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They've always been kind of after trends like that, but lately it feels were just a few episodes away from a game changer episode being just "who is willing to cover an emergency room doctor’s shift and let us film it, just because our cast member appeared on one episode of a popular emergency room medical drama?"

If I ever see Noah Wyle, Isa Briones, and Gerran Howell as the only contestants on any of the gameshows I am out.

(/uj Isa Briones and Supriya Ganesh the people need you on Dropout. It’s me I’m the people.)

This was so fun and I’d love to see more Dropout folks on. It’s closely related to the Desktop Detectives game from the Kickstarter livestream.

Too long to upload directly to Reddit, so I had to share the screen recording on my YT channel. Enjoy!!

I apologize if this is a topic that’s been discussed at length here, and I don’t want to shame the individuals, but I am disappointed that Dropout consistently featured a “cast” from another comedy group that started out as a sketch comedy YouTube channel.

Cross-pollination between LA comedy groups with parasocial fandoms is rampant, and the setting where it seems they met (UCB LA) would typically be a theater, making it even easier for a Dropout cast member to find a Smosh cast member funny and invite them onto a show.

It’s been stated that Andrea Gorgonzola from Smosh is one of Vehicular Michaelis from Dropout’s best friends; given the fact that they’re both comedic actors and improvisers, they were clearly doing theater kid things together when it began.

Again, this is not to call out the individuals; obviously Smosh has been operating for a long time, but that doesn’t make it okay for Dropout to feature their cast members and use them for comedy.

I’m around a month away from finishing my first year as a substitute (certified and classified) in one of the big school districts in Washington state.

I was informed by the substitute office that reasonable assurance to return to substituting seems to be automatic for anyone who’s worked at least 10 shifts. That letter is coming this week according to HR:

“There is a 10-day minimum requirement each school year for all substitutes to remain in the substitute pool. If you do not meet the minimum number of days, you will not be offered Reasonable Assurance to continue the following year.”

…..So how does this work? Exactly what it says? Because I’ve worked nearly every day this school year. It should be automatic, right? I’ve become a preferred sub at several schools and I’d really hate that bureaucratic mistakes just….sever these relationships I’ve spent a year building.

I’m wondering if cancelling days will affect me — I have a few proactive cancellations (2-3 days to 2 weeks in advance) because I was either informed another school requested me or decided to look for a certified job instead of classified. I also accidentally got cancelled out of 5 weeks of a 6-week gig by the sub office coordinator because I was sick, that later got added back: the days and position show up as both “completed” and “cancelled.”

I’m just new to this and really hoping that I can come back next year, although I’m also just very interested in seeing the inner workings of how this works just so that it can (hopefully) reassure me in some way.

This was really good. Jon Matteson, Kimia Behpoornia, and Brendan Scannell in particular were really delightful to watch. The roles are really in everyone's wheelhouse and show their skills in ways improv and "vibe shows" don't. Really captures the chaos of having a friend group reunite after years apart from each other. The ending is exceptional.

Reminds me a lot of Heroes of the Fourth Turning, which is another exceptional play about similar circumstances. Pat really made a great project and I'm so excited to see where his career goes next!