Lunchroom, The: Season 3: Ep 01 "Instant Karma" by Bruce Snyder & Vincent Biga - Series, Comedy - The Gang is back and starting their sophomore year of High School. Reicther is depressed after he rejects a fat girl and his depression is really angering Will and Brian. Stacy starts her final year of High School and comes to a cold realization...she doesn't know what she wants to do with her life. Casey is having problems with his new girlfriend Kay when it seems to impossible for them to be together in person. Joel gets some surprise kindness from a unsuspected source.  - html format.

Lunchroom, The: Season 3: Ep 02 "Master Debaters" by Edward Drogos - Series, Comedy - In hopes of boosting her college resume, Stacy decides to run for Class president. As she begins to campaign, problems arise: Brian (her speech writer) gets writer's block; Joel and Casey have a hard time making ads; and her opponent decides to make some personal attacks. - html format.

Lunchroom, The: Season 3: Ep 03 "Special Needs" by Max Majernik & Melinda Waterman - Series, Comedy - When Reicther is unable to finish a big test, he's test scores turn out really low. Believing he has a Learning Disability, the school puts Reicther in the LD Class. Meanwhile, The Seniors plot revenge against the rest of the group because of something Joel did in the past. - html format.

Lunchroom, The: Season 3: Ep 04 "God Hates Actors" by Bryy Miller - Series, Comedy - When his sister is having a hard time selling cookies, Casey is blackmailed into helping her sell them. Reicther gets a new Sleep Number mattress and it becomes an eternal struggle to find the perfect number. Will and Chris have to put up with Jordan Jones while trying to study for Drama Class in Study Hall. Stacy seeks advice from Mr. Parker about her college situation. Joel begins to feel guilty about being friends with Cathy.    - html format.

Lunchroom, The: Season 3: Ep 05 "The Camping Trip" by Edward Drogos & Vincent Biga - Series, Comedy - Reicther decides to go camping and drags The Guys along. Brian stays behind, deciding to rather get driving lessons from his rarely seen father. - htm, format 8)

Lunchroom, The: Season 3: Ep 06 'By All Means by Bruce Snyder & Edward Drogos - Series, Comedy - Will accidentally breaks up a gay couple and is forced to help one of them find another lover. If that isn't hard enough, it turns out the gay student has eyes for Jordan Jones. While at a bookstore, Stacy has a run in with Marilyn, the girl that kissed her. Joel asks his older brother for love advice. Reicther is forced to go on a job interview. He first seeks advice for The Gang about how to screw it up and then has a real nasty encounter during the interview.   - htm format.


Lunchroom, The: Season 3: Ep 07 'Reality Bites' by Max Majernik - Series, Comedy - Brian is chosen to be there center of the new documentary "Outside the Social Circle." But after a while, the producer finds his life a bit boring and decides to add some drama. Meanwhile, Casey is upset with a Stars Wars personality test and decides to make his own. - htm, format 8)

Lunchroom, The: Season 3: Ep08 'With Friends Like These...' by Edward Drogos & Bruce Snyder - Series, Comedy - Casey's shrink believes that his friends might be the cause of his stress, so she starts an experiment where Casey tries out some 'new' possible friends. Meanwhile, Joel and Will are waiting to go on an all day field trip when Will stumbles upon Joel's little secret. Rated TV-MA for strong adult language and adult themes. - htm, format 8)

Lunchroom, The: Season 3: Ep09 'Shades of Grey' by Max Majernik & Bruce Snyder - Series, Comedy - During his Study Hall class, Chris meets Kate Davidson, who seems to be intrigued by Chris. The two end up spending the evening at the playground, talking before Chris finds out her little secret. Joel convinces Will (against his will) to accompany him on a supposed "group activity" with Cathy and a friend. The situation gets tense when Cathy shows up by herself. Brian, feeling liked he's the least liked in the group, tries to prove how exciting he can be to Brock, by stealing Stacy's car. Stacy decides to take some time off with Marilyn and quickly falls for a man named Dave. Rated TV-MA for Adult Language, Adult Situations, and Sexual Themes.  - htm, format 8)

Lunchroom, The: Season 3: Ep10 'Heart's Place' by Bruce Snyder - Series, Comedy - While trying to get some papers from the gym teacher, Chris and Casey see Joel and his little secret. They quickly ask Will and trick him into confirming it. Later the three confront Joel and tell them they know. Stacy finds out that her new boyfriend, Dave, has a very disturbing job. But before she has any time to think about it, Dave and Stacy do something "special." Brock is extremely depressed when he finds out that Sarah has a new boyfriend. Reicther seriously considers quitting his job at the shakeshop...that is until he gets his first paycheck. Rated TV-MA for Adult Language, Adult Themes, and Sexual Content.  - htm, format 8)

