In Search of the Scarlet Griffin 1/5

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In Search of the Scarlet Griffin 1/5 is the first part of the In Search of the Scarlet Griffin series by The Philmer. It was uploaded on April 1, 2020, as an April Fools joke that in fact wasn't a joke, with an intention to revive the series. In the video, a new character, Jenny Brown, is introduced, during an escape from Commander Bus and Gun henchmen to soon be caught, Spyman's Cosmos meets at Phil's Mansion and Jenny is forced by BSoD to lure Phil and his friends into coming to his base to die and stop getting into their way. At the end of the video, Phil receives two messages from Jenny.
== Synopsis ==
Spyman's Cosmos returns in a brand new adventure series! Phil's old friend, archaeologist Jenny, is in the middle of her search for the Scarlet Griffin - an ancient idol of unlimited power. However, she is targeted by some familiar, dangerous villains. Meanwhile, Spyman's Cosmos meets at Phil's Mansion to spend a few warm summer days together.
== Plot ==
In Cairo, a young archaeologist Jenny Brown is escaping from an unknown danger. She hides in a backstreet behind a crate and starts recording a video message, telling about her recent discoveries about The Scarlet Griffin - an ancient idol of unlimited power, that resembles a griffin. She addresses the receiver as "Phil", revealing that they have been friends in the past, and tells him to find the artifact instead of her, as she's been targeted by a dangerous threat, which is soon revealed to be BSoD's Gang. She manages to send the video to Phil, but is also caught by Commander Bus.
At Phil's Mansion in Westville, Dr Saturn, Spymankiller, OkiWan and Droppy arrive and are welcomed by Phil. They are in the mansion for the first time and find out that Phil has owned it for a few years already, having received it as a gift from an unnamed other gang of friends from his past. Expressing their amazement on the size of the house, they are also welcomed by Lenny with one of his classic "what she said" jokes. Phil then asks where's the rest of the group, so Saturn, Spy and Oki tell what everyone else is doing. Hearing about Caddict and Charles installing secret cameras in No-Life's house without him, Lenny jokingly gets mad, so Phil tells him to do something useful for a change and prepare the barbecue. Lenny says he will go beat some meat then, which Phil interprets as giving himself a pleasure. Soon, they hear Droppy's scream from the kitchen, but when they come there, they find Lenny actually beating the meat for the barbecue and realize the two pulled a joke on them.
In one of BSoD's multiple bases, Jenny is led by Dr Rex and Copper to meet BSoD. He welcomes her, but she gets distracted talking with Jack Jester, as he's the older brother of Lenny, who also was her friend. Blue Screen gets angry and tells everyone except Copper to leave the room and procceeds to discuss with Jenny. He tells her that he took a scan of her hieroglyphs photo, as just like her, they are looking for The Scarlet Griffin, while Copper says she's still alive, because they tracked her message, where she told Phil to go search for the artifact and do not care about her. BSoD tells her to write another one, that would contradict the first one and tell Phil and his friends to come save Jenny. BSoD planned to kill her before they would arrive and then do the same with them. Eventually Jenny got convinced, as she didn't want Phil to die painfully if the gang actually finds The Scarlet Griffin and uses its power.
Back at Phil's Mansion, everyone is having fun in the garden. Only Spy is doing some Phalanx work on his pPad, which is met with Mangle's disappointment, as she's not a fan of technology. Meanwhile, Phil and Saturn are talking about Saturn's feelings towards Alice, which turn out to be complicated. At night, Rex is sleeping with Ryan and Blank Tank, but feels disgraced, as he's forced to do it in the garage. At the same time, Phil cannot sleep, so he decides to watch pointless videos. However first he checks the messages on the Phalanx Network and reads two from an unknown contact, which is obviously Jenny. Seeing the messages, he gets worried and the video ends.
== Characters ==
* Jenny Brown (debut)
* Commander Bus
* Gun henchmen (debut)
* Phil
* Dr Saturn
* OkiWan
* Spymankiller
* Droppy
* Lenny Jester
* Joseph (mentioned)
* No-Life (mentioned)
* Mad (mentioned)
* Copper
* Dr Rex
* Jack Jester
* Blue Screen of Death
* Alice Marbleford
* Caddict (cameo)
* Pankid (cameo)
* Charles (cameo)
* PCus
* Mangle
* Rex
* Blank Tank
* Ryan
=== Scrapped characters ===
* Mad Playz
* Frank
* Joseph
== Trivia ==
=== General ===
* This wiki was created two weeks prior to the episode's release, which led to a belief that the series was inspired by it, just like it was with Corrupted Chaos. The truth is, that The Philmer has been thinking about reviving Spyman's Cosmos for a long time and the first ideas started popping out in November of 2019.
* This episode, as well as the four remaining ones, were supposed to premiere back to back in February, which was actually teased in The Philmer's video 2019 recap & 2020 plans as 'minor content'.
** However the series had to be pushed, due to taking a long time to develop, as well as the creator having a delay, because of his video The Y-Files #2 turning out to be longer than expected.
* The episode is supposed to be the first act of the series and was mainly inspired by Us vs. Us 1/4.
* Some scenes are actually transferred from The Philmer's scripts to another potential series, that he had planned over the years. For example, the beating meat joke came from another series idea - Moonshot.
*At first, Jenny's messages were actually supposed to go to Phil's e-mail and at the end a parody of G-mail would be shown. However, it was decided to change it for Phalanx Network right before making the frame, as a reference to Neon Info.
* This is the first time we see Pankid without his helmet.
* There was a deleted scene, set after Phil and Saturn's talk with Mad, Rex and Blank Tank accidentally landing frisbee in the garden of Phil's neighbour. After going to get it back, the neighbour was revealed to be Frank, in reference to Why Frank Hates Phil.
** While Frank is supposed to be Spy's neighbour, he was also mentioned as Phil's neighbour in the past in the mentioned video. This scene would explain that Frank owns a flat in two-family forest house and that he spends his summer there, while rest of the year he spends in England as Spy's neighbour.
** The scene was deleted, as it served no purpose, but is available as unlisted video on The Philmer's channel.
* There was also a scene that was removed from the script before being animated. It featured Mad and Joseph, talking about Saturn and Alice's relationship, as well as Joseph expressing his scientific point of view for feelings.
*First appearance of OkiWan since 2017.
=== Continuity ===
* Spy once again doesn't want to call anyone in the gang his friends, just like in Collision Course 3/4.
* The gag of Mangle not liking technology is continued from Deep Sleep.
=== References ===
*Jenny's line "Always pleasure to meet a fan." is a reference to the character of Captain Cold from The Flash TV series, who said the same line a few times.
*The Philmer's channel is visible on Phil's laptop screen.
*The unnamed gang of friends that Phil and Dr Saturn have been parts of in the past is a reference to Team KK - a group that The Philmer and real life Dr Saturn have been members of. It was quite similar to Spyman's Cosmos, but focused on writing books with their own characters, as well as characters from hundreds of their favourite universes from pop-culture.
** A Spyman's Cosmos version of Team KK was planned to appear in The Philmer's never made series - Phil's Past Stories.
* The short scene of Rex and Ryan's exchange in the garage is a reference to The Philmer's Minecraft map with Phil's Mansion, where he made the models of these two characters and set up command blocks under them to say the same thing.
* When Phil is checking his messages, The Philmer channel can be seen again in another tab, as well as a video called Carl and Shaggy Stuck Doing the Macarena for 9 hours and 53 seconds. The Philmer used to love playing this video in the background, while animating in February 2019.
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