SitcomD&D - Season 3 Reflections

Episode Date: July 25, 2023

With season three 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.

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But is this a normal episode? No! No! Guys, is this season three reflections episode? Reflection! We're going to do it a little differently. No, I'm just kidding. No, what are we doing different, Elizabeth? We're going to all

grab a hat. Do I have to change my hat? I'm wearing a hat. No, no, you can keep your hat. You need to change your hat. I figured. Yeah, well put your reflection hats on because that's what we're about to do. Reflect on the season that just unfolded of sitcom D&D season three.

I cannot believe another season is wrapped up and in the books. The best season ever! Ever! Oh, goodness gracious me. I thought we were all gonna shout that together now there's a lot to reflect on a lot has happened it has been quite the journey both for our characters and all of us personally as well. A lot of changes. A lot has happened. So we've got a lot to reflect on.

And I think the best way to go about that is we asked y'all, the listeners, to submit some questions here to help us reflect on the previous season. So I'm going to read a few of those now. And, yeah, we'll do our best to answer them and how many of those questions are about our personal lives almost all they're most no one's no one's listening to the podcast um so what we're gonna start with is a question from critter A on our Discord that reads, if you had the chance to start this series over like it just never happened at all, would you change anything that you did?

Maybe like other people's characters, but not mine. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. Anyone have a real answer? My only answer would probably be, I mean, it's so hard because I don't want to change anything because I love the trajectory of this show. But obviously in more recent seasons, we've had a better idea of what was going to happen throughout the season.

And when we started the first season, we had no clue what was going to happen. That's so fair. What was going to happen. That's so fair. And I think we probably would have planned more knowing that this show was actually going to be at least moderately successful. Totally. Or like how long lasting it was going to be. Absolutely. Or the fact that we were going to do a season.

Like we didn't even know that at the time. We cannot stress how ill prepared we were to actually start a podcast when we just recorded yeah we were still calling it a pad cast then remember we didn't even know how to spell it we're like we're not ready for pods we're ready for pads i thought it was a pad cost i had the same answer as will lead i wish we could jump to the system we have now where everyone had their jobs and we all could like organize and advocate for our characters and stuff earlier although i don't but like i loved so many of the first season episodes so i wouldn't change it feels like it would change the magic yeah yeah

and i was just thinking of that from like oh it would be you know could be fun if from the get-go you know i knew that jenn Jennifer was going to be a character and introduced her in a way that made more sitcom sense or something. But it's kind of fun that she wasn't a character from the get-go and these things just happen organically and we just roll with it. Yeah, Jennifer wouldn't exist if you tried to have come up with her. I know. I was going to say, i don't think i i really

i don't want to be the asshole but i really want to change the thing like it's like the way okay asshole i don't know i'm being the a-hole but it's just like the way it's progressed in that we truly started this as like we thought you know we were in the middle of covid like we thought, you know, we were in the middle of COVID. Like we had no idea how COVID was going to play out. And we were just like, we just want to like hop on the call and see our friends' faces. And then how it's like slowly progressed and how people have stepped into like their like admin roles for this podcast has been really cool. And watching it evolve has been really satisfying yeah i agree yeah that's a big meaty question to to get right up top but we've got so

many questions to get to so i'm going to keep it moving right along and go to an instagram question from topaz underscore jade have you at any point physically danced to the Chucky Buster song? Follow up. Will it be on Spotify? Oh, I don't know. Can we do that? That second part's probably an Arnie question.

I wonder if it's on SoundCloud already. I think so. Right. That's a good question. Yeah. But Arnie feels like he should host that stuff. I mean, Arnie Parrott writes it. Shout out to Arnie. And if you haven't heard of him yet, you should give him a follow or, you know, figure him out.

You know what I mean? So just, yeah. How many songs has he done for us? Because he did our theme song. He did the Beef remix in Beef's flashback episode yes yeah which is a pretty incredible little ditty we should you know what we should do is we should post the original just to show off how impressive arnie is elizabeth's just melted well i'm gonna say that was crazy because we were like well we don't know what he's going to do. So Elizabeth just like just like sing.

That was wild. We were just like just kind of do just improv. And I was like, okay. You were like improv? What is that? I don't know her, but I'll find. And like sending it to him and he like literally made it into an actual song and i was like that i mean the theme song i already knew we were dealing with a genius but then when he did that i was like you can have

my piggy piggy piggy like you can have all my money take my 401k i don't need it you like you like wow uh there was also another question on here about the logistics of it um that asked something along the lines of uh how did it come across one second motorcycle dang sean just rode around the room with a motorcycle he said one second motorcycle recording we all take bathroom breaks. Sean takes motorcycle breaks. Wow.

But we do dance to the song in our chairs or standing. We should create an actual dance for it. I was thinking we should, especially if we ever do a live show, and we can just have them play it randomly in a live show, and then we will have had to learn an intense choreographed dance. What we need to do is like a sleepover where we spend all night making up a dance to the song. Everyone is smiling. Ben, you're hosting. We're coming straight to you.

Who calls their parents first because they're homesick? Me, I think. Me. Yeah, I think. Me. Yeah, I think it's you. Your tummy would hurt and you would have to lie down. I'd be lying. And then you would stop us from continuing to make the dance. You'd be like, you guys can't make it without me.

They're like, well, don't leave. Okay, whatever. You talk to my friends from elementary school without asking. Weird. We're going to shoot back over to the Discord and get a question from Edom Cheeserton. What was the cast's

favorite moment from this season? Should we explain why people on the Discord have silly names, though? Probably not. Okay. All right. You got to pay to find out, baby.