Lunchroom, The: Season 3: Ep11 'Slow Fuse' by Edward Drogos, Bruce Snyder & Vincent Biga - Series, Comedy - Joel (reluctantly) agrees to go on a double date with Chris and Kate, with Cathy being his date. But Chris wants more then just that, he also forces Joel to be extra nice to Kate so no more suicidal feelings will arise. Will, Brian, and Casey go to the movies where they fight over popcorn, witness a sexy toothpaste ad, and have an argument in the bathroom about trash cans. Reicther and his father go "Night Hunting." And Brock seems to be getting tired of hearing about Sarah's new boyfriend Scott Greenberg. Rated TV-MA for Adult Language and Adult Themes.   - htm, format 8)

Lunchroom, The: Season 3: Ep 12 Everybody Hurts, Part 1 of 2" by Melinda Waterman - Series, Comedy - Will decides to go in and audition for the new school musical. While he waits, Belzer once again pops up and keeps him company. Will grows suspicious when Belzer warns him about a girl, Ellen Conner, who Will keeps staring at. Joel tries his very hardest to get Cathy to forgive him. So he tries sitting outside her house, playing music. Brock comes to Brian's house, bent on ending all connections to Sarah. He locks himself in Brian's computer room to do so. While he's doing it, Brian has several fantasies about what's being said. Chris comes over to Kate's house when she says there's a burglar in her house but finds something even more disturbing. Mr. Parker is upset when he finds out that he has been given a new co-director in the play, Ms. Diane Ballard. Rated TV-MA for Adult Themes and Adult Language.  - htm, format 8)

Lunchroom, The: Season 3: Ep 13 The Last Time by Bruce Snyder - Series, Comedy - This is the Season Finale. Stacy graduates from High School and the event is made even more difficult when both Dave and Marilyn show up to the ceremony. She is able to keep the truth from both of them but not from her mother who witness something later that night at Stacy's open house. Joel has his meeting with Cathy and finds out why she's mad at him. But then when she asks a very serious question it's a battle between Joel's Heart, Joel's Conscience, and Joel's Brain (literally). It's the final auditions and while Ballard is still annoying Parker, Will's chance to audition has finally come. But Belzer still tries to warn him not to. While at Brock's house,  Casey makes a complete fool himself when he has weird reason not to eat the chicken Brock's mom has served them. And which character has decided to end his life? This episode is a bit longer and includes a guest appearance from Ron Farmer (from the series "Reporting Live").   - htm, format 8)

Next Time On "The Lunchroom"...

Episode 03
"The Passion of the Atheist"

A Religion Craze Has Hit small town Centerville...

After seeing "The Passion of the Christ" Will begins to question life and his religion; Chris gets a small blacklash for being Jewish; When it's announced that Casey is atheist, some Christians get very upset; Brian believes that the Jews killed Christ and Joel and Brock try to change his mind; Some Jehovah Witnesses come a knocking at Reicther's door; Mr. Parker gets busted for talking about Religion with his students.

Correction....

Next Time on "The Lunchroom"...

Reicther's laziness comes back to haunt him...

Reicther slacks off during testing week and gets very bad test scores. Believing he has Learning
Disability, the school puts Reicther in the LD Class; Joel becomes the target of someone's revenge.

Once We Pick up again in January...

03. Special Needs

04. The Passion of the Atheist

05. God Hates Actors

06. Mercury Hotel

07. Comfortably Numb (a.k.a. The Backwards Episode)

08. Home Is Where The War Is

09. The Camping Trip

10. We Didn't Start The Fire

Just a small update.

I was thinking about beginning to read this series but I was wondering where would you (The writers and or creators) suggest me starting?

To all:

The Complete First Season is now in HTML format. Making for a much easier read.

Some really weird news...

In upcoming episode with feature appearances by Jim Carrey, Robin Williams, Tom Hanks, and Tom Cruise.

AND

We now replacing two episodes with a TWO PARTER about Michael Moore and his attempts to make a film about the guys.

Here's a rough outline of the
Season 3 Soundtrack:

1. "Beast of Burden" by The Rolling Stones
2. "Instant Karma" by John Lennon
3. "Lovely Rita" by The Beatles
4. "A Mind With a Heart of It's Own" by Tom Petty
5. "Don't Pass Me By" by The Beatles
6. "Listen to What the Man Said" by Paul McCartney
7. "Hey Tonight" by Creedence Clearwater Revival
8. "Mother" by Pink Floyd
9. "Happy Jack" by The Who
10. "We Didn't Start the Fire" by Billy Joel
11. "Son of a Preacher Man" by Dusty Springfield
12. "Time Like These" by Foo Fighters
13. "Everyday" by Dave Matthews Band
14. "Whiter Shade of Pale" by Procal Harlum
15. "Nothing is Wrong" by Gomez
16. "Can't Find My Way Home" by Blind Faith
17. "Let Go" by Frou Frou

Yesterday, I finally read the first two episodes of season three, and then I began writing one.

What's Next:

-A Gay Love Interest for Jordan Jones?
-Casey's Atheist family having dinner with Kay strong Pentacostal Family?
-Renegage Iraqi Student who befriends Reicther?
-A religion craze that could has some bad results for Casey?
-Casey loses The Group has his friends?
-A suicidal who could be the love of Chris's life?
-Stacy graduating, but not without leaving her mark?
-Joel and Cathy double dating with another member of "The Group"?
-A film crew that comes and decides to make Brian's life more dramatic for documentary?
-One of the group members comitting suicide?
-The origin of Brock's anger and problems?

