Cast

Ryan DiGiorgi (as Leo G. Carroll)	....	Ryan
Kyle Coker (as Claude Reins)	....	Kyle
Ashley DiGiorgi (as Janette Scott)	....	Ashley
Matt Latham (as Matt the Library Guy)	....	Himself
Logan Lee (as Dr. Dana Andrews)	....	Dr. Logan

Edited by: Ryan DiGiorgi

Camera: Ryan DiGiorgi
                Logan Lee
                Bekah Thompson
                Kyle Coker
                Ashley DiGiorgi

Trivia
• Deleted Scenes:

• While Kyle waits in the car outside the library, he tunes into a demon radio station that hypnotizes him, this was the original reason for Ryan’s line “Stop listening to that! Meet Dr. Logan.”
• Ashley being attacked by the stuffed dog was going to be shown, and parts of it were shot on lower quality tape, but discarded.
• As the trio returns from the library, Ryan remarks that he wonders if machines are misbehaving all over town. We see various civilians being terrorized by appliances as the car drives along. This was cut because the necessary attack shots were too complicated to film and the extra actors would have been too hard to find.
• When Ryan and Kyle return with Dr. Logan, Ryan introduces him to Ashley who meanwhile has been tied up by a rogue roll of masking tape. This entire introduction was cut for the final film and we instead go directly to Dr. Logan’s investigation of the house.
• A small but hilarious scene of Kyle returning to the possessed kitchen to rescue a box of bacon-flavored crackers was omitted simply because Ryan forgot to edit it in. This is the reason for the “Kyle, get your bacon” outtake line as the credits fade out.

• This movie was entirely improvised based on an outline
• The entire film was shot in four days. A “pre-shooting” day of footage at the Brentwood Library before the story had been ironed out, then three main shooting days mostly at Ryan DiGiorgi’s house, but including a return to the library to pick up shots of Ryan and Kyle arriving and Dr. Logan being brought out to the car.
• This is Lazy Bear’s first “unofficial” film, in that all actors went by pseudonyms and Lazy Bear Productions was never mentioned in the credits. All the fake names are from B movie actors mentioned in the song “Science Fiction Double Feature” from “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”, except Matt the Library guy who bravely used his real name. Dana Andrews was altered to Dr. Dana Andrews to distinguish him as Dr. Logan. To complete the B movie theme, Alan Smithee, the name formerly used by artists who didn’t wish to be associated with a film, is credited as director.
• The part of Ryan’s sidekick was originally promised to Lazy Bear Player Tommy Paige, but Paige contracted strep throat on the first day of filming. Kyle Coker was approached, and with a “Sure, I guess…” entered the annals of Lazy Bear history as the ultimate deadpan man.
• Due to scheduling conflicts, the majority of Ashley DiGiorgi’s scenes were shot on the final day of the shoot with no other actors.
• Alternate footage of Ashley’s scenes was shot on lower quality tape when the SVHS camera ran out of battery power. Later these scenes were re-shot, but the alternate footage is the only version of many of the deleted scenes including the dog attack.
• Kyle’s constant eating was his own improvisation. Throughout the film, he eats uncooked noodles, marshmallows, pretzels, chocolate chips, and is seen carrying a loaf of bread. He also may have eaten a few Kit Kats when we weren’t filming.
• Some of Ashley’s clothes were permanently bleached with toothpaste.
• The shot of the cast running up the stairs is at an odd angle because there was no one left to film it. Everyone was in the scene. The camera was set on a step and the cast was instructed to make sure to pass low enough by it to be seen, hence the crawling.
• The book that Dr. Logan reads from in the library has nothing to do with the plot because it was filmed on the first day and the plot hadn’t been written yet.
• Designed as an entirely improvised movie, only one scripted joke from the plot outline made its way in, an obscure Ralph Nader reference that a total of two people got.
