Spin-Off (CCU)

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Overview
The CCU Spin-Off (codenamed "Cohenville", a reference to the city the CCU took place) was an episodic series debuting on October 10th 2019 inside of Cohen's Fan Lounge. The series followed three main groups, which could vary depending on the episode; The Scott Family (Tyrone, Walt, Audrey and Woofitz), The Boys (Gecky, Evan, Moon, Mac and Jackson) and The Villains (Choi Lee, Modem, Satan, Amin, Luke Lukas and Statix), usually partaking in either mayhem or serious storytelling. The Spin-Off was originally drafted by Cohen in July of 2019, where he worked on it solo up until September, where he allowed a then-trusted friend, Dion, to help work on it alongside him. Following Dion joining the team, others noticed and wanted to get in on the fun, notably: Jeremy, Aiden and Jaden.

The Spin-Off never got an official ending, though Cohen did have a finale in mind since the beginning. Largely due to it's negative reception from both fans and even Cohen himself, the Spin-Off (and the CCU as a whole) ended abruptly sometime in March 2020, the last Spin-Off episode to be published that was actually written by Cohen and was intended to be uploaded at all was "Welcome To The Neighborhood"; posted on January 24th, 2020. Five episodes did come after this however, all of which either being made on the spot in a form of improv as a joke, or were fully finished episodes that Dion wrote himself that Cohen originally deemed "too unbearable to air", but eventually put them up as a means to end the Spin-Off on it's original 26-episode promise.

Nearly 100 concepts were written for the Spin-Off on the drafting board upon cancellation, enough material for nearly 4 full seasons if all of those were used. Almost all of the ideas written were by Cohen and Dion, as early on staff like Jeremy and Aiden left upon realizing it wasn't interesting for them to work on, Jaden stayed mainly, although didn't do much outside of occasional writing for shorts.

Jeremy left as he had no interest in the project once he saw how it was going, his only appearance was in the second episode; he has gone on record to criticize the Spin-Off, saying it ruined the CCU as a whole and that it would've been better if Incorporeal became its own thing and the Spin-Off could use the original plan. Aiden left as he was getting more involved with his online communities and school communities, and feeling more open and safe about his homosexuality, hosting drag art contests on Instagram under an unknown alias.

The CCU's Spin-Off is often regarded as one of the worst things Cohen has ever created, but also easily his best mistake. If it weren't for the Spin-Off's crucial failiure, Cohen would have most likely never gone on to make the Tiny Tots Comics people now know and love. It should also be noted that the Spin-Off was originally supposed to be Tiny Tots, just instead of being in a comic form it looked way more like a transcript written in an hour; this can still be seen on the original Tiny Tots Discord, where the pilot of Tiny Tots did air in it's original transcript / roleplay form on April 12th, 2020. This would be the last time Cohen did something in the same style as the Spin-Off aired. There have been multiple subtle references to the Spin-Off, and CCU as a whole in Tiny Tots, most if not all being jabs at how awful it was. Many of the characters in Tiny Tots came from the CCU and Spin-Off as well, the tots themselves being the most well known.

Many CCU Spin-Off episodes have been remade into Tiny Tots Comics, asterisks indicate a cancelled Spin-Off episode, brackets include the Spin-Off name; First Day, Rabbit's Foot, Down In The Dumps, Deep Dark Secret (Tenebrous Terror), Band Together³, Bad Hare Day⁴, One In The Same (One Of The Girls)⁵, Welcome Home (Welcome To The Neighborhood) and Store Wars (Food War). Cohen has expressed that he enjoys remaking Spin-Off episodes, and in many cases the appearances in the comics are the way they were originally intended to be written and produced, but people such as Dion interfered with his true vision at the time.

Cast
'NOTE: THE PHOTOS AND DESCRIPTIONS OF THE CCU STAFF USED HERE ARE OUTDATED BY TODAYS STANDARDS, THESE ARE WHAT COHEN, DION, JADEN, AIDEN AND JEREMY LOOKED LIKE IN 2019, NOT TODAY. IF YOU WANT UPDATED DESCRPITIONS, PLEASE CLICK THEIR RESPECTIVE PAGE !!!'

The CCU's Spin-Off had many characters included, most of which coming from previous CCU ventures, especially from the two Canon seasons released at that time; in addition to many new characters that were added to the CCU in the Spin-Off before anything else, but most of these planned new characters never ended up appearing, whether it be in any form to this day, or not appearing until nearing one year after their original drafts in the form of Tiny Tots bringing these unrealized characters back; most notably being Tempo and Keira, who were both planned for the CCU Spin-Off, but Dion convinced Cohen that both of those ideas would just make things overly complicated and were a waste of time; Dion expressing disappointment in Cohen, stating "he was more focused on inclusivity with non-verbal autistic children and people of color, rather than making a good show"; many fans heavily disagreeing with this statement. Cohen's following project he would work on alone; Tiny Tots would later include far more diversity, and would prove to be a great webcomic; boasting great representation of minorities; notably with autistic people, people of color, people who identify with LGBTQ+ and people undergoing forms of anxiety, stress and PTSD.

Nonetheless, even without many characters the CCU's Spin-Off was already filled with many characters from both Cohen and Dion mainly, notably a spark contrast can be seen between the two's casts of characters however; with Cohen's characters being of many different ages: babies, toddlers, children, teenagers, adults end elders of many different cultural backgrounds, sexes, genders, religions, and more. Most of Cohen's characters were grounded and flawed in everyday life (with some exceptions⁶), but overall fun and comedic characters that were meant to be relatable to certain types of people depending on said character. Many of these concepts can be seen in Tiny Tots Comics, Cohen's next project, where he truly got to realize a lot of the ideas he couldn't do properly with the Spin-Off. A lot of Cohen's characters would be scrapped for a character created by Dion to take their original place; this is most notable and infamous with Cohen's kindergarten teacher he had in mind for the Spin-Off (which was not Mr. Moyo, but was similar personality-wise), would end up being replaced by Dion's "Moon" character; a crippling alcoholic. Many fans despise what Dion did to Cohen throughout the production of the Spin-Off; though most have let it go outside of very occasional jokes.

Cohen didn't work very well with his other staff however, with the main problems stemming from a shifting friendship between him and Dion. Fans and staff of the CCU alike collectively agree that Dion was the person behind the Spin-Off, and the entire CCU's downfall; Cohen however makes it clear he was also responsible for this, by allowing Dion to stay and work with the team it was also Cohen's fault as it could've been easily avoided if Cohen had just told Dion he wasn't interested in working as a team anymore. Cohen and Dion remain to have an inconsistent relation to this day; with Dion attempting to make occasional conversation with Cohen, which he usually either goes with it and has a short chat or completely ignores them, intentionally or not. Cohen's relation with other staff members have been more consistent, with Jeremy remaining his best friend, Aiden being a bit more distant, but still a good friend and Jaden remains to openly support Cohen and his work to this day; often reading the Tiny Tots Comics and thanking Cohen for his hard work every so often, despite not being able to see each other very often in-person.

Dion's characters were way more dark-toned and meant to be taken seriously, having their character flaws mainly consist of substance abuse (alcohol, drugs, etc.), gambling addictions and connections to different mafia groups, in addition to all being adult men from real life, often crime-filled cities, Dion listing cities like Detroit, Miami, Chicago, Atlanta and New York City as clear inspirations for the tones. Many considered this sparking contrast to be the perfect fit for the Spin-Off initially, though it would very quickly turn into the reason the Spin-Off was doomed to fail since it became more than a solo project for just Cohen. Dion wanted the series to be more focused on their characters, despite it being Cohen's own series, so Dion would take any chance they could to write their characters into one of Cohen's plotlines just so they could shine as well, even if the role made no sense. Most notably being his character Moon, who Dion convinced Cohen to let him be the kindergarten teacher⁷, despite Moon being an extreme alcoholic and convicted criminal, making many references to offensive and explicit content whenever he was on screen as the kindergarten teacher.

Statix was another character Dion convinced Cohen to introduce in episodes, meant to be a sidekick to Cohen's own villain, Satan. However Dion would later make Statix a villain of his own, no longer a sidekick; thus leading into his own episode. Statix is widely considered to be the worst CCU villain of all time, especially given how far Dion attempted to make Statix offensive; having the character say the "hard R" multiple times to black characters such as Officer and Narrator, also calling them "cotton pickers"⁸. This made people theorize the reason that Dion did not want Keira; an African American child character by Cohen, in the Spin-Off was directly because of this blatant racism, stereotyping and other forms of discrimination against people of color⁹.

Dion would later make a black character of his own dubbed "Devante", though originally known as "Joshua Richards". Dion only did this because of the constant complaints that all of his characters were white, not out of real passion. Devante was written as a stereotypical black teenager¹⁰, using gang symbols and listening to hip-hop music very frequently, and linked to multiple instances of child abuse and white supremacy by having his adopted father Evan abuse him and lock him inside of a basement without food, dubbing him an "African American Slave", also referring to Devante as the "hard-R" many times. Dion's character Evan was also in a relationship with Cohen's character "Womanly"; despite her appearing in an issue of Tiny Tots, there has never been a reference to their relationship ever existing, directly because of Cohen distancing anything problematic away from his wholesome and comedic webcomic series.

Dion has since apologized for the many offensive comments made by their characters, though especially Statix stating "it wasn't right, and I know it doesn't change the fact that it stil happened; but I don't hold those opinions in reality" They have also gone on to announce that they would begin to work on Incorporeal, a cancelled side-series to the also cancelled Tiny Tots CCU series; both would be replacing the Spin-Off with 13 episodes each in their own shows; both would be cancelled upon Dion's firing from the CCU

There were characters by members of the staff team outside of just Cohen and Dion, though very minimal were created and almost never made any appearances more than once. Most if not all of these characters were self-inserts as well, Jaden being the most commonly seen of any, and he only appeared three times in the entire series.

Jaden was already planned to have an appearance in the first episode, as he was the Scott family's talking pet dog Woofitz. Though not appearing much, Jaden did write multiple concepts on the Spin-Off drafting board, though none would be used until Cohen brought some of them over to the new Tiny Tots Comics drafting board, which still give full credit to Jaden for the ideas. Jaden has gone on to support Cohen to this day as well, often reading the Tiny Tots Comics, just not working with Cohen anymore. In addition, Jaden has also heavily criticized Dion's approach to the Spin-Off and later CCU as a whole, saying without exaggeration "he [Dion Valley] killed it [CCU] with his bad writing".

Jaden remains the only Lol that has had any input on Tiny Tots Comics' development at any point; writing and contributing to more plotlines than he did with his work on the CCU Spin-Off; though ultimately quit on his own choice due to unknown reasons; still Jaden continues to heavily support Cohen and often reads the comic as they are released. Additionally, Jaden remained the only member of the CCU Staff Team to continue working with Cohen after the Spin-Off had concluded; helping produce and act in both the Mike Boe Movie and the Tiny Tots Movie. Jaden annually messages Cohen on his birthday and wishes him a happy birthday, acknowledges the hard work he puts into everything and the amount of respect he has for Cohen; often offering to buy him something as a way to show his gratitude, Cohen always having the mindset of "You don't need to reward me for being a decent person", never accepts the gifts but apperciates the offers made.

Jeremy wa

s another member of the staff team, and he too had a self-inserted character for the CCU's Spin-Off, although he only ended up appearing a single time. Many initially saw Jeremy's addition to the team as concerning, just a couple of weeks prior to Jeremy requesting he join the team, he directly called out Cohen, who had put a celebration post for is character Audrey's birthday in the announcements channel; Jeremy refused to even address Audrey by the proper pronouns, stating the birthday didn't matter as "it is a fictional character, aka an alt. Your over-obession is getting creepy at this point", this didn't sit well with many fans. Jeremy went on to heavily criticize both the Spin-Off and CCU as a whole, and also trying to get Cohen to end the CCU off multiple times for his own mental health, as it started to consume him more and more, making him miserable. Cohen would refuse to get help for the battle he was fighting, ultimately leaving Jeremy doing what he saw as the best option to get it to Cohen's head, Jeremy decided to never associate with the CCU ever again soon after. Despite this, Jeremy remained active on the Discord server, though grew more distaste to the CCU as time went on; jokingly turning a gag his character Grooves performed where he fell asleep with a radio left on, a permanent death to the character.

Jeremy has had minimal thoughts on Tiny Tots, because he shows no interest; aside from commenting on the name once, asking "Tiny Tots? What the fuck?", and an instance where he claimed "Tiny Tots killed themselves", Jeremy has had no further input. It's assumed Jeremy was saying that Tiny Tots couldn't work, and would be dead on arrival; although it might have been a joke taken out of context. Jeremy has gone on to defend Dion multiple times, though remains neutral on the situation, citing Cohen was also responsible for a lot of what went wrong with the CCU by allowing Dion to stay, despite him and many others not wanting him. As a result, Jeremy remains the only other person (besides Dion himself) who has ever cared about Incorporeal from the CCU Staff Team or The Lols.

Aiden was t

echnically part of the staff team for the whole duration, although never did a single thing except for one acting role and writing a single plotline concept, the plot of which following himself; this same plotline had multiple delays and an eventual cancellation all together. The reason Aiden wasn't helping wasn't a lack of interest, it was due to him being busy at the time handling a social media account that partook in drag-art competitions; expressing himself online in a far safer way than the Spin-Off or Discord server as a whole. After the Spin-Off had ended, Aiden held nothing against Cohen during any of the dramas following the Spin-Off or CCU as a whole, and in some regards supported him privately. Aiden has gone on record to heavily criticize the way Dion handled the Spin-Off and later CCU as a whole, even though Aiden never had much interest in it; he could still see what Dion was doing wrong. Despite this, Aiden remains largely neutral on Dion as a person, not putting any bias towards or against them for anything revolving around their handling of the CCU.

Aiden has minimal interest in Tiny Tots as well, but has complimented the artwork improvements and character development to Cohen a few times, and at some point jokingly suggested he could be added in as a makeup designer in a comic issue, and/or have his own makeup shop; also jokingly prompting Cohen to write the plotline surrounding it, likely revolving around a wedding between two adult characters where Aiden's character would be the designer for the makeup. Cohen never wrote the concept down, likely due to the nature of the plotline being about a self-inserted character in an otherwise completely fictionalized world, and/or not liking the idea that much. While only a rumor, some had speculated that "One In The Same" (Issue #029) of Tiny Tots was partially inspired by Aiden's flamboyant personality; having Walt cosplay as a more feminine version of himself, dubbed 'Waltrina', seen wearing makeup. Cohen later deconfirmed these rumors, stating "just because two boys are wearing makeup doesn't make them the same; Aiden had no influence on Waltrina, and this isn't meant to be demeaning to him, it's just the truth. Waltrina was made on her own".