Also, Story Editor Melinda Waterman claims she wants to do an Musical Episode. She has begun to write it. I'm not sure if I'll use it.

Alan Holman is currently putting the finishing touches on his two episodes. Both are suppose to be whacky but great.

Edward is got about 3 more episodes up.

Max Majernik is working on one called "Shades of Grey"

And I am trying to tone down our Religion episode so it won't offend EVERYBODY. But it will probably still make some angry. There's lots of talk about Jews, Jesus' life, and the big point is that The Guys have an argument about who really killed Jesus.

Did you ever get my review of epsiode 1? I sent it to your pm a few weeks ago or so at least

I just wrote an episode.  I'll send it to Bruce later today, after I put some finishing touches on it.  It's called "Putting out Fires", and it combines three different episode ideas into one awesome script with the theme of fire.

Hey, I've been reading The Lunchroom since it first came out and I love this series, I think it really should be made into a real show, but anyways my favorite season would have to be season 1 & 2, season 3 i don't think it's as funny as season 1 and 2 but it's not a bad season my favorite episode for season 3 would have to be "god hates actors", "special needs" and "Master Debaters" my least so far would be "The Camping trip", on to the characters my favorites are Will and Reicther and Mr. Parker. I think Chris and Brock, and Sometmes Joel are underused especialy Chris and Brock, just wish they had a standout episode or two. anyways continue on with the good work on The Luncroom.


Oh yeah, how many more seasons  do you plan to do The lunchroom ?

Well this is how the rest of this season is hopefully going to look like:

 29.   3- 6      By All Means (Focus: Mostly Will)
 30.   3- 7      The Passion of the Atheist (Focus: Will & Casey)
 31.   3- 8      Home Is Where The War Is (Focus: Reicther)
 32.   3- 9      We Didn't Start the Fire (Focus: The Whole Ensemble)
 33.   3-10     With Friends Like These... (Focus: Casey & Joel)
 34.   3-11     Shades of Gray (Focus: Chris)
 35.   3-12     Heart's Place (Focus: Joel)
 36.   3-13     Slow Fuse (Focus: Joel & Chris)
 37.   3-14     Reality Bites (Focus: Brian)
 38.   3-15     All My Life (1) (Focus: Whole Ensemble)
 39.   3-16     Suicide Watch (2) (Focus: Brian)
 40.   3-17     The Most Important Moment (Focus: Whole Ensemble)
 41.   3-18     Comfortably Numb (Focus: Whole Ensemble)
 42.   3-19     Breast Easily (Focus: Stacy)
 43.   3-20     The Legend of Brock Warner (Focus: Brock)
 44.   3-21     Pentecostal Dinner Party (Focus: Casey)
 45.   3-22     Good Riddance (Focus: Whole Ensemble)

We want to get back to the how the show use to be and are trying to fix new episodes to be like them.

Right now, it looks like Season 3 MIGHT be the last Season, but you never know. There has been some talk about a Season 4.

I was going to send the first of my two episodes for Season 3 to Bruce today, but then I decided not to.  I'll send both at the same time; that way, I can re-edit the first one while I'm finishing the second one.  I think I'll rename the first one "We Didn't Start The Fire", instead of the title I prefer, which is "Putting out Fires."

I don't know what will be deleted in Bruce's editing of my episodes, and because it's his show, I don't mind liberal deletions and replacements and edits, et cetera, but as its rough draaft currently goes, this is what happens in the first of two episodes...

I'm deviating from the original summaries, so here's a bit about what happens...

-A rumor goes around town that Will's parents died.
-Casey and Joel want to hold elections for "leader" of their gang.
-Stacy gets injured.
-and much, much more!

   

I think you guys should do a season 4 and maybe a season 5 i think, i would feel good if you guys end it at season 4 or 5 but ending it at season 3 is to soon.

Well, Bruce is working on "The Big Apple" and I geuss he feels the show has gone as far as it can go without getting old.

Maybe someone will revise the series at a latter date - uncancel it pehaps or
adapt a feature length version, possibly a script drafted by everyone involved with the series.

I do agree, this was a very good series.  
The writers have a lot of talent so hopefully we'll see them help Bruce with his new series.

It woud be fun to make a spin off in the college years, just like "Saved By the Bell". Except ya know it wont.......suck

Are those special spin-off episodes you were going to do still on?  Like with Chris married in London, and Brock and Brian living together in Brian's old house?  Those sounded really good.

Personally, I would like to see another season of The Lunchroom, maybe an abbreviated season of 6 or 8 episodes just to give each writer a chance to do one more episode.

Well I hope Bruce considers another season I just don't feel it's time for The Lunchroom to end,ending in it's 4th season i'll be fine with , in the 4th season he can do like 8 to 10 episodes instead of 13 to 15 eps.

[THIS message has been edited when Alan realised that the promise it makes is no longer necessary.]

Not trying to take any thunder away from Simply Scripts here, but does anybody think The Lunchroom should have its own website?  Wouldn't it be a cool place to collect all the information about the show?

