Laser Cats! 3D

I'm recording.

Is Yorma recording over there?

Is he right next to you where you can just yell?

Yorm, is your P4 recording?

Hey, Yorma, is your P4 recording?

He said, Yeah, I think so.

All right, great.

Is this how it goes on set?

Yorm, you remember to roll the cameras, right?

This is filming.

Let me tell you how it works on set.

Yeah, give it to us.

He gives notes, and I nod as if I was listening.

Yes, sir.

And I just do what I was going to do anyway.

And then you lean on the motherfucking craft.

Lean on the motherfucking craft.

That's right.

Exactly, Andy.

You have to trust it.

How late is it in Finland right now?

There's a time difference where you guys are.

What time is it where you are?

Well, we're in three different time zones.

It's almost four in the afternoon on the East Coast.

4 p.m.

in New York City here in Tempre.

It's 1978.

It's the lonely island

and Seth Myers

and Timothy Olivant podcast.

It's a time difference.

It is a time difference.

Wow.

It's 10.40 in the evening.

Okay.

Oh, that's the perfect time to cast.

You guys did a full day of filming, and now did you guys rent places near each other?

No, no, we were just at a bar right near where he is staying.

Can you tell?

Oh, wow.

Can you tell?

Oh, good.

I'm not responsible for that.

Were you guys drinking some.

What's a local drink?

Is there a local drink you guys have there?

No, actually, most of the places we've been to are

Yorma drinks a lot of IPAs.

Is that normal?

Yeah.

I mean, I guess it's normal for him.

It's Yormal is what we say.

Yeah, it's Yormal.

That's Yormal.

Wow.

Guess what, Yormal?

You're not going to be needed.

You need to take a nap.

You lie down.

You're fine.

I got this.

I think they're appreciating this.

He's drinking mostly IPAs every time I'm hanging out with him.

Got it, got it.

What do they say in Finland instead of TGIF?

Thank God it's not Russia.

Oh,

it's right nearby.

That's almost like I can't believe it's not butter.

Yeah, very similar.

Have I told you guys that I went out to dinner with Tim in New York City?

Oh, it was a good night.

It was a good night, and we drank old-fashions.

Some of the best old-fashions.

It was great.

We were at Via Corota, and we were at a two top where the we were between two other two tops where I would say there was half an inch between the tables like it was so non-private and Tim said right away he's like you must know somebody here to get a table this good because it really was

it was it was so bad and like immediately like the woman kitty quarter to tim recognized him and so they were immediately like we fully were clocked and then had to like speak and code the whole night tim got recognized tonight at the uh nerd bar there.

By the way, you're two out of three, though.

Every time we've gone out, you've been recognized as well.

Pretty good.

We should tour Finland, guys.

Are you recognized for girls, Jorm?

No, it's Lonely Island.

Yeah.

It's our stuff.

No, it's you guys.

It's you guys.

What about you, Timothy?

What do you get most?

Oh,

I mean, it was not justified.

It was.

Tonight was that guy was a Deadwood guy.

Yeah, he was Deadwood.

And then he went to the house.

Deadwood at the whole.

And he apologized for calling it HBO.

He's like, I watched it on HBO.

I'm sorry, Max.

Oh, really?

Very polite.

Thank you.

He immediately apologized.

He must have known you guys were coming to do the cast.

Right.

Sorry, don't misquote me.

I'm up to date on all the streamers.

I have great respect for streamers and how they're named.

Hey, everybody.

Welcome to the Lonely Island and Seth Meyers and Timothy Elephant podcast.

Nicely done.

Guys, I'm just here to listen.

Uh-oh, that's the return of the five shock jazz.

Five

She told it on my show, but another good example of somebody thinking when your table is too close and you're talking about your friends, and your friends also are in this business, and so you have to start being coded about who you're talking about.

I went to dinner with Polar, Rashida Jones, Rachel Dratch, and Shoemaker.

And Polar, there was a woman sitting alone right next to our table.

And at one point, Polar goes, This woman is listening to every word we say, so you cannot say anything.

We're like, Got it.

And then, like, 10 minutes later, finally her friend joined her and they immediately spoke fluent Russian and it was very clear that they had not

and that polar had to be like I realize now that woman was staring off into the middle distance

probably does not understand

It's like the end of swingers where Vince Vaughn thinks the woman's flirting with him, but she's talking to a baby.

But I also have an app on my phone.

It's not an app.

It's like a website where you can make a fake newspaper.

And so then a couple hours later, I made a fake Russian newspaper that was like a gossip rag, and it like listed everything.

Way to commit.

Y'all, I'll commit to a bit.

All the dirt.

Dishing dirt.

If I understand it, Andy hates podcasts.

He's warming up to it, Tim.

He'd look at his.

I have been prepped this evening that you hate podcasts.

Did the guy that you guys met at the bar tell you that?

