No-Life's Tales

No-Life's Tales was supposed to be a spin-off miniseries to No-Life specials, that unlike the regular Spyman's Cosmos series would act like an actual show. It was supposed to show No-Life and his daily life adventures outside of Christmas. All would have led to the final, eighth, episode, which would have been what is now Lenny's Vlogs: The Revelation. Despite being planned as a limited miniseries at first, more seasons were still considered.
== History ==
The idea for a No-Life-centered series popped up in The Philmer's head sometime in 2018. Although he was on a few months long break from animating, he was still making Team Y Episode 2 from time to time and was thinking about the future of his abandoned channel. He came up with some ideas, including the first two episodes and the finale, but knew that he should finish Team Y episode and No-Life's Home Alone first to start the series. Eventually both projects premiered and at the end of April 2019, The Philmer started thinking more seriously about the series. With his FJM Heroes videos being back on track, he wanted to diversify the content a little, so that he would still have a side project in the form of No-Life's Tales, which he could release as a filler, as well as use to test animation tricks. Plus, The Last Adventure, later retitled Johnson's Vengeance was beginning to shape more seriously, hence a setup was needed.
The break The Philmer had after releasing Team Y Episode 2 helped him to think about the series and his trip to Hel, Poland, at the beginning of May, gave him some inspiration, mainly for the second episode, in which No-Life would have gone to the same location as him. The concepts of all episodes, except the seventh, were created very quickly, but not many of them had been developed further. One of the things that was decided early on were the recurring roles of the pranking trio, as well as Rex and Blank Tank. While the former would have had a bigger role, the latter two were going to appear few times and sometimes serve as a deus ex machina. No-Life's family was also supposed to appear and No-Life's school life would have been developed, showing his only, nerdy friend. 
After coming back from his trip, The Philmer began working on the script for the first episode. Eventually he stopped on the first scene at No-Life's school and had a writer's block. Although he had some later scenes in mind, the one he wrote was considered to be cringy by him. Having a hard time to think of something else and more, he paused the writing for a few days. Later, at the end of May, the creator decided to start animating what he had written already and possibly work on the script along with the animation. However he also stopped that, around thirty seconds in. After a few days of break, he decided that the series was pointless if he didn't have any good ideas and decided to cancel it, without even truly announcing it first.
Episode 8 once again became a one-shot, which came to be Lenny's Vlogs, while the concept of the pranking trio's appearance was used in How No-Life Stole Christmas.
== Characters ==
=== Main ===
* No-Life
=== Secondary ===
* No-Life's Mom
* No-Life's Dad/Colonel Johnson
* Otillie
* Henry
* James
* Alex
* Rose
* Lenny Jester
* Charles
* Caddict
* No-Life's unnamed friend
=== Episodic ===
* Rex
* Blank Tank
* Tobias Sanders
* Larry Mealey
* Policeman Henry
== Episodes ==
No. 	Episode title 	Planned release date
1 	No-Life Goes to School 	June 2019
The episode that was developed the most after The Revelation. It began with No-Life playing on his computer late on a Monday night. At one point he got angry at someone in-game, which resulted in a scream, which woke up his parents and caused his mom to scold him for not being asleep. This one scene, besides No-Life's Mom's intervention, was the only one that was animated and the footage ended up being used at the beginning of How No-Life Stole Christmas. The next scene showed the boy waking up to his alarm clock, a mere hour after being screamed at. He ignored the alarm, but was then awoken by his father and after a short quarrel, a montage of him being shown in the same standing position, yet in different places, would appear. The subsequent scene was set in school during the first class. The teacher was checking the attendance and when she got to No-Life, he would say that he's clearly visible and call her names, so the teacher would ask him a few questions as a punishment. Obviously, he got all of them wrong. This is where the script ends, as No-Life's answers weren't that funny according to The Philmer and it all seemed to be pretty cliché. There was also a later scene, that he only had in mind, which would be the pranking trio recording No-Life's hilarious behaviour during recess.	The episode that was developed the most after The Revelation. It began with No-Life playing on his computer late on a Monday night. At one point he got angry at someone in-game, which resulted in a scream, which woke up his parents and caused his mom to scold him for not being asleep. This one scene, besides No-Life's Mom's intervention, was the only one that was animated and the footage ended up being used at the beginning of How No-Life Stole Christmas. The next scene showed the boy waking up to his alarm clock, a mere hour after being screamed at. He ignored the alarm, but was then awoken by his father and after a short quarrel, a montage of him being shown in the same standing position, yet in different places, would appear. The subsequent scene was set in school during the first class. The teacher was checking the attendance and when she got to No-Life, he would say that he's clearly visible and call her names, so the teacher would ask him a few questions as a punishment. Obviously, he got all of them wrong. This is where the script ends, as No-Life's answers weren't that funny according to The Philmer and it all seemed to be pretty cliché. There was also a later scene, that he only had in mind, which would be the pranking trio recording No-Life's hilarious behaviour during recess.	The episode that was developed the most after The Revelation. It began with No-Life playing on his computer late on a Monday night. At one point he got angry at someone in-game, which resulted in a scream, which woke up his parents and caused his mom to scold him for not being asleep. This one scene, besides No-Life's Mom's intervention, was the only one that was animated and the footage ended up being used at the beginning of How No-Life Stole Christmas. The next scene showed the boy waking up to his alarm clock, a mere hour after being screamed at. He ignored the alarm, but was then awoken by his father and after a short quarrel, a montage of him being shown in the same standing position, yet in different places, would appear. The subsequent scene was set in school during the first class. The teacher was checking the attendance and when she got to No-Life, he would say that he's clearly visible and call her names, so the teacher would ask him a few questions as a punishment. Obviously, he got all of them wrong. This is where the script ends, as No-Life's answers weren't that funny according to The Philmer and it all seemed to be pretty cliché. There was also a later scene, that he only had in mind, which would be the pranking trio recording No-Life's hilarious behaviour during recess.
