SitcomD&D - Season 2 Reflections

Episode Date: January 17, 2023

With season two in the books, the gang sit down to discuss their experience creating the past twenty two episodes of SitcomD&D as well as answer listener questions about the show! Starring: Erin Keif, Waleed Mansour, Elizabeth Andrews, Sean Coyle, and Ben Briggs. Theme Song by Arne Parrott Artwork by Waleed Mansour Edited by Sean Meagher Like the show? Rate SitcomD&D 5 stars on Apple Podcasts and leave a review.  Buy some SitcomD&D merch Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok: @SitcomDnD Advertise on SitcomD&D via Gumball.fm Support our Patreon at Patreon.com/SitcomdndSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This is a HeadGum Podcast. Welcome back to Sitcom D&D, a real play Dungeons & Dragons podcast recorded in front of a fake studio audience. Today, you are joining us for a season reflection for Season 2. We did it, y'all. Season two is in the bag. Wrap it up. Wrap it up. Send it out. And we are back with a vengeance

to answer questions from you. What is this? Is this like a morning radio show? What is this energy? It's horrible. What it honestly is is I have like a slight cold and I'm overcompensating trying to bring the energy.

It's working, man. It's so working for me. You've definitely overcompensated. Let me walk it back. Let me walk it back. So we're going to like answer a couple of questions from you guys.

Perfect. Perfect. Perfect. But seriously, we are very excited to answer your questions and then just kind of reflect on the season ourselves. We haven't, you know, got together as a group and reflected upon season two yet. So I'm very excited to have this little time together to do that. So I think the way that this will work is,

first, I just have a few questions, together to do that. So I think the way that this will work is first I just have a few questions, maybe even just one, for the gang. And from there we'll get into some listener submitted questions from like Twitter, Instagram, and our Discord on Patreon.

And I think we got a buttload. So we should be here for a good hot minute. Yeah, we got a buttload. So we should be here for a good hot minute. Yeah, we got a buttload. Okay, confirmed. Confirmed. Confirmed buttload. And to our listeners, yeah, Willie just checked his butt.

So yeah, it is. It's chock full. It is. Overflowing. Juicy. Awesome. The first question that I have is a pretty general one which is just like what did you guys think of season two

liked it next question pretty good pretty good yeah pretty good i'm gonna start i'm gonna start okay i'm gonna i'm take the pressure off you guys. I am really, really, really proud of season two. And I think you guys should be too. I know I'm tooting my own horn here. We're tooting our own horns. We're tooting each other's horns. We're horn tooters.

We're horn tooters. But I just think it's really good. I think, you know, as a project goes on, you like kind of learn more and more what it is and what you're trying to do and what direction you want to take it. And I think looking at season two, when I just look back at even some of just these like episode titles, I'm like, man, this was so much fun. And we took some I think some like creative big swings with like the flashback episodes in particular. And then just the way in which we executed all these all these different episodes. And I'm just really proud of it. And I'm proud of you guys. I thought everyone stepping up and getting more involved in like not only their character arcs, but also, you know, story concepts at large was awesome. And so for me personally, I'm just so glad that this exists. Like we have these 22 episodes of season two that are out there there now in perpetuity so thanks for being a part of it guys and thanks for crushing it yeah i love this season i mean i loved season one so much and i some of my favorite episodes are from that season but i think that this season for me felt

so fun to record and i think the um uh the mapping out of the season and knowing where we were going made everything way easier than season one, where we were sort of flying by the seat of our pants in some ways. Yeah, we were definitely like building the plane as we were flying it in season one. Yeah, for sure. that is an interesting concept though with like um you know because we get uh we've gotten some questions before in the past be able to come up today of just like how do you marry the two you know sitcom and dnd and this was really helpful i think in this season to have the through line of chalice and jalpert's wedding as like okay we know that that's probably going to be like if it were a sitcom that's a season finale type event and so then we didn't have to have every episode being a quest towards that wedding um but it is on the horizon and you could kind of have it

function as like an overarching dnd end point um so it still leaves room for bonkers things to happen throughout the season, but for our characters, there's an emotional through line and drive towards a big event the whole time that grounds everything, which I thought just made everyone feel a lot

more comfortable and have a better understanding of where things were headed. I felt really good about this season. I thought, yeah, we were kind of like exploring, kind of figuring some stuff out. But like just from like the foundation and all the characters and world building that we've been able to do and everything like things this season, not that they did in the previous season, just felt like a lot more steady. There was a lot more to kind of like pull from it was like a lot less of us just kind of grabbing at

play-doh and trying to make something new and like being able to kind of you know use the tools that we've already created use the characters and everything and i think that was like really helpful for me personally in my uh the growth of the character and everything like that like i don't know i feel like i know seb better now where not that i didn't know where i was going or that i needed to kind of figure it out but it's just like having that history behind him and kind of like looking at it forward it just feels so much more concrete and yeah i i felt really really good about this this season for that. And just because it was like, it was just so much fun to play each and every week.

Like just looking at these episodes and what we've already talked about, it's like we did some insane things in this season. Like just like really things that shouldn't have worked, but they worked so fucking good. It's big swings, big fat home runs. Real freaking suckers. Oh, and it was so much fun. Couple of laps around the bases, waving at our friends and family. Fat home runs.

Umpire chasing us, going, get off the field. You can get a ticket. Get a ticket. Yeah, to piggyback off of Ben, going, get off the field! You can get a ticket. Get a ticket. Yeah, to piggyback off of Ben, Seb, I've combined your names in my mind. You are one person. Ben, Seb. I really, really loved the flashbacks in season two.

I thought that, to Ben's point, it just helped with the history of each character. And it really made me fall in love with them all over again, like hearing where they came from. You know, we didn't plan this, but as each one came out and was created each character had like such a sad ending to their flashback and we really honestly didn't plan that like i feel like it just kind of organically came about that of course each of these like kind of shitty people come from like a sad story that where they like also kind of

come together and are very like-minded but from such different worlds um and so it just made me really love the flashbacks i think those that's what i'm most proud of looking back with season two because i just be like telling my family like oh man chalice's flashback is coming up and you guys are gonna lose your mind like i just loved each um each one and i felt like each one got better and better and better and you got to know the character even more which just makes it even better i loved them yeah definitely the character exploration this season was one of my favorite parts uh definitely the flashbacks uh but also the we felt like we had more through lines throughout the season for our characters i think one of the things that was super helpful is that we knew when we started this season that

it was going to be 22 episodes and we were going to finish a season and then have a season three next. When we started season one, we didn't know. We didn't have an idea of how long the run was going to be, if we were just going to keep going and going the idea of seasons wasn't really thought of when we recorded episode one of season one so to know that before season two was super super helpful and could help from a general story census for a story idea for, uh, the entire, you know, for all of sitcom D and D, but then also for our individual characters as well, which was really,

really nice. Uh, and we'll be nice going forward to have that knowledge, uh, of a limited season, which is good. Totally. For sure.

