Army of Emmas - Episode 30

How many Emmas does it take to conquer Parabellum City? When you're writing a pun-filled comedy series, what can you use to create an Empire-Strikes-Back style low point for your hero just before the climax of the current arc? This Gun in My Hand!

Army of Emmas, episode 30 of This Gun in My Hand, was finished off by Rob Northrup. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. What could make Falk Zildjian’s heart spring back to life? This Gun in My Hand!

This episode and all others are available on Youtube, including automatically generated closed captions of dialog.

Show Notes:

1. The music in the Forbidden Technologies ad comes from a radio commercial for Cresta Blanca Wine. 

2. This is number four in the five part series “Hardly Boiled,” comprising episodes 27 through 31. After that, we’ll go back to self-contained one-shot episodes, or at least start a new storyline.

3. “Only her hairdresser knows for sure” was part of a 1950s slogan for Miss Clairol hair coloring.

Credits:

The opening and middle transitional music clips were from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.

Sound Effect Title: footsteps cellar.wav

License: Public Domain

https://freesound.org/people/gecop/sounds/545030/

Sound Effect Title: Footsteps Dress Shoes Wood Floor.wav

License: Public Domain

https://freesound.org/people/allrealsound/sounds/161756/

Sound Effect Title: Splashes In A Bathtub.wav

License: Public Domain

https://freesound.org/people/bbrocer/sounds/382649/

Sound Effect Title: Tapping On Window.mp3

License: Public Domain

https://freesound.org/people/Zel12/sounds/508400/

Title: Real Colt 45 M1911 (shot)

By Carmelomike

License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0

https://freesound.org/people/Carmelomike/sounds/255216/

Sound effect title: Title: Body fall_02.wav 

License: Public Domain

https://freesound.org/people/Adam_N/sounds/346694/

The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail from the cover of Amazing Stories, Vol. 16, No. 1 (January 1942). Art by Malcolm Smith, public domain.