The dropout Community is crying out for "Oops! All-Bards", especially the ones who watch both D20 and Play It By Ear (which is a lot of us). For context, the idea is the party is (unsurprisingly) all bards or musical characters, the DM would probably be Brennan, or our good fella Ross Bryant. We have tons of options for a cast, including...
Zach Reino (We know he plays D&D, has appeared on Hello From the Magic Tavern)
Jess McKenna (She'd be a total newbie, which would be so fun to see, unless she's learned to play since Dungeons and Dating on Offbook, has appeared on Hello From the Magic Tavern. EDIT: Jess has learned to play dnd, how fun)
Ross Bryant (Long time player, DM, has appeared on Hello From the Magic Tavern)
Rashawn Nadine Scott (currently the lovely Viola on Burrow's end, is in a DND podcast which I unfortunately cannot remember the name of)
Jiavani (unaware of her D&D experience, a Play It By Ear regular, insanely funny inproviser)
Zeke Nicholson (unaware of his D&D experience, an Offbook & Play It By Ear regular)
Mano Agapion (If Ross DMs, then there's an open spot in the dome! Host of Play It By Ear, Unaware of his D&D Experience)
There's so much else you could do with a concept like this, if everyone's a different subclass, what if their characters are themed around different musicals? Or different genres of music? @samreich we're counting on you
Edit: Please give cast suggestions in the tags! Resident Horny Bisexual Theatre Kid grant got mentioned, and also once offbooker Lou Wilson, who was there for one of my favourite Offbook songs: "No thank you, Too Scary!" (Episode is 68. Monster Kids for those wondering)
Another underrated Off Book moment: when Zach knows he has thought of a rhyme which is definitely going to break Jess, and he just casually turns to her for the delivery
one of my fav offbook/play it by ear things is when jess loses it laughing at something, usually something she said, and zach immediately doubles down on it, either by repeating it or making her finish her thought
i think one of the main reasons i love zach and jess as a duo so much, in addition to their sheer genius as improvisers of course, is how they can make the dynamics between their characters so natural. obviously that comes from years of doing improv together but no matter the pairing, they make it believable — whether they're playing parents, siblings, a married couple, friends of any gender combination, parent and child, teenagers in love, rivals, or literally anything else. the chemistry between their characters is always just right