Yes.

We were like, we're on our way to do a podcast.

He doesn't even know the difference between HBO and Max.

You can't listen to that guy.

I feel the thrust of this show has gotten derailed.

Historically, it's been.

Wait,

I've got two that I want you guys to order at the bar for next week's episode.

One is called Laka.

We're prepping today.

Today, the liquor flavor.

Wow.

Yeah, Tim's back.

He's ready.

Laka, a liquor flavored with cloudberries.

Sounds good.

It sounds like Smurfs made it.

We'll text it to Jarn.

He's not going to remember.

Is he Smurfs from Finland?

It's from somewhere close.

Disstrumps.

I bet it's.

Aren't they Belgium?

The Smurfs?

Yeah, I believe they were originally called Disstrumps.

They might be Belgium.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But they would definitely make a liquor with Cloudberries.

And then the other one's Valhalla Nordic herbal liquor in Valhalla.

Okay.

All right, great.

All right, move on.

These guys have been eating cloudberries straight off the bush based on how they do.

You guys are covered in cloudberry juice.

If we can somehow make that something we say moving forward, Seth, I'd really like it.

Like when

someone's not all there.

It sounds like they've been eating cloudberry straight off the bush.

So basically, we're going to make our own idioms.

That's the goal now.

I love an original idiom.

So it's the Christopher Walk-in show.

My question is, moving forward, how many times do you think one of us will do a Christopher Walken accent over the course of this episode?

Because I've always said one of my favorite things about when Walken hosted SNL is you'd walk down the hallways and every room you would hear people doing like anywhere from a D plus to a B minus Christopher Walken impression through the door.

You know, it's been done since, but it was your idea, Kiva.

Or no, you actually said it was Liz's idea.

Yeah.

So everyone that listens to this pod knows that Liz worked at SNL as a writer as well, my wife.

But she left after our second year or first year, but she still lived in New York with me.

And so occasionally there'd be a moment around, let's say, the breakfast nook where it's like, oh, who's hosting this week?

And I'd say, oh, oh, I'm about to go in and pitch to Christopher Walken.

And then she would give me a good idea.

And this was all her.

And it was one of the only times in the pitch meeting I said a pitch that actually became a sketch that actually was on the air.

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

That was the only time.

That was the only time.

It maybe happened a few other times, but this was one of the main ones.

And it wasn't even mine.

And then I immediately enlisted Seth or you volunteered or whatever because I knew I needed a pro to bring this kind of real, normal, live sketch good idea to life.

And it was to allow everyone in the cast to do their Christopher Walk-in.

It was a walk-in family reunion.

It was a walk-in family reunion.

And the thing I remember about it is, Walk-in told us while we were blocking it: basically, in order for this sketch to work, I have to do an impression of how people think I sound.

Right.

And by the way, if you watch it, you could tell it's a little different, but it ain't that different.

I believe Bill's the baseline guy who comes in first.

Is that you?

Stanley, how's by you?

Long time no see Big Hug.

I am Big Hug.

Big Hug.

Wow.

Wow.

When's the last time I saw you, Stanley?

It's my brother John's wedding 15 years ago.

You're a little guy, Andy.

You're one of the, like a nephew at the Walking Family Reunion.

Yep.

How was mine?

How is my walking?

Very good.

I will say, weirdly, polar goes first and then you go, and I feel like that was bad writing.

Yeah.

Because yours is very good, but Polar is a little girl with walking hair.

It's just funnier on every level.

Yeah, and she's talking about how she's afraid of ghosts because they're spooky.

There's no ghosts around here, so you're safe.

That's good because I hate ghosts.

They're spooky.

And I don't respond well to spooky behavior.

Me too.

I'm with you.

110%.

How are you, Scott?

I'm not good.

Everyone at my school is a phony.

I want to be skateboarding and listening to my iPod, not at some ridiculous family reunion.

Scott, behave yourself.

It's okay.

Forte is actually very first as a waiter.

Threw him a bunch of killer.

He gives him his drink.

I asked Polar to send us a voice note of her memories of her walk-in sketch.

Hey guys, it's Polar voice noting you again, voice memoing you again.

The Christopher Walk-in episode, I remember a couple of things.

I remember that sketch, which was so fun.

Everybody did their Christopher Walk-in, and of course, there were great impressions.

And then there were people like myself who don't have an impression, but I think because it was so bad, it was good, maybe.

And that short little wig, and I was playing a young girl and i just got a laugh on the word spooky

which um

it's fun to say it's christopher walk in spooky behavior um

and let's see i also remember that i was in a sketch with christopher walking and we usually when you're blocking a sketch you chit chat with people and we just sat in silence next to each other for i would say 20 minutes probably the longest i've I've ever sat not chit-chatting with someone ever who hosted the show.

But he was still a delight.

I don't remember anything from that show at all.