For sure. Um, smash that question. Smashed it. y'all smashed it um and so since that question is just lying broken on the floor uh let's let's move on to some listener questions i think we'll lead i think if you want to check your butt again, I think we've got a full load in there. Wait a minute. One second. Oh, no. I hate it here. He smiled a lot while he did that.

I'm always smiling. All right. We got 50 different questions from, like Sean said, from Discord, from Instagram, from Twitter. And I will be rolling a D100, dividing by by two and that's how we will be getting our questions let's give this thing a go here we go rolling D100 all right question number 15 15 because I rolled a 30 thank you do you guys get it okay oh I'm starting to get it now okay what is your wildest dream for the show i ask because i often imagine the show as an animated series in my head anyone have hopes of that nature in their hearts that's so funny literally when at the first part of that question i was like oh an

animated series and then you kept reading and i was like oh whoa this person is me yeah did i write this yes submitted by elizabeth 100 elizabeth did submit one yeah might come up if it doesn't get rolled i will read the question either way just a heads up 100 see this as an animated series like in my head when we're recording this, I literally see everything we're saying. And Aaron and I have had this conversation too where we're like, I see you as Chalice. When we sit down and put,

it's like a very ritualistic thing to put your headphones on and sit in this chair in your little dark room. And then it just like transported to this place and i literally i'm a very physical comedian so i fully see it in my head and the moment we started describing what our characters are doing i was just like i see this and we got to draw this and we're gonna make millions and warner brothers is gonna be fighting and we're gonna get paramount plus in here.

Nickelodeon's going to be around the corner. The Warner Brothers are fighting each other. Yeah, I was going to say they're infighting. Oh, that's so dramatic. You make up a family. Oh, no. That's so funny that you say that, Elizabeth, too, just because I feel like you do such a good job on the show while we're recording of being like, Beef kind of takes a look down

and picks his belly button a little bit and then takes a deep breath like you physicalize so well that i like paint such a good picture like when when you're listening back so that makes so much sense that you are experiencing it uh that way i am experiencing it full when we're pissing i'm pissing seen it full when we're pissing i'm pissing my wildest dream is 100 years from now vr is so advanced that people can experience our episodes like elizabeth experiences them now you are in bottoms up you feel the piss going down your throat. It's an immersive virtual reality experience. Oh my gosh. It's horrible.

I have two different things. Obviously on top of whatever visual thing we want to do to bring this to life, I have two other dreams. One is that we start doing like sitcom D&D presents and then we do like 10 episode series of a different TV genre inside the world of D&D with different ones of us being like maybe one or two of us will be there and we get to work with other great improvisers that we love. So I'd love to do that one day. do that one day um and then i would also love to do a live show as our characters specifically in a bar um there's a lot of like bar slash theater spaces in chicago specifically that i think if we really go all out and we do a live show where we pretend it's bottoms up and we have people get to

like drink and hang out and come dressed up in costumes and stuff i think that would be the dream that would be so cool yeah i will say my wildest dream for sure is animated show i mean that's my wildest dream outside of like before sitcom dnd was to write and create my own animated show i mean obviously i do all the drawings for this. And, you know, I feel like I'm definitely visualizing this at all times. One of the things that I brought up to Sean recently, I went to a comic book store and I saw that like the Adventure Zone,

they have a comic book there, Critical Role, they have their own comic book series. And the idea, the first step before it becoming an animated series, the first step of making it a comic book feels like not even a wild dream. It feels very, very achievable and something that we can even do in-house, which I think would be very, very cool and very special. I just wish we knew a talented artist

that we could count on to character design. I'm keeping an eye out. Too mean. Oh, wait. W well he can do it oh we made his butt sad I think for me Wildest Dream yeah I love hearing

the visual stuff I hadn't even fathomed a comic book but that like I'm like oh yeah we could totally get that done like that sounds that sounds so doable and everything I think yeah animated some sort of series would be awesome I love the idea of like figuring out how to do like you know a live show like at a bar not as just necessarily sitting at a table or something and recording but like having it be this interactive sort of theater is like very cool and

i i don't know like i think some something visual is wild but it is also not like unattainable and i think hopefully it's something that'll come um i i'm really curious to see what we do and how far this goes, but I love everything that I've heard. And yeah, I think animated is kind of like the logical one. We've talked about some other stuff behind the scenes and stuff of just kind of expanding our, how we present the podcast into like social media and stuff like that and adding some visual things.

Those seem wild, but also attainable. I don't know. I'm feeling very empowered with the series and with the, uh, you know, with the, I don't know the,

how we're excelling right now. It feels like we're full throttle for, we're straight to the edge and I'm, I'm loving it. So. Ben, watch out. Ben's feeling empowered. Yeah, I'm loving it. Watch out. Ben's feeling empowered.

I'm feeling empowered, and thank you, guys. Nothing he can't do. Check this out. I love that. Whoa. He just levitated. Whoa. Whoa.

All right, next question. What has been the best thing about the experience making this show so far? has been the best thing about the experience making this show so far? I would say getting to laugh with this group of people. This is a group of people that didn't

we've never all improvised together before this but I definitely missed doing improv with everyone here and so it's nice to have an excuse to meet up once a week and laugh at the funny things your friends say so i'd say that's the best part for me so far yeah yeah i'm piggybacking off what aaron said that's definitely my number one is just like that's you know this is it is a lot of work you know to to like put out an episode of this

a tip like you know basically once a week, and then a Patreon episode as well. So a lot of work goes into it, and I think it would be impossible if it wasn't such a goddamn blast. It's a joy to be with this group and be laughing, and I think if it wasn't, we'd be in real trouble. So number one is definitely what Aaronaron said um for me another really nice thing about this is i'll only speak for myself uh personally but i wonder if other people feel the same way too um is that we all came from chicago and we're in the improv scene and um personally you know put a lot into it and got a lot back for sure. Number one being the relationships and the people, but doing shows, by the time we left Chicago, maybe four or five shows a week,

being really dedicated, blood, sweat, and tears on the Bentwood chairs. What you end up with is you have amazing relationships and really, really good chops as far as what your style is, what your voice is potentially, getting closer to that, and then a good understanding of improv and of the craft. the craft. But at the end of it, I think oftentimes, like myself included, I felt like, okay, besides for the people who were in the room while that show happened, there's really not a lot to show for it, to like point to and be like, yes, this happened. It's your memories, which are more important than anything else and your experience. But it is really nice to be a part of a project where we get to do something that lives, that I can re-listen to and go like, man, what a fun moment with my friends that we get to share with other people. So this is one of my first experiences and this stage of my life where I started to turn the corner and be like, okay, I get to do the things

that I love doing, but now they're being recorded in a way that I can let other people in on the fun and the experience of what we're doing. And I think that has been like, just having people enjoy it and being able to share it with others has been like a huge change over the last year and I'm just incredibly grateful that I get to do with these people and share with others we get to share it with our moms

