Laser Cats 5

♪ Let me join my singin' I'll go ♪ ♪ Among the others at Mars Park and show ♪ - I'm very, very happy to be with my bros. I love a morning pod where I get to use my late-night Seth Meyers mug with a cup of jav. I mean, I would say this is optimal timing for the pod, and I know it doesn't work out often. It's super optimal for me because it's a hiatus week at late-night with Seth Meyers, so I had nothing but time for the old pod this week. Did a lot of prep. I feel like people are gonna be really slight. You look well-rested, you look nice. Where are you? - I'm in our little podcast room at the office, and you know. - I went back to these old stomping grounds. - SNL, that's right. - Oh yeah, a lot of people did. 'Cause Timmy Meadows, who I saw was there, and Will Forte, those little stuff was on it. - Yeah, but Seth was on it. He was on, we could do it. - No, but this is good. I think we should use this time to have Yorm tell us, second hand, other people who are there. - Yeah. - Here's the thing, guys. Here's the thing. I didn't check what we're talking about. I know that's gonna surprise a lot of our listeners. - Like today's episode? - Well, I didn't check that. - Yes. - Okay. - I didn't check that. 'Cause I've been watching AFI's 100 Greatest Films. That's what I'd be talking about. - Well Yorm, this is controversial maybe, but my advice would be like, when Seth is leading this, it has clearly something to say. Just don't say anything until you know what he's talking about. That's just my advice from one guy to another guy. - Well, here's the thing. Here's the thing. The film giant was okay. It was a little long. - Oh, interesting. - Oh, the James Dean one. - Yeah. - I've never bothered to watch that. - I need to. - Did you guys wanna know about that? More about that? - Well, maybe AFI's. - Maybe AFI's the thing. - I am curious. - Okay, okay, okay. - It seemed like he was kind of rolling and you know, in a great mood. - Take it away, Seth. - The AF, the AF in AFI stands for AFTER and the I stands for I. - By the way, right after that Yorm just pounded like 20 pills. So many pills. - So you're off the hook, buddy. - Which is terrifying. That that means everything that's happened so far is before the pills. - Well, which pills though? I mean, my man is going through it. - Yorm, Nirvana said it best. - All apologies. - I'm 1200 gabapentin guys. - All right, let's do this. - I don't get you there. - I would be great if just any of these pharmaceuticals that Yorm is choking down would join the pod as a sponsor. (laughing) So we could just organically talk about him and say, "I have a fucking smash pistachios in here." - Yeah, yeah. - So take it away, Seth. - Now when you say pistachio, you're talking about Charles Marker's character from grief counselors, right? - I have pistachio. - Nice call back. - Nice call back. - Hey, I'm gonna get to SNL, but I will say, I am, we can own up to the fact that - Oh! - This is great. - Yes. - Hello. - Another interruption. - Hi Bill. - Hi. - Hi. - From Abiliamator. - Hello. - Hi Bill. - How are you? - Oh, this is what it's like. - This is us. - It's exactly what it is. - All this with our shitty hair. - Oh, that's hard. - Well, you know what you're talking about, John's iron. - Oh, man, we all, one guy has really nice hair, it's Seth. - He doesn't know about the pact we made early on in this pod, not to shit on each other's hair. - Oh, yeah, sorry, sorry, sorry. - I was actually just giving Seth compliments 'cause I thought he's looked pretty great today. - Yeah, he's hairline, and mine looks a little scrubby. - Bill, you know what our episode is today? You know what we're talking about? - I heard it's the Gourney Weaver. - Yeah, that's why I slid it to Bill. - That's right. - I slid it over. - And laser cats five, so laser cats five. - Laser cats five, fucking kick ass. - I'm gonna say, you know, we've watched now five in Rome. This is by far my favorite one. - Wow. - Oh, late reveal. - Multiple things I love in it, but I think one of the main things I love about it is that Gourney Weaver is having a grand old time. - And that neither me or Keith directed it. - Oh! - Was that your faith? - Yeah, John Chrysel directed it. - Yeah, so fuck you, that makes sense that it was finally good. - Yeah. - I mean, I noticed a difference, but it just moves. - Do you remember guys that she asked for it in the pit? - Oh, yes. - Oh my God. - Oh, go back to this. - I pitched something else, and then she went, "What, no laser cats?" And Andy and I looked at each other like, nobody has ever asked for laser cats, that's right. - That's a testament to personality. - But yes. - The premise of laser cats is people who are famously bummed when it comes up. - Well, the story as it went, Bill, was I pitched something super shitty, and then she said that, and the whole room went, "Oh!" (laughing) - No, what, no laser cats? - Like we were in trouble or something, and me and you were like, "Would you like to do a laser cats?" And she's like, "Well, I'm here." - Well, yeah. - That's incredible. - What if Keith, do you remember any of this? I don't remember any of this. I don't think I was in the room. - Me, I was in LA. - I was not here. - I remember when she said, "I wanna do a laser cats." I remember that I had pitched something, and she said it to me. - Well, I feel like. - Andy, you own this. I'm gonna go, we got a lot of problems with memory on this pod here. - The only thing that matters is, one of you pitched something so shitty that she thought a laser cat to be better. - Yeah, but either way, it was a horrible pitch. - It might have been you, and it might have been me. - But she went, "What, no laser cats?" And then I remember stupidly saying, "You were an alien." (laughing) - I know, man. - She was like, "Yeah," and I was like, she's like, "I've been thinking about this more "than you guys, I was like, oh, that's crazy." - And then, which is rare for us, we then left pitch meeting and went straight back into our office and started working on it. 'Cause it was like, "Okay, we clearly have to do that." - Well, it was one of those things where, you remember that feeling though, like to know what you're gonna do on Monday, the best. It was like, "Oh my God, if we just do this," and that's it. It's the best feeling in the world at the show. - You know, we have on Mondays, and I hope likes it, and it works perfectly. - Yes, and it was like-- - The question I have billed that I have no memory of is how did it come up? Did we ask or did she offer James Cameron also being in it? Because that's what unlocked the writing, 'cause it turned into a James Cameron's greatest hit. - She was promoting Avatar and then-- - Yes. - I think it was, have we had Spielberg on already? - No, he was the last year. So, to me, it was like, we were like, "Oh, are they in town?" My memory of it is you saying, oh, like in choir, are they in town? Are you guys, 'cause they were promoting it. And then I remember it was him and John Landau, his producer, and when they showed up, and he walked in and Andy, you went, "I've seen the movie five times." (laughing) - Andy is an Avatar head. - Which is true. - And he said, "Well, we've set out to change movies "and we did." - That's what he said. That's what he said. - I was like, "Jesus Christ." - That's so much. - I mean, you can't argue with it. - Wow. - His whip is dick out and was like, "Yep, the boys are true." - Literally, he basically said, "Only five?" - Only five? - I mean. - Yeah, exactly. - Could not have been more gassed that Cameron came through. - I don't want to get ahead of it, but LaserCats 6 is Elton John. Did he also say, "What, no, LaserCats?" I can't remember. - No, I think we kind of forced that one on him. - Yeah. - He said, "What is LaserCats, comma, no?" - Yeah. - And then later in the week, it was like, "We're doing it." - Fred's impression at Elton John that week was, "Are we done? "Are we done?" (laughing) Said with the British accent you get away with anything. You can say anything insulting and it sounds pretty good. - I almost say when Elton John did it, Andy and I got there early and we were on, I think you're, what's your stage for Seth? - Yeah. - And it was him playing the keyboard and we were like, "Yeah, you know, it's like you're doing a song about LaserCats." And he went, "Oh, something like," and he just started vamping and singing LaserCats and it was just this thing. It was like seven in the morning and we're like, "This is Elton John with art." - I got, "Wait, save these for when you come on for the next one." - Yeah. - The opposite of that is when Elton John had to sing the parody songs written for him that didn't literally made no sense to him. And immediately he got lost on every song, which was like-- - Were the parodies of Elton John? - Yeah, so it was like, "I remember when the rock was young "was a wrestler named of Dwayne John's son." And like none of that made-- - Oh, my God. - But the craziest was-- - Good memory, remembering all that. - Well, I think I haven't printed out one so you're to read it. Just the idea that-- (laughing) - Just how to do a parody song. - Betty and the Jets, they re-wrote Betty and the Jets to be Bobby Bonilla and the Metz. - I remember that. - Wow. - And it literally started with Elton John having to be like, ♪ Hey kids, headin' down to shame ♪ ♪ John, all the rude ♪ - I remember this. Seth, did you-- Am I wrong in saying that that was-- He stopped it at the table read and said-- - Yeah. - Wait, what the fuck? 