YRU-Up Pre-history or what came first

The YRU-Up as we know it has a long and rich history. Well, a long one at least, but not long if your talking about it in relation to actually long stuff like the hundred-year war or even Vietnam, but it was a few years at least. Anyway, it all started for me at least back in 5th grade. That would be 1989 to you. I guess that was a long time ago, but that’s beside the point. It began then. In that faithful year I started Middle School which was at a place called Oak Grove Intermediate School. I started in a program called Self-Contained. What that was, was a class for smart kids. We had one teacher and we were with the same kids every day. It was fun, but it served to make us socially defunked for quite some time. In this class was me (Sean Hall,) Nick Stukas, Nate Morales, Pat Casey, and Matt Sell. The story starts with just Nick, me, and this other kid named Brian. In lunch every day we pretended we were doing this thing called the Idiot show. I know is seems real strange, and I can even picture doing in now, but that’s what happened. We put on little skits and just were all around stupid. About half way through 5th grade, Brian moved away to Chicago so we needed someone new. Nick brought in his friend Nate. At first I didn’t really like Nate, I’m not sure why, but soon he grew on me I guess. He became the lowest of the current three idiots. Other people joined in the fun and a huge mythology grew from it. It went a little something like this. We broadcast from a small island country (the name escapes me at the moment) but on this island, everybody watched out show. Except of course for the Nelson family, whom we had to blow up every week to teach them a lesson. Our only rival in the entertainment game was Matt and his Matt Channel, and eventually his Super Matt Channel. Our archenemy was the kid nobody liked in our class named Colin L. He became much like a Satan type figure. Well that was the basic set up. We had Skits like: Bunjee Jumping with Bunjii, in which a twist tie man was tie to a string from my sock and went through all kinds of bad ordeals, Teenage Mutant Herding Wildebeest, they were stick eating mutants who fought the evil Paper Cut. Then there was Zucchini Man and Mr. Spumoni, who were a parody of the Mario Bros. who fought the evil Chef. Also we had out travels in our card board time machine. I know what you’re saying, “damn those kids must have had brain damage!’ Well, maybe, but we were only 11 years old. It was pretty funny for back then. Anyway it continued on somewhat into 6th grade except that Nick joined the other Nerd Class, Integrated Core. So we didn’t do it very often. But we did gain other members like Pat and stuff. Later on, it served as a basis of several skit things we taped. None of which ever made it to YRU-Up. The only thing we ever did on YRU-Up that was from the old Idiot Show was Billy the Vegetable.
The thing we shot that never got aired was a series of skits with called Detective Yuck. The concept was that it was a cop show staring Mr. Yuck. The poison guy. I wore a Mr. Yuck mask, and Pat was my partner. We were looking for the Smiley Face Killer. A guy who had the classic smiley face for a head. It was pretty dang funny if you ask me. Even now it holds up. It was never aired do to its low camera quality. Another Classic from the pre-YRU-Up days was a few skits called Mer-Man. It came from a project on science fiction me and Pat did in 8th grade. It was basically a Japanese monster movie using the He-man action figure Mer-Man. It was another good concept, and he had a great theme song. Basically at that point we started watching YRU-Up and decided we wanted to get a show of our own. Now this was now Pat Matt Luke and I. So, we made Matt call BEC and ask em if we could do something. The rest as they say was history.