And then a follow-up question. Have you been on the hunt for new editors since they kept cutting out all your cool sunglass bits? So favorite moment is the first part of the question. Okay, okay. Favorite moment. I think I know mine. It's in the dog show episode when, who is it?

What's her name? Not JR, the other one. Gidget. Gidget. Says, I thought you were on a sex vacation. And then Seb goes, oh, that's happening soon. Sean and I quoted around our house like it's from a real TV show. I think that's the hardest I laughed all season.

I think the reveal of Mr. Tummy being on the sex boat at the very end of that episode, that's up there for me. I'm trying to think if there's one that exceeds that. But that reveal is just so good. And then the corresponding after that, the disgusting kind of us being like, I don't want to hear about it in the next episode.

But I'm trying to think. I loved Billy Bonka. Oh, yeah. That's hard to beat. Yeah. Vinnie Thomas and his voice, probably my favorite moment. I love it when he does that voice it's hard to nail like a single specific moment i i feel like the button episode is up there for

me in terms of highlights um in particular a moment that sticks out to me that i absolutely love is when we all go to sleep in our corners and then we jump up because somebody says maybe we should what is it maybe we should vote on a leader oh yeah maybe we should vote on a leader or something like that and we all immediately like yes let's do that yes immediately yep yes let's do that and then another one i'm looking through the episodes, another one that sticks out to me is Sean rapping as the giant baby. And then I was like building that out. That's from the comment box episode. And I absolutely love that moment so much.

Yeah. This is my favorite comment box of the past three seasons. The darkest. Yeah. The darkest. Yeah. That's what I said, right? Yeah.

Some moments that I love. I mean i mean i always love you know being super surprised by by guests um it's always like so delightful as like a dm to have to introduce other chaos and another energy into the mix uh in the twin turns episode with the cast of review review when it gets revealed that they are undercover bossing and the turn that they do just like with their energy and where they start going off on all four of like the cast i and beef tries to run and gets like shot down by their comment oh my god that really tickled me oh my gosh what a formula for just like a perfect guest episode where it's just we, all four of us end up,

or all five of us end up just getting absolutely roasted by the guests. Like it's happened a couple times now, but it's just, it's always, it's evergreen. It's just so good. I love when guests are evil or high status because it's just so fun to be that. Like a real highlight of the season for me was also Jeremy Cobb coming in

playing Dave and Cheese. He just had one of the most creative brains ever and blew me away. He was filling in things. We were like, oh yeah, we can do that. He was so good. Yeah, that was educational for us. It was really honestly an education class.

I also have one more, which is Geppetto Pinocchio's introduction and how much Waleed and Chip were just all in. I've just never seen Waleed love a character. I think Chip likes Geppetto Pinocchio more than he likes Chalice. Oh, more than anybody. He didn't even take a beat. I was going to say one that's not so funny but was very sincere was the JR episode where we find out that Seb's ex had moved on and has a family.

I thought Ben slash Seb acted that perfectly and was so earnest in it. I think Ben is a very earnest actor. And so it was such a good episode in that regard yeah that was that was i i feel like i had to do like some like some mental fitness going into that one like i was like i really feel like because like sean and i had had a discussion about the episode before kind of just like talking about what we wanted it to be like look like but there was like so much that was like i wanted like determined to kind of showcase and not make it about and stuff so like that is very nice to hear that it kind of you know it turned out so well and that was such like a high point to hear

it like that because it was like you know i was like i'm trying my best to like you know do this earnestly do this well and to like speak to the... Well, I think that's, like, kind of we've been talking about, like, how, like, you know, would we start, like, go back, change anything? But, like, I'm going to be like Elizabeth, and I'm going to be that asshole. No, because, like, to see how our characters have developed has been so cool.

And it just kind of, like, lends itself to, like, just, like, what's so fun about one doing improv but also like fun about doing dungeon dragon it's like if you were to compare that episode of seb in the jr episode versus like the very first episode these characters would not be recognizable but like now we've gotten to know the character and we know that that's the same sort of thing and it's just really but you But you've always had that inside of you. Yeah. So yeah for me I felt like this season there were so many really

good moments because it's just like these characters are just like they were just everyone knows them like like we know them we know what to expect but we're still so surprised and like they're living their dynamic like all this stuff

changing constantly it's just so fun like it's so fun to know them yeah ben i really liked i just wanted to say one thing about that episode i bet i really liked the choice that you made that seb wasn't going to be like petty or seek revenge or lash out when he found out that information yeah it was chalice doing all of that yes of course but i think obviously the show skews towards like always sunny these are kind of like despicable people i mean they're like murderers uh they're they get stuck in their ways they are uh petty people um who like want to win and be right and i think it's really refreshing that every once in a while one of us but I thought that was such a good opportunity to that is to be very human and show a lot of

grace and show a very human real response that a evolved person would actually react to that with like I thought that was super refreshing because I just I think if Chalice had done that I would have immediately gone to like well she's petty all the time so she'd refreshing because I just I think if Chalice had done that, I would have immediately gone to like, well, she's petty all the time. So she'd be petty here. And I think it's really cool that you made the choice to be human at the end of that. Well, thank you. Thank you for saying that. I think, yeah, like, you know, a little bit of it was like I was like when Sean, you and I and you can jump in here when we were like talking a little bit about it or it's like.