'Cause that was the only time I'd ever seen that at the show where the host stopped and went, "Wait, what is this?" (laughing) - We were like, "What are you doing?" You're like, "This is getting picked." We were like, "Oh, this is getting picked." - Someone's having human conversation at the read. This just can't happen. It's like, "Oh, no." It's like, "Nothing stops your heart quicker than here anyway." - It was literally songs he wrote and played a billion times, and they wrote the lyrics, "Scan so badly he got lost every time." (laughing) - It did not end good. - Better than two-spock. I was gonna say-- - Yeah, but very Tuesday. - I feel like at episode-- - Don't talk about that episode, Bill. You're gonna come back for it. - We're not on that one. - We're on that one. - We're on-- - No, no, I'm talking about the supporting weaver ones. - Okay, okay. - Oh, then do talk about it. - Yeah, do. (laughing) - Well, was I a Conan in the cold open in there? - Yeah, you were Conan in this one. It was-- - I was Conan in the cold open, I don't remember that one. - Yeah. - Bill, you're jumping all over the place, dude. You don't even listen to our podcast. - I've never listened to this podcast. I didn't know you guys had a podcast. - You mother. - Oh, it's like you're me, man. - Hey, if you were Elton John, would you enjoy singing this song? "To the tune of "I'm Still Standing." ♪ Michael Linden, he used to be a little house ♪ ♪ Before that he was on "Bennanza." Where they call them, "Little Joe." - Oh, no. - Oh, no. - What? - I mean, fucking sense for how much you made fun of us doing references that were 20 years old. - He's making fun of them, too. - What was the premise? - The premise was that he had written his own album of parody songs. - Oh. - Hello. I know you know this by now, but I'm Elton John. In my career, I've had 56 top 40. He hits seven consecutive away, blah, blah, blah. And the best-selling single of all time, loop, there it is. I've won six Grammys of Tony in the Academy where it's for Best Costume. Oh, and I'm a Knight, da, da, da, da, da. All that success doesn't mean I can't take the piss out on myself, which is why I'm releasing here it is. A brand new album, "Weird L." Elton John sings "Paradise of Elton John." - Got it. - So this was just at the table. - Yeah. - And then in my heart forever. - And he stopped it. It was barely at the table, 'cause he stopped it. (laughing) - He ended up fully at the table. I think we move on. - But these parody songs are about the Mets and about Little House on a Prairie. And again, yeah, we're not judging. He was in the right to stop it. Like we're not judging. Also, this is maybe the first one. Hey, kids, have you been to Shay Stadium? They had a pretty good team in the mid-early '90s. They had a wacky and eclectic crew. You got John all the rude, John Franco too. It was in ESPN magazine. This might be good. - This is so related. - It might be fun. That's funny. - Yeah. - I mean, a fun sketch would be watching Elton John try to do this sketch. - Yeah, I think it's pretty good. - Yeah, he was not into it. - Should we do a rewatch of laser cats? - Well, yeah, but I feel like there's steps that we're skipping. - Oh, maybe? - Yeah, let's not stay. - Do you have specific Mems Bill? That's why I asked you to choose Memories. - No, we call them Mems here. - Sorry, M-E-M-Z. - It feels very good with the Mems. - I'm gonna be full, Andy. - Stop trying to be what? Stop trying to be what? Hang on, no, me and Bill got an air sound. - They'll be so aesthetic. - You're so aesthetic. - Oh, my God. - I feel like Bill has a really good recall of moments at the show. - You know, except who was pitching when Sigourney said. - Well, I remember I pitched it. - Well, of course you remember it. You liked telling the story first. - You looked in the eye and I was like, "My God, you are beautiful." - That was crazy. - I do have a question. I have a question because Bill, you and I would say Edgar Wright are two friends that know more maybe about film and are bigger, bigger cinephiles than anyone I know. Was it hard for you actually to be around a level of Sigourney? Like obviously there's different levels of different hosts. - Yeah. - But were you gushing the way that Andy was gushing? - I was gushing. I was more kind of freaked out around her than James Cameron. Because James Cameron is like, this is towering figure, but for her it was like alien, aliens, but also like all these other-- - Working girl. - You can say it. - Working girl. - Exactly girl. - Girl is in the mist, living dangerously. All these movies where I was like, "Wow, she's so good." - And what do you think of the movie Giant? But with James Dean, do you like it? - I gave it before you showed up. Yarm was shitting on Giant, the movie. - He did it a little too long, his little too long in. - Giant's a long movie. It's beautiful though. - Giant, definitely the people, if anyone connected to Giant is still alive. I think they're probably wondering why they're catching so many strays. - Yeah, just they Google her themselves and they're like, "What?" - In the laser cat's five episode? (laughing) - They were shitting. Sorry, let us explain. Yarm fell off a ladder. - Grandma, listen to this. I guarantee you grandma, listen to this podcast. They're not gonna be talking about you. - Yarm literally took a handful of pills right as it began as well. - I'm fine guys. - I love doing the podcast with you lizard people. (laughing) - No, but yeah, I was really anxious. Yeah, and especially the scene where she throws up on my face, I was like, "This is awesome." I genuinely was so excited. And then shout out to Jeff. Vander Craig was the giant cat. - Well, so this did usher in an era of laser cats that were just nothing but references, right? So in terms of the writing process, 'cause neither of me or Keeve were there for this. - So they got dumb as what you're saying. - Yeah, they got dumb, right? They just were just funny. - It was like turning to epic movie and-- - Yeah, yeah. When it's poof, when it's poof movie's turning to it. - It's like they were original and they just sort of became bullshit after that. - Yeah, right. - It's like the last of those partners. - I remember, Lauren said, finally, this is the problem that Joe America will enjoy. - Yeah. - Like now laser cats sucks. - Lauren went, we just needed to play in Kansas. - Yeah, this was the most popular in Middle America. This is definitely the laser cat they still talk about there. - Did you guys reference working girl in this? I guess we just have to watch it. - I can tell you without watching it, no. (laughing) - I like that yard, it's like there's just no way to know. - I remember you were, you swung around in it, Andy. - Yeah, right in the beginning, there's a scene where Admiral Spaceship walks in and sees his wife fucking someone else or something. - Working girl is very good. - Yeah, you guys, I'm gonna power down for like five minutes if that's okay. - Just power down, yeah, that's nice. - Yeah, yeah. - Again, I mean, let's you want to mention that you and Keith weren't there again. - We were there. - Little known fact, Dakota Johnson's mom is in working girl. - Boo. - I'll just throw these in when you- - We don't know. - That Antonio Banderis' ex-wife is the lead. - Do you remember you, you, you, Melania and I wrote a sketch, Avatar Chamber, where you were the dude and your avatars were, your avatar was having sex and we kept cutting back to you in the little Avatar pod, like moving back and forth 'cause you were getting railed. I remember this. - Andy? - Andy or Bill? - Bill. - This is Bill. - Oh god, I don't remember that. - I was also in it, I think. - Yeah, you were the avatar. - 'Cause he's here. - You were the Navi, Andy. - Yeah, oh, and then Bill was the guy he was seeing. - I wasn't going like. - Yeah, just getting like, did it go to dress? - It aired. - That was scared. - It aired? - Oh my god. - Yeah, but you had little noodle legs. - Oh, I do remember that. (laughing) Seth, I didn't remember the premise. I only remember that I was so relieved that costumes came up with like Spandex body blue suits. - Instead of paint? - Yes. - Yeah. - And I was like, "Oh, thank God." - I wonder how long after Avatar came out that she hosted because it did feel like we put a lot of weight and people are already knowing the entire plot of the movie. You know what I mean? - No, but it was so popular. - Everyone on Earth saw it. - Yeah, they saw it, opening weekend, everybody said. - It wasn't a slow build. Avatar didn't get to a billion on word amounts. - I didn't have a bag. (laughing) - Yeah, they gave it a platform release as they say in the biz, just a few. - Actually Seth, it notoriously was a slow long build. - Yeah. - Well, you know why? 'Cause it's snowed. Remember, I do remember that when Avatar came out, there was all these snow storms all over the country. And there's all these articles coming out like, well, Avatar underperformed because no one can get to movie theaters. - That's right. - And then yeah, it was huge. It came out December 18th, 2009, and this is just January 16th. So this is a month later. And when McGruber came out, there were like a month long typhoon, right? - It was, yeah. - It was, it was a monsoon season. - I think Fortate tried to convince everybody that there was. - He's still to this day. - Actually, because we were running the McGruber Twitter feed, I think he just wrote, "My documentary shot the bed this week." - My documentary. - "Oh well, and then we never tweeted again." (laughing) - Also, the previous eight tweets were all just about how Shrek, the new Shrek movie sucked. - The previous tweets, I think we're all just about different celebrities that he was jerking it to. So it's weird that it didn't do well. (laughing) - It was like he would say jerked it, and then in parentheses, it would be the name of who. - Yes. - And also, we couldn't get McGruber, like at McGruber because it was already taken. So it was just Groob 69, which is just like, oh, Jesus, of course, this is not gonna do, which is, which is what McGruber's handle would have been. - Yeah, right. - So it's better. - It is better. It's more accurate. - All right, so this laser cat's at some point, James Cameron gets thrown into the mix, that made us start writing towards his movies, a fucking smart and classic move that changed the shape of laser cats forever, Land Out Raff. And, (laughing) and Keven Yormer-Gellis, 'cause they didn't think of it, fucking losers that bailed, and then they paid the price for being like, turncotes. And Chrysler came in like a god damned hero. - Yeah. - And just was like- - Yeah, this is easy. It was just gonna bang it out. And then- - So he wrote it with you guys, I assume. - Yes. - Yes. - Great. And, I'm trying to remember what else. I do remember the shoot being insanely fun and her being so gay and having a blast. - Yes, he was very excited. - So into it and very admitted. And she was Ripley. She was playing the iconic art. - It was really fun that she's in the canon of laser cats as a character. - I actually build do specifically remember us being like, would she just be Ripley or is that like sacred ground and asking her and her going, "Yeah, sure." And us being like, "Oh my god, that's what I be." (laughing) - You're like my girlfriend? - It was so funny if she was both what, no laser cats and also I'm not gonna be fucking Ripley. - Ripley. - We didn't know. - Try to be more original. - Oh, now you want me to just be the ghostbusters? You're