Yorma, do you?

Okay, bye-bye, bye.

By the way, okay, first of all, if I wasn't here, I wouldn't be able to defend myself for being burned for not remembering anything.

But yeah, thanks.

Are you?

Thanks, Amy.

Yes, I don't remember that.

Yeah, but you also weren't at the episode.

Well, so then you're not defending yourself.

No, no.

You weren't there.

I love that.

You're like, I wouldn't be here to defend myself.

Also, she was 100% right.

Hey, you're right.

Yeah, yeah.

Those are those IPAs, Ducking.

Yeah.

Now, right away, to your point of them doing them, we have the Sandler family reunion from five years ago on here.

I see the Jim Carrey family reunion from 10 years ago.

Do you think we deserve writing credits on those?

I don't know.

The only say reason I say maybe we don't is we probably didn't give one to Liz and it was her idea.

Yeah, but the money still came to her.

You know what I mean?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's true.

By the way, super fun show, top to bottom.

Really loved it.

And we're going to get to Laser Cats 3, but I think there's so many things I just want to mention real quick about this show.

A lot of people sometimes they knock on a questions monologue.

They think that's a cop-out fair, right, Andy?

I think sometimes you get on my case.

So you've got the musical monologues.

You think the game shows.

Yeah, you think there's knocks on all the stuff.

I know, but here's the thing: I wrote the QA monologue for Walking this week.

It's Seth Corner.

Joram?

Seth's Corner, you're all invited.

Seth's Corner, it's happening right now.

Take it with it.

Christopher Walken came out and said, I'm going to do a questions monologue, but I've written the questions for the audience.

Oh, that's good.

And then it was real A-lister writers, Paula, Downey, Lutz.

Nice.

And he keeps criticizing the questions that he wrote.

Even though he wrote it.

What is your favorite color?

I have to be honest.

That's not a good question.

You say,

here we are.

You have a chance to ask me something germane, and all you can come up with is my favorite color.

It's not good.

In any case.

He also stops people and says, say it like you wrote it.

You, sir.

So just read it off the card?

Yes, but

read it as if you thought of it.

Okay.

Which do you prefer more, acting in film or live performance?

That's a good one.

So you were deconstructing them anyway.

So you were kind of hearing that complaint and doing a meta deconstruction anyway.

But a Lutz says, would you rather have the power of invisibility or flight?

And he immediately goes, that's a great question.

I would have both.

And then tells a long story about how he would fly full speed into windows and there would be a giant thump and people would look, but they wouldn't see anything.

Wait, you wrote that?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It was.

You can go see it on Peacock.

And you can see that.

Did it play well?

It did very well.

And I'm going to, you know what?

I don't want it to sound like I'm...

you know, peacocking here about my success because I also wrote a sketch that ate it super hard in dress, which was a couple going to a Victorian mansion to visit a guy who had just returned from like Borneo, where he captured the elusive man monkey.

And they walk in and there's just a cage that clearly has been like somebody has escaped from.

And it's just walking, coming in being like, no, I never found him.

I certainly didn't bring him back and have him escape.

And he's just carrying a...

He's carrying a gun around and just like pulling back.

He's very clearly the man monkey who's escaped in his house.

Anyway, you know what the problem was?

And maybe you guys have memories of a sketch like this.

In your mind's eye, like there's a cartoon cage that very clearly the bars have been pulled open, and it just was too hard to make it look like, like the cage was what you needed the first laugh off and didn't happen.

So people are like, so he's not in the cage, or yeah, it was just bad.

Okay, well, and since we're talking about cages, do you want to brag about how you figured out cage comedy later?

Let us know.

Like pretending to be Nick Cage and getting celebrities to come on yeah yeah we'll we'll get there

do you remember at all andy the grease high school musical rehearsal no you're in it and it's you guys are rehearsing for uh grease and you're singing grease lightning and he's your drama teacher walk in and he keeps stopping you because the lyrics are too dirty because grease lightning has like you know chicks will cream and he's like whoa whoa that's way too dirty we have to change that.

And he keeps saying, Do you know what that means?

And he like points you, Andy.

He's like, Do you know what that means?

And you're like, I think so.

Do you know what that means?

Chicks will cream.

Lucas, do you know what that means?

I think I do, yeah.

Yeah?

Come here, tell me what you think of this.

Come here, whisper in my ear.

Yes, you got it.

Good for you.

Tell your friends, they want to know what he means.

That's right, boys.

It's dirty.

And then he changes it to Fleam.

He's like, we got to change it to something else.

And Bill's like, scream?

He's like, no, that's bad.

Fleam.

Who wrote it?

I think Sublette.

Hold on.

I've just said that.

Hold on.

Let me see.

Yeah, Sublette.

Nice.

Well, shout out Sublette.

It's a great Siblet sketch.

And I really enjoyed watching it.

