Hey folks,
The remastering train rolls on.... As always, all these original clips have been converted to higher-quality MP4s with better bitrate, but no AI junk or other shenanigans! Glorious 480p!! (Which actually looks... Pretty decent? I had camera settings down by then.) The first two pics below are actual screen shots of the remastered versions. And everything can be found in the UMD and Vidown stores, both for sale or as part of our streaming packages.

So Jen, AKA Jennifer, was the kind of part-time model that seemed to represent every college-aged girl circa 2010: Thin, tan, tatoo- and drama-free, absolutely adorable. She found everything about our first shoot completely hilarious, despite my tendency at the time to REALLY destroy the poor model right away. (I'm sure we went through 60+ pies over 4 scenes.) In addition to the standbys (the Top Hat girl, the final Slime Skit), I also used a little bit of green screen to put Jen into a familiar show (ahem) for her first scene ever.... And then she got messy in a workout video that involved a sports bra/spandex shorts combo AND the infamous "sexy baseball player" look (which sadly never caught on) AND messing up the poor girl while she's wearing boxing gloves, which is a very slapsticky brand of humiliation. (I came back to this with Breana and Shelly, among others. The inability to wipe your face is a devious ploy!)

After THAT, Jen decided she was only gonna do "fashion" modeling, so it took some doing to get her back for a few more shoots. I believe I enticed her by promising less scenes (and less mess) for the same amount of money. This resulted in my two favorite Jen scenes: The SS100 one, where she plays both a poor customer who gets destroyed with pies and thick chocolate (and wears a tux, I guess) AND the reporter who comments on it all.... and finally gets nicely clobbered at the end. (I was quite proud of those pie throws!) Green screen in action, and a tribute to one of my favorite skits as a kid, starring the great Morgan Freeman. (No, really.)

And THEN shortly after Leslie Nielsen died, I wrote a Naked Gun tribute skit that was "approximately 1/5th as clever as The Naked Gun and 15 times messier" AND worked Jen into the classic slapstick scene from Naked Gun 2 1/2 where Frank's efforts to free his tied hands result in baseballs, motor oil, styrofoam peanuts, and an anvil all falling on his partner's head. I replaced everything but the motor oil with.... Cement, paint, pies, and green slime. A nice improvement, I'd say! (Jen would disagree.)

Final random wrinkle that sadly never happened: I was still good friends with Jill back then, even though she wasn't modeling anymore... And when I mentioned I had worked with Jen, she commented, "Oh yeah, the customers at Hooters confuse us ALL the time." (Also very 2010: 75% of my models also worked at Hooters.)
And, I mean: They REALLY do. So we seriously discussed a 2-girl scene where Jen is Jill's stunt double, or the dumb pie thrower keeps confusing one girl for the other, or.... Well, the possibilities would've been endless!
Sadly, it never happened. (I could write a novella about all the times I tried and failed to coax Jill out of "pie retirement.") But it did lead to this great exchange (paraphrased from memory)....

Me: You sure I can't get you to come back and shoot with Jen?
Jill: Rich, you know I'm retired.
Me: I could pay you more? That's how I got Jen to come back.
Jill: She hit you up for more money?
Me: Yep. A LOT more.
Jill: Good for her!

Last I saw Jen, it was years later and we were randomly in a long checkout line together.... She looked exactly the same. She'd gotten married and retired from modeling. (The classic story.) I mentioned casually that she could always do a comeback shoot.... And she laughed like I'd just said the funniest and most ridiculous statement ever. (Jill must've rubbed off on her....)

Nice! The Naked Gun parody is a good one.

that's a very different video

Looooooooove Jen. So cute, incredible smile that cuts through the pies like. Also quite funny! Theres a part in the tux scene where she has to say the line "not particularly" and the inability to say it covered in pie always makes me laugh and I end up saying that phrase in that cadence all the time.

I assume youve been asked this before Rich but I assume all the top hat bow tie scenes from back in the day are Fosse inspired. If so we need a slapstick version of All That Jazz (although with a more lighthearted ending perhaps lol)

Not really Fosse because that wasn't on my radar at all.... But I feel like there was a lot of that "look" in the air when I was a kid. I see variety shows from the 70s and a lot of times the backup dancer girls are doing that top hair and tails look. (No pies of course.)

There's also a little bit of that bleeding into the Electric Company as well. Feels like there MUST be a skit somewhere with Rita Moreno in a top hat!

I didn't exactly influence him per se, but the great visual artists co4 from Deviant Art did a run of slapstick-inspired scenes with his character April Fewles and sometimes used that same look as well. (Sadly, he passed away years ago. I always wanted to collaborate with him somehow.)

I'm starting to realize that the women of 2008 - 2011 or 2012 just were a different breed, and made some of the best SlapstickStuff models for whatever reason. Perhaps it was before social media took over and everyone was taking themselves so seriously?

His passing is truly a shame!! I always loved seeing his work on DeviantArt. Is there any way to read or purchase his April Fewels comics? Would love to get my hands on those.

And it's unfortunate the baseball player scenes never caught on - the Brandi take on that theme is a classic!

I don't believe so, unless you could find one second-hand for sale. The link to his store has been dead for years. I actually didn't know WHAT happened to him, aside from him not returning emails or posting for over a year, and then someone else on DeviantArt posted he had passed.

As for baseball.... Yeah, not every look was a hit! I maybe should've tried more than twice. Brandi's scene was pretty classic tho.... Everyone booing "B-Rod" was one of my better dumb jokes.

I'd agree..... Even the "pro" models who appeared in national magazines were still just regular women working normal jobs (often at Hooters, haha) and picking up extra money with the occasional shoot or bikini contest. The idea of controlling your "brand".... and also your photos, content, look, and following.... just didn't exist, so more models were open to trying more things for sure. (I'll have more to say about this when the Zarah scenes are remastered next.)

As I've said many times before, Breana getting messy in 25+ scenes (and still being the "Most Caked Woman In History," unofficially) is the perfect combo of luck and timing. If she'd come along even a few years later, she would've gone straight to "social media influencer" and never shot a single scene. (Much like the career of SS163's Blonde Taylor, so close and yet...)

For the longest time I got her and Kathleen mixed up in my head. Both excellent models!

Love these scenes

I was so excited when I saw this pic, the April Fewles comics by co4 are my white whale ever since I discovered his work so long ago. I had heard he had possibly passed away, and I've been looking for copies of the April Fewles comics with no luck. Sorry to hear he's no longer with us, his content was right in my slapstick preference zone!

100% agree with this. Back then we had so many fantastic girls wanting to shoot it was unreal. Wind the clock forward to 2026 and there seems to be a real lack of girls firstly wanting to shoot our Gunge Tank stuff but more importantly who can pull off the slapstick side of things. Maybe it's just a UK or even London / South East thing but certainly not the amount and quality of girls that were around in that era.