Distribution
The CCU Spin-Off was released via the original Discord server, Cohen's Fan Lounge. Spin-Off was in the CCU category of channels, privated to only those who gave themselves the "CCU Subscriber" role. Spin-Off had released a total of 25 episodes that are still publicly viewable in it's lifespan. For an extensive list, refer to the episode listing.

History
The Spin-Off had a ton of history, notably throughout a time period of only 5-6 months of actual production. CCU's Spin-Off is regarded by Cohen himself as the worst series he ever made, but also the best mistake he ever made. This is because the Spin-Off's failure ended up making Cohen put everything into his next episodic project, of which being Tiny Tots Comics.

Drafting Phase
During Canon Season 2, Cohen had begun brainstorming ideas for a different way to tell stories than big stories, something more short and episodic, where it aimed to tell morals while also being fun in their own right. Making this new idea star his child characters made perfect sense, seeing as children need to learn important life lessons, and also have a lot of fun in their lives, not having much to worry about usually. Cohen announced this plan soon after, with just the name "Spin-Off" being coined for this work-in-progress series.

Reception at first was positive, but filled with wonder, because Cohen didn't reveal anything outside of the basic goal of the series. This allowed people to discuss what they think could happen, and generate buzz without Cohen needing to even do anything else outside of announcing the actual release. Cohen went hard at work, also listening to some ideas people were coming up with in discussion without knowledge of what the Spin-Off could actually include; most notably being one queston, if the audience could interact in it as well, similarly to Canon.

Audience Interaction
At some point early in production of the Spin-Off, Cohen did have plans for fans to be able to interact with the stories, similarly to how Canon worked, but during the epilogue of Canon's Season 2, a Music Bot was needed to add some emotion to a scene that was intended to be cute and satisfying, but ultimately ended up with many fans purposely playing meme videos and earrape, despite Cohen's attempts to try and mute these people until the scene ended, Dion kept unmuting the people doing it and abusing their powers, whether intentionally or not. What was supposed to lead into Canon Season 3 months later, with an adult-aged Walt and his unknown wife, the latter revealing to Walt she was pregnant, leading to an intended heartwarming scene, ended up becoming one of the most infamous events to ever happen in Cohen's creative years. Following this, Cohen never allowed anybody to interact with Spin-Off episodes, outside of a few minor cameos occasionally, but far from the original intent.

Cohen's original plan for the series was to be a cartoony and light-hearted comedy, but one that coud also be serious and down to earth when needed. However, the people working with him didn't feel the same way, Dion in particuar being very critical towards the direction Cohen was heading with the Spin-Off when they joined the staff team. As a result, Cohen decided to allow for a more even split of about 50/50 fun and serious in order to hopefully please his new co-worker and fans alike, many plotlines had already been written when this shift was decided and either had to be cancelled or rewritten entirely to fit the new criteria better. This ended up causing a large amount of stress on both Cohen and Dion from all of the writing they were doing, which lead to them agreeing to try improv instead of writing an entire script, and seeing if that would work out. Not a single original script is publicly available, the only known script to exist is of an episode that never released, titled "Mrs. Scott". Fans have come up with a few ideas on what this episode could've been; most notably being either an introduction to Tyrone's mother or a date for him, as Tyrone was always depicted as being a single father. This is also the only known script where physical violence actually took place, despite being a major point made by Dion upon joining the staff team to include more of.

One of the first ideas Cohen wanted to do with the CCU Spin-Off was introduce a non-verbal character, this would later become Tempo in Tiny Tots. Tempo who was unnamed at the time, was planned to be included in the CCU Spin-Off up until Dion caught wind of Cohen's plan and expressed disappointment in the idea, Dion calling the idea "bloated" and a "waste of time". Most notably Dion going on to say that the idea of a non-verbal autistic character was "one of the worst ideas I [Dion] had ever heard". Tempo did finally appear in Tiny Tots, where many fans regard him as one of the best and most important characters in the entire series, additionally many consider Tempo to be one of the greatest examples of an autistic character in childrens media. This is one of the many examples of something Dion would convince Cohen to change, which caused massive fan outrage once it was shown these ideas worked very well in the [unofficially dubbed] successor to the Spin-Off, Tiny Tots.

Following this change of plans, others noticed the then-recent duo of Cohen and Dion working on the Spin-Off to CCU's Canon, of which many found fun in its own right, and wanted to see if they could help as well. Ultimately, Cohen allowed everyone who requested to help, as his mentality at the time was he needed more people to get stuff out quicker, plus it allowed for many more concepts to be written down on the drafting board. There is no particular known order for who joined and when, just the people that did end up joining. In addition, everybody on the team had a different idea of where the CCU's Spin-Off should be heading.

Jeremy joined the staff team for the CCU's Spin-Off with the intent of creating plotlines and acting out in serious storylines, mostly involving crimes and officers. Jeremy's written concepts were all about bank robberies, this is because he only wrote a single plotline, and it was a short. However, this short did include Cohen, Dion and Jeremy all acting together, it was also to be written as one of Modem's first appearances. Jeremy only acted in a single episode of the spin-off, that being the second episode, Rabbit's Foot. Jeremy ended up not doing anything else after both of these, criticizing the CCU for it's lack of focus at that time, and expressed how it was all going downhill from that point forward. Most consider the main reason for Jeremy's departure is Cohen's mental health at the time, where Jeremy felt as though Cohen was obsessed with the CCU, and couldn't even have a conversation without a reference at minimum to the CCU, saying "You need a serious reality check" upon Cohen revealing he sometimes vanished into a headspace where he could just be with his own characters in peace, instead of his then-cruel world.

Aiden joined the staff team for the CCU's Spin-Off with the intent of having a creative footprint in the Discord Server again, seeing as he used to be a very well known artist, but at that time had faded into obscurity by never posting messages. Aiden's main plotline he wrote was a story about his own CCU character, following a storyline in which AsylumBorn would be brought back into the main cast, being saved by the heroes from a villain in an attempted kidnapping; the villain that would've been used is unknown. Originally the villain in question was planned to be WomanlyNull according to Aiden, though Cohen refused to make her the villain. Aiden allowed Cohen to come up with a villain for the episode, though ultimately he never decided as production was cancelled after Aiden left the project for months. Aiden only ever acted in one episode, that being the third one, Deal With The Devil, where he was a side character, only appearing to tell Cohen the news that morning, and make one-liners while trying to properly help the fight against Satan [the villain of the episode].

Jaden joined the staff team for the CCU's Spin-Off with the intent of making short stories that were mainly meant to be simple and fun. Jaden wrote and acted in the most episodes of anybody else on the team aside from Cohen and Dion, multiple of Jaden's short concepts were also transferred to the Tiny Tots draft board as full blown comic concepts, Cohen liked some of them that much. Jaden acted in two episodes, First Day and Rabbit's Foot. Jaden's character [Woofitz] is also the only character not by Cohen or Dion to appear as a main character more than once. Jaden would later go on to work with Cohen on a few other CCU projects, The Mike Boe Movie, Imagine That! and The Tiny Tots Movie. Jaden was also briefly a staff member for Tiny Tots Comics when Cohen was in the initial planning phase, though he left for unknown reasons, he remains a fan of Cohen's work and has expressed he is proud of how far he has come since the CCU.

Premiere (October 10th-14th 2019)
The premiere for the Spin-Off was the most successful period of time for the series as a whole, this includes the first three episodes as part of the "Premiere" sessions.

First Day
The first episode of the Spin-Off was supposed to air at some point in September, to coincide with the back-to-school schedule in Canada, the country where the staff reside, this was because the episode was appropriately going to be about the first day of school. However, with all of the additions to the staff team and everyone trying to get involved, this date later was pushed until October, so that the team could all come to an agreement and get started by that time.

Episode #1 was First Day (not to be confused with the Tiny Tots Remake), which had the most time put into it for writing, this was going to be the first episode anyone from the public saw of the CCU Spin-Off, so Cohen forced Dion to make sure it was quality, being very critical, though later letting him get away with a bit more, seeing himself as too strict at the time. This practice would later prove to be far more harmful than good, leading to many instances of offensive humor and explicit language, both of which Cohen never even thought including whatsoever during the drafting stages for the Spin-Off.

CCU Spin-Off's First Day followed a simple plotline; it's the first day of school for the kids (Walt and Audrey), and they're a bit nervous. Luckily, school proves to be a fun learning experience, with their teacher Mr. Maclight (not to be confused with Mr. Moyo), Mr. Maclight was Dion's heavily controversial character Moon, just referred to by his last name. On the subject of characters, only Walt and Audrey were the children in the main plot, despite being about the first day of school; the only side children being a "Random Student" and Corey, which was a cameo from Nick, of which being heavily criticized by fans at the time and to this day.

The contrast between Cohen's children characters and Dion's overly serious and at-times offensive character made for an episode that at the time, was received well by the angsty and edgy pre-teen fanbase of the CCU. Upon premiere, the episode was originally received positively by fans, citing the potential for where the series could go next. Many complimenting the dark humor of Dion's character, notably a joke about murdering a student in front of the entire class, and treating it as if it were a joke; in addition to trying to draw a leaf onto the chalkboard, only for him to draw a marijuana plant.

Upon retrospect however, this episode, just like many others, has been received extremely negatively, citing the offensive and controversial humor as nothing more than either a glorified way of trying to spread Dion's motives, or unfitting with the massive contrast of Cohen's family friendly and all-approachable cast of characters. This episode was later remade into the second Tiny Tots Comic, which follows Bella going through a similar stressful motion on her first day at kindergarten, but expanded upon and actually concluded properly, with a completely different, and much more understanding and appropriate teacher, Mr. Moyo; both the remake and new teacher have been praised by fans, some calling it one of the best comics of the "early handful".

Rabbit's Foot
Originally intended to be the third episode of the Spin-Off, Rabbit's Foot (not to be confused with the Tiny Tots Remake / Pilot) was released one day after First Day, the only time this would ever happen. Following the responses to the first episode, Cohen attempted to take some of the feedback into account, both positive and negative; however Dion, Jaden and Jeremy weren't so keen on this, whether or not it was intentional, none of them took any of the previous episode's reception into account when performing in Rabbit's Foot.

Rabbit's Foot followed a simple plot; Audrey and Walt are playing outside, when Audrey hears something in the bushes; a little brown rabbit. This rabbit is brought inside by a hopeful Audrey in addition to a soon-then happy Walt and Woofitz. Cohen however wasn't convinced and wanted to get rid of the rabbit, now dubbed "Choccy" by Walt. Dion and Grooves end up coming to Cohen's house, leaving him distracted while Choccy indirectly and accidentally causes mayhem and misfortune in the house.

While simple and seemingly perfect for slapstick comedy in concept, in execution it was moreso Cohen and Jaden trying to make a story out of the simple plot, with Dion trying to stay more grounded and serious throughout the chaos, with also obscene jokes; notably puking into a toilet in graphic detail out of nowhere. Grooves was different than the others in that he tried to make it purely comedy and slapstick, not taking a single thing seriously in any slight way, in one scene calling Dion and acting out an entire scene of this phone call, while Cohen and Woofitz were trying to act out a scene of their own that wasn't finished when they started the phone call scene.

Rabbit's Foot was a clear sign of the staff team not really working together as well as they had initially thought they could and would. After this episode, Jeremy would never write or act in another episode of the Spin-Off again, promptly leaving the Spin-Off drafting board on his own behalf. Despite his departure, Jeremy still remained as an audience member briefly, as he still found the Spin-Off to be a funny series to have on the side of the CCU's canon.

Rabbit's Foot initially received mostly positive responses from fans, most commonly mentioning how they really enjoyed the even bigger focus on comedy compared to First Day, with many pointing to one joke, a fourth-wall break. As a shock to nobody, Cohen was the one who wrote the joke everyone liked so much. However, some criticism followed Rabbit's Foot, notably from Dion, who argued that it had a lack of focus and "Jeremy ruined the entire episode", also stating he "couldn't stand Jeremy's bad acting and lack of direction".

The first of it's kind, the Rabbit's Foot Director's Cut took place shortly after the original episode premiered, with Cohen going back to the episode and taking out certain parts that seemed like filler or were just plain bad. Most notably, the previously mentioned phone call scene that took place overtop of an important scene between Cohen and Woofitz was deleted in its entirety. Also, a short bit in which Grooves looks under Cohen's kitchen table to find an unloaded pistol; which was supposed to be a hint at the short Jeremy was planning, was removed entirely as well.

Upon retrospect, Rabbit's Foot has gone on to be considered one of the worst Spin-Off episodes of the series. Many now realizing the sheer lack of focus and direction throughout the plot, which went nowhere because of Dion and Jeremy messing with the flow of the story. Many have also heavily criticized the fact that Choccy is revealed to be a talking animal at the end of the episode, for the sake of a joke that wasn't even funny. This episode was later remade into the pilot for Tiny Tots Comics, where Audrey still finds the rabbit, but it's Teagan who names them Choccy. The Tiny Tots version also takes advantage of the children being the main characters, making it play out as a parody of detective movies. The Tots keep Choccy in the end of the Tiny Tots version, whereas the original has Choccy run away in the night after talking with Woofitz.

Deal With The DEVIL
Originally intended to be the second episode, Deal With The DEVIL was released on October 14th, 2019, just three days after the previous episode, Rabbit's Foot. Following the first two episodes, Cohen wanted Deal with the DEVIL to feel more grounded but also obscure at the same time, having a much more strange but also much more focused plotline then the first two episodes.

Deal With The DEVIL followed a bit of a more obscure plot then usual so far; Flufflez is outside walking around, when suddenly Satan magically appears and allows Flufflez to grant a wish, who chooses to bring back his father Pufflez from the dead, what starts out normal ends up with Pufflez going ravenous and evil, resulting in Cohen, Evan and AsylumBorn to try and stop the now possessed Pufflez together before it's too late.

While a strange plotline, this episode was planned out a little bit before airing, this was a direct result of the horrible premiere of Rabbit's Foot just three days prior. Dion wanted to have more involvement than Cohen had initially allowed him, so he made Satan a sidekick, Statix. Statix would go on to be one of Dion's main villains in the CCU from this point forward, also being one of, if not the most controversial villain in the CCU's history. Deal With The DEVIL remains the only writing and acting credit for Aiden in the entire Spin-Off, who left abruptly after this episode for originally no given reason, though eventually it was revealed he was happier being able to express himself both in person and on Instagram instead. This would also be the last episode of the Spin-Off Jeremy ever directly commented about in a positive light.

