For this episode, we enlisted the talents of Jim Demonakos and Kyle Stevens of Seattle nerd rock band Kirby Krackle to portray Joel Bradavky and Rob Schufeld, a couple of tools from upstairs at "corporate" (meaning where the actual decisions regarding the Power Posse are made).
Some trivia:
- Kirby Krackle are responsible for the end title track on each episode of The Collectibles. "I Wanna Live in a World Full of Heroes" is exactly the vibe we wanted for the show, as it's about throwing off the mundane yoke of an office job or flipping burgers for the exciting world of superhero crime fighting.
- Jim Demonakos has done some improv, but has no formal acting experience, and it is his rehearsed delivery that makes him so painfully believable as a corporate manager.
- As the chief songwriter and front man for Kirby Krackle, Kyle Stevens is the literal voice of the band, while lyricist Jim Demonakos stays more behind the scenes. For episodes 2 & 3 of The Collectibles, we reversed their roles. Jim does the talking while Kyle remains silent.
- Jim's character, Joel Bradavky - what does it mean? "Joel" is a reference to Joel Schumacher, the movie director who many Batman fans say ruined the 1990s movie franchise. Batman the Animated Series contained an episode where an overly-flamboyant kid is fantasizing about how he would tell his Batman story, to which the other kids reply, "Shut up, Joel." This has become comic book jargon for addressing any bad idea. Among Schumacher's many perceived sins was putting nipples on the batsuit. "Bradavky" is nipples in Czech.
- Kyle's character, Rob Schufeld - what does it mean? "Rob" is a reference to Rob Liefeld, a comic book artist in the 1990s whose hyper-stylized drawing bore little to no resemblance to the human form. "Schufeld" is an amalgam of Schumaker and Liefeld, two extremely divisive personalities in comic book franchise history.
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