Many parts of this will not make sense if you read it literally. It will make even less sense if you have not watched the instructional video! This page is designed to let your mind wander so you can be inspired to invent altruistic comedy using our 1776 Pirate theme.
Catfishing
“Catfishing” is where you create comedy that can be rehearsed, perfected then produced into a crowd sourced comedy bumper for an episode of the “Tropical Adventure Competition” or your social media.
You are the catfisher. You pick a “catfishing tournament” (One of our 16 Treasure Hunts.) to enter. You create bait. If a catfish bites, you hook them, land them then weigh them for the tournament, but beware, catfish will try to fish and catch the catfisher. Trophy weight is measured in loonies. You do some more catfishing to convert loonies to prizes. If you win a lot of loonies you might recycle them for cash to the person next to you, for a beer, a half eaten plate of chicken wings or for a date with “Cuddly” the 350 lb biker standing next to you. The Catfisher might have you catfished into thinking that “Cuddly” is the name of his momma next to him. Getting folding money or anything else for electronic points is hilarious and explained below! A sure winner for any comedy bumper! Taking that folding cash, Cuddly or half a plate of chicken wings and giving it to your Hero is an automatic win.
If your comedy bumper (A video clip you create of your challenge, is used on an episode, you get a “crew share” of that episode and credits.) The episode your are on lists any social media or websites you want and is a great place to grow your channel.
You can use your bait to catch as many catfish as you want by posting it on your own social media site to lure them back here and then enter your catfish into a tournament.
If you have been catching fish, your next step is to create a “catfishing scheme” using crowd sourced production or do it yourself so that it turns into a comedy bumper. Explained in “Production”.
Setting Up The Experiment
The Catfish
As any fisherman knows, fish can be smart or dumb, hungry or not. Let’s start by angling for a really dumb catfish in a simple tournament.
Fake picture, fake information, if you have an account on a dating web site, you have a 99.9% chance of already being a pro Catfisher and you know all about creating bait! You probably spend hours being a master baiter, but at least you are not catching anything.
The Catfish browses pictures and “catchy lines”. If they nibble on the bait they go to the fighting page where you attempt to “hook” them, as any hooker will do. If they send you loonies, you have landed that catfish.
Like any addictive internet activity, we help you fish by chumming the water. When somebody logs into this website we chum their account with a few loonies (top right under your profile). Just like the game candy crush, the first few levels are free so you can start your new internet addiction. If they choose to be a Catfisher, instead of being a Catfish they can win great prizes and this site will cost them nothing.
Lets make sure that doesn’t happen!
Hungry enough to get loony
When you make a catfish hungry enough to donate, they get loony. Hungry Catfish make donations to the nonprofit featured on our website and loonies are deposited into their online accounts here.
One quick serious note about loonies being based on a 100% transparent public ledger. We are creating a nonprofit game currency for honest people who want to know everything about their donation while having pirate themed fun supporting causes they believe in.
Your fishing hole could be the “Karaoke Challenge Game”
You and your friends meet for karaoke regularly at your neighborhood sports bar on Karaoke night. At home, days before you meet, you have been using the app to decide on group songs and to create fun challenges on stage such as duets, air bands, singing a song of somebody else’s choice, dancing, costumes and hijinks. So far you have just been trading the challenges with a couple of friends to support your team and Hero. Each week you look to see if any new players have logged into the room for your location. Finally after a month or so you look on the online room you created for that location and 1 person shows up live and two people show up online. Game on!
Nothing changes for the Karaoke bar and you do not need to tell the DJ anything. When it is your turn to appear on stage that is when you play the Karaoke Challenge Game with the song and challenges you chose. You are independent of the DJ and venue. The only thing that changes is how you perform and how people live or online buy, sell, bet or join in on that performance.
You can play with or without a player called the “Skit director”. That is the only person that needs to stare at their phone at least some of the time. The skit director is also used in the boat parade as the captain and their lookout are operating the boat. The skit director is the score keeper and IT person for livestreaming.
You can also play with or without a player called the “Bootymaster”. The Bootymaster can be told by the skit director what to do or she can look at the players in the live or online room to decide what to do.
The Bootymaster judges performances and expects bribes. She will punish innocent people if bribes are too high or too low. She can’t count so she always gives out punishment as she doesn’t know if the amount of the bribe is correct. The punishment can be a reward or a punishment as she doesn’t know the difference. She likes spanking so she is easily confused. She also doesn’t know if the person getting the punishment is innocent or guilty so she punishes an innocent person so she will know for sure.
You expect to be Catfished when you are playing. As soon as you transfer loonies to another player your turn has ended. Do not expect the other player to even acknowledge they just got richer. They do not have to play fair, abide by the conditions of the challenge or provide you with any products or services. They could even be punished by the Bootymaster for playing fair. In a strange twist of fate, but probably to lead you down the garden path to gain your trust for bigger bets or sales, they may comply and deliver what you bet on. Never trust honest players, they are up to something.
Here is where you can be up to something. With enough knowledge and skill you can engage in mutinies and false flag plays with plots hatched in secret rooms. That information is for sale, we won’t tell you how, but some Team Coaches know how.
Betting On A Baseball Score
Loonies are not real money.
Loonies are game pieces with less value than a plastic poker chip.
You bet with them as they represent real donations that support your team. You can also rig bets, bribe judges, extort other players, enslave players with debt, pimp out your friend with or without their knowledge, corner the market, jack up prices and welch on any bet or deal you make. If you try to play honestly, people won’t be fooled.
Loonies are perfect for creating the inspiration for comedy bumpers. Here is how to bet on a baseball game.