Deal With The DEVIL, initially received positive responses from fans, much like the rest of the premiere episodes for the Spin-Off. Most commonly, fans complimented and apperciated the more obscure plotline and decent mixing of seriousness and most jokes people laughing with being by Cohen once again, notably no jokes except for three by Dion has been laughed with by the audience so far, all three of which having been written down with Cohen's help during the writing process of the episodes. This would be the last episode that drew any sort of crowd outside of dedicated CCU fans.

Upon retrospect, Deal With The DEVIL is seen as really bad, but still the least offensive episode of the premieres by far, as it doesn't have the same wasted plots as First Day and Rabbit's Foot, or the extremely offensive humor present in those episodes either. While certainly a bad episode nonetheless, it's remarked as the only episode of the premiere that actually got it's original intention across. Deal With The DEVIL is the only premiere episode of the Spin-Off that has not been remade into a Tiny Tots Comic, with Cohen expressing he never plans to or wants to remake it either.

Rising ambitions and criticism (October 16th-27th 2019)
After the first three episodes, and even before their airings technically speaking; Cohen was already thinking about how he could make the CCU brand, with the Spin-Off being the main focus at that time, bigger, better and more impactful. Certain things would begin to pop up around this time, like a fun fact channel, although mainly focused on the CCU as a whole, it was noticable that a lot of the facts were mainly relevant to the Spin-Off in particular. In addition, a schedule channel was made as well, so that way anybody interested could stay in the know of when the next CCU events would take place; whether it be Spin-Off episodes, discussions, roleplays, etc.

During the morning of a school day, Cohen was working hard on a bunch of concepts for episodes and shorts, Dion watching with interest. Cohen had noticed Dion watching and thought it'd probably be a good idea to have a fun conversation about it in the school cafeteria at lunch, but there was an issue with this; The Lols sat at the same table with eachother. Cohen, Jeremy, Aiden, Jaden and Milk all sat at the same table regularly, Dion however almost never sat with them, the reason why isn't known. Regardless, Dion did end up sitting with The Lols that day, and for the few following days to have chats with Cohen about plans for the CCU.

Discussing Days 1-2
October 16th, 2019; the first day went surprisingly good, everybody was there, and while they weren't expecting to talk about the CCU's development, it was a fun chat nonetheless and it did give everyone some ideas. Milk of course had no interest however, but he didn't really say anything about it, opting to mainly use Reddit instead of listening in. It allowed for multiple concepts to be discussed or even written down, mainly contributing to the few concepts wrote by Jaden, and the one written by Jeremy. By the time the bell was ringing to go to class, it seemed like they still wanted to have a chat about it, so Cohen asked them to use the Discord Group Chat, which they ended up doing later. In the group chat, Cohen first brought up the fact that they could likely manage to make another 26 episodes (a second season) at that point, despite only three episodes of the first season even being out at that time, Dion agreeing. Following this however, Cohen took a bit of a turn with his discussion, discussing some of the concepts that were discussed earlier that day, complimenting most, but heavily criticizing one, that being Jeremy's one and only idea he had ever wrote, a bank heist short plot. Cohen argued that while the concept was good and could work, the casting choice Jeremy made for the main character, Dion's Mac, was an awful idea, Dion agreeing once more. Jeremy never responded to or acknowledged these criticisms.

October 18th, 2019; the second day was a bit mundane in the opening compared to the first day, but a fun talk still, though people such as Aiden and Jeremy were trying to change the subject, but Cohen would keep rambling on about the CCU, and Milk was getting annoyed with the constant mentions of the CCU Spin-Off, as he had absolutely no interest in it or anything related to the CCU. Very few, if any, concepts were written down from this day, mainly because Cohen would keep passionately talking about plans rather than listening in to some ideas that people came up with. When leaving, nobody seemed particularly happy or disappointed, just neutral. Both Milk and Dion left really annoyed by that session, of course for different reasons. Milk was simply just annoyed because of the constant chatting about something he had absolutely no care towards, whereas Dion left feeling angered and targeted. The reason for these feelings were because Cohen kept talking about his ideas for the CCU, almost never bringing up Dion for a chance to have input. Despite literally being Cohen's project, Dion felt as though Cohen had too much power in everything, and didn't like the direction Cohen was heading at all.

Later that night, Aiden notified the group chat that he wouldn't be able to be in the episode premiering that night, Nightmare Fuel. This was a bit of a disappointment to Cohen, who had previously enjoyed his appearance in the episode before, Deal with the Devil. What also didn't help was that Jaden was also gone that night, presumably to the same place Aiden was going (by coincidence). Nightmare Fuel was supposed to have most, if not all, of the CCU Spin-Off Staff Team involved, it was to be entirely improvised and meant to be complete chaos, that's why it was planned to feature the whole team in the first place, but this couldn't work now. Dion suggested that Cohen could switch around the schedule a bit to make it so the fifth episode, Tenebrous Terror, would be that day instead, and that way Cohen would have all his characters still, and so would Dion.The problem was that Dion didn't have any appearance in Tenebrous Terror to begin with, so Dion suggested he could have Evan be in the episode at the Scott Family's house, but Cohen replied by saying "We aren't including any unnecessary characters in the blackout episode, it's literally just the Scotts and the villain. That's it." Dion responded to this passive aggresively, "Well that's no fun for the rest of us when you control all the characters". Cohen fired back strongly however, writing "It's no fucking fun to have a million characters who don't need to be in the plot be there just for the purpose of being there". Dion didn't reply to this at first, instead trying switching the subject, but Cohen kept tempting Dion into responding, eventually replying "Both of these upcoming episodes only require you, Cohen. So that's no fun to everyone else. But I suppose I can't stop you."

Cohen mentioned how most of the early episodes revolved around him and his cast because he was the only person even working on the episodes in the first place, but Dion insisted Evan could be a good character to have in the episode nonetheless, citing he could be supportive to Walt, whomst is afraid of the dark in the episode and is needed to be comforted, Dion suggesting Evan could do a good job helping out Walt while also trying to solve the problem with the electricity. Cohen was not happy about this, reminding Dion the reason why this was a plotline to begin with was to both have a moral of "facing your fears" and also bring back the fact that Audrey was supposed to be a sort-of caretaker to Walt, making sure he's okay and protecting him whenever their dad or Woofitz wasn't around. Dion prompted Cohen to reconsider, suggesting once more Evan could be back-up support and also help with fixing the problem; Cohen finally shrugged it off and allowed him to act in the episode later on. After this, Cohen addressed he wanted to get back to the actual focus of the conversation originally, that being what they were going to do without Aiden and Woofitz for the episode that was supposed to air in just a couple of hours, Cohen came up with a smart workaround however, letting two audience members replace Aiden and Woofitz. This would later turn into three audience members, of which being Nick, Danielle and Nicolas. Dion and Cohen had a talk about this, and ultimately agreed this was probably the best approach possible; making an announcement about this change soon after, then not too long after that announcement, the episode aired with direct audience involvement.

Nightmare Fuel
Originally intended to feature all of the CCU Staff up to that point, Nightmare Fuel was planned as an improvised comedy sketch; taking place inside of Walt's brain as a means to make basically anything possible, no matter how random it was, adding to the potential comedic value. Upon the night of premiere, only Cohen and Dion were able to act, as Aiden and Jaden were both going to a corn-field maze that night, and Jeremy wasn't responding to any of their messages; this lead Cohen into casting two CCU fans instead; Nick and Danielle, though later Nicolas joined in too.

Nightmare Fuel followed Cohen, Dion, Evan Richards, Kermit, Nick and urmom going inside of Walt's brain while he's asleep after a chain of nightmares he had been having; with the aid of Pufflez' machine they successfully go inside of his mind, only to be trapped inside. Obscure events occur throughout the episode, most notably being references to multiple pop-culture icons appearing inside of Walt's imagination such as Ninja. There also appeared a few references to the Discord server and memes associated with it, notably with Eel Cosmo, Cockroach and Lil Yonny's "felo de se" creepypasta. After getting through the strange events, their final obstacle is climbing up a really tall tower, where Satan resides at the top and is defeated, restoring Walt's dream to be happy again. Pufflez' machine lets them come back, where everyone comments about the awful house party that Cohen was supposed to be hosting.

This was a plotline doomed to fail from the start, and Cohen knew that more than anybody; attempting to make it better by having the randomness be tenfold instead of a cohesive plot may have worked in the short-term, but in the long-term many consider this episode to be nothing short of a desperate attempt to try and appeal to the shitposting Discord server the CCU resided in, trying to get as many people interested in the CCU, but moreso the Spin-Off, as possible; this didn't work, Nicolas acting in this episode was only done because of the constant references to internet memes in the episode, after the episode had aired, Nicolas remained distant from the CCU.

Initial reactions were positive, everyone talking about the comedy focused episode and it's relation and references to multiple internet personalities and memes, a lot of which being exclusively understood to the Discord server as inside jokes. One thing was praised more than the comedy itself however, the feature of Lil Yonny's "felo de se" creepypasta and character was put in after a fan campaign that was originally created as a joke took the fandom by storm, eventually leading Cohen to put him into a gag, even giving the character a short video containing a jumpscare; which many people then and to this day have actually been startled by upon first watching, likely due to the surprisingly loud audio and flashing lights. Upon retrospective however, Nightmare Fuel is deemed as a low point for the Spin-Off, and what makes it sad is that it didn't need to be; it could have been dumb fun with the CCU Staff all having a good time, but it was instead turned into an episode with the sole intention of circlejerking as many different concepts as possible, turning it into a complete disaster in the process. Many consider Nightmare Fuel to be the most forced episode of the Spin-Off, a complete waste of an episode slot, basically the mindset that nothing would have changed if the episode didn't ever air, for good or bad.

Cohen has briefly expressed interest in trying to remake Nightmare Fuel into a Tiny Tots Comic, likely featuring Raven as an antagonist, and seeing how it's all a dream at the end of the day, Cohen has said it would probably be way more fun with the ideas and fears brought to life through his much more clever writing with Tiny Tots. Whether or not it will be remade isn't known.

Discussing Days 3-4
Following Nightmare Fuel's then-positive reception, it seemingly inspired Cohen and Dion to try and work together more than they had previously, leading to dozens of concepts being wrote down on the drafting board.

October 20th; the third day was very short, a brief exchange was held in the CCU Staff Team group chat between Dion and Cohen; Dion was sharing an idea they had for a plotline for an episode they were hoping to produce, mainly starring their own characters; Statix, Moon and Mac in particular. Cohen was critical of the suggestion, though saw potential in it; this concept would later turn into the episode "Through The White Noise", one of the most infamous Spin-Off episodes.

October 21st; the fourth day was a drastic one, this was the night the next episode, Tenebrous Terror was intended to air; and Cohen wasn't certain if it would make the deadline they initially set up, due to an extreme unforseen circumstance. Early in the morning, Cohen had punched a glass window in a fit of rage, shattering it and damaging his dominant hand. Cohen was brought to the hospital and spent between 1-2 hours there; ultimately being given a bandage and a cloth cast before finally coming back to school. Cohen showed up to his drama class; his favourite class at the time, later than ever before; feeling guilty and embarassed about his hand. Jaden noticed his hand was wrapped in a cast and showed concern for Cohen on a personal and healthy level, nothing relevant to the Spin-Off was even thought of to him. Cohen knew having a hand in a cast, especially it being his dominant hand would be a massive problem, especially with the episode intended to air later that night.

In the Discord group chat, Cohen revealed that he had a cast on his dominant hand, and that if they were to premiere the episode tonight it would be very challenging; plus Dion needed to use their own character as well, Evan Richards. Cohen commented stating "I'm not really in the mood to do it, but I'd feel guilty to not do it", showing that he did truly care about fan feedback, Dion replied with their opinion, suggesting the episode be postponed; Cohen refused to postpone the episode and had it premiere at it's scheduled time later that night. Despite this determination, there was in fact a delay, Dion had to go and eat dinner and didn't want to skip out on it; leaving Cohen in the dust just moments before the original premiere time; Cohen was upset that Dion was more focused on appeasing themselves rather than the audience that were expecting them. Cohen getting upset with other members for what he viewed as underperforming would become a trend throughout the rest of the Spin-Off's production. Cohen had to use three separate devices and three separate keyboards while he had a healing dominant hand; Cohen knew it wouldn't be easy, but went through with it to appease fans.

Tenebrous Terror
Originally intended to be a comforting shorter story between just Cohen's "Scott family" characters, Tenebrous Terror followed The Scotts (minus Woofitz) and a mysterious unnamed figure. Cohen had wrote the episode with a moral in mind, to face your fears head on; Walt has a fear of the dark and a power outage causes the house to be pitch black, while Audrey and their dad try to help comfort him, a mysterious figure would be roaming the house, later revealed to be the person behind the shorting circuit once Walt grew determined and ventured into the darkness with the aid of Audrey and a flashlight; this figure was revealed to be Choi Lee, making his Spin-Off debut. Things changed however once Dion grew unsatisfied with the lack of representation of their characters in the Spin-Off series thus far, and after a lot of considering; they convinced Cohen to let them have one character in Tenebrous Terror; Dion chose Evan.

Tenebrous Terror followed Tyrone, Walt, Audrey and Evan Richards; Tyrone and Evan have a chat downstairs while the children are asleep, but the power suddenly goes out, leaving the entire house pitch black; waking up Walt and causing him to freak out and cry, Audrey calming him. Evan remembers he has a lighter for his cigars, which he uses as a light source to help explore the house, Evan promises to Walt he will try and figure out a way to get the lights back on, leaving a lit candle behind in their room; establishing Evan does have respect for Walt. Moments later, Evan and Tyrone find and attempt to repair the broken circuit pannel. After much convincing, Audrey gets Walt to wander with the lit candle, where they go downstairs to try and see where Evan and their dad had went. Evan and Tyrone are still fixing the panel while a mysterious figure is lurking in the nearby shadows, they reach for Tyrone. Suddenly, Walt and Audrey walk into the room, with the lit candle accidentally revealing the figure's identity; Choi Lee, while he is removing the belt and pulling down the pants of Tyrone. Choi Lee admits he did cut the fuse; but expresses he only did it just because he doesn't like the Scotts. Audrey promptly beats him up and Choi Lee is thrown into the backseat of the police car, with Officer driving him away.

The plotline screams of being messed with mid-way through production; Dion caused the plotline to change heavily once they basically forced Evan Richards to be in the episode, despite having no real reason for him being there. Tenebrous Terror was already the most work Cohen had put into a plot at that point for the Spin-Off, so having Dion force a character into it ruined all of the flow Cohen had originally planned there to be. While the original version of this episode has never been seen publicly; likely being lost media, Cohen has confirmed that a Tiny Tots Comic, Deep Dark Secret, was as close to the original version of Tenebrous Terror as he could remember; excluding the circuit pannel fixing; interestingly, the comic introduced the character Raven in Tiny Tots, a different and new villain from Choi Lee in the original Tenebrous Terror.

