Guys: Episode 124 - Sitcom Guys with Sean Clements

Welcome to guys, a podcast about guys.

I'm Brian.

I was going to add a laugh track to this because we're of the subject, but then I would have had to go home, get a laugh track, put it on the soundboard.

You were going to put it on the soundboard because I was going to say, you don't add anything after the episode starts.

That's my laugh track.

And as you can hear, Chris is here.

There are no other co-hosts.

Yeah, that's right.

We're back to just me.

We had a little bit of a run there where we were trying out new guys.

I didn't really know what it was all about, to be honest.

I wasn't in the loop on that.

But yeah, there was new guys that were coming in every week and sort of doing a tryout sort of thing but it's just me so i guess none of them worked out

and our guest who i'm excited to have and nervous about sean clements hi sean get out of here come on i'm nervous you make me nervous you guys are making me nervous

i told chris i did hollywood handbook and i told chris i was like at first i was like the most nervous guy in the world but then you know behind the scenes i felt pretty good like that taken care of that's really nice to hear it's definitely not always the case but it is our intention

Well, I wanted to, okay, so this was the thought process this week.

Please, okay.

Disney guys.

Chris was like, Sean would love that.

We do Disney guys.

Now, I learned about Disney guys.

I spent a full day looking at there's too many of them.

There's just, there's like 800 different types of them.

It's insane.

And it's a lot of women.

And I was just kind of like,

I don't need three guys.

Three of us talking about women.

That episode is going to be problematic.

Three guys talking about women.

At some point, we forget the mics are here and we just start saying what we actually think.

When the guys show is talking women, it's not, you know, there's a reason you focus on guys.

Yeah.

You can't control yourself.

Sometimes.

So the secret is we do read posts by women.

You just will never hear the name of the person posting.

Because I don't read the name of the person posting.

You do sometimes though, read people's full names, but only if it's a guy.

Yeah, you let really secrets out of you.

And then finally, I said, Chris, could we do improv guys

with Sean?

And Chris said, no.

Well, I didn't say no.

He said, absolutely fucking not.

He will get so mad at us.

Don't say that.

That's not at all.

You just said you think it would be a good idea to do improv guys with Sean.

And I think, I said, I don't know.

I think we could do a better topic, maybe.

That's just what I felt.

Like, yeah, but it was no.

Who are we going to get on to do improv guys then?

well I don't do it it's true yeah I well but maybe what what was the concern Chris that I'm too close to it yeah that you're an improv guys

No, that you're not an improv guy, but that you would maybe we'd be making fun of stuff and then you'd be like, oh, this is like, I know a friend of mine who I do improv with who had a similar sort of thing to this.

You know, like, I feel like I'm now making fun of the people that I, that's what I kind of thought.

Oh, yeah.

No.

Yeah.

All I do is make fun of people that I know

what I'm trying to do I'm trying to get my daughter to do improv dad why did you say that on the podcast why would you why would you bring up that I didn't want to do improv guys

this is all that's going to be talked about the power of veto this is everything

should have done yeah everything on reddit now is going to be like honestly like I just all I could think about is how good improv guys LaSean could have been if Chris the tyrant hadn't have step two he is a tyrant too.

We could have done an hour and a half just on Mike Berbiglia's improv guy movie.

Oh, my God.

Hey, listen, that was a pretty good movie, to be honest.

I got it.

We're trying to get Berbiglia on the show.

Yeah, get him on here.

Well, you could do improv guys with him.

I mean,

he made the movie.

I don't think

he's doing a show with Berbiglia.

Not that I don't like him.

I don't know.

He just feels like he's too big, you know?

He's famous.

Yeah, he's huge.

Sean, you're famous too.

don't let chris make you feel unfamous

no no no i'm a fucking joke man no you're the most famous on this call right now you're most famous by a million

knows that that's obvious

so so i decided to do another show business because we had haze on we did rat pack guys that's a very show business yeah sort of thing so i picked sitcom guys and they turns out are very fucking weird and we're not talking about guys in sitcoms now there was one minute, one fucking minute where I thought it would be funny to talk about actual characters in sitcoms.

Yeah, we just talk about like the just the three guys from friends.

We could probably

have some fan fiction about some eccentricities, those guys, honestly.

I'm quirky, you know what I mean?

Yeah.

I'm just wondering if we could maybe change the topic because I'm getting a bit worried.

I realize Sean has written on sitcoms.

Oh, absolutely.

No, this is much more uncomfortable for me than improv guys.

Because the thing is, my whole career

is kind of tied to me staying on good terms with a lot of the sitcom guys that I know.

Yeah, of course.

And they aren't these guys.

That's like how I make money is writing for shows versus the improv guys

were never, we never were going to make any money.

That's like what?

God, we should have done improv guys.

I'm trying to get my kid to do it.

Improv.

Oh, yeah.

You know, I signed my kid up for a summer camp that has like a

story-telling improvi element to it.

And I don't know how it's going to go.

He's not excited for it.

And I don't know.

Chris, do you have kids?

How old?

How old is your kids?

So I have a six-year-old.

So I have a six-year-old boy and a three-year-old girl.

And they're, you know, they're amazing.

But what I've been talking about this recently, and it's related.

He has.

He's the best, but he essentially has no imagination.

And his little sister, all she wants to do is pretend.

And so it's all like, okay, like, you're the, you're the doggy.

And I'm the, and he's like, no, I'm not.

Yeah, that's my daughter.

Yeah.

Because I told her, I told her, you should do improv.

You're pretty funny.

She's been on the podcast before.

Just to be clear, Brian's daughter is 20 years old.

So it is, it's like a little bit of a different situation.

Okay, yeah, but still.

Still, yeah.

She has a friend that does improv and she goes to the shows.

And every fucking time she texts me and she's like, you know, I went, I went to his improv show and he's very brave.

She never says it's funny, not one fucking time.

She's just like, it's very brave what he's doing.

So I looked up the most controversial sitcom opinions on R slash sitcoms, which is a very active subreddit that I wouldn't have it.

Cause sometimes I'll look and be like,

like R slash entertainment, I looked at yesterday

and it's like all politics, which you're not allowed to do on R slash rant.

I have a lot of like, I, you know, I get force-fed some like R slash screenwriting stuff.

Like all the entertainment industry stuff right now is very, very bleak.

Yes, the stand-up comedy one is hardcore.

You just look at it and you're like, oh, no.

Well, they're the last of the last ones left.

You know, we haven't lost them yet, but they're probably the next to go.

So they can see the writing on the wall, yeah.

So let's let's see what's the most controversial.

So, what's the most controversial sitcom hot take?

And this first one, I think, is pretty wild, and it really

gives you the uh vision for what these guys are.

Mine is that I thought Eight Simple Rules was a better show after the dad's passing.

It's really, and the guy literally died-like, it's not like the dad, John Ritter.

Yeah, that's John Ritter, legendary

comedic actor, John Ritter, beloved actor, John Ritter.

Oh, God, I'm already uncomfortable.

Yeah,

it's really unfortunate that John Ritter passed away in real life.

He was a great actor, but I feel that the dad's death added an extra layer of emotion to the show.

Parent deaths have been in sitcoms before, but rarely a main character parent to a young family.

So it made the show more interesting to me.

Also, I really enjoyed the addition of CJ and Grandpa.

What's your most controversial, controversial sitcom hot take?

And I thought that was good because I liked the idea that they're like.

You knew how to say controversial when the episode started.

Versial.

I say versial.

Okay.

Is that right?

I don't think so.

Well, we're saying.

I didn't mean to cut you off.

I'm sorry.

I just honestly, I felt like it was very comfortable for you to say, and then you just lost it.

Yeah, he does that sometimes.

It's hard to read.

I will say that it could be a regional thing, but I've never heard controversial.

No, maybe it is.

I thought you said in Ohio.

Controversial.

I think it is a, I think it's an either-or situation, I think.

I love Mad About You, but giving Paul and Jamie a child was not the best decision.

Oh.

Okay.

Now, did they have a kid during the original run of the series, or was it only in the reboot?

Is there a reboot of Mad About You?

They did do

another, yeah, they did a modernized season of it.

I mean, probably five years ago or something.

And I know

from someone who was working on the production side of it, that they went through like six showrunners for like one season of Mad About You.

It seems to keep going well.

They kept, yes, they kept being like, maybe the issue is the

writer.

And it was like, well,

it's funny because the next guy does reply and he goes, my dad always said that as soon as a child is introduced on a show, for example, seven on Married with Children, or a couple has a baby, the show is going downhill and they're grasping at straws.

Friends was the only one I noticed it didn't happen in because Emma was always over at either Ross's or Rachel's parents and wasn't made the focus.

Oh, so yeah,

it was cool on Friends because...

They had the kid and then dealt with it as if the kid...

I think this is actually correct.

For the sitcom, they only used the kid if it was going to drive like a comedy story between your two characters so it was like

the ross doesn't want a male nanny or something would be like okay the manny episode we could do that and that is using the kid because it's really all about the caretakers but there was never any like using it as a tool using the child as like there's a kid in the scene now that is like somehow an active participant they didn't really do that Here's an interesting thing.

