What may be even better, and less predictable for the audience, is to do sort of an abridged style thing with it. Take scenes from Family Guy and assemble a sort of redux of Death Note utilizing Family Guy audio, and completely change the dynamic between L and Light

I'm not sure how much of it would actually work, but I'm sure Family Guy has enough plots to draw several things from. Make Ryuk voiced by Peter or something. The only issue is of course there's not enough Gillian to really make her into Misa. And Lois as Misa just hurts my soul to think about

Oh god... Rem as Lois... hurts so good...
But I did have a thought today, Deuce. We've GOT to do better music for the credits. Let's face it, the Law and Order theme is barely tolerable for even 30 seconds, and while TV Dinner was a step up, it was just not very upbeat or entertaining really. Granted that's not taking into account the idea that it's too painful to interject random production tags into good music, and it'll just annoy people if the song's a favorite, but you could hear the people in the audience "aww"ing when Angelyco's and MaggIvy's and such production tags went through with more upbeat and fun music and then just stop.
One proposition is for AMVS5, we actually make the credits as something more than an afterthought, something we all agree on, even if it means giving up production tags. Thus far the most successful and ironically epic credits have been 'Song that gets on everybody's nerves' but even that was too long really. I'm glad I finally convinced you to put the Haruhi reading e-mails clip in the way I'd originally suggested ^^ That one I was certain it needed a certain type of presentation to be effective. The pedobear one was definitely an interesting surprise

I wonder to this day if it would have gotten that reaction elsewhere in the production. The idea is that having clips to look for should now be our baseline, obviously, because it's the best way to split up the boredom. But AMVHell of course has the best idea with making an AMV out of clips from its submissions, yet we don't have as much to work with, and usually trip over the deadline each year anyway.
Basically I think we should consider using much more upbeat music, and perhaps making a more unified production tag. For example, (and chances are this won't happen in time

) I had an idea of actually taking a song called Siamsa from Celtic Tiger I think it's called and actually doing a Riverdance version of Hare Hare Yukai in 3D. I was considering it for fun and practice, and then as I was listening I started imagining an edited down version of it where all the tags are revealed by the characters dancing through the black background and interacting with one another. This would of course require the tags to be unified and the music to not stop, but of course each person's tag is part of who they are, so it was a bit of a tradeoff.
Anyway, yeah, you get my point. I don't have a great idea myself, but I think it's something to consider. The credits are perpetually the biggest complaint I think, so they seem to require the greatest consideration. AMVS4 though deeeeefinitely was a step up in preventing boredom though I think.