joel and Casey do not appear in this episode. Reicther appears briefly.

Episode 05 "All Your Friends Are Doing It"
    -Originally titled "In The Sky With Diamonds"
    -The school druggie, Kirk's first appearnce.
    -The episode reveals that Will has a crush on the recurring character, Rene.
    -Was suppose to end with the song "I Will" by The Beatles playing.
    -I wrote this episode in a matter of a few hours on a Saturday afternoon.

Episode 06 "Testing Burns"
    -It's revealed that Casey can't swim.
    -Based on true events. Whenever me and Vincent were feedup with school, we would go in his backyard and lit up all old school stuff. We never burned his garage down though.
    -First appearnce of Brock's real mom, Lois. Her voice is heard in the first episode.
    -A very short episode but I still think it's one of the funniest.

Episode 07 "Politically Incorrect"
    -Original Titles: "The KKK Come To Town"; "The Last Black Jew"; "A Tolerance Lesson from The KKK"; "The Adventures of a Black British Jew in Western Indiana."
    -Was going to be a 2 parter but Part 2 was a little short. They were combined to make this.
    -Considered to be the Best and Funniest episode of the Series.
    -My favorite episode.
    -This episode hints that Rene might also like Will.
    -Chris Hughes's first appearnce.
    -Originally Chris was only going to be in this one episode. But the real life Joel Mayberry loved the character and thought he would be a funny regular character.
    -Features my favorite usage of music: Rene dreaming she is a Jazz singer, singing to Will.
    -We see how Will and Rene met.
    -I wrote this whole episode during Easter Sunday 2004.

Episode 08 "Join the Army"
    -Originally titled "Paragim"
    -Casey Wrenn's writing debut.
    -Ironicly after showing Episode 7 (the series' best episode) we should this one (considered the worst)
    -Chris has his first day of school.
    -Based on true events. One day, when I was a Freshmen in High School, I was about to go to the bathroom when about 20 other students were leaving. This was odd since the bathroom had only 3 stalls, and 4 wall toilets.
    -Casey Wrenn's original dialogue exchange between Casey and Lacey was extremely dramatic in which Casey begged for Lacie back and ended up crying. We removed this because A) It was WAYYY out of character and B) This isn't "Dawson's Creek."
    -Originally, Will was going to make fun of the Army guy at the very beginning and then that was it. Casey had the Army guy abduct Will and thus, it become the main story of the episode.

Episode 09 "What Was That?"
    -One of my favorite episodes.
    -The first episode to focus (and showcase) the Reicther character.
    -Based on true events. The Tyler character is 100% real. The first time he ever met Vincent Biga he said "Wow. Did you eat Gilligan there, Skipper?" It's easy to say that he does not like the way he is protrayed in this episode.
    -Based on true events. I did go to someone's house where we roamed his fields at night. We thought we heard a noise but it turned out to be one of our other friends.
    -We had forgot that Casey and Chris weren't in the episode and at the last minute we added their scenes and the new ending with them in it.
    -This episode hints that Joel is a little crazy when it comes to fighting and that Brock (who may speak big) is deeply afraid to fight.
    -There was a brief subplot about Cathy finding Brian's love letter but it was cut.

Episode 10 "Bad Day"
    -One of my favorite episodes.
    -Based on true events. I had a big problem when it came to asking girls out. I use to breath very deeply and on one occasion I almost passed out.
    -Chris finally gets made an offical member of the group.
    -Originally the Season was suppose to have 13 episodes (the next two were goign to be about Religion and the Season Finale was about a Girl's Party.)
    -First hint of Reicther's Dad being a big gun man.
    -Based on true events. The real life Casey Jennings had a blood ulcer when he was only 9 because of so much stress.
    -This episode leaves many questions unsolved: Will Joel have to move? What was Rene's answer to Will's date question? What will Brian do, now that Cathy has responded? Will Casey see a shrink?
    -A very quick episode that was also written very quick.