Seb hasn't been with this person for a long time sort of thing obviously like there's like when he talks about and what like there's almost like this like unreliable narrator when it comes to like seb talking about like his relationship to jr like there was a part of me where i'm like seb knows in his head like there's something about it so like this is hurtful that it's happened but like he's not lashing out because like you know it's not like that's one that's not seb and two it's like of course this is what has happened like sort of like he he has been separated in this sense and it's like almost just like this like oh this this delusion that he just has kind

of regurgitated but it's just like removing that facade and just kind of like i don't know and i didn't want it to be like us being like you know jr sucks like sort of thing because i didn't really like mean a ton for the reveal and i also just don't feel that seb would feel that way this is a person that he's loved and being a human being who's like you know been in relationships has gone through heart like break it doesn't usually turn out that way like when you have these big cataclysmic things and so like yeah i think that that felt like a good reveal and, I'm really glad that like I was able to play it like that honestly. And like, I don't know. Like it just, it felt truthful and good.

And was like the proper culmination of that storyline. What's also truthful about that moment is I do feel like Chalice and Chip. And I feel like Beef was also being petty towards JR. And I feel like that's also very honest. Oh, yeah. When your friend's in a crappy relationship or has a crappy ex, you're way more likely to be able to say

that person sucks. You carry the anger for your friend. Yeah, exactly. You're like, oh, actually, I'm going to carry this heavy backpack of anger for you. If you're not going to be mad, I'll be mad. Happy to be mad. And something, this is just a question

that I'm asking. You know, at the time of the release of that episode, where everyone else gets to listen to it, we were still pretty far ahead into the season. And it was interesting because people didn't know what had already happened in our season, which is, it's a big, a lot happens for Seb, and he's pretty down after that episode

where he finds out what's really going on with JR and her new relationship and kids. And I think people were like, is Seb ever going to get a win? Like quit shitting on Seb. Just give him a chance. Like what, was there anything that, that you took away from that Ben at that time?

Did you ever feel like that for Seb? I know, you know, after that episode, he gets some, some big Seb um I know you know after that episode he gets some some big wins especially you know with like Cole coming back uh and and other and other things but uh did you ever feel like that for Seb of like is he ever going to catch a break during recordings and stuff you know like some no no I I I knew that he was gonna get a break sort of thing i knew he was gonna be sad because like that's the proper like you know that's that's how he should be after kind of

such a big loss but i think i always viewed it and i think it was like my intention from like the get-go and from like the of this season and then after the reveal of like jr and everything that this is more so like you know seb is this character who has the most tangled overgrown background like you know i try to like put in all these different pieces on his back yeah and eventually we'll find out i don't even know what that's about but like eventually it'll come up but eventually we'll find out i don't even know what that's about but like eventually it'll come up but um i thought this was like for a good part of that like this was a good opportunity to kind of like burn some of the overgrowth and like kind of let what turned out to be like you know seb's good at the piano he's found like all these things he's like really he opened up himself to

like you know a relationship with another person like he's like doing all these other things i i for me it was like this rebirth because it was like seb has all this other stuff and is now able to kind of grow from it flower and i can't wait to see what like how that flowers in the seasons to come you know what i mean like i think it frees up and like make some other kind of cool stuff and don't worry there's plenty plenty of overgrowth that still remains so like that there's gonna be you know more stuff for us to investigate you know him going to assassin circus school etc like stuff like that so yeah don't worry guys don't don't worry write checks you can't cash

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So find your social sweet spot with BetterHelp. Visit betterhelp.com slash sitcom D&D today to get 10% off your first month. That's betterhelp.com slash sitcom D&D. Another one from the Discord here from Tess Warner. How much of the will they won't they between Chip and Chalice is pre-planned and how much is purely improv? Like do you as a group or a trio know when the end goal payoff do you as a group or trio know when the end goal payoff will occur it's a mix of both so if like there's a plot line that completely revolves around their relationship that beat of their relationship is sort of planned out like

um i think we knew that the mid part of the season was leading towards a kiss because we thought that would add tension once ryan came back as alberta so stuff like that is planned but the pacing inside of episodes i truly just think it's will lead and i knowing and watching enough sitcoms to know how to pace these out and when to not address it at all in an episode and when to like turn up the volume of it i totally agree i feel like it's definitely just reaching back into our sitcom brain and pulling out what we've seen in a hundred different television shows i'm currently re-watching wings and it's just so predictable every will they won't they moment between the two main love interests in the show. And similarly, some of it is fully unspoken

because I think we just know what makes the most sense for a classic sitcom. Speaking of things that people got mad at or responded to in the moment, after the Vice Canyon episode, there were definitely some people that were like, oh my God, thank God that Chip and Jalis

are together now. Oh no, it's a sitcom thing. The funniest, the funniest thing. It's like, have y'all not watched anything? Have y'all not watched

a single sitcom? You know, this brings me to my next question. It's actually whose underscore faith's question from Instagram. Was there any moment you as players felt like you won against the DM?

And I can answer that with a no. No, you don't. I'm just going to answer with it almost always. Yeah, I think always. Well, listening to the Jeremy Cobb episode, there's a moment near the end when when sean calls the munchies junkies and we all are like wait oh you got that wrong and then sean goes no actually these are junkies and then he's like making it up on the spot. And Ben says, you're sweating through your shirt, Sean.