Again,

he

says, oh, he says pussy wagon, because that's a line in the actual Greece song.

He goes, we have to change that.

And he goes, again, just to a different cast member, he's like, you think you know what that is?

And it's like, yeah, he goes, come tell me.

He keeps making people whisper in his ear.

Do you know what that means?

You want to back.

Evan, do you know?

Come in.

Yeah.

Tell me.

Tell me.

What is it?

Whisper.

No, that's not.

Too little.

Come on, even Miss Hash knows what this means.

Yes, finally.

Like pulling teeth.

Great sketch.

Googly Eyes.

Oh, yeah.

Googly Eyes is an all-time great Christopher Watkins sketch.

I feel like, in my opinion, it's just an all-time great sketch.

Yeah, it's great.

I remember even at the table being like, ooh, that is very funny.

And for whatever reason, just strikes a specific tone that makes me be like, that's kind of like what SNL feels like to me in general.

Well, it felt like something that would have been in the Phil Hartman era or something.

Yeah, maybe that's why.

Eric Kenward sketch.

My memory of it was, oh, I remember there was a sketch where Christopher Watkin was a gardener who put googly eyes on his plants.

The rewatch was so delightful because it starts with a title card and now it's parto and now indoor gardening tips from a man who is very scared of plants.

And I will say in my head, I'm like, how do they establish that it's googly eyes?

And literally the first line is, these are my cactuses.

I'm putting googly eyes on them just right out of me.

Yes.

And him saying, googly eyes, like he keeps saying.

Googly eyes.

These are my cactuses.

I put googly eyes on them.

A lot of people are putting

Googly eyes on their cactuses nowadays.

I think it's because cactuses are dangerous.

Cactuses have pricklers that can stab you in your hands, in your throat, your face.

So you need to know where you stand with them at all times.

The only way to know where you stand with someone is to look into their eyes, right?

Normally, plants don't have eyes, so it's hard for me to trust them.

Hence,

googly eyes.

He says hence, which I liked.

Then he moves over to ferns and he said,

I have googly eyes on my ferns.

By the way, rolling delight through the whole sketch.

It is also that great thing, which is the premise is great.

His performance is great.

Also, everybody forgets walking.

There's no reason to forget because of that great music video.

Fantastic dancer, like grew up dancer first.

Yeah.

Like so light on his feet.

So funny dancing in the grease sketch.

And a couple of times he just gets scared by plants in this sketch.

It's like, oh, and like just does like a little shuffle step away from them.

And he says i have eyes on my ferns i got the idea from my cactuses

there's a lot of um it's one idea and yet he keeps acting like he hasn't been clear about it like he says i don't know if i've been clear about this but eye contact is hugely important to me it's also like a testament to the thing that when snl is really good is when it cuts less you're just watching a performance yeah you're You're just watching a guy.

You're just watching him do it.

It's really great.

He talks about if a fern killed you, what would be your last words?

And then he does that great walk-in thing where he breaks up one sentence into two sentences.

Enough of these ferns lodge themselves down your throat,

you choke for sure.

It's probably not going to happen, but what if it did?

What?

What do you think your last thought would be?

Mine

would be, I always knew

It was going to be the ferns.

But no worries.

Me and these ferns are good.

I can tell.

Looking into their eyes.

It was really good.

What a genius.

Eric Kenward, who wrote Googly Eyes, sent in a voice note.

Let's give it a listen.

Okay, so Googly Eyes Gardener.

This is something my grandma Kenward used to really do

googly eyes on her cactuses, which is maybe something that Midwestern ladies of a certain age

do or did.

And I remember writing this down in my Word document of sketch ideas at one point, just as like an observation, you know, like, why do people put googly eyes on cactuses in particular?

And I thought, you know, I guess it's because they're dangerous and they can hurt you.

And so people want to humanize them and make them cute or more relatable.

And I kind of just, you know, extrapolated that idea from there.

I don't think I ever really thought about how I was going to write that into a sketch.

And I think that's an observation that maybe sat in that document for a couple of years or a year.

I also remember I wanted to write something that had reaction shots of non-reactive things.

You know, like the Monty Python sketch, Confuse a Cat, where you would cut to a cat.

for a reaction shot, but they clearly had no idea what was going on.

And the Google ads kind of give you that.

I remember writing this very late or very early in the morning on Wednesday before I went home, before read-through.

It was kind of what we used to call a fuck-around piece.

I don't know if you can curse on the show, but that's what we called him, what we did call him.

Obviously, Walken is great at doing sketches by himself and can really, you know, elevate the craziest, wispiest ideas.

And I think that must have been somewhere somewhere in the back of my mind because in hindsight, it's very weird to write a sketch for just one person.

Also, in hindsight, in the context of this show, it kind of gives you the same value as like the continental sketches that Chris Watkin used to do.

And there's not one of those in this show.