Cosby shows a prime example.

After Rudy stopped being cute, they had to bring in ravens imode to bring back those cutesy little kid jokes yeah that is the that is so true these people are going to say after she started stopped being cute nah but they're right about that they're right about it they just mean she got older do you know what i mean like she just grew up that's she grew up well and that reminds me of um

Something that we covered way back when Hayes and I were doing this show called the Reality Show Show where we were watching all the different reality shows and there was a show briefly that I want want to remind you guys about called splash

and it was a diving a celebrity diving competition so like various

out of how limelight celebrities but how high level like give us a couple examples I'm looking at well it's got Tisha Knight Bullium

yeah so so basically Rudy

from the Cosby show was one of the divers and they you know they get coached by Greg Luganis or whatever, and they go and they try to do a dive.

And like, Louis Anderson, I guess, was like a big storyline on it.

Just that he was willing to jump into the water at all became like this huge, like tearful moment.

But when Rudy is first introduced, she walks out in her swimsuit to dive, the adult version of this, like, child we watch on TV.

They had like custom music

behind all of the celebrities as they would like walk out to the diving board.

And theirs was like this like very funky jazzy and it went, Rudy is all grown up.

Those songs were written by,

I get, those songs were written by the jingle punks.

So the jingle punks wrote Rudy's all grown up and it was kind of like, boom, bomb boom, bomb, bum.

It's like,

all right, man.

Those celebrity shows are so good.

It's just like celebrities are, once you become a celebrity, you have to keep being a celebrity pretty much at some point.

And so those things

are going to not do.

You're going to just go hang out?

And so there's all these executives who really realize that and they're just like, we can get these celebrities to do anything if we put them on TV.

We will put you on TV for

less than diving.

I know

it was a huge breakthrough for people when they were like doing the real world and they were like, can we just do the real world?

But it's all people who just haven't been on TV in 20 years, but like they want to be.

And it's just, we put them in a house and like make them do stupid challenges.

It was like, yup.

And then that just the dam opened.

And then you got Splash.

They can dive.

They could do anything.

How long did Splash?

How many seasons did Splash?

I believe it was only one.

What?

Yeah, no.

I'm looking at the wiki now.

One season, eight episodes.

That's ridiculous.

That's ridiculous when it comes to the best.

That's ridiculous.

We would love to see more.

Yeah, no, I think that shows there must have been something wrong with the production or something because when you have something that's that strong of an idea,

you got Dancing with the Stars has been on for 20 years.

Diving with the Stars Stars gets one?

Yep.

I'm not saying it's as good, but.

I would have liked to see Holy Moly do a

celebrity edition.

Now, that's something I could get behind.

You ever seen that show?

So is that the golf one with Steph Curry?

So I

Rob Riggle.

But Steph Curry's the producer on it, no?

Yes, yes.

And he comes in and putts sometimes.

That's true.

They're like, do you want to putt against Steph Curry?

It's his idea.

He's obsessed with golf.

He loves golf.

You know, I developed, speaking of sitcom, guys, I developed a multi-cam sitcom with Steph Curry's production company.

It was about a retired NBA player.

Basically, like, what's his, kind of what we're talking about are these celebrities can't get it.

Like, what's his life going to be now that he's out of the league?

And

I was told at the top, like, hey, Steph's going to like come to all the pitches and like, or like the big ones, and he's going to be there.

And like, you know, it'll be, it'll be really exciting for them.

And we'll get this set up somewhere.

And then,

you know, we do like four of the first six pitches, and he's not there.

And like, one of them, I walk in, and literally, I sit down, and the executive across from me is just like, is Steph Curry not coming?

And they're like, well, no, he's busy, you know, he's doing the.

And she's like, I told my son I was going to meet Steph Curry today.

I was going to get a picture of him.

And we're like, okay, okay.

And she's like, well, do the pitch, I guess.

Oh,

of course, that's setting me up to talk for 25 minutes uninterrupted

in the

coldest room imaginable.

But so for the last one, so it's like, hey, guys, like, if Steph could just fucking call, like, if he just gets on speaker, I think that'll really help us like sell this thing.

Like, it's like his, you know, his name on it.

And then they go like, we'll do you one better.

We got a video.

And the video,

I've told this story before, I'm sure, but like the video is him like taking a selfie video and he's he's on a golf course, and the wind is so loud you can barely hear him.

And he's just like, and he's like, hey, guys, you know, just I love the show.

Family's everything,

you know, and this is about it.

This guy's family.

And,

you know, I'm a little sorry.

Obviously, I'm recording this on a golf course.

You maybe, you can't hear me great, but I think when you see who I'm golfing with, you'll forgive me.

And they turn the camera around.

It's Phil Mickelson.

He's just like, say hi, Phil.

And Phil's like, hi.

And then it's like, so they show me this, and I'm like,

wow, I'm not sure if we should even show that.

It does prove we know Steph Curry.

Or we paid for a cameo or whatever.

Yeah, it looks like a cameo.

It sounds like a cameo.

Totally.

Yes.

It was that energy where I was like, does he even know?

And Phil Mickelson is a...

is a big golfer in the golf world like Phil Mickelson's obviously huge, but I don't know when you're saying like, you're going to forgive me based on who this is

like.

I don't think he's like a real meter mover for everyone.

Yeah, I totally agree.

It's funny, like, the wall I bumped up against, other than not being super talented when I was trying to do stand-up comedy was that this guy always talks about stand-up, by the way.

That's me, yeah.

The, the, the, is that I had asked somebody one time, like, how do you get to be at the funny bone?

Yeah, and which is

like, they have like an open mic there probably once a week, week, but they won't let you do it unless you audition for the owner of the funny bone, the general manager of the funny bone by himself.

Yeah, they love to do that mitzi style.

All the club managers are like, yeah, I'm the mitzi of this area.

This isn't a mall in Columbus, Ohio.

So I was like, I don't think I'm going to be a stand-up comedian.

It's just not, I'll never make it past this wall right here that I bumped up against.

That's making me feel better about never trying it.

A lot of people do it.

you've never tried Stan.

You don't even do it when I'm like, I wish I did it for like a month even and be like, well, I tried it.

It wasn't for me.

But this is making me feel like, no, it's fine.

You know, I did like six months and then I got to five minutes and I was like, boy, I bet you if I did the funny bone, some people would notice me, which is crazy because, again, it's the general manager of a funny bone in a mall in suburban Columbus, Ohio.

Yeah, six months in is around the time, though, when you have like a couple of good sets of comedy and then you're just like, yeah, like I'm i'm ready to take the next step like that's when you start feeling that way definitely yeah i used to do i used to do a bit of stand-up myself sean i don't because i've some but i'm sorry i have bad news for you which is my air pods were connected to my phone and on my computer for the first uh for this whole past 20 minutes and so my sound is going to be fucked up but you're but you're recording are you recording locally and that will be fine i'm recording into the mic but it's going to be getting you guys too oh i see that's you know what That's totally voices that come out of the music.

Sorry about that.

We'll use it.

We'll use this, and it's not a problem.

Now you guys are going to hear, wow, the sound is improved.

That's all.

Listen, they don't even know.

For them, it was just the way it was, and now it's better.

So, in their minds, they're only getting it improved.

And the fact that you caught it 19 minutes in when we, I mean, we go for three and a half hours here, so it's not even

a blip.

This person on R/slash sitcoms asked, is it me or does Pam from the office seem like she always has bad breath?

Hmm.

Oh, wow, okay.

No, I've thought, I think that about people a lot when I see them.

Definitely.

That's

a look that I definitely take note of.

What do you think of me?

No, I know you don't have bad breath because I've met you before.

But I would say I would guess that Sean has, you have good breath would be my guess, Sean.

But mostly older people.

Well,

in general, when you're in a situation where you're going to be interacting with people, but of course, we can all be, you know.

Here's what I'll say, Chris, and I appreciate the vote of confidence.

I have an awareness of my breath.

Sometimes my breath is bad, but I usually like know.

Yeah.

The people who are a real problem are like, they have no idea.

You're like, do I tell them?

I think with me, like, are there days when I have bad breath?

I'm like, yeah, there are, but I'm looking to solve it.

Yeah.

And you're not

like, and you're looking to mitigate the like effects of it or whatever.

You're not going out.

I'm turning away from, I'm getting a little distance while we talk.

You know what I mean?

I'm finding a reason to have a barrier in between us.

Yeah, pretending like a lot of people.

And I'm just hunt for a mint.

Yeah, I'm pretending a lot of stuff is a secret that isn't really a secret, just so I can kind of put the hand over the mouth.

I smell myself to the ear, yeah.

I smell myself all day, like every 15 or 20 minutes.

I'm like.

You are obsessed with it, but Brian, you a lot.

We've talked about this a lot.

Brian is a remarkably good smelling guy, so it pays off.

The fact that you're like worried about it does pay off for you.

You know, you have nothing to worry about.

Smelly house.

This guy goes, I think that about Miley Cyrus.

And then this person says, I'm still at the beginning of season eight, but I think it's just you.

