The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast - Dear Sister

Episode Date: August 12, 2024

This week The Lonely Island and Seth talk about their digital short, Dear Sister! They discuss what it was like when this short was finally able to be released and what the discussion was around the short at the time. Plus, they cover other sketches that aired during the SNL episode with Shia LaBeouf, including Sofa King, Buying Beer, Knife Salesman, and more! (Not all the clips we mention are available online; some never even aired.)If you want to see more photos and clips follow us on Instagram @thelonelymeyerspod.   Produced by Rabbit Grin ProductionsExecutive Producers Jeph Porter and Rob HolyszLead Producer Kevin MillerCreative Producer Samantha SkeltonCoordinating Producer Derek JohnsonCover Art by Olney AtwellMusic by Greg Chun and Brent AsburyEdit by Cheyenne JonesMix and Master by Jason Richards

Seth, can I start with, I'm looking at the Suite 16 that we talked about last week, because it's on vulture.com and so it's there for anybody to look at. And we were not there for the record. Me, Andy and Yoram had left the show at this point. I hadn't left the show. Oh, you were still there? Yeah, it was my last season. Did you vote?

Yes. Really? Wow. It was the end of my last season. It was like a really, Seth was very nicely, it was kind of like a final sendoff to our being there. Now I'm going back through the seeds to find it because it must've been seeded against some really-

No, I think dear sister- All right, well, I can't decide if this is the podcast yet or should we just start and talk about it? It's the podcast. I didn't interrupt, by the way. That was all Kiva. I feel like we need to start the podcast. Yeah, fine.

I just want to say that Andy said last episode that I was interrupting a lot and I don't do that. So Hey everybody, it's Seth it's the lonely island I feel like maybe this podcast is starting right now or maybe it started three minutes ago Can you just say this episode? Like why do you have to call it this podcast? It feels so gross Just say it because podcasts are so bad as a medium. Okay, gotcha. Not this one.

Hey, this episode of A Certain Medium, which will remain. Now you're making it weird. Nameless. Yeah, now they might, you think now they might know it's a podcast? Anyway, it's very exciting because Dear Sister is the digital short.

I went back and watched Dear Sister. You know, it was like. 40 and slipped. And is it Schister? Dear Schister. 40 million views on YouTube. is the digital short. I went back and watched Dear Sister. You know what I'm saying? It was like, already in slip. And is it Schister? Dear Schister. 40 million views on YouTube. But wasn't it off YouTube for a while? Yes.

Yeah, we put it on way later. Dear Sister holds up real good as a piece of comedy. Agreed? Yes, sure. Yeah, we like it. Very proud of it. We're the Lonely Island, stamp of approval. I did not know the source material of Dear Sister.

That's even better. You say you thought we were geniuses. I knew it was based on something. I knew you weren't that smart. Dagwood. Burn. Talk a little bit about where this idea came from. So we were huge OC heads. We watched every ep of the OC.

One of the most memorable. Which began before you were on the show. Correct. And in fact, Dear Sister, we shot the beginning of before we worked on the show. Okay. With different players. Sure, yeah, the Lonely Island players. It was the end, I don't forget which season,

but it was a very memorable... Season two. Looked it up today, season two. Of The OC? Yeah. Very last episode of season two. God damn, it escalated fast. That's why we love that show so much. The OC, every episode, so much crazy shit happened on the OC.

It was like peak soap opera storytelling, but in a really like horny teen way. Anyway, we loved it. Still do. Uh, the end of that second season then ends with a moment. It was basically the very first moment of Cranked Slow Mo with the Imogen Heap song. Huuuh! Ohm. Please leave that in. Where there's a gunshot, slow mo, slow turn,

you realize someone's been shot. You didn't even know there was a gun. We, from that moment, had just become obsessed with that song because we never heard that song before. I remember even working on the movie awards the night we were shooting with Fallon, big night in our lives, more than we even realized because it

ended up leading to us getting the show. We kept listening to that image and heaps on our headphones and talking about how amazing it was. Then it was you, me, and Chester Yoram tried to shoot it, and then bailed on it because we got busy. We didn't think of the ending, but we had the first few beats,

which was essentially the first few beats of Dear Sister, of it happening over and over again. Yes. I'm getting shot first. I'm writing a letter to my sister, and then you shoot me, I think. I can't remember. Was it actually writing a letter? Yeah. I thought maybe we came up with that at SNL. Anyway.

