Danny, My Boy!

Danny My Boy Trivia:

*As stated in the film, the original documentary was supposed to be titled, "Roy, My Boy!" and focus on Kevin's Grandfather. The trip to shoot the documentary that would've included Jim Neece in person was cancelled due to Kevin's Daughter suffering from Lice. Sadly, Jim's passing ended up making for a better film as it drew in relatives from all sides of the Neece Family to one place to be interviewed. Jim was given top billing as his performance was an urn full of cremated ashes sitting on the table during the Funeral Sermon, front and center during the entire second act of the film, and the entire events of the film are based around him. His physical appearance can be seen in the photographs laying around the house.

*Between the day that Jim Neece died and the day of Jim Neece's funeral, Kevin coped with his grief by channeling all of his efforts into making Marller Gets a Spinoff: A Certain Magical Pimpdex, and managed to write, photoshop, and edit over 3 hours 30 minutes of material. Kevin states that Jim Neece loved actor Brenda Dickerson and would've laughed at Kevin using Brenda as his stand-in during The Lost Soul scene.

*In the movie, Kevin states that Jim Neece is an atheist, and that his mother privately expressed concerns that the funeral might up end like her first husband where the pastor and most of the attendees didn't really know the person they were talking about. In her own words, it was basically a "married him and buried him" funeral. His mother's suspicions prove to be a little too true as the pastor gives an elongated speech about how Jim Neece came to Jesus. Once again, Jim Neece was an atheist. They tried to rewrite his religious choice to their own liking to appeal to their own consciences about the possibility of someone as nice as him being sent to hell by the rules of their own religion. Kevin also points out, that in Dante's Inferno, the section of Hell reserved for Atheists was NOT eternal punishment, it is simply a black void of nothingness, which is what the Atheist expects Death to be anyways. Hence, they are not punished when they died, they receive exactly what they buy into.

*In the Marller Gets a Spinoff: A Certain Magical Pimpdex music video segment, The Lost Soul, there's a scene where, Skuld, the Valkyrie of Fate that sends souls to Valhalla, appeals to the Gods on Jim Neece's behalf, stating that a soul as kind as him should not be eternally punished simply because he was an atheist who didn't buy into their beliefs because of his knowledge of science. In a way, Kevin psychologically reacted in almost the same manner as his relatives in the movie. They cannot bring themselves to live with the idea that a kind soul might be sent to hell simply for not believing in God, and in their own subconscious, try to rewrite the decision to their own liking.