Initial reactions were very positive, most claiming Tenebrous Terror was the best episode of the Spin-Off at that point; and objectively they were correct, though that was not at all a high bar to cross. Upon retrospect, many consider Tenebrous Terror to be either bad or just okay, most complaining about Evan's inclusion and a multitude of racist jokes from Dion about Choi Lee being asian, referring to him as "ching-chong" and "chinese", despite Choi Lee being of Korean heritage rather than Chinese. Many prefer the Tiny Tots reimagining by a longshot compared to the original released version of Tenebrous Terror. Regardless of opinions however, everyone has agreed that what Cohen did to appease fans, forcing himself to premiere the episode with a dominant hand wrapped in a cast, even if it sounds a bit silly in retrospect, was extremely respectful and caring towards the fanbase.

Discussing Day 5
After the very positive responses of the previous two episodes, Cohen and Dion entered a state of mind in which they didn't have to worry heavily about quality, thinking they had perfected their improvisation skills.

October 26th; the fifth day was a conversation between Cohen and Dion, both knowing they had an episode to premiere that night, Cohen brought up unforseen circumstances once again, stating he was going out for dinner that night and they might need to either delay the episode or premiere it earlier as a result. Dion responded bluntly by stating "Oh you gotta be fucking with me", but Cohen reassured they could make it work, even saying they could do it at that exact moment, Dion agreed and asked which alts they should use, Cohen responded by stating "They're characters". Cohen grew frustrated with working with people who didn't seem to care as much as he did on making the Spin-Off, or CCU as a whole the best it could be; Cohen hated characters being referred to as "alts", as he saw it removed any and all persona they once had on their own.

Cohen and Dion discussed which characters they could each use, Cohen already had his characters in mind for a while; Dion on the other hand never thought it over once, Cohen wasn't happy about this; but he persisted by suggesting to Dion to use Evan, seeing as Evan was a detective character. Dion decided against this and chose Moon to play the role of a "bad cop" while Officer played the role of a "good cop". Dion had no idea what the plot of the episode was, yet insisted they be involved anyways, Cohen decided to explain the opening to Dion and came up with easy solutions to make it work on his own, right after this the episode premiered.

A few minutes through the episode's premiere however, Dion expressed they had to go somewhere unexpectedly, leaving Cohen on his own with the plot they both reworked to have both of them play a role in. Cohen was growing more and more resentment towards the way others treated his series, and decided instead of delaying the episode and deleting the text already sent (which was minimal), he opted to play out the entire episode the way it was originally supposed to air instead.

Breach.ROM
Breach.ROM remains one of the few Spin-Off episodes that did air in the original way that Cohen wrote, having only been performed by Cohen himself, aside from a brief inclusion of Dion and Nick in the opening segment. Cohen wrote Breach.ROM with the sole intention of introducing a new major villain to the CCU; Modem. Modem was only a teenager, but knew far more about technology than any of the protagonists, often using said technology against people, whether through hacking into files or remote controlling drone-bombs. Of course none of this appeared in this episode, this was just an introduction of course. The name "Breach.ROM" is a reference to the .rom file format, often used to emulate video games; which the episode featured an indie game as a part of the opening.

Breach.ROM follows Officer and Pufflez on a buddy roadtrip to find an unknown criminal new to the city. Opening with Mr. Maclight letting the kindergarten children play on tablets, they all quickly grow addicted to a brand new indie game on the "Game Gallery", the name of the game is never revealed, just that the app icon features a raccoon. After downloading, the kids are prompted to sign up for something, they all follow through assuming it's for the game. Shortly after, the kids all get picked up and droven back home. News Reporter David Daniel reveals that throughout the past week a bunch of innocent people who presumably committed fiancial crimes were all proven innocent, it turns out the sign up prompt was added in by maliciously by an unknown source, David then interviews a victim of the cyberattack; Choi Lee, who quickly gets beaten with a nightstick for swearing on live television. Officer catches wind of this while on his break inside of the police station, leading him to get up and attempt to solve the crime, but not before bumping into his old pal Pufflez, who used to work with him as a detective in the past. The unlikely duo then team up once more in an attempt to find the culprit. After checking with many familiar faces, they are unable to find any information, leading to Officer to hook up a hotspot connection in their car and try and find any type of information on the police database, however the only concrete of evidence found is a vague address. Despite that, they drive to the address and it is revealed they did end up finding the culprit, he is yelled at to "FREEZE", and he does so willingly, putting his hands up in the air. Officer and Pufflez are confused by this and are dazed at the fact he listened so easily, in their confused state however, they realize Modem is nowhere to be seen, turning back to find a broken car window and the laptop being nowhere in sight. Modem talks to himself while escaping, conducting his next possible plan.

Surprisingly a pretty serious plotline for Cohen to tackle, and while the episode didn't take itself too seriously, especially since Officer was the main focus, a lot of the jokes in it do make actual sense in context, a few actually being pretty decently done. However, Breach.ROM messed up by being rewritten for Dion to have an appearance, and then leaving before their true time was even applied to the episode; of course this time not being in their direct control, but still noteworthy to bring up. The idea for Modem as a villain as well was very promising and interesting, whether some admit it or not. Ultimately though, this remains another episode where Dion's involvement soured the final product.

Initial reactions were very positive, much like the previous two episodes. Many complimenting Cohen's balancing of serious storylines and witty dialogue, elevated further by the inclusion of Officer and Pufflez, fan-favorite characters that many considered to be some of the funniest characters in CCU history. Upon retrospect, many view Breach.ROM as just being average, it didn't do anything special for the introduction of a major new villain, but if you look past that many will consider the episode to be pretty comedic. Most agree however that the opening section (which was added by Dion), was pointless, and that the episode should have started with David Daniel reporting the news and going into more detail while there.

Cohen's mental state and collapse (October 28th-November 5th 2019)
After a streak of positively reviewed episodes, Cohen decides he wants to make his next episode a bang; opting to premiere a Halloween-themed special the upcoming Monday, Dion wasn't prepared as per usual, but insisted they were going to get their act together with this special; Cohen agreed to let them take part, this changed everything.

Discussing Days 6-7
October 28th; the sixth day was and still remains as one of, if not the absolute most infamous periods of time in the history of the CCU, production or roleplaying. After promising a Halloween special for a month, Cohen realized on the night of the premiere that he hadn't truly prepared an episode worthy of being a special, and felt extremely bad about disappointing fans. To Cohen this was a lose-lose situation, it was either cancelling the Halloween special and doing a different episode that night, or doing the Halloween special and it not living up to the expectations fans set up. Ultimately, Cohen decided to cancel the Halloween special and replace it's slot with an episode that was at least still dark in nature; however no matter the episode chosen, the only viable options were also ambitious in their own right, far exceeding the work that would have needed to be done to make the Halloween special work properly.

Cohen expressed his thoughts on the subject to the Spin-Off team, Dion simply replying "Damn" at first. Cohen asked for suggestions on episodes to replace the Halloween special with; Dion suggesting they could do Through the White Noise, Cohen refused the offer claiming that the episode was also not meeting his expectations, and would likely be an evil worse premiere than the unfinished Halloween special. Cohen determined that most of the darker episodes they could not do because they were all either unfinished or were intended to be premiered after a certain point because they had established characters in them that weren't introduced to the audience at that point. The only viable options were both episodes directed by Dion, those being "3'rd Place Justice" and "Mind Your Mac", Cohen didn't like either of these ideas however, especially with Mind Your Mac being a replacement for a special, stating it was far too simple and short to replace what was supposed to be an ambitious project; Dion ultimately agreeing with him.

Dion goes on a bit of a tangent and begins to talk about their upcoming episode "Ace In The Hole", and expresses how it will have Choi Lee and Modem, along with two new faces Statix and Luke escaping federal prison; with Luke attempting to take control over the city he deems as corrupted by a horrid government, that being Tyrone as the mayor. Cohen suggested that Modem could hack into a circuit breaker and free all of the cellmates, have Luke and them all run away and push the blame of the huge crimerate increase onto Tyrone as a major point for how Luke can try and sue him; Dion absolutely loved the idea. Cohen forced them to get back on topic however.

Cohen expressed how they were low on episodes featuring his main characters, and was upset when he had to reword it to include the fact it wasn't even his characters, it was also Dion's and the other staff member's characters being forced into the episodes as well; Cohen followed this up by reminding everyone his upcoming episode "Bye, Bye, Binky" was set to be only his characters and didn't want anybody else, especially Dion, forcing their own characters into the plotline. Dion responded passive aggressively stating that they "had to go somewhere" and they would "be there for Friday's episode". Cohen grew extremely impatient by this point, forcefully getting Aiden onto the group chat and talking to him about his upcoming episode "Seeking Asylum", which was planned for that Friday. Cohen tried to convince Aiden to move it to that night, but Aiden refused to premiere it that night, both for the fact that Friday was November 1st, Aiden's birthday, and that he was busy watching a movie. With that, Cohen only had one episode left; Devil of Silence, a plotline using Satan's magic to make everything turn black-and-white and make all sounds disappear, entirely mimicking silent films of the 1930s.

Nearly one full hour passed by when Dion unexpectedly returned to the group chat, stating they were wrong about having to go somewhere, also stating "It's fine though", Cohen was starting to snap by that comment, yelling directly at Dion about the fact they changed the episode and they didn't even pay attention. Dion didn't mind this however, not reacting to it. Cohen collected his thoughts and calmly reminded Dion that they changed the episode to Devil of Silence, and reminded him to ensure there was absolutely no talking; the plot revolved around the characters being muted vocally and only being able to work together through physical communications. Dion didn't understand fully, opting to only play the role of themself and also use a laptop their character had to type out exactly what they wanted to say; which was entirely missing the point of the plotline. Cohen was upset with this mindset and suggested they either change characters or not act in it at all; Dion decided to play as Evan, along with themself; both verbally speaking in different methods, Evan's being a "monologue" narration by himself; again completely missing the entire point of the conflict.