But how many years after then, this episode is the digital short? What season is this for us? Third? It's so seven. End of second. End of close to the end of the second. So our second season. So it was two years. It was probably two years exactly. Yeah, we never finished the short, right?

So two years, like for you guys, like two years is like five seconds. Because like again, you're otherwise watching writing about like total recall. Oh, I see. Right, yeah. You know what I'm saying? Like this is an incredibly quick turnaround for you guys as far as culture. Cultural turnaround, yeah.

It was within 20 years. Very topical. Yeah. So for you, you were like, I'll allow it. But certainly I also want to say, I don't think it works. The short doesn't work as a parody of the OC. You know, for example, I not having seen it, I just thought it was very funny, independent of that.

It works, I would argue, as both. Yes, I think that's fair to me. For people who had seen the OC, unlike yourself, they were very excited about the reference. But it feels like most people don't know the reference anymore. At the time though, a lot of people did. Yeah, it also is probably one of the shorts then that we didn't have an idea for,

because we also shot at Flat Hotel, I remember. Anything that was shot at Flat Hotel is usually that we were like, we're out of ideas, let's do something. I remember we didn't have an ending for it and we were like, let's just get up there and do it and came up with the ending on set too. Isn't that right? Wait, you came up with the police officer ending on set? Or very, very close to, yeah,

the very last part of it we did. It seems pretty written. No, there was some editing joke that it became at the end that we didn't really have until we were editing, I believe. The only thing that wasn't written was how overlappy it gets at the end where there's four different versions of the song playing at once. Yeah.

That was in editing where we're just like, let's just leave them on and have them build on top of each other, etc. We had written out that then cops come in and then it happens with them also. I remember Boris Sudeikis and Fred just sitting in the hotel room next to our hotel room that we were filming in till 4 AM, just so tired, just being like, are you going to use us sometime soon? What time of night do you think we started filming this?

Wait. This is definitely a Friday night, late night shoot. Yeah. Like definitely a less than 24 hours. Just because Keenan just told this story on our show about staying, I was with him at a nightclub until 430 in the morning. What day though? It was Thursday night.

Keenan had a 5 a.m. call time to go do a short film. And then a polar was saying that on set, Keenan was doing a bit where he was getting calls from himself. Oh no, he was on set trying to call himself at the club to tell him to go home. And so he was just standing and they were like literally shooting on the side of the highway and Keenan was yelling on his phone like, go outside the! The music's too loud! You got to go home, man! Oh, my God. So, again, it's Bill and Andy. Bill's writing a letter.

And then, all of a sudden, you hear a gunshot, and you see that Andy has shot Bill. Hey, man. What you doing? Nothing. Just writing a letter to my sister. Cool. It's pretty crazy. I haven't seen her in years. It's, uh, it's weird because... -♪ What you say?

-♪ Then Andy has sort of a meltdown, right? Like an, oh, shit, oh, shit, what have I done? Yeah. Gunshot song again. Bill has shot Andy. Yeah, he was still kicking. Slow-mo, hit the ground, heads on the carpet. And, by the way, we've established that Bill was writing a letter to his sister.

Wig comes in, rolly suitcase, starts reading the letter. Shia. Oh, no, I'm sorry. You're right. Shia first. Shia comes in next. Shia comes in with a lot of energy, which is really funny. -♪ Put your mouth in the soup... Gosh, I just thought of the funniest thing. -♪ What you say? I think that was Chester's part in the original.

Yes. Yeah, it's very funny, because you that was Chester's part in the original. Yes. Yeah, it's very funny because you guys are very, you have a real OC vibe about the way you're acting. Oh, and it's the same thing, right? Chester, that's what Chester says. You guys, I just thought it was the funniest thing. Chester, the funniest thing, yeah. Shout out Chester.

Laid the groundwork for Shia there. Chester Tim. Yeah. Then Wig comes in, roll his suitcase, starts reading the letter. Yeah. Now you as an audience think you're going to hear what the letter says.

Basically starts, dear sister, she gets like one line into it, not even. -"Dear sister, by the time you read this..." -♪ Do what you say Oh, that you're leaving Do what you say Do what you say Do what you say

Do what you do Do what you do Do what you do Do what you say. Do what you say. Do what you do. Do what you do. Do what you do. Do what you do. Do what you say. Then cops, right? Yeah. Then it's Fred and Sudeikis. And Fred picks up the letter and he reads the whole letter.