our moms get to listen to it I was gonna say I don't know about you all but for me it's like my family especially like getting to like watch or be party to performance that I've been doing like that was like a rarity like that would be like if it coincided with a trip that my mom or my like sister had or brother had like to Chicago and I had a show like they could come to it but like now it's like you know i was just home for christmas and i was just having

like you know my family were like they're like oh i love listening to it because i love just like hearing you laugh and feeling like i get to be there with you and just like i love just like kind of goofing around like feeling like i'm there and i'm getting to watch like it's something that like you know I didn't really know that like I wanted until now till now is like it's just like it's so nice to hear from family members and they're like they're investing like my siblings their significant others are like texting me on a regular basis and being like what's it like to like you know like to when when Sean starts doing the Jennifer voice like is it like does he have like to like you know like to when when sean starts doing the jennifer voice

like is it like does he have to warm up to that like or is that just like hours guys hours it's really bad actually it's annoying as fuck we hate 30 minutes of scales necessary but like you know it's uh it's been like really amazing for that. And I think that's been like, for me, like a really cool thing because it was like, you know, something that I'd never really had. And now it's like, you know, my dad is like, oh, I want to join your Patreon. And like, is that what we all want? You need to ask your hand. Our dads to join our Patreons. Yeah.

Because he's just like, oh like it like i like to just like listen to this while i watch the birds at the bird feeder like it's just so fun like it's uh yeah i i don't know it makes me feel closer to my family and it's just it's just been a absolute blast to be a part of and then i mean like also like I think I had a relationship with like all of you guys and like we I would consider us like friends before this but like now I feel like party to your actual lives like it's not just like I see you at a theater or something like that and it's just like hey we're friendly sort of thing now it's like I ask hey how you doing? And I mean it. God, I know what you mean. I know what you mean.

Yeah, and vice versa. Well, don't speak for us. I feel like for you guys, I don't know, we had some big stuff happen this year within our personal lives. Waleed, you're about to be a dad. I'm going to be having a baby. And I think this is the first time I've said that. Has that been announced?

Yeah. I don't think I announced it on here, but it is happening. Oh, my God. We can finally talk about it? Yeah. Yay. Craziest moment of the year is Ben had to listen to the will lead baby announcement episode and be on the edge of his seat knowing that he was also having a baby so go back and

listen to will lead's pregnancy announcement and you'll hear the tension in ben's voice i will say which is a patreon episode so this might also be there's probably a lot of main feed listeners who might not know that I'm also having a baby. Oh, that's right. Woo! Yay! Woo! Yes, Ben and I are having babies like a month and a half apart.

Yeah. The same baby, right? Yes. The same baby. Really, the doctor was like, you don't want to do this. You guys shouldn't do this. We said we got a podcast. No, this will bring us closer together.

We need content, man together we need content man but yeah it's just been really good to get to know and be party to these big real things in our lives and to you know care for you guys and I'm excited to continue to care for you all I

hope you care for me yeah Benny boy god we love you Elizabeth and I every time we hang out one of us will say isn't Ben the best every single time every time we hang out she was literally here on Thursday under my weighted

blanket and we were like Ben is just a dream Sean I wanted to mention that nothing is funnier than people thinking that there's some sort of filter over the Jennifer voice. People don't believe or know it's you. Like, I don't even think your parents knew it was you. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

My parents told me, which they thought was hilarious. And I think it's pretty funny, too. They're like, you know, for the longest time, we couldn't figure out who voiced Jennifer. We're like, who's Jennifer? And then we realized it was you! We did one of our shows at The Yard, one of our Wednesday shows here in LA.

And afterwards, one of the fans asked that. They were like, hey, so how do you do, what effect do you put on the Jennifer voice? And then I just did did it, you know? I was like, actually, it's just my regular voice. And then they were like, they just looked horrified. That's true.

I mean, it's really scary. It's like a scary party. It's scary in recordings. It's scary in real life. It's scary everywhere. If we put out the videos of this, Jennifer would not be a popular character. Let's just say.

Amen, Willie. Willie, do you want to hit us with another question? Yeah, I'll hit you with another question. What moment surprised each of you the most emotionally? I think, personally, the moment that surprised me the most emotionally being, well, two. And I don't mean to take two here, but I will. So one was because Aaron Keefe, our very own Aaron Keefe, DM'd one of the episodes, episode 20, and she crushed it, knocked it out of the park. And so in that episode, I also got the privilege of, you know, being just a player, actually more of an NPC in that episode.

And so a lot of it was new to me. And so getting to, you know, experience the same as any listener, uh, some of the, how it would go over with like, um, you know, uh, coral reacting to her situation, uh, was, was a pretty big, um, devastating blow and surprise. And then another one that was really, I was just pretty blown away from a performance standpoint, even though I was DMing this episode, was when Chip and Chalice had that confrontation in episode 21 as Chip was leaving. And I told, I don't know if I told both of you this,

but Aaron, Willied, and I specifically were on an improv team in Chicago called Wet Bus that got formed in like 2015? Something like that. Early 2015. So we've been performing together or doing improv together for a really long time. And it brought me back to rehearsals at Aaron's old apartment where I

would get to watch specifically will lead and Aaron do more like emotional grounded, intense improv scenes. And it's just like, it's so impressive to watch. And I'm just going to, I'm going to toot your guys' horns to toot. Uh,

cause it's one thing to like just be good at improv and get laughs however you get laughs that's already incredible and so awesome but then to have this other gear that you can throw it into that's dramatic but also there's like still laughs sneaking within it but just like devastating and honest and real uh it just like floored me and like i've listened to that part like three times now and to improvise that like that's not scripted to improvise that emotional of a scene between two people where there's so much of a build-up um it's just so good and it it emotionally devastated me even while we were recording i remember tearing up and like i don't know i just

i thought that was great. That was fantastic. Thank you, Sean. That's very kind. Um, and thank you to the listeners who have said similar things as well. Um, one of the things emotionally that surprised me the most,

and this is, there were a lot of sappy moments in this season, a lot of tears, but one of the things that hit me emotionally from an angry perspective that i never thought would happen on this show is in the episode where beef when he is being an asshole the all bum release oh yeah and i will say when we recorded this episode sean introduced the idea of a parakeet for us to carry beef around. And I straight out refused to do it. And I never, for some reason, I was so mad.

I was like, Chip refuses to lift and carry beef around. From like this weird, angry side of Chip is like, no way am I doing this for beef. And that was a surprise for me emotionally to have that emotion while recording an episode of this show. Yeah, Waleed got mad. I was mad. That's so funny. Sean, that moment that you're talking about, I always think the end of it when Waleed goes, and that's okay, I guess, like, is so devastating and so Waleed goes and that's okay I guess like is so devastating

and so Waleed and I remember I got like there was a little cry caught in the top part of my chest and I was like this is classic freaking Waleed being the silliest person but can also say the most devastating thing in a scene but my big surprising

emotional moment was I did not write that Pepper dies at the end of that episode. We actually had moved on and Elizabeth went, sorry, can we go back for a second? And I was like, yeah.