At 7:30pm the episode began to premiere, things were going smoothly with Cohen portraying Tyrone, Walt and Audrey but the moment that Dion's characters became involved; everything went downhill. Dion continued to bypass any loopholes he could with the plot, opting to type out what they wanted their own character to say on their laptop, and having Evan speak to "himself" in a monologue-styled narration. Initial reactions to the opening were positive up until Dion's characters began screwing up the narrative with their abilities to freely speak through the loopholes Cohen (as the director) never intended to be seen. Shortly after the feedback was dropping, in Cohen and Dion's local area a power outage suddenly occured, causing Dion to go offline and Cohen to be left with only his phone to portray one character at a time; or alternatively use a hotspot but use up his entire data plan in minutes. At 8:25pm, nearly one hour later, Dion got into contact with Cohen again, whose power had been restored for a while by then. Dion told Cohen they couldn't go on with the premiere that night, citing their data usage was already high just messaging Cohen to tell him that, also bluntly stating "I don't have time for this". Fan feedback was at an all-time low, citing this as the worst premiere in CCU history, many calling Devil of Silence the worst thing to ever come out of the CCU when it released, the problem was that it was completely out of Cohen's control that this happened. "'Just letting everyone know, I can't wait to quit working on the Spin-Off when the time comes. But for now, I'm going to force myself to keep delivering, even if this has taken the biggest toll on my life ever; leading to some of the absolute worst mental health issues I have ever faced in my entire life. Only problem is, I'm not sure how much longer it'll be until I can't take it anymore, it already seems that way and we're not even a quarter done the first season' ~Cohen, after the premiere of Devil of Silence." At 8:52pm, Cohen had made a post to the CCU Spin-Off Staff Team group chat regarding the failure of Devil of Silence's premiere, writing strongly about how he felt about producing the Spin-Off in its current state. After 20 minutes, nobody responded; Cohen finally writing himself again, asking if Dion had their power back; and if so to help determine what to do that night. Cohen asked them if they should try to re-do the episode now or do a different one all together, however Cohen waited less than ten seconds for Dion to respond, deciding himself that they weren't doing an episode that night, Dion replying "Oh shit sorry" when they noticed they were late. Cohen reassured Dion not to worry about anything, and that he was making a post in the #ccu-news channel regarding the issue that happened with the premiere of Devil of Silence. Cohen's public response to Devil of Silence's premiere was shocking to everybody involved, fans and the staff working on the CCU; posting his response at 9:21pm."Look, I love working for the CCU and making a universe that you can be involved in and enjoy casually; it's fun, but the shit I have to go through every god damn day is nothing short of torture. Every day I always have the same stress in the back of my mind, and when it isn’t about how I am as a person, it’s normally about the CCU. Again, I love the CCU, but the workload I have to put in for the spin-off, I can’t take. I have had so many mental health issues as of late, I can’t even keep track of them. Is the spin-off cancelled? No. Is canon season 3 cancelled? No. I’m not cancelling anything, I’m not even sure what to do anymore. I just want a shitting break from all the stress. So I ask you kindly, please do not freak out like a bunch of pansies let loose out of a cage, please just think about my mental health, as a matter of fact, it pains me to do this, I feel bad for you. And I promise on my damn life, that when I get my life back together, I will IMMEDIATELY be back on the spin-off, and there might even be a damn marathon if we’re lucky enough. I’m sorry. I’m sorry for everything. ~Cohen, publicly responding to the backlash Devil of Silence faced for its premiere."At 10:36pm, over an hour after Cohen's public response; Dion finally reached out to Cohen again, asking for clarification on what the post was trying to refer to. Cohen snapped back immediately, stating "It means I'm going to the fucking hospital and production is off until I'm in a better state". Dion was confused and bewildered, questioning if Cohen actually meant what he was saying, using incorrect grammar however; "Your going to the hospital?". Cohen refused to talk about it in detail unless Dion could ask him directly what he meant, rather than trying to sugarcoat the problem; Dion listened and asked "What did you mean by 'I'm going to the fucking hospital'". Cohen responded by reaffirming he would start from the beginning, as he saw going to the hospital as the very end of the story he was about to tell everyone. After a moment to prepare, Cohen began to explain to Dion what he meant."Two years ago [2017], great year, Albert played my obby and I got a shit ton of new friends; had so much fun, probably the best year of my life. One year ago [2018], horrible year, a lot of good happened in the first half, excluding the Feburary Drama, but something seemed to happen around this exact time [present] that year. This year, 2019, easily the worst year of my fucking life, no huge drama happened that compared to the shitshow [Feburary Drama] of last year, but there were some shit that happened, as you probably know. Not trying to point fingers but an example of which could be when I vented about how I hated being on Earth and I just wanted to be in the CCU, which I still stand by, and how Jeremy screwed me over rather than helped. ~Cohen, reflecting on the past two years of his life."Dion responded to this in a very half-assed manner, simply mentioning "Didn't you view your alts as real people and that sparked drama? That's what I recall, at least, I may be wrong". Cohen did respond calmly, reassuring Dion was correct but reminded Dion that Cohen would not tolerate his characters being referred to as "alts", going on to follow that up by vaguely saying "Y'know some day I'd like to get any way for a CCU character to be brought into reality". Dion understood more now, stating that it made more sense to them as Cohen explained it; then asking Cohen to continue what he was saying. Cohen began to continue talking before Dion actually asked, regarding how he "got sidetracked" and went back onto the topic he was trying to vent about in the first place."I suffer with anxiety, depression, paranoia, hallucinations, stress and suicidal thoughts; if you want you could also include lashing out along with a short fuse, but I mean no matter how hard I try [therapy, pills/drugs], it's always the same, it's never changed, it's only gotten worse. Y'know, it's gotten to the point where I only feel the way out is death; the thing I want most in life next to love; is death, not death of anyone but myself. I'm not stating I want to kill myself, cause I know it'd affect the lives of many, but I also don't want to be alive in a world as cruel as this one. ~Cohen, continuing his vent about the CCU development and mental health."Dion reponded to this by mentioning how they would feel personally if Cohen did end up dying, stating "I'd probably laugh and try to pretend you [Cohen] weren't dead to be honest. That's how I'd react; unable to cope with that reality. That isn't me joking; I'm being serious". Cohen ignored his comments and continued to briefly vent some more, until Dion cuts Cohen off again. Cohen continued, "I'm suicidal, but not to the extent where I'd go out of my way to kill myself. Like I stated, I don't want to live with anything except receiving love". Dion chipped in again, jokingly stating "That is me, honestly". Cohen continued to ignore what Dion was saying and vented more, stating "I don't want to die, it will affect everyone who knows me; but I also fear that if I don't get help soon enough I'll end up harming somebody else. I am going to the hospital tomorrow morning, thank the fucking lord". Cohen asked Dion if they would like Cohen to go into more detail, Dion wasn't a fan of this idea, telling Cohen "I'm lowkey tired as fuck though"; Cohen responded to Dion extremely bluntly, stating "I'm tired too, I don't give a single shit at this point"."When I initially mentioned how I treat the characters like real people, that is true and still holds up; but why? I feel like I did a shit job at explaining, did I even explain, or did I just ramble on about how they're real to me? Fucking hell. I'm going to re-explain without being a pussy this time, let's use your [Dion's] character as an example, Evan Richards. Evan and I [Cohen's self-inserted character, Tyrone] are friends, if Evan broke character and gave me [Tyrone] a bloody nose for no reason but to be a dick, in real life I [Cohen] wouldn't be able to stop thinking that Evan is a dick, and would think about breaking his fucking nose inside-out as a response. I feel myself as being connected to my fictional self [Tyrone], and prefer that life over the one that treats me [Cohen] like shit. ~Cohen, venting about CCU development and mental health."Dion once again cuts Cohen off, though this time it would be the last time Dion does this; Dion stated "I'm sorry to interrupt but I'm heading to bed; I'm way too tired to talk about this". Cohen responded bluntly, firing back "Whatever, you can read it in the morning and respond then". Dion promptly went offline and Cohen began to ramble again with his vent once more; this time getting no interruptions from anybody, but also no responses whatsoever to keep him motivated."Here's the most notable relation I feel; the children [the Tots], they're my [Tyrone] kids, I [Cohen] view them the exact same, I love them. Are they real? No. Do I like to think that way? Yes. I go to the point to completely isolate myself from anyone or anything just so I can go and see them [the Tots]. I'll be in the basement of my house for example, laying on the couch, but I'm actually not! Haha! I'm [Tyrone] actually helping the family. Every moment I [Cohen] get to see them [the Tots], I do it in a heartbeat. It's the family I'm [Cohen] never going to get, but I wish I could. No, screw it, it IS the family [the Tots] I DO HAVE. Yes I have the family I live with, both of them. I'm just going to sleep at this point, I look forward to waking up to backlash and criticism; because fuck freedom, you all have to live the same way! Goonight and/or good morning, I'm going to have sweet dreams with my family [the Tots]. ~Cohen, concluding his vent about CCU development and the toll its taken on his mental health."October 29th; the seventh day was another lengthy day, Cohen had gone to the hospital early in the morning as opposed to attending school, Dion waking up soon after and expressing worry for Cohen; getting upset with Huka for questioning what Cohen's vague message of "I can't take it anymore" was referring to, Huka sending "Huh, well I hope things go well", Dion suddenly replied to Huka stating "Don't prod into him, Juliana. He hasn't been himself recently, and it's people like you I'm concerned will make it worse". Shortly following this, Cohen was re-reading some of the messages he sent the night previously while venting, Cohen saw someone added a pig emoji reaction to one of his serious messages; this was Aiden, who otherwise did not comment on anything. Cohen banned Aiden immediately from the group chat without any second thoughts or a conversation between the two, as a result many of the staff woke up to find a message detailing that Aiden had been removed from the group chat by Cohen himself. Dion asked Cohen why Aiden had been banned; to which Cohen responded very aggressively, bluntly stating "Retard added a pig emoji to one of my posts".

While in the hospital, Cohen made a post to the Discord server regarding his mental health and his view on the world around him, citing "You know what, I've decided to have a different approach to venting my current frustrations; just try to have as much fun as humanly possible currently". This was followed by Cohen sending memes of the recently revealed AirPod Pro designs as well as the new Apple Emoji update that day that added multiple new emojis; Cohen jokingly stating "the otter emoji is more important than the non-binary emojis", even having Milk agree, who called said non-binary emojis "fucking cringe" without joking, no one commented on Milk's transphobic comment. Soon after, Jeremy saw the message being posted and asked where Cohen was, which Cohen reminded Jeremy he was at the hospital; leading to Jeremy requesting they talk in direct messages for a moment about the subject. Cohen originally didn't want to talk about it privately, preferring to post interent memes instead for the time, but ultimately did after getting a message from Jeremy anyways.

Following the messages with Jeremy, Cohen resumed posting memes in the Discord and having small talk with other members, though in the back of his mind he was beginning to worry about pleasing fan expectations; especially with the attempt of softening the blow of the Halloween special being a disaster, he decided he was going to perform a new episode completely on his own once he was home from either the hospital or school. In the meantime, Cohen continued posting memes and occasionally talked about the CCU; Milk was very upset at the mention of it out of nowhere while sending memes, replying "Everything is roleplay to you, it's real life retard".

Later that night, Cohen decided to premiere an entirely improvised Spin-Off episode on his own merit; seeing Dion as nothing but an obstacle in his creative journey, being incompetent and unable to write anything quality. Cohen decided to premiere the episode Don't Care!, which Cohen and Jeremy had both previously worked on for a brief time; intended as a way to ressurect the character Amin, which was a problematic stereotype of an existing person of Islamic heritage; the title "Don't Care!" is a reference to a line Amin would often say whenever he had nothing else to respond with or didn't understand the conversation happening around him. Despite working on it and coming up with a majority of the ideas, Jeremy refused to be credited for his work on the episode; Cohen still put his name in the credits regardless, likely by mistake however.

Don't Care!
Don't Care! was one of the first plotlines wrote down by the CCU Team; though primarily by Jeremy and later Cohen, this episode was intended to be a comedic introduction to a role Cohen's character "Amin" would play into the series; a character based on a real person that used to hang around and annoy The Lols earlier that year after befriending Jeremy. The title "Don't Care!" is a reference to a phrase the real Amin would type out a lot on the Discord server whenever he didn't know how to respond to something. Don't Care! was performed exclusively by Cohen; though it was partially produced by Jeremy, who refused to be credited in the episode's opening following Cohen's mental breakdown the previous day, and feeling the episode wasn't quality; despite this, Jeremy remains credited in the opening of Don't Care! to this day. Additionally, Don't Care! remains one of the few Spin-Off episodes that premiered as intended, with no alterations to the script the day-of.

Don't Care! primarily followed Amin, Tyrone, Walt, Audrey and Choi Lee collectively working together to try and make Amin evil once more after he turns nice and continues to annoy the other characters. The episode opened with Dr. Pufflez working on a patient's head, with him using a blowtorch onto the patient's brain. Pufflez ends his procedure and checks his patient, which is revealed to be Amin. Pufflez shows the dazed Amin a few picture cards, Amin confusingly refers to a nuke as a football and Pufflez declares that he is "cured"; leading to Pufflez kicking him out of the clinic. Amin suddenly remembers about the Scotts; though misremembers his relation to them, thinking they're friends. The Scotts are playing Snakes and Ladders, which Walt wins, though his celebration and Audrey's frustration are interrupted by Amin knocking on the door violently. Audrey voluntarily opens the door to see Amin, Audrey is upset with Amin being there, visibly angered while Amin fails to remember her name, referring to her as "Aria", thus leading Audrey to slam the door in his face. Despite this, Amin appears inside of the house and continues to annoy the Scotts after proving to Tyrone through a private conversation he had in fact turned over a new leaf; however the kids refuse to forgive Amin. After only an hour with Amin, Tyrone loses his patience with him and snaps, leading him to talk with the kids on an idea to get rid of Amin; after thinking for a moment they all grow massive grins and dial a number; this being Choi Lee's. Choi Lee answers in confusion as Walt's voice talks to him, only for Audrey to grab Choi Lee from the phone speaker and put him into their room, where he overhears Amin outside and also grows a big grin with the Scotts. This leads to a montage of The Scotts and Choi Lee attempting to reverse Amin back to being evil; most ending up with Choi Lee getting assaulted by mistake. After successfully returning Amin to evil, the gang celebrate; only for Amin to announce he is going to blow everyone up, having a bomb strapped to his chest. Audrey proceeds to beat Amin up after Tyrone finally allows her to, where the bomb explodes outside and launches Amin and Choi Lee both back into prison. The episode ends with Amin confusingly waking up once more, this time in an electric chair, being operated by Officer; who leaves him locked in to go and get ice cream with the Scotts.

Initial reactions were mixed; with only a single person calling it better than average, though nobody claimed it to be awful, just nothing special. Cohen took this criticism into account much like he promised he would with all episodes, he publicly apologized for disappointing the fans, and did agree and understand where they came from; agreeing it was very mediocre. Don't Care! would be the last episode Jeremy would ever work on, though likely a result from his care for Cohen's mental health rather than a response to the criticisms the episode faced. Interestingly, nobody called out the blatant racism at the time, none of that were factors as to why the episode wasn't recieved positively, mostly people complained it was trying way too hard to be funny, and while it worked in some cases, most jokes fell flat. This might also be the direct cause as to why Dion would take a role in directing the next episode, which was far more serious without any jokes involved.

Upon retrospect, people consider Don't Care! to be overhated; minus the blatant racism it isn't anything awful, just nothing good whatsoever. Amin was based off of a real person of Islamic heritage; the character was a huge stereotype of Arabic and Islamic peoples. Amin's intention as a character for the Spin-Off would've been very destructive; notably using explosive devices, this is by far the most stereotypical and racist aspect of the character Amin, though a lot of these stereotypes were elevated by The Lols constantly making racist jabs at the real Amin for his heritage rather than Cohen having any distaste towards Islamic peoples; regardless Cohen has gone on to apologize extremely and has called Amin "by far the worst character I ever made", all pulicly known Tiny Tots fan of Islamic faith have accepted the apology and hold nothing against Cohen, knowing he is a good person now. Amin himself would later find out about the episode's existence through Dion showing him in an attempt to get an ally in standing against Cohen during a brief drama between the two involving the Spin-Off and CCU as a whole, but Amin simply responded by stating the title; "don't care", Amin had nothing change in his opinion towards Cohen; actually laughing at the episode.

In the middle of Summer 2020, a CCU fan had jokingly asked if either Amin could be brought back as a character of if Cohen could remake Don't Care! into a Tiny Tots comic, Cohen shot back seriously however; absolutely refusing to even consider the idea; stating that he wants nothing to do with any form of hate speech being involved in his work; unless it is subtle and for educational sake; while not exclusively related to islamophobia, this statement would later be seen in "In The Limelight" (Issue #024) and "Classroom Politics" (Issue #034); both having education on politics and treatment of colored peoples throughout the year and showing the audience to respect everyone. Also in the episode, Audrey briefly uses a toy hammer and pretends to have a court session in her bedroom; this idea would later be done by Bella as the judge and as the conclusion to "Love And Madness" (Issue #014). Cohen has stated many times he will never remake Don't Care! or bring Amin back.

Discussing Days 8-11
After a mental breakdown, collapse and getting back up once more, Cohen worked on an entirely improvised episode that few considered to be good, largely due to it being far too comedic for most of the audience; this lead Dion to take direction for the next episode for the Spin-Off and make it something really serious to give people what they thought the audience wanted.

October 30th; the eighth day was surprisingly short, especially coming after two massive sessions the previous two days, though not for the better. Dion wrote to Cohen about a planned episode they had come up with, largely trying to focus on a much more serious plotline as they believed the criticism Don't Care! faced was only the large focus on comedy, they also misunderstood what was meant by that, deciding their episode would have absolutely no comedy in it whatsoever, being nothing but a serious story. Dion's idea was a rough draft following "Justeen 3" returning to the city and taking on a new alter ego dubbed "Night" after viewing the city's police force as weak and pathetic, still asking Cohen for feedback despite the confidence; Cohen only responding with "Ok", a sign he had no interest.

About half an hour later, Dion jokingly suggested another episode to Cohen, this episode being about Yonny disrespecting Womanly in front of Evan, which causes them to fight. Cohen jokingly responded, "Make it a short and make it just an anime fight scene and it's a deal". After this comment, Cohen ultimately did the rest of the night doing other things, though Aiden began talking to Dion. Aiden was confused, asking about if Womanly still existed; Dion replying "Listen up here you fucking gremlin", Aiden came back however, writing "Coming from u, furry", Dion asked "how the fuck am I a furry?", Aiden playfully jabbed at Dion's appearance, writing "that beard", referencing Dion's neckbeard. Dion ended this by stating "Making fun of my genetics isn't offensive". Aiden was visibly confused by Dion's statement.

November 1st; the ninth day was extremely brief, only being a chat between Aiden and Cohen regarding the episode that was intended to air that night. Aiden was supposed to act in his own episode that night, "Seekng Asylum", being a reference to his birthday also being November 1st. After Aiden becoming busy throughout the night, losing track of time and missing the dealine; Cohen and him agree to postpone the episode to Monday instead. No episode premiered Friday night.