• The odd cutaways in the library scenes resulted from a combination of lines being cut to reflect the finished plot, and the work of an uninterested cameraperson who was only with the movie for the first day. (But we like him/her anyway.) Ryan and this cameraperson were the only ones credited because they were supposed to complete the film together as an assignment for Brentwood High School’s Television Production class. In reality, though, much of the writing and camerawork was done by the other actors.
• The shots of suburban houses rolling by during the opening credits was actually shot for use in the cut scene of appliance attacks occurring around the town. The credit sequence was originally going to simply be white letters on a black background until the extra footage was utilized.
• The credits incorporate the most special effects in the entire film, including chroma key, computer titles, and fade effects. Most other effects in the film were achieved by handy invisible thread. The invisible thread was kind enough to remain invisible for most of the movie, but can be clearly seen whenever the crew shot upwards putting the thread between the light source and the camera (as when the iron walks to the edge of the counter).
• When given a suggestion for a line, Kyle Coker responded, “How can I Kylize that?”
• The phone jack that the killer phone cord was plugged into was broken during filming.
• This movie has ONE major fan who isn’t directly related to Lazy Bear Productions, Ryan’s hair stylist’s son, who asked for his autograph.
• The shadowy figure at the beginning of the film that is later revealed to be Dr. Logan building his machine was indeed played by Logan Lee, unlike Anthony Perkins in the Psycho shower scene. Commitment or just lack of actors? You decide. Also note that Dr. Logan can be seen here without glasses or the Dr. Logan jacket.
• When Kyle and Ryan watch television the second time, they are watching a friend of actress Ashley DiGiorgi doing a school project. It was used because they could be shown without fear of copyright infringement.
• An unfilmed scene in which Ryan subdues an angry alarm clock that screams “I’ll swallow your soul!” was a reference to Evil Dead II. When Dr. Logan flips through the book in the library, he flips past the DVD cover for Army of Darkness, the third film in the Evil Dead trilogy. Logan and Ryan would later take this trend even further in Dr. Logan’s Day Out, which was inspired by a short film made by the director of the Evil Dead movies, Sam Raimi.
• The sketch in the book that Dr. Logan points out as being “the hero” is actually an alien ventriloquist character created by Ryan DiGiorgi who will appear in future projects. All sketches in the book were done by DiGiorgi, as they were just his class notes. The second page of notes is the outline for Blender Agenda, titled simply “Halloween Project”.
• Kyle’s glasses disappear and reappear due to the actor wearing contacts on one of the shooting days. Ryan and Logan agreed it was funny and fit with the B movie theme. At least they got everyone to wear the same clothes.
• Danny Elfman scored the film. That is, Ryan and Logan stole music that happened to all be Elfman’s. Only the end credits and “Bitchin’ in the Kitchen” break this trend. Those are both from the Richard O’Brien musical Shock Treatment. LEGAL NOTE: We made absolutely NO money from this film. We continue to make no money from it. We never even made an ATTEMPT at making money from it! In fact we probably lost some money on it, so forget about suing, Elfman!
• During the kitchen scene, Dr. Logan gains a Papa Berenstein Bear give-away toy. Logan found it in a box outside the kitchen door and decided to make it part of the character. It’s in his front jacket pocket for a while, then it loses its head, then it’s gone completely, and finally it returns with head in tact.
• None other than Kyle Coker himself pulled the string that caused the freezer door to smack Dr. Logan in the face. We weren’t sure if the effect would work, but Kyle soon mastered the art of not letting the string go slack enough to dip into the camera’s sight.
• The sign on Dr. Logan’s office door was held on by a store security strip from a CD wrapper. There were no production assistants, so no one brought tape.
• When everyone runs from the kitchen, Ryan cracks up quite audibly at Dr. Logan’s yelps of horror.
• Logan was unable to keep a straight face when he had to stuff his face with Kit Kats and Reese’s Cups during his big speech. On the millionth take, he finally kept calm long enough to cut away, though you can tell he’s about to smile. Ryan and Logan made an attempt to get rid of all the saliva-covered candy that had been used in the scene, but one or two Kit Kats may have been eaten by Kyle who, as always, didn’t know any better.