I love the chase. I love the back and forth we have with the DM. Y'all are relentless. You're always after my throat. You're like a babysitter that we know we can manipulate. And we even tell you to your face how much we're getting away with. How did it come to this? face how much we're getting away with how did it come to this it's every time that sab just goes like i explode my clothes off i'm wearing a barrel that has uh machetes in it no it's always said

it's always said by the way peek behind the curtain you say yes i know you can say you know they can roll for it i cannot discipline my children. That's something I'm going to work on in between seasons. I'm going to come back a hard ass. Yeah. No, please don't. I think it really is just about, it's you versus Ben, if we're being honest. I never try to do kooky stuff like he does. Well, here, to answer

this honestly, though, too, I really enjoy when this happens, and I love, even when I was just, you know, just doing improv in Chicago, I always loved getting teased within the mechanics of a scene. That's always something I found so much fun. And with this, the way that I've always thought about DMing, and again, this is my first time DMing anything is this project, which has been an absolute blast.

And when talking with DMs even before the project or now other DMs, talking about making decisions, there are a lot of rules within the D&D rulebook, but right when you open it, one of the first things that it says is, at the end of the day, you want people to have fun and you want this to be a fun adventure that you take your friends on and you get to control the world in which they live in. And when I think about other D&D games that I've played, I think it's been a little bit more beholden to the rules of reality where, you know, you are going to have to roll if you rip off what looked like your skin and you're wearing a tuxedo underneath it. But then I think about, okay, this is in a sitcom world and is it more or less fun? And does it actually affect the

characters and the overall, let's say themes or objectives where I'm trying to get across as a storyteller with the help of the cast. And if it's just more fun and it doesn't negatively affect those other things, then we're going to do it. Then I'm going to say yes. if it's just more fun and it doesn't negatively affect those other things then we're gonna do it then i'm gonna say yes and it's okay that's such a good point that the world is sitcomy so everything in the world naturally skews towards that is like a common occurrence i usually don't yeah go ahead it is fun when when we're doing something sean hadn't planned isn't part of the plan because you can hear it and i feel like we like it's like smelling blood like shark smelling blood in the water we're like oh he didn't he doesn't plan this one so i'm gonna tap dance around this for a while and he's like okay you're having fun over the classic babysitter like i see you having fun and then our recording goes an extra hour and a half oh that's our fault yeah oh it's awesome speaking of recordings um were the episode

recordings affected by waleed and ben having children in any way not at all yes not one bit one time who's telling the truth? Absolutely. Absolutely. Yeah. We recorded way ahead of the releases. So we only recorded two episodes after I had my baby. I think this would be kind of fun for people to know. We basically recorded all the episodes between the beginning of the year and mid-March, which is pretty wild.

It was really hard. And there were days where we recorded two in one day, and I can tell you which ones those were. Oh my god, I don't even remember which ones those were. Didn't we do a three? Am I wrong? I think we did a three in two days. Maybe it was a Patreon, maybe.

No, we did season two, we did three in two days. Maybe it was a Patreon, maybe. No, we did. We did. Season two, we did three in one day. Guest episodes. Because we did three guest episodes. Oh, because we woke up super early for Max and Yvonne. In London. God. And then who was that?

Oh, then Andrew at night? And then someone else? And Maggie. And then Maggie. And Maggie. Weird. Whoa. Whoa.

So we've done that before, which if you're looking at those episodes, I know that there was another question that I saw on Instagram, which is, do you guys record them in order? And the answer is no. No. Which is. Mostly-ish, though. It's not like we're going from like 1 to 17 to 4 to 8. It's only because of guests. Yeah.

Yeah. As much as we can. Yeah. Guests are the only reason that gets messed up. Yeah. As much as we can. Yeah, I guess they're the only reason that gets messed up. So there are times right at the beginning of the episode we have to be like, okay, what has actually happened up until this point? And what things do we have to basically wipe from our mind?

Yeah. Like the Atra one and the Gabrus one, I remember being totally out of order. Like we so much so we were trying to not say anything about the rest of the season because we were like, what day is it? Where are we in time in this episode who exists what characters do we not even know about up until now is cole here yet yeah and that's just like this being a different beast than like a typical dnd campaign right where like you know what we're trying to do is a little bit different in that the storytelling is episodic and there's overarching story, but with any episodic series that you'd see on a sitcom, some of those you'd be able to,

as you might guess, record or film out of order. And then even sometimes view out of order, which was a big objective with us at this show, is being able to drop in in a given episode and really kind of get the gist of what's going on and have a beginning, middle, and end, no matter where you drop into, which can prove challenging at times. But for the most part,

it's been a super fun challenge on the show. Yeah. I'd like to share that episode two and three were recorded on the same day. That's Chuck E. Busted and Breaking Beef. And episode 11 and 12 were recorded on the same day. That is Beef's Day Out with Kennedy Baldwin and Comet Box 3. Oh. Oh.

And then a lot of ones where we recorded like, we recorded like, there were weeks where we were meeting like four times a week and like seeing each other. Like we saw each other a lot on the computer. Oh yeah. And then we had the babies and then it was like,

I didn't get to see you guys for a while and I was like, I feel like lonely. Yeah. I was talking to Aaron. This baby's making me lonely. I know, I was talking to Aaron like, oh, I feel a little like down and she's like, well, is that maybe,

oh, well, this is kind of a reference to beef losing his voice to this season and not seeing you guys for a little while she was like do you think that's because beef's sad right now it's like that's why you're sad right now and i was like oh this is getting too intertwined you're like you need to get out of my apartment please yeah girl yeah and just to let our listeners know uh elizabeth is method so anytime Uh-oh, this is getting too intertwined. You're like, you need to get out of my apartment, please. Yeah, girl. Yeah, and just to let our listeners know, Elizabeth is method. So anytime that we're in a recording phase,

the bald cap's on. She eats like beef. She sleeps like beef. A question from the Discord, Rattrick Dempsey in Maze Anatomy asks, would there ever be a spinoff series once the main one finishes a la Frasier? Oh, that would be cool. Yeah. Yeah, I don't even think necessarily this show has to be done to get a spinoff a la Happy Days and Laverne and Shirley and whatnot.

happy days and Laverne and Shirley and whatnot. No, it's like, you know, I have, we have no clue how long this show is going to go, but there's a lot of comedy podcasts that go for many years. And I don't necessarily feel like we have to wait for this thing to be done in order to create more content for you.

