Hot Lunch

The **Hot Lunch** sketch is an unreleased sketch filmed at the end of 2018. It was spoken of frequently by Sam Lingham in the Aunty Donna newsletter, where it is a staple of the "Coming Soon" section.

In the sketch, Zach wants to go and get a hot lunch and no-one wants to join him, so he tries to get them to.

In February 2019's newsletter, Sam wrote that "It was the last sketch of our lo-fi series we shot in our office," and that "Max hasn't has the time to edit it!!!" (*February Newsletter*)

In March, Sam wrote "Well I honestly thought there would be time to edit and release this sketch last month but we've been flat out this month." (*March Newsletter*)

In April, the letter read; "This will probably not come out. I know I keep saying it's coming soon but it's not a part of Glennridge Secondary College so I honestly don't see the point." (*April Newsletter*)

Sam was cold in the May newsletter, and wrote this; "It's cold and a nice sketch about hot lunch would cheer me up. Good thing this sketch is real and is definitely coming soon!" (*May Newsletter*)

Everyone was sitting in the corner in June, and so Sam wrote that "Max was supposed to edit the hot lunch sketch this month but instead he mostly sat in the corner. To be fair, this month I too mostly sat in the corner." (*June Newsletter*)

Sam seemed to have given up in July, saying "i dunno i feel like ive been talking about this sketch for ages and it still hasnt come out like whats the point
i honestly dunno anymore..." (*July Newsletter*)

He wrote this in August; "I brought this up in the office the other day and someone (who shall remain nameless) suggested that maybe this sketch wouldn't come out and that maybe I should let it go EVEN THOUGH I'VE BEEN PROMISING IT FOR MONTHS ON THIS GODDAM NEWSLETTER. I WILL NOT BE MADE A LIAR!!! If you'd like to see this sketch please make sure you let your local member of Aunty Donna know on any of our social media channels." (*August Newsletter*)

The newsletter had been taken over by Laurie Lawyerbird Lawyerson in September. She wrote; "I personally am very excited to see the Hot Lunch Sketch and wish everyone in the Aunty Donna office would just get on with releasing it. Sorry for deleting your original text but my options we're either writing you this letter or redacting the whole thing." (*September Newsletter*)

The Hot Lunch section of the newsletter announcing Aunty Donna's Big Ol' House of Fun in October 2020 read; "I'm having doubts about whether this will ever come out even with me mentioning it ever single newsletter. It's been two years since we shot it and we are no closer to seeing a video. I dunno." (*Netflix Series Announcement and other less good things that happened in 2020*)

In the letter announcing Hug The Sun in May 2021, the section read "45 years ago we filmed a sketch where Zach is trying to convince Mark and Broden to eat a hot lunch. This recurring joke is the only record it was ever filmed. I am a historian now." (*New series 'Hug The Sun' on Grouse House*)

The newsletter that announced Nippers read; "There is a tale that's told in the remotest of taverns, in the darkest of nights 'round the dimming embers of the hearth. It's whispered quiet on the wind, refracted in the edge of the looking glass, found in the last place you'd think to look. Tis a tale of a sketch filmed but never edited, of a simple man and his desire to eat a hot lunch with his colleagues." (*Pudcast, Keep Cups & new series 'Nippers' on Grouse House*)