The R.I.F.F.T.

## Show's Creation:

***The R.I.F.F.T.*** is a show that was created by Admiral J. TeeVee early one Sunday morning while watching a terribly misunderstood movie on OSI74TV. TeeVee and several OSI Cadet chatters were riffing on the movie at a good pace and the next day he got the idea to create a basic show where the OSI-74 and CI community could participate in riffing on really bad films and share their comments with the world.

## Show's Premise:

The premise of the show is that aliens are beaming harmful waves of brain melting movie transmissions from a temporary Inter-Dimensional Time-Space Rift and the only hope to save Earth is to cancel out the transmission waves with funny comments that are beamed back into the rift to close it.

## How it works:

The show runs a public domain film at a preset time inviting viewers nicknamed "RIFFT Ranger Cadets" to make funny comments live in chat. The producers then take all the text comments nicknamed "RIFFTs" organize and rank them, and synchronize them into the film as closed captioned text with added emojis and even crudely animated icons. Some comments are re-worded for clarity, and some are punched up for humor. For certain overcrowded scenes in the film, RIFFTs are selected at random from a small pool of potential selections. This is also done if two RIFFT comments are just too funny to choose which one makes it into the film space.

## Fun Facts:

* The title R.I.F.F.T. is an acronym that will only be revealed by the show’s producers when someone correctly guesses all of it at once. The acronym under the title in the show opening is blurred out for fun.

* A R.I.F.F.T. episode can have over 1,000 comments in chat from over 100 RIFFT RANGER CADETs. On average, there can be over 300 to 800 RIFFT comments that make it into one 90 minute finalized show.

* Because of the sheer number of comments recorded in the last R.I.F.F.T. show, the software used to assemble the text comments and format them for ingesting into editing software had to have the code specially modified for the show’s specific usage parameters.

* Finished episodes are sometimes run on Mr. Lobo’s Cinema Insomnia Live! Twitch streams where he reads and reacts to the R.I.F.F.T. comments from Cadet RIFFT RANGERs in real time.

* Cadet RIFFTers and the producers love to sneak in the occasional curse word to force Mr. Lobo to curse, which he never does otherwise on screen.

* The show is produced and co-written by Johnny 3D and Melody Muse who also add their own comments and edit and punch up Cadet RIFFTs.

* J3D and RRM will often trade comments or move certain comments to each others screen name to avoid issues.

* Several times per show comments will be ghost written and/or placed under a descriptive or joke fake screen name so that the comment is understood with context. I.E. "**[*The\_Late\_James\_Brown*]: *Huha! Hotpants!***" (A RIFFT directed at Nazi Soldiers running down steps with just their pants on fire.)

* Some funny but risqué comments may have their screen name removed for anonymity. However it's the show's policy (which has never needed to be used yet,) to immediately remove any truly offensive, hurtful and/or inappropriate comments, ban the user, and report them to the platform.