And it basically is Bill saying, dear sister, here's what I think is going to happen. Oh, right. It's a real turn. And describes the sketch. Hey, Sarge, listen to this. Dear sister, by the time you read this, I'll be dead. This is how I think it's gonna happen. Dave will shoot me, then I'll shoot Dave, then Eric will enter and get shot by Dave.

Then you'll come in and get shot by Eric, Dave, and I multiple times. Love, your brother Keith. And the end of it is two cops come in and then they shoot each other. Mm-hmm. You see Jason with a gun out. Then a really funny junk cut, because the second ago,

Fred was holding a letter. Then it just cuts to him shooting. He's just got the gun in his hand. Can I just say something about it in general? Yes. Obviously, the drama of it and the music of it and the slo-mo of it all make it what it is. There's something to me that is so funny

in the context of comedy about the what have I done face. Yeah. And everyone gets to over and over do the what have I done face. Which is, it's such a like trope that we like love. There's that, but then there's also the shocked to be shot too, of just like oh. What have I done? What did you do?

They're both communicating with their eyes. And everyone just keeps doing it. Yeah. Also, there's a, and I have a question about this, Keev, there seems to be a fair amount of restraint in like not showing the gun. It's not particularly bloody. Is that like lack of budget or is that you didn't have enough guns? It's the same gun and it's not even one from SNL. It's a, like one of those ones that shoots plastic pellets that we, I bought in like on a Europe backpacking trip when I was 17. Oh yeah.

Is that the one that we used when we shot the original too? It might be. Yeah, it must have been. It's the only gun we ever used cause we never even would ask for one. It's just from our closet. So yeah, lack of budget, the fact that there were no props. But it's also because it's, there was nobody to ask for anything except for, I guess, wardrobe because we're just in a hotel room on Friday night. So we just went and got it from our house.

And then the lack of blood, I guess, I mean, we had some that we would just sprinkle on people's hands, I guess. I don't know. But it is a conscious choice that we didn't want it to be gory. It wasn't like we were doing like a Tarantino spoof or something. Yeah, you don't want to confuse the joke. The joke isn't that. No, but in the OC, there is blood, I feel like, right? But it's not gratuitous. There's a blood on the close of a Shia's hand or your hand when you're holding your stomach

and you see it kind of trickling outside of your eye. It's a, you know, network television amount of gore. Yeah, yeah. More about the emotion than anything else. Why is that so funny, Seth? I have moved on to laughing about a different thing. Okay, what is it? I'm doing prep for other parts of this episode.

Forward movement. Oh, dag. Okay. He's in the future. Well, do we, I feel like there's also, and we can decide later if this is too much of a drag to have in the podcast, but this kind of got scrubbed from the show. Because there was a shooting, right?

There was a shooting the Monday after this. Yes. And it was incredibly shooting, right? There was a shooting the Monday after this. Yes. And it was incredibly tragic, a lot of casualties. And for what it's worth, I think more than maybe people think, SNL tries to be on the right side of an issue like this when cultural sensitivities come into play. Absolutely. And it just seemed maybe inappropriate,

even though one didn't really have anything to do with the other. So it wasn't in reruns maybe the rest of that year? Then did it come offline, Keefe, or was it not online? I really don't know what the 2007 online SNL policy was. I don't think that they certainly weren't putting things on YouTube yet.

That didn't happen until after we even left the show. So maybe it was NBC.com and it got pulled, I'm not sure. But it was one of the harder ones to see for a long time. Yeah, but we did clear the song so that it could be seen, but I don't know if that happened the night of or not. Maybe that's why it became so popular. Because same thing with what happened with the Mona Lisa. It was stolen and people couldn't see it.

Newspapers were just coming out, same thing, new media. Then it became one of the most printed images around the world of the Mona Lisa. Everyone was like, oh, this is a fucking big painting. Same thing here where people couldn't find it. This is our Mona Lisa. Maybe. Andy, how'd you feel about that tangent?

Do you want to give us a quick bounce on the Mona Lisa tangent? I was sitting there just being like, oh, we're for sure gonna cut that. Well now- That's why none of us interrupted because we were like, just let him get it out. Now it's on the fence that you said that. It's a clean lift.