Yeah. Folks. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe seven is past like a prequel. Seb prequel would probably be fun. Yeah. Maybe Seb in his past, like a prequel.

Seb prequel would probably be fun. I would love to do a spinoff series of Hayley Palmer's character, Tangerine, the witch. I think her background would be super interesting to explore. Totally. And we also have like, you know, talked about in the future, just kind of like blue sky, like you know talked about in the future just kind of like blue sky um the idea of same world but following like a different kind of type of sitcom so this was like you know a cheers or like a workplace comedy in a sense and if you know we instead did a sitcom dnd um started from the perspective of like a family uh similar to like more of like a family style sitcom and what that might look like,

which is also like a really fun idea. Yeah, I guess it's like wide open. Like, yeah, I mean, I think it's time and money. Yeah, nothing's, you know, that I know of is like being planned actively right now, but like for sure, that'd be kind sure, that's a cool window and door and freaking sliding glass door that is wide open in the future.

I hope we do more of these Patreons. We've already done one where Sean DMed a one-off for a Patreon of the fire station in Frasier. Fleshing out Frasier. Yeah, fleshing out Frasier. And I'm sure we're going to do more of that series too. And that'll be really fun.

Can I ask everyone a question really quick? Yeah. So, and Sean, you can answer this for Jennifer, but if you have another answer for one of your many other characters, you can do that. But if you had to do a sequel or prequel for your character today, like what time or genre or part of their life would you want it to be set? It's a great question. Film noir prequel.

I love that. I'll throw a third option in there if that's okay Erin, but also like a parallel universe. Where things are just like, they went a different route. Their life is somehow different. It's not the same universe that we're in. Yeah, it's like black and white.

I have two ideas off the bat for Chalice. One would be like her high school years but have it feel like in the tone of like the OC. So funny. Or her very old and like a golden girl situation although i'd want the rest of the golden girls to be like the bottoms up yeah i think i was i was also gonna say high school because i think it'd be fun to have chip and sabin see what their relationship was like when they were in high school and it feel like a Boy Meets World would be my pick.

Oh my god. I love Boy Meets World. My other pitch would be Chip as like an old grumpy dad in some sort of classic family style. He's like an Ed O'Neill. Yeah, exactly. That's so good. That's brilliant. Yeah, Chip married with children.

I'm on board for. Yeah. Three years after the apocalypse, Seb is the only. Yes. He does The Last Man on Earth. Oh yeah. Oh, that would be,

maybe not great podcasting. Breaks his glasses. Breaks his glasses. Oh yeah, Twilight Zone. It's Twilight Zone. In the library? No, no. Oh, that'd be fun. Obviously a Jennifer Better Call Saul vibe.

Yeah, I was thinking maybe like a Peaky Blinders, a Squeaky Blinders for Jennifer. The Squeakquel. The Squeakquel. You guys hear me slam a typewriter down on my desk and I'm just. Her fingers are flying.

Yeah, where she's got, you know, her rat family involved in crime and trying to work their way up into being the kingpins of, you know, Frasier. Okay, now I want all of these things to exist. Wow, okay, great. We have plenty of content to make. Okay, cool. So another question here. Was the Chucky Buster song a reveal in episode or did you guys already know about it?

in episode or did you guys already know about it i think if i'm recalling i revealed that it was going to be made is that right i said in the episode okay i think this is what i want to do with this i would love to get arnie to do it or had we already talked to him we just didn't have it yet what was the situation yes you said in the middle of an episode you were like and then this is gonna play but you hadn't had arnie do it yet yeah yeah so the first time we reacted we weren't reacting to anything but i can't remember i can't remember if the first time i heard it was during a recording or just you showed me on your phone one time when we were hanging out i i cannot remember yeah i remember the first time hearing it just dying laughing and going it's so

long i think i think it was originally supposed to be significantly shorter sort of like a sting but i think we talked about like if it's played over and over again the length of it it's gonna do that thing where it's like oh my god it's so long why is it still going like it just it felt funnier longer yeah yeah man arnie really knocked that out of the park though well and then maybe we can like talk about really quick i don't know if there's a question about this, but how we chose the moment in every episode to play it. That evolved over time, but Ben, I feel like you should answer that.

Well, yeah, at first it was like, and I think this is where it'll be, but I think Sean, maybe you just were like, we record on something called Zencaster and Zencaster gave us access to a soundboard,

which I took full liberties to. And Sean said, can you just play it when you just think it's a good moment? So it just became this weekly game for myself where I could just do it and interrupt Sean at the same time. Yeah, it was something I regretted almost immediately giving that decision to Ben.

