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Hiking Documentary
SKETCH-O-VISION
A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.
The setup
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The premise
Here’s the bit.
A solemn narrator follows hiker Tom Frecklebottom on day four of his climb toward a distant summit, musing about hydration and scarce food until a boulder tumbles onto him and pins him to the trail. Tom screams at the crew to put the camera down and help, but the narrator instead promises viewers they will watch the man die and decompose on that very spot. The crew calmly sets up camp, ignores his pleas for water, fetches a tripod and settles in for a time-lapse while the hours pass. When Tom is still alive two hours later, the narrator reads a line announcing that a second rock sped up his death, then badgers a reluctant crew member into hurling the rock he had been idly playing with at the protesting hiker.
The funny people
Meet the cast. 1
Say it with us
Highly quotable.
Put the camera down and help me!
Minutes turn to hours. Hours turn to days.
Fortunately, the dying process was sped up when he was struck in the head by another large rock.
Behind the scenes
The people who made it.
Zach Cregger
Director
Trevor Moore
Director
Sam Brown
Writer
Zach Cregger
Writer
Darren Trumeter
Writer
Timmy Williams
Writer
A little extra
Notes from the archive.
The official WKUK channel labels this upload Season 3 Episode 9, following IFC's later episode numbering; it originally aired as the season's 17th episode on May 19, 2009.
Script
Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.
- 00:02
Speaker 1
Day four of the journey. Tom Frecklebottom's ascent to the peak of Mount Goudo has been long and arduous. He is now 100 miles from civilization. Here, hydration and nutrition are his prime concerns. As he nears the peak, food and drink will become more and more scarce. Watch your step.
- 00:28
Tom Frecklebottom
Focus! Help!
- 00:37
Speaker 1
Disaster struck.
- 00:38
Tom Frecklebottom
Help! Help!
- 00:41
Speaker 1
Pinned beneath a large boulder with no one around to come to his aid, things are looking bleak.
- 00:46
Tom Frecklebottom
Put the camera down and help me!
- 00:48
Speaker 1
Without medical attention, this man will surely die and decompose or on this very spot, all of which you will see in this documentary.
- 00:56
Tom Frecklebottom
What?
- 00:56
Speaker 1
As my crew sets up camp for the long wait, the man ponders his life and comes to grips with his fate.
- 01:02
Speaker 2
Uh, Bill? Are we doing this?
- 01:05
Speaker 1
Copy that.
- 01:06
Tom Frecklebottom
No! Rick! Bill! Caleb, can I get some water? Caleb! Caleb! Help me! Help me! Give me some water! Give me some water! Caleb?
- 01:20
Speaker 1
Minutes turn to hours. Hours turn to days. How long can...
- 01:24
Speaker 1
Caleb, fetch me the tripod.
- 01:27
Speaker 2
Tripod?
- 01:28
Speaker 1
How long can one man last in these conditions? We should probably set up for a time lapse here.
- 01:34
Tom Frecklebottom
Time lapse?
- 01:35
Tom Frecklebottom
No!
- 01:35
Speaker 1
Two Two hours in. hours in and he's still alive.
- 02:06
Tom Frecklebottom
Please, you gotta help. you gotta help. It hurts.
- 02:11
Speaker 1
Fortunately, the dying process was sped up when he was struck in the head by another large rock.
- 02:17
Speaker 2
What?
- 02:19
Speaker 1
No. No,
- 02:20
Speaker 2
that rock.
- 02:22
Speaker 1
No, the one you were just playing with.
- 02:24
Speaker 2
You want me to hit him with this? All right.
- 02:28
Tom Frecklebottom
No! Rick! Seriously! Seriously! No! No!
The rabbit hole continues
One more couldn’t hurt.
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