There won't be any ins and outs to like sort of. Now it's back on the fence. You were just making it easier for the editors not to have to cut a second audio track. When it comes to cutting your arm, I'm always just trying to make it easy on the edit. Nice. That's kind of you.

Although I was confused, because you guys have like, one of my favorite one of your songs is called, Mona Lisa. Yep. Right, but no mention. So my headspace was there for a minute before I realized. I was talking about the original, the OG Mona Lisa. No, I realized like 20 episodes in, now you do little history tangents.

So my memory of Dear Sister, the reason it started becoming a thing past just a sketch that aired was there were a lot of quote unquote fan made videos redoing it and using other footage from other TV shows and other movies that had similar moments in them, but putting in the image and heap song and cutting it the way we had cut ours.

And it turned into kind of its own YouTube thing, which was really awesome. A meme, if you will. Yeah. An early meme. Early meme. It seems as though it would have thrived on TikTok today. Yes. The same exact culture of TikTok is what propelled it into success.

We actually have a special voice note from one of the stars of the OC, Rachel Billson, with her take. Yay. This is a surprise for us. Okay. I actually had never seen the Dear Sisters skit until a while ago. Hayter showed it to me for the first time, and I much prefer it to the actual scene of Trey shooting his brother. Wait, did he shoot his brother? It was hilarious. Definitely my favorite version of anything OC related.

But you didn't hear that from me. Okay, I had to pause it and come back. Of course it was Marissa that shot Trey. That's the famous scene. I swear I was on the show. I promise you. And this kid is hilarious. and I really appreciated it. Obviously, the best head writer was on the case.

Well, I think one thing that take away from that message is, if there's ever an OC rewatch podcast, Rachel is going to be the YORMA. Yeah, she doesn't remember, which I relate to. I bet it was because her job was so stressful. She wasn't in that scene, she wasn't there. Yeah, no, no, no. All over the road. But delightful and thank you, Rachel. She wasn't in that scene, you know, she wasn't there. Yeah, that's true. No, no, no, all over the road,

but delightful and thank you, Rachel. Yes, thanks. Thank you, Rachel. I only disagree with one thing about what she said, which is that the original, just the original scene is not as good and I do think the original scene is pretty, pretty fucking great.

Of course. Oh yeah, it inspired us. Now, why wasn't it in the Sweet 16, Seth? What happened? I don't know, I mean, was it in the Sweet 16, Seth? What happened? I don't know. I mean, was it in the final 64? Yeah. What did it run up against?

That's the real question. Well, in its seed in the final 64, one moment, was it was seed number six, Dear Sister, Japanese Office, Doogie Howser theme, and Zack Stops By the Set. So what did it lose to? Can you not tell? Maybe Dougry Hauser took it out because it's so artsy. None of that seed made it into the Sweet 16.

This was only people that worked at SNL at that exact moment that voted. I basically picked 64 out of the 100 and I gave them seeds. And yeah, but the number six seeds would have gone up against the number 11 seeds, Keev. But you know what? you know what though, when I look at the sweet 16, there's nothing I see on there that I would necessarily bump off for dear sister. Well, by giving it a six seed,

I didn't think it would make the sweet 16 because the sweet 16 would be four seeds or higher unless there was an upset. Anyway, I think it's important to note that it did have, this had a nice long tail, dear sister, and it's really fun to watch. It is a very well-executed idea. Thanks, Sethly.

Were you guys happy when it aired? Is this one where, especially when it was one, an idea you had before the show? I was really happy. The first version of it was my idea and I was really excited about it. Obviously, we were all obsessed with it, but I remember vividly being like, oh, that thing that we started but never finished, let's try it.

Also just having loved that moment on the OC and loving that song so much, it was just really fun to play around with the style of it. It's one of the few songs too that I feel like I've never gotten over. I still love it the same way I did when I first heard it. It was also an act of desperation, clearly. Yeah. Because we had obviously spent the whole week trying to come up with something new and then on Friday went shit.

Correct. Which happened multiple times, but I'll also say like, we'll get there, but like there were other ones we had done before. Like we did a digital short that was a sketch I did in college eventually, the get out one, you know, the get out of here. Oh, right. And that was not received as well as dear sister. So it was- from college eventually, the get out one, you know, the get out of here. Oh, right. And that was not received as well as dear sister. So it was- That's what I mean.