After much thinking, I've decided to renew The Lunchroom for another Season.

Crzypunk is right. We may be stopping the show to soon. I mean right now, during Season 3, The Gang are only Sophmores. So probably this will be the Timeline:

Season 1: Freshmen
Season 2: Freshmen
Season 3: Sophmores
Season 4: Juniors
Season 5: Seniors.

I've shortened Season 3 from 22 episodes to 15.
Season 4 will also probably be 15 Episodes.

While a lot of shows like "Friends"; "The Sopranos"; and "Everybody Loves Raymond" shortened their final seasons. I would like to have the Final Season have the regular 15 amount. So in the end, we'll probably have 68 overall episodes.

Also, I'm hoping to more things for Mr. Parker to do in both future Seasons and Episodes.

We have also made the decision to have Stacy leave the show near the end of Season 4. Many feel that she serves no purpose. I myself, have found it difficult to fit her in sometimes. But besides that, no real other regular characters will leave.

Also we want make the character have more stand out characteristics. This is what we're trying to do:

WILL: Leader. Sarcastic & sometimes cocky.
JOEL: Good looking. Most liked. Easily could be popular.
BRIAN: Big. Angry. Sometimes insensitive.
BROCK: Intense. Quiet. Much like Brian, but is less angry.
REICTHER: Weird. Whacky.
CASEY: The tallest and biggest one. Is mostly stupid and usually butt of The Group's jokes. (Like getting stuck in the wall in 2x01 "Against the Madness")
CHRIS: New guy. Black, British. Sarcastic like Will, but still is trying to understand America culture and the way things run around the school.

Wow people got really interested in the New Lunchroom season really fast ;D

Thank you bruce for not ending The Lunchroom in season 3, I'm glad it will end in season 5, since they will be seniors and you guys can give them a good send off for each character, after thinking about it yeah, sometimes I myself wonder why is Stacy there, yes she does have some funny moments but why is she there?. Keep up the good work on season 3.

I like Stacy.  I was just waiting to see what direction you guys decide to take with her before writing an episode for ya, that focuses on her.  

I like Stacy to, but sometimes I just wish she had a direction and a story.

Hey maybe they could have an episode revolving around Stacy and possibly satirize shows like the "O.C" ?

I liked the episode when Stacy got kissed by that girl.  So far, you've implied that she's interested in asian culture.  I've been studying asian cultures lately, so perhaps I could write an episode of THE LUNCHROOM where she visits the town of Rain, Japan, for some reason.  That's the town where my Banana Chan scripts take place.  I know that fictional town inside-and-out.  I wouldn't have her meet any of the characters from my series ... unless you don't mind ... but i would have her visit rarely-or-never visited parts of that town, so tha she can learn some little known things about the culture.  All i'd need is a plausible story idea that could cause her to go to Japan -- and a list of characters who'd be going with her, and why -- and I'd write that story.

A "Banana Chan" crossover...Sounds intriguing.

We do have two upcoming things with Stacy:

1) We're going to take up Ziggy W. on his idea and have an episode that mocks teen shows like "O.C." and the ultimate piece of crap "One Tree Hill."

2) Also, in the upcoming episode "Heart's Place" she shares in the most awkward thing a teen can...losing her virginity.

Yeah you should do an episode where the gang mocks teen dramas, anyways what are your plans with stacy after she graduates?

I'll write the cross-over then.  You won't have to know anything about my series to understand and enjoy the story of the crossover.  I'll spend an extra amount of time getting the details right, but here's what I need from you:  I need you to e-mail me a time-line of every current plan that you've got for Stacy, and all relevant information about Stacy -- such as scripts, or script exerpts, that haven't yet been posted within episodes.  I'll refer to that information when figuring out how to portray her in the crossover episode.  In other words, any "classified" information about Stacy is necessary.  I must know all, and then I'll write the cross-over.  When I finish writing the episode, we'll both have to send it back-and-forth to each-othera few times so that we're both completely happy with it.

Well, crzypunk, Stacy graduates at the end of this Season and we're only going to have her around for a few more episodes in Season 4.

Then in around episode 6 or 7 we're going to have her move away. After that she MIGHT pop up once or twice. But she will be in the Series Finale.

Next 2 Episodes...

"Home Is Where The War Is"
Teleplay by Bruce Snyder & Alan Holman
Story by Alan Holman

"By All Means"
Teleplay by Bruce Snyder & Edward Drogos
Story by Bruce Snyder

So ... what do you think of this idea?  [EDIT:  Alan deleted the idea, and came up with a better one that he'll propose to Bruce ... one of these days, in a private e-mail.]

That epsiode where Stacy got kissed - are you going to follow it up?
You kind of just left the story up in the air.

Yes. In the fact it's going to come into play at the end of the Season.

Great, I loved that episode and I'm glad it's going to be brought up agian, Oh and will Kirk make an appearence this season?

Basically here how it goes with Stacy and the Kiss:

By the time the whole thing comes up again this season, it will have been almost a year since it's happened. Basically she runs into Marilyn again. After having a nice conversation, Stacy becomes intrigued with her. She spends the last few episodes of Season 3 figuring out if she's gay or not.