If that changes as I end the series, I'll return and report back, but she's my favorite character, so I'm doubting it.

So maybe we'll find out a little later on in season eight or nine.

Maybe something

more disturbing: the person who is watching TV and thinks the character has bad breath, or the person whose favorite character on the office is Pam.

Yeah.

Or nobody, people say like Jim and Pam as a couple.

Sometimes they'll say that, but I feel like just standalone favorite character is Pam.

Pam.

I've never heard that before.

And I'm going straight at the office ladies now.

This guy goes, maybe Creed.

Maybe I don't want to say anything.

Oh, my goodness.

Listen, I want to apologize, Sean, for putting you in that position where you had to make fun of one of your colleagues.

That's it.

What could have happened had we done a certain guy's, and I don't think I even need to say it now.

Maybe Creed.

Maybe I don't want to say anything about him for sure because he's apparently a real person.

Also, there's the possibility that Dwight has some type of elixir he drinks that makes him have bad breath that connects to some pride in his family.

You never know with Dwight.

Oh, I would totally buy that.

Dwight's beat farm.

Can I say, though, that the type of Creed 100% has bad breath?

He is the kind of guy that I am have my eye out for.

And I'm sorry to say it's a little ageist, but it's generally older people, older men, and who look a certain way.

And if I saw Creed, I would be confident he had bad breath.

But did you know he's a real person?

Yeah, they just mean like

he's he's not acting.

They've used some of the actors' real life

specifics and injected them into the character.

I think Creed was in like a psychedelic rock band or something in the 60s,

and so was the actor.

I see.

His name is also Creed, right?

His name's

so he's kind of not an actor, and they are all acting around him.

He's a real person.

He's living his life, kind of.

The office would do this, guys.

Okay.

The office would actually do.

They would just use it.

They would just use real life.

That's why I feel you feel like you fucking know these folks.

And by the way, we might as well be doing improv, guys, because they were improvising in that show.

I mean, they had to start injecting it because they rent right the original office was so short and then they wanted to be a good one.

Oh, cool and edgy, too.

Yeah, well, I prefer to.

They didn't believe in God on that one.

This one's more Christian.

Yeah, no, I wasn't noticing that.

That was an atheist philosophy on.

We love Gervais.

On this pod, we love Gervais.

Oh, unless you believe in a little man in the sky.

Well,

that's kind of our Gervais.

I would expect that there are some people there with with coffee breath, but I imagine it would be more a case with the guys.

And then finally, this guy says, to me, she seems like she would smell faintly of cat pea.

So just saying she's a cat lady, like saying she does look like a cat pea.

That's Angela.

I know.

That's what I was thinking, too.

Y'all got your office ladies crossed up.

Yeah.

If you could go out and get away with that.

She's a lot of office ladies, right?

Do you reply to the comments?

Is that part of the show?

I wish.

You would reply.

We have determined that Angela smells like cat.

We on the guys podcast have determined that Angela smells like

you seem to be mixing up, but maybe she just thinks like, yeah, that she's also a cat lady as well.

It's obvious that like Angela smells like a single colour.

She's not my favorite character, but I do think I would know if she was a cat lady.

I think they would have covered that.

It's a look, though, because the big show, the wrestler, I know he smells like egg salad.

You know what I mean?

Just a real gross-looking guy, you know?

Yeah.

So this guy says, if you could go out for one night with a sitcom castle.

Are you into wrestling and stuff?

I don't know if that's come up before.

Me?

No.

I'm into the best wrestling, all-elite wrestling.

I'm hoping to get it.

Have you ever even heard of that, Chud?

Be honest.

Have you ever even heard of all elite wrestling?

All elite?

Yeah, all elite.

I remember when it was some elite.

He's making jokes now.

He's a comedian, so he's making jokes to try to make you not know about it.

He's never heard of it before.

He's riffing with you.

But he's never heard of the.

It's not like WWE, is my point.

It's not like the big one that's good that people know about.

Anyway, this person goes, want to say it's always sunny in Philadelphia, but I probably wouldn't survive, so Tacoma FD should be a blast.

Wait, the Tacoma Fire Department?

Is that the guys from like

broken lizard?

Yeah, broken lizard guys, right?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Club dread.

So why would you want to fire?

Why do you want to hang out with them when they're firemen?

I guess there are troopers in the other one, but

couldn't you just hang out with them on their own?

Probably a funny firehouse, I would say.

They're probably cracking up in there.

I've never watched the Coma FD.

I've never watched.

We had them on handbook when the show first came out.

Yeah.

The two main guys.

And were, how, like, did you

hang out with them?

Did you further comment on it?

You know what?

It ended up being a Zoom episode, so it was kind of the same energy we have now.

Yeah.

Did you hang out with them after?

It was fine.

We all stayed in the Zoom and just cracked a couple coal bones and chopped it up.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's cool as hell.

That's why I want to hear what this person goes, friends, because it's pretty low-key hanging out in a coffee shop and maybe listening to local artists.

I'm not much of a drinker.

So

I would just like to perk.

I'd just like to have some friends.

Well, then this guy says friends, so I could try to hook up with Rachel.

Okay.

Wow.

Gets a reply, too.

Gets a reply.

That was going to be my answer.

Other casts may be fun to hang out with, but no one would be more fun to go home with.

And as long as there was a chance.

Yeah,

these guys have taken a wrong turn from the chive.

And they're just like over here like, oh yeah, oh yeah, I'd love to fuck some of them though, right?

And it's like, no, we're not talking about that.

We're just talking about like hanging out with them.

It's like, but I mean, once you hang out, sometimes it leads to more, right?

She's dating people on the show.

Yeah, so she's not a sexually active character.

Jesus.

So you're telling me I'm living inside the show and I'm supposed to put that entire part of my life away?

Like I get to join the, so I join the show, but then like, I'm some kind of fucking priest on there?

Jesus Christ.

I'm a fucking Joey.

Joey Schibiani's getting it in every which way.

Yeah.

Fuck him.

He's doing everything everywhere all at once.

He does fuck so much.

Oh my God.

I fuck him.

Joey was smashing.

They were scratching.

I don't know if that would be my explicit intent, but when I shoot my shot at Rachel and I just miss, hit Joey by accident.

I was always a Monica fan.

If I can be honest,

I was always found Monica to be more sexually attractive.

I would probably.

If I was in there, what I'm saying is I'd be trying to fuck Monica.

I'd be trying to get in with her, try to whine and dine her.

Man, I mean, you don't want to join the seasons that she's with Tom Selleck, but

most of the other periods of the show, I feel like you could be a fan of the children.

That's actually true.

I would lay down to Tom Selick if actually,

can I tell you guys something?

There is a fan fiction where Tom Selleck, Richard,

Joey, and Chandler suck and fuck each other.

And I do have it right here in front of me that I had.

Because

I have one erotic fan fiction from Friends.

And then one from Andy Carlos.

It's interesting they left Ross out of it.

It is.

They're doing Naked Wednesday, which is, I think, a gag from the show.

And

Ross, yeah, I feel like

I can kind of see it, though, honestly, why you'd leave it.

Ross just doesn't feel like he would.

He might throw the vibes off, honestly.

Richard was, you know, Ross, Ross, and Monica are brother and sister.

Yeah.

Richard was sleeping with Monica.

It feels like the taboo of this man

dating his, you know, his sister's, or, you know, sleeping with his sister's boyfriend to somebody who's writing this level of fan fiction would possibly be enticing.

But it feels like maybe it was too much for them.

Maybe they said, like, oh, no, that would throw the vibes off because it'd be like, oh, like,

I believe Richard's backstory is that he was their like pediatrician or something.

Yeah, I think it's kind of not a good backstory.

Yeah, I think he was like their doctor, their childhood doctor, and then he's sleeping with her.

Yeah.

Well, this opens with

Joey and Chandler.

It's Naked Wednesday.

We're getting naked and we're going to sit and watch TV.

They're naked.

I don't want to read that part.

Yeah, yeah.

Probably sitting on their two recliners.

We all know the scene.

And it goes, it's open.

Come in.

They both reply, it's Richard, Monica's boyfriend.

Richard asks, can I join you?

Chandler says, you need to get a chair from Monica first.

Richard goes over to Monica's apartment.

As Richard is leaving Monica's apartment, you can hear dishes breaking.

Monica is heard saying, take the chair and get out, you bastard.

then there's a sound of a dish breaking richard re-enters joey and chandler's apartment what happened and he goes i broke up with monica can i have a beer so oh that is not with monica that's actually interesting yeah that they did feel the need to clean that up that he's not cheating

they don't like adultery in this scenario well then no wonder ross isn't there they've got exactly like standards

Yeah, he goes, he lifts his t-shirt over his head and reveals his hairy chest.

Chandler and Joey look over as Richard is removing his belt very sexily.

Then Richard unbuttons and unzips his pants and slides them to his knees.

Then he kicks them off.

Chandler and Joey are staring at Richard's gray boxers, wondering what is underneath.

He removes them very slowly, and finally, after about two minutes, he pulls them down so you can see his pubic hair.