November 3rd; the tenth day was mainly a discussion between Cohen and Dion regarding the episode that would be premiered the next day. Cohen initially started by declaring that their first CCU Short "When PENIS Attack" had been a success, even if it was entirely satirical; being a word-for-word recreation of a YouTube video that parodied the theme song for the cartoon "Jimmy Neutron". Cohen then seriously expressed that they could either do two more shorts that day or a full episode, with him preferring to do a full episode but still asking for opinions. Aiden simply stated "Ok" and asked when they should reschedule his episode; Aiden suggesting Monday would work best for him. Cohen questions Aiden however to see if that date really would be the best for everyone; Aiden never responded.

Cohen asked Dion what episode they were going to do the next day, only knowing that it would be a more serious story-driven plotline this time around. Dion suggested a now-infamous episode that ultimately didn't release until later, writing "Through the White Noise is ready to go. It's more an action based episode, having to fight off controlled family members and the like. So I'm excited for it", Dion then wrote about how another of their episodes, "A Displeasure" wasn't going to be ready for a while. Cohen suggested to do "Through The White Noise" the next day, though this ultimately never happened. Cohen also suggested that "A Displeasure" should be an episode around the middle of the season, Dion heavily agreed; this also never happened.

Very soon after, Cohen gets in contact with Dion again, expressing concerns about the likelihood of them being able to perform "Through The White Noise" the next day, and instead suggests they do an episode that Dion was way more prepared for, this episode ended up being "Mind Your Mac". Cohen's reasoning for doing it was that it only required two characters, and he wasn't feeling too great at that time [from his mental health declining]. Dion agreed with Cohen, expressing they believed it would work perfectly; though they wanted to do the episode that day rather than the next, Cohen agreed and was fine with the change. Cohen later asked Dion what time would work best that afternoon to perform "Mind Your Mac", Dion suggesting they do it a 5:00pm; but Cohen explained that it wouldn't work for him, Dion simply writing back "Shit". While this debate on timing was happening, Dion felt like Cohen was an excellent partner, leading Dion to post a Fun Fact in the #ccu-news channel, detailing something that would later become more relevant than ever before."Fun Fact #99: If Cohen quits the CCU the entire thing would collapse. ~Dion, reflecting on the seemingly great partnership they had with Cohen."Jeremy actually responded to this quote of Dion's very critically when it originally came out; expressing how he felt that Cohen was not needed for the CCU as a whole to still succeed. Jeremy was likely saying this as a way to try and remind Dion not to give Cohen too much credit; as Jeremy felt that if Cohen was given too much credit for his work, he would only expect fan expectations to be higher and higher, to where he simply could not meet those expectations. Jeremy did not want his best friend to go through pain and suffering, and this was likely how Jeremy felt about giving Cohen too much credit for the work he did on the CCU Spin-Off. Dion and Jeremy ended up agreeing to disagree.

Ultimately, Cohen and Dion decide to perform the episode at 3:30pm EST, though Cohen asked how long they predicted the episode would be to perform; Dion never answered the question, only agreeing with Cohen when he said that it would likely be the shortest episode yet, writing "Probably. Mac goes to therapy, opens up a little, and that changes him a bit". Thirty minutes before the episode was intended to air according to Dion's plans, Cohen asked them once more to make sure they were ready in advance; Dion wrote back an unexpected answer however, stating "I can't. I've got shit to do today". This took Cohen by surprise, though he didn't express anger towards Dion, he simply said "Ok" and kept it bottled inside; Dion agrees to do it the next day.

November 4th; the eleventh day was a heated one for sure, being the first day since Cohen's mental collapse that Jeremy was openly talking with the CCU Staff Team, though not in any positive light; mainly being mad at Cohen for continuing to put himself through working on the Spin-Off when it was the main thing driving his mental health downwards. The day started with Cohen being annoyed with the other members of the team, expressing he felt like he was doing more work than anybody else, especially with Jeremy, Aiden and Jaden. Cohen wasn't even sure what episode would ultimately premiere that night due to what he saw as a complete lack of focus and care from the other staff members. Following his frustration, Cohen made a bold statement in regards to how he was beginning to feel about the cooperative work that the Spin-Off had lost after the third episode premiered."I've noticed a pattern, and while it doesn't always apply, most times it seems to. It seems as if whenever an episode that I'm not the main writer or director of is supposed to air, it either gets delayed or outright cancelled. There hasn't been a single episode that has aired where I am not the main writer or director yet; do you not see a problem here? ~Cohen, reflecting on the lack of support from the Spin-Off Team."Jeremy responded to this statement of Cohen without any second thoughts, sharing how he felt about Cohen; Jeremy saw him as nothing but a hypocrite and over-ambitious [or otherwise unrealistic]. Jeremy wrote back strongly, stating "Cohen, it isn't the fact you aren't the main writer, it's that not as many people have as much time as you to be on Discord. We have lives to live; clearly you don't". Cohen wrote back strongly too however, firing back "Well don't bother picking a day to make your episode premiere if you aren't even going to be available. However, if you thought you were availabe and something comes up that you either forgot about or weren't told about until then; that is fine". Jeremy never responded to these messages, whether out of missing them or not wanting to spark any further debate.

Cohen later wrote back to Dion this time, asking if the episode they would be performing that Friday was "Through The White Noise", and if that didn't work Cohen suggested that they could do a short Dion had planned that was similarly about the character Statix; that being "White Noise", an origin story for the character. Dion told Cohen that either would work; neither happened. Cohen brought up an idea he had while talking about the episodes coming up; Cohen writing "I've been thinking about writing who wrote the episodes alongside the title and plotline; so you know who worked on it ahead of time. Rather than being disappointed if it was a writer and/or director you did not like when the episode begins to premiere", Dion loved the idea. However, Dion wasn't aware that this idea was implemented by Cohen with the intention of making Dion's episodes more distinct from his own, as he was heading into a much different direction with writing than Dion. Jeremy briefly returned when Cohen brought the idea up; only writing "Ok" out of a lack of care towards working on the Spin-Off at that point.

A couple of hours later, Cohen reminded Dion once more that they had to premiere an episode that night, though he wasn't sure if it would be "Seeking Asylum" or "Mind Your Mac" still up to that point; Aiden told Cohen that there were doing it Monday because he was finally available, but Dion was actually there during the conversation. Dion bumped in and said "I think I can do Mind Your MAC", Cohen wasn't confident however, expressing how an "I think" is not a guarantee; leading Cohen to look at any possible alternatives written in the drafting board in case Aiden and Dion were both not available once again. Dion confirmed they were available to premiere their episode that night; Cohen was relieved and briefly discussed with Dion if the episode would open with Mac in rehab already, or if it would have a brief intro prior; Dion deciding to do the latter.

Mind Your Mac
Originally intended to be one of the first shorts before becoming a full length episode, Mind Your Mac was written exclusively by Dion but was performed with the help of Cohen. Mind Your Mac was made to establish Dion's "Mac" character, his relation to Dion's other character "Moon" as well as Mac's mental state at that time. Mac was intended to be a complete madman, Moon having had enough of it would take Mac to therapy where he would receive help from a therapist; this being a character played by Cohen.

Mind Your Mac exclusively followed two characters; Mac and Flufflez, though Moon makes a brief appearance. The episode opens with Moon driving Mac to a rehab center after having blown up a McGurgles restaurant; Mac responding with "No one likes McGurgles and it's shitty hamburgers, I did the city a favor!". Suddenly, Mac steers Moon different directions, Moon grows worried from this but eventually sees they end up at a rehab center while Mac explains he had been trying to go for months. Upon arrival, Mac jumps out of the car and rolls inside. Flufflez is unaware of Mac entering the building as he goes down a hallway, looking at his clipboard; Mac talks to himself as he sets down his AK-47 on a table, Flufflez overhears this and sees Mac and Moon. Moon explains why Mac is there but is interrupted by Mac who explains that he needs serious help, and asks to be referred to as "Carlos" throughout the session rather than "Mac", Flufflez agrees and takes him to his office. Upon arriving in his office, Mac begins to explain himself to Flufflez about his mentality; going into detail on how watching his parents be murdered out in a night at Vegas as a 12 year old traumatized him. The name "Mac" and the moon associated he described as coming from McDonalds [not the in-universe McGurgles], which his parents took him to, coming from an old mascot dubbed "Mac Tonight". Mac explains to Flufflez that he was trying to control himself more, which Flufflez writes down and asks him to elaborate, only to be told he was lying, leading to Mac lifting up his sleeve and revealing marks across his arm. After discussing a bit more, Flufflez sees they have run out of time, though they both agree to meet up the following week at the same time. Upon exitting the rehab center, Mac could hear faint sounds of TV static and screams of terror in the distance, leadinb him to cock his AK-47 and declare "A hero's work is never done!", as he runs into the distance.

Initial reactions were surprisingly positive, many considering the subject matter to be handled really well, mainly highlighting the serious undertones of the Mac character Dion had created, explaining why he was the way he was a lot better than he ever did prior. However, many people were upset at the lack of any comedic effect, without a single joke in the entire episode, except for the closing narration with Cohen's Narrator character, though many considered this to be out of place nonetheless.

Upon retrospect however, Mind Your Mac is considered one of the worst Spin-Off episodes of all time, and ended up winning the Worst Episode Of The Year award in "The Yearies: 2019", a parody awards show for the CCU. Many looking back have regarded Mind Your Mac as being extremely out of place and it's lack of any comedy is not a good thing; many citing various examples of serioius plotlines being even better because they also included comedic aspects as well. Multiple fans who read the episode after coming from Tiny Tots have expressed that Keira's mental health breakdown comic, "In The Limelight" (Issue #024) handled the issue FAR better than Dion's episode from the Spin-Off; many pointing that Cohen's was educational and had a moral of treating eachother with respect, whereas Dion's served no purpose other than to fill an episode slot for the Spin-Off focusing on a character few ever liked. Cohen himself has stated the episode was never worthy of being marked as a full length episode, and should have remained as a short like Cohen suggested to Dion in the first place; also stating that the part where Mac shows his cut arm stills disgusts him to this day, especially with it coming out of thin air and having been aired in what Cohen always intended to be a comedic light-hearted show. Mind Your Mac was the only episode Cohen ever performed that he has called "meaningless", saying it could've never even happened and nothing would've changed.

CCU fans have jokingly asked for some of Dion's characters to be brought back in Tiny Tots, many jokingly requesting Mind Your Mac should be remade, Cohen has taken these very seriously and on many occasions flatout refused to ever acknowledge the episode even existing. In Tiny Tots, Flufflez only ever appears as a background character in a few comics taking place in the kindergarten classroom, obviously aged down from the CCU era character.

Discussing Day 12
November 5th; the twelfth day was a massive day for discussion between the CCU Staff Team, mainly between Cohen and Dion, though Aiden made multiple appearances throughout the conversation as well. Cohen began the conversation by asking Dion if they wanted to make the one hundredth fun fact in the #ccu-news channel, this hundredth fun fact would be a massive in-depth one. Ultimately, Dion stated they had no ideas for it and Cohen decided to do it himself. Cohen had previously mentioned he would go in-depth on a character that had been cancelled numerous times throughout the CCU's lifespan; this character was revealed in the hundredth fun fact to be "Willow Woods", a cancelled character that was previously referenced in Canon Season 2 with the name of a nearby forest in the story. Despite promising she would appear in the CCU soon, she never made a single appearance.

After the hundredth fun fact, seemingly out of nowhere; Jeremy was promptly fired and removed from the CCU Staff Team group chat, Cohen stating "Jeremy is fired due to a lack of writing and a refusal to take his job seriously, notably being an asshat during the hundredth fun fact and lashing out at me for deleting his messages he used to troll during it". In the middle of Cohen's explanation, Aiden suddenly came online and wrote "I'll do more writing asap, I'm just hella busy as of late", hoping to keep his position, Cohen agreeing and being understanding. Dion questions what happened, Cohen explains that Jeremy was messing with the messages during the hundredth fun fact, writing stuff such as "person below boomer", and attempting to turn Cohen's understandably mad reactions into drama. While pridefully showing off the Willow character, Jeremy even said "Imagine taking it seriously", Dion responded furiously, outright stating "Well that's just a dick move". Cohen expressed frustration and told Dion "Just deal with him, I have to go", Dion writing back "Oh I'll fucking deal with him alright". Dion didn't do anything to deal with Jeremy.

Later that night, Dion asked Cohen if he was going to send any title cards he had been working on, presumably requested by Dion during school hours, though Cohen expressed he wasn't going to share any of them until he was finished all of the requested title cards, Dion agreeing that was a fair point. About half an hour later though, Cohen said he was finished and got Dion's attention to show them off, Dion wanting to see them. Cohen decided to show off the episode title cards that were mainly written by Dion first so that way he would get the ones they wanted to see out of the way. The first title card Cohen showed Dion was for an episode titled "Boys Night Out". The plotline was described as the following; The boys (Evan, Moon, Mac, Gecky, and Jackson) Go to vegas to strike it rich, only for one to go missing, leaving the rest to have to go hunting for them.

Dion responded positively to the title card, though gave a suggestion, writing "I think it'd be cool to have an effect in the background, one slot Evan, one slot Moon/Mac and one of Myself or Jackson". Cohen agreed and questioned if Dion was referring to shadows overlaying the slot machine or having the heads of the characters on the roulette itself, Dion expressing they meant the latter. Cohen took this into account and then proceeded to move onto the next title card to show Dion, this was for the episode they had already delayed multiple times, "Through The White Noise". The plotline was described as the following; During a family reunion, Statix takes control of the families of the protagonists, leaving the main cast having to fight their own families by Statix’s hand.

Dion reacted very enthusiastically to the title card for "Through The White Noise", writing back "That's perfect, actually!". Cohen simply responded by saying "Ok. Next...", showing he did not really care if Dion actually liked the artwork or not. The next title card that would be shown would be for an episode titled "3rd Place Justice" {styilized as 3'rd Place Justice). The plotline was described as the following; Justeen 3 returns to the city, and quickly learns of the Justeen Armada and the actions at the finale of Season 2. This pushes him over the edge, viewing the police force as soft and weak, he becomes a homicidal vigilante called ‘Night’, which only causes more problems, meaning one thing: Night needs to be stopped.

Dion replied a bit more in-depth this time around, writing back "That's really good, but I think it'd be cool for Night to have a glowing red eye in the title card, to help show that while he seems like a good guy, he isn't perfect", Cohen explained that he would later add that, though ultimately never ended up doing this. Cohen followed that title card with the title card for the next episode featuring the "Night" character, titled "Night Terrors". The plotline was described as the following; Night makes a return, and instead of killing on sight, now seems stable enough to be considered an officer of the law. But a new string of crime killings seems to be setting him up as a criminal killer yet again. So, Night, with the help of Evan attempts to stop the true killer before the town turns.