Because it started off and it would be like, I'll text you when it's time to hit it on the soundboard because Ben has the ownership over the Zencaster. And then I was like, I trust you, man. Like you do it when you think it's funniest. And then if it was funniest to Ben, anytime that I was in the middle of something or trying to keep it so long. I thought it ended up working out so well that the DM didn't know when it was coming. Yeah, agreed. It ended up, I wouldn't have known that that would be the right choice, when it was coming yeah like agreed it ended up actually i wouldn't have known that that would be the right choice but it's so first of all i don't think you ever

made a wrong choice ben it was like the perfect time every time but i also just think like we yeah for sean he would have felt like he wouldn't get to surprise us with it because he's always doing so much that we would have seen the intentional choice rather than the genuine surprise we all felt when we heard it. I mean, it became the highlight of my week. Just waiting, just lurking, being like... Your mouse is hovering over and you're shaking, smiling.

Oh, it's currently. Or the highlight, the six highlights of your week, depending on the week. Yeah. Three times in a night, yeah. That was the three highlights of my night. Now, this got asked a couple times, and I'm really fishing for compliments here. It's the Chucky Lester. It's the Chucky Lester.

It's the Chucky Lester. He just played the checky must be. He just played the checky must be. Oh, God. That was perfect. Oh. You got a bus. That kept me.

That added five years to my life. Thank you. Mine too. Do y'all have a favorite new NPC that you interacted with? Waleed.

Hmm. Yeah, mine was Waleed. Hmm. Yeah, mine was Waleed too. That character was a laggy. I mean, yeah, Geppetto Pinocchio is definitely up there for me. I'm trying to think of somebody else that we didn't already mention. But yeah, Geppetto Pinocchio is one of my favorite Sean voices that he's introduced to the show. Yeah, for sure.

Is this the season with the medium. Yeah. For sure. Is this the season with the medium? Yes. Oh, Fairy J. Fairy J. Oh my gosh. I want to get a drink

with her. Good pull. Well, that might be one of my favorite moments. Fairy J. is in the J.R. episode. She's in the J.R.? That favorite moments. Fairy Jay is in the JR episode.

She's in the JR? That's right. Fairy Jay Blige. And at the time, the character that she was based on is one of the funniest people I've ever seen in a documentary or in real life, which I believe that person's name is Terry Jay? Yeah. Something like that. But Elizabeth turned us on to this uh documentary what's it called again elizabeth is paul t goldman yes on peacock it's so it's so

good you gotta check it out well then he's real this is a real woman that is a character who's a medium yeah and so that character was you know fairy j is based off of terry j and um so yeah that was very fun uh and already i had a lot to work with right off the bat uh so that that was a blast i know mine barney stone stinson for so many different reasons i thought the um the lay-on of he gets smaller as i was like that's the the more stressed out he gets i was like that is the perfect button to press when you come into the bottoms up game because of course he's gonna shrink um and that was not planned i will say that was not planned going in it was something that kind of just fell into my lap um and was very

fun to play with and you guys knocked that out of the park. Also, that made me so happy because we originally scrapped the episode that was supposed to go there just because it just was so hard to crack it. It didn't make sense. And then this episode sort of came together at the last second and for it to end up having a character

that wouldn't have ordinarily existed in it that ended up being one of my favorite NPCs Sean's ever played. And episode, by the way, too. The cauldron and the hypothetical. Very fun episode. Sorry, I got three more and I'll make them quick, though. Three more.

The dumpas, the munchies, and Atticus, the lawyer. The little tiny lawyer. Oh, Atticus Inch. Atticus Inch. Yes. Atticus Inch. Yes.

Oh, my God. Oh, my gosh. Also, of course, our savior of the season, Tom the Fool. Tom Fool. Oh, yeah. Okay. That was so fun. When we were thinking of ways that, you know, as a DM, right, you're thinking about the different ways things could go.

And want to give all your characters, like, options to do things, right? And wanted to give Chip the ability to make whatever choice Chip, we think actually Chip would make given that, you know, proposal from Alberta. And so when we remembered, oh, you know what, Tom, there's this setup from the beginning of the season that you guys were dying laughing about. That's such a throwaway of him promising that he'll save the bar. I was like, okay, this could be a super fun way to have them not have to lose the bar if the characters make certain choices. And I'm so happy that everything went the way that it did.

It brought me a lot of joy. So for the folks that were surprised by the Tomfoolery thing did that come straight up out of left field did you even remember who that was i did not remember who that was i had not in the moment i was like i think he just made up a new character i had oddly it had crossed my mind a couple days before that moment. And I was like, oh, we should make sure he's a regular that comes back in season four. And then when you did that, I literally had that same part of my brain that would only light up at the end of a Herald show at IO when a teammate of yours would remember a

detail from the first beat and get the audience to stand on their feet because they're like, oh my god, they remembered this thing from the beginning. I was like, oh, that is so funny. I would have never thought of that. I just thought that was so brilliant. Made me so happy. This isn't an NPC, but I really did enjoy playing the bros,

the business bros. Oh, those are NPCs for sure. Yeah, NPCs. We're dating mops and they're huge and they're huge and you loved business and i love pleasure that's just good old-fashioned fun right there the two type of people um now when we when we all look back on season three um you know there's kind of like a for each season, there's been more of like an overarching thing happening or a vibe to that season. What stands out to you about season three and what are you like happy that we got to accomplish in season three, either with your characters or just as a show in general? Hmm.

I, I did enjoy, I did my um beef story arc in this um me too uh yeah i thought it was like very different it was kind of like a big thing to a big challenge but i thought it was really rewarding to do and to work on the writing with everyone on it was really fun um before the season started we all like think about what our characters want um for a story arc and i was talking to my oldest sister and was like, do you have any ideas? Like, what would you want beef to do? And we're driving like in Spokane, Washington. Like there's a there's like a bread factory we're driving by. And she's like, breaking bad.