Can I just say?

Can I just interrupt?

These descriptions let me know whoever wrote this.

I'm assuming it's a guy.

This guy's gotten undressed before.

You know what I mean?

Like, it feels authentic to the experience, the way he took his shirt off, or like lowering the pants to get them, you know, to foot level and maybe stepping out of them.

The two minutes to get the underwear down is feels extreme to me, but like everybody's got kind of their own journey to go on.

Yeah, and you know, he moves on.

Sorry, you were at the Pew Actor.

Yeah, talk about the puppy.

I'll come back.

Oh, yeah.

Well, he goes, now what, Richard asked?

Joey says we watch porn and drink beers.

Yeah.

If they were all really drunk, they decided to order a pizza.

The guy at the pizza place said they would be at least an hour, so the guys become bored.

Chandler suggests, how about we play truth or dare?

Okay, so I feel this is

kind of a really introductory,

like it's kind of just your really basic sort of like, is a pizza delivery guy going to get involved, do you think?

Possibly?

Like, I feel like that could be.

But yeah, just the truth or dare you know that's kind of

a piece yeah it just it does feel kind of cool richard this

65 year old hunk

truth or dare richard

richard being in the story is crazy enough like i think that the person was just like he's like he's so hot and sexy that he has to be in the story you know like he's this like super hot mustache guy wait does he have a mustache in the show yeah yeah well he does because he famously yeah because

famously it smells like pussy juice what

famously it smells like pussy juice i don't uh channel i was gonna say chandler gets that's in my fiction i wrote i see but uh i was gonna say chandler gets a mustache right he comes into that one scene and he's got a mustache because he wants to be like he wants to be more like oh yeah i think they both they they both do dude joey grows one too but they can't grow a good mustache but they're trying to kind of be like richard so yeah that sort of it does make sense then when you consider that, that they're kind of like in love with Richard in like a non-sexuality.

Yes, I'm remembering now.

That is part of the show.

They're infatuated with him.

Yeah.

Well, this person says Seinfeld for sure.

Just to hear their banter based off of conversations I am involved in would be fascinating.

Well, just go to the comedy club.

Just a question.

The question is if you could be inside.

Hang out.

Hang out.

Hang out with them.

But that just sounds like you want to go to

what's the comedy club in New York?

The cellar.

You want to sit there.

The cellar.

You You want to sit at the table at the cellar and then you can get all that stuff.

Yeah, no, we talk about it all the time.

You got to start at the funny bone.

Yeah, you got to get in front of that funny bone guy.

That's the problem.

It's starting at the table at the cellar.

Certainly not.

Start at the table at the funny bone in Columbus, Ohio, in the Eastern Fashion Place.

The table at the funny bone table.

Be at the table at the funny bone at Easton Fashion Place.

This person says, modern family, drinking with the adults and Haley would be a good time.

Now,

I don't know who Haley is.

Haley's like one of the children, but I don't know what age she is.

She's like a teenager.

And I don't know anything.

Teenager in the show.

It goes for a while, though.

Like, I don't know at the end of the series how

she is.

She's Sarah Highland, and she's dating, bringing it back to reality shows.

She's dating or maybe married to this guy Wells who was on The Bachelor.

Oh,

he was on The Bachelorette.

His name is Wells, and he

then became the bartender at Bachelor in Paradise.

So he would be kind of, he'd be making drinks, making little quips, and he'd be somebody who they, you know, they would commiserate with or like, you know, he'd be almost bartender sometimes is sort of a therapist to people.

I find that when they had, yeah, when they had stuff going on.

So Wells is with her now.

So I don't really like.

Is this person talking about

trying to romantically pursue this girl?

She is very young in the show, and also she's

she has a partner.

And also, she's underage to drink, she's underage to drink as well.

Even if he's just saying, hey, it would be good to drink with her.

Like, I don't know.

Is that some storyline?

Is that something from the show that we should recognize?

Why would I know this one as well as I know friends?

And it was really fun for us all to remember things from France.

And I don't know it as well as I know the office either.

Um, the moment she, I believe, was dating

uh Marcel.

She was dating

Sarah Highland's character, Haley, was dating, I think, Adam Devine in the show

for some portion of the run.

I think he played her boyfriend.

So that makes me think that she must have gotten, you know,

she must have been older.

Yeah.

Old enough.

Of age.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I will say this finally.

It's very strange as well to even want to drink with the modern, like, that just sounds like

maybe this is an older person just like wants to have that kind of dinner party feel or whatever.

But I just, that seems like an odd answer to me.

Like, it's a very square answer.

If you want to have a beer with Ed O'Neill,

oh, yeah.

If I'm going to have a beer, I want to sit down with Ed O'Neill and Cam.

But guess what?

I am going to, Sean.

Sean, I am going to sit down with Ed O'Neill.

I'm going to sit down with him.

If fucking Ed Bundy, Al Bundy is that Al Bundy.

Ed Bundy.

I'm going to sit down with Ted Bundy.

Yeah, no,

I'm going to have Ed O'Neill, though, in Bundy form for sure.

That's when I'm going to want to hang out with him.

Hell yeah.

Flush that toilet.

No, ma'am.

Yeah.

Here's a guy that says, all in the family.

I'm not much for being around people, but I like a good argument.

So we don't know if he's arguing with Meadhead or with the other guy, Archie, but one of them.

Meathead or the other guy.

That's how they always refer it.

And then finally, this person just says, not a sitcom proper, but a very funny series Justified.

Everyone, including Constable Bob, which is passive.

They were cutting it up.

They were funny.

Hey, I'm a big Justified fan.

And I'll give you another.

I worked on a sitcom

that Timothy Oliphant had

multiple

episode sort of arc on.

And he was so funny.

He watched the show.

It was called The Grindr.

Watched it.

Rob Lowe and Fred Savage.

And Timothy Oliphant.

Very funny show.

Very funny show.

Was so

cool and funny.

And I was a big fan forever.

Like, I just think he's so great.

And then he came to do his thing.

He always had good ideas to make the scenes better.

And then in between scenes, he'd be like,

tried a new way to cook steak this weekend.

And it was like some weird thing where he had like coated the steaks in salt and then like wrapped them in a towel and then threw the towels directly on charcoal.

And then like the charcoal like burned the towel off but the salt makes a crust.

It was like, showed me like a five-minute video of like this whole thing and he was like,

steak was fucking unbelievable.

I just want to know this.

I just want to hang out with this guy.

Yeah.

Oh, I'm looking at it.

I'm going to make towel steak before I move on.

I'm with

the commenter.

I know they went off sitcom.

You're going to make towel steak?

Do it, Brian.

Let me know how it is.

It looked good.

I'm planning to.

Oh, so the thing is.

That's the real decision.

I thought that was like you were making up a silly thing in place of what actually happened, Sean.

That's the real thing he decided.

No, I believe that's my recollection of it.

I mean, it was a few years ago now, but that's my recollection of what I watched on the video: he made like a towel steak.

Lomo Altrapo.

Yes, yes.

And of course, he knew the actual term.

Yeah, Lomo Altrapo.

I'll say that I like him because I was reading like an ⁇ I've read a few articles about this with him, but I was reading this article about why him and Walton Goggins didn't get along on Justified.

And he's like, because Walton Goggins has to embody the character.

And he's just like, I don't care about any motivations other than what's happening in the minutes that I'm on the screen.

And I was like, that's an actor that I can get behind.

Yeah.

Like, he doesn't do any method stuff.

There was an instance where an actor on the set was being a little bit difficult about something, and everyone was kind of like very nervous about like, this is just a challenging day on set, and Timothy Oliphant was making fun of them.

There's actually,

there's, here I have another great story.

You'll, you'll love this.

This was so like

he had some scene where he was doing something and like they're like blocking the scene.

And Rob Lowe,

who I've worked with on three seasons of television, is like, you know, very great storyteller, funny guy, smart guy, and like very involved in every aspect of it.

But he runs over to Timothy and he's like, oh, sorry, I have an idea.

And he's like, and he goes,

so when you're doing this line, and like you look over to me, and I can't remember what the specific was, but it was like, maybe you like dramatically whip your glasses off and like sort of like turn this way and the camera will do.

And he starts like, he has an idea to reblock the scene a little bit.

And

he like kind of lays it out.

And Timothy goes like,

okay.

Can we have the set for a minute?

And like, everybody freezes.

And like,

and then, like, there's like this one beat of silence.

And then he goes, I'm just fucking around, man.

What do you want?

We want to take the glasses off or something.

He's like, yeah, I'll give it a shit.

I'll do it.

I was like a very like, like, this is what would happen is somebody would be like, you don't block my scene for me, you know, like,

but he just like played off of the idea of um someone being a difficult actor very well and like made fun of that whole kind of culture in a way that like made everybody comfortable i love it he does yeah he seems like a cool guy someone's the coolest i think he's the coolest guy i've ever met yeah

when you watch an actor you you wonder like oh this guy seems so cool but of course they're actors so they could trick you very easily into being like oh i'm this cool guy and oftentimes they're not but i always thought that about him and everything i saw where i was like yeah this guy seems like the kind of guy that would you'd want to hang out with and would impart wisdom on you.