Cohen expressed how it was similar intentionally to show it was intended as a follow-up episode, Dion wrote back with a seemingly mixed reaction, stating "I mean, it works". Following this, Cohen shot back by showing the title card for an episode called "Betting On Chaos". The plotline was described as the following; Mac and (TBD) make a bet as to who can cause the most mayhem in the city. Of course, the protagonists have to stop both parties before the city is leveled.

Cohen remarked how it was in fact just a handshake, but didn't try very hard seeing as Mac was getting help in the story anyways and didn't see the episodes hitting the same way Dion would've thought. Dion responded with an idea however, writing "Mac decides to do one last big thing to get it all out of his system to ensure he doesn't keep commiting tinier crimes, but he knows it has to be really big. so, he's making a dangerous bet". Cohen expressed how he believed that completely devalues Mind Your Mac, Dion agreed and cancelled the episode. Following this, Cohen showed off the next title card for a Dion episode, "Grinding Gears". The plotline was described as the following; From the still damaged section of the city, MK86 makes an unexpected return. Armed with his memories and his weaponry, he attempts to take over the city once more.

Cohen briefly explained he did it very simplistic as he felt there wasn't much else that could be done without overcomplicating things. Dion just wrote, "It's perfect". Cohen then proceeded to show the title card for yet another episode Dion was working on, titled "By The Riverside". The plotline was described as the following; Jackson asks Tyrone to come with him on a trip and discuss some things nagging at the back of his mind about the single father and mayor.

Cohen extremely briefly explained it was also meant to be simple much like the previous title card. Dion writing "Simple and perfect". Cohen then shared the last title card with Dion, this was for the episode "Despair Bears", a name that Cohen came up with; though Dion would later rename this to "House Arrest". The plotline was described as the following; Statix decides to prove his worth to Modem by taking control of Mr. Teddy and wreaking havoc in the Scott House overnight when everyone is asleep.

Cohen remarked about how there was a "noticeable trend" with a Statix-themed episode, this being the satellite on top of either text or a character's head, which Cohen imagined as a way to know if Statix had taken control of someone. Dion did notice this trend and simply wrote "Yep.", Cohen expressed that was all Dion would be interested in, though he was working on the title card for another episode Dion primarily was working on called "Ace In The Hole". Cohen also expressed he made two title cards for his own episodes during this time, and one of those was his favorite title card up to that point; the episode he was referring to is unknown.

Seemingly out of nowhere, Cohen expressed a potential sign of hope in his eyes, stating "I've always wanted to pitch the CCU to a company before, not any in particular; just kinda feel like that a lot. If BABY SHARK can get a cartoon, anything can". Dion agreed very confidentially, simply shouting "FUCK YEAH!" at the idea. Cohen reminded Dion of the reality of the situation, being years off in the future, nearly impossible to ever happen, and even if it did the executive politics would overrule any creative descision they could make. This is the mindset Cohen would slowly begin to develop for the Spin-Off's production, as only Dion would contribute with ideas that Cohen absolutely hated. Cohen and Dion would also briefly discuss character development and continuity alongside the plan of a hypothetical company.

Cohen, Dion, fantasy prone and Jeremy demoted (November 5th 2019)
One hour after showing off title cards to Dion, Cohen expressed how he felt about Jeremy now that he had taken some time to calm down from earlier that afternoon. Cohen wrote a serious message about how he had felt, without bias towards or against anybody involved; this message was short but also provided insight into Cohen's mentality at the time. This message was risky, this message was dangerous. However it should be noted that Cohen never stated he did have it, he never once stated he had a likelihood of having it; Cohen has never believed in or has ever supported self-diagnosing."I know it's over and done with, but I want to just mention this... I hope you all realize that Jeremy also mentioned my eternal struggles with my identity crisis and (POTENTIAL) fantasy prone personality disorder, during him being an idiot when explaining the hundredth fun fact. ~Cohen, explaining more seriously how he felt."Dion genuinely questioned if FPP (fantasy prone personality) was a real thing you could be diagnosed with, Cohen shared a link that did in fact prove this. Almost immediately after being sent the link, Dion said "Oh I have that as well!". Cohen was shot back by the claim, writing "Do you though? It's where you have a deeeeeeeeeep involvement in fantasy. Hell, I'm very doubtful I do despite aligning in a lot of places. It needs to be confirmed by a doctor, we are not medical professionals". Following that, Cohen listed a few examples of how it could be applied, Dion responded affirmatively yet again, stating "I have a few of those for sure". Cohen then explained some of the possible causes that could lead to it, just to ensure Dion knew what they were talking about; but yet again Dion expressed confidence that they had it, stating "I'm an isolationist. I think I've told you this. So I have no doubt that I have FPP".

Dion threw a shot at Jeremy right after explaining they were confident in having FPP, stating "Jeremy doesn't understand any of this. He never fucking will. He doesn't care enough to do actual research and work, why bother! He has a fucking Xbox to attend to, that he bought from you!". Cohen didn't agree or involve himself with blindly insulting Jeremy, but he did write back critically, briefly stating "Y'know, the main reason I've never said anything publicly about my mental health is because of this. If my best friend can't take it seriously, how would a bunch of edgy 12 year old American scumbags?". Dion replied to this trying to be supportive to Cohen, writing "Well if anything, the 2 of us do. And even though that's small, hey, we're making something we feel proud of (most of the time)". Around the same time Dion would send this message, Jeremy would begin to discuss how he felt in the #ccu-news channel publicly.

Jeremy began to use the public #ccu-news channel to attempt to express his thoughts and feelings of being fired from the CCU Staff Team, expressing it wasn't fair in his eyes and that he wasn't doing anything wrong; Cohen was simply overreacting and taking his fictional characters and worldbuilding way too seriously in his eyes. While this was happening, Cohen and Dion were privately discussing this in the CCU Staff Team group chat, Cohen remarking about how Jeremy was the immature one, despite having claimed Cohen was. Although Cohen still remained largely neutral, making a playful jab but then moving on once more, writing "So when he gets a job and gets fired, is he going to vent at the front desk?". Dion however took this a lot more seriously than Cohen despite not being targeted, outright stating "Demote Jeremy and make me a Lol. I want to see how he reacts to that. This is a serious thing. If he's acting like this over something so small, I wonder how he'd react over something like that.", Cohen did agree to do this for a joke and temporarily demoted Jeremy from The Lols. Jeremy went offline from Discord before he could notice.

After briefly discussing an episode plotline between Cohen and Dion, Jeremy suddenly came back online and noticed his Lol role was removed; he began to share public frusturation in #almostanything, Cohen and Dion immediately noticing, the former not being concerned, the latter laughing. Cohen didn't get very involved in the drama, knowing he would give the Lol role back ultimately soon after as this was just a joke. Dion however went into #almostanything and shared their opinions publicly about Jeremy and this situation. Cohen did make a few obviously sarcastic comments on why Jeremy was demoted and Dion was given Lol despite Dion's awful track record with staff roles, Jeremy took this seriously however. Jeremy expressed anger towards Dion when they kept asking why he was so angry, writing "Fuck outta here. I was told to kill myself, called an asshole, then demoted. And you wonder why I'm pissed? Why would you want to be a Lol so bad if it's 'just a role' anyway?". Dion pretended they had to go rather than answering Jeremy's question. Cohen promoted Jeremy again soon after.

Dion began to talk bad about Jeremy once more privately in the group chat, and this time included Milk in the conversation as well, seemingly out of nowhere. Cohen stopped typing at this point, Dion continued however, writing about how Milk would much rather laugh at the "okbuddyretard" subreddit than be a decent person and help solve a dramatic situation, instead amplyifing it whenever he would get involved. Dion knew that Milk would get involved forcefully by Jeremy the next day, they knew that the two of them shared a class together and were going to hatch some sort of plan. Dion decided they would purposefully avoid the cafeteria the next day to avoid seeing Jeremy, instead choosing to sit with someone named "Katherine", a girl they were growing a major crush on. Cohen reminded Dion that they had drama club the next day, which Dion thought sounded even better as an excuse to avoid Jeremy and Milk.

Suddenly, Aiden began talking again; asking what Jeremy and Milk did 'this time'. Dion wrote back a simple playful reply, expressing "Hoes mad.", Aiden was not happy with this, asking to actually elaborate. Cohen explains what had happened between Jeremy and the rest of the staff that day, though Aiden questions how Milk was involved in this, Cohen reaffirms Milk had nothing to do with it and Dion just said his name as a means to compare Jeremy with somebody else. Aiden expressed how they suffered a lot through self harm and that they know how hard it is to find people who understand what they're all going through; Cohen agreeing and supporting Aiden. Though out of nowhere Aiden shared a piece of artwork they had been working on, Cohen and Dion both complimenting it, but reminded Aiden to try and stay on topic. Aiden began writing how he personally felt about a recent event Jeremy had been involved in, that being a server member "Danielle" coming out as transgender and how Jeremy responded to it."Speaking of Danielle, why was Jeremy like 'I won't treat you different, but you know my thoughts on the matter'. Like I get it; you're Christian and have strong beliefs, but can't you just be accepting and share love as just your religion teaches you to do; fucking spread love conservative bitch. And plus I'm Christian and bisexual, so he has no excuse to not be accepting and loving, because I recognize that it's not a fucking hard thing to love and spread positivity. ~Aiden, referring to their thoughts on Jeremy as a person."Following Aiden's quote, Cohen began to shift his opinions around this time as well from what he used to believe in. Cohen was fuelled by The Lols at the time primarily Jeremy and Milk being both heavily conserative and Christian; Cohen was beginning to disagree with the mindsets they were forcing onto him, Cohen began to start expressing his own opinions around this time; declaring so in his own quote similar to Aiden's, though not from direct first-hand experience, rather from the lens of an outsider and still technically a frequent believer in Christianity. Cohen's quote is believed to be the first instance of him devaluing the idea that there should be a cultural norm for everything, a mindset that he used to agree with heavily thanks again to Jeremy and Milk's beliefs being forced onto him. This quote is also largely believed to have been one of, if not the main mindset Cohen had went creating Tiny Tots,"Can't you just respect someone's life choices FOR ONCE. So many people lack a basic understanding of the most mundane level of basic human decency; respect. You don't have to agree, but respect everyone for who they are. You could hate someone's guts, but you still need to respect them. People can do whatever the hell they want if it doesn't harm anyone else, you have no right to care in that case. I want to live my life the way I want to, but that's 'not normal' so I'm apparently mentally unstable in the eyes of society. What happened to respect? Bring back respect. ~Cohen, reflecting on the past year and his beliefs fuelled by Jeremy and Milk forcing political idealogies onto him."After this, Dion also had something to say on their own beliefs on the situation; though theirs was unlike Aiden's or Cohen's, being far more critical and far less optimistic. Dion actually believed Aiden and Cohen wanted them to say their own thoughts, though neither even asked or truthfully cared if they did or didn't, nonetheless Dion spoke their opinions on Jeremy and everything else related to what was being discussed. Dion's quote is also very brief compared to Aiden's and Cohen's, likely due to them being tired out at that point and wanting to rest."It's because most of the people we're around are rather immature and only seem to think about themselves. Jeremy said shit to me when I came out as pansexual, but he didn't even seem to care that much, which is fine. Being pan doesn't make me special, it just means I don't only like girls. Milk on the other hand, that's a different story. ~Dion, briefly talking about Jeremy and Milk's responses to coming out."The conversation ended late at night, nearly 11:00pm. The last messages were of Cohen, Dion and Aiden saying they were all tired and were going to go to sleep, Aiden promising they would contribute more to the Spin-Off; they did not.

Unstable production and dwindling trust (November 6th-23rd 2019)
After a drama-filled night that started as a small fued between Cohen and Jeremy, it became a war between primarily Dion and Jeremy. Despite this, Cohen knew he overreacted and was joking with removing the Lol role from Jeremy, giving it back to him the following morning and inviting him back into the CCU Staff Team while sitting with him at the cafeteria.

Discussing Days 13-16
November 6th; the thirteenth day was another big day, for all of the wrong reasons however. The day started not inside of the CCU Staff Team group chat, rather the publicly viewable #almostanything channel in the Discord server. In an even bigger twist, Milk began the conversation, this would be the only time Milk ever began a conversation involving the CCU Spin-Off's production history. Milk simply wrote two questions directed towards Cohen, both involving Jeremy; exactly what Dion feared would happen the previous night. Milk asked, "why was Jeremy demoted?", and then a few minutes later asked, "Why was the one called Jeremy removed of his Lol role?". Cohen made a joke about Jeremy's username at the time instead of responding to the question; stating "Lols went from YoGrooves to NoGrooves". Only one member responded, Huka, who wrote "Damn".

Suddenly, about forty minutes after Cohen made the joke involving Jeremy's username instead of answering Milk's question; Jeremy came online and showed even more anger towards Cohen than he did the previous day. Jeremy actually stated he understood why he was fired from the CCU in retrospect, but complained that the reason his idea was bad was because Dion changed it to make it look worse; this was true. Dion suddenly shot back after seeing this however, and began typing a heated argument towards Jeremy. Dion simply wrote to move the argument to the #off-topic channel instead, Jeremy began using fighting words back at Dion. Cohen actually added the Lol role back to Jeremy and removed it from Dion silently during a massive debate between Dion and Jeremy began happening, waiting to see if either would notice.

Dion told Jeremy to stop dragging an unneeded drama, Jeremy wrote back strongly stating "You don't care, because it's a plus for you. If it negatively affected you, you would be pissed too", and Jeremy was correct. Dion wrote back however, "Are you going to keep whining about how it's not fair when literally no one fucking asked? Because if so, move. If not, cut it. You're getting mad over a Discord server." Jeremy was getting really angry now, stating "Holy shit, are you that ignorant? I have the right to be pissed. He told me to kill myself, called me an asshole and a bad friend and demoted me from the Lol role. It's not just over a fucking Discord server.", Jeremy strongly believed his friendship with one of his all-time best friends, Cohen, was in jeopardy over the CCU's Spin-Off production and was only trying to get things back on track with him. Dion stated a lie however, "You said that he told you to kill your self yet you don't prove he did." Jeremy lost his mind at this point, shouting, "He FUCKING deleted it you piece of SHIT! Why the FUCK would I be pissed if he didn't say it?! Use your fucking brain and think for once".

At this point other members of the Discord server began to get involved, most expressing dissappointment and outright embarrassment on Jeremy and Dion's behalves. A member named "CoolAIDS", who actually knew both Jeremy and Dion in real life, stated "How bout y'all both quit your shit". Another server member "Danielle", agreed with what Dion had previously said, bringing up the fact they should move it to either DMs or the #off-topic channel at that point. However, Jeremy disagreed with Danielle, stating "It's not off topic. It's on topic. So no.", despite this the conversation would ultimately end very soon after, with minor jabs and occassional punches being thrown over the next ten minutes being the most that came of it.