It was a desperation, but then it was a success. It was like a huge relief that we were like scraping the barrel, but we elevated it from what it had originally been and people liked it. Did you guys ever hear from Image in Heap? I don't think we did. Wish we had. Yeah.

Big fan. Key favorite Image in Heap song. Hide and seek. Yep, hide and seek. I was gonna say the did. Wish we had. Yeah. Big fan. Key favorite Image in Heap song? Hide and seek. Yep, hide and seek. I was gonna say the same. Yoram? Oh man, I didn't have enough time to look up another one. Hide and seek.

Okay, Seth, would you say hide and seek is your favorite Image in Heap song? I'd say hide and seek. I would say hide and seek. Great. There's the most, the most Higgins-y sketch of all Higgins-y sketches in this show. Oh, I remember. What is it? It's a... What is it? It's a... What is it?

It's a... They're not selling couches, Andy. No. Sofa King. Here at Sofa King, we have all kinds of sofas. Leather, pleather, convertibles, sleeper sofas, sectionals, indoor-outdoor, conversation pits. Oh, here's at Sofa King. How great is that?

It's Sofa King great. I think I was in it, right? Oh yeah, you were definitely in it. I remember having a big show because Shia was young and looked young and I was one of the few younger looking people. We did fun promos too. I remember the Tuesday promos had just been instituted. Tuesday were the pre-taped ones. Oh yeah, the pre-taped ones.

When was the normal ones? Tuesday, yeah, but that didn't exist before. Thursday were the ones, the classic ones standing on. Thursday were and still are the in-studio. Right, when we started, there were no Tuesday promos. And I don't know what happened behind the scenes, but at some point right around this time, Lauren came and said,

well, you guys film some promos on Tuesdays. I remember, I believe, Shookus saying, you guys have been told to do it. Well, sure. So we get credit for that then, right, too? Yeah. Yeah, we invented the Tuesday promo. That is true.

So you're welcome. I was like, Lauren, why don't we sell the show on Tuesdays? It's never too early. Yeah. You said it while smugging us a guarantee, right? Why are we sleepwalking through the first half of the week? There's a sketch that I sometimes will pop up on my social media that I think this was a Harper Steel idea that I was lucky enough to work with her on, which is Under 21. Do

you remember this sketch, Andy? Yes. Buying beer. It's a great sketch. Yeah. We're like pretending to be construction workers. Is it that? Yeah, it's really nice Harper writing because it is an idea. It is a trope we've seen a bunch, which is underage dudes trying to buy beer.

You both wearing fake mustaches. You're dressed as construction guys. Oh, you know, excuse me, you're dressed as a businessman. He's dressed as construction. Got it. Yeah, but we met up after work, probably, presumably. Well, immediately you walk in, Keenan's behind the counter. Woo! What a hard day at the office. How was your job at the factory?

Hard and long. Long day down at the factory where I've worked for years. How long has it been? What, me? Down at the factory? I'd have to say six, seven years. Since you were 18? How long has it been? What, me? Down at the factory? I'd have to say six, seven years. Since you were 18? That's right. And I'm 24 now, so that makes six years down at the factory working. Huh.

Wow. I'm still one year older than you. That makes me 25. And very fun. And it's a very, very good game. Well executed. Here's a fun moment. So Keenan, by the way, Keenan's not sold on you guys.

Being of age. He's skeptical. You guys got some ID? You bet. Oh shoot. I just remembered something. I was on the golf course this morning with some business associates

and we were exchanging business cards and I must've given one of the guys my driver's license by mistake. It's a true story or else how could I have these three business cards from real businesses? I ask you that. Good backstories for these. Yeah. They really, these guys put the work in. I think that's the joy of the sketch is all the work. Yeah, you're like, just give him the beer. And for me to be just handed a live sketch to be in with laughs in it, still a dream.

Yeah. Now, can we go to Yoram's corner for something called Slice Co Knives? Oh. Yoram, any memory of Slice Co Knives? Like zero. Honestly, the saddest part of doing this show is me feeling like I'm almost brain dead with my memories. I'm remembering tired. Okay, great.