• A few pick-up shots of Ryan for the “Bitchin’ in the Kitchen” fight, plus the final scene where Ashley departs to Trick-Or-Treat, were shot very late at night after Ryan had been editing the film for hours. Look for the bags under his eyes. Make a drinking game out of it.
• The shots of the knives flying at Ryan were originally intended to be done in reverse motion with the knives being jerked out of the wall. However, the invisible string wasn’t strong enough to pull them clear of Ryan’s face, so this method was deemed unsafe and the current wimpy version was devised.
• Ashley’s clown costume was a leftover from a play she had done.
• The macabre pumpkin with a knife in its head in the background of the final scene was carved by Bruno DiGiorgi, father of Ryan and Ashley. The knife was used in the flying knives scene.
• A slight shadow of a hand can be seen plugging in the blender (actually a mixer, we know) for the final shot.
• The morning after the late night re-shoots, Ashley went to school with toothpaste behind her ear because she had been too tired to wash her hair again.
• Kyle Coker’s Ford Explorer served as the official transportation of the film. Logan held the borrowed camera out of the moving car to get the opening shots of the suburban neighborhood. Kyle’s car also plays itself in the movie.
• GOOF: In the library, Dr. Logan wears boots. In all other scenes he wears the tennis shoes that would become part of the permanent Dr. Logan costume.
• The second house seen in the opening credit sequence burned down a year after filming. The owner, a Tennessee school principal, was convicted of arson. Lazy Bear Productions plans to erect a Dr. Logan statue on the spot. Lazy Bear Productions also promises never to use the words “erect” and “Dr. Logan” in the same sentence ever again.
• Two “George W. Bush for President” signs can be seen in the opening. This was unintentional.
• This is the first appearance of Dr. Logan, who has since gone on to star (in various incarnations) in three other Lazy Bear films. Ryan wanted Logan to play a mad scientist character, and Logan’s Spanish teacher, Mrs. Phillips, had taken to calling him Dr. Love. She is thanked in the credits of Dr. Logan’s Day Out.
• Kyle holds a broken putter while walking down the street with Ryan. He used it to beat back the rabid group of Kyle groupies who were constantly disrupting takes with their panty throwing. The putter mysteriously disappears once the two get inside.
• Ryan’s shirt bears the logo of “Mystery Science Theater 3000”, the actor’s favorite TV show, wherein B movies are satirized. This was done not only to show loyalty to the show, but to demonstrate that Blender Agenda should not be taken seriously. One critic at a film festival said nothing about the movie, but praised the shirt.
• The writing on Ryan’s hand in the library scenes is the phone number of Todd Rogers who played Running Guy #5 in Logan’s Talent Agency.
• GOOF: The power outage causes total darkness, even though it’s afternoon.
• A scene where Ryan’s computer is possessed and the gang have a tense conversation with it as a reference to “Sphere” was outlined but never filmed.
• The power outage and dark closet sequences were presented as audio over a completely black screen because no practical way of shooting in the dark was available.
• When Ryan says “Gosh, Ashley, you scared me,” Kyle glances down at something. He’s looking at the outline for the film that Ryan is holding off-screen.
• Ashley was supposed to be revealed by a match or candle lit in the dark, but the resulting lens flare would have been undesirable.
• The cord wrapping around Ryan’s arm was done in reverse motion, modeled after the vine attack in “The Evil Dead”. Ryan and Logan report that they’ve got the hang of it and will do much better next time.
• The same lady in the red shirt can be seen walking toward the library in both establishing shots. It’s not a goof, though, she’s just an incredibly slow walker.
• Though the location of the film is never mentioned, the Tennessee flag outside the library gives it away.
• The sign on Dr. Logan’s office door says “Dr. Logan. Doctor of Loooooove”. Why Ryan consults a doctor of love is never explained.