And then she was like, and then Pepper curls up in Coral's neck and closes his eyes for the last time in the place where he spent most of his life. And I lost my mind. It's the saddest thing I've ever heard. It's so sad and so good and I think made the episode

what it was. That moment shocked me. Hey man, you wrote it. I just kind of put some close notes in there. That was all you. That was insane what you did. Obviously also the end of that thing where you that one, the chips flashback.

Too sad, actually. Chips flashback, yeah. Too sad. Yeah, skip it. We're not going to talk about that one. You don't need that. When I realized that his scarf is his friend's scarf i was like yeah fuck that yeah fuck that that's sad that's sad um that was the goal i was also gonna say uh in seb's flashback with his dog cole

like your relationship with cole was very emotional for me that was like one of the first emotional things your flashback really set the tone for all of the other it was domino and I feel like it affected everyone afterwards and yeah I think that your flashback, Seb's flashback, was like an emotional, the first emotional, like, oh my God, this guy is so sad. And this story, like Cole, his relationships are so important to him. I don't know. It was just like, it really set the tone

for the rest of the flashbacks. Yeah, I think that i agree in a certain way and i thought yeah i think seb's flashback but all the flashbacks were just like they added such like another dimension to all of our characters that it was you know tragic but necessary because it's just like all of a sudden it's just like, you know, beef makes perfect freaking sense now. Like there's like something you're like, oh, God. And I remember specifically with Rumspringer violence and like talking about kind of like the idea behind it

and all the ideas that like Sean was like kind of pitching towards me and like this is what he was thinking and what I was thinking. Like it was like, oh, this has to be a little bit tragic to work like or else like it's just weird uh and i don't know like it's uh that i think that episode first off was just like it felt like it was like dnd heavy like with like you know actions roles and stuff like that in a way that i i didn't remember us doing before that necessarily but it was also like really kind of dialed up and i think overarching for season two we were able to kind of dial up just like you know both the the sitcom little funny aside jokes but also like just like good vocal acting and like good story.

Like I was just like, I remember just like leaving that session. It was like a late night Tuesday session and just like, you know, couldn't fall asleep until like 2 30 AM just because I was just like replaying moments and being like, Oh wow. And then,

Oh yeah. That one part where, and it was just so fun and so easy to, like, it's intimidating to be like, this episode is fully about me. This episode is like, you know, my whole background to an extent so far. Like, that could very easily be overwhelming, but it was like, you know, these side characters

and all of those kind of like holding the hand and like you know making those punches just land so much harder which is so they're just fun like i i i left all of those sessions just have having had an absolute blast so i don't know like speaking of those flashback sessions i just just rolled again. And one of the questions that somebody asked are, what were some of our favorite alternate characters that we played throughout the season, which usually took place in those flashbacks? I'd love to hear what people thought their own were or what you thought other people's favorites were. I loved in my flashback, I loved all y'all being the pigs. The other pigs.

What were your names? Oh, yeah. I think I was Rosie. You were Rosie O'Donnell. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, my God. I loved, yeah. I mean, any time you get to be something like a character like that.

Waleed's, in particular, his voice for it, I can hear it in my head. Ringing. I have my answers. I think it was in the most, in the last episode, Elizabeth's

like Rumpelstiltskin character was sort of a miracle of a character. And then my favorite that I got to play I think was Wanjik and Rumspringa. Oh my God. It was sort of a miracle of a character. And then my favorite that I got to play, I think was one Jik and rum spring. Oh my God. Yeah. I get, I,

I, I play with all the people in the world who are the best at playing like kooky old men in every comedy thing I do. So I don't get to play something like that that often. And for Sean to assign me that character felt like such a joy I could be that guy all day so good it's one of my faves for sure hands down

the Jessica Simpson potion also shout out to Stinky I love Stinky I absolutely love Stinky oh man love Stinky. I absolutely love Stinky. Oh, man.

Love Stinky. I really liked playing both Stewie Smalls and the Jennifer flashback. And that's, again, a moment where I genuinely got angry at Sean for Jennifer not being serious. It was like Jennifer was not taking anything seriously. And I just got mad as Stewie. Like you have to be genuine for one second. That's a great moment. Cause you can hear yourself working yourself up in, into a tizzy.

Yeah. And that's what was my favorite part is that you can hear the moment you, you pop off. And then the other is in, in Rumspring of Violence. I liked playing, I don't even remember his name, but the captain, the pirate captain. Marfiosa. Marfiosa.

Oh, he was real fun. That was really fun. And I know we're taking a ton of time, but I wanted to say this earlier, and it just came up again. Speaking of Rumspring of Violence and balancing these things of high intense storytelling drama and comedy, I and, like, balancing these things of, like, high intense

storytelling drama and comedy, I thought a moment that was, like, packed full of both in, like, a very intoxicating, exciting way was when Seb doesn't get the satisfaction of even getting to kill

Marfiosa himself. He just goes like, no, I'm dying, I'm not. And he dies. And then Seb screams and explodes his head it's so unhinged it's hilarious but it's also tragic it's like it's this crazy amalgamation of feelings it's it's awesome i got one more thing to say was I loved Sean playing Prince Cicero. I think Sean makes such a good high status or low status person who thinks they're high status.

And I, it was so fun to get to hear him really get to relax in an episode and not have to hold everything together and just be funny. Yeah. He reminded me of a character in a lab in Aladdin, like this guy that I feel like I can't even, I can't even, I don't even think the character even had a name,

but you literally, I just was seeing that. Aladdin? Yeah, I don't know. I gotta go watch Aladdin now, but you definitely made me think of someone from there. Well, that was a fun one. And I really enjoyed playing him i was concerned uh

going into it i was like this you know character looms pretty large in the universe that we've set up as like a big bad um he's effectively the king you know still is um over fraser so uh and we and he's a bad guy and so trying to like make sure that he's like still scary uh but do that in a funny way was a fun tightrope to walk and it ended up being like a total blast even more fun than i thought it would be um and then yeah i think we've said a lot of i one one that hasn't been mentioned yet is Swisher Sweets, the leader of the horny improv babies. Horny improv babies. One of the hardest I laughed during the entire season of recording

is that character Swisher, after talking to Chip for two hours going, wait, who are you? I don't know an Elmo. I don't know an Elmo. So fucking funny. That is so funny. And then another one that comes to mind was Elizabeth's,

what was her name? Georgina Georgina. Georgina Georgina. Georgina Georgina. With supple fingers. With the fingers, with long, ten, long supple fingers with long tenor soft long supple finger so funny do you have a favorite episode or moment from the season and you can say a couple

um but I would love to hear people's like superlatives of favorites I'll start if that's easier yeah um i love in the uh repairs congregate is that the name of it yeah the superhero one that will lead did the bit of as himself trying to convince us the other performers that chip wasn't that character so not only is chip trying to convince everybody that he's not uh the red rhino but he's also trying to convince us as people. I think that's so deeply silly and funny, and I love it. I don't know what you're talking about. See, this is what I mean. And I loved the Lord Servamore in Crumbs.