Option 1 sell for more than you paid
Yogi: “Loser Donates 50 loonies to our team”
Ruth: “You are on, but wait I only have 4 loonies I got when I joined, I have to get more”
Yogi: “You don’t want to use your credit card on your phone, especially in here with somebody looking over your shoulder or hacking your WiFi signal, here I will give you some”
Ruth: “Thanks man!”
Yogi: “But since it is such a pain in the ass using a credit card, instead of you buying 80 loonies for $20 with your credit card, I will sell you 80 loonies for $30 cash.
Ruth: “Ok Deal!
Option 2 sell for less than you paid
Yogi: “Loser Donates 50 loonies to our team”
Ruth: “You are on, but wait I only have 4 loonies I got when I joined, I have to get more”
Yogi: “ I have been winning a lot of loonies lately playing the Karaoke Challenge Game, I will sell you 50 loonies for $10 cash”
Ruth:”Ok Deal”
The same result In both cases!
Yogi pulls up the transfer widget for Ruth and gives him 50 loonies. In the first option Yogi used their credit card to donate $20 to the team, got a tax receipt for a tax deduction and also made $10 in actual folding cash on the spot. In the second case Yogi had earned loonies by doing a variety of challenges such as being in an air band, dancing, acting like a groupie, cleaning windshields and other hijinks. He created a performance so that people were willing to donate to his team to see him act like a fool. His team got loony.
In both options the team raised $20 in donations and Yogi got $10.
Analysis
You can sell invisible worthless game points for higher or lower than their donation amount and still get folding cash in your pocket.
Party – Another version of the Karaoke Challenge Game
At a house party with the purpose of supporting animal rescue. Cows not included. (The treasure hunt is called “Meet New Dogs”).
“Last steak, who wants it?”
“I have 20 loonies left, is that enough?”
“Sure”. (The transfer is made) There you go, it is yours. Do you want a plate? The plate will be another 10 loonies, better donate to get them fast looks like that steak is going to burn”
You are the party host and the Bootymaster. If they don’t want to buy loonies online they can buy them from you using one of the methods described for “Betting on a Baseball Game” so you can make a few bucks. That steak is about to burn, they need to make a deal quick!
You are planning your back yard party. You are broke, you want to have fun, make a little money for yourself and support your team. Your party is not for a couple of weeks. You can sell admission tickets for loonies online to live or online players for a whatever amount of loonies you want. You give online players a password to the room. If you see some of your friends in person, you can sell them loonies for cash. You have lots of online time to plan catfishing skits for the party.
Paying for a party with loonies is just as legal as paying for it with a handful of gravel. Paying for a party with cash has a lot of hoops to jump through to make it legal. Don’t use cash, support our nonprofit!
Guests might be outbid for their own food and drinks!
You make location on the Treasure page for your party. Have people use “create” to make the party fun. (Games, challenges, menus, punishments, rewards, prizes, booby prizes and more.) At anytime during those two weeks, people can fill up your room with suggestions, requests and creations. One of the things that you could do is auction off the food and drinks that people bring to the party. As they enter they give you food and drinks and you give them loonies. You also command a few to be galley slaves, galley wenches, mermaids and henchmen. They are rewarded or punished with the prizes or booby prizes listed for the party. It takes less than a minute to make a loony coupon for anything you want.
Cletus: “Belly flop for 10 loonies”
Jethro: “I will pay that guy 20 loonies for a bigger belly flop”
Jedi: “Game of Darts – 50 loonies”
Bobby Sue: “Slow dance, auction starts at 100 loonies, you can do anything!…….. 300 thanks Duke!, The dance is with my dog Bowser.”
Bootymaster: (secretly before Bobby Sue makes an announcement) “Who wants to bet that Duke will dance with Bowser and will do anything or Billy Jo will face the consequences!” Who wants to buy the consequences? Auction starts at 100. More importantly who doesn’t want to buy the consequences that starts at 200!
If Guests come empty handed, they will have to find the best deal from their team to get enough loonies to buy somebody elses food and drinks. If they buy loonies from another team, this is a mutiny! You can bet the last few beers will fetch a high price, so you might want to hide a few so you can run out early. Hey you found a few more beers, well the price is pretty high, and now you are on the last one, who wants it? Sold! Hey, look found a few more. You are not selling the beers for cash, that is illegal. You are trading them for worthless game points, that is legal.
You have decided that since you also have a pool in your back yard, nobody needs to walk around with their phone in their hands. You will instead use monopoly money, poker chips or the best idea, Hershey kisses or chocolate coins to represent loonies. (they eat the chocolate and have to donate to get more!) And since you are running low, (4th time in the last two minutes, but you were able to find more each time) the price is going up. A fool proof way to accomplish fund raising for any type of game without using your phone since loonies are easily converted into and out of electronic game points by the “Bootymaster” of the party.
At anytime during the party, any person can say “Who is playing?” At that point guests don’t know what they are playing but they all have to ante up with whatever amount of loonies is needed to play. The amount not to play is higher. They agree to punishment by the bootymaster if they do not accept the challenge. Remember, the bootymaster doesn’t know the difference between a punishment and a reward so she can do things like feed them the best steak, put a school of mermaids at their service or let them pet your favorite dog. His name Chuck. If they accept the challenge one is picked at “random” by the Bootymaster from the pool of challenges. The challenge and the results can be auctioned, sold, bought or bet on.
The Bootymaster can also let online players transfer loonies on their phone to play along. This supports the teams directly and since the Bootymaster ends up with most of the loonies, this supports her as well since she can recycle her loony booty. Catfishing the online players by zoom or any other video streaming should be the highlight of party planning ideas weeks in advance. At the end of the party, the Bootymaster can exchange the monopoly money or poker chips back into electronic loonies, for a fee of course.
