The Jake and Eric Series

The Jake and Eric Series are a series of four films created by Jacob McAuliffe and Eric Newton, revolving around the lives of two fictionalized versions of themselves and all their kooky adventures. The series started off originally as a stand-alone side project created by Jake and Eric during the filmming of a much bigger Chaos Productions film, Woods Hollow. Ironically, the side project, The Death Machine, became more popular than Woods Hollow, and spawned a series of films about Jake and Eric.

The Death Machine: The Death Machine is the first installment of the series, and revolves around Jake and Eric accidentally running over children with their car. Hillarity ensues. The film was made during the freezing months of January over the course of two days during the production of Woods Hollow. It's interesting to note that there seems to be a continuity issue in regards to this film and the three others in that Jake dies at the end of this film. One could hand-wave it by saying Jake merely got better after Eric beat him over the head with his sled, or by saying who the hell cares. There's actually a deleted epilogue showing Eric putting all the bodies into a resorvoir, including Jake's. Also, Patrick McAuliffe of The Dimming plays the kid Eric kills with his car door.

The Lemonade Stand: The Lemonade Stand is the second installment in the series. In this film, Jake and Eric create a lemonade stand to try and make money in order to go see a live Roger Waters concert. More hillarity ensues. This film is actually similar to How to be a Good AP History Student in that it was also made as a school project, and it also had little to do with the project at hand (the project was to make a movie about the American dream). Somehow, this film managed to receive a 100. Cameos include Scott Ferron as the guy on his bike and Eric Newton's father, Lee Newton, as the guy who beats up Eric with a hammer.

Friendly Advice: The third film in the series was actually for a scholarship contest Eric entered where he had to make a video about credit card safety. The plot of the film follows Eric learning credit card safety from Jake. Hillarity ensues. The film references a real-life event where someone threw a cell phone at Jake's head (probably an angry fan of The Shining who saw The Dimming), and Jake took the phone and snapped it in half. In the film, Jake snaps Eric's phone in half at one point. The film lost the scholarship project, and is generally considered the weakest film of the trilogy, although not really that bad. It's referenced in The Unnecessary Fourth Film in which Jake and Eric are told at one point that "Your third film was easily your weakest," to which they try to explain that it was just a scholarship project.

The Unnecessary Fourth Film: The final film in the series is a meta adventure following Jake and Eric trying to stop Chaos Productions from making another Jake and Eric film involving Jake and Eric fighting an alien invasion. Through a bizzare twist, Jake and Eric find evil clones of themselves who are responsible for writing all the films, and must do battle with them to stop a fourth film from being made. This film was almost never made, partly due to a wish to keep the series as a trilogy and partly due to having no good ideas. It was finally made and released the Summer of 2011. The film includes a ton of fourth-wall breaking jokes, including one part where Jake and Eric read the script to their own movie, as well as containing a ton of jokes referencing the other films (the evil clones have a car called "The Life Machine").

There are no plans to make a fifth film, although the credits for the fourth film tease a fifth film called Jake and Eric 5: Jake and Eric have no more ideas. It is sometimes rumored that the Chaos Productions music video I Have the Touch is in the continuity of the series, fitting in between The Death Machine and The Lemonade Stand. Not enough people care about this movie though to make this at all relevent.