Suddenly, at 11:07pm, while Dion was gone and not sitting with the Lols in the cafeteria, Cohen and Jeremy peacefully discussed what happened, apologized for misunderstanding eachother and Jeremy was added back to the CCU Staff Team group chat at his own request. When Jeremy was first added back, he purposefully mocked Dion while he was gone, writing "Yo Dion, glad I could see what you really think! ;)". Cohen and Jeremy were sitting with Milk during this, Jeremy made a joke stating Milk in fact loved the roleplay but accidentally said "foreplay", this lead to Cohen jokingly adding Milk to the group chat, then removing him less than a minute later; Cohen, Jeremy and Aiden celebrating together.

After a long day, Dion didn't even acknowledge Jeremy being added back to the CCU Staff Team group chat; rather discussing an extremely ambitious plotline they had come up with on their own time. One so big it could even have been the plot for Canon Season 3 if Cohen hadn't already began working on it, this would be the first concept for a special episode of the Spin-Off. Dion was very excited to share their idea to the staff team, especially Cohen however; as they felt Cohen kept doubting their ability to write, and they hoped that this plotline would prove Cohen wrong once and for all, being by far the most work put into a plotline by anybody in the team, including Cohen himself. The plotline was about a villain that had came from an alternate dimension, the same dimension where Evan Richards would've come from, the roles are reversed in this dimension, with The Scott Family being major villains as opposed to the everyday heroes; this plot would've introduced a brand new villain who had good intentions, attempting to take down the evil Scotts with the help of the good Scotts and other protagonists. Cohen hated the idea, Dion replied with "Well, fuck it! I can do the idea on my own".

November 7th; the fourteenth day was very brief compared to the previous couple, with Dion starting the conversation regarding a character he had been working on dubbed "the reporter", this was Luke Lukas, also bringing up "Justeen 3" and the "Night" alter ego to be potentially put into a special episode. Cohen commented on how they would both be awful fits for a Chirstmas special, Dion ultimately agreeing, though stating it wasn't Christmas they were thinking of. Cohen continued however, stating Choi Lee would be a great villain for a Christmas special, which would end up happening later. Dion suggested Satan would be a better fit, though Cohen heavily disagreed.

Jeremy began to discuss with the staff once more, questioning if there was an episode the next day as he was unaware, Cohen reaffirming there was, and reminding Jeremy there was a channel dedicated to being a schedule for CCU content. Jeremy mentioned it would make sense to do three episodes in a row rather than one that Friday and one the following Monday; his reasoning being that Rememberance Day was the following Monday, and premering an episode would be disrespectful, Cohen agreeing but began discussing how they would manage to get three episodes out in a row; Jeremy stated he had to go instead of discussing a possible solution with Cohen.

Dion returned to the group chat and asked if there were any plans for the following week, though Cohen expressed that they weren't sure yet, explaining the schedule would likely change but nobody was exactly sure how it would at that time. Following this uncertainty, Dion announced he was taking a break for a week from producing anything Spin-Off related, explaining they would still act, but would not be writing, directing or otherwise be producing any episodes for the next week. This was likely Dion giving themself time to relax.

November 8th; the fifteenth day was extremely short, simply being a short conversation between Cohen and Dion; with Cohen expressing they needed to finish the episode Dion promised that night and premiere it, though Dion refused to and stated they were busy the whole night. Cohen decided to improvise an idea for the following morning instead, tough Dion later found out they were not busy for the whole afternoon but still decided to not bother finishing the episode, as they felt it was too late.

November 9th; the sixteenth day was primarily Cohen and Dion speaking to eachother about the episodes that would be premiering that day, though Dion was not online until the afternoon, with this Cohen grew frusturated at Dion's lack of proper time management and decided to perform an episode that morning alone once again, this being the episode "Show And Hell". Cohen did use the lines Dion wrote for their "Moon" character however, therefore Dion did technically contribute, even if extremely it was extremely minimal.

Later that afternoon, Dion talked with Cohen about the premiere of "Show And Hell", with Dion calling it an unfunny and predictable wreck, Cohen disagreeing and stating "Of course the heroes won, we can't continue the Spin-Off if in that context they lost.", Dion understood more, but still loathed the predictable ending where Cohen's protagonists reigned supreme. Cohen understood Dion however, and offered them to have an episode of theirs be next; though they refused to do this, stating none of them were finished and they weren't going to work on any. Cohen decided to premiere another episode of his instead, "Down In The Dumps".

Dion hated the episode "Down In The Dumps" for it's ending especially however, again calling it predictable and unfunny. Dion was furious that Cohen went with an ending where the poor character gave up money for his friend. Many agreed it was the obvious end, but ultimately thought it was the best way it could have ended. Dion's "Moon" character was put into "Down In The Dumps" however, forced in as a coach for a soccer team, much like he was forced into the position of the kindergarten teacher. This also marks one of the few Spin-Off episodes with cameo appearances from server members, mainly Nick, Danielle and SK.

Show And Hell
Show And Hell is the only episode of the CCU Spin-Off to have "fight panels" included in it, this also makes it the only CCU Spin-Off episode that the artist job ever did work on (disregarding title cards). Show And Hell was produced entirely by Cohen, with a very minor inclusion of dialogue Dion wrote for their "Moon" character that would appear in the episode. Cohen wrote the episode with the intention of introducing Satan being a bigger threat than shown previously, and introducing the Narrator as being more than just a vocal entity in the sky, actually having him appear and fight Satan in-person.

Show And Hell mainly follows Walt, Audrey and Satan; though Officer and the Narrator both also make major appearances. Opening with Mr. Maclight announcing show and tell to the kindergarten class, with the children yelling and cheering in excitement; Moon pouring whiskey into a shot glass to try and push himself through. Walt runs up in front of the class and shows off his toy first, Mr. Teddy. The Narrator decides to go somewhere else instead to overview, leading him straight into hell; witnessing Satan watching a romance film and getting erotic pleasure from it. After Satan overhears the Narrator judging him, he yells back about how he went to college while the Narrator was stuck with his job, leading the Narrator to insult Satan more, this makes Satan angry and he vanishes. Suddenly, Satan sneaks into the classroom and pours what seems to be salt onto the toys the students had brought in, where the toys increase in size and gain sentience. Satan screams his evil plan to destory the city while marching out with his army of giant sentient toys following behind him. The ruckus ultimately wakes Audrey and Walt up, who are both more concerned about Mr. Teddy being gone, Audrey saying she'll help get his teddy bear back, though Moon refuses to let Audrey go. Despite this, Audrey goes anyway with Walt and ends up bumping into Officer as they get closer to downtown. All three begin to overhear Satan's maniacal laugh, with Officer agreeing to let Audrey and Walt sit in the back seat of his police car, only for the car to be stomped by a giant teddy bear, sending the three flying out. Walt looks up at the teddy bear, it's revealed to be Mr. Teddy. Satan commands the giga-sized Mr. Teddy to crush the three, only for all of the toys to reduce to their normal size; Walt then hugs Mr. Teddy. Satan is confused and begins to scream, only to be cut off by sudden angelic music and the Narrator appearing in person and talking about how stupid Satan's plan was. The two begin fighting by summoning massive objects, these antics grow weirder and weirder until ultimately Satan drops the Narrator off of a building, only for him to rise back up with angelic wings and let Audrey kick Satan off of the roof, falling into the ground below. Satan screams for revenge, and Walt accidentally steps into his mouth, breaking his jaw. Satan is arrested by Officer, the children thank the Narrator, and the episode ends.

Initial reactions were mostly positive, with many claiming it was a return to form for the Satan character and a far better episode than Don't Care! and some even saying it was better than Mind Your Mac [it was reviewed greatly then]. Many apperciated the risk Cohen took with the episode, having the fight panels appear and actually have a real fight scene that was promised from the very beginning, something Dion themself would never even do, despite being one of the major things they promised, the same thing remains true with blood appearing in the Spin-Off. Though many felt it was made just as a test for the fighting panels, as the plot itself wasn't brought to its fullest potential whatsoever, and greater focus was put on the final act with the fight more than anything else in the entire episode. Regardless, Show And Hell was considered to be another good episode.

Upon retrospect however, Show And Hell has been criticised for its lack of focus and its commitment to a simple gimmick. Many still consider the risk to be a brave one in retrospect for the time, though most people looking back see a far different style of artwork than what would appear in the entirely drawn Tiny Tots comics, which have extremely brief and occasional fighting panels that are heavily cartoonized and exaggerated, rather than the more "realistic" and saturated-colors that the Spin-Off drawings would often have. Cohen has stated that the episode would never be remade, unless it was in form of a dream where the Tots' toys all gain the control of Raven, similar to his thoughts on remaking "Nightmare Fuel". Daria also jokingly stating that if it were remade, "There would need to be a giant Libby to shit all over the original".

Down In The Dumps
Down In The Dumps [not to be confused with the Tiny Tots reimagining] was originally intended to premiere much earlier than it ultimately did; the reason for it being delayed is likely due to Dion speaking with Cohen in-person stating they had no faith in the episode doing well. Down In The Dumps was written entirely by Cohen with the intention of introducing a brand new character into the CCU, Eric. Eric was a poor boy who had a lot of courage but ultimately zero idea what he was doing, mainly trying to impress his crush Audrey. The plotline follows a soccer game tournament, the sport decided was based off of a poll Cohen did with CCU fans on their favorite sport, with it ultimately being between baseball and soccer. Down In The Dumps includes multiple cameos from CCU fans, including: Nick, Danielle and SK.

Down In The Dumps primarily focused on Audrey, Eric and Moon, with other major appearances from Danielle, Nick and SK. The episode opens with the Narrator stumbling upon a market in uptown, seeing a family in poverty living in a nearby alley way, with him reflecting on his own experience on recieving bad news from his own father. The Narrator is cut off by a nearby television display, which a kid from the alley, Eric, notices and watches; David Daniel announces the city will be hosting a soccer tournament to celebrate the opening of their first major stadium, with the winning team recieving $100,000 for each player. Eric nervously decides to attempt this challenge in hopes he could finally give his family a roof to live under. The next day arrives and tryouts have begun with four coaches picking out their players, these coaches being; Moon, Danielle, SK and "Coach". Suddenly Tyrone makes a grand entrance into the stadium, announcing his daughter Audrey is going to try out first; with her performing a decent kick and getting put onto Moon's team. Following this, Eric nervously kicks the ball in and Moon decides to take a chance with him as well, despite the hesitation from his brother Mac. Audrey begins to sniff Eric and smells his awful body odor, however she compliments him for this and begins talking with him. Danielle ultimately decides to take Nick's kid, Corey. After a montage of teams being decided, a montage of teams versing ensues, with the first match being between Moon's Maclights and Danielle's Wheelchairs; with The Maclights reigning supreme due to Corey's incompetence. The next game is SK's Bornstars vs. Coach's Silhouettes; with The Bornstars winning effortlessly. The final match is between Moon's Maclights and SK's Bornstars; however The Bornstars are short a player, to make the game even Moon is forced to make one of his players sit out; he chooses Audrey, having faith in Eric. However, Eric refuses to play the game with Audrey sitting out, him also sitting out on his own will. Audrey expresses dissappointment in the fact Eric can't get any money now, but Eric states "I have all that I could ever want right beside me", referring to Audrey. The episode ends with The Bornstars winning, Audrey and Eric being kicked out of the stadium, with the two of them going dumpster diving instead.

Initial reactions were very positive, many considering Down In The Dumps one of, if not the greatest Spin-Off episode to have premiered at that time. Many also praising Cohen's comedic value and SK's character "Jimmy" being surprisingly funny for a one-note gross-out character. However, Down In The Dumps had it's critics; mainly Dion, who expressed major dissappointment in the episode even before it was finished being produced, calling the ending "predictable and worthless", referring to Eric giving up the money for friends/family. Cohen agreed with this criticism, but expressed that he couldn't see the episode ending any other way.

Upon retrospect however, many still find Down In The Dumps to be a diamond in the rough, still having a lot of problems, but in the grand scheme of the Spin-Off, it is one of the best episodes in that regard. Many vastly prefer the Tiny Tots reimagining of Down In The Dumps as opposed to the original, where there is no soccer tournament and is simply just Audrey meeting Eric and exploring the dump he lives in, and saving him from a guard dog attack as opposed to the alley way he lived in with the Spin-Off, and giving up money for a girl he loves. Cohen stated that the reimagining was not faithful to the original at all on purpose, to create something new, better and far more logical.

Dion's mental health and framing Cohen (November 10th 2019)
After the ninth contained two episodes both only produced by Cohen and both were recieved positively overall, Dion felt jealousy, especially now that people have completely brushed over Mind Your Mac as being a boring episode without meaning; also disregarding many of his characters as one-note stereotypes. Likely both a cause from this and having discussed Cohen's mental health and breakdown not too long ago, Dion took matters into their own hands and decided to do what they thought was best for their friend; however it was the worst thing they could've done.

Discussing Day 17
November 10th; the seventeenth day was another big day for the CCU Spin-Off production-wise, however this day might have caused the most damage out of any other day; primarily fuelled by rage and fear from Dion on how they felt about Cohen's success with the Spin-Off and what they saw as his mental health getting worse, Dion wanted to make a change and wanted to do it fast. This day would permanently damage the CCU's appeal to many members of the Discord server, whether or not they ever had interest.

Discussing Days 18-22
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Frights, Camera, Action!
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Discussing Day 23
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Through The White Noise
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Discussing Day 24
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Anarchistic Authority
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In addition, with these rising ambitions came one other main thing, massive concepts for storylines, although most would never get to see any of these at the time, and many if not all still not being known publicly to this day. Regardless, many concepts were written as a result of this, most of which being from Cohen himself, leading him to realize he was the only one putting in actual effort at that time. Cohen brought this up to the other members of the CCU Staff Team, many of whom were very critical with the way Cohen brought the situation to light, most people regarding the conversation to be "immature" and "selfish", as many in the Staff Team felt as though Cohen only cared about himself in the situation, not realizing that the other members have lives they need to live, grades they need to make and jobs they need to do. Jeremy would later quit the CCU Staff Team and ultimately leave the CCU behind entirely soon after this conversation.

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Trivia

 * Collectively throughout the production history of the Spin-Off, there were 59* curse words used that are mentioned in this wiki; the total uncut amount is a much higher 311 curse words used. In both contexts, Cohen swore the most; the wiki version featuring 26 swears from him, the uncut version featuring 191 swears from him. Though it should be noted most of the instances where a curse word was used in the uncut version, it was mainly minor words like "damn", "hell" or "ass".