But I don't think I was consciously thinking about any of that.

when I wrote it.

I think I was just kind of trying to get this idea out.

I also had a cat named Dr.

Manhattan who was very scared of things and would kind of was always kind of going like

and that's where that's where that came from.

Obviously, walk-in made it what it was, but that's where that basic idea came from.

I remember sort of being surprised that it got picked and then it got a very thorough rewrite on Thursday afternoon.

There were a lot of good pitches.

It was the first thing that was going to block on Thursday afternoon because it was like relatively simple.

And I remember going to the floor and showing Christopher Walken all the changes.

And he was kind of like, no, no, no, it's going to be what it was on Wednesday.

And most of the changes got kind of steaded.

And I looked back at the script from Wednesday and it is like remarkably similar.

I will say two big changes that Christopher Walken made.

Originally, it was,

as Jesus said, the eyes are the windows of your head.

And he changed head to face, which is obviously a much better word for Christopher Walken.

Walking.

And then between dress and air, standards had a problem with Jesus.

And I got called into Lauren's office, which is something that didn't happen very often for me at that point.

And we were trying to think of alts kind of on the fly or what Jesus could be changed to.

And I remember Christopher Walken just said Winston Churchill, and that's obviously so much better.

Yeah, I mean, obviously the design department did an incredible job.

I mean, that giant plant with the giant googly eyes kind of sells the whole piece.

The wig, I think, was all Christopher Walkin too.

I mean, the look is incredible.

The spray bottle, I think, was also him, which is, you know, fantastic.

Yeah, it's one of those things that in hindsight, I kind of can't believe actually got on the show, but it's probably my favorite sketch that I ever wrote.

So I'm happy that it did.

Sorry if this is too long.

Bye.

That's fantastic.

Thank you, Kenward.

It was fantastic.

And I had a very similar story.

This is a sketch that we're never going to.

Well, now we are going to talk about it, but there were no plans to talk about Pranksters, which is a sketch I wrote before you guys started on the show.

Oh, yeah, but we know it.

I wrote a sketch for Christopher Watkin, my second year on the show, called Pranksters, where it was sort of a Nickelodeon prank show where kids came on and showed video of pranks they pulled.

And then he came on as a Christopher Walken aged man whose prank was that he beat his boss to death with a tire iron.

That's right.

What happened?

I jumped out and pranked him to death with a tire iron.

What?

Yeah, you should have seen the look on his face.

Classic.

We quoted that all the time.

We were just fans of the show at home and we were like, that's a good one.

Enough that we remember lines from it.

And he used a lot of the like, Zowie, wowie.

He just got pranked.

It was one of those sketches.

And I think it was a little bit like googly eyes, which is it worked at the table.

It was a real writery idea.

And so sometimes you get to to that Thursday rewrite table and you're surrounded by these other great writers and everybody just starts piling on what are to your tastes really good ideas.

And then same thing, I brought it down to the floor, Walken Reddit.

He's like, it's worse.

We're going to go back to the way it was.

And it was so funny, like how he was just like, don't mess with it.

Yeah.

Like, why are you messing with it?

Yeah.

And so it is really funny how, I mean, there's a reason he's been one of the best, I guess, hosts of that show for so many years.

I got to mention one more.

Harper Steele wrote a sketch where it's Larry King interviewing Jimmy Carter.

Do you remember this sketch at all?

No, no.

Jimmy Carter has written a book about his mother, and Fred is Larry King asking Daryl, who has an exceptional Jimmy Carter impression,

do you think people will read this book?

And Jimmy Carter is just very sort of upbeat the whole time.

He's like, well, I sure hope so, Larry.

Do you think most people who end up with this book will have gotten it as a gift and not read it?

You know, I really couldn't say, Lara, but I suspect that might be the case.

Because he's got, like, I think Jimmy Carter's written like 50 books.

And so they had a stack of his actual books.

And then it's just a lot of Larry King being like, you wrote a book of poetry.

Do you think anybody read this?

He's like, not that I'll think about it.

No.

Oh, no.

But he's never, Jimmy Carter is never that upset about it.

And it's very, it's just a very funny idea that's played out very well.

By the way, Ken would mention it, but I do want to talk about the Continental because growing up, I saw that sketch many times and it's so unique.

I think I was told later that it's based on an old show or an old movie or something, but the whole sketch is from the POV of a woman that is in the Continental's apartment, right?

Which is

just stylistically on SNL feels like I don't think anything else has ever been that, right?

Right.

Definitely not.

But I think you're right.

It was an old show that maybe Tom Davis wanted to do.

I know Higgins had a lot to do with it in the later years, but yeah, it's really funny and unique.

I mean,

it's problematic as fuck.

It is.

He like won't let her leave.

He keeps jumping in front of the door and shit.

He's like Pepe LePew, basically.

But the performance is so funny.