• The book that Dr. Logan and Ryan read in the library montage is “Love Byte”. It was chosen on location because of the very goofy looking girl on the cover. Many fans have also pointed out a resemblance to Dr. Logan. The book can also be seen in Dr. Logan’s Day Out, but disappeared shortly after filming that movie.
• GOOF: Dr. Logan doesn’t shut the door upon entering Kyle’s car, but it is closed in the next shot.
• The cassette Dr. Logan looks at with disgust is a Garth Brooks tape.
• A poster for “The Maltese Falcon” can be seen in Ryan’s dining room during the house investigation scenes.
• Dr. Logan calls Wanda at the end of the searching the house montage. We later see Wanda in Dr. Logan’s Day Out, a prequel to Blender Agenda.
• Blender Agenda was one of several Halloween projects created for government access TV as part of the Brentwood High School Television Productions class. For its original airing, Ryan edited in commercials for “STARS” (a drug and alcohol prevention group), “It’s About You” (a local parks and recreation promotion show), and a promo advertising the other Halloween projects.
• After Dr. Logan calls Wanda, a bit of production audio where Logan gives some direction to Ryan can be heard. It was mistakenly left in and would have been quite difficult to remove since the background music had already been laid down. Most viewers don’t catch it.
• GOOF: Ryan’s reflection can be seen filming in the framed artwork Dr. Logan passes at the very end of the investigation scene.
• Ashley begins to laugh and covers her mouth as the group runs up the stairs. This was because Logan, who was in front of her, nearly fell.
• GOOF: The maniacal trash can in the “Bitchin’ in the Kitchen” fight scene was being shaken from behind by Logan. Bits of him can be scene occasionally.
• Kyle rarely, if ever, responded to any direction given to him, but what he ended up doing was always ten times better.
• Due to restrictions imposed by the government access channel Blender Agenda was written for, certain elements had to be cut early on. The blender (yes, mixer) was not allowed to be full of blood, a scene of a garden hose strangling someone was scrapped, and of course, the word “bitchin” had to be edited out.
• The “Bitchin’ in the Kitchen” sequence was shot very quickly due to a shortage of time and battery power. Not enough footage was filmed, so outtakes were used to make sure the video lasted the entire length of the song. Try to spot them.
• You can see a slight hint of the “You Will Die” message in the shower before the toothpaste creates it. This shot had to be redone so the message from the previous take was left up. In fact, the message stayed up for three days so it could be re-shot on better tape. By the time the master was completed, it had run a bit, leading some viewers to think it says “You Will Pie”. Logan and Ryan say either works.
• Dr. Logan’s glasses were a pair of reading glasses Ryan’s father had discarded. They were destroyed during the filming of Dr. Logan’s Day Out and replaced for Dr. Love Strikes Out.
• Dr. Logan's death makes this one of only two Lazy Bear film where a character dies. The other was The Package wherein The Guy is shot. Dr. Logan went on to appear in three other films. The Guy is still able to posthumously show up at Ryan's surprise party.
• GOOF: Ryan, Kyle, and Ashley must have had an after-death party because there are several cups and other dishes surrounding the blender (or mixer) in the closing shot that weren’t there before.
• A special edition was planned with interviews, bloopers, deleted scenes, and an alternate apocalyptic ending that parodies “Army of Darkness”. Though this has since been put on the back burner, the Lazy Bear Players are still interested in it and all the footage still exists.
• As Kyle and Ryan walk up Ryan’s driveway, you can faintly here them discussing how many points Blender Agenda is worth for Ryan’s Television Productions class.
• A ten minute cut of Blender Agenda was produced as a showcase of Ryan’s work when he applied to New York University. Several scenes were cut, mostly the long montages. Other alterations include: the word bitchin’ was re-inserted in “Bitchin’ in the Kitchen”, the color was corrected slightly, the commercials were removed, shots of Dr. Logan were removed from the opening and reinserted in black and white and slow motion during the master plan speech to act as cut-away flashback shots so pieces of the speech could be edited out, and the credits were changed to put an emphasis on Ryan (which was fine as they hadn’t been anywhere near accurate to begin with).