Lecture Notes: The Tale of Bill Cheatler

Introduction

• No video available for the session
• Story about a man named Bill Cheatler

Background: Bill Cheatler

• Year: 1983
  • Michael Jackson's "Thriller" popular
  • Family computer (Fami-Con) released in Japan
• Location: Westfields, Missouri
• Position: Overseer at the 14th largest Frito-Lay factory in America

Bill's Early Career

• Education:
  • Attended Fontbonne University, Clayton, Missouri
  • Degree in Business Administration
• Internship:
  • Frito-Lay assembly line
  • Tasked with dusting Lay's chips with onion powder and preservatives
• Diet: Consumed snacks produced by the factory
  • Breakfast: Twinkies
  • Lunch: Funyuns
  • Dinner: Ranch and lime flavored Fritos (later discontinued)

Rise to Fame

• Innovative Recipe: Altered ranch and lime Fritos
  • Claimed to isolate the "true energy" of the chip
  • Received praise from head of packaging
• Career Progression: Quickly rose through company ranks due to passion and dedication

Mysterious Encounter

• Late night work on "Smoking Honey Barbecue" Lay's chips
  • Struggling to replicate flavor
• Encounter with Grilbo the Gnome:
  • Teleported to a pirate ship, the SS Scubadungus

Adventure on the Pirate Ship

• Confrontation with Captain Silverbeard
  • Lacks money for passage
  • Forced to walk the plank
• Battle with Pirates
  • Dramatic gun battle
  • Defeats pirates, causes chaos
  • Draws giant octopus, Peter Octopus, to ship

Discovery & Revelation

• Locked Captain's Quarters:
  • Finds a world map, no continents shown
• Meeting with Dylan Kane (talking monkey)
  • Explains civilization's downfall due to cheese-corn technology
  • Urges Bill to defeat villain Galactus Prime

Final Showdown

• Battle with Galactus Prime
  • Galactus: half-robot, half-orc with laser vision
  • Bill uses a grapple hook on the moon
  • Defeats Galactus, saves the world

Conclusion

• Bill wakes in Iowa, unsure if dream or reality
• Receives secret recipe from Chester Cheetah
• Creates mac and cheese powder-coated Cheetos at work
• Ends with resolution to try getting a video for tomorrow