Well, your brain used to be as sharp as a slice-cold knife. Yeah. You're the first name on here, credited. Yeah. Here's how sharp your brain used to be. Please. I'm not going to tell you anything about the sketch, but I'm going to tell you the three character names

because I looked it up and I'm pretty happy about it. Will is a nice salesman named Blade P. Cutsworth. Oh, that sounds good. He does say after he introduces himself, not my legal name. So he's owning up right away to the fact that he's renamed himself Blade P. Cutsworth. Shia, his protege, is Bernard Throttle Hunt,

and they're having trouble selling knives to Kristen, which, unlike page fucking 100, it becomes clear the issue. I already have a paper cleaver. But do you have a paper cleaver cleaver? Yes. But do you have a paper cleaver cleaver cleaver? Look, I am Melanie Ginsu.

I have like every knife in existence. But do you have a knife that can effortlessly cut through a grown man's pinky finger? Actually, I don't. Bernard, please effortlessly cut through a grown man's pinky finger? Actually, I don't. Bernard, please effortlessly cut through your pinky finger. Ah, that's very funny. Yeah, I'm going to say that this was all based on me and my wife's goddaughter selling us cut-code knives, which had just happened.

And then clearly it got out of control, and I don't remember any of that. Like zero. Now, Jorm, you have another cut-after-dress one that we we've, I think spoke about on the podcast or in real life out of embarrassment. Okay. Monkey business. Oh, now I do remember that. I will say this, me and Joe's had a thing where we were trying for a while to write half a sketch and then hand it off and have the other guy write the other half.

And then we'd find out at the table what the other guy had written. And this was not part of that. This was like, we were sort of coming up with the worst ideas, I think. I don't know how it actually happened, but the premise, you'll not be surprised, is that Shia has been told by his parents to cut out the monkey business.

And then of course he goes upstairs and there's a bunch of monkeys and he's like, pack it up guys, it's over. Did we have real monkeys in drink dress or people in monkeys? No, it was the flying monkeys from Wizard of Oz. A lot of screeching Fred. Yeah. You know what I'll say though?

Like if that was like a one-off joke in like Airplane or something. Yeah. And they just cut to all the monkeys, all right guys, pack it up. And then you cut to the next thing. Sure, but not for like seven and a half age pages though, right? Yeah, right. Exactly, but it's a good like next thing. Sure, but not for like seven and a half age pages though, right? Yeah, right.

Exactly. But it's a good like one joke. Yes, but it did become one of those things where you were like, we got it into dress and then I remember praying that it wouldn't go to air. I'm just like, please don't have this be a thing I did. Yeah. Well, as we know, her John Lutz's voice notes last week, everyone knows the writers that write every sketch.

That's true. Well, that's why you have podcasts, right? Wait, do you have the roommate meeting script up, Seth? Monkey business? No, there is a Sandberg to Coney joint head after dress called roommate meeting. Oh no. Let's get it up here. I bet this one's good.

Kevin's going to grab it. Cause again, we've discussed how SNL people, we always made the title super vague so you wouldn't spoil any joke or tip anything for the room. But then that's why you have things called roommate meeting that no one can remember. And then you have monkey business, which is in the title. Hey, I, while we're waiting, I feel like I had a good dinner party bon mo the other night. Dinner party what? Bon mo?

Like a bon mot. Like a quip. Oh yeah. Like a bit of a quip, if you will. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. A bit of whimsy, a bit of wordplay. Yeah, gotcha. You go to those kinds of dinner parties. That's very cool.

You guys ready? Yeah, hit us. Someone said, where do you live? To somebody at the table. And they said, I live between New York and LA. And I said, Tulsa? Yeah. Got it, yeah. I loved it.

That's a real bummer. Yeah. It didn't get an immediate laugh for me because I was confused by the person phrasing it that way. I thought maybe they were actually saying they lived somewhere between New York and LA. Yeah, your setup made your answer seem logical. Whereas you wanted to be like,

oh, you know, I live between New York and LA. You know, you needed a little of the scene songy. I see. I did a little too, right. I got a little too excited about my punchline and I was a little too technical with the setup. Yeah. You actually set your punchline up.

You did a disservice by setting it up plainly. I did a disservice, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But it's a good Bon Mot. I mean, I don't know if I'd make it a recurring schedule. Tulsa? I mean, it's a dad joke in a good way. I like it. Yeah. But is it pronounced Bon Mot or Bon Mot. I mean, I don't know if I'd make it a recurring schedule. Tulsa? I mean, it's a dad joke in a good way. I like it.