like, "Get the fuck out of here." - Yeah, that was her vibe for sure. - I want to be a combinator. - She's great across the breadth of this episode, which we will get to, but she did show up. I think one have a super fun time. We were in this realm where I feel like we had a couple hosts in within this year, like Jeff Bridges and her, who I feel like had like 30 plus years between. when they hosted. And you can just tell they showed up with like, oh man, I did this once. I'm so much wiser now and I'm so psyched that I get another bite of the apple. And didn't she host the episode, like the season premiere episode with Phil Hartman and Dana Carvey's first show? I think so. I think she was Shoemaker's first show, maybe. That's cool. She's not in Avatar. So what was she there for? She is the first Avatar. She's in the new Avatar as a teenage. As a teenage novice. A Kiva. Is she in it? She's just off. She's in the first Avatar. Are you kidding? Okay. Kiva, your memes are faulty. She plays two roles. Forgive me. Wait, you're not thinking. We're not talking about Avatar the last airbender we're talking about. You're thinking of Avatar, the live-action Avatar that I'm not sure. I'm thinking of MN. Yeah, I'm in MN. She has such a bad memory. You're right. She plays two different. Oh, because then. She clumped it. She classic of their clump. She clumped. That's what I was wondering. Did she clump it? She did a classic clump. I haven't seen the original so long. You know I've seen the way of water recently because I took Andy to a private screening because it was out of theaters and I was like you have to see it in the full like crazy 4k or the. Who allowed you to do that, Kiva? 48 frames per second. Since you want to talk about it so bad. Well now I'm proving that I do remember it. She plays the teenager in that one. But that made me think she wasn't in the first because I haven't seen it in so long. But she is. So glad I get to rip on somebody for a bad memory. Yes. Kiva is to write into it. Your memes are bad. Yeah. Bill, did you see way of water? No, I didn't. What? I just said that you were a cinephile. I am a cinephile, but yeah, I didn't see the way it was. I just, I get it. I get it. When you say cinephiles, do you think, are you just thinking like people in French cafe like wrapped up in scarves talking about avatar way of water? Yeah, it was also weird. I didn't like call it out because you're on so many pills. But being like, "Bill, you're such a cinephile. You and Edgar Wright are the biggest cinephiles ever. Were you super geeked out that Sigourney Weaver was there for avatar and aliens?" Yeah. Yeah. And it doesn't like when I'm sincere. Where were you when you saw Halloween H2O guys? You're in sincere. It's that you're just wrong. Like those aren't cinephile movies. Tokyo Drift. I mean, it's just seen them all. They're blockbusters that everyone has seen and it's sort of the opposite. Okay. Well, then I guess you read it by saying that he hasn't seen way of water. He thought cinephile was French for work at a blockbuster once. Yeah. It didn't true photo way of water though. There we go. And there we go. Thank you. Thank you. You're welcome. The power down, guys. All right. Should we watch? Yeah, let's watch it. Keith, you want to do the honors? Yeah. I got it here. Hey, well, thanks for meeting me. I really appreciate it. James, of course. And congratulations on Avatar. You know, there were sections of it that reminded me of three Migos. You picked up on that. That's great. I mean, the best part about that joke is that the poster is behind him. I was just saying you guys moved. You moved it because the poster is on the other part of the wall. The other thing is do you remember this that James did a few cards and James Cameron went. I don't need those. That's right. He's very good in it. James Cameron went get those out of here. He's like, I don't need him. He was off book. Also, I think the best thing about that joke and he's like, I watched this this morning and no one, it doesn't get a single laugh from the audience. And I was very confident it would get a hard laugh from you today on the real. And it did. It's a good joke. It's a good joke. And it's not really meant to get a laugh, but it's very nice. Also, we'll say Lauren's got a nice haircut going in this one. He really does. Also, this is like real Canadian power right here. Yeah. And James Cameron's got real long hair going. I didn't remember that that was his his vibe. Oh, yeah, flowing man. Can we also can I can I mention to that Lauren did write three amigos. So just shout out to like him being a writer and fucking really talented because that's a very funny movie. You know what, Andy, you don't work anymore. You're not going to put you in the cast. It's not it's not all jokes. Not everything is going to be a fucking joke. You know, we didn't write it by himself. On fact, Randy Newton. It was my that was my reading. He wrote it in St. Bart's with his guys and you told me about it at one point. All right, go keep going. Steven Randy. Here we go. I've got my next project already to go. And I think it's going to be perfect for the show. Wow, if you're behind it, I'll put it on the air. Great. Guys. Hi. Rare fuck from Laurie. That's rare. There was a nuclear war. And because of all the radiation cats developed the ability to shoot lasers out of their mouths, some will use the cats for good others for evil. Who will win in a world of? One woo. Terminator font. Pretty sweet. Yeah. Already a good joke using technology. Now is that like the first ever iPhone or is that an iPod? It looks like it looks like an iPod touch to me. Yeah, I think you're right. But that's an actual thing you could do in it. That's not effects. I got their drinking beer, digital beer out of iPhones or iPods. We're not sure. Well, you know, sorry. What's your care for the environment? Negative. What's nature ever done for me? Pause it real quick. Some avatar nature versus tech themes. Yeah. Love when you love when you set when you just like right in the first minute layer in the dumb thing that's going to be called back. That's classic. But that's laser cats. We don't have five minutes. I know. It's a great story. You guys waste no time. There's also a good anti-continuity joke of the way it was being having passed twice. Yeah, which is the little background. I also like the reason people litter is nature's never done anything for them. Why was that? Negative. Oh, what's nature ever done for me? Oh, geez. We're getting a caller. A video glass is from a science chief. At Real Spaceship, Nitro. I'm sending YouTube back in time to the year 2023. Your mission destroys the high laser cats. Oh, God. I also love that it's changing the history of how laser cats came to be. It doesn't even care what that thing was. No, man. So this is a little kind of terminator logic happening here? Yeah. Stop laser cats from ever-existence. BADICAL! God speed, boys. Oh, that's good. Welcome to the past, boys. I've been expecting you. Chief, you look exactly the same. Follow me if you want to link it. Rachel and just stay on the back with the coffee. I'm gonna link it for a annoyed, but you guys are fucking, you guys, they just, so for people not watching, they just terminator back in time. So they're but naked now. Except for the stuff, the helmet and Rachel, who is our assistant at the time, who's, she's watching them. Yeah, she's looking at the script for this short itself. By the way, she emailed us last week that she has the maze from booty call. Yeah, with all the booby traps. She has booby traps, yeah. Did you, did you draw that Andy yourself, the maze with hecka booby traps? I don't think so. It looked too good. Yeah, it did look really good. You look exactly the same. Follow me if you want to live. The central highway. So we say it looks exactly the same, but don't explain it again for the hatch. So now you're an aliens. Blaster. So it's a mix of aliens and alien, I guess. Yeah, yeah. That's why you look the same. Immediately paid off. Yeah. Okay, can I critique this because we didn't direct it. Why is the alien cat so good? You know, I mean, where'd you guys get that? I don't buy it. Don't buy it per second. Oh, yeah, you're just saying it's not in the do-it-yourself aesthetic DIY. It's very good. It's very cool. I think it's okay because of how dumb it looks when the little laser cat comes out of the big cat's mouth. Does that look like a cat to you? Yeah, that doesn't look like it. It's also changed from the other mascot. We had to do it this way to get the next part that you forgot about. That's about to happen. Okay, I'm sorry. Well, also James Cameron directed this one, not them. Exactly. That's true. Hey, get away from them. You bitch. Ripley. Believe it or not. Oh, Ripley's believe it or not, Jim. It's brutal. That's the right word for it. Yeah, it's brutal. It's so bad and the minute someone said it aloud, you knew it had to be in. Correct. Yeah. It feels like it needs her to turn to camera and wink to make it perfect. It's perfect. Yeah, I think it's just it's disturbing. It's impossible to hear it without seeing a person wink. Oh, believe it or not. Good, good flame effects. It's like Chrysler. It's just a good way. It's a completely different. Yeah. Yeah. No, the mascot. The cat has changed from a profile. You had two life-size cat costumes. Yeah. Well, because this one's mouth didn't open. So you could do the one of them had to have the alien come out. Yeah, it's pretty simple. That was just the head. So looking back, it was also a different one in the beginning there. It was just the head for the special shot. Yeah, perfect. Shout out to the there's a force perspective thing. like, so that's how you guys made the cat big, which is crazy. - Yeah, it's a little priceless. I know how to do that kind of stuff. - I guess he's, yeah. - He really was great. - Yeah, now, every, when you guys directed stuff, everything was only ever the size it was. - That's right, that's right, notoriously. - You guys like making things smaller, actually, too. - Yeah. - We didn't know how to make anything bigger. - You like that hobbit thing. - So that's the second time someone said, come with me if you want to live. - Yeah, they say it a lot. - It's exactly what Fred had said. - Yeah, we keep saying it. - That's the kind of line that it has to be in these. It reminds me of a long while back, Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner, right? Got interviewed and they were talking about how