Kirk will be making an appearance in both "Home Is Where the War Is" and "We Didn't Start the Fire."

Yeah, I really like "The Luchroom" the characters have really evolved since this premeired and I'm glad this isn't ending in the third season.
I'm just curious as to whose going to be in the next batch of characters.

BTW,
Hey Bruce, would you mind checking out "Quirky Romantic Comedy" on the
"My work in progress" board?
I'm looking for imput from other writers on it.

Thanks.

I think that the characters have really evovled to, and you get a feel for each character.

We have a small website going:

http://www.thelunchroom.tk

It's still in it's small stages. Warning: In Netscape, the backbutton won't work.

Pretty cool -
I really think you should try to pitch this as an actual TV series.

Since we're going to be doing 2 more Seasons of the series, I'm going to put "The Big Apple" on the back burner. The more I think about it, it wasn't anything that special anyway.

Hopefully all of Season 3 will be posted by the End of April. Then the Summer will be spent with the Writers planning Season 4.

So far this is our writing staff for Season 4.

Bruce Snyder (Head Writer)
Vincent Biga
Edward Drogos
Melinda Waterman (Story Editor)

But there is plenty of room for more writers.

Sounds cool,
I honestly can't wait to see which characters you use for the next season.

Characters for Season 4.

Regulars:

Will Cooper
Joel Mayberry
Brian Vandele
Brock Warner
Casey Jennings
Reicther
Chris Hughes
Mr. John Parker (Bigger Part)
Stacy Cifaretto (leaves in Ep. 5)

Recurring Characters (May Change):

Brandon Brim (President of Art Club; joins the cast after becoming a friend to Brian.)

Ellen Conner (Newspaper Writer; joins the cast after becoming a friend to Will.)

Cathy Phenis (Joel's love interest; This marks her final season.)

Kay Johnson (Casey's girlfriend; Will become a bigger part of the series.)

Lois Warner (Brock's real mother; In this season, her personal life annoys Brock.)

Michael 'Big Mike' Harris (Not so bright football player; Reichter's new science partner. NOTE: He's not a "popular" football player. He's in the social class as The Gang.)

Mrs. Laura Bell (The new health teacher; very beautiful; Butts heads with Parker...but the two end up in bed with each other.)

Kirk Hoey (Pot smoker; pops in every once in a while.)

I want to be on the writing staff for the next one, but can I make one suggestion:

We've gotta have a private message board somewhere where we all can meet and discuss our perceptions of the characters and our ideas for how the story should continue.  Such discussions should be in a private, staff only discussion board somewhere, where although all the writers are sharing their ideas, Bruce makes the ultimate decisions.

If such a board already exists for this series, I'd probably take the news ... the news that I've been excluded from it ... quite badly, so if such a board exists already, don't tell me about it.  Thanks.

Why not have a board for suggestions from fans and one that's just between staff writers?  8)

It'd be cool to be a staff writer -
but alas, my schedule is full with writing and hopefully directing my comedy.  8)

To Alert all Writers:

-NONE of the Gang knows about Joel liking Cathy.

Way back in Season 1, Brian's whole storyline was that he liked Cathy and spent most of Season 2 getting over her. So Joel is going to keep it secret. In fact, Joel won’t really tell anyone till the episode “Heart’s Place.”

And technically their not boyfriend-girlfriend which is going to be a joke that both confuses and frustrates Joel.

Just letting you know.

Yeah, see ... that's the kind of thing that should be private, and just between the writers of the serial.  That's the kind of posting that we should do in a private board somewhere.

I agree with Alan.
As a reader I don't want to have plot points spoiled by reading this thread.

I know, I know.

I'm working on creating something like that. It's just hard considering we're in the middle of a Season. But I will create something like that, and only give the web address to Writers.

Bruce, I may have time for another episode. I'd love to be in for season four.

Cool. I'll hopefully PM you about writing an episode.

After a 3 week break, I just sent in
Ep. 6 "By All Means."
Teleplay by Bruce Snyder & Edward Drogos
Story by Bruce Snyder

Just giving people a heads up, it has a lot of gay and bisexual themes. In fact, in one scene a book called "A Buddhist's Perspective on Bisexuality" is discussed in detail.

Also John Mayer's "Daughters" is used.

Next on the lunchroom is "Home Is Where The War Is", an Alan Holman episode about Iraq and false identities. Look out for a Guest appearances from Kirk Hoey and Richard Belzer.

What state does "The Lunchroom" take place?

I believe Centerville is in Indiana.

How ironic.

I'm the one who suggested the private board, and then I can't post on it with the outdated browser which I MUST use.  Damn poverty.

I was wondering why you hadn't posted on the boards... like at all, and yes Centerville is in Indiana

Season 4 Writers (so far)

Bruce Snyder (Head Writer)
Melinda Waterman (Story Editor)
Vincent Biga
Edward Drogos
Max Majernik
Michael Birch
Nick Dunn
Alan Holman
Bryy Miller (Uncomfirmed Yet)
AtmosphericIdeas@aol.com (Hasn't given his name yet)

After this quarter, I'll have tons more time for this. I'm even thinking of doing my own series.

