Question About Les's Characters

[ugotslimed]

This goes out to anyone who knows or wrote for the show but were the characters Les played all supposed to be diferrent people or were they all supposed to be fictional "actors" on the show that was being directed by Ross playing parts like El Capitano?
For example, in the fantasy of the show-was "the dungeon" a fake dungeon they used for sketches about prisinors? or was it supposedly a "real" dungeon that they threw the actors in when they forgot their lines, or did something stupid? Was Barths a place they supposedly "really" ate at between doing the show? or a sketch about a place that was on the show? Was the classroom a "Sketch" classroom? or a classroom that they supposedly went to to be taught? (like how actor kids on tv shows really do sometimes have a classroom near the set that they have to go to?)
if that were true then the "show" that they were putting on, would have been just the link set scenes, and every other scene would have been the "behind the scenes" stuff of the tv show.
I realize this is a confusing question, but if anyone gets what I'm talking about let me know.

[TheLockerMonster]

I'm reasonably certain that Les' characters were all different people.

[BBOvenGuy]

I would say it was all done with a certain amount of "wink wink nudge nudge" to it. That is to say, everyone acted like Barth's was where they really went to eat, the dungeon was where they really got chained up, etc., but at any time we could "break the fourth wall" for comedic effect. Kind of like saying, "We know we're just pretending, but go along with it and have some fun, okay?"

[ugotslimed]

I would say it was all done with a certain amount of "wink wink nudge nudge" to it. That is to say, everyone acted like Barth's was where they really went to eat, the dungeon was where they really got chained up, etc., but at any time we could "break the fourth wall" for comedic effect. Kind of like saying, "We know we're just pretending, but go along with it and have some fun, okay?"

-so does that mean we were supposed to think the dungeon was where you got sent if you were being punished for doing some show related offense? like forgetting lines or breaking something, or bad mouthing the producer? as opposed to a fictional setting in "sketch" universe where it was medevil times or some other country or under a castle?
I always wondered about the fictional geography of the studio-in my minds eye I imagined the dungeon was under the studio-but in one episode lisa and some other kid look like they are watching someone who is being slimed in the dungeon while they stand off to the side in the "backstage" looking area-I think it's the one where lisa says " that's pretty funny" and then the other kid says "you wouldn't think it was funny if they did that to you" -although they may have been watching the dungeon activity on a monitor. I guess in the end its just a show-but as a kid you think about things like that!

[BBOvenGuy]

You're thinking about this way more than we ever did.

[LastoftheGypsies]

I'm glad someone said it....

[BBOvenGuy]

Well, what I mean is that as far as the dungeon and the firing squad were concerned, there really wasn't a reason for them to be there. Sometimes if we wanted to have a specific reason, we put one in - there was one I wrote where Alasdair was sent to the dungeon by his biology teacher to learn about different forms of life. But usually they were there for no reason, which was kind of the point. They were there for committing "the crime of being kids."

[ugotslimed]

Well, what I mean is that as far as the dungeon and the firing squad were concerned, there really wasn't a reason for them to be there. Sometimes if we wanted to have a specific reason, we put one in - there was one I wrote where Alasdair was sent to the dungeon by his biology teacher to learn about different forms of life. But usually they were there for no reason, which was kind of the point. They were there for committing "the crime of being kids."

I remember one firing squad scene with one of the girls where they said she was being shot for not doing her homework. I always thought in the fictional universe of the show there probably was a "reason" they were being punished, but we didn't always hear that part because sometimes the scene would begin after they had already been sentenced to whatever punishment for whatever reason.