every week they watch movies together and that they're like, what kind of movies do you guys watch? And they're like, we like to watch movies where somebody says, get some rest. (laughing) - Also, they also like, they say they like movies where someone says, close a perimeter. - Yeah, secure the perimeter. - Secure the perimeter. - Get some rest, we got a big day tomorrow. - Really good, we got a big day tomorrow. - We got some rest, we leave it done. - What about you, what about you, Sina Files? - Oh, you are. - All right, here we go. - Stay alert, we're close. - Where is your back? (upbeat music) - That shot is so dumb. (laughing) - Game changer. - Game changer. - So stop. - Game changer. - I believe game changer is something he said, IRL about Avatar, or it was like a thing about Avatar. - Yeah, he said it, that was where I think the phrase game changer came into the lexicon. - Well, I was like, this was always a fun part of laser cats is deciding what the shittiest fucking part was to be able to cut back to Lauren. - Yes, by the way, laser bats, not really a reference. Maybe kind of, you could I say, as an Avatar reference, but not really, it was designed to be this moment. - Yes. - Oh God. - Yeah. (screaming) - Tell me. - We've gone, we've got to move on. - Okay. (laughing) - So okay. - Yeah, okay, yeah, that was fun, I remember that. - No, we got 'em, we got 'em. Okay. (laughing) - Yeah, I was like, Cryzel always very good at like, surprising editing, and I really cut into it. That is a great fucking edit. (screaming) - My legs. - I'll never walk again. (laughing) - ADR. - Cover the door room. - Thanks for the save back there. - Save the love letters, kid. We'll be lucky to get out of here alive. Speaking of which. - Y'all see, these amazing techniques. - You're about to hatch. (laughing) (screaming) (grunting) (grunting) (laughing) - I actually can't see my hand. I can't see that. - That's a toilet. - Yeah. (laughing) - His cat's coming out of boxes, great. - Yeah, kittens, kittens coming out of little boxes. - Yeah, it was the cutest kitten we can get. - Yeah, audience won, aw, yeah. - I will say, it's hard. It's hard on how shitty this, all the laser cuts, looks to give credit to things, but look, there were like 10 fucking great moments in like 10 seconds there. - Yeah. - They're all shitty to look at, but they're so smart and good. - Yeah, 'cause Jake Sully's legs don't work, right? That's why being an avatars such, yeah. - Yeah, but also Andy, like doing his own, like cryogenic cardboard thing coming down over your face, is really fine. There's like really great shit. - Now is there in the original avatar, is there some sort of visual, is there swirling visual when he comes in avatar, that the toilet is mimicking? - Yeah, it's like going down through like, you know, neural tubes. (laughing) - Excellent. - So we got the toilet flushing. It looks like this was a one-way ticket, Kimosabi. (laughing) - She says Kimosabi. - Yeah, that's just, we thought that was kind of their thing, but it turns out that's just part of what people in this world says. - It's part of the lexica. - Everybody in space says Kimosabi. - Yeah. - Okay, and they're really close. They really bonded throughout the film. Holding hands. (laughing) - Yeah, that's the spaceship. - Get that down. - Nice room. - Hit me. - Make the connection. - Oh yeah. (laughing) - Oh, this is great. - Oh, the hat. (laughing) - The funny thing is, like, we would do these things, and then there'd be like no laughing on set. There would just be Andy doing that, and then we'd be like, okay, we'll just go again. - Well, it's the reversing of the film, right? The fucking heat, Andy comes in with his ponytail, connects with his pastail, wearing a baseball hat and blue face paint as a habit. - This still, I have to keep reminding myself, this still is not like a racist thing for 15 years ago, and he's gonna get canceled for. (laughing) - Yeah, I believe the reason I'm wearing the hat is because the ponytail is connected to the hat. - Connected to the hat. - So I was like, all right, just wear the hat there, and also my glasses. - I mean, you look like you're playing Frisbee golf so far. (laughing) - It's all really kind of perfect, yeah. - Also, he's wearing glasses, and there's no face paint under the glasses. - On the glasses. - You look more like a Blue Man group drummer going out of stage store, and you do a Navi. - Yeah, well, guys, do you want the cat not to look too good? Do you want the Navi to look after him? - You're right, you're right, you're right. - No, I think this is all looking really good. - This is part of the world, yeah. - Again, props to whichever you guys are crazy so who came up with that idea of twisting it all together and then playing it in reverse. - Right, crazy. - I'm guessing that was crazy. - Hopefully, make the connection. - You better believe I was the one who wanted to make the connection. (laughing) - You're using the power of nature. (laughing) - Oh no, he thought for one shot. - What did that say? - I said like two tiny syllables, and it's a very long subtitle joke. - Look at the most, as you see on YouTube, it's the most replayed moment. - Ripley, "Nature, get behind me quickly. "I'm not joking around, this is serious." - Yeah, there you go. - Then we got Jason, Bobby. - Malanian Joe. - Yes, then we go Titanic. - Beautiful, tiny Titanic moment here. - Great. - Yeah. - Yeah, all in there, nice tuxes. - They all had to go through wardrobe if they did. - They look fantastic, yeah. - You all that stuff, bringing everything in for that. - It's the highest production value in the whole thing. - Yeah. - They all look impeccable. - We're staying. - Good job, boys. - You finally rid the world. - Wait, go back in the wide shot, it's a double. It's not so great. - No. - Yeah, you know it. - Oh. - Yes, you. - Not better. (laughing) - That's great. So you guys had to plan that and do it. - Because I believe it's because there is a stunt of some sort upcoming, and we got a wide shot with her, and then we decided to start on the shot. - Yeah, I just have her look back on. - That was not so great. - That's amazing. - Yeah, that's great. - You finally rid the world of laser cats. - Fred and Frankie chopped the other guy. (laughing) - The same five. - The same five. - Joe is Fred. - Who's dead. - He's dead and drinking that. - He's dead. - Fred's just drinking. - He's just drinking. - Laser cats. - Nitro. Thanks for being my wingman. - Shh. - I said the love of his kid. (soft music) (cheering) (laughing) - Where laser cats still exist? - Damn. (laughing) - I gotta say, this movie combined with Avatar could make a billion dollars. - Get out. - No, I'm serious. - No, I mean get out of my office. (laughing) - What if I offered you some unobtainium? - No. - It's really hard to get. - No. (laughing) - Very good. - The favorite joke I wrote. (laughing) - No, well by the way, his fucking read on that. Really hard to get. - Really hard to get. - No, he was really confident. - He was so confident. - Why, why do you think he's so confident? - Did you give him a pep talk? Did you give him a pep talk right ahead of time? - Yeah, we told him how the whole week runs. Money's best, Tuesday you write. - Right, this is gonna feel awkward, but trust us, it's gonna go great. - Yeah. - You're gonna get nervous. - Way straight to card. - Oh fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck. (laughing) - I gotta say, maybe it's because what we weren't involved, but I might agree with Seth. Is that the best laser cats? That might be the best one. - You're good. - This good. And I take back my epic movie comment because this is disciplined. It's all within one genre. It's not, there weren't all of a sudden moments from Forrest Gump or something. And not a word you associate with laser cats, but disciplined. - Yeah. I also barely remember this because I didn't work on it. And I only saw probably when it aired and then maybe clicked it once or twice after, that was really good. So good job, guys. It was better than I even remembered. - Thanks. - We have a voice note from Christel. Shall we all listen? - Yeah, let's listen to the Christel voice note. - Oh, I hope it's as cocky as James Cameron. - James Cameron being confident. That's not what you'd think. (laughing) - Yeah, I always thought he was gonna be like, "Are you sure?" "Can I stay with you?" - I don't know. Should I see it like? - Wait, can I be Lord Michael? - I don't know. You guys okay with me to be in here? If I win an Oscar, what do you think I should say? (laughing) - I better keep this movie pretty cheap. I don't know if anyone's gonna see it. I better. - I wanna lose my shirt or anything. - They should call all my movies the Titanic 'cause they all sink. (laughing) - Well, just lower the budget a little bit more. I don't know. (laughing) - Every moment during this shoot, is going, oh, James, you bit off more than you can chew again. I'll pay for the marketing. Can we play the crystal voice now? I really love this genre of two friends making a movie, the science fiction movie. I made so many of these with my cousins. And what we always were doing was we had no way of editing it. So we had to shoot each shot, pause it, shoot the next shot. So the dialogue had to go over it. And there's this shot here where Sigourney is saying to Bill Hader, like, you got to get over it. He didn't make it. And it just cuts the next shot. His emotion is totally off. And he's just like, okay, that was ripped right from my childhood of just very inconsistent performances because you can't keep track of that. It's just too hard because you're pausing it and starting it. And we taped over one of our movies one time and we're all crying. So this genre, as a fan watching the show before coming on to do laser cats five, I was like, ah, yes, I appreciate the laser cats genre. What else? This thing is so dense and it has so many visual effects that it actually was really hard. I remember Sigourney Weaver was awesome. And her acting watching it now, I'm like, she's acting so well. She's such a good actress and it's really funny to see you guys obviously acting badly. Whoa, whoa, whoa, I was just right there, fully in it, commits to the bit. I remember the kittens was challenging because they wouldn't come out of their boxes. They just wanted to sleep in their boxes, slash eggs. James Cameron, I mean, I read it the height of Avatar one. Maybe he made me send some job over to Christ. It just seems like a blur. So many