A place for those who "Trust the Fungus"

Hello, everyone! Alan McCoy, here.

I had the distinct pleasure of playing the Devo Chamber Technician. The skinny one. The one who was turned into the mysterious puddle of goop on the floor in the deleted devo chamber footage.

I was absolutely delighted (and surprised) to stumble upon this Super Mario Bros. movie tribute site! Browsing through all the photos and scripts brings back so many great (and not so great) memories of participating in that film. Thanks to you all for keeping it alive!

Walk tall...be proud...BE A GOOMBA!

– Alan

Wow, that's pretty amazing! Welcome to the board. Suffice it to say, we're more active on Twitter these days @smbmovie "Trust the Fungus," but it's always nice to see someone here, especially the elite few who were involved with the film's production.

Hey, Alan! So glad you found us!

Your part in the film surrounds one of the bigger unsolved mysteries in terms of deleted scenes. If you're up for it, we'll have to get an interview with you on the site to finally solve the mystery!

Phlibbit wrote:Hey, Alan! So glad you found us!

Your part in the film surrounds one of the bigger unsolved mysteries in terms of deleted scenes. If you're up for it, we'll have to get an interview with you on the site to finally solve the mystery!

Long shot, but maybe he even has a tape of his scene!

Serum wrote:Long shot, but maybe he even has a tape of his scene!

Heh, I wish. There's a revision in the script archive that I think is pretty close to the one I was given. (Of course, the scripts pretty much changed every day.)

For some reason I thought they'd give you a tape of your scene like, "Hey, man, sorry we had to cut your scene but here it is on a tape for you to show your friends so you can say 'This is my big scene they cut!'" I don't know.

Serum wrote:For some reason I thought they'd give you a tape of your scene like, "Hey, man, sorry we had to cut your scene but here it is on a tape for you to show your friends so you can say 'This is my big scene they cut!'" I don't know.

That would've been great and it's something that's usually arranged during post-production. However, I think they were too concerned with keeping their crew from going on strike or outright quitting at any given time to worry about that. What I really wish I had are the following:

• The complete plaster mold the effects team did of my face (which was supposed to turn to goo)
• The red hardhat and goggles
• One of the "Walk Tall...Be Proud...BE A GOOMBA" bumperstickers the crew had printed (Had one on my car for a few years after production wrapped.)

armccoy wrote:

Serum wrote:For some reason I thought they'd give you a tape of your scene like, "Hey, man, sorry we had to cut your scene but here it is on a tape for you to show your friends so you can say 'This is my big scene they cut!'" I don't know.

That would've been great and it's something that's usually arranged during post-production. However, I think they were too concerned with keeping their crew from going on strike or outright quitting at any given time to worry about that. What I really wish I had are the following:

• The complete plaster mold the effects team did of my face (which was supposed to turn to goo)
• The red hardhat and goggles
• One of the "Walk Tall...Be Proud...BE A GOOMBA" bumperstickers the crew had printed (Had one on my car for a few years after production wrapped.)

See, I didn't even know they made bumper stickers for the crew, that's cool. Well, the footage is bound to turn up, eventually. I have a friend who saw the movies in theaters twice a long time ago and he swears up and down that he saw your de-evolution scene in the version they showed and was flustered when I showed him it was gone on the DVD.

Holy moly! An member of the crew that found US! And he speaks in the forums!

Well since you're here, would you mind telling us more about the shoot for the scene?

1upmushroom wrote:Holy moly! An member of the crew that found US! And he speaks in the forums! Well since you're here, would you mind telling us more about the shoot for the scene?

You'll find a pretty good account of my SMB production experience here:

http://120pagemonster.blogspot.com/2005/09/do-you-want-to-play-game.html

There's quite a bit more that happened that I didn't cover in these articles, so I guess I should write more. Overall, it was loads of fun despite the horrendous bout of food poisoning, courtesy of craft services.

God, that sounds like the most awkward gig in thr acting business.

I like how you end it off by saying how no one will likely remember the deleted scene much when its the most discussed scene in the movie.

1upmushroom wrote:God, that sounds like the most awkward gig in thr acting business.

I like how you end it off by saying how no one will likely remember the deleted scene much when its the most discussed scene in the movie.

Yep. Never imagined that would be the case. But then again, the sudden appearance of unexplained brown shit on the floor is bound to raise some questions.