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Network television has new competition as sketch comedy franchise "Bait & Switch!" raises the character education stakes to the limit and enters the educational entertainment market directly on DVD.

All-around jock Ralph and his and his fifty-something incarnation, "What's-His-Name, the politician", lead the character comedy, running gags, and catchphrase barrage when Tom Joad High School tries to rise above its latest tragedy.

In this quickfire sortie of student laughs, there's no-holds-barred nonsense from "got-it-goin'-on social host" Grape Juice, partier-in-training Nameless, wiz-kid Avery Mann, tag-a-long I.D., recovering criminal One Face, dropout Ditto-Echo, and good-hearted bumbling gangsta Yo-Yo. Also in the mix is wrestling coach and logic teacher Coach Dodgson, media production teacher Mr. Drama, Mrs. Principal, and Dr. Scientist.

"Bait & Switch!" holds up a mirror to its viewers while focusing on the value of cogent reasoning and the mechanics of a cogent "self-image (that's identity and self-esteem)". In safe but true laugh-at-yourself fashion, our friends from "At Wit's End" show us what their made of and why. And with that understanding comes our power to change.

"We must rebuild this country fundamentally...", President Bill Clinton. "We must become the change we want to see in the world...", Mahatma Gandhi. "We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception...", Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. And it's all here in one clean hour of "mind-blowing" fun.

"Bait & Switch!" is an Abject Street Media production distributed by WCEE.net and is the second of three spin-offs, along with "At Wit's End" and "Class Action", from Geoff Gray-Lee's acclaimed college senior project "The Subject of a Moment" (1985). Geoff Gray-Lee is creator and auteur.