Speaking of getting into character, my wife and I recently had a discussion surrounding "why do all fantasy characters have a British accent?" This led to further conjecture and the following ideas.
Redneck Renaissance -- Jeff Foxworthy plays a scientist during the gun powder arms race.
Slapstick Sci-Fi -- In a world where telepathy is the norm, a "mute" Charlie Chaplin solves crimes through his dramatic actions.
Vegan Victorian -- Consuming humans has become unfashionable and Natalie Portman enforces this lifestyle on her fellow vampires.

I love it, Brian. I played a dumb-redneck "extreme athlete" in a Farscape game once. He basically thought he was on a kids cartoon, and every half hour on the half hour he would say "I think we all learned an important lesson today." and summarize what happened over the last half hour.

Hyo!
Just wanted to let you know that:
A) I've left a review for Hard Core on iTunes.
B) loved this episode
C) I'm still amazed you can fet, what, twenty people behind mics there and still be legible.

Keep on `casting

I like the idea of "Instant Antagonist". Though, I'd love to see an 'instant NPC' product. I often have an antagonist in mind, but being able to come up with an interesting shopkeeper, city guard, etc on short notice would be nice.
I believe earlier this summer, one of you guys was talking about having a list of traits (or character hooks) available. I'd be interested in a product like that.
I also liked this episode because it was, I believe, the first episode ever where Jess does NOT say "awkward" in her sing-song voice.
By the way, I wanted to mention that I really liked the "kill it before it does" idea for campaigns from a couple episodes ago. I've seen that mistake made a few too many times.

I am catching up on my podcasts and finsihed #97 today. In this cast, the charcter of Doctor Cox on Scrubs was mentioned. The actor who playes him also played a serial killer in the movie adaptation of Dean Koontz's novel, Intensity. Ever since I saw that movie, it is a little off-beat to see his Dr. Cox character because there is not that much difference in the way the two characters talked with their speech patterns.