This blog post contains spoilers for episode four of Dead Drunk Detective. You can listen to 'Unwrapping the Mummy Mystery' here.
The sound effects do a lot of heavy lifting this week as it is a highly visual episode. Johnny and Betty's ongoing fight over the chair in particular would be a delight to see acted out onstage.
Indiana Jones is not just one of the few characters in the series given a surname, but the only person besides Johnny whose full name is not a pun.
The pharaoh's deliberate manner of speech was inspired by Croach the Tracker from Thrilling Adventure Hour. The podcast influenced my decision to record Dead Drunk Detective in front of a live audience.
The security guards (named in the script as Maurice and Pauline) are played by a real life double act, Mike and Charlie. The chatty pair are the first of many characters who Johnny finds annoying due to them being loud, obnoxious, and/or idiotic.
This episode is the only instance where both the victim and culprit are human. It is also the second time the perpetrator was a human as opposed to a supernatural being. The latter would become rarer after series one because I felt a human killing a monster would be too obvious a storyline.
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