I loves this series so.

Hey Dudes, just wanted to chime in and say how great the show is and ask two questions.

1) How are new threads posted?

and

2) I'm trying to put together a series, but having trouble with ideas, anyone interested in co-creating/writing a series? I figured I'd post the offer here cause alot of writers seem to come in to offer help on the show. For my ideas, I'm thinking a drama, but with some comedy injected in. Anyway, cya

What'd your series be about - or what's the general idea of it?

Well I've done a series before, but lost all the episodes up till the beginning of Season 4, and I cant remember most cocepts other than they were really good, and don't wanna ruin the whole thing with re-writes, so I could give you the basic info(which i mostly remember) and character detials, and start in Season 4. It was a lawyer drama, about the New York District Attorneys office, and a lawyer and his friends who work there.


That might work, or I was thinking a new lawyer drama, or a cop show, but I dunno about sitcoms. I find it eaiser to write drama and have the comedy come natrually in what the characters say and how they react, but I could try.


So basiclly, a court-thing or cop drama are my ideas, but I'm up to any input and ideas you may have

Oh by the way, Clerks friggin rocks

Hell yeah.  8)

So waddaya think? If you wanna talk my SN on AIM is swmaniak309


(Sorry to get off the subject of The Lunchroom) The Lunchroom rocks!!!!!!!!!!!!(thats better)

You're show sounds interesting, though it's not a genre I normally write for.
Why not draft up outlines and character bios and talk to a few other writers on the board?

Thanks man

You're welcome.  8)

FINAL SEASON 3 SCHEDULE

 30.   3- 7      008     2 Mar 05   Home Is Where The War Is
 31.   3- 8      003     9 Mar 05   Passion of the Atheist
 32.   3- 9      009    16 Mar 05   We Didn't Start the Fire
 33.   3-10      010    23 Mar 05   With Friends Like These...
 34.   3-11      012    30 Mar 05   Shades of Gray
 35.   3-12      011    30 Mar 05   Heart's Place
 36.   3-13      014     6 Apr 05   Slow Fuse
 37.   3-14      004    13 Apr 05   Reality Bites
 38.   3-15      015    20 Apr 05   All My Life

The dates are OUR release dates. We like to think our time slot is Wenesday.  The number before it is the Production Order (or the number it was made)

Awsome, can't wait till......TOMMOROW! Cool!

Cool, I guess I'll read over the scripts to get a sense of where the characters are going.

I Haven't been with Simply scripts for too long...

(Well i have but i was inactive for a long time.)

...But my point is that The Lunchroom is my favorite Script on all of Simply Scripts.

You guys did a great job.

And somebody said something like this earlier, and it might have already happened, but if it hasn't happened then i'll say it agian.

The lunchroom Really needs it's on Website...It'll be wicked cool.

[Realized I was wrong, and this post was useless and made me seem dumb]

I beleive it has it's own site, but having it on Simply Scripts is fine as well.
More people may read it if it's on a site like Simply Scripts instead of it's lone site.
You know, I actually happened across this while browsing this site.
If it hadn't been for this site, I'd probably never read "The Lunchroom".

8)

Same here, but I don't think it has a site, I know people have offered to set one up but I don't think it actually has one

There is a site.
A link's listed somewhere on this thread.

ok cool

I'll have to search this thread high and lo then to find it.

Here's the link, again:

http://www.thelunchroom.tk

Oh, cool,

Thanks, you spared me.

And I'm very lazy so if i was left to find it myself, then i never would have.

When does the next episode go up?

I think the go up on wednesdays...

Yeah, it was supposed to go up on 3/2, this wedensday but it didn't.


No biggie, I mean, Bruce has a life beyond the Lunchroom, things come up. I was just wonderin.

There is a waiting time between when the episode is submitted to the site, and when the webmaster, Don is able to post it.  Traditionally, Don posts a bunch of scripts late Saturday or Sunday.

OH ok, thanks

Sorry about these delays. Due to a special even this weekened, I'm not sure if I can get the new episode up in time. I'll try my hardest to get it posted.

This Week: "Home Is..." (Sorta a satire on the Iraq War)
Next Episode: "Passion of the Atheist" (The Gang's take on religion.)

Bruce, I'm lcked out of the thing.

Thanks Bruce. Sorry if we seemed demanding.

It's all right. Being a big fan of "The Sopranos" I know how is feels to wait a long time...

Turns out there will be 16 episodes this Season, instead of 15. With all this waiting, i'm putting you guys through, you deserve a bonus episode.

07. Home Is Where the War Is
08. Passion of the Atheist
09. We Didn't Start the Fire
10. With Friends Like These...
11. Shades of Gray
12. Heart's Place
13. Slow Fuse
14. Reality Bites
15. Special Night
16. All My Life (Part 1; Also Cliff-Hanger)

A long time ago, I lost the address to that special discussion board that's so special that the outdated internet connection I'm stuck with can't post on it, so because the only times I've ever went to read it, there was a lot I wanted to say, but couldn't, and it frustrated me a lot, and ... to make a long story short, I must graciously bow out of this.  Thanks for letting me write the stuff I wrote.  I look forward to reading the rest of the series.  I will not be providing the cross-over episode that I wanted to write, and still do want to write.  Peace.  