*In the beginning of the movie, Kevin confesses that his work on Bad Goddess accidentally invoked Pagan Spirits that may have brought bad luck down upon his family's heads. Director Josh Becker once described Kevin, as a true Fatalist who can only see the Glass as Half Empty and about to be smashed, rather than Half Full. All of the events that happened to Kevin swing both ways. During the writing of Bad Goddess, Kevin nearly choked to death several times which he attributed to angering the Goddesses of Fate by turning their anime series into an Offensive Shock Comedy like South Park. Kevin's first story was about Keiichi Morisato suffering a heart attack during a sex session with Belldandy. One month after writing the script, Kevin suffered the first near fatal sex injury of his fifteen year marriage to Angela when he felt the inside of his head go numb with pain, bringing him to fear he was about to die. When Bad Goddess was still in the fan fiction phase, as Kevin had just cast Stephen Geoffreys as Doctor What #2, he received a request from ZLTV producer Michael Ludlow to edit a Pittsburgh Penguins Ice Hockey mixtape for a commercial and a jumbotron. Shortly after completing the video, Kevin received a DVD copy of Stephen Geoffrey's New Terminal Hotel in the mail, only to realize from the credits on the DVD case that the producers of the film were the same people that drafted him for the Ice Hockey commercial. Kevin thought the coincidence was an act of serendipity, as if he had been given a sign from the Goddesses. Unfortunately, he then made the mistake of actually watching New Terminal Hotel and telling director BC Furtney his true opinion of the film. BC Furtney's insulting response was "So you want to be a director? Let me know when you release your first movie." This incited Kevin into adapting Bad Goddess into a video comic series and listing it on Internet Movie Database. When Kevin was about to call it quits on the series after the first two season, his wife received a phone call that their nephew Dylan Gutierrez commit suicide. Kevin edited The Keys of Marinus episode in one straight shot over a couple of days while his wife attended the funeral so that he could put a memorial for Dylan in the movie. As Kevin had finished the series, and ZLTV came to an end, Kevin was going to stay on with Fanboy TV, but experience a case of intense bad luck when he was scandalized off of the station due to a bad phone conversation with Logan Gordon about her abusive relationship with Micheal Ludlow got spread around the station. Kevin was so pissed off that he was incited to make the Marller Gets a Spinoff series so that he could vent his anger. Just when Kevin had finished the third season, he decided to call it quits again, and then the Moral Dilemma incident happened. Kevin tried to get police help for a sexual assault victim who had been making allegations online against the New Movement Comedy Club. Kevin vented into a Sexual Assault PSA cartoon that called out the owner of the Comedy Club, and tried to give it to them in person to see their reactions for himself which made them jumpy without knowing what was on the DVD. That incident, along with outing Sexual Assault victim's allegations to the local news, nearly got Kevin kicked out of his group circle by the Sexual Assault victim herself. Kevin tried to get information about the incident for the local police, and almost got it from a friend at a screening of Saul Ravencraft's Vault of Horror, which ironically backfired on him when his witness was accused of covering up sexual assault allegations herself and Saul Ravencraft's show was nearly cancelled due to a slanderous phone call. Kevin came to the conclusion that the Goddesses of Fate were teaching him a lesson about attacking people based on accusations with no proof behind them. Kevin also realized that Saul Ravencraft had tried to put a hex on the murderer of Ebony Strange and that the irony that the person that tried to slander him was attacking people on behalf of Ebony's memory. This was Saul's spell coming back to him times three. In his own words "Sometimes you have to pick up the sword, even when it comes with consequences. Those who sit back in safety when they see another person harmed deserve neither safety nor liberty". During the incident, Kevin shot a Drag Burlesque documentary at the Elysium called She Liked It Spooky, as a sort of stake out film because he knew a fight was going to break out that night over the slander incident and he wanted to try and create a piece of evidence for the police. In the opening of the movie, when he arrives, across the street from Elysium is bar named Valhalla. Kevin was also dragged to a Full Moon Barn Dance by his mother and by pure coincidence, the band that was playing was Ask Carol, a rock group from Norway. When Kevin tried to enlist the services of Medium Reinero De Valois to look into whether Bad Goddess might have a Poltergeist curse on it, Reinero noticed that the third episode of Bad Goddess: Misrepresentations of Our Gods Through the Media, emitted a strange spiritual energy when the Viking Pagan version of the Three Norns was onscreen. Kevin accidentally invoked the real spirits that the show was based on, and they were watching his actions and causing fate to karmically react to what he does on the show. Kevin offered to shoot a documentary with Reinero De Valois at a Labyrinth Park location behind Seton Hospital in