And there's lines from that I remember for my whole life, too, like, you are a fiery vixen.

Like, as a little kid, being like, oh, this is the first time I've ever heard anything like this.

Yeah.

And then we get to where this has always been leading it's laser cats 3 3d 3d three whole derfs now andy you texted today that uh you were not feeling laser cats 3 3d on rewatch i went into it with an open mind i thought it had a couple of yucks and it didn't blow me away i think i preferred the two prior and i think that it's sort of a stopgap one that then gets to a different phase of laser cats where it gets better again in my opinion what was your take?

Yeah, I just watched it just before this.

I didn't remember it at all.

In hindsight, I just feel like the first half could have been edited to half the length, and then it would have been good.

Yeah, that's probably fair.

Yeah.

Because the second half has tons of good bits in a row at the right pace that I didn't remember and really enjoyed, like getting sucked out of the airlock and then shooting it sideways so it looks like you're going out of an airlock.

And then all of a sudden it's the toy action figure version of Bill and then he's back in.

There were other good surprises, but the first half just kind of settles into setting up this premise that they live in a world where a big world leader has made laser cats illegal, has collected all the laser cats, but it turned out it was a plot so that they would be the only one with laser cats.

So all of a sudden they could take over the world.

I like that while you're explaining it, I really like to think that Tim's sitting there saying, why'd I leave the bar?

No, he's thinking, can I option the rights?

this sounds real good why was that a cool bar guys there had seen deadwood somehow talking about the minutiae of sketches from 20 years ago is making your energy wane well we were debating getting some beers to come back here with and no

you don't keep beers in the fridge in your apartment there yeah what's wrong here i'm mood fool a mood fool i find this delightful okay good i love this i want to if i may i want to circle back to uh tell me the writer's name who did the plants thing kenward eric kenward it's just my favorite thing about anything creative i love that someone took something so uh specific and almost pedestrian about their life that their grandmother or mother put googly eyes and it became that's so sweet this thing that is delightful and i love that it was taken so seriously i love that there was notes and rewrites and then that and then this

Oscar winning actor's like, no, it was better before.

Like, I just love,

and I love the same thing about the other.

You guys are talking about the way you talked about Laser Cat's 3D, Andy, was amazing.

I re-watched it.

So you were just in thrall of it.

I will say, Kenrid's grandmother fucking pissed when she saw it.

Yeah.

She's like, fucking pissed.

Remember, she came to the office?

That's right.

And Ken was like, oh, shit.

I saw my life.

This is a good thing.

Did I joke to you?

This is funny.

Remember, Lauren had to talk to her.

Like, Lauren had be like, we're so sorry.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

You'll be sorry when I pop you one.

You guys do realize, though, it's amazing that the best legendary sort of sketches that you guys are referring to are being created the same way the best creative everything gets made.

It's really wonderful.

Oh, that's good.

You know my point, right?

Yes.

Yeah.

That we are exactly as good as Deadwood.

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So I feel like we're bearing the lead of one thing right off the bat, which is there's always a little cameo of who Lauren is with.

And so you guys roll a TV into a restaurant.

So that's a heighten.

You have been in Lauren's office the first two.

Real restaurant, too.

And obviously, this was someone you asked Lauren, can you deliver?

Oh, Senator Dodd?

Senator Chris Dodd.

Clearly.

Yeah, we were like, hey, Lauren, is there any?

We know it's a long shot.

But we,

let's say, 30-year-olds who work on a sketch show, have a dream.

It's amazing.

To get Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd.

And Lauren got him.

Lauren got him.

He got him.

He delivered.

By the way, he did a great job.

You know, not to jump to the very end, but he's left at the end.

The last guy standing delivered some nice little ending remarks.

He was delightful.

I know that him and Lauren are buds, right?

Yeah, definitely.

They were probably having dinner together.

I'm sure we were like, could there be someone else you're having dinner?

And he was like, Well, Dodd's in town and we were going to get dinner.

I appreciated that we were out of the office for the Lorne pitch.

We had invaded his dinner, and then we got to reuse his office a lot as Christopher Watkins, yeah, admiral or chief of the galaxy office.

Yeah, I will say another little detail I forgot that I liked was the cat gun salute at the end during the funeral.

Yeah, yeah.

Well, this is sort of an X-Men trope, or a lot of these superhero movies tropes of like somebody's like a populist politician is is we have to ban superpowers yeah yeah yeah all right we're just watching this right now and

making christopher walking dress up in this uniform is so oh it's like oh next level he wears it well that's where i feel like you're not giving yourself enough credit andy because walking's performance in this is so dry

by the way he's not admiral i believe his name is captain ted

and he is wearing what like a poker visor ray-bands and

those aren't Ray-Bans.

Those are Christian Slater's shades from True Romance.

Oh, yeah.

And you guys walk in, and he's like, whoa, guys, you have laser cats.

