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Robert L. Hines | |title=<center>Toby Makes a Million (lost MTV2 comedy series pilot; 2014)</center> | ||
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|status=<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''</span> | |||
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Robert L. Hines is an American comedian and actor. He is most well known for his Toby Jones character, primarily used in the commercial parody videos uploaded on YouTube by Big Dog Eat Child (a Chicago sketch comedy group); the most popular ones being [https://youtu.be/WPkMUU9tUqk "Jones' Good-Ass BBQ & Foot Massage"] and [https://youtu.be/N0gb9v4LI4o "Jones' Big-Ass Truck Rental & Storage."] The videos have gained multiple million views on the video-sharing platform, and the Toby Jones character became a classic internet meme. | |||
Hines eventually planned to use his character in a television series, '''and a pilot was fully made,''' but never released. As of January 2020, no footage of the pilot has resurfaced online. | |||
== | ==Background== | ||
On January 28th, 2014, Hines released a video about a pitch for a Toby Jones television series. The video was largely forgotten about, until January 22nd, 2020, when a YouTuber named "wavywebsurf" made a video on the history of Toby Jones, which re-ignited interest on the television series pitch. A video interview with Hines was released the next day, in which he reveals the story about how an actual pilot for the series was made. | |||
Hines moved from Chicago to Los Angeles and shot the pilot with an unspecified production company. The pilot was eventually sold to MTV2, who wanted to make a full series based on the pilot. However, sometime during planning, everybody involved in making the show was fired during a downsize of the MTV2 staff, and the show was cancelled before it went into proper production. Hines mentions that the pilot still probably exists in a vault, but he doesn't have access to it, as the production company kept it to themselves after the cancellation, making it unlikely to ever release. | |||
== | ==Plot== | ||
The show's premise would've involved Jones opening up a new business every week, selling a few items relating to that business, and then moving onto another business for each new episode. The show's pilot revolved around the bottled water business. Hines also specified that it wasn't his idea for the pilot to be about bottled water, and "it was really hard to make water funny; however, we found a way and it was hilarious." | |||
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Revision as of 20:37, 24 January 2020
Screenshot from "Jones' Good-Ass BBQ & Foot Massage".
Status: Lost
Robert L. Hines is an American comedian and actor. He is most well known for his Toby Jones character, primarily used in the commercial parody videos uploaded on YouTube by Big Dog Eat Child (a Chicago sketch comedy group); the most popular ones being "Jones' Good-Ass BBQ & Foot Massage" and "Jones' Big-Ass Truck Rental & Storage." The videos have gained multiple million views on the video-sharing platform, and the Toby Jones character became a classic internet meme.
Hines eventually planned to use his character in a television series, and a pilot was fully made, but never released. As of January 2020, no footage of the pilot has resurfaced online.
Background
On January 28th, 2014, Hines released a video about a pitch for a Toby Jones television series. The video was largely forgotten about, until January 22nd, 2020, when a YouTuber named "wavywebsurf" made a video on the history of Toby Jones, which re-ignited interest on the television series pitch. A video interview with Hines was released the next day, in which he reveals the story about how an actual pilot for the series was made.
Hines moved from Chicago to Los Angeles and shot the pilot with an unspecified production company. The pilot was eventually sold to MTV2, who wanted to make a full series based on the pilot. However, sometime during planning, everybody involved in making the show was fired during a downsize of the MTV2 staff, and the show was cancelled before it went into proper production. Hines mentions that the pilot still probably exists in a vault, but he doesn't have access to it, as the production company kept it to themselves after the cancellation, making it unlikely to ever release.
Plot
The show's premise would've involved Jones opening up a new business every week, selling a few items relating to that business, and then moving onto another business for each new episode. The show's pilot revolved around the bottled water business. Hines also specified that it wasn't his idea for the pilot to be about bottled water, and "it was really hard to make water funny; however, we found a way and it was hilarious."