terminator. Yeah, yeah, anyway, I got nothing. In his defense, I texted him at like 11 p.m. last night. I think he recorded into that. And I only did it because Akiva was like, laser cats tomorrow, I wasn't there. You getting a voice note? Yeah, it was being a good podcast at all. And he was like, I wasn't there, dude. You guys are fighting. This is fun. This is what people tune in for. By the way, like, though, like that, that is the joy. That is the joy of laser cats. We all sort of made shit like this when we were kids, like, you know, in camera editing and not to like expose our ages or anything like that. But, you know, no, he's true. And James Cameron even said this when we brought, Henry, Andy, do you remember we brought out the TV and the VHS? And he goes, I remember rigs like this. He called it a rig. I was like, uh, I was like, well, and I was like, oh, yeah, we used to, I mean, these things kind of like, you know, when you make videos when you're a kid and you cut between two VCRs, you know, and then I go, did you ever do anything like that? And he said to me, I bet you do British a lot. What? That's it. Yeah. And I went, I do. I do do British a lot. He can see the talent in people. Yeah, he just went, I bet you do British a lot. Ah, Andy, I assumed this is one that aired unfinished a little bit and then got fixed up on Monday. Yes. They started in Christel saying how hard it was to do the VFX. The thing I remember is the most that we fixed on Monday was after, uh, Admiral Spaceship makes the connection, the stuff that comes out of the laser cats and shoots the eggs. Like electricity stuff. Yeah, electricity stuff. It looked like, I mean, no one in the audience really cared one way or the other because it's all supposed to kind of look shitty, but it was not the intention of shittiness that we had going into it and me and Christel, I remember being like, let's just fix it up for two runs and the internet. Yeah. I don't know if you remember this, Andy, but did because obviously when we were at the show, we did not have the infrastructure of like additional editors. I assume Christel edited this himself did all of the effects himself because neither Mirky were there. And I will say in doing the Spielberg one with you hardest week of my life by far, by far. Yeah, it's a ton of work to make it even though you're making it look bad. You still have to do an effect for every single one of those shots. And it's the timeline is he might have outsourced it to because there were editors there. And I remember Christel working with them a little more than me and you did. I don't know, like, I don't know if anybody helped me on. But he's definitely an editor. He definitely edited it. No, Christel, I will say from my standpoint, Andy did a ton of work on this. And I mean, we say we wrote it. I was basically in the room and Andy was writing it and I was like, yeah, funny. That's good. I was kind of how I was the whole time. The show was like, oh, that's pretty funny. But, but he's true. It's just working so hard to make sure people know you wrote Ripley's believe it or not. Well, that's I think the odds are very high. I just want I just want nothing. I don't want anything to do. You know what I think. Yeah. As a cinephile. It's just called distance senior. So, no, no, but it really was. You did like so much work on this. As mentioned, I was extremely gassed on Avatar at the moment. So all the Avatar stuff, I was like, I want to get to do those things, even if it's the shitty version. Well, you did it great. I mean, we, Christel did so much work too, but on set and everything, it really was, you know, you and him. So well, thank you. It was so much fun. I have to hop off guys. I have to love you. Thank you so much for coming. Really? We love you. We love you very much, Bill. Thank you for joining us. Thanks for doing that. Yeah, that was fun. Bill, do you have, do you have 30 seconds? Sure. I'm going to just show you this was something that I really liked from this episode. It's the first 30 seconds of disco junction. And it's this move Keenan does where he just has a conversation with somebody off camera, but you only hear Keenan's lines. All right. I'm Jerry Bill Dachey. This is disco booted junction. I said we got a new disco ball up in here. Well, we can do that, but I can't get a box of the disco nila wafers in my dressing room. Oh, they're in there. Well, they're not open either. They are. Well, you know, there's a mouse in my dressing room. Oh, you sound. What's the big? No, Tim. It was happy. Oh, that's nice. All right. Oh, my god. He's literally the only cast member that could do that. Was that Tucker? Who wrote that? That's fucking. No, this is James and Kent. Oh, god. Yeah, that's. Keenan can make. I learned so much from just like pulling laughs where there are no laps. And just finding areas that I know is the different episode. I'm sorry, but real quick for a leave. Do you remember the Sarah Palin episode, Josh Brolin, where we did the fall foliage? Yeah. Oh, yeah. And you remember Keenan's last line? Oh, yes. We've covered actually this. What would remind me of Keenan's last line? Remind our viewers. So that last line, Andy, you're in that sketch, right? Oh, yeah. You remember that the sketch was dying. Yep. And I feel like you and I had the exact same thought, which was this is dying. And Keenan has to say he allowed me to be raped. And then we looked over at Keenan. And Keenan was also thinking it and looking at us like, oh, no. No, no. I'm on air. We're like, I look at you and you're like, dude, I feel so bad for Keenan right now. We're like, we're reading each other's thoughts. So that I just we both look at Keenan and just like, like, all right, here we go. To the firing squad. It's been a good run, fellas. Beyond taking one for the team, but just that moment, as no moment, I think about all the time, how we were just so en sympathico with each other just looking at really bad and that he just smiled like, all right, here we go. Oh my God. God bless. That's amazing. I love. I was just like, that was awesome. I will forever love that guy. All right, guys, love you. All right, Billy. Nice to see you, Bill. Thanks, Bill. Have a nice to see you later. Thanks, dude. All right. So Seth, yeah, you were on SNL last week. That circle back to it. That was perfect. Yeah, we go. Finally, you know, I do think one of the skills of being a talk show host is don't stay married to your plant. Right. Yeah, but we want to hear about it. I feel like before we hear about it, so disco booty junction, the entirety of it was Keenan trying to figure out which it was Wig and Sigordi Weaver, which one of them was Amber and Cream. And they wouldn't tell him who was who. But then at the end of this sketch, Keenan does the back half. It like completes the story. It was the first out. Turn us next week on disco. What's that? They're taking us off the air. Wow, because this goes there. So the show is just done. Well, do I still need to come here next Saturday? I do. Why? Oh, to help me now. In the morning. So early. Oh, so they want us out that quick. All right. Put on that case. I don't know. I don't know. My never waiting for that. From all of us at disco booty junction. For the last time, I'm Jerry Field. Shay. That was a mask. How did that not get more? That's really funny. I know. It's crazy. - It's really good. - It stays in my head. That's an L. It is, first of all, I cannot tell you how surreal it is to come back and do SNL, which is on the physical hallway that I work all week long. And becomes a completely different place on a Saturday. Like, there's literally no familiarity to a place I come every day when an SNL is happening because the vibe is just so different. - Right. - It's like I have an office above a nightclub during the week, and then I go to the nightclub. So it was super fun. Obviously, there was so little for me to do in the best possible way, which was just show up. And I think people are just happiest that we were there. It's also was so weird to do. Basically, you do dress rehearsal at update. Like if dress rehearsal starts at eight, it's probably around nine o'clock at night. You do dress, and then it's over, and you go up and you talk to the update guys, and Pete and Josh and Scott were all there when I was there. And Megan Callahan was there when we were there. So it's all people I know. So like for like three minutes, you talk about how it went and what to change. And then you're like, all right, so when's the next thing? And it's like 12, 15 at night. And you have like three hours, and that used to be the busiest three hours of my week, just like running and putting out fires. But like that's not my job anymore. And it was just the weirdest. Polar said once, going back to SNL after your office is like being a ghost in a house you used to live in. You know, like you're like my memories and being just like walking through you. Yeah, everyone's running around, and they're all super locked in. Yeah, that was like that for me doing the political stuff last season. Yeah, especially if we didn't have a short that week, which we did two of like five or six episodes I did, and the ones where it didn't, if I was just in the cold open, it was the exact same thing. Yeah, where I'd be like, okay, I did those like seven lines, and now I'm just sitting. And it's a lot of, you know, it's weird. It just feels like, like if you were playing like high school sports in your game was the next match. Like, you know, you're just like waiting, and yet there's energy going on, and you have no place to. He's waiting worse. Like did you find yourself getting more nervous than you normally would because you didn't have somewhere to play? I wasn't even nervous. It just felt like nostalgic for having purpose. Yeah. I went up and I sat in the old writers room, and there were like 11 or 12 writers, most of whom were in their first or second year, and that was a super fun hang. Yeah. And then, you know, after the show, like after update, it was so fun to go back in Higgins office, which is where I would have gone after update back in the day. Yeah. I also ended up back in Higgins office, and it was so fun. I win the show ended. You know, obviously there's an after party, but from like one to two in the morning, it was me, Higgins, shoemaker, Kenward and Joost. And it's so funny because I'm like, oh, this is the thing I missed the most. That was always the room. Even on the 50th, like when you guys were in the audience, I headed straight to