- This... This... This really can’t come to a good end,
When everybody’s competing. My friends
Where are they going? Look at this, Father.
Everybody’s rollin’ around in the water.
Oh my, ow! Something just bites,
When all of my friends get into these fights.
What’s the matter? All that I adore.
Why am I in this New York accent?
What are we fighting for?
— Carolyn Faye Kramer, throwing a Piss-Take Rap at the premise of the episode.
Arguably the fourth Bonus Scene of Film Reroll. While not specifically identified as such (likely due to The Searchers being a Vignette Episode anyway) it is the only segment in the episode to be a "proper" campaign, and — like previous Bonus Scenes — it comes at the very end of the episode it's featured in. Unlike its predecessors, it is not directly based on an existing film, making it the first Film Reroll campaign since Halloween II to have an original story, and the first one ever to not be based on an existing property, meaning that it's... not actually a reroll of a film.
Instead, the setup of the session is that the Rerollers themselves are out for a nice get-together near a lake, only for tensions to be stirred up when a certain piece of magical jewelry is discovered. However, none of the players are starring As Himself / As Herself. After all, working with each other gets far more interesting when you are each other...
Starring Carolyn Faye Kramer as "Andy Hoover", Andy Hoover as "Paulo Quiros", Paulo Quiros as "Jocelyn 'Joz' Vammer", Lisa Kopitsky as "Jon Miller", Jon Miller as "Timothy E. Nolan", Timothy E. Nolan as "Carolyn Faye Kramer", Kara Straitnote as "Scott Aiello", Scott Aiello as "Pitr Strait” note , and Jocelyn "Joz" Vammer as "Lisa Koptisky" as the Dungeon Master.
Tropes:
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Ass Pull: “Carolyn Faye Kramer” uses the lasso she supposedly had all along to latch on to the swimming “Joz Vammer” and ski after her. - Catapult to Glory: “Jon Miller” uses “Carolyn Faye Kramer’s” lasso to fling himself closer to the One Ring.
- Character Exaggeration: Pretty much everyone, as their player personas are distilled down to one or two quirks.
- The Cloud Cuckoolander Was Right: “Carolyn Faye Kramer” believing that the water in the lake is trying to communicate could initially just seem like Joz trying to capture some of Carolyn’s weirder moments, but this turns out to be where a certain magical ring is hidden.
- Gratuitous Rap: ”Carolyn Faye Kramer” decides to sing a rap song about how pointless the whole fight over the One Ring has become, and — since Tim’s roll was a success — the real Carolyn gets to write and perform it.
- Grumpy Old Man: “Scott Aiello” — as portrayed by Kara Strait — is an obnoxious Attention Whore who would rather fish than do something more interesting.
- Gun Nut: “Joz Vammer”, who Paulo ensures just happens to be carrying a shotgun around.
- Kleptomaniac Hero: ”Lisa Kopitsky” immediately tries to steal the baby somebody just handed ”Andy Hoover”, mostly because she treats it little different from a pokémon.
- Left Hanging: We never actually learn who got the One Ring, with the segment ending right before the hypothetical brawl would begin.
- Love Triangle: Once the roll-to-not-fall-in-love mechanic is brought in, ”Tim Nolan” falls in unrequited love with ”Andy Hoover”. Shortly thereafter, ”Lisa Kopitsky” manages to seduce both of them.
- Mad Bomber: ”Joz Vammer” attempts fishing with dynamite, and while she doesn’t catch anything she does at least locate the One Ring, which briefly surfaces during the explosion. (The swimmers are thankfully and miraculously unharmed.)
- Medium Awareness: “Tim Nolan” and “Paulo Quiros” seem to be aware that they’re in a Film Reroll campaign, treating it all like a story they’re exited to see where it goes.
- Not Distracted by the Sexy: ”Scott Aiello” is not turned on by seeing the now nude ”Pitr Strait”, described as incredibly attractive by the real Strait.
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Outdated by Canon: An interesting case of this happening even when the fan fiction was written by the people starring in it. Scott Aiello plays "Pitr Strait"... who would change her name to Kara Strait mere months later. (One would presume her fictional counterpart did the same, though this is technically hard to confirm.) - Real-Person Fic: This session basically consists of the players writing these about one another.
- Romantic Plot Tumor: In-Universe, the Rerollers point out that the love story they got going on is in no way helping them obtain the One Ring.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: “Scott Aiello” and “Paulo Quiros” — the former of whom has successfully tricked the latter into thinking that he already has the One Ring — leave the chaos together at the end to start a new, more professional podcast.
- Skinny Dipping: “Pitr Strait” does this, with “Tim Nolan” and “Paulo Quiros” soon joining in.
- The Smart Guy: ”Jon Miller”, bordering on Omnidisciplinary Scientist. He has the foresight to bring water testning equipment, he uses ”applied trajectory” to determine the precise location of the One Ring, and he knows that babies and pokémon are not the same thing.
- Take Your Time: Somehow, “Tim Nolan” manages to compose a whole love sonnet to “Lisa Kopitsky” while she gears up to kick him and “Andy Hoover” into the water. He only gets to read out the beginning before he submerges, however.
- Too Kinky to Torture: “Tim Nolan” proclaims that — after falling in love with “Lisa Kopitsky” — he’s not even going to stop her from kicking him into the water.
- Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: Scott Aiello plays “Pitr Strait” as such, always complaining about everything.
- Visible Invisibility: “Scott Aiello” claims to have already found the One Ring and turned invisible, something most of the other Rerollers understandably have a hard time believing.
- Voice Changeling: ”Andy Hoover” tries to ventriloquize ”Lisa Kopitsky” to get ”Tim Nolan” to jump into the water and pick up her ”dropped” glasses (which she is really still wearing). He doesn’t quite pull it off, making ”Tim” think that his friend needs an exorcism.