And like, yeah, that's the kind of guy I imagine.

So it makes me feel really happy to know that that's true.

I looked at some Rotten Tomatoes reviews of some very famous sitcoms, Friends being the first one I looked at.

I did.

We love Friends.

That's good.

We love Friends.

Well, and I also looked at Corner Gas to make Chris feel comfortable.

So we'll check

Corner Gas stuff later.

I don't know Corner Gas.

That's our biggest sitcom ever in Canada.

It sort of made it to America a little bit, but it's about like a small town.

It did in some kind of cooler places.

You think it's biggest?

I do know Shit's Creek.

Shit's Creek is not really cool in Canada.

We like quarter gas.

It's an older show, but it's like

up here in Canada.

It's like Shitt's Creek.

We're like, no, thanks.

We're all about quarter gas.

Brent Butt, he's like, he's the legend, Brent Butt.

He's a Vancouver-based stand-up comedian, one of the great comedies.

Are you in Vancouver?

Where are you in Canada?

I'm in Vancouver, yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So I live in Vancouver.

So just across the border, Sean.

Well, I don't know if refuse as much as we've been advised that it's not a good idea to do.

That's more what it is.

He doesn't want a vacation in Columbus, Ohio.

Well, I have a family, and I've been advised again that I might be in trouble if I come to America, and so I don't want to do that.

Yeah, but sometimes we take risks.

I take risks all the time.

I went to Mexico to buy pills.

Comedy is about taking risks.

Our job as comedians is to touch that third rail, is to cross that border that is unfriendly.

Yeah, I agree, but I have my wife and my child is quite young.

I have a wife and child, too.

Well, your wife is

out of the house.

My child is 14 months old, so I just feel like if I were to be detained for a significant period of time, I don't trust you.

No,

they won't.

Do you think your 14-month-old is going to remember that you got detained at the border for a couple days?

My wife is.

My wife is.

My wife is going to remember, I think.

This guy says, five stars.

Noah says, Friends is a good show, and if you hate or dislike it, you're just an idiot who doesn't understand comedy.

The show aged like fine wine, which I think we're all agreeing on.

It aged pretty well for a sitcom.

I really do think that's true.

I honestly,

like every other

episode has like a gay panic moment that didn't age terrifically.

Like the threesome that you described between Richard and Joey and Jane.

Like that would be very upsetting to those characters, the idea of it.

Because they were, yeah, there is like

very authentically 90s undercurrent of homophobia as comedy that is not, that is, is not holding up maybe the way we all thought it would.

But

I do, I remember there was a big backlash against Friends recently.

Like, it became popular, and then there was like an article, like a vulture article or something that some people I know, cool comedy people who are like haters on like popular sitcoms, were like, this article was really good.

That it's like and it's was called like why friends actually sucks yes and then they go and then the the article like you read they were like it's actually really good they made some great points and then there's no points in the article the points are like the comedy's flat it's not good it's obvious it's just like

it's a fucking sitcom it was a most popular sitcomic but i i agree i i still remember jokes from it and moments from it.

I thought Chandler was funny.

Some of that shit is pretty, pretty sharp, pretty well done.

Could he be any more funnier?

Yeah, well, that's, and yeah, that's actually, that's a perfect Chandlerism.

That's exactly how he would have said it.

Thank you.

I appreciate that.

It means a lot coming from you.

This is a five-star review.

Probably not the best season of the show, but it started the legend called Friends.

This is for the first season.

And it did start The Legend Called Friends, but then there's a two-star review.

This might be one of your comedian friends, Sean.

Here we go.

Not impressed by what I've seen from this show.

It's good to have friends and all, but I'm looking for a premise that's a bit more creative.

The jokes don't land for me either.

This guy like

high concept stuff, though.

But this, but this,

it's about that time in your life

when your friends are your family.

Oh, wow.

True.

And I had that time.

Now I don't have any friends.

What happened?

I just have family.

It sounds like your family's not really.

They don't love me that much but yeah yeah i'll be honest with you i think they try so hard to love you brian i think they really do i think it's you you are constantly fighting against it with your vulgarity with your i mean at one point there was a story he told about um

about when he pretended to win uh trivia one night he like said that he won't pretend i pretended and we verified that he didn't win it actually didn't verify a picture beside some wheel and then it was like hey look this is my proof that i won trivia.

It's like, of course, anyone can stand beside a wheel and take a trivial trip.

I can get that picture.

Yeah,

you get me that wheel.

I can recreate it perfectly.

Easily.

And with AI, you don't even have to even go to the bar now.

But

the point is, in the story, he referred to his family collectively as the motherfucker.

Just like, that's what he called them.

So, like, he's very hostile towards his family.

He's mean to me.

Yeah.

He's hostile and difficult to

hostile or difficult.

His wife is a saint, Sean, and we talk about this all the time, but his wife and daughter are just so hot.

How come she's sick now and I'm not people?

Well, I don't know.

Yeah, have you been, by the way, she's sick.

Have you been like

tending to her or things like that?

Providing anything?

I was kind of bragging this morning because I'm not sick because she was like, oh, you know, she goes, my daughter's sick.

Yeah, she goes, my daughter's sick.

And I was like, I'm not.

I feel like,

did she call your collective daughter my daughter?

Well, no, she said Gwen's sick.

Okay.

Oh, you were saying it in that way.

I got you.

Okay.

And I go,

I go like this.

I'm not, I feel great.

I don't know what you guys, what your problem is, but have fun being sick, lazy.

Immune system win.

She laid in bed all day yesterday.

I walked up 150 flights of stairs.

Damn, dude.

But you couldn't bring yourself to jump, huh?

Maybe later.

Right today.

Give me my money.

Not today.

That's so funny because I believe that on the episode with Hayes, Hayes brought up that Brian promised not to kill himself before the episode started.

I do remember that.

Yes, I do remember that.

That's not, I mean, Full House season one reviews.

Lorenzo says, I like Full House.

It's great.

It has a few cuss words.

Still good.

Still good.

You must see it on Disney Plus if you have it.

You got it, dude.

Michelle Tanner.

It has cuss words.

I don't think it does.

Have mercy was like the catchphrase.

They would use those.

I remember it because

they would use those ridiculous nerdburgler and turt, like

nerdburger and stuff like that.

Flip it

over.

There was one where Jesse called DJ a cunt.

He said, Why are you being a little cunt?

Yeah, but I was like, that's too much, dude.

But within context, you know, the behavior, there was no other way to describe it.

This person, I had to move to Google.

So some of these are Google, some of these are rotten.

I loved Full House, by the way.

Just to be, it was like, when I was a kid, I grew up watching Full House, and it was one of my absolute favorite shows.

And I always, anytime you bring it up, I always got to say that when I was a little kid, I met the Olson twins on a BC Ferries ferry between Vancouver and Vancouver Island.

And I also saw an orca on the the same ferry trip.

Damn, that's a good trip.

Did I tell you?

I'll tell you this.

When I was in fifth grade, we had to write a letter to a celebrity.

Okay.

Or like a fan club or something just to teach us how to write a letter.

And I wrote mine to Candice Cameron.

Yeah, I was, I definitely thought Candace Cameron, you know, she was, she was one of my big crushes for sure when I was in the family.

Fifth grade, you know.

Yeah.

All in the family.

Season one reviews.

I promised these on the stream last night.

I'm going to do them.

All in the family.

You remember when they rebooted Full House?

Oh,

Fuller House.

Fuller House?

Yeah.

I heard that was

kind of a difficult

room to work in.

I heard that

the creator of Full House was still kind of operating in a way that he had in the early 90s.

That people were like,

this doesn't really fly anymore.

My God.

He was so fucking excited to get back on a set.

He hadn't worked since he was and hadn't needed to.

He's like, I had the biggest hit in the world.

And then he's like, I'll just run it back.

We're all cool with the exact same thing.

Just to be clear, you're done with stuff off the show.

Yeah.

No, it's

off the show.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And DJ did Coke.

It was crazy.

This is a review of All in the Family.

I had to do this.

And the first one is five stars.

And the guy goes, great, unbiased humor.

Too much to handle for today's liberals, which makes it even better.

Yeah, this is, we talked about this because he was racist, right?

Yes, and all kinds of his.

Oh, my God.

Yeah, he was snowflake like you.

I'm sure he was.

Yeah.

Written as a racist character.

So the man, the guy.

He was written as a truth teller.

you know the the i i always i mentioned on the stream as well that yeah that norm mcdonald i always think about this how he talked about this being a failure of a show because the main character became so popular and beloved as a racist person which is not what they were trying to do or hopefully not what he was trying to do when he made the show um but yeah like i think at the i think that um having a beloved character like that

who's just the worst guy ever maybe isn't such a positive thing for a show It's not a good idea, but it also, I mean, not understanding the intention of it, but they never really,

I never, I saw like one episode when I was a kid.

It would come on sometimes, and I was like, turn this off.

This mash and

Star Trek, the original, and all the Star Treks, as I said on the show, I would just freak out and like, we're not watching.