You can't have those anymore.

Yeah, yeah.

They're illegal.

These cats, they're tearing up the galaxy.

I mean, perfect writing for him.

And then you guys are going to destroy him, and you're going to destroy him with a gun and a hammer.

These are live cats.

That was when it got my interest.

Yeah.

Audience immediately like, no!

You point a fucking Glock point blank at a live cat's forehead.

And we love them, too.

We're like, see you later, buddy, or something.

Also, in the beginning of this, each of you call the other one Kimo-Sabi, which sucks a lot.

Yeah, well, that's just classy.

Deeply funny to me.

Yeah.

Then, right before you kill your laser cats, Keenan announces it was all a plan.

Now he has absolute power because there's no more laser cats.

Oh, also, there was a little foreshadowing early in this, which is Andy's got an eye patch

because you had surgery to give yourself a bionic eye.

To be able to hit any target.

Oh, and also there's a moment that flashes on screen and the title card that is Laser Cats 3D, not all scenes in 3D.

That's really right.

That's what I'm saying.

We've set up a bunch of stuff in the beginning that then at the end, when it's paying off, I'm like, now this is good.

But there is two minutes where I'm kind of waiting for that.

I liked our GPS shot with the

rocket ship on top of clearly Google Earth.

I like that the place that the bad guy Keenan's holding all the cats is just the little chicken wire cage that the animal wranglers bring cats in in real life.

Like where the laziness is just fully like, yeah, that's the cat cage.

You want to know probably my favorite detail of the whole thing, Keeve?

Yeah.

Is the sound effect on the dog laser?

Because it's big and turkey.

Boost.

Beast.

Yeah.

That's what I mean.

So once you get to this midpoint, it's two and a half minutes into a five and a half minute thing is then you're at the thing I already talked about with the airlock.

Then we do the whole 3D joke.

So you say, put on your glasses.

And I will say, Senator Dodd crushes his, when it cuts to him wearing the glasses, totally worth it.

Yeah, it's a nice cutaway.

Wait, can I put Seth on blast for just a hot second?

Yeah.

Was any of this based on when we watched the premiere of Journey to the Center of the Earth, which was presented, I believe, in at least in part in 3D?

And Seth, you did a joke, and you're in that movie, correct?

Yeah, barely.

Barely.

Yeah.

Even IMDB says barely.

He's a scientist.

You do a very 3D joke, correct?

In that movie, where you have a pointer and you point to screen to sort of show off the 3D-ness.

Am I right?

Yeah.

The director had said, let's try to find a 3D moment for you.

I was literally just a guy who was taking Brendan Fraser's office over.

So I had a tape measure.

So there was a moment where I'd like to point the tape measure right at camera.

That's so sad.

Everyone in the crowd is ducking.

He's going to measure us.

Oh, no, that tape measure is going to get me.

Yeah.

I always say that I'm in two scenes in Journey to the Center of the Earth.

And the thrust of my two scenes is, you can't go to the center of the earth.

And then my other scene is, what?

Huh?

Those are the bookends to the film.

That's an important arc to the story.

Yeah.

Did you say this, Jeremy?

Didn't we go to the premiere of that because you were in it, Seth, and we all hung out?

We did.

And then I then went directly from that to Chris Katan's wedding,

which is only notable because it's where I met Alexi,

who I am now married to.

That was a hell of a weekend.

So sure.

Did Journey open?

Not really.

It opened some minds.

Yeah, it opened some minds about the center of the earth.

Certainly opened some eyes when that tape measure came out.

Anyway, you guys have to fight Keenan, and that's rewarding, I thought.

Yeah, the little baby puppy pug with the big boo-wip that you're talking about.

The fact that we just let a cat and then a baby puppy pug just roam around on the ground, and then we added a bunch of lasers as if they're having a knockdown brawl.

I thought that was really good.

You like that, Andy?

I liked it still.

I liked it fine.

It was cute.

Say baby, puppy pug 10 times fast.

Baby, puppy pug.

Baby, puppy pug.

Baby puppy pug.

Baby puppy pug.

Baby puppy pug.

Well, my man Keith got the verbal dexterity on the MIC.

I also liked that you're trying to shoot the lock and Bill can't shoot it because it's so far away.

And then you have a flashback bubble to you saying you're getting a bionic eye surgery.

And it really made me laugh because that was literally like 90 seconds.

Yeah, it was 90 seconds prior.

We did know that that was why it sucked and was funny for sure.

But you know, good stuff.

Fine.

and then you guys get medals and the cat did die yeah yeah there is a cat that died which one died the one that fought the baby puppy pug and yeah then there's a 21 cat salute and it's just fun to watch people cock cats like guns

for bravery beyond the call of duty i present these awards the admiral's spaceship

and nitro

It's also our casting is so good.

That's the whole like post-editorial kind of staff.