Leaving...

Wow...I wasn't expecting that.

Well Alan, it was pleasure having you write for us. We still have a few more of your episodes to be posted, plus with all the random scenes and conversations you sent  you'll probably still get credit in future episodes.

Good luck with other projects and God Bless.

I'll return to provide at least two original episodes ONLY if you move the private staff discussion to a board that's compatible with the outdated browser I must use.  Does this mean I'm a control freak?  Probably.  Will it work?  That's for you to decide.

Nah, it only seems fair that you ask that. But why would you have to quit? Can you just email?

No. E-mail wouldn't work because the outdated browser in question -- the one I'm using right now -- isn't for a type of computer that uses any sort of Windows.  The reason that's a problem is because this browser can read that discussion board, but it cannot reply to anything in it.  That's a problem because A LOT of what I read in that board inspires me to have ideas for immediate replies, and I don't have time to go to my e-mail account, then back to the board, then my e-mail account, then back to the board, then my e-mail account, then back to the board, and so on.  This particular outdated browser can't copy the text from he board into an e-mail message so that i can reply to each point either.  However, a good solution would be if someone can be bothered to take time to send everything from the board to my e-mail account each week.  The first week, everything that's been posted until now.  The second week, everything that was posted in the previous week.  And so on.  That way i'd be able to reply to each point I should or can reply to, in a single e-mail.  God i wish I had a computer ... like normal people.  

I'm with Alan in wanting a new discussion board. Something that is easier to move around in and is less cluttered.

I'm unsure of how much time I'll have to work on it. Maybe a weekend or two, but if I do a new version of my new play, I won't have time. I've also started a Sims 2 machinima, so I'd be balancing between that. But that will start production in the fall.

The boards fine, it took Ed alot of work for that and most can get to it. Theirs always going to be minor problems with everything, but you take your good with your bad sometimes.

In many actual board rooms and most real cousils, all it takes is for a motion to be seconded before that motion is passed.  A motion is made.  If that motion is seconded, the leader passes it.  Then it's up to the members to decide how to follow that decision.  Of course, the leader always has the choice to not pass a motion that's been seconded, but that's not a topic that'd help my selfish needs, so I'll barely mention that possibility in this discourse.

Okay.

I've heard both ends of this. And here's my final verdict:

We will NOT be creating a new board.

I'm sorry to do this to you, Alan. But I've got to consider all the other writers as well. I mean Edward
created the board on his own free will because he cared about the other writers. So please, don't
think we don't care about you.

The board has been up and running for over a month now. We've had production meetings, we've
plotted episodes, we've created new characters...

...it would be very difficult to say to these people "We've got stop, destory the board, and start all
these topics up again."

I know the idea has been seconded, but there are still a lot of others who are not liking the idea. In
fact one writer said that this might be showing favoritism.

I'm sorry, Alan. But I just can't do it.

Man, I'm sorry Alan, and I don't wanna take advantage of your mis-fourtune, but while i'm working on a series of my own, I'd love to pitch some ideas if youd like.

And if you check my wording, you'll see that I never specifically asked you to or told you to.  I just mentioned it as a suggestion ... just like how the creation of that board was also my suggestion.  Oh well.  

And if you read my wording I never claimed you asked.

Lameusername055 -- We can do that in PMs.

Bruce -- I'm a bitch.

do what?

(sorry, I'm slow)


and Alan, you're not a bitch, at least not any more than the rest of us.

Lunchroom is good.  Banana Chan is good.  Better Days is good.  That's all that matters.

I just sent in the NEWEST episode:

"Reality Bites"
Written by Max Majernik

It should be up soon.

sweet

I'll know soon if I can work on season four.
As in next week.
Yeah.

That was a great episode. Quite funny, quite funny....

I finally got a cable modem on a computer that can handle that LUNCHROOM board.  Now it's just a matter of remembering the address, then I'll gladly join and try to write some more content for ya ... that is, if you'll still have me after all that ruckus I caused.  

I regret to inform you all, but I can no longer work on The Lunchroom. I need to start focusing on graduating, which now looks like it will take place next year. Maybe in the future. Goodbye and it was fun working with you all.

I am going to write an episode, which will introduce a few new characters. The episode's called "Fade to Black" and takes place over the course of a blackout.

Did you clear that with Bruce?

Yeah, I did. I kind of figures that since he's writting and written a few scripts for me, the least I can do is write an episode. Besides this series is great.

I deeply apologize for all the long breaks between episodes.

There just has been some "personal" things to deal with such as Women and School. I'm sorry to the fans who (patiently) wait, sometimes a month, for a new episode.

Hopefully this weekend the newest episode will be up.

Here's what we got the final strech of Season 3.

3x09 "Shades of Gray" (this weekend)
A new recurring character is introduced, a character that will be both a joy and a major head ache for Chris.