We got to get, I got to get out of here.

You know what I mean?

Let's turn on some go bots.

That's what I want to fucking watch.

I I didn't watch All in the Family really, even in like Nick at night reruns.

But yeah, I think it was supposed to be a healthy debate, but that probably the writers were more on the side of Meathead, who was a little more liberal.

And what it's like having to tangle with your sort of like parents who have these dated opinions.

But then it was just like everybody fucking loved Archie Bunker.

They were like, this dude's Carol O'Connor was just kind of a great actor.

He was just kind of like, he had it.

He had to.

You kind of want to hang with him.

Rob Ryan.

Ed Bernard.

Ed Barnard says, one of the best written shows in TV history.

Not afraid to confront and talk about social issues.

Now everyone has thin skin and no sense of humor.

Sad.

You guys want to hear about the time I met Norman Lear?

Yeah.

Creator of All in the Family.

Yeah, of course.

Yeah, Norman Lear.

When you ask him if he's racist,

yeah, that was the first thing.

I just went like, well, that's your first class.

Call that Archie stuff.

That's just what you, that's how you feel, right?

Between me and you.

Between me and you.

Archie is basically you, right?

You're Archie.

And we're meathead, right?

Yeah.

Meathead, some, some dumb bitch.

So

I

used to audition a little bit, and I got asked to audition.

This story is just a brag, okay?

Yeah.

I used to audition for

sitcom sometimes, and

they were doing the reboot of one day at a Time, right?

And they were going to modernize Schneider.

I don't know this show though.

Chance

One Day at a Time.

Yeah, he was like the sort of like handyman, like

fix-it guy in like the apartment complex they lived in.

And he was sort of lascivious.

He had like a creepy mustache, and he was like,

Rainbow.

It was all played for laughs, but it was sort of creepy

when you watch it now.

So they were going to have like a more of a hipster schneider and they had a lot of you know young comedians coming in to do this so i came in and i and i went to do the audition and um i didn't know this was going to be the case but norman lear was in there watching the auditions and they came out to all the actors and they had sent us like three scenes

And they said, hey, just so you guys know, we're getting through a lot of people today.

We're only going to do one scene.

You only need to worry about the very first scene.

Just do one.

So I went in and I did one scene and they said, okay, thank you very much.

And I stood up to leave and Norman Lear leaned over and whispered to someone and they stopped me and they said, he wants to see you do the other two scenes.

Whoa.

And I said, wow, Norman Lear sees something in me.

And he's only 95 years old.

And he had his little like fisherman's hat on.

And then I went back, did the other two scenes.

None of the scenes got any laughs.

I didn't get the job.

I didn't even get a call back.

But that was me meeting Norman.

You got to do the scene, two more scenes.

I'm sorry.

That's what I'm in it for.

He just couldn't hear what I think.

He was like having legitimate, you know, can you just tell him to do some more talking?

Yeah.

I was working with someone at the time who was just like, they were like, it's so sad that he's like, this guy's.

He's like in his 90s and he like wants to be in a writer's room, like writing a show.

And they were just like, it wasn't the whole, like, don't we all kind of hope that we like don't need to do this anymore?

Yeah.

Like, um,

but yeah, that was that's how he fucking played it out.

Brian, you were trying to apologize.

Yeah, I'm sorry about Chris doesn't know a lot about pop culture.

He knows all he knows about is Fleet Fox's, the band.

Oh, wow.

So the touring drummer is Father John Misty.

Oh, yeah.

No, I know that.

Trust me, I know that.

Actually, my younger brothers band actually opened for Father John Misty, actually.

So I'm well aware I follow all of them.

Robin Pechnold, all of his.

For some reason, now I'm embracing this.

I used to fight against it.

He loves it.

Now I'm embracing it.

He doesn't know sitcoms.

He doesn't know movies.

He doesn't know comedy.

All he knows is Fleet Foxes.

It's crazy.

Yeah.

Well, I got to say that I'm impressed at how you're able to conduct yourself throughout this because

I guess

he's going to be well.

He literally, his favorite musician is Danzig.

One of them.

Well, what's the other guy, Peter Steele?

Well, I do like typo negative.

We're in a campus.

You probably don't even realize it, but Sean, these are some of the worst, confirmed, worst human beings in the history of Danzig.

Yeah.

They're bad guys, but they're great musicians.

And you know what?

You got to judge the, you got to separate the art from the artist.

And that's what I do.

This guy goes, I love the show that was back in the good old days when you could say whatever you want and nobody got offended.

Nowadays, everybody's so damn sensitive.

Grow up, people.

So, this is just a million guys making the same comment over and over again.

I like this guy, Kevin says, I love this show, especially how Archie is always attacking the meathead.

And it turns out he a meathead in real life as well.

Anything that offends snowflakes is good.

Because Rob Reiner, right?

Yeah, he's like a classic.

He turned out to actually be a real snowflake, just like Meathead, yeah.

Yeah.

And they're so happy.

They're just like, oh, now we could call him Meathead now, you know?

Now that Trump's back, I can watch All in the Family again.

Now that Trump's back in the future, a thing that was somehow not available to me before.

It's like Merry Christmas.

You're allowed to say Merry Christmas.

You're allowed to make fun of Meathead.

and watch all in the family.

It's great.

Corner Gas,

a show that neither me nor Sean know, but Chris will know a whole bunch about it because oh, I've watched it all the time on obviously on the comedy network.

You know, it was playing reruns constantly on the comedy network.

So we have Comedy Central here, it's a whole different thing.

It's better.

We don't anymore, actually, Brian.

That's incorrect.

I do that.

We don't have Comedy Central anymore.

I haven't worked on multiple shows during the death rattle of Comedy Central.

I can confidently assure you.

I mean, the Daily Show, I guess, airs on it in some fashion, but like, we don't really have Comedy Central.

South Park.

South Park.

Yeah, South Park.

It feels like it all lives on Paramount Plus now.

I think South Park is bigger.

So does Movland, which I love.

South Park's bigger than ever, I think.

I mean, I hear about it all the time.

People love it.

Well, yeah, because we cover South Park, guys.

Travis says, I'm 44 years old at the time of writing and have watched a lot of comedy TV.

I've watched American, obviously, English and Canadian shows.

I firmly believe that Hank Yarbo of Corner Gas is easily one of the greatest characters I've ever watched, in my opinion.

If it wasn't for Ron Swanson, he'd be number one.

Yeah, no,

Hank is very funny.

Hank is a very funny character.

He's like one of the sheriffs, so it's him, and then there's another character.

I forget what her name is, but they're like the two sort of cops in town.

But it's like a real small town, kind of, you know.

It's one, he's number two.

I mean, Ron Swanson's always going to be number one.

Oh, you can't.

Come on, man.

Let's be honest with you.

You can make a million shows forever.

You can make a million shows a year for a million years, and you're never going to get to the bottom.

You're not going to cop Bron Swanson.

Right.

That guy's such a man's man.

You got time to hang it up.

Love steak.

Oh, wait.

I just realized.

I just realized

I'm incorrect.

Hank is actually his.

Because that's my favorite character is the cop.

Hank is actually his funny best friend.

His funny best friend.

So it's Brent Butts.

Yeah, he wears a backwards baseball cap Royce mode and shit.

And he's very Fred something is the actor's name, but he's very Canadians love your cops.

They love the police up there so much.

When they do protests, they protest for the police.

They're like, well, you just call them cops, right?

That's not, you know, because I think of mounties, but you go, oh, that's only when they're on a horse.

No, we call them mounties.

And yes,

we have to love them, but yeah, we have to show reverence or whatever.

Everybody has a go down when the, when they, and they always, you say when they're on horses, I'm not sure what else you'd be referring to because that's they're always on horses.

All of them have horses and we and we respect every one of them.

In all seriousness,

I mean, you know, I don't like the police.

Come on.

Yeah, he likes them.

I hate, you know, me.

I'm such a, I hate those cops, man.

I hate those cops.

That's why I actually did cross the border, Brian.

That's why I don't want to cross.

He's afraid that he'll hurt his friend's feelings, the cops.

Yep.

One of my neighbors is a police officer, and

it kind of is uncomfortable in all seriousness because I don't want to

tell him, like, oh, yeah, he'll ask me sometimes about like what I do, and I just keep it very vague.

Because if he were to find my other channel where I just explicitly, I used to have a character that would call in as a fake police officer and just like confront conservative radio hosts with like the worst cop ever.

I'd be like, oh, you love the police or whatever, and we'd establish that.

And then I'd like confront them in this really aggressive way and just making fun of police constantly.

And I feel like if he saw that, he would, I don't know, I guess he would probably hate me or whatever, but that's fair.

That's fair.

And I don't, and you know me, I don't want any of those cops to hate me because

I love them so much.

My aunt was a dare officer growing up.

That's like, that's like drugs.

They go to school and they're like, don't do drugs.

Well, my dad was a cop.

Your dad was a cop.

Yeah, he's a retired cop.

Yeah, and so

are you allowed to love them or hate them?

It's all been a sting operation.

Oh, no.