North Austin, and Reinero offered to contact the Goddesses to see if they could appeal to them to back off a little. But as Kevin got ready to do the shoot, all of his planned documentaries began to fall apart due to Bad Luck, most notably Roy My Boy, which was supposed to be about Kevin's grandfather. If Kevin had shot that movie, his father Jim would have been in the movie but plans fell apart due to Kevin's daughter catching a case of Head Lice. The day before the planned Reinero De Valois documentary shoot, Kevin drove down to the Hospital to get some test shots, and repeatedly got phone calls that coincidentally wanted him to turn around and do other things. The final phone call when he got to the hospital was his wife Angela, informing him that she was having surgery at that very same hospital after the shoot and she was going to be put under. Kevin felt that the Goddesses were manipulating fate in a threatening manner to prevent him from using Reinero to invoke them on camera. In the Ah My Goddess anime series, whenever somebody tried to video record Belldandy, Urd, and Skuld in the act of using magic, Fate would cause something to coincidentally intervene to prevent them from being caught. This is called "The System Force". Kevin got a taste of what "The System Force" was like in real life when he tried to video record the Medium invoking the Norns. Reinero was completely spooked and backed out of the film as his life was in a very bad place at the moment and he might be finding himself homeless. Kevin still has the Labyrinth footage for the opening credits. The next morning, Kevin got the phone call from Robert Chaney to shoot a documentary at Lanier High School. Kevin arrived only to realize the school mascots were The Vikings. After shooting the movie, Kevin got into a dispute with Chaney over creative control and the film got pulled offline for a few months. Kevin also nearly got into a traffic accident, then went to a random Terror Tuesday screening at Alamo Drafthouse that happened to be Final Destination 2, which is about Fate causing everyone to die in a Major Traffic Accident. When Kevin's marriage came to a halt, his indian wife Angela's attitude changed almost immediately after dying her hair shock white like Urd from the anime series. Angela denied knowing who that character was. Her mother, Mary, noticed the change too, blaming witchcraft. A few months after moving out, Angela'a attitude changed back to normal and she continued to be Kevin's friend, seeing him on a weekly basis. In a completely ironic twist, possibly as punishment for making fun of Kosuke Fujishima's marital problems, Kevin was put in a position where his wife left him, but didn't divorce him, so if he ever dated someone else, he would be in the same position that Kosuke Fujishima was, which would brand Kevin as a major hypocrite for his actions. When Kevin was about to shoot The Gore Noir Anniversary Special, he prayed to the Goddesses that his shoot go well, only when he arrived, Erasure's A Little Respect was playing on the venue overhead, which was the theme to Bad Goddess. The final blow came during the making of Marller Gets a Spinoff: A Certain Magical Pimpdex. Kevin was working on a scene that took place on the tropical island from the Ah My Goddess PlayStation 2 videogame. Only hour after completing the scene, his mother received the phone call about Jim Neece's death. Her immediate reponse was "Oh my god, he just retired. The man worked his whole life and he just retired. He didn't even live to see his first retirement check." Kevin went to Angela's apartment only to be told that Jim died on the DAY AFTER the one year anniversary of Dylan Gutierrez's suicide, which was memorialized in Bad Goddess The Keys of Marinus. The next morning, Kevin's step-sister, Genette, called and reminded them that Jim died on the exact same day as Debbie's first husband, Freddie, which also happened one month after a trip to the Bahamas. Angela's aunt also died the day after Jim. When Kevin received a photocopy of Jim Neece's will in the mail from his estate lawyer, the will was signed and dated June 24th, 2009. He signed his will on the same day that he would die nine years later. As per Jim Neece's wishes, Kevin shot a documentary about the day of his funeral titled Danny My Boy. As he shot the documentary, he noted that his grandparents had a certificate on their wall for a wedding anniversary Viking cruise to Norway, which was dated 9-6-1979, the birthday of Kevin's wife Angela, as if he had always been pre-ordained to meet her. Kevin then found out that because Jim had died, his inheritance that he was to receive from Roy was to be split up amongst them, leading to an initial conspiracy theory that Kodansha Ltd may have been waiting for Jim to be out of the way so that Kevin would receive Roy's money, which they could then take in a lawsuit over the copyright infringement issues surrounding Bad Goddess. Kevin was previously untouchable because he was insoluble. Since Jim legitimately died of a natural heart attack, and because of all the strange serendipity and coincidences that surrounded Bad Goddess, Kevin came to the conclusion, that Kodansha's lawyers may have looked into Kevin's relatives as to whether he might inherit some seizable assets, told Fujishima to sit back and wait, and the Fujishima invoked the Norns to change Jim's fate. Kevin responded being making a Bad Goddess cartoon called Pandora's