about

Incognito Cinema Warriors XP, or "ICWXP", for those of you

with an insatiable lust for acronyms, is a direct homage/tribute

to one of the greatest television sagas of yore: Gunsmoke!

Well that was the original idea, but we scrapped that and decided

to do a show about a soldier stuck in a movie theater with two

sarcastic robots surrounded by flesh eating zombies and forced to

watch bad movies instead.

But seriously folks, if you're here, you probably know the show we

all love and miss, and our particular addiction has crossed over from mere nerd-dom to full blown desperate cry for help severity.

The result of our supreme nerdiness is a show that has been kinda sorta embraced by a surprisingly large handful of fans of That Other Show and no one's more shocked than us!

The Kansas City, Missouri based show originally launched on MySpace February 2008 to a surprising response, gaining friend requests and web traffic far beyond what we expected.

So, the excu - er, reason Rick & The Bots are subjected to the crumby movies they are is an enchanting tale of wonder and young, budding love. Actually, it's a gory funeral dirge laced with violence and dispair, but we started off with the intention for wonder and young, budding love, honest!

It's like this:

In an undisclosed Midwestern city (Kansas City), the dead have returned to life and of course, as any self respecting minion of the damned does, they crave human flesh. Murder and choas ensues, as it often does.

In the blink of an eye, the U.S. Military assembles C.O.R.P.S. (Command of Re-Animate Processing and Suppression) to combat the droves of stinky people chompers.

The pithy, sarcastic Commanding Officer of one such squad of zombie combating commandos, Rick Wolf, is deployed downtown in our undisclosed Midwestern city (Kansas City).

Despite being heavily armed and well trained, his squad is quickly chowed down on by the ghouls (as graphically depicted in our super-violent cartoon theme song).

Outnumbered and low on ammo, Rick takes cover in a boarded up old movie house - Cine-A-Sorrow Theater.

Inside, he's shocked and annoyed to find two wise cracking sentient worker droids ('cause old movie houses from the 50's - 60's had those) left behind by the theater's former owner, the deranged inventor Dr. Harrison Blackwood.

A helicopter crash allows the hordes of zombies outside the theater to invade the lobby, and forces Rick, Topsy and Cylon into the ridiculously doored Theater Six, which acts as a perfect panic room hideaway from the undead army outside.

Theater Six was Dr. Blackwood's last ditch effort to keep Cine-A-Sorrow's doors open. You see, the movies he'd show... weren't very good. In fact they were downright unbearable and people would often have no choice but to walk out or face the very bowels of insanity.

The series of elaborate reinforced doors would keep moviegoers locked within the theater until the end of the films. This violated nearly every fire code in the book, and the theater was forced to shut down, and Dr. Blackwood mysteriously disappeared.

Once within the safety of Theater Six, Rick & The Bots receive a transmission from none other than the supposedly vanished Dr. Blackwood, who's still in the large movie house somewhere!

This is bad news, as the years spent alone in his laboratory have further warped the Doctor's sensibilities, and he blackmails the guys into watching the theater's entire collection of crumby b-movies! If the guys don't comply, the security shutters he's lowered over all entrances to the theater will rise and allow the starving legion of zombies to invade!

So there you have it. Commander Wolf and his new robo-chums must endure some of the worst movies ever made, or become zombie-chow (well, Rick anyway - zombies don't eat robots, but for the sake of the already flimsy premise, please don't tell them that).

Luckily for you, Rick & The Bots don't take it lying down, and provide each movie with witty, mean-spirited riffing, and you get to watch.

If you've endured this page painfully detailing the show's premise we're impressed! We have to pants you and give you a swirly now, but still - we're impressed.

In reward for skimming through all this, or likewise just scrolling down this far, we're like to let you know that we intend to evolve the plot of this goofy little puppet show toward a bigger picture.

Episodes in the future will be slightly less self contained, and a larger plot will come more and more into focus as we go. Rick, Topsy, Cylon and Dr. Blackwood are all part of an apocalyptic symphony of a scale even they can't imagine.

(We tried to vague it up as best we could. We hope that's sufficiently cryptic.)

So, our dear friends, or "ICies" (new term that's getting kicked around the message boards), sit back and watch the saga unfold!

- The ICWXP Staff