Tuesday Night Riot

Tuesday Night Riot was a television show based in southern Connecticut that ran on Soundview Public Access for one season in 2001-2002. The show, also referred to as "TNR," was created by, produced by, and starred a group of students from Joseph A. Foran High School in Milford, Connecticut. The half-hour TNR featured a variety of comedy sketches, unscripted pranks and dance instruction.The show was created and hosted by Paul Gulyas [http://youtube.com/watch?v=Tz_Ees_-kE4] and John Corkery [http://imdb.com/name/nm2034195/] with an ensemble cast.

Tuesday Night Riot is in the process of being made available to the public in DVD format. The DVD set will include all the original episodes, the limited-release Tuesday Night Riot feature film and special content and commentary from the show's cast and crew.

The cast

Paul Gulyas- Co-host/Philly Cheese/Frederick the Guy Who Doesn't Know How to Do Anything/Mischief
John Corkery- Producer/Co-host/Lance Jefferson/Asshole
Ted Blake - Dance Move of the Week
Paul Fedor - Voice of Trevor/The Big Q/Mischief/Editor
Patrick Beck - Prehistoric Petey/Mischief
Sean Tracy - Cooking with Sean/The Marmoset/Mischief
Jorge Gonzalez III - Gay Zorro/Lil' Hector Escobar/Paperboy Timmy
DICK JONES - Shirtless Guy/Skip McPerv/God/Shirtless Louie/Mischief/stunts
Kevin McCarthy - "Crash Test"/Flips/Walter "Blade" Mathau/Mischief/Stunts
Matt Hatkoff - Guy Who Queefed/Mischief/stunts/spiderman
Mike Grey - Nohn Junez/various
Jason Juran - Duane Montgomery/The Hick/Steve Alferd/Too Legit
Joe Sabia - Bob Saget/Flips/Accepts Slaps
Daniel Auger - Bobby Knight/Mischief
Akshar Patel- The Watchdog
John Hudak - Rejected from College
Steve Palaski - Steve-O/various
Jon Bouchard - To Quit/Mischief/ various
Tom Neeley- The Goose
Trevor - Puppet
Matthew Pollock - Keith Kirkpatrick/Editor/Mischief/various

Notable Sketches

"'Mall Security Most Wanted
Mall Security Training Day
Dance the Night Away
Duane Montgomery
The Truth Behind TNR
When Marmosets Attack
Cooking with Sean
Prehistoric Petey
Paperboy Timmy
Hudak Hears from College
Pain
Dance Move of the Week
Prank of the Week
Skate or Die
Paul Talks to God
Frederick, the Guy Who Doesn't Know How to Do Anything
The Bobby Bunch
Backflips from Hell
Pure Shit
Indecent Exposure
The Anti-Drug
Damn Tube Socks
Blade 3: Cruise Control
Picnic Party
Random Object Sent to Random Person

Dance Moves of the Week

Though not trained in classical dance, Ted Blake was featured in the show's longest recurring sketch, demonstrating patomine dance moves with instruction to the audience.
- Episode 1: The Bow and Arrow to "Walking on Broken Glass"
- Episode 2: Irish Jig to Generic Irish Music
- Episode 3: Stirring the Soup to "Beverly Hills Cop Theme"
- Episode 4: The Chainsaw to the Spice Girls' "Love Thing"
- Episode 5: The Typewriter to "Execution"
- Episode 6: AC Slater dancing in The Max