I think that was my favorite episode of the series so far. And then I loved the Rashaan episode. I think that the idea that she's just sort of omnipresent as the Countess is so funny to me and such a funny concept. Yeah, she was at the wedding. She was for sure at the wedding. She's just always around now.

So those are some highlights of the season for me. Yeah, definitely a highlight for me is Maggie Winters coming to the show. That is the hardest, most consistently. I think I've laughed throughout a recording. When she was interviewing us individually about us wanting to have sex with one another, it is the hardest I laughed during the show. She's just too funny, and in a way that is both mean and fun.

And I really appreciate that, because I feel like that's not something that I have a skill set for. So shout out to Maggie. I think going back to some of my favorite moments, I guess during those guest episodes, but like also like when we were together. But in that Rashaan one, especially when Aaron, when you figured out that you were just going to go to the. I was going to say that.

Yes. Go to the funeral home, the three doors down. Kryptonite. Kryptonite. Yeah. kryptonite yeah uh and you were just gonna concoct a deal for like blood with that and how like that was just like totally came i was like in the moment so impressed and in awe i was like to your fucking god aaron just made this the most brilliant choice like improv is choices but like that fucking genius level it's iq 152 like that is so that was like that was so

impressive to me uh and I just loved that episode for so many reasons but it was like that was like the perfect tie to what felt like the perfect episode and one of my favorite that we've recorded so far and that was so so so so, so, so fun. That's really weird, Ben. Are you reading my notes? Because you're like saying everything I'm thinking and I'm like, all right, well, what am I going to say? Well, you shouldn't have shared that Google deck, motherfucker. Damn it.

You know what another great small moment is that I feel like doesn't get talked about enough is the portrait runner throughout the comment box to episode. Yeah. Yeah. That is a highlight for me about chalice farting and portraits. Also unrelated. Fuck you guys. fuck you guys i gotta say one of my favorite parts at the end of comment box is when waleed is is a he does not make mistakes man he knows what he's saying he knows he's cool cat man but at the end of that one because i had i did notes on it i was listening to it and when you go when you're like

i'm gonna take the chest you wanted to say i going to take the chest and like close the lid or something. But you could not for the life of you say it. And you were. And it was just. I just said, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. To hear like the actual improviser. Like, oh, it was just so funny and you were so funny and it was so funny

uh that's such a good one i i was thinking uh generally i just love this season where a lot of guests coming in it's such a fun exciting energy and i love when guests take the reins and it just ends up in such a crazy different place than you know i thought maybe it would end up going into it and that's like the same for so many of our guests when i'm just looking at the list like maggie andrew maggie winters andrew robinson kennedy baldwin thomas sanders like every single one of those it oh, my God, how did we get here? What fun. And then one moment I was just thinking of, thinking of the Beef's superfan episode with Kennedy Baldwin. When Beef sees that his superfan's parents are locked up and Beef reacting to that, realizing in real time how dire this situation is oh hey guys i remember just dying laughing and then beef like being so that's another point where i felt like

yeah oh yeah we're good yeah yeah chip was like actually straight up mad with Beef. Yeah, that was another. You're wrong. You're wrong. I see this. Beef immediately getting into shape. He's in prison for two seconds and he starts acting. I saw that so perfectly in my head. Like Waleed, I think I said I had sneakers and then Waleed like added this light up sneaker to it. And like that's a moment I see in my head when chip is like running down with the keys and he looks at beef and the the and in my head just the most indifferent look like he's holding

on he has one hand holding onto the pole other hand is just by his side nothing no expression on his face like no expression of please help me. Shoes blinking. Yeah. And then Chip just being so pissed at him, being like, what the, like, why are you being like this? I love a Chip beef moment.

Just the absolute stubbornness that can come from both of them. It's so funny. There's two more things I wanted to mention. One, the two like lines, like very specific lines that ring in my head are when hansen in the purple peri pedals episode meets pepper and he goes who is this or what is that like my favorite line of the season and then also when jennifer and jennifer's boyfriend episode is wearing a pin that says, fuck jazz. Yeah. I don't know why that's the funniest detail ever, but I mean, that's like the funniest thing about her.

But Jennifer, you love jazz. You love jazz. Oh, one that my brother quoted to me from, I think it's from Repair's Congregate, is they're talking to the red rhino, and they're like, well, Chip loves saving people and adventures. We should go wake Chip up. He's just sleeping upstairs.

And then the red rhino goes, oh, if someone's sleeping, you gotta let them sleep. You gotta let them sleep. You gotta let people sleep. We're dissecting that. It's like someone delivering something and just the inflection, using the inflection of their voice

to make it seem like it's a thing that everybody knows. As a way to convince someone to do something. So good. All right, I rolled. We got another question. When are you guys releasing merch? We do. Y''all there's merch especially at uh at the release of this episode there is new merch that came out on monday the 9th so go to tpublic.com slash take on dnd you can get some fun t-shirts with all your favorite characters, the Bottoms Up logo.

Yeah. A lot of fun things. And that's T-Public T-E-E. Yeah, link in bio. Yes. T-E-E. If you just go to T-Public dot com and you search sitcom D&D or any of our names, I believe I tagged all of our names, it should pop up.

Oh, perfect. Yeah. And the new merch, really good looking. Really excited for that stuff. Yeah, sexy, sexy hot. I'm going to blow some cash on that. Bras. We're selling bras and underwear. Beef bras.

Beef bras. Beef bras. Okay. All right. Well, here's my money. This is a great question. I like this one uh are we ever going to see the blacksmith shop with chip beef and chalice yes a hundred percent yeah absolutely that's gonna have to be like a three episode arc we're gonna do we'll do

something big for that because i feel like that's a big deal yeah Whether it's on the main feed or the Patreon it has to be done. Would you guys ever consider adding an after show podcast to the Patreon? I mean it would be fun. It would be fun. Yeah. I think especially

if it wasn't an hour like whoever like Sean and then whoever helped write the episode maybe just the two of them pop it on and talking about

the structure of the episode and something like that. Or we're going to have to get popping on and talking about the structure of the episode. Or we're going to have to get something like, I'm trying to think of the actual aftershows that exist of television shows and it's a host that is totally unrelated to the podcast. That doesn't listen to the podcast.