Interesting Facts and Comments:

Season 2

Episode 11 "Against the Madness"
    -This episode, was the longest and hardest to write. It took me about 13 days to write this. It was hard to get back in the groove of writing the series.
    -This episode introduces paraniod teacher, Mr. Parker who has become a Series Regular at the start of Season 3.
    -Originally when Joel slashed the Senior's tires at the end, the Senior wasn't suppose to see who did it. But Vincent convinced me to change so he did see it.
    -This episode is suppose to mark Chris's start as a Regular.

Episode 12 "The Risk"
    -Unlike the previous episode, this episode was the quickest to write. Only taking me 2 hours to pound it out.
    -Brian does not appear in this episode.

Episode 13 "I'm Up Here"
    -This started off as a 2 parter. But after cutting a lot of part 2 out, we combined the parts to make into this episode.
    -This is Stacy's first episode, and she makes her mark, as this is the probably the most popular episode of the Season.
    -Originally this was going to be the Season 1 Finale, but we thought we best save this for Season 2. One of my favorite episodes.
    -Originally Vincent's vision of Stacy was tall, blonde, tan, and big boobs. My vision was dark hair, glasses, very cute (sorta like Tina Fey). But in the end we did the smart thing by making her a red head, cute, and big boobs. (combination of the two.)
    -Stacy's last name is Cifaretto. This comes from Ralph Cifaretto of "The Sopranos."

Episode 14 "Comics and Comedians"
    -Alan Holman's first episode for us.
    -Originally titled "Comics"
    -There was subplot in which Will gets attacked by a group of thugs on the streets of town one night. I deleted this because it felt out of place with the episodes content. I'll probably add it in the future.
    -The character of Kirk (the druggie) was only going to be used that one time in Episode 5, but Alan loved that character so much that he put him in this episode. Since this episode, Kirk has appear several times.

Episode 15 "Cold Blue"
    -Originally titled "Asshole"
    -Based on true events. I accidentlly brought a weapon to school once (to use in a English project) and I worried all day about getting caught.
    -Stacy first appearnce since Episode 13. She appears for a brief second in the previous episode.

Episode 16 "Prozac Candy"
    -Originally titled "Sugar Rush"
    -Based on true events. Yenom was a homecandy that my school would sell when they needed money for sporting events. It would be a clear piece of candy covered with flour and sugar (and it was good and addictive.)

Episode 17 "Suicidals Deserve to Die"
    -Originally titled "Crippling Mr. Tolbert"
    -This is the combination of 3 unfinished scripts. Mine (part of a script called "Crippling Tolbert") Alan Holman (part of a script called "Eloquent Lady") and Tyler Schwartz (who came in and wrote the last few pages)
    -Tolbert was originally going to be a recurring charcter who would pop every few episodes but I scrapped those plans at the last moment.
    -Based on true events. I did have a friend (who made us change his name in the script at the last minute) who would constantly talk about suicide and be oblivious to people making fun of him.

Episode 18 "Never Mind the Bollocks"
    -The title comes from the Sex Pistols album by the same name.
    -One of my favorite episodes.
    -The first appearnce of Meadow Le Cerva. Her name comes from "The Sopranos." Meadow (Tony's daughter) Le Cerva (Adriana's last name.)
    -Although Meadow is the object for Will's affection for the rest of the Season, she is never seen again. She is mentioned several times.
    -The two Officers that interrogate Will and Chris at the end are names that come from "South Park." Officer Marsh comes from the last name of Stan Marsh and Officer Stone is named after co-creator Matt Stone.
    -The Officer's boss is named Morrisey after singer John Morrisey.
    -Casey does not appear in this episode. Joel appears very briefly at the beginning.
    -Last episode before the Month long break.  

Episode 19 "Kirk's Party"
    -Writing debut of Melinda Waterman and Trisha Vansickle (two friends who mostly write songs.)
    -This is the first episode that Kirk is the focus of since Episode 5.
    -First appearnce of Stacy's friend, Marilyn.
    -Alan Holman wrote this episode specifically as a showcase for the Kirk character.
    -The original teaser of this episode was Prinical Stevens confronting a very high Kirk in his office. This was dropped for the Brian opening.

Episode 20 "Fast Car"
    -Edward Drogos's writing debut.
    -Originally, another episode called "The Camping Trip" was suppose to be put here. At the last moment, we decided to go with this episode (which is much better.)
    -The episode is suppose to serve as a pure "character development" episode.
    -Originally Brock was suppose to be the one getting his license and driving the car. This was switch at the last moment to Stacy having the license.