We've been trying to catch you because of your call-in radio character for quite some time, and you just admitted it.

Oh, my God.

That's an idea.

It's a ton of the cop.

That's so crazy you got to do it.

Am I allowed to tell you?

You know,

I think

it's a problematic.

There's a lot of issues with them.

I could say firsthand that not everything was always handled correctly by him, his friends, and a lot of other ones.

Well,

you know, what's that?

This is a good question.

I think the most divorce-worthy sitcom wives.

Oh, they're going to say break.

Oh, wait, Breaking Bad isn't

bad

because they think not a sitcom, but they love people on the internet.

Love

hating on.

Yeah, they love hating on her.

Well, they talk about her a lot on the sitcom, even though it's not.

I think it would be exhausting being married to Beverly Goldberg, but she's just given everything she had for those kids.

I have no idea.

The Goldbergs have never seen it, so no idea.

It would be awful having him for a moment.

I'm not afraid of Covey.

Yep.

Yeah.

It says it would be awful having her for a mother, but I think she was nice to Murray.

She had amazing patience with his no-pants grumpiness because he would come in without his pants on and sit down.

It turns out

the actor was doing stuff too.

Anyway, he goes, his grumpiness probably wasn't there from the beginning, but two decades of that high energy, and I can see it developing.

So

he blames the wife for being annoying.

Oh, maybe I know a little bit about that.

So you're saying that I wouldn't be able to be married to Peggy Bundy with her insatiable appetite for sex.

I can only come once a day.

I forgot that was a conceit.

I always have Al.

I'm trying to watch the game.

I never could figure out why he didn't want to have sex with her.

Like, because I, you know, I saw the show as I was getting a little horny as a person.

Sure.

Yeah.

On reruns.

And she'd be like, oh, let's, you know, let's do it.

He'd be like, I don't feel like it.

And I was like, come on, Al.

Peggy,

if Peggy was my wife, I'd fuck her all the time.

Yeah, I mean, Peggy was a beautiful lady as well.

Like, she was sort of done up, you know, to maybe like done up in a sort of comical way, but

the way she dressed and stuff.

But she was beautiful, and it was awful.

Beautiful woman.

We can talk about that.

You're allowed to say that, Sean.

This goes with three guys.

Listen, we'll keep it.

We'll keep it calm.

Let's keep it PG.

I'm just going to say,

let's just keep it respectful, obviously.

But all I'm going to say is, God damn, would I ever like to tongue her whole?

I'm sorry.

I want to apologize.

Brian is usually apologized for that.

He does that.

Don't ever.

Let's read some reviews of the Big Bang Theory and then get out of here.

First, I want to read the description of the Big Bang Theory on Rotten Tomatoes because I don't know if it's AI, but it's really strange.

Mensified best friends and roommates Leonard and Sheldon.

Physicists who work at the California Institute of Technology, may be able to tell everybody more than they want to know about quantum physics, but getting through most basic social situations, especially ones involving women, totally baffles them.

How lucky then that babelicious waitress-aspiring actress Penny moves in that store.

Penny.

Yeah.

Babelicious.

Yes, it says babelicious

thing.

That's why I read it.

Sean, I love babes.

So I would have added it, but no, I didn't add it.

I like bikini babes.

Bikini babes.

Yep.

You bring a babe in front of me and I'm going fucking crazy.

So, yeah, that frequently seen hanging out with Leonard and Sheldon, our friends and fellow Caltech scientists, Wolowitz and Kuthrapali.

Will worlds collide?

Does Einstein theorize in the woods?

Sure, he does it everywhere.

That's all he's ever fucking doing.

No, he can't help himself.

God, I think he wishes he could turn it off.

It's like us with our jokes.

That's true.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You know what I mean?

Sean, I did a pretty good break.

Pretty good job.

Pretty good job of turning it off today on the episode, I got.

Well, I'll tell you.

Personally, sweet.

I made one.

By the way, sometimes that's all I need.

No, honestly, sometimes you want to learn the cut and you just hit the big one, you know?

Yes, because what I want is for if I have a good joke, I want it to really stand out.

So that'll be the only one I make.

Even if you have ones that you could make later on, you're like, oh, no, no, this is going to take away

the noise.

I'll tell another story about Big Bang Theory, which is my wife and I on our honeymoon, we went and we hiked to Machu Picchu and we were with this big like tour group.

And so there was like, you know, these two Australian guys, and there was like a mom and her kid, and there was the two of us, and there was this much older couple, a southern couple.

He

was a helicopter pilot who

did chemical, you know, distributions over like crops.

And she had worked for Monsanto or whatever and was very much like

a bad rap.

Like, she just was like, we thought we were helping people.

We're like, we're going to feed everybody.

You know, it was just like, we were, we thought, just like couldn't believe that the, you know, public opinion had turned on that company.

So anyway, they're just these, you know, this older southern couple.

And, and we, whatever, we have, you know, all our meals with all these people.

And at one point, he just starts fucking waxing poetic about Big Bang theory.

And he's like, he's like, you know, I mean, I start watching, he's like,

I felt this show isn't for me, but they shove it down your throat.

I mean, it's on all the goddamn time.

You start to watch, you start to think, these guys are, these weird guys are kind of funny.

And he's like, and finally, I realized, goddammit, this is my favorite show.

And he's like, we watch it every night.

I watch it all the time.

And he goes, and by the way,

that penny ain't too bad to look at either.

I love it.

So it's not too bad to look at.

Everybody in my family watches it.

And then now, so my wife will be like, not my wife, my mom, different person altogether.

My mom will say, like,

And I, you know, she'll be like, oh, this guy's a real Leonard.

And it's like, I know what you're doing there.

You know what I mean?

They're calling guys autistic by calling them Leonards.

Yeah, because they get, they all are calling guys Leonard.

That's Sheldon, I believe, is the one who's on the screen.

I know, but I think Leonard's like a to them, anyone smart is.

Yeah.

Yes.

Yeah, and Brian, yeah, and Brian's mom is like pretty wild as well.

I don't want to psychologically unpack you saying your wife when you meant your mom.

No, I do

like my mom.

I do not like my mom.

I love my wife.

But Chris will attest to you, I don't like my mom at all.

Sean, I find her the most annoying person.

I promise you, this guy hates his mom.

I fucking promise you he hates her guts.

And listen, and I promise you, that totally defeats your entire theory.

When we say he hates his mom, it means that there's nothing could be going on.

Nothing weird.

Yep.

Nothing weird.

Look, this guy,

as a show, we like to, we do have a focus on reviews sometimes.

This is a five-star review, and the guy goes, this show's not a five out of five at all.

Maybe a 3.5 out of 5, but it's Big Bang Theory, and I'm biased.

Five out of five.

Wait, so the episode, I like the show review.

The show overall.

Yeah, yeah, I don't.

So the show is a 3.5 to him.

Yeah.

But it's Big Bang Theory and I'm biased.

Look, the show's not a five, but god damn it.

You're asking me?

Five.

This guy goes, look, it's funny and every way.

But wait,

but you know it's a 3.5.

I'm saying the show is a 3.5.

So then

you know it is, but I am.

So I just did it.

You said it was a 3.5.

Look, the show is obviously a 3.5.

But in terms of me reviewing it and giving it an actual like star rating.

Yeah.

3.5, right?

Five all day.

Come on.

Well, conventional wisdom is a 3.5, of course.

But don't you, but wait.

Don't is that

you have things you feel that way about?

That I know it's a 3.5, but.

Yeah.

I feel like most of the stuff I genuinely love, I go, people go like, I go, oh, I'm watching this, and they go, is it good?

And I go, oh, I mean, I love it.

But like, I know it's not good.

I get get that, but isn't it still a five to you?

Isn't that what this rating system is for?

But it's an awareness.

It's an awareness of the actual quality of it in a vacuum.

Yeah.

Is they're going like, look, so

that ain't.

I mean, I love to joke around, but I actually passionately feel that this is a very good review that captures how I feel about a lot of things where I do go like, when I go to recommend it to someone, I go, it's, you know, don't watch and think that I'm saying it's amazing, but what I'm telling you is I love it.

Yeah, that makes me describe

it.

When you describe it like that, it makes sense.

I have said this about actually the movie Friendship, which is my favorite movie of all time that I've went and saw twice in the theaters, and I've never done that before in my life.

And I've said that to people where I'm just like, to me, this is the best movie.

in the world

but i think overall it would not be considered that way you know like i think to like a wider audience.

So I think you might not like it that way.

I have a better big, big bang theory-esque example, which is I love the TV show Bosch.

TV show Bosch on that.

And so my dog is named Bosh, and I, and I, and I, you know, I famously like Bosch.

And when I'm watching it, like, I, either the first, it may be the first episode of the show that the fucking chief slides the badge and gun across the desk to Bosch that has been, you know, he's been suspended.

And he he goes, try to hang on to him this time, Bosh.

And I was like, this is the most boilerplate, like cliche,

like every fucking,

you know, like old kind of cop stereotype in the book is being captured here.

And so I don't think that that is like

really good or original.