Higgins. Yeah. Well, there's also good drinks in there, yeah. Good drinks. Higgins. Just good drinks, Higgins doing crazy bits. Yeah. I did a long bit about how he used to write stand-up for Fang, Phyllis Diller's husband. [LAUGHTER] He was right, rebuttal jokes for Fang, because he felt like he was treated unfairly in Phyllis Diller's stand-up. Some of the hardest moments of laughing in my entire life, and this is saying a lot, are watching Higgins go crazy in his office on nine. Yes. Oh, yeah. Something magic happens in there. Yeah. Different level of funny. You go to the party, Seth? I did. I also brought a pre-mate, like, these, a via-corrote. It's a great restaurant in New York. We've all been there. They do these pre-made cocktails. So I brought up a bottle of pre-made negroni from my dressing room, and then he kept saying he was making people negronies. And then he wanted full credit, because he was putting an orange peel in them. I went to the party to answer your question, Keith. He was super fun. Polar's parents, Polar's kids were there, which was great. Forte was there. Maya and PTA were there. And it was lovely to see them. I got to tell PTA. I said, I know this is what you want to hear most. I saw one battle after another at 10.20 in the morning on a Friday. And it was great to see him. And it was just super fun. And mostly, like, Tee and I were talking about how, in the entirety of our career, we feel like we only score when we have great jokes, and when we rolled out, people were just so happy to see us. And I was like, oh, this must be what it's like to be a performer with charisma. Did you guys write your own jokes? Are you just slotted in and did what they gave you? We wrote. Both Tee and I are sending jokes. I think I wrote one and Bayes wrote one of mine. Well, so the update guys wrote a ton and sent it to us. We didn't have to. And they had great stuff. So fun. Did you go to the after-after? No, you didn't. Couple drinks in Higgins' office, and then no drinks at the after-after, because I had a lot of appreciation for Alexi and my kids for being super cool about the fact that Daddy was going back to his old stomping grounds. That's impressive. You end up at that restaurant. You were at some nice table in the back near Lawrence's table, or at Lawrence's table, and you didn't get yourself a drink. Yeah, hard to do. I was walking around, oh, Charlie XCX was there, and I got to talk to her about the short, and how much I loved it. Did she say she misses me and Keith? She did, yeah? She loved it tonight. She did? She did? Yeah, yeah. I feel like one of the reasons I left the party early was based on how young everybody was. I felt like I looked like the mummy. But he's surprising how young. But then you look over and the table has like a-- Well, you know, Lauren and Martin Shorter, whatever-- Yeah. I was like, oh, I'm fine. This is fine. We're still in the middle between that. Yeah, we're still dead in the middle. Definitely. And I will say, one of the great courtesy of Lauren Provides is being an octogenarian who's still party super hard. He just shows you that that's the future. It's very impressive. Yeah, it's the best. Holds cards there to the end. Cake stands. Yeah. Hold my fucking legs. Oh, fuck, I can't feel my legs. Oh, get me down. I also-- I'm going to just admit it. And she was very cool about it. I had no idea of Charlie XCX was going to be in the show, right? She was in the role model song. Yeah. She was selling the role model song. And I was standing by the page desk, and she walked in with somebody. And she had her head scarf in glasses. She looked like Jackie and Asus. And I was like, hey, how are you doing? And she's like, I totally did not know it was her. And she's like, yeah, I've been on your show. And I'm like, oh, fuck. I'm like, hey. I apologize for it later. She told me. I'm so sorry. I thought you were Jackie Yo. It was great. Anyway, I really did-- I mean, again, and I should say, the best part about being back was to be there with Polar and to watch Polar do her thing was just fucking fantastic. Yeah, she was great. It's so fun to watch her do it. Anytime we get to see her on camera being funny, it's a fucking treat. And then Maya sent us picture, because Pol took a picture of the end Golden Era's who were there. And it's really awesome, because Pol took a, like, just a bad picture. I love that. I always like that. Probably best director at the Oscars this year doesn't know how to use his iPhone, I guess. I mean, I know it looks blurry in the zoom, but it's actually that blurry. Oh, that's great. That's really bad, yeah. That's awesome. All right, we've got some other stuff to talk about. This is pretty meaty. Yeah, this is a beefy yep. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I'm just going to run through some stuff real quick from our listeners. Bjorn, people asked, has the hip injury put off your vasectomy or did the vasectomy actually happen before? That's a great question. It has positive vasectomy. I will definitely invite Seth. Basically, I'm going to do it around his schedule. So I think that as long as he can pick me up. Thank you, bud. Yeah, thank you for keeping me in mind. A lot of people, more than one, said Alex Bayes sounds like Adam Scott. Oh, that's a good call. I can see that. And in case anybody's asking, Bayes is definitely given off any vibes. Give me off, what kind of vibes? Any vibes. It's a severing. Yeah, he's a real, he's a real any. Oh, any vibes. Oh, any other is that any vibes? Like you were saying that he didn't actually have any vibe at all. Oh, no, yeah. He wasn't just Adam Scott. He's Adam Scott. He's an any Adam Scott, and he like Bayes Lee. He comes off an elevator and he writes jokes all day. In a cold, in a cold, in a cold wheel, his office. I guess that's what a 30-eracle did to you. Yeah. Jim Downey, a former SNL head writer, thriving both in one battle after another. And also Tim, he's got so many funny, those scenes he's in. Best lines in the movie. He's also in Tim Robinson, his at-cannon's incredible chair company, which is airing now in HBO. So it's a real Downey. Low in Bubbles. It's the moment, the moment that happened for Paula Pell is now happening for Jim Downey. Yes. Andy's got a documentary about him coming out. It's a big time to be Jim Downey. Yeah. What's the name of the documentary? I bet it has a great time. Downey wrote that. Downey wrote it. Yeah. Oh, Downey wrote that. More than one person said that Kreetzel based on his voice note understands what this pot is supposed to be better than any of us. Well, he actually had like a lot of like information and like recap there. I think today's voice note will put the kibosh on that. Maybe disabuse people. And I also want to say that voice note was heavily edited last week. It was a ten minute. It was a ten minute voice note that got edited down to a crisp four. My favorite thing of Kreetzel's voice note because we had not heard it last week. We reacted to it, but I heard it only in the episode. This is how the sausage is made, guys. Go ahead Seth. Nice room. When Kreetzel says that Higgins said to him, your life begins now and Kreetzel goes and I was like, all right, save yourself for me and booty call. Someone said they really enjoyed your full muppet energy on save yourself for me. Girl, I'll take it. Save yourself for me. I said, do all your characters have dinky wings and a listener pointed out that you played the French pole vault or on late night quite quite the opposite. Yeah, the full opposite. Yeah. We were talking about ukulele songs and that there's only the one, you know. And somebody said, "What about George Firmbees when I'm cleaning windows?" No, I got to look that up. You got to look it up, but I'm going to warn you, because I'm worried based on the title, "Yorm." There are, of course, multiple references to ladders in George Firmbees. Oh, shit. So maybe don't. All right. I'll wait another five weeks to like, #TriggerWarningForYou. Oh, this is my favorite comment of the week. On my run this morning, I saw a dude rocking a Quattocostume. I was excited and about to shout Quaid Army, then I realized it was just some dad carrying an infant and a front-facing baby carrier. This podcast is ruined me. That's how you see the world. That's great. Yeah, probably a little bald baby. That's very similar. All right. Oh, well, there's two things we have to watch real quick. Okay. I wrote down somebody's share screen because there are two moments in the show that I thought were worthwhile. And I wrote down Timecode to try to save this first. It's just a real, real special run in ESPN Classic. The first time competing in the States, they call her the Wolf Bear. Now, Greg, tell me, how do you think she got that nickname? Somebody who knew her probably called her that at some point. Another person heard it and said, Hey, I like that. I'm just gonna step. Well, now, Greg and I know the process of acquiring a nickname, but I'm asking about how the Wolf Bear is specific to her. Oh, I don't know. It was probably her. I don't know. Well, wherever she got it from, it fits. A quick shout out to our sponsor this evening, Summer Z Feminine Hygiene Products. When something's gone wrong and it's the smell of your thong. Summer Z. Now, Greg, can you tell the viewers at home a little bit about the equipment they'll be using tonight? Well, it's just basically a bottle with the thin curve nozzle. I don't know if they're going to be using it tonight. Is there something you use at home? No, no, no. I'm sorry about that. That's my fault. That's my fault, pal. I wasn't talking about the fine equipment that the good people at Summer's Eve make. I mean, what kind of darts are the ladies using tonight? Oh, boy. I wouldn't put darts anywhere near the genre. No, Greg, sorry about that. I was talking about you know what? I mean, that thing, he's so nice. He keeps apologizing. Yeah, it's in anthropology. Oh, I'm sorry. I let you, it's great. It is pristine. Andy, you came back on. I did not remember. You came back on as Larry the Goose a year after the Miracle on the Hudson. We've rocked a second, Larry. Yeah. And you came out with a notebook to read the names of the victims. The geese who had died. Do you have any memory of what this game is about to be? Zero. I also had zero. It will, of course, make perfect sense that you came up with this. I believe with Michael Bryan and Simon Rich. Yeah, that's less poetic. It sounds better in Goose. Now Seth, if I may, I'd like to read the names of some of the