And I was like, what? And she's like, yeah, I don't know. And I was like, wait a minute. Huh. And then I came to the group and I went, I think I want beef to have a Breaking Bad episode. But this is kind of like and I was almost kind of like, I don't know if this is anything. And then it really they everyone in on the in the crew, like really like was like, wait a minute, we really could do something with this. And they really like took it and ran with it and made it into something that was really satisfying and i really enjoyed his story arc with and his struggle with not being able to sing and who he who is he and losing his identity but then realizing he's more than just

one thing and uh that just because you lose one thing that you think makes you you, you're still you. And I think that's something Beef realizes throughout the season. Yeah, I felt like this season busted wide open the world. Like we went to like Vice Canyon several times. Like we got to play other characters. Not that we didn't get to do those any of those things in like past seasons but like for me it was like really really

fun because it was like yeah we go to the bar but the bar actually doesn't exist this season so we're having to go to all these different places we're going to another chucky busters that's kind of like it but we accidentally burn it down like it was just kind of like i mean i feel like the world just kind of like grew like we went from like just like two two little sets to having you know like way more in our arsenal as like as a sitcom which was kind of like fun yeah i for chip one of the things that i love the most about this season and this was from a writing perspective as well is once again i'm just such a huge fan of old hokey sitcoms and i feel like the way that we pay off some of chip's major beats uh are such a

such a great ode to old sitcoms for example in the very first episode we do the classic you left a voicemail on in an answering machine and you gotta go fix that like how many episodes of television have we seen with that and then the moment where chalice and chip kiss and then alberta shows up the very next episode to me even more so than like some of the emotional feelings there it's just like the ode that we're doing to sitcoms to pull off things like that um yeah it's that that means a lot to me as somebody who really you know grew up on television that actually kind of answers Pink Irrelevant's question from the Discord,

which the question was, what are some sitcom tropes you're hoping to use for a future episode? Which was your favorite trope this season? So that kind of answered the second part of that.

And then as far as ones for the future, I don't know if we will let those secrets go just yet. We don't want to spoil anything. No secrets. Erin, do you have any? Car wash. Yeah, I loved season three i love that um we're in a project that every season we record is my new favorite

season uh when we have the meeting that we already just had for season four it feels like a mountain that you have to climb up and you're like oh my gosh i hope i don't mess this up and this pacing of this and how are we going to get this through line through? And it just seems so overwhelming and hard. And it's like such a cool feeling to look back on. I felt that way about season three. And I'm like, oh, my gosh, it worked. And even after you record an episode, you're like, oh, no, did we not execute on that?

I don't know. That was two and a half hours. How did we do? And then to get the edit back and be like, oh it worked um it just makes me so happy I feel like we are a way better team this time around too and the circumstances we were recording under in that crunch time frame were so hard and I know it was taking a toll on so many people's like physical and mental well-being and for us to still pull through work that I'm exceeded my expectations and I'm so proud of is like so exciting to me it's like the best feeling in

the world after 10 years of doing comedy that you go oh my friends are professionally level good I don't always have to have it figured out they're they're professionally good and I can rely on them to yeah just like carry me through Yeah, it's so fun doing these meetings and like the breaking bad thing. I was like, I don't know. I almost don't know. And then Erin went, oh my God, that's perfect for beef. And she's like, slide that in here and this over there. And it's just like, oh my gosh, like it's so nice to work with people like where we run with each other's ideas. And i think you can really hear that in our improv as well um it's been yeah it's been a blast i couldn't agree more um that just

made me think of one last thing which is uh also just thinking about how how impressed i am like with this group and how much fun it is not to like toot our own horns into outer space or anything but uh please excuse we're gonna cut that we have to cut that that's not even a phrase but the button episode uh which really coming in is like uh you know the dm it's pretty bare bones simple conceit which is just like they're going to be stuck in this waiting room thinking that it is in fact the psych experiment. And it's really just one long form improv set or what we would call like a mono scene in one room. the four of you and then you know Jennifer was in there as well but improvising a long form set and to get what I think is one of my favorite episodes you know like an hour of content it's just like I think it's such a cool thing that we've not only you know gone through the classes and been doing this for like a decade now when it comes to improv and like learning the math brain

side of it but also each other the give and take of understanding like, Hey, this is a pretty simple concept. Not a lot else is going to happen in this episode. Uh, let's have a blast with it. Um, and then,

you know, using also your sitcom parts of your brains too, to push those buttons, no pun intended. Um, I was just so impressed. I remember getting up like off of the recording of that episode and being like,

wow, I don't think a lot of, a lot of folks can do that without, you know, being friends and taking classes and doing shows for 10 years. So I was just, that was a moment where personally I was really proud, proud of a gang. I want to hear everyone's like a moment that you were really proud of yourself or your character, like something this season where you really liked a moment or like a choice or something that you're you made I feel like one of them and the reason why I love this moment so much is because somebody put this quote of mine into the discord and I read it and I was like oh that's kind of that's a funny line I wonder who said that and then when I was talking to Sean about the episode