3x10 "Heart's Place"
Joel's dirty little secret becomes public (sorta), while Reicther considers quiting his job.

3x11 "Slow Fuse"
Joel and Cathy go on a double date with Chris and his new girl (who is slightly mentally disturbed and suicidal.)

3x12 "Special Night"
Chris goes where no social outcast goes...at least until their 40. Meanwhile, Will is visited again by Richard Belzer.

3x13 "Feel the Force"
This will be about the new Star Wars film. Everyone is excited...but Will who is upset with George Lucas about the last two films. Will will have a fantasty sequence involving George Lucas and Young George Lucas.

3x14 "A Matter of Faith"
Casey's atheist  family and Kay's Pentecostal family have dinner and quickly an argument about the exsitence of God comes up. In a tribute to the HBO series "Oz", Richard (the student in the wheelchair) will intercut in the episode giving his views on the situation.

3x15 "Flix It"
Will gets upset with a local company editing and changing movies. Meanwhile, Tom (the gay student) beats the living crap out of a homophobe and Mr. Parker tries his hardest to save Tom from getting in trouble.

3x16 "All My Life" (SEASON FINALE)
Some storylines comes to end, some new ones are created and someone thinks that suicide is the answer.

With "Flix It" and "Feel the Force" we're trying to be topical.

We'll try our hardest to get these up in the next month.

Bruce, have you seen the indy film, "Shades of Gray"? Good lil' piece of celluloid there.

I haven't read any LUNCHROOM yet but I'm gonna start soon, I just have a question, why is there a cast list on the scripts?

have you tried shooting it? A pilot maybe?

Well for a long time, people had a hard time trying to picture these people. So we picked some actors to give people an idea of what these people look like.

Originally the name of the actors were links to pictures of them but I guess that didn't turn out right. They should be gone by the next episode.

You could try doing this as a machinima with The Sims 2, or better yet, when The Movies comes out.

Hey I'm back, how's everyone. Cool to see new episodes up, they were great, you guys are fantasic.


Peace

I've got a mental block with regards to The Lunchroom.  It's a great series, but I can't bring myself to join them to write more.  But they're really good without me anyway.

Okay. We've finally reached the Season Finale.

Part 1 "Down the Hightway"

Chris comes over to Kate's when she claims there is an intruder in the house. But when he comes over he finds something more shocking. Will waits to audition for the new school play and while he waits Richard Belzer appears. He warns him about a girl, whom Will has been eyeing the whole time. Brock finally decides to end all contact with Sarah. After the double date incident, Joel tries his hardest to get in touch with Cathy.

Part 2 "Across the Street"

Fed up, Reicther decides he wants to quit his job and makes a big plan to do it. Stacy graduates and is surprised to see both Dave and Marilyn at the ceremony. As Will plans to talk to Ellen, Belzer makes one last chance to warn him. Debbie (Brian and Stacy's mom) sees Stacy kissing Marilyn. Joel and Cathy meet and she gives him an ultimatum. Chris reveals Kate's new secret to Casey. AND, in the episodes final moments, a character tries to kill themself.

Uhmm.. Question! I want to read this series but where's The Lunchroom Season 1 or 2!?!?!

Thats both seasons anyway. in comedy or click the links.

http://www.simplyscripts.net/cgi-bin/Blah/Blah.pl?b=comedy,m=1082777963

http://www.simplyscripts.net/cgi-bin/Blah/Blah.pl?b=comedy,m=1086801679

I feel I've been dishonest with Bruce and the rest of the writers, so I'd like to clear up a few things.

It is true that I have far too much shark on my hands to deal with a web series right now (including my own that I am starting up), but the real truth of the matter is that I don't know how to write for these characters. Maybe its just that I'm out of touch with writing slapstick comedy. The thing is, this series is SO psuedoepisodic that it makes my head spin whenever I try to write a scene. I don't want to let anyone down, most of all Bruce, one of the most original writers I've ever "worked with" or seen.

wait... that is a compliment... right?

That's an explanation.

As I've been keeping up with the series, I noticed that Reichter really reminds me of Marshall (Timm Sharp) from "Undeclared". Similar quirky mannerisms, and parents that want them to do something they don't. For me, this is a good thing, as I loved that character.

Wow...just.....wow


Read the season finale and Bruce, that was just....wow


SPOILERS:















Did Brian really end it? Is he gone? **** man I can't wait for more, when will we have a season 4? I'm truely awed, and drooling in anticipation.

Just read the finale.

Great stuff.

In "Everybody Hurts" it says Part 1 of 2. Where's Part 2?

Part 2 is the following episode, "The Last Time."

where can i find season 1 and season 2?

Season 1
http://www.simplyscripts.net/cgi-bin/Blah/Blah.pl?b-comedy/m-1082777963/s-0/

Season 2
http://www.simplyscripts.net/cgi-bin/Blah/Blah.pl?b-comedy/m-1086801679/s-0/

Season 4
http://www.simplyscripts.net/cgi-bin/Blah/Blah.pl?m-1163359677/s-0/#num1