Trivia

-Filming for the opening of the first episode was on Valentine's Day 2002.
-The first episode did not have the famous TNR theme song.
-The very first sketch aired was "Backflips from Hell". This footage was filmed in the fall of 2001 and preserved, not knowing that TNR would ever actually air.
-Originally, producer John Corkery was scared of Soundview's "strict" rules on swearing, and copyright infringement, particularly with music. By the end of the series run, the cast was swearing without censorship, using copyrighted music and images, and ending the show with the trademarked NBC Peacock.
-The opening of the second episode was filmed the week before St. Patty's Day weekend. When Paul asked Kevin McCarthy how to say "Two" in Irish, Kevin told him "Shillelagh", thus giving the episode the name "Episode Shillelagh".
-All Dan Auger's lines as Bobby Knight in the sketch "The Bobby Bunch" were taken as Bobby Knight actually said them from a Bobby Knight website.
-In "The Truth Behind TNR", producer John Corkery could not keep a straight face during Dick Jones' line "You wanted to see me, boss?". There were at least 20 takes.
-"Gay Zorro" was never actually aired as a complete sketch. It was aired uncut and entitled "The Failure of Gay Zorro" and all the bloopers we kept in.
-At the end of Episode 3, over the "E-mail us at..." insert, Kevin McCarthy gets out of his leopard print bedsheets in his leopard print pajamas and walks to his bathroom. The camera cuts abruptly when McCarthy screams. This is a re-enactment of Kevin waking up and discovering a cockroach. The actual cockroach can be seen still-framed moments later.
-In the sketch "When Marmosets Attack", Matt Hatkoff plays a tour guide in a densely populated Marmoset area and introduces himself as "Nappy". This was the actual name of a tourguide in Hawaii that several of the cast members had experienced.
-The opening and close to Episode 5: The Picnic Episode, was shot on location in Eisenhower Park in Milford, CT.
-After the credits have rolled on Episode 5: The Picnic Episode, Dick Jones announces the death of Layne Staley, and dances to Alice in Chains shirtless. He does "The Typewriter", which was the Dance Move of the Week.
-There is apparently a lost episode in which Willie Ortiz co-hosted.
-In the "Picnic Party" sketch, Gulyas is given an "Awful Waffle" in which he broke his parents' folding table and his glasses.
-In "Random Object Sent to Random person", Ted and Sean actually sent a plastic Corn Man with spring arms to an unsuspecting person.
-The "Skate or Die" sketch was a direct response to the "skater" group making fun of TNR. Mike Grey played Nohn Junez, a "clever" riff off one of the skater's names.
-In Episode 7, Corkery was replaced with the top half of a female mannequin.

References to the show in "TNR: The Movie"

-The Chocolate Body Paint in the first episode made a reappearance in the Jorge Gonzalez dream sequence with Sara Beck in the film TNR: The Motion Picture.
-Many characters from sketches in the show made an appearance in the movie. Dan Auger played his character Bobby Knight from the sketch "The Bobby Bunch", Sean Tracy played the marmoset from "When Marmosets Attack", and Paul Gulyas appeared as Philly Cheese from "Mall Security".
-In the sketch "Pain", Dick "The Daring" Jones is seen chasing a goose. In the movie, Skip McPerv chases a goose.

References to Tom Neeley

-In the sketch "Paul Talks to God", when Paul is in Heaven's waiting room to see God, the man at the desk (Corkery) is reading from a list of who God is to see next. Corkery mistakenly takes Paul for Tom Neeley and lets him in to see God.
-Neeley actually appears in the "Mall Security's Most Wanted" sketch as "The Goofy Weasel", Lance Jefferson's accomplice in dropping things from the Skyview Cafe.
-In "Paperboy Timmy", Timmy throws a paper to Mr. Henderson (McCarthy) and hits him in the groin. Bent over in pain and bleeding out of his mouth, Mr. Henderson weezes: "Haven't seen a throw like that since old Tom Neeley hit the field."
-In the opening of Episode 6, Corkery announces Tom Neeley's birthday is the next day.
-In the sketch "Lights, Camera, No Sound!", Dick Jones claims TNR stands for "Tom Neeley Rocks".
-At the end of one of the episodes, Special Thanks are given, naming people with freeze frames of characters from Saved By the Bell, Screech being Jorge Gonzalez, Slator being Paul Fedor, Mr. Belding being Paul Gulyas, Zack Morris being Pat Beck AKA "Preppy", and Jesse Spano being Tom Neeley.

Sound Difficulties

At the premiere party for the second episode(Episode Shillelagh) at Joe Sabia's house, the cast was devastated to discover that the sound did not work. The entire episode was silent. This trend continued with later shows, as entire episodes played without sound, prompting Matt Pollock to coin the name "Tuesday Night Quiet". One of the later episodes aired with an obnoxious buzzing sound that only the most loyal of viewers could endure.