Sean was like it was funny when you said this quote. And I was like, I have absolutely no recollection. It doesn't sound like me, but it's me saying, beef bone, give them to business. I truly couldn't believe that I had said that. I was like, why did I say that? What is the context? So that is a line that I love. But in terms of a moment, to me, it's in the end of the hypothetical episode when we're at the top of the mountain. And I think there's a little bit of, it's just the perfect mixture of the show to me. I mean, I played D&D for such a long time. And in that moment for me to actually bring my D&D skills and defeat all four of you, or all three of you, I was very, very proud of that.

and defeat all four of you or all three of you felt i was very very proud of that but then also the emotional element of that scene between chalice and chip i think is very very cool and exciting uh and i love when everybody yelled at me for doing it and then i said it's not real this is just fake that is one of my favorite things when like someone will post like in favorite moments on the discord group or like you know on twitter or instagram or something like a moment from the podcast and you'll be like that's so weird and then like you find out that it like you said it and it's just like it's how quickly in my mind like that just gets kind of and i i feel like especially with this season because we were recording so often and everything like it all

just kind of got smushed together there was like the pretzel something about the pretzels and stuff like that and it was like oh that was you ben and i was just like wait what yeah i was i i'm i'm terrified that i'm i'm losing my mind but i think if i had to pick a moment for me and it's based off of uh the the the now classic you gotta let people sleep but it was just when i told beef that you gotta let people bust really just something that just tickles me still um yeah so i think about that one a lot but there's i mean there's so many good moments that I'm really proud of. And like, I feel like this, this season was just like really good because we just kind of,

we're just comfy with each other. And so there was a lot of just trying stuff that felt really, really, really fun. And it was just so much shared fun together, which was really nice and could have easily not gone that way because of how often we were recording and stuff like that but it was like you know we we kept it going we kept the the jazz going or whatever you want to call that the jazz the jazz i have one that will lead made me think of in that hypothetical moment that just felt natural

in a moment and the thing that i improvised and it ended up being one of my favorite moments of the show because I was like oh yeah and then of course Waleed will know what to do and of course he'll fix this moment by continuing to kill her like I just felt so it felt like a big risk and I was like I I know Waleed knows what to do and then you did and I was like oh thank you it just was such a good improv moment of jumping off something high and then your friend catching you i really didn't like anything i did this season i actually don't think i don't think we should even yeah i don't know i think we should delete it not even something that you dm delete it um no i um i i think in the moment i always like you know things that uh i didn't plan for that weren't going according to plan um that this wasn't on the plan this wasn't on the plan uh that um that we get to roll with and that i have fun rolling with in real time. And so anytime that happens, I always get super giddy and excited.

And I think a couple of those types of moments can often happen with guest episodes as well because they throw such an unknown factor into it. But I think just the... I'd never worked with Jeremy Cobb before. And in the Dave and Cheese episode, he just slipped into character so quickly and was so great and was so easy to find that dynamic of like a son that just wants to impress their father, but is also so tormented by them. And we like fell into that like it was old hat. And he was like essentially co-dming

which i loved it was so awesome to hear his descriptions and ideas for things and so to really bounce back and forth on that and collaborate and then really fall into a comedic rhythm was uh was really a highlight for me and something that I really enjoyed. I also like when Jennifer got set up to take a rage nap and then got woke up in a rage nap. That also brought me a lot of joy. I think I am proud

to have done some spells. Yeah! Be bold and give them the business. Don't get... Be bold, give them the business. Don't get me. Beep boom, give them the business. You know, I'm reading up a little more on this D&D thing. And you got to really use the spells in your things. And I thought I tried.

And maybe next season I'll try again. I like that you folded in that beef doesn't remember that he can do spells like ever yeah he's afraid he's afraid of magic it's so funny to do it yeah he's afraid of magic doesn't so funny also big house huge ass no problems is one of the greatest quotes in podcasts and content history. I'm going to say content history. I normally said we'll need multiple quotes per episode, but I was like, I don't want to.

I'm done here. That's all you need. Oh, man. I cried laughing when I heard that. I don't know why I had completely forgotten you said that, but when I did the edit on that episode, I was like, that is, that's beyond. And just to clarify, because I think it just needs to be said again, the setup was, and Beef, where do you see yourself in five years? Huge house.

Wait, no, it's big house. Big ass. Huge ass. Huge ass. No problems. And I think we all know that in five years, that's exactly what Beef's life

will be like. We'll see if he has a house. Settles down. Maybe in the sitcom of Chip being the old dad, Beef lives in the basement. For sure. Somewhere. Yes. He lives in a big house. It's not his big house. It is. He's got Uncle Joey vibes. He doesn't want to do the upkeep. He's in a big house. It's not his big house. It is.

He's got Uncle Joey vibes. He doesn't want to do the upkeep. Yeah. He's such an Uncle Joey. Seb's the neighbor, for sure. Uh-huh. Ned Flanders vibes. And to wrap things up, here's our final question from Instagram. This is from Jesse Rolofoz.

And it's, no question, just play the Chucky Buster song one more time. Gorgeous. Signing off. See you season four. We're saluting. See you in a couple weeks. There's lots of good stuff ahead. I love season four plans. Ben, you have to.

We're saluting. We're all saluting. I don't have to do anything. Stop. It's that time again. Who wants to learn the Chucky Busters dance? Leave this in the episode. Leave it in.

No. Leave it in, editors. Leave it in. I'm getting a compliment. Please leave this in. I need this. I need this. I'm begging you. I'm getting a compliment please leave this in I need this I'm begging you I'm begging you

please we just have a whole Patreon episode that is just Waleed like different times when Waleed has begged us to leave a compliment in it's 50 minutes long it'll take up a whole Patreon my question is why does that keep getting cut out

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