geese who perished that day. You're wearing Chuck Schumer cheeses. These were geese of great dignity. Yeah, we like that. Goose Springstain. Feather Locklear. That's not what I mean. Ganderson Cooper. Geese Witherspoon. No, I don't know. President Quackery Taylor. President of what? Honk Williams, Jr. Indy Rock duo The Wing Wings. Topical. And of course, Mother. I'm sorry. Mother Goose. Her name was Gail. Is this all a joke to you, Seth? I mean, a little bit. Fun game. Sure, sure, sure. We don't hate it. No, we don't hate it. Also, the last thing I'll say is Kevin Miller put it in the chat because we talk so much about the ill-conceived weird L parody album. The names on it were Joe St. Kenward and Bernie Taupin. They put his name on it. I guess that's fair on some level. Yeah, although, you know, it's not really because they like the one thing that didn't survive or his lyrics. Right. And the melodies were, were Elton's, right? So it should have said John, I guess. So that also probably like just another reason for Elton John to be like completely confused. It's like the time when I did meet the brass's Beetlejuice and how the album was the host and we didn't address him, he was a Beetlejuice. Are we, are we a hundred percent sure that Bernie wasn't out the show that we can didn't come hang with them in the room? One hundred. Okay. And we're a hundred percent sure that Sigourney was an avatar. Oh, yeah, we are now. We are now. Wait, I'm not coming. Hit us in the dentist. Was Sigourney in there? Let us know if she was or she wasn't. Listen, when me and Andy and a few others, including Joanna got in the bath together and watched, watched way of water together and just soaked, just soaked in that. It was amazing. We went to a special theater. That is the one that James would go to check the DCPs to make sure it played right. And how'd you get in, Keith? How'd you get in there? We made some calls and the place that does color correction. It's made some calls for us because I knew it had to be a place that plays it. 48 frames per second to make it all look weird. And we were in there. We were in, we learned the ways. Okay, so since people want to know how things are made here, according to the Chrysler big ups, why was it 48 frames? What was the advantage of doing that? I mean, in general, 48 frames takes away all movie magic. And I would say it's the opposite of what you'd want when you're shooting a movie. Yeah. Because it makes everything crystal clear. Because if you're playing back at 48, there's no motion blur. What's the normal edit frame rates for 24 percent? 24, very cool. And that's part of what makes movie magic is your eye kind of processes it. Quick, quick rest in peace for Andy who just died. Well, on the keep going, keep going keep you going. And so part of his experimenting with Avatar was the new one was at least to make it at 48. So everything looks clearer than you're ever used to seeing anything ever. And I would say on your home TV that just makes it look even more like a video game. But if you see it correctly in the correct theater, where the RPG is. So it's crazy bright screen. Totally. With the glasses, the 3D glasses. Don't look at Andy's face while you're talking. No, I like this stuff. I just have nothing to add. Okay. Yeah. And then it looks like nothing you've ever seen before. And that's the thing that makes it worth seeing the movie. Because it's like, whoa, this is different. It's like going on an immersive theme park ride or something where you're like in the world. There's like 20 minutes with no dialogue where they're just underwater swimming around. And it's like a nature documentary. But it was one of my favorite parts, but I was super eye. So, okay, that's fine. He says it's fine to watch high. Great. I had a, I either could go see a one battle after another, which I loved. A 1020 or 1130 on VistaVision. Is that what it's called? Yeah. And it was the same theater. It was just that situation where it was like, if I do 1130, I'm going to be cutting it close. Yeah. And I just didn't want the stress of that. And I felt like, you know what? It'll be fine. But the thing I was mad about is I wanted to walk out and then peek my head into this. Was your screening, I did see it in VistaVision. It was your screening in iMacs or anything or just super normal, just totally normal. The real difference besides that it'll look different is that the aspect ratio is a little different. That's the part because I think it'd be fine to see it on a iMac screen because the iMacs aspect ratio is the same as the VistaVision ratio. Yeah. So at least then you're still, you're seeing a little more of the top and the bottom. And especially with the no spoilers, but like the chase at the end. And the way those hills are photographed, it's more dynamic seeing it higher and lower on the screen. So, you're of Kevin Seth, who's a cinephile? Uh, Keave Moore, but he also watches a bunch of crappy movies too. He throws those in there. I do. I saw the shape of water. Does that make me a. Oh, the fish, the fish fuck movie? Yeah. Fish fucking, yeah. I mean, it won best picture. Yeah, that's pretty rare. Wait, wait, wait, Keave. If I saw it in 70 Mill, one battle, does that mean I saw it in VistaVision? What is the. No, no, 70 Mill, uh, but did you see iMacs 70 Mill or just 70 Mill? Regular 70 Mill. So, that aspect ratio is even more smushed, so you saw even less of the frame potential. Yes, and I sort of wish I didn't because I could sort of tell. I got some, some's a little off here. Agreed, we can get a, we can get a voice note from Paul and this. Also, let me do a public service announcement on behalf of, um, at least the VistaVision screening in New York and L.A. And London, which is there will not be any trailers. They can't play trailers because the whole projection booth has been rigged. Oh, you know what? I'm gonna shoot everything in VistaVision 2 from now on. Yeah, but it is hard. People miss the first. I, man, I would have loved that because I could not believe what you're dealing with in trailers now. But also, people are coming in late and missing because they've been trained to miss the first 15 minutes to be like, "Oh, there's no point in showing up, but they can't play anything else because it's such a rig." And we can, you know, leave this in for the. Anyone can just leave now if they want. Well, Andy, did you quit me? Wait, no, wait, before we ask him, I have a question. Was shape of water sort of a forefather to Sushi Gori-Hole? Oh, because combining just fish and sexual feelings? Yeah. Well, I mean, there's a bit of, you know. I have a deeper question, which is, it was like a boss, the inspiration for shape of water. Shape of water. Because Andy fucks a fish in that. Yeah. Great questions. Great questions for the cinephiles. Yeah. Wait, you know, in the comments. I think that is more likely than that we were inspired by a shape of water for Sushi. But I mean, I feel like, would you. What is it, TMC? Like, one of those, like, if they ever did, like, a night of, like, fish sex stuff. Oh, I see. They would all fit. Oh, T-C-M. T-C-M. They would definitely all fit. Mankowicz would give a great intro for that. Go ahead. Before we find out about whether Andy Quibbied, here's our new intro song for that. ♪ Spelling beat ♪ (audience laughing) ♪ Spelling beat ♪ - Slow burn of the song. - The floor is yours. - I'm not done yet, I'm three short. (audience laughing) Oh, that's great, that was perfect. - This is great. - That's the problem with the morning pod. - Yeah, morning pod, yeah. - Also, I had a sense he wasn't done yet 'cause he's been doing it this whole pod. - Yeah, the whole time. I mean, there's 66 words today and it's fucking hard. I've gotten the pangram. - The moment Andy heard 48 frames, he was like, I'm out. - I'm 13 away, which is about right, compared to our skill level. - Two days ago, I was clean, Seth. Yesterday I had one hint. - What was your hint yesterday? - Fucking nicotine, frustrating. - Yes, I met, you know, I got continent, I got incontinent, I missed continents. - And what about incontinence? - Weirdly got that. You know, sometimes there's just too many words. - Are you ready for a 30 second boring VistaVision thing and then we say goodbye or did you have something else real? 'Cause people could just leave if they don't want to know now. Your VistaVision, and this is me paraphrasing the truth, but it was a, it's a dead format from the 50s and 60s and maybe even earlier, I don't know, of film. And it even is like, it goes through the camera even horizontally. It's like really outdated and different, but it has a specific look and that's how they filmed it. - Yes, yes, the movie was, so even if you're watching a DCP, you're watching a scan of VistaVision film, but it's pre-explaned DCP, what is a DCP? - We've already done that one at one point. - Seth, I bailed. - Really? - Yep. - All right, you bailed on Spelling Bee? - Yep. - Wow. - You do that sometime? - Sometimes, I decided to bail. - Historic, guys. (laughing) - Okay, the last movie to be shot on VistaVision was 1961 and it was a movie called One Eye Jax. - Ooh. - And then the brutalist had some stuff on VistaVision than one battle after another. Bugonia, the new one was shot in 95% on VistaVision. - North by Northwest was shot on it. - Oh, as far as that. That made the list of AFI's top 100, guys. - There you go. - And I gotta say, that didn't hold up. - Oh damn. Your drugs are making you a harsh critic. - Yeah, I'm throwing shade, crazy shade, I'm throwing. - Hey, wait, can I say something? Like, Andy, after you see one battle after another, it is so dense and fucking awesome. Like, I think we should do an entire episode on it with Paul, if that's possible. - Yeah. - I don't know if you ever would do a podcast. You'd probably be facing the way Andy does. - I bet you would do it. - I mean, I bet you he's actually doing press for it. (laughing) - No, no, no, no, no, no, this is different. This is not press, this is not- - No, we're gonna be shitting on it though. This is what's the opposite of press. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - A mess. - Okay, so when you were shooting a scene, how horny would you make it hornyer? - Seth, have you, because you got dressed in the Roxbury outfit, which was one step closer to a suit and tie, much closer, did you feel like part of me seeing you in that and how casual everything has gotten made me think, maybe it's time to go back to the suit, because also seeing you as a- - I fully agree with what Keith's saying. First off, let me just voice my support in the past for how you'd went casual, because we had never seen somebody be casual in a network thing like where it's the full set and everything and the pandemic and it was all the things and it was this nice kind of transition back for all of us to the real world. - And real life. - And then there was something about seeing you in a suit on the update desk this week and halfway to a suit with no tie where I went. Maybe now with all the noise and all the podcasts that look almost like talk shows at this point, there's almost no difference and all the things and I was like, maybe the suit comes back because it's like this- - Are you talking about IRL? - Or are you talking about only on camera? - I'm just talking about on late night with Seth Meyers when he's up there behind his desk. I don't think the standing monologue or anything needs to come, obviously, and those didn't go away at the same time, that was before. I don't know, I just seen you in the thing and- - It's interesting, I will say, it's something I've considered. - But of course, the problem is like every other late night host does a suit, you know what I mean? So it's like going back to the norm of my genre. - See Keith, I thought you were talking about In Real Life and I, because I've had to wear sweatpants for the last seven weeks, I don't have to, I guess, but I do, I'm more like, let's put on suits. - Yeah, you have a hankering for it too. Well, we're all getting to an age where I'm trying to figure out what I'm supposed to dress like. You know, that's a thing for another part, I guess. - Yeah, I think, you know what? Maybe when we have PTA on, we just talk about that exclusive. - That's good, that's good. So then he doesn't feel like it's press. - Okay, so the movie, I'll let him know he's bought. What do you think Wes Anderson does it? What do you think? - He made the movie. How should we dress? - Yeah. - You know, if I'm having one battle after another, it's in my closet. - It's in the morning. - It's an internal battle more of, you know, who am I and what am I trying to represent when I walk out the door? - This is a real beefy pod. - The quads, don't we say, leave it, leave it shaggy. - Leave it shaggy. - Quads were really, the quads were outraged that we ended up my story. - Oh yeah, but that was 'cause that's for privacy reasons though. Not for shaggy. - Yeah, but I will note, we didn't have to leave in a safe. - No, it was good. I listened to it back. I liked it. - It was good. It was totally fine. - Me and Andy went to breakfast this week, which is the first time that's happened in a very, very, very maybe ever long time where we just went and we went to a restaurant. Right when we were about to walk in past the like, you know, into the patio area, a gentleman went by and didn't even make eye contact, just gave such a subtle. - Yeah. - Quaid Army, just on a pass by, like a drive by, a walk by, that night, I was like, yep. And then I was like, oh fuck, I gotta say. So he was already like 10 steps away by the time I went, right, just go. And then Andy was like, oh good, good. Like, woof, you're almost-- - He was the James Dean of Quaid Army. - Yeah, love this guy. He'd probably just listen to that ice cube song that was like about how you approach someone, you know what I mean? And then was like, I gotta make this real subtle. Oh yeah, yeah, give him a pound or whatever that is. - Shake my hand and make it. - A firm shake. - Exactly. - Say what up ice cube and then break. - Yeah, there you go. - Yeah. - I do think and I want to continue hammering it. Like for us, the most wonderful Quaid Army to receive is like no one breaks stride. - Yes, a pass by. - And I just, I got one the other day. I was with the Lexi and someone, a dude walked by and he said it, not even like it brought him joy. He said it was like, like military, you know what I mean? Like, he saw his, he saw a superior. - Oh fuck, that's my shit, yeah. - Part of the Army, sir. - Right, just kill soldier on your way. - Part of the Army. - Yeah, a little, sir. It's just like a sir. - The Quaid's Rock, Quaid Army fucking rock. - Damn the Quaid's fucking rock, man. - You think the little monsters do that for for God's sake? No. (laughing) - There is a member of Quaid Army on fuckin' tilt right now and it's Jake Tapper, who can't believe we keep giving him notes on his fuckin' drawing. (laughing) - Did he add to me doing again? - We were giving him props last time. I thought we gave it up. - Dude, when you come back and if you watch the fuckin' lead with Jake Tapper every time it comes back to me, it's fuckin' scribbling, just workin' on like, it's just workin' on me. - Trying to decube Sandberg's face. - Here's the thing, as the sincere one, as my character has become over the course of these things. - Oh my gosh. - I was the one who was really giving it up every single time, as the sincere Alvin of the group. - Yeah. - That's a trustee of Alvin's. - I'm more of the nerdy Alvin. - Yeah, all right. - Oh, so you guys are three different Alvin's now? - Jesus Christ. - Yeah, we're just different aspects. - I mean, at this point, I think I'm just a Simon. - Yeah, this guy's just doing his word games. - I want a Simon fuckin' door it. - Yeah, I mean, according to Bill, I'm the mastermind behind everything. So, listen to your guy. (laughing) - This is the fattest tale we've ever had on one of these. - All right, if we want to get even just a little shaggy, - Sure, mix a lot with a proof, Seth. (laughing) - I like shaggy tales, I cannot lie. (laughing) - Let's never stop doing this. - Hey Alvin, mix a lot. Love the beat, love everything about it. Is there anything other than shaggy tale? - Ooh, I don't know. You got the Alp, mix a lot. - Look at her tail. - And he's like, I don't know, that's what I call big butts. And it's like, what about that? - Also, what about that? - What about Jerry Lewis, this is his producer? - Hey, you mix a lot, you got the Alp. (laughing) - Oh, boy, you mix a lot. - Yeah, nice lady with the shaggy tails. (laughing) - Shaggy tail. - What are you gonna, how you gonna, you wanna shag the tail a little bit more? - Okay, well, no, I have a thing, I could say it next week, it doesn't really matter. - No, say it. - Come on, look at it. - No, say it now. - I was trying to remember my week during this week. And the thing, the movie we were working on that didn't end up happening, we were rewriting, and I would go, the two writers with, it was Jonah Hill had written it, and he written with a guy named Matt Spicer, who directed Ingrid Goes West, among other things now, and Max Winkler. He just, he just actually directed a movie with Eric Andre, who I fucking hate, you know, beef. - Oh yeah, the one that, trust, yeah. - I talked about each other before it. Anyways, so I'm in LA, and every day, I would go to Max Winkler's childhood home, 'cause it just had a lot of space for us to write. So we would write in this beautiful house, that Max Winkler, whose father is Henry Winkler, and if you've ever seen Henry Winkler on a talk show, or in a Sandler movie, and gone, "What a great, warm, beautiful, caring man that is." It was so wonderful to be being treated as he was so happy to have us in the house, and we would get there at 9 AM, and sit in the dining room table, and he would come in just how you want him to be, with like, fresh bagels, and he'd be making them, like, who wants one with tomato, and I got to live this, like, fantasy of being what Max's life was like as a kid, every day, 'cause we did for like a month, and I just remembered, like, all right. - Wait, that was the month, just sitting in his living room having Henry and then his mom was lovely and just come in and literally make us breakfast every day and be so happy to have, 'cause you didn't live there. Max didn't live there. The way that a nice parent is so happy to have the kids back in the house. Oh, you boys are doing your project. Let me get you, and it was a lot of fun. - Can I ask you a question, Keith? - Yeah. - Both me and Eddie have been over to you else. I believe I'm sure Seth has as well. And I don't feel like any of us have been treated like that. - No, it's interesting. - I'm just checking this. You've learned. - But I've also been at all of your parents' houses and didn't get treated that way either, 'cause none of us have Henry now. - We're getting down to brass tax. - I would say of the three of us though, Keith treats guests the best. - That's definitely true. - I didn't get, I remember going to Keith's once and getting like a bespoke cocktail when he was making something special, like little jalapeno and a tequila drink, sort of thing. - Yeah, man. - 'Cause I was taking care. - And he does say, "Hey, more," right? - Yeah. - He's started doing that, which was a little forced. He's like, "Hey, I opened your locker with a single hit." - I'm happy to pile up Henry Winkler's great story on a Henry Winkler's great story. We on Thursday do something called $5 Thursday, where we have like one of those like bingo things you spin around and our whole crew, everybody writes their name on a $5 bill and puts it in the spinner and you spin it around. And then once a month, it's $20. And Henry was there on a Thursday and he wrote his name on a $20 bill and he won. And so got like whatever $400. And then the next Monday he sent pizza to everybody on the crew. - Yeah. - Like just immediately, it wasn't gonna like pocket the money. - Yeah. - I'm surprised he let that fester for a-- - I like that he let it fester. - Yeah, a week of people cursing him. I'm gonna say, I didn't fester at all. I think everybody was genuinely so happy. Like by the way, he was like the only guest who was ever like, "I'll play." - Yeah. - You know. - Guys, we're at an hour 41. - So that's your way of saying-- - What's wrong with you, Andy? - This is a shaggy tale, Andy. - I would rather hang up and then just keep talking. - Oh, without the quads. You wanna keep the quads? - Yeah. - We have to come up with the opposite of press. Is it like wrinkles? - This is like what it's doing. - Yeah, wrinkles is wrinkles. - Done. - You did it. - Does PTA wanna do wrinkles? - Yeah. - Can we just talk about suits? (laughing) - After your press tour, after your press tour, do a wrinkles tour. (laughing) - Oh my god, I love it. - Yeah, you know, just for fun. Just do some wrinkles. I'm all right, I love you guys. - Love you guys. - I love you guys. - Later Arnold. - Later quads.