That doesn't even listen. Ryan Seacrest is going to be hosting our after show. I can't wait. You heard it here first. We got the crest. We did it. Will there ever be a season entirely outside of the bar

on some grand quest or road trip, or is the bar too central to the serialized sitcom nature of the show to abandon? That's a great question. Putting some serious thought into this. And just for like the evolution of the show itself, I think when it was like just me every week being like, oh, I got to come up with something really funny

and a concept. It's kind of how the first like, I don't know, 14 episodes went. Then it changed into like, we should kind of map out the general direction we're going and some fun one-shot concept ideas and character arcs before we even jump into the season to like flesh it out. And now from where the first season, I was like, I don't know how I'm even going to come

up with 44 episodes. Now with everyone's help, it's been like, whoa, it seems like we almost have an infinite amount of episode ideas, especially when you introduce things like flashbacks or like if we saw different characters in the same world do you know a different type of sitcom so it's like i i'm not even worried about ever running out of episode concepts at this point but whenever it seems fun to us and we want a change of pace i think it would be a great fun thing to do it i don't even know what level it would be or what season, but to kick things off into an epic quest in the style of a traditional D&D campaign where potentially the fate of all syndication hangs in the balance. I think that is something that is definitely not off the table.

something that is definitely not off the table yeah yeah and and i think uh i think it works really well in terms of our format as a sitcom and a tv show because there are a lot of examples of television shows and sitcoms where they do leave a space for a long time a good example i can think of is the last season of regular show where they're in space the whole time uh it feels like it's ripe for, we can just pick a place and set ourselves there for a while. Because obviously the show, as much as it can be about the bar bottoms up, it's really about the four or five main characters.

So it doesn't matter where we are, the show is going to be able to have infinite ideas. And let's just document this. That's the closest Jennifer has ever gotten to be included as a main character sorry he misspoke or five five is sorry five is countess

yeah I think we laid the ground work for that in this season because we I mean each one of those flashbacks wasn't in you know wasn't in the bar or bar centric maybe it ended up there or like you know it was flashing forward

or flashing back to the present and we were there and everything but it's like we had episodes where we left the bar this season so yeah I totally in my mind, I can see it. And I think it's coming. And this is a bit of a spoiler, but we've mapped out season three. And it feels like we leave the bar a lot.

That is true. This season. The most we've ever had. Correct me if I'm wrong, y'all. But the thing that I would want to remain true to, the only thing I'd be grasping onto a bit when it comes to sitcom D&D is that the majority of the episodes have a beginning, middle, and end. That's what I would think would be the key difference between sitcom D&D and a traditional Dungeons & Dragons podcast, where it's like,

okay, an hour and a half has passed. This seems like a good kind of like, you know, place to leave off on a cliffhanger or like a general conclusion has been made. But with sitcom D&D, not that it has to be completely self-contained, but that when you get into an episode, you will hear a beginning, middle and end on the majority of episodes, which is, I think really, really, it's been fun for us to try to do and tackle. which is yeah I think really really it's been fun for us to to try to do and tackle I agree and I feel like one of the highest pieces of praise that we've gotten from folks is the re-listenability of this podcast the fact that a lot of people are going back to it already like it's their favorite sitcom but in podcast form and I think the episodic nature of it really helps for that so that you can go back and just go listen to your favorite episode and you don't feel like you are, you know, diving into the middle of something. You can just listen to your favorite episode, which is not fun. I know that's something that I do with my favorite sitcoms. It's like, I'm not going to go watch the first three seasons to go finally see my favorite episode. Yeah.

favorite episode. Yeah. Totally. I think the highest praise too, that goes right along with that is when people say it feels like listening to a TV show. Like it's like a TV show in audio format, which is, you know,

what we're, what we've been going for. Really. I love when, when I hear that. Yeah. Which Muppet would play the characters in a Muppet spinoff? Oh God. I meanff? Oh, God.

I mean, you know. Erin. Well, there always has to be one human. So I have to decide what human is playing who. Me as Jennifer. People love seeing the visual of that. Yeah, for sure. I think, I mean, Rizzo as jennifer is so perfect yeah man oh yeah well

but i think miss uh miss piggy as chalice um uh fozzy as beef or gonzo as beef gonzo as beef would also work for me yeah um i think kermit and seb feel or scooter scooter or scooter is seb yeah and then i think chip being the human or a big bird but if a random sesame street character speaking of that there's actually another question that i am curious to hear and it was if we made a uh i'm not even gonna roll for this one but if we made a live action version of sitcom dnd what actor would you want to play your character not including us oh i love this question so it would have to be British. That's for sure.

Eddie Redmayne. Okay, Eddie Redmayne. Daniel Radcliffe. Daniel Radcliffe, for sure. Daniel Radcliffe would be a good Seb. Oh, yeah. Oh, fuck. Yeah, he would be so good.

Oh, that's really good. That's really good. Someone said Danny DeVito for beef on this one. Yeah, I mean, obviously. That's great. That's a great beef. That's such a good beef. My close second is my two-year-old nephew. For me.

What about Chris Hemsworth for Chip? He's funny. Yeah. It's funny, I was picturing... He's funny. Yeah, it's funny. I was picturing somebody less beefy, like Seth Rogen. Oh. Oh, yeah, that works really well. If I had a beefy pick, my beefy pick would be Dave Bautista. So that's who first came to mind.

But now you've intrigued me with Seth Rogen. What if it was like a young John Goodman? Oh, John Goodman. Oh, I love that. Yeah. Yes. And he's sitcom royalty, baby. Yeah, absolutely.

Sign me up. Jalis, what do you think? So what do we got? We got Miss Piggy. We got... Honestly, Miss Piggy still Miss Piggy would be actually perfect for me. John Goodman. But also

for me also like maybe like a little bit younger Leslie Mann. Feels like right to me. That's so good. Like how vulnerable she can be. Nailed it. I don't know. Also like Catherine O'Hara when she

was younger, I feel like could do it. These are all great. Parker Posey. Oh, Parker Posey would be good. These are great. What about Jennifer? A live action Jennifer. A real rat. We both said that at the same time. Erin!

What the hell? Hi, girl. How long have you been here? How are you, girl? I mean, I've been loving the way your hair looks. I like the bangs. Thanks. I'm trying to get it out of my face.

Sorry. What were we talking about? Oh, yeah. Sorry, guys. Okay. This question goes back to another question, but I think it's very fun

because I feel like I've heard y'all talk about this, which is, in the flashback episodes, or I guess in any episode, were there any alternate concepts

for alternate characters that we played? Hmm. Oh, so like, instead of Aaron playing Stinky, she'd play someone completely different kind of yes yeah i don't think so yeah i feel like we would it's like whoever was writing that episode or like mapping it out got to be in charge of the character assignment and we would get individually the email of the character

that they would like, the vibe that they'd like us to play. That's true. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And a lot of the time it was like we got free reign to make up the name and what they look like and their vibe and go off of the vibe the concept writer wanted. Like Georgina, Georgina, Georgina, Sean emailed me, your character is a tiefling wizard, right?

I think so. That sounds right. And like, could you think of her name and what she looks like? And you said, oh, yeah. And I said, oh, yes, I can. So it's like you get, the person gets to have the freedom

of who they create, but like with this like structure already given to us. Right. Mm-hmm. Yeah, I think for me, the closest that that ever happened was with CCW, how his little bit throughout the episode was that he was workshopping the character.