Episode 21 "Fahrenheit  7/11"
    -Originally titled "This Isn't Good"
    -This has to be the most bizzare episode ever. Even the title doesn't make sense.
    -I picked Richard Belzer to be the ghost because he is one of my favorite TV actors.
    -Dr. Bayliss is named after Det. Tim Bayliss from the show "Homicide."
    -Most of the long speeches in this episode were written by Alan Holman.
    -The Rene Character's final appearnce.
    -The original idea was to have the ghost of Frank Sinatra visit Will. This was put aside for the funnier idea of Belzer.

Episode 22 "Fooling Myself"
    -This is what happened to Brian, Brock, Reicther, and Stacy on Saturday, April 24.
    -The first time Cathy is mentioned since Episode 11.
    -Originally, Brian was going to have a big emotional break down as he wrote the good-bye to Cathy. This was scrapped, as it seemed too corny.
    -Reicther battles a flying pest in this episode. In the very first episode, when he is seen for the first time he is battling a fly.
    -Originally, the kiss between Stacy and Marily was going to be shown. This was taken out because some thought it was bad taste.
    -Inspired by a Blues Song.
    -Will, Joel, Chris, and Casey do not appear in this episode.

Episode 23 "Trouble in Mind"
    -This is what happened to Will, Joel, Chris, and Casey on Saturday, April 24.
    -Unlike the previous episode, Brian, Brock, Stacy, and Reicther make a brief appearnce at the end.
    -Altough Will spends the whole episode trying to get to Meadow, she is never seen.
    -Based on true events. When I was a freshmen in High School, I had the same problems during the Christmas dance. When I got there, I refused to go home and ended up having a pleasent evening with my date.
    -Originally, Chris and Bonnie were suppose to end up with each other at the end of the episode. We changed this, feeling we couldn't add anything more to the Bonnie character in future episodes.



Thanks to Alan Holman who gave me this idea.

Richard Beltzer is the man. He just is.

There's been a little push back.

Season 3 will start in the first week of Decemember.

Music From the Series

Theme Song:

"Ain't That Peculiar" by Marvin Gaye

Season One Soundtrack

Episode 1.01

"What's Going On" by Marvin Gaye (End Credits)

Episode 1.02

"Every Rose Has It's Thorn" by Poison
"Sledgehammer" by Peter Gabriel
"Land of Confusion" by Genesis
"You Give Love a Bad Name" by Bon Jovi

Episode 1.03

"This Love" by Maroon 5

Episode 1.04

"Rich Girl" by Hall & Oates
"I Melt With You” by Modern English
"Lonely As You" by Foo Fighters (Over Montage)
"The Rising" by Bruce Springsteen
"The Tracks of My Tears" by The Miracles (End Montage/End Credits)

Episode 1.05

"I Will" by The Beatles (End Credits)

Episode 1.06

"Pretty Vacant" by The Sex Pistols (End Credits)

Episode 1.07

"Fever" by Diana Krall
"Keep On Rocking in the Free World" by Neil Young (End Credits)

Episode 1.08

"War (What Is It Good For)" by Unknown (End Credits)

Episode 1.09

"The Last Time" by The Rolling Stones (End Credits)

Episode 1.10

"Bad Day" by R.E.M. (End Credits)


Sadly, we didn't use much Music in Season 2. But Season 3 will be different.

The soundtrack is kicking. I think I'll make it.....

Here's a sneak peek at the Season ahead.

3x01 "Instant Karma"

The Gang start up their sophmore year of High School; Reicther begins to feel depressed when he rejects a fat girl; Mr. Parker gets in trouble when he encourages students not to vote; Joel gets kindness from an unexpected source; Stacy ponders her future; Casey waits for Dr. Sollett while wanting to start his romantic  weekend with new girlfriend Kay.

3x02 "Master Debaters"

Stacy decides to run for class president. Problems arise when Casey and Joel mess up an ad and when a school newsporter gets under Stacy's skin.

Update, Bruce?

Well, over in the Series section is the first 5 episodes of Season 3.