Box, which accused Kodansha Ltd of the Conspiracy, and ended with Skuld invoking the Norns to put a curse on Fujishima and his lawyers should they ever try to collect. One day after making the cartoon, Kevin suffered serious chest pains and accelerated heartbeat, as if the Fates were threatening him with his life to once again teach him a lesson. Kevin remade the cartoon and toned it down to a much sillier punishment, and his anxiety attacks disappeared almost immediately. Things got even crazier as Kevin looked deeper into Jim Neece's death realizing that he had been warning his family for years that the Texas Commission of Environmental Quality might try to have him killed due to his knowledge of their past indiscretions. Jim had gathered up all the evidence he had against them on a project concerning the San Jacinto Waste Pits and had been planning to blow the whistle on them to the news, only to die of a heart attack before he had the chance to do it. Kevin Neece's "Be Careful What You Wish For" punishment is he had to turn himself into the police and the FBI, confessing to his past crimes as a theater pirate who found a way to bootleg 350 of Alamo Drafthouse's preshows without the use of a recording device, so that he could get his father's case looked into. Kevin walked into a police station with a box full of at least a thousand Alamo Drafthouse preshow bootlegs to report the crime. Theoretically, Kevin should have been arrested, but everyone's attitudes toward his father's case was completely apathetic as there was nothing they could do about it. It's as if Kevin Neece was being protected by a higher power. If Jim Neece had lived, he would have backed out of his plans, but because he died, what he needed to warn everyone about made it into the hands of the EPA and the News Reporters. It's as if Jim Neece's death was a bad omen from the Goddesses that something terrible was going to happen with the San Jacinto Waste Pits project, which is a severe cancer hazard to the public. Kevin's run ins with the Norns continued when he obtained a Ouija Board in attempt to contact Jim Neece to try and pinpoint his work files. The response he received was "in the corner" "help me". Jim Neece's files were found on a hard drive sitting on a desk in the corner of his office next to another hard drive labelled The Time Machine. Kevin experimented with the Ouija Board and the Oh My Goddess cartoons and somehow managed to invoke the Norns one night on his TV set using a specially designed imagery DVD made from the images that Reinero De Valois said invoked the spirits in the third episode. According to Kevin, the figures onscreen appeared to be possessed and sent strong negative chills throughout his entire body while the air in his bedroom began to smell like he had walked into a dirty cave. It was physically painful to stare the Norns directly in the eye. On Halloween Night, he held a Ouija Board movie party for Mara the Demon using the same technique, running the Marller Gets a Spinoff cartoons plus Simon King of the Witches, a Queen Sing Along, and Hocus Pocus (which featured the most negative energy reaction of all). During the same day in-between the performing of the rituals in the early morning and night times, his grandmother had a visit to the emergency room. The next day, Kevin checked his twitter and Mara Marller's twitter account left a message that nobody conjured her on a Ouija Board, and at the exact moment that the message appeared onscreen, Kevin's twitter follower count was 666. On an online posted version of his autobiography, an animal symbol resembling the goat head of Baphomet appeared. Kevin's car broke down just as he got an oil change and after getting it fixed, sparks flew out from under his head. Somebody welded a piece of metal to the battery and if Kevin had continued to drive the car, it could have exploded with him in it. Kevin walked into a Catholic Church and dowsed himself in Holy Water right in front of the guests with no explanation. But over the following week, he experienced even more bad luck when he was lashed out at and bounced from both Kick Butt Coffee and Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar, which lead to him having to speak to a Medical Crisis Outreach Team, but also got him proper attention from the Austin Police so that he could explain what was going on. Are these coincidental events listed really the work of witchcraft, or is Kevin psychologically imagining things and attributing these coincidences to the TV show. Kevin used to be a devout Atheist. But as seen in Danny My Boy, something has clearly spooked him to the point that he now believes in the Afterlife and the wrath of vengeful spirits. It's a total mystery, and entirely up to the audience's interpretation.

*According to Kevin, the closest he's come to seeing Jim Neece portrayed in a hollywood movie was Rip Torn's fictional character as the father in Tom Green's Freddy Got Fingered. The similarities are coincidental, but shockingly amusing, as the film was released during the year that Kevin's parents got divorced.

*The only live action feature film that Kevin Neece has shot outside the city limits of Austin, Texas (the film takes place in Saginaw, Texas). Kevin refuses to travel outside the city limits by himself as he needs a navigator to give him directions so he can focus on driving. Kevin has lost out on more than a few filmmaking opportunities because of this.