And so I was just doing a number of voices. Oh, my God. So I think you guys heard that so but yeah for the most part it was just kind of like laid out and it was like go hog wild on kind of this bass idea and that was just super duper fun all right next question you did a lot of important flashbacks what are some other past events that you'd like to explore? Ooh. I mean, we already talked about the blacksmith thing.

Mm-hmm. But I would love to do an episode that is a classic sitcom thing where we see when their paths crossed when they didn't even realize it. Yes.

Very classic sitcom. Love that. I love stuff like that. But also, like, Chip and Seb and Chip and Beef, they all have such rich histories together as duos. And I would love to see origin of... I mean, I know we saw the interview on the Patreon,

but I think old friendship stuff with them I think would be really fun to see. Yeah. I definitely would love to see Chip and Seb in high school. That's what I was going to say. Yeah. Yeah. Me too. I don't know.

I think there's like some like, you know, aside things. One that I've seen like on the discord is like people in the, the episode with Andrew Robinson, there's an elephant in the basement or something that was like my like pitch machine. Someone's like, we, they got to talk about the elephant. And I have like totally forgot after recording that we did that, but I keep seeing that. I'm like, oh yeah. So I feel like,

you know, exploring some of those kind of like tangential kind of throwaway characters is always really, really, really fun. But, uh, yeah. There's also a huge push on the Discord. I don't know if this is a flashback or not, but a mass movement to explore Jennifer acquiring a ghost-killing gun. So it has to be acknowledged. Is it a mass movement or is it one awesome person who posts about it every day? I've created five different accounts. I know that people reached out to me.

They loved the Chalice Mom flashback, but I know people want to see more Chalice in the royal world, and so I'd love to see more of that. All right, here's a big one. How is everyone so sexy? No, no one wrote that. Is that the a big one how is everyone so sexy no that is the elizabeth i genuinely forgot i submitted that yeah you were offended at first how could somebody write such things about us?

But honestly, Elizabeth, it's a good question. How is everybody so sexy? Can you answer it for all of us, Elizabeth? What makes each of us so sexy? Hydration. I was going to say Sarah V for me. Sarah V. I'm in agreement.

That's three. Would you ever swap characters for a day to see what it's like to play each other? Absolutely. Yes. Yeah, I think. Every year we go, is this the time for body swap?

Yeah. I think the longer we wait, the better it'll be. Yeah. However, I wonder if this question is almost different because a body swap episode, right? I'm still playing Chip. I'm just in Chalice's body or I'm just Chip in Beef's body as opposed to us actually trying to play

each other's characters. Well, in a Body Swap episode, though, you would be voicing... Okay, so you're saying you would be Chalice in Chip's body, but you would have your skill set and everything? Right. So I guess this is where we break down Body Swap episodes or Body Swap movies in general. So in a body swap thing, in a podcast form, I guess if Chalice and I switched bodies, would I be playing Chalice and Chip's body?

Or would I be playing Chip in Chalice's body? I think you would be playing Chalice in Chip's body. Or would I be playing Chip in Chalice's body? I think you would be playing Chalice in Chip's body. Like, you have Chip's voice, but you are Chalice in your body. Because, like, the way that I think about it physically, right, is your vocal cords don't change when a new consciousness enters your body. And so you are Chalice in Chip's body talking, sounding like Chip, but really like your inflections and everything in a way that you would talk would it would be kind of like Chip almost doing a Chalice impression. And Gravity Falls, because those are examples of television and movies where the voices do not switch or that the voices go with the character. Right.

I think the comedy there. Am I high? Yeah, I think. To me. What is happening right now? The listeners get it. They get it. Y'all know what we're talking about.

So is it a Scooby Doo or a Scooby Don't? Is it a Scooby Doo or Freaky Friday?oby-Don't? Is it a Scooby-Doo or Freaky Friday? Those are the two different options. Freaky Friday. So if you watch the Scooby-Doo movie,

in the Scooby-Doo movie, like, you'll see Fred is talking, but Velma's voice is coming out. No, no, no. This is important. Somebody asked it.

Somebody asked. But yeah, but then in Freaky Friday, obviously, they keep their own voice. I can't believe you're still talking about it. Somebody asked. But yeah. But then in Freaky Friday, obviously, they keep their own voice. I can't believe you're still talking about it. I can do everyone's voice. Oh, yeah? Oh, yeah.

That's the third option that we didn't even consider. It's Elizabeth does all of it. I just do all of it. And we all sit silently. Oh, honestly, it's like the Janet episode of Good Place where she plays all the characters. I would watch Elizabeth do that. Speaking of Elizabeth, the next question I rolled is,

is Beef an actual character or just Elizabeth sitting in front of a mug? Wow. Too mean, too mean, too mean. Too mean, too mean. And that one is also from Elizabeth. Answer the question. I mean, that is the question of the hour. That is the question. She doesn't know.

I don't know, man. So there have been times where we'll, so we'll have to pause an episode. Like I'm thinking of, oh an episode like i'm thinking of oh my god i'm thinking of the second episode of this season um it's uncle sadstone and we're like we had to pause the episode to like figure out some kind of logistical thing and we're like oh we should do a um sing-off and we're like great and then sean go is like okay right before we record he's like okay what do you think you're gonna do like what is beef gonna do and i

i remember saying like we'll just have to wait and see because i like truly and then you're like i don't know yeah like i don't fucking know beef knows like i and and then we started recording and then i came out and everything that i sang and did i literally like i just blacked out i don't know it's just sometimes it's like it's i think it's a combination of both but also who the hell knows the way you're talking about it makes it sound like you get possessed by beef. Is that true? I don't know, man.

I think I'm meeting with some priests after this. So, yeah. We'll see. Good call. If you, as people, could hang out with the Bottoms Up crew for one day what would you do that day die drink die drink and die yeah I'd love to play some beef

darts I would play beef darts that was my first thought yeah yeah absolutely I want to play a baseball like when they play baseball in the comic box, too. I'd want Chip to drive us around. Just drive us around.

I want to sit shotgun in his arms. I would love to try a pot of orange from Jennifer just to see what does that taste like that is you are gonna die I think yeah that's how you get giardia I think it'd be fun we do it a lot but to get thrown by I mean that would kill me but get thrown by Chip

I think that happens a lot but the idea solution to everything my goal for season 3 is have Chip have to throw people less I think that happens a lot, but the idea of- To our solution to everything. That's my goal for season three, is have Chip have to throw people less. What piece of improvised lore that is now canon surprised or delighted you the most? Oh, that's a great question.

Penis is a fruit. Yes. Oh, good answer, man. A hundred percent. That we, when we drive, it's just us holding each other.

Yeah, that's, that's wonderful. But there was one more. I really love, I, I feel kind of stupid bringing it up because I,

it was my idea, but like, it was the profit. Well, Lee does this all the time. I do that all the time. If it's good, it's good. There's nothing you can say about it.

