This fake ad was from Chuckelehead’s last show, “Stocks and Prawns,” written as an ensemble with mixed results. This video actually introduces Sea Captain Frank, played by Cubby. We shot it off the Staten Island Ferry in early December, and developed quite an audience doing it.
In reality, Sea Captain Frank is a terrible alcoholic, and runs the tanker into a reef. This happened right after the Exxon-Valdez disaster, and I was very wary of making Sea Captain Frank a carbon copy of Hazelwood–so I gave him the added quirk of his buggering his men when they’re at the helm. Yeah, it was a cheap laugh but an effective one.
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Rob! Memory upgrade: I shot almost all of this on the ship berthed next to the USS Intrepid in 1990. You shot the “coffee break” clip, where Sea Captain Frank waves off the mug, on the Staten Island Ferry. There were other funny “Coffee? No thanks…” clips that I later edited together, but I don’t recall that we used them in Stocks & Prawns. There — I feel better now.