The Boys are over....they are coming with a new show...should be dope.
Their next show, The Drunk and on Drugs Happy Funtime Hour, sounds like a nightmare fit for any member of that trio: It depicts the cast of a TV show one day waking up convinced they're the zany characters they have played in front of the cameras.
According to Smith, known to TPB fans as Bubbles, the show began with the question: "What if we did a kids' show and everybody on the kids' show did hallucinogenic drugs?"
The new comedy will follow the travails of the cast of a recently wrapped up children's television show called The Happy Funtime Hour, which was shot in the fictional East Coast town of Port Cockerton. One of the actors, who portrays a crazed scientist who teaches tube-watching tykes about nutrition (the actor will in turn be played by Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson) concocts a batch of homebrewed hallucinogenic berries. These convince the cast that they are in fact the superheroes, pirates and playboys of the TV show.
In a bid to smash any typecasting of Smith, Tremblay and Wells, The Drunk and on Drugs Happy Funtime Hour (the title is still tentative) will see each of them play so many characters, hidden by so much makeup and prosthetics, that it will be hard for viewers to keep track of who's who. Each will play between six and 10 roles, populating Port Cockerton with personalities the actor-writers came up with to crack each other up.
Tremblay (Julian of the Boys) said the new project will differ in "pretty much every way." The feel and the style of humour will change depending on which set of characters the action is following. While divided into vignettes, the six episodes will together follow a narrative arc.
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