Turning profit into a bad word. Oh my. There was some debate about that and Elizabeth, you were 100% right. It was the first time. For some reason when i was doing notes on that one i was like i got this like bug in my head where i was like profits got to be a bad word it just it has to be for them so then i like texted the group be like guys let's

just bleep every time we say profit and it's bad but like make it sloppy and they let me do it and uh and i was really fun i loved making that choice another one that got brought up earlier in the episode but i'm like this is at such a fun dimension to the show moving forward is a fun sucker with countess always being there uh at night and like always being just out of shot it's so funny and like it changes the way i think about the show sometimes and i love that i think i don't know why but brad pitt just an actor that lives in a hole in town to me i'm like well that's what this is all about that's some good old-fashioned fun is it this season when we hide out there that's some good old-fashioned fun is it this season when we hide out there yeah yeah in the last man standing yes what that's a good one of my favorite characters that got introduced and

thankfully i was so glad when they got back brought back later is benjamin from rumspringa violence that little the little thing of just naming him and giving him a personality just added so much to that character and uh is that was so fun i'm so glad that benjamin came back well and it's still alive right we didn't kill benjamin right what happened yeah what happened there is like there was you know which i think will lead you came up with all the names for all the Dread pirates, like Evil Dread 2 and all that, right? There's like 30 of them. And then I was out of breath adding voices to them

while basically Seb just cut them down like butter one by one. And then Elizabeth, in an attempt to just have my back so I could catch my breath for a second, voices Benjamin. And so that just singled Benjamin out as the only one who kind of had any humanity or a soul for a second. And then we just learned more and more

each action turn about Benjamin. And then it was so fun that Benjamin survived because then it allowed... That's one thing that wasn't foreseen, but it was so fun that Benjamin survived because then it allowed you know that's one thing that like wasn't foreseen but it was like oh yeah yeah this if one of them got away what a great like you know claw back to their own captainhood and coming back for for Sabin revenge um so yeah that's just like a fun little example of like how one little choice that like Elizabeth made to help a friend in need turned into like a crazy arc on the show. I want that Benjamin, since he's still alive, to just keep coming up once in every season trying to fight Seb. Trying to ruin his life.

I love that. I liked, well, Dr. Pibb was established in this season right or was he in the first season one he was in season one i love though in this season how like sean you said something about like how like doesn't actually have a degree or something like that and it was just kind of glanced over and it was like wait fully just turned him into mr yeah the whole the whole which i thought was just so funny and then it comes up every time it's like no no no don't call him doctor call him mr pick from then then on out i loved that detail it was so All right, let's do one final question. And I feel like this is a fun one to end on,

which is, were there any times recording where you had to stop from laughing too hard, either with base cast or with a guest? And I think we can just sum that up as like, what is one of the hardest moments you've laughed while recording during sitcom D&D? Aaron brought up the Max and Yvonne episode. We recorded, we had to record that

at like 7 a.m because they were in the uk and i my brain was i was laughing the whole time like i was fully awake like don't need a coffee just hang out with some british men like comedians like you'll you'll be wide awake like laughing the whole time they just were like go go go joke joke joke it was amazing it was so good but also a personal one was freaking when i had to have think of a uh a secret that willie chip had to figure out and then he figured it out right away his last episode i had to come up with a riddle i was just gonna bring it i was just gonna bring that up that is definitely one of the hardest i laughed is when that was your name up there for me too besides that one another one from uh 22 is when i asked when sean said

there are feet right beside you and i say I check to see if there are ankles connected to the feet. And he said no. And then later it's revealed that they were also not his hands holding the sticks like that is a perfect. That's just perfect joke telling. And it's incredible that we can make shit up on the spot. perfect joke telling and it's incredible that we can make shit up on the spot um but another one and i'll and i'll throw this back at elizabeth is when in the maggie episode when maggie is like essentially roasting us all in the meetings in the like one-on-one interviews and she's ass beef you know chip wants to have sex with you? And Elizabeth goes, he does?

And it's the most genuine surprise. Like, you know, like really taking it in like he does. It tickled me for some reason. And I absolutely love that moment. In terms of laughter being cut out, Grace and I cut out most of the times we really lost it in the choral flashback. Like there's a moment of Ben doing the like basketball setup on a dummy that we would be like losing it for a couple of minutes.

But to make the episode flow better, I cut out most of the laughing, but there's lots of good, but other than that, I feel like episode 22, we were kind of constantly laughing the whole time. Jennifer is stuck. I remember laughing really hard at,

and then, I mean, Max and Yvonne. I don't think I've ever had an experience like that where I was just nonstop, like could not believe how funny they were being. I was also dying throughout when Maggie, that whole episode when Maggie was on. And that was, like, one of my first tastes of, because, you know, with a guest coming on, it's such a big ask. Because it's, like, not just coming just coming on for like an interview or a conversation they have to play a character all of our episodes have beginning middle and end so you have to like

fill them in on you know what the story concept is and what they're playing and all that and some you know i i basically want to take off or we want to take off as much work off a guest plate as possible to be like hey you know this is improv so is improv, so you can do whatever you want. But if you want something to go by, this could be the general breakdown of the episode. And Maggie was one of those episodes where she's like, okay, this is the general concept. Got it. I am going to be a hurricane of hilarity.

And you are all at my beck and whim, Ma'am Dornab style from the very beginning. Ma'am Dornab. Ma'am doorknob. Ma'am doorknob, shout out. And we were just dying. I mean, I was just belly laughing like the whole time. That definitely stands out. I mean, I remember like laughing really hard

at every single time that Sean was like, you know what? You're going to say that you got hurt. You're actually going to have damage this season. Like just kind of like that turn where it's like oh really you want to get attacked by a raccoon all right roll that d4 all right like i always crack me up and i was like fine i'll do it i'll i'll play with this fire literally uh it was so fun i love those and then us making Sean roll for a joke, he told in a speech in episode 22. Holding him accountable.

He said, hey, crushes. That was a crush. Roll for the joke. Roll for the joke. This was so much fun. Man, I could honestly do this for another two hours. And I know we've got a lot of leftover questions. So if people want, maybe we'll record another episode

or something like this in the future. But what a joy to be able to do this and recap about a season that I personally feel great about and was so fun to record. You guys are the best and all the listeners, you're the best too. You're really, again, what make this show possible. I know it sounds like kind of like a cliche, but it's true that like, we just couldn't make this. We couldn't afford to make this if people weren't great and listened to it and give their support in the Patreon and all that stuff.

Thank you so much. We're excited to keep churning it out. We're super excited about what's coming for Season 3. Hopefully, if everything stays on track, that will only be a couple of weeks away, less than a month away. Thank you. Everyone, less than a month away. So thank you.

And everyone, get home safe. Goodbye. Bye-bye. Bye. Sitcom D&D is comprised of Elizabeth Andrews, Ben Briggs, Aaron Keefe, Waleed Mansour, and me, Sean Coyle. Arnie Parrott wrote the theme song and Sean Maher did the editing on this one. That's a wrap on Season 2, y'all! But we'll be back with the first episode of Season 3 on February 14th! But if you just can't wait a whole month for more content from the Sitcom D&D crew,

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