2 	No-Life's Vacation 	Summer 2019
While the script for this episode wasn't written and there were only a couple scene ideas, it was the third most developed episode and was heavily inspired by The Philmer's trip to Hel Peninsula. No-Life and his family were supposed to go exactly there and there were supposed to be a lot of jokes on the name being similar in sound to "hell", especially that No-Life's entire experience would have been hell for him. With each scene he would start going crazier and crazier because of the limited and narrow area and little things to do. Notable scenes included: No-Life in an overcrowded train with few centimeters of free space around him, which is what happened to the creator himself, while he was travelling between the towns many times; No-Life running insanely in one of the most narrow points of the peninsula, between one beach and the other, as the distance between them was less than 100 meters. 	While the script for this episode wasn't written and there were only a couple scene ideas, it was the third most developed episode and was heavily inspired by The Philmer's trip to Hel Peninsula. No-Life and his family were supposed to go exactly there and there were supposed to be a lot of jokes on the name being similar in sound to "hell", especially that No-Life's entire experience would have been hell for him. With each scene he would start going crazier and crazier because of the limited and narrow area and little things to do. Notable scenes included: No-Life in an overcrowded train with few centimeters of free space around him, which is what happened to the creator himself, while he was travelling between the towns many times; No-Life running insanely in one of the most narrow points of the peninsula, between one beach and the other, as the distance between them was less than 100 meters. 	While the script for this episode wasn't written and there were only a couple scene ideas, it was the third most developed episode and was heavily inspired by The Philmer's trip to Hel Peninsula. No-Life and his family were supposed to go exactly there and there were supposed to be a lot of jokes on the name being similar in sound to "hell", especially that No-Life's entire experience would have been hell for him. With each scene he would start going crazier and crazier because of the limited and narrow area and little things to do. Notable scenes included: No-Life in an overcrowded train with few centimeters of free space around him, which is what happened to the creator himself, while he was travelling between the towns many times; No-Life running insanely in one of the most narrow points of the peninsula, between one beach and the other, as the distance between them was less than 100 meters.
3 	Grounded 	September 2019
4 	No-Life's Birthday 	Fall 2019
5 	The Return of Tobias and Larry 	2020
Not much can be said about this episode, other than Tobias and Larry would have broken out of prison to get revenge on No-Life. Policeman Henry would have also reappeared. 	Not much can be said about this episode, other than Tobias and Larry would have broken out of prison to get revenge on No-Life. Policeman Henry would have also reappeared. 	Not much can be said about this episode, other than Tobias and Larry would have broken out of prison to get revenge on No-Life. Policeman Henry would have also reappeared.
6 	Power Outage 	2020
7 	 	2020
8 	The Revelation 	2020
Unlike all the other episodes, this one was supposed to focus solely on the pranking trio and most importantly Lenny. There's not much to say about it, as it was supposed to be a one-shot called Lenny's Vlogs at the beginning, then transformed into this, and after the series' cancellation, it became a one-shot once again. The idea for it and all the scenes in it were always pretty much the same as in the final product. 	Unlike all the other episodes, this one was supposed to focus solely on the pranking trio and most importantly Lenny. There's not much to say about it, as it was supposed to be a one-shot called Lenny's Vlogs at the beginning, then transformed into this, and after the series' cancellation, it became a one-shot once again. The idea for it and all the scenes in it were always pretty much the same as in the final product. 	Unlike all the other episodes, this one was supposed to focus solely on the pranking trio and most importantly Lenny. There's not much to say about it, as it was supposed to be a one-shot called Lenny's Vlogs at the beginning, then transformed into this, and after the series' cancellation, it became a one-shot once again. The idea for it and all the scenes in it were always pretty much the same as in the final product.
== Trivia ==
* Despite interchanging with the 2019 No-Life special, it wouldn't have been counted into the series, but would probably be chronologically set between two episodes. However, although it was planned to release between Episodes 4 and 5, it would most likely be set sometime later, possibly between sixth and seventh or seventh and eighth.
* The series is referenced by No-Life himself in How No-Life Stole Christmas.
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