Yeah. But is it pronounced Bon Mot or Bon Mot? Sound off in the comments. Well, both you said it the same way. Bon Mo, I would say. Bon Mo? Bon Mo? Again, we're just doing this.

Oh, fucking, finally roommate meeting. Here we go. Leave all of that. I couldn't come to say. Thank you, Gavin. You saved Seth. Same thing, Gavin. You saved Seth. Same thing. It's just firing monkeys. No.

Goddamn it, I wish. Sometimes you got it. Sometimes you don't. Here's how this is gonna work. I'm gonna describe what it is as I read it as fast as I can. Okay, great. But, like, I'm not gonna read every word. I'll be like, all right, it seems like a crappy apartment, Shia's in the room.

It's Shia, Bill, and Andy. He seems upset people are eating his food. Andy and Bill... All right, well, I think I know. It is basically monkey business. Shia says, you guys have been eating my food. Cut to Bill and Andy together on the couch in gigantic fetsu.

Jesus Christ. Wow. Cool. And then that's it. This went to dress. We could see, we could get a freeze frame of this. Oh my God. Oh wow, two to dress. Just Monty Pythoning it. Yeah. Bill says, not a roommate, a friend. Yeah, and not just a friend, a friend who plays the lion's share of the rent.

Yeah, you're like a lion, Rau Rau. Andy Rau. Bill Rau Rau. Yeah, you're like a lion. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, here's a good one. This, by the way, is all the way in the middle of the movie. It's a little bit of a mess.

It's a little bit of a mess. It's a little bit of a mess. It's a little bit of a mess. It's a little bit of a mess. It's a little bit of a mess. It's a little bit of a mess. It's a little bit of a mess. Rau Rau. Andy Rau. Bill Rau Rau. Yeah, you're like a lion. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, here's a good one. This, by the way, is also the same as, I mean, talk about a show full of bumps.

This is basically the fake ID sketch. Just like guys being like, no. No, we are what we say. Here's some writing to be proud of. No, no, Shia. Just a second ago, you said your food tastes proud of. No, no, Shia, just a second ago, you said your food tastes so good. Bill, no, we didn't.

Andy, yeah, we didn't. We said your mood is so wood. It's all coming back now. What would you call the genre of sketch? It's also like that I think you should leave a hot dog car where something happens. And basically it's like somebody ate all my pie and you cut to someone with a bunch of pie on their face.

Right? And it's who crashed his hot dog car and you cut to the guy in the hot dog suit. Who ate all my food? And then the reveal is you guys in a fat suit. I would say it's called an obviously did it sketch. Yeah. There you go.

All right, now there's a YouTube video here called how dear sister changed comedy. Really? Oh, let's just run that. We didn't write it, guys. We did not post this. Posted by Karsten Runquist four years ago. What a genius.

You, Manchu, are Runquist? What a smart guy. 1.4 million views. What's the first comment, Keev? Let's see, first comment up. Who the fuck moved the comment section? That's first comment. We can skip out.

Classic. Runquist says, the Lonely Island had such a huge influence on modern comedy and not many people will give them enough credit. Well, don't worry, we're gonna make a whole podcast where we just do it for ourselves. Thanks at VASM 650. Hey, real quick, dear sister, Criterion?

Yes. Yeah. I vote yes. I'm surprised it didn't make 16. I'm a little insulted., criterion? Yes. Yeah. I vote yes. I'm surprised it didn't make 16. I'm a little insulted. You guys, I just checked out a library book. The dear sister, YouTube comment section.

And I went, I thought it would be more interesting to say what the most recent comment was. And it's a two comment reply here, which is a day ago, someone said, "'Who's here? July, 2024.' And then somebody immediately ago, someone said, who's here July, 2024? And then somebody immediately wrote, was that fast enough? God, that's nice.

There's some lively back and forth happening over at the dear sister comments section. I love that. What's the first, the top comment, top rated? Oh, top rated is, hold on. This is literally just every Shakespeare play ever. I love how there's just one gun and they're passing it around.

Hey, they noticed. Oh yeah, someone noticed. Our money's worth out of that gun, or you did. Well, this is interesting. I remember watching this sketch when it first came out and not really getting it. Just watched the end of O.C. Season Two and it finally clicked after all these years.

