The Bookfarters Saga

***The Bookfarters Saga*** is a project involving a feud between Shipwrecked Comedy and Tin Can Brothers after Tin Can Brothers allegedly stole Shipwrecked's short, "A Book By Its Cover." The project includes Shipwrecked's "A Book By Its Cover" and TCB's "Darn Tootin'", as well as livestreams from each group and arguments held over Twitter.

## The Shorts

On October 5th, 2019 (Buffer Festival screening) and November 19th, 2019 (Youtube release), Shipwrecked Comedy and Tin Can Brothers (TCB) each released a short sketch. At Buffer Festival, TCB's short "Darn Tootin'" premiered first, and Shipwrecked's "A Book By Its Cover" short premiered directly after. When released to YouTube, however, both shorts were premiered at the same time. But one issue came to light in both situations, the scripts and many aspects of the shorts were the exact same. This led to both groups claiming the other group stole their sketch.

## The Fight

During Buffer Festival, there was a brief on stage fight between the two groups, but for the majority of fans they saw the fight take place over twitter. Fans sided with which group they thought were the rightful owners of the sketch. And, the two groups came for each other and fought each other very seriously sometimes even using the Notes app to compose longer messages. They interacted with their fans trying to convince them which group was the wrongdoer and which one was right. This lead to each group wanting to have a livestream to explain the situation in better detail.

## Livestreams

Both groups scheduled a live for the exact same time on November 19th, 2019. When the day came, Shipwrecked's livestream started late due to sabotage (technical difficulties) which were blamed on TCB. Shipwrecked had special guest William J. Stribling join them, while TCB had Lauren Lopez and Diane join them. After discussing with their fans and Joe for an hour and fifteen minutes, Shipwrecked came to the conclusion that it would be best to head over to TCB's location and drop off a subpoena. At about the same time, TCB came to the conclusion that they needed to go catch Shipwrecked (not suspicious at all). This meant that Lauren and Diane were left alone on one stream and Joe was left alone on the other stream. When both groups arrived to their destination, they were surprised to not find the others there. While Joe acted well mannered and civil towards TCB, Diane and Lauren were rude and vicious towards Shipwrecked. Lauren sprayed Sean Persaud with homemade pepper spray, and Diane nipped at Sarah Grace Hart. During this whole fiasco TCB was also claiming other Shipwrecked works as their own. These three very real pieces of evidence helped support that TCB had committed a very real completely not staged crime. Since the two groups were still separated, they had to settle for leaving a subpoena with the special guest until the intended receivers would return.

## Reconciliation

Both groups agreed to meet up in order to settle the dispute once and for all in "The Arbitration". They each brought evidence to the mediator that would help prove they were correct. Questions are answered, more lentil soup is eaten, and it looks like either group could be the correct owner. In a turn of events, it is revealed that both groups stole it from the comedy duo Jack and Dean. TCB and Shipwrecked made up and apologized to each other, but because of their crimes both groups were sentenced to jail. The saga ends with all seven people sharing a jail cell.

## References

1. ↑ @TinCanBros official statement on the feud, https://twitter.com/TinCanBros/status/1195476217840852992