Year of Release: 2005
Directed by: Logan Lee
                      Ryan DiGiorgi
Writing Credits: Logan Lee
                            Ryan DiGiorgi
Genre: Comedy / Relationship
Tagline: A critical examination of the trivial crap that keeps us together
Description:  Three couples argue over the minutia of their pop culture-filled youths as they try to connect with each other in this offbeat look at modern relationships.
Background: As with many Lazy Bear films, the script for Three Conversations sat around a while before being dusted off and put into production. Logan wrote it his junior year but it wasn't produced until a year later. Originally, he and Ryan planned to keep their ugly mugs out of this film, making it the first to not feature them. When it came time to shoot, however, the boys liked the lines so much that they couldn't resist sticking themselves back in. But this is still the first film where Logan and Ryan aren't the main characters (and by extension, it's our first ensemble picture), the first film where Logan and Ryan don't interact, the first film to feature gay characters, and probably our most subtle film to date. You won't find Dr. Logan style slapstick here. For once we actually had a point to make about the world around us. What was it? Who cares, let's go watch Dr. Logan fall down some more!
Runtime: 9 minutes

Cast

Logan Lee	....	Man
Roseanna Welch	....	Woman
Daniel Hooper	....	Different Man
Jonathan Durnell	....	Different Woman
Ryan DiGiorgi	....	Another Man
Stephanie Walker	....	Another Woman

Edited by: Ryan DiGiorgi
                  Logan Lee

Camera: Ryan DiGiorgi
                Logan Lee

Boom Operator and Sound: Zach Ames

Trivia
• Logan wrote the script in only fifteen minutes after hearing one of his professors argue that pop culture was “disposable trash” which had no influence on young adults. Obviously, Logan strongly disagreed with this and argued his point in script form based on actual pop culture influenced conversations that he had with star Roseanna Welch in their Anthropology class his junior year in college.
• Logan originally labeled the script with the working title All You Need are Drums to Start a Dance Party.
• Several days after completing the script Logan considered adding another couple who would argue about the episode of Punky Brewster in which she is playing hide and seek and gets trapped in an abandoned refrigerator. This idea was deemed unnecessary and way too obscure.
• Summer Sedman was originally cast to play the female in the second segment, however she showed up to the set an hour late because of a final exam. Logan and Ryan joked about casting Jonathan Durnell (who had just so happened to tag along with Zach Ames, the audio engineer) in Summer’s place, making him and Dan Hooper a gay couple. They never gave it any serious thought until Rosey Welch (who had just showed up on the set that day for support) told Logan that she thought the idea would play well if it was subtle. Thus, with Logan's stipulation that Dan and Jon hold hands, Lazy Bear’s first gay couple was born.
• Logan kept a full journal of the filming process on the site web board, marking a first for the Lazy Bear crew. It can still be viewed here.
• Ryan kept a full journal of the editing process which can still be viewed here.
• Was in production at the same time as Demon Alcohol.
• Logan and Rosey are the only of our three film couples who are a couple in real life. Ironically, their film characters are apparently not dating.
• The roof top scenes were not actually filmed on a rooftop, but on the top of some bleachers connected to a brick building.
• Logan wears a shirt featuring his favorite actor Chevy Chase. It shows a young Chevy wearing a shirt that says "Yes, It's My Real Name".
• Dan’s smoking was improvised. Instead of wasting cigarettes, he would snub out whichever one he had used in the previous take and relight it for the new one.
• The entire film was shot at the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga, much like The College Show, Dr. Love Strikes Out, and most of The Package. The first couple was shot in Ryan’s dorm room and in the old stadium. The second and third couples were shot outside of the university center.
• Despite what many viewers think, the second couple actually does walk in a circle. The shot was done in one complete take.
• Logan was a huge fan of Dan Hooper’s film McDoomed and insisted that Ryan cast him.
• Although she has been credited for odd jobs in a few of our other films, this marks Stephanie Walker’s first Lazy Bear acting role.
• At the time of filming, Stephanie Walker was roommates with Lazy Bear Player Areta Davis. Areta was disappointed that she wasn’t cast in the part.
• Logan based so much of the film off of his actual relationship with Roseanna Welch that at one point she admitted to being “uneasy” with a few of the lines. Logan refused to cut anything because in the end it was all in the name of comedy.
• Despite what many viewers think, you really can not play Clue with only two players. Check the box, folks.
• Although they’ve been writing the “Spring break ’97!” line since….well, spring break 1997, this is the first film that it has actually appeared in. However, much like the infamous spit take in The College Show, it is not delivered by either Logan or Ryan.
• None of the characters are given names in the script. They are (in order of appearance): Man, Woman, Different Man, Different Woman, Another Man, Another Woman. Logan did this on purpose as to put the emphasis on what they were saying and not who they were. It should be noted that Jon ended up playing "Different Woman".
• This film introduces an entirely new cast of Lazy Bear Players, not counting Logan and Ryan obviously.
• In the Clue scene, Logan is playing as Ms. Scarlet, while Rosey is Prof. Plum, who we later find out committed the crime.
• If one watches closely, one can in fact see the woman cheating at Clue in the opening shot.
• The first couple drinks Pabst Blue Ribbon, Logan’s second favorite beer. However, the only real reason it was chosen was due to its cheap price. Logan and Rosey each chugged a can of Pabst before shooting the scene.
• Dan Hooper has the distinction of being the first Lazy Bear Player to learn his lines ahead of time (since his scene was one long tracking shot, leaving no opportunity for cuts after a mistake). Jon Durnell is the second performer to accomplish this, but due to his last minute casting, he only had about fifteen minutes to do so.
• Ryan and Logan never know what to expect from new actors in terms of how many takes they'll need to get their lines down. But, invariably, our founders are reminded that they themselves are truly writers not actors at heart. When editing Three Conversations, Ryan noticed that he and Logan took, on average, three times as many takes as any other actor. Additionally, they each had a line that took countless tries to get right. Logan couldn't get the perfect flippant reading of the line "Okay, you win." Ryan's was "Anybody but Donny Most. Henry Winkler, Scott Baio, Ron Howard. Hell, even Anson Williams would be better than Donny Most." He kept forgetting the list of names, causing boom operator Zach Ames to remark that all the previously shot footage should be scrapped in favor of a new movie entitled "The Line" composed entirely of Ryan's flubbed takes.