Hi Guys, it’s me Cheeky Monkey HD.com, here.

I’m taking a well earned break from my ongoing battle against an evil, sentient AI who has decided to hijack my website, Youtube channel, podcast and Threads account, to announce the release of Episode 11 of hit animated web-series, Normalman’s Fate. Don’t wait any longer, guys, you can watch it, here NOW:

Thrilling or what?

(ANSWER: Definitely thrilling.)

With the main event out of the way, let’s put this vehicle into reverse and head on back to peruse the undercard. And by that, what I’m trying to say is that I want to talk about the reasons why it has taken so long for the episode to reach your screens.

Firstly, I have to admit, but the pressure was definitely on. The response to NorFat up to this point has been overwhelming and I felt compelled to keep up the incredibly high standards that I had already scaled. Of course, the scripts for all twelve episodes of NorFat had been completed before we started shooting, but I started to have doubts, and really wanted to capitalise of the incredible popularity of breakout star, Dorothy Khraunchainoot-Khaunflaix. Throwing caution, and the budget, to the wind (looking not unlike the endgame from The Crystal Maze), we embarked on a series of ambitious reshoots.

The production team felt that we would only suffer a minor delay to the release date… until that fateful day that has become known as Gravygate. The day had started so well, and we were putting the finishing touches to the episode. To celebrate, we decided to have pie, peas and gravy for dinner to celebrate. As usual, we sent Jose on a pie run to our favourite pie shop, Rivate Pie, and he rushed back to the studio so we could enjoy the feast. Alas, tragedy struck and the stupid scouser (Jose) tripped over a copy of Take a Break and the pies, tubs of peas and tubs of gravy went flying. Cheeky Cat 1080p skilfully used her claws to halt the peatainers (pea containers) mid-air. The pies were relatively solid and so fell harmlessly to the ground. But the gravy.. what about the gravy, Cheeky Monkey HD.com?

The gravy sploshed luxuriously all over the Episode 11 master tapes.

I blame myself. I should have fired Jose years ago, but could never bring myself to do it as he works for less than minimum wage.

I don’t know if you’ve ever tried to clean gravy off of the master tapes for a hit animation series, but if you have, you’ll know how tricky it is. It makes washing oil off of those seagulls look like a literal cake walk.

So, the majority of the delay was caused by this. #obvs.

Once that was sorted, there was then all that stuff where Emma tried to bully me into returning to work and I refused BECAUSE I AM A MAN OF PRINCIPLE (read here and here). And then I became embroiled in a humanity defining conflict with the Artificial Intelligence (the thing that I mentioned earlier in this post).

And now we have caught up and have reached the point where the episode has been released.

I hope this peek behind my curtains has given you a glimpse through the window of my soul.

Until next time, I will see you…laterrrrrrrr!