The Cast of

The Spoony Experiment

Noah Antwiler as Tandem the Spoony - Noah is the terrifying result of a generation raised on MTV and films by Jean-Claude van Damme and Steven Seagal at the height of their popularity. Writer, director, editor, and star of The Spoony Experiment, Noah shares a love for the three things author Neal Stephenson writes are the things America does better than anyone else: music, movies, and microcode. He created the Experiment as an homage to Mystery Science Theater 3000, the first show to scream back at the culture that raised him. He's been a published poet in Seattle, and has acted in community productions of Grease, Our Town, Dags, The Importance of Being Earnest, and Interview With The Vampire.

Noah initially began on the Internet writing comedic movie reviews called Tandem's Movie Rants, which are film critiques, live movie recaps, or essays on recent trends in film or TV. With a viewpoint always controversial, Noah's rants are usually critical of both mainstream popular media culture and the detail-obsessive "fanboy" community. Over the years, these rants have evolved in form in the hopes of being entertaining but also to elevate moviegoer expectations. Thanks to the creative input and support (and a fair amount of harsh derision from some) of the Kenzerco Forumites, Noah has come to this new media to give back as much of the entertainment as possible that MST3K gave him.

The story of the "Tandem the Spoony" mantle is, of course, an extraordinarily nerdy one that started at a Dungeons & Dragons table, where Noah played a swashbuckling (and often accident-prone) bard. While playing the game Final Fantasy 2, Noah came across a scene where the game's bard, Edward, was getting the crap beaten out of him by an old sage. During this Rodney King-esque beating, the sage howled in badly-translated Japanese rage "You spoony bard!!" Noah still doesn't know what the hell it means, but Tandem thus Tandem the Spoony was born. Today, spooniness indicates a devil-may-care swashbuckling spirit, where all men are equal and free and should be generally nice to each other, and embrace wine, women, and song. Now he carries the name as an Internet handle, because-- while silly-- it's infinitely more memorable and interesting than Noah Antwiler.

Miles Antwiler as Sorbo Green - Miles will watch anything, and that's to his credit. Always expanding his knowledge, Miles can usually be found prowling the aisles of every Arizona video store looking for something he hasn't seen yet. Which means he's usually watching a lot of movies. If the TV is on around him, either baseball or a movie is on, and to this day he can probably tell you the key players of any movie he's seen yet. If the TV's off, he's reading a book. He's a voracious reader, an avid viewer, and the possessor of a wonderfully wry wit. He has acted in a community production of The King and I.

Miles is currently continuing his education at Arizona State University as a Criminal Justice Studies major.

The character Sorbo Green was inspired by Noah as an inside joke for one of his old gaming buddies, as the result of a rather embarrassing conversation where Noah claimed that the Hercules TV series was really "not that bad" and that he regularly watched another Kevin Sorbo-starring series Andromeda. From that point, Noah dug himself a rather deep hole conversationally and that friend now firmly believes that Noah has some kind of bizarre man-crush on Kevin Sorbo. Noah maintains his heterosexuality whenever the topic is broached, but for some odd reason continues to use the name "Sorbo" in some form in every project he does. Sorbo Green is the prototype "Green" model for the Sorbo robot series, which The Director found in the bombed-out remains of an abandoned scientific institute. The Director put most of the Sorbobots to use cleaning out the lower basements of the structure that survived intact, but sealed Sorbo Green into the storage area known as Deep 42 because nobody likes a video jockey (even an automated one).









Noah J.D. Chinn as The Director - It is an incredible and entirely fortuitous circumstance that the two of the only three people named Noah in the Northern Hemisphere (the third being Noah Wylie) found themselves part of the same genius project. Born in Oshawa, Canada, Noah's acting experience is limited to hamming it up any and every chance he gets. His first love has always been writing, and has written two novels and dozens of short stories... not one of which has yet been published. As a freelance writer, however, he has met with more success, publishing travel articles in the Globe and Mail, Vancouver Province, and gaming articles in Knights of the Dinner Table Magazine.



Turning to his eye to cartooning has yielded more success. He currently produces Fuzzy Knights, an online web comic, twice a week. Earlier this year, Volume 1 of Fuzzy Knights came out in print form, and Volume 2 is expected to come out later this year. He currently teaches English to students in Japan. God help them.

The character of The Director was written by Noah (the other one) as a mysterious megalomaniac of creative control who appears to believe he knows better than the viewing public what they want to see. Witless films filled with arcane, unrealistic dialogue, intrusive and distracting CG effects, and wholly unbearable comic relief characters turn The Director on in ways you shouldn't imagine. His true identity remains a secret...for now.

It is also a mark of pride that both Noahs are far better-looking than their estranged faux-cousin, Noah Wylie.

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