They use a bunch of actors from The Wire, but it's not nearly as like good as The Wire.

But like,

I would say that show,

if you ask me like to review it, is

look, it's not a five.

It's probably closer to a 3.5, but it's Bosch and I'm biased.

Five.

I love Bosch too.

I'm a Bosch fan.

And listen, in the final episode, in the final scene, they play Deftones because Titus Welliver, huge Deftones fan.

So that's kind of cool.

Cool guy.

So is it for me?

Finally, a sitcom for grad students.

There are even jokes that a physicist physicist had to explain to me.

For once, making fun of the intellectual nerds isn't insulting, but loving.

So, physicists.

They're owning it.

That's kind of cool.

They're owning the bullying a little bit.

I feel like it did, it changed things a lot, the conversation surrounding bullying, the Big Bang theory, and that doesn't get talked about.

Here's our final.

Esteban gives it four stars.

There's nothing talked about here either.

No,

nothing, nothing of substance, Will.

We do politics on here sometimes.

We never, we don't actually

left this.

I realize this too, though, is like really funny, is we don't talk about politics because we don't want to, and then we sort of made it into a bit of not talking about politics.

And then it only dawned on me about maybe a month ago that that's just a bit that you guys did on Hollywood Handbook.

Oh, really?

We, for a long time beginning, would just any like very clear, controversial thought, like something like as

obvious as like police brutality or something like so we'd go yeah look we don't take sides on this show we're not

saying obviously like you know we don't say like this is good this is bad that's not our place we bring up like the most

horrific like political kind of so i think i'm i'm just saying that i do i do believe that i i may have because i of course i listened to a lot of hollywood handbooks so i do believe i stole that from you and started doing it on this podcast so i just want to own up to it.

I think it happened on this podcast.

Take another little piece of my podcast, baby.

Yeah, it did happen because Brian and I both previously did stuff that was very, had political stuff.

It happened because a lot of people kept saying, is Brian not political anymore?

When he talks about it, people talked about it.

It's like, Brian's no longer political.

He just like on his podcast, he doesn't talk about politics.

So now he's like, he doesn't care about it anymore.

He's become totally apolitical.

He talked about politics for 12 years and then was like, I'm not doing it anymore.

And people were like, that's why I started saying it.

Anyway, this is four stars, four genius nerds and a gorgeous blonde.

What could go wrong?

I started watching.

This is a fan.

This is not a critic.

Like writing, which you can tell, because what could go wrong?

I started watching this series as an impulse in order to later on watch Young Sheldon.

Oh, that's kind of cool.

I'm not really a complete

needed

in this show because it's like, it's not my cup of tea, but I feel I need to have seen it in order to fully understand young people.

You dropped in the fucking deep end with Young Sheldon.

What is that reference to?

And I don't even think Young Sheldon has a lot of that stuff.

Young Sheldon's a prequel.

Yeah, and

I don't think there's a lot of stuff where you would really, you know, need to see the Big Bang Theory.

Well, they're watching old Sheldon before they watch young Sheldon.

I know.

You should watch it like I did the Star Wars movies.

You start with the, you do it in chronological, because not release order.

And then if you do it the way I watch, because I had never seen you.

Did you really do that, Brian?

I did.

Yeah, that's how I saw the Star Wars movies.

Brian, that's really interesting.

How long did it take you to do it?

My fortune.

That's really interesting.

How was that experience for you?

It may be like Star Wars probably more than a lot of people that like I like the prequels because they're the first things I ever saw.

Because that's how you experienced the story.

You weren't cross-comparing to something, you know, that was already sort of canon for you.

It was just that's

actually the best expression of it.

On many levels, it's the best way to watch it.

Yeah, because of that thing that you described, which is that now everyone's comparing it to the better earlier ones, but you didn't have that to do.

Plus, you're seeing it in the order it's, you know, actually happening.

And so it's not confusing.

Yeah.

That's cool.

So this, it's not cool, okay?

This is

that.

He's like, he should watch young Sheldon

and then watch, I think there's another one in between that and a Big Bang Theory now.

I think they got a new one.

Yeah, there's Teen Sheldon or something.

Yeah, they're plugging something else in there.

Yeah, so you, you, in the middle.

So you got to watch those first and then Big Bang Theory.

And I think you get,

no pun intended, the most bang for your buck.

All joking aside, I could see them, and I think it would be kind of interesting to do old Sheldon.

Like where he's, you know, he's like very, very old now, and you see what his life is like at the end of all of it.

I mean, is anybody else?

You guys are fucking staring at me like I'm an idiot right now.

Is he lonely?

Old Sheldon.

What about Dead Sheldon?

I would watch Dead Sheldon.

Sheldon's.

Oh, my.

Okay, old Sheldon.

Listen, my idea definitely still still has legs, and I think it's a great idea, and I think we should do old Sheldon.

But Dead Sheldon, where he's been murdered, and then you have to solve the case.

And it's like a crime,

it's an investigation into the brutal killing of Sheldon.

And then you have to get

Leonard and Penny and stuff, but it's all shot like really gritty, like crime, like Bosh, like a crime drama.

Dead Sheldon, I got to get a meeting with Chuck.

Yeah, wait a second.

You're like a TV person.

You could actually, we're joking around about it.

you were in Hollywood.

You could actually get dead Sheldon.

I got to get Shut down the line.

I would love it.

I think I got a lane in there.

I have to say that even though at first catching up with the physics jokes was a little danting, he spelled it danting.

The episode went on and I just started engaging with the characters and loving the nerdy vibe this one has.

Who would have thought that the boy who hates physics, me, could be able to watch a show which has four physicists as protagonists and surround a big part of the plot to such a stupid subject.

Physics, such a stupid subject.

By the way, yeah, you don't, I don't think you need to have any understanding of physics to enjoy the show.

I don't think it hinges on that.

My sister does not understand physics and she loves that character.

She's still enjoying it.

Oh, but I think that you're not missing a lot of the jokes.

I think that like a lot of the jokes are.

Their characters are a little quirky.

True.

But when they're saying all this stuff that's like really complicated, it's like meant the joke is you don't understand it you know what i mean they're never like saying stuff where it's really complicated physics stuff and then it's like you have to understand no there's characters in the show who don't understand and the joke is on like these fucking idiots talk as if someone would understand this

i like the first these guys are so smart they're stupid yes

and that makes them feel good too it's like that's why my father-in-law is like a huge fan of it he's like these guys are smart and they're fucking stuck in dork can't get it wet meanwhile i'm sitting here i've had sex and i fucking don't have to get the vaccine like these guys will probably get the vaccine i don't even have to pay for my mortgage because i live out back at my son's place in a chicken coop and that's true

i don't have to pay for plumbing i don't know

they live they live in a chicken coop and shit in a bucket that's my in-laws i'm not related to that that's your favorite show is big bang it is it is uh they i like the first season very much and i have amazing prospects for the future sheldon is obviously my favorite and i adore him deeply.

Can't wait to subsequently watch his solo spin-off series.

Until then, I guess I'll go back and forth to his Leonard and Penny's apartments and just vibe with the gang.

A very pleasant discovery that I'm obsessed with now and loving every episode more and more.

So this guy found his group, you know?

Yeah, I mean, that's all my, I know you found your group.

I found mine, and it's

Ross, Rachel, Joey.

That's who I, I know it for a fact.

That's where I'd want to live is with the friends people.

So, Brian, who would you want to live with to end the episode?

Which sitcom people would you want to live with?

You're putting me on the spot here.

Sean, do you have one?

Do you know a

sitcom people I'd want to live with?

Give me a second, okay?

Okay,

I'll get in there too in just a second.

I'm probably going to go with

Fool House.

Full house.

Loving family.

And loving family.

That makes sense for Brian because Brian has not had us before.

He grew up with sort of a, you know, maybe not that much love and warmth in his household.

Yep.

My therapist told me that I don't remember stuff from before I was eight because nobody built a strong bond with me.

I guess maybe what I would want to do, sorry, I don't mean to cut off your family thing.

But I guess maybe what I would probably want to do is

Two Guys a Girl at a Pizza Place because I get to hang with Ryan Reynolds.

The two girls ain't bad to look at either.

And Free Pizza.

And I'll tell you, we know a guy that really likes Ryan Reynolds.

His name's Mike Zero.

I got to go.

Our listeners love him.

I got to go.

And we will see you guys.

Bye.

Next week, Sean, do you want to plug anything?

Yeah, listen to Hollywood Handbook.

It's a podcast.

It's like this one, but it's different.

I was on it.

Well, I was on it as well.

Sean, I don't know that that's the big selling point, but yeah.

I was on it with Sean.

Well, actually, Sean, it maybe is actually for our audience, possibly, to say, hey, we were on it.

Go listen to the episodes with us.

And then maybe you're not going to be able to do that.

I'm assuming there's some amount of your audience who just doesn't know there are other podcasts.

I talked about one of my favorite movies, Pain and Gain, on there.

So, yeah.

Yeah.

I would live in Pain and Gain if I could pick a place to live.

And we'll see y'all next week.

Goodbye.

Bye.

Bye.