Yeah.

And they've just got just the right look.

Who's in there?

Who's in there?

Poole.

It's Poole.

Mike Poole.

It's Yonks.

Matt Yonks.

And it's Nick Malardi.

Nick Malardi.

And then when we get back to the restaurant, Lauren has left, and it's just Chris Dodd.

So, Lauren, what'd you think?

It went on, but I loved it.

Really?

No, enjoy your meal.

Bye.

I was really hoping he did like it.

That would be your rewrite?

Yeah.

Just let us have the win.

Yeah, but that's pretty classic Lonely Island, right?

Like, hey, this was a bad idea.

Let's watch it.

Hey, it was a bad idea.

It's classic laser cats, that's for sure.

All right, so it seems like there were things to like in it, but maybe not Criterion Collection.

I think that's right.

Correct.

Yeah.

Not an embarrassment or anything.

No.

And can I say about the episode, and I know we've not been doing this, this is a Criterion episode of SNO.

Yeah, there's a lot of good stuff.

Can I say something controversial?

Say it, Yarm.

Yeah.

I think that out of the seven layers we got, so there was one for every season that Andy was on the show.

I think that I would say only one of them.

I would say the first one is Criterion and none of the other ones.

Is that fair?

Well, you're getting ahead of yourself.

I don't know about that.

You probably wouldn't put both.

Okay, okay.

We'll see.

We've got four more together.

Do you think there's going to be a later one that tops it?

I just don't know that the first one would be the one I would pick.

Got it.

I just am going to read off some of the names of people who wrote sketches in this episode.

Steele, Faye, Carlock, Sablette, Sudeka, Samberg, Schaffer, Wig, Anderson, Grandi, Kenward, Sawyer, Solomon.

It's almost as if it was Anne Golden Arrow.

I felt it coming.

All right, I have a comment.

Oh, great.

This person's wondering, how far ahead do I need to comment on this video to get on the pod?

That's your answer.

Right there.

You did it.

Three years ago, somebody wrote, The best part, I think, is that despite hating laser cats, Lauren still had the professional courtesy of using the 3D glasses during the 3D scene.

I think that's fair.

Well, he wanted to see.

I mean, no one can say no.

If you go, hey, it's 3D.

You'd be like, oh, shit, really?

Yeah.

That's true.

This person says, wasn't as good as Laser Cats 2.

It was better.

Oh, shit.

Was that a dot, dot, dot?

That was from two months ago.

Wait, who said that?

Who said that?

Alex Wallach7683.

I knew it.

The names always roll off the tongue.

This person appreciated.

They added cool floaties and a bingo visor to Christopher Watkins' costume.

It really gives that spacey, futuristic officer look.

Appreciate that.

Guys, we were talking about maybe doing around the holidays a quick episode where we go back through all the shorts we've done so far and actually clarify whether they're criterion or not, because I think we've been a little loose with it.

And then have Nan Golden on as a guest.

Oh,

our listeners don't know that.

We'll hear him out.

Nan Golden.

I thought when you kept saying Nan Golden earlier, I was like, is he making a Nan Golden reference?

The golden.

It's a Nan Golden era.

It's a Nan Golden.

It's a Golden Era.

Thank you.

Oh my God.

Thank you.

That's what I thought you were doing.

Jesus Christ.

I was like, why is all of a sudden Tim talking about Nan Golden?

Because it's a Nan Golden era.

Isn't that what you've been talking about this whole time?

Our time at SNL was truly Nan Golden Era.

Nan Golden Era, shout out to Nan Golden Era, who, you know, one of the tipping point people against the Sacklers

during the opioid crisis.

For real.

And, you know, and that's what I think in a way why our cast was Nan Golden Era

is we stood against big pharma.

You're welcome.

That's right.

Thanks, Tim.

You're welcome.

I mean, I'm not saying it wasn't worth it having Tim here until Nan Golden Era, but it certainly

paid off at the end.

For sure.

For sure.

Okay, so what time next week?

I mean, an hour later than this.

I think we want to see how far we can push him.

Don't worry.

We'll figure it out.

We'll see you in LA next week.

All right.

So next week is, oh, boy.

Oh, boy.

Narrows Barkley.

Oh, Oh, boy.

Ashton Kutcher, Narls Barkley, and you guys.

I'm excited about this one.

Daiquiri Girl.

Oh.

Daiquiri Girl.

Maybe we can get the truth from Danger Mouse finally on a little voice note.

Yes.

Get a fucking note from Brian.

Yeah.

I don't want to spoil Daiquiri Girl, but good news.

Daiquiri Girl doesn't need my help to spoil it.

It was spoiled on the shelf.

It was self-spoiled.

All right.

I love you guys.

I love our Finland contingent.

Thanks for staying up so late.

That was great.

That was so fun.

I love you guys.

Love you.

Love you too.