Now I'm gonna give a little story about some of the major events in YRU-Up history. I call them major because I remember them happening. That's not to say that other stuff didn't happen, I just didn't see it. This is kind of my version of history. For we all know that history is written by the winners. Don't believe me, just look at the civil war. But here we go.

Jeremy D.

This first one is about a man named Jeremy D. Now this was a while ago so you'll have to forgive the lack of details. Now I'm not quite sure who brought him to the show, but I do know that one day he was there. He was cool at first. He kinda hung out with us. This was back in early '94. One day Matt had this idea for a skit. He wanted to go out into the BEC building and interview people in a funny manner. The problem with this being that it was about 5 o'clock and every one had gone home. Matt was then hoping to find a way to go elsewhere to do his thing. Unfortunately, at this time all involved were too young to drive. Also unfortunately, as it would turn out later, Jeremy could. So, in some turn of events, that to this day, I can not figure out, Luke and Jeremy went out to film this thing. They came back later with this thing they had filmed. What it was was that they had gone to area drive-thrus and pranked them. They ordered stuff that wasn't on the menu, and confused the minimum wage earners. I will admit, it was funny at the time. The problem was that the stuff they shot wasn't that good. They decided not to show it. The next week they went out and did it again. All of a sudden Jeremy was a creative genius. He was elevated far beyond the level of us meager freshman folk. We were called the freshmen at the time. This is because we were freshmen at the time. Funny huh? All of a sudden he got to host. He then proceeded to do the essentially same skit over and over again. Over time, the feud between us grew. Josh had just started coming to the show at this time.
The situation kind of came to a head right after Josh started coming. Matt Josh and I (Sean) were going to host. It was going to be cool (I actually doubt it would have been, but I can pretend). All of a sudden Jeremy shows up with some friend of his from "out of town." He claimed that he had to host with his friend because his friend wouldn't get another chance. Somehow this reasoning worked in the mind of our then producer Tom Erikson. So then Jeremy and his friend (to this day I don't know his name) were gonna host and we were kicked out. We were mad, as you can understand, so Matt decides that we should steal the batteries out of the microphones so they can't start the show. After a little bit I decided to tell them were they were. I figured it was better for the show to let them go on. The show started and Matt, Josh and I sat in the audience.
Basically, we ruined the show. He deserved it. As it turned out his friend wasn't from out of town. He became the person Jeremy hosted with every week. We then settled in to a pattern where he hosted every other week.
His basic thing was that he wanted to be David Letterman. It was very sad. He did things like have an episode where he just blew up stuff in a microwave. It was so dumb. Anyway, he was not funny. Another time he went out to film another Burger King thing and he accidentally left the date/time thing on the camera. He gets back, and blames us for putting it on there to ruin his skit. Even if we had, he should have noticed it was on there in the viewfinder. So he puts this graphic over the date that says "freshman suck." What a prick. I'm sorry, but he was. He always thought we were out to get him so he'd always do stuff to us. One time he stole my pop, just cause. So he sucked up the show for a while, but fortunately for the entire planet he had to soon go of to college. He left, and had some type of "I'm leaving" show, but no body cared. And we never heard from him again.

Derek

I'm gonna talk about this kid named Derek. I won't use his last name based on the fact that I don't want to get sued, and I don't remember it. As far as I know he used to be an "Bronze Age" cast member. I also heard that Andy kick his ass off the show because he didn't like him. Surprise, Surprise. Before I go any further, I'd just like do describe this guy for ya. First off he looked like a nerd. I'm not trying to be mean here, he just did. He had short spikey blond hair and glasses. That would be okay, I'm all for nerds, but he also fancied himself a comedian. This he was surely not. The only thing he ever championed of note was this skit called rescue 991, were he was Shatner, and it was about people who miss dialed the number. It had its moments, but keep in mind folks, this was all he had. He was also, on top of this, the biggest ass hole this planet had ever spawned.
So, now back to the show. After Andy left the show in our capable hands, Derek saw this as a grand opportunity to get his foot back in the door. So he comes back, and he immediately tries to take over. He started by trying to make himself the toaster god of all things graphical. He decided that he would do toaster every week, thus displacing Matt. He then decided to spend all Fridays making pre-show graphics that were okay, but for some reason we never used. He always felt he had to have his say in everything. After a while, he actually felt that he should host.
Now there was an up side. All the older people that were still around hated Derek's guts. So they made it their mission to make Derek's life hell. Scott hated Derek the most. They fought all the time. I was part of one plan in which we locked Derek out side. Scott told Derek that someone wanted to see him outside. I was outside in the shadows. Derek came out to see who it was and I ran around to the back door where Scott let me back in. It was funny. Another time Andy was there, and he brought in these wires. He then convinced Derek that he had pulled the wires out of Derek's car. Derek flipped. It was the biggest spaz I had ever seen in my life. I remember he through a drumstick at someone. Don't ask me what happened exactly.
The next Derek related thin that I can remember, happened at the now famous "Live from Turn it Up" show. Because I know you don't know what that was I'll explain. Turn it Up was this big local band concert held in the park. BEC-TV taped this concert. That meant that they had all their equipment there. Friday night was the night before the concert. This meant that if we wanted to do a show, we'd have to do it from there. The other thing was that we couldn't broadcast live from the park. And if it wasn't live, we couldn't have callers. We still thought we could make it work. We were told that we could be on stage, and we could goof around with all the band stuff. We figure we could make it work. We were wrong. None of the stuff we were told we could do, could we do. We were stuck on this crane far away from the stage, we couldn't hear or see what was going on, and it just sucked for all. After it was over, Josh and me ducked out and ran back to his house. It was too painful. The thing with Derek was that he flipped out about how the show went. He didn't help, he just complained. Like it was are fault. What an ass.
The best part with Derek was how we got him to go away for good. At this point in time he was showing up on a regular basis. This was fine by us. You see the week before, the guy's and I made a new intro. This was the first of our intros that included our names. For some reason this caused a big sturr among those not included. I'll go into more detail at a different time on this one. Let's just say Derek was one of them. He came in the next week. Watched the tape. Got super freaky angry, and walks out. He says he's do mad he's never coming back. We made snide comments to him on his way out. Fun was had by all. The best thing was he kept his word. I never saw Derek again. So that's the Story of the all mighty Derek. I hoped you enjoyed it.

Sean’s guide to the YRU-Up inside jokes

If you ever watched YRU-Up, which you most likely didn’t, you’ll have noticed a lot of jokes you didn’t get. Most of them were because you are dumb, but a select few you would never have gotten because they were really inside jokes. Well, now, thanks to this guide, you too can join in all the fun. Well, you can’t because we aren’t on the show. Well you can always dig out your old show tapes and look for them. It’s like an annoying Where’s Waldo.

Can recommend a good Delhi

Sushi is good because Gregoire is Gay

Jeremy will beat or Kill anyone for five bucks

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