In early 2005 it began as a sketch comedy between half a dozen friends in their late teens lovingly titled “Ugonda, on the moon. (where the monkeys play in the white sand)”. Several all-night writing sessions at the local dinner and pipe dreams of going pro for money and fame turned into “Lameduck productions presents: 1up!”, a public access sketch comedy, quickly turned sitcom.  

Halfway through production of the pilot episode, the show title changed to Highscore, and half of the cast changed. Once the show actually began, 10 episodes were produced, with a contract from a local tv station for episodes with an exact length of 28.5 minutes each. Meaning we had to fill in with our own commercials (which gave rise to the idea for all the fake commercials you now see). When we went looking for sponsorship, Bawls agreed to give us free Bawls, as long as they were the only beverage seen being consumed by our cast members in the show, and after 3 episodes, we agreed.  

The story’s primary focus was on the adventures of young adults finding their way through adventures with friendship, video games, and the power of a montage. The hook being that the cast could summon a montage to get them out of any hijinks they found themselves in, once per episode. Battling hobos, video game villains, saving magic genies, fighting literal software pirates, etc. A movie was in production to close the first season before the show took an indefinite hiatus.

Highscore has returned, once again, as a podcast / sketch comedy / op-ed article website, proving you can’t kill a good idea, you can only slow it down. Maybe someday the sitcom will return as a web series, but you didn’t hear it from me...

-Lameduck Josh

Twitter: @highscore