For each episode, Mr. Stone, Mr. Parker and their staff write, animate and give voice to the show scene by scene, delivering the final version to Comedy Central on Wednesday for its broadcast that night.
Itoje made a spectacular arrival on the Test match scene, delivering an immense display in the Twickenham victory over Wales last month, while Kruis was viewed in many quarters as being unlucky to miss out on Six Nations player of the tournament honours, so effective were his performances.
The brazen performance of black female comic Cocoa Brown, who plays a fellow cashier at the grocery store where Ted and Tami-Lynn work, is like a one-woman rebuttal to that scene, delivering a tart history of slavery.
Wearing clerical garb and sipping tea, he would calmly circulate in the show's frenetic cocktail-party scene, deliver a one-liner and then melt into the crowd.
That final scene delivered a promise that the two would be a couple at last, a promise that has been fulfilled, for better and for worse, in the third film in the trilogy, "Before Midnight".
Guerin was a true heroine, but the action-mad moviemakers put in so many similar face-off scenes that they inadvertently turn her into a pest and a monomaniac, and the assassination scene delivers not rage or sorrow but something like relief.
A return to the competitive scene delivered a reminder of its harsh realities; on a brutal opening day at the US Open, where stellar names did little to mask their frustrations, McIlroy stood over an 11-foot putt on the 18th needing to make it to break 80.
That final scene delivered a promise that the two would be a couple at last, a promise that has been fulfilled, for better and for worse, in the third film in the trilogy, "Before Midnight". It's been a long journey.
Chaplain for the New York City Fire Department, Father Judge had rushed to the disaster scene, delivered last rites to the dying, then gone inside the lobby of the north tower, praying for all those at Ground Zero but especially for his friends, the firefighters.
He appeared abruptly on the historical scene, delivered his message against the corruption of his age, lived off charity under conditions of drought and famine, and vanished to the east of the Jordan, where legend has it, ravens "brought him bread and flesh in the evening, and he drank of the torrent".
One of the best scenes, delivering resentment, shock and denial, comes when news of the closing is dropped to the waiters by the gentle but firm manager, Arthur Stephen McKinley Hendersonn, all chary dignity).