So that's somebody eight months ago finally got it. And that was you, Seth, you left that comment? Yeah, I did. Yeah, active on the boards. All right, so it's agreed, Criterion Yeah, I did. Yeah. Active on the boards. All right. So it's agreed. Criterion collection, dear sister. Yes. Yes, but I would categorize it as one as we've touched on that felt like it was

like it was pretty good when it happened and then over time became, like it was one of the ones where we got told much later that it was that. Yes. Criterion based on the world, not us. I would say when it aired, you didn't think there would be a YouTube video about how it changed comedy. Definitely not.

Definitely not. It was more like relief that we thought of one and it had a beginning, middle, and end basically. Yeah. Then people laughed and we were like, whoof, did it. Then Yoram, you were relieved that Monkey Business didn't air, because you were confident it would have had a YouTube video

called How Monkey Business Ruined Comedy. Oh, it changed, but yeah, but sometimes ruined. Changed, right? Changed with a big old red arrow down. Not all change is good. Correct. That'd be so funny if you hated something being like, Monkey Business changed comedy.

I used to enjoy it, now I hate it. Now I hate every I hate it. Now I hate every bit of it. It's a real massive change. Yeah. Hey fellas. Yes. Back in the Peyton Manning episode,

our friend Lutz left us a few voice notes. He did. I gave him the bad news that Andy kind of thought they weren't good voice notes. Okay. Right. He sent in a new voice note. Oh good. Oh, you're in for it, bro.

Oh boy. Hi Lonely Islands. Plural. Oh, I'm so glad to be back with you today. I can almost hear Andy going, Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Good little context. I was asked to do a favor by Seth and send in a couple stories about the Peyton Manning episode. Well, Andy thought my stories were boring. Now, as you know, one thing about me is that I love getting a note when I do a favor.

So I'm going to take that note that Andy gave me, curl it up around me, and use it to make this little clip a little more exciting. So Andy, this is for you. So, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so Samberg Note. That was it. Love you, Andy. That was a lot more exciting, I'll give him that.

Yeah. He did have a lot more energy there. I might have misread your note a little bit. Love you, Lutze. Thank you. Thanks, Lutze. All right. Good episode of Whatever This Is. What?

It could be anything. It's just a piece of media. I'm just saying what, I don't want to say what this was or why we're doing this, but it was a good episode of Whatever It Is. Of recorded content. Oh, you don't want to say the word podcast because I was being that way about it yet. It was just the way you were using it. Obviously, this is a podcast. Okay. By the way, I don't think you've been there

the whole time, but it's nice that you finally... It felt to me, Seth, like if you're about to like have sex and you're like, should we commence with the sex? That's how you interpret it? You took the romance out of it. Yeah. Don't take the romance out of podcasting. Just get into it, brother.

Yeah. Be a little smoother. Commence, by the way, I feel a little bit, I mean, I can't speak for the ladies, but I wouldn't hate a guy who uses commence, like I think the flowery language. Look, you're the guy who just got back from Foggy London Town. Isn't that kind of how they lay it out? Yeah, that's how they all do it out there.

I wouldn't know. But that's the problem about Foggy London Town. By the time you figure out what you're doing, it's so foggy. Yeah, maybe you did. It's too late. You're like, I couldn't see a thing that's the problem about foggy London town. By the time you figure out what you're doing, it's so foggy. Yeah, maybe it did. It's too late. And you're like, I couldn't see a thing. It was foggy.

So many, so many yanks to use the term, come back from London and they're like, honey, I didn't know it was foggy. I thought you were saying like when you're alone in a hotel in foggy London town, there are so many yanks. There are a lot of yanks there. So you're in a tricky situation when you go to Foggy London Town because you do use the term yanks all the time, just not the way they use it about America.

I wouldn't say I use the term. He performs it. So it's a real who's on first for you in Foggy London Town. Ow. You walk into a pub with your American friend, and they're like, oh, look, a couple of yanks. And you're like, a couple? It usually takes me a few more than that.

Oh, that's very good. That's kind of a naked gun joke, July 18th. All right, we'll be back in a week. Thanks everybody. All right, bye guys. Wait, Seth, Seth, wait, wait, wait, wait. Oh, what? You forgot to say I love you guys.

I love you guys. Love you. Love you too.