Grandkids in the Movies

The lonely islands and bars podcast.

Hey, Andy, hello, Akiva.

Hello.

Just us three again.

The new Yorm.

Just us three again.

Jorm is out, probably getting pulled around set by a couple of sled dogs, barking orders and his weird Finglish.

And it's just the three of us that we're going to talk about returning from the writer's strike in 2008.

We're about to do four shows in a row, and it's very exciting.

The first showback is Tina Fey, who at this point had never hosted a show.

And also, this is pre-Sarah Palin.

So, this is kind of her first time back.

Oh, awesome.

And it was awesome.

It was.

February 23rd, 2008.

We had overlapped with her one season, our first, her last.

Right.

And then she was in the process of making 30 Rock when we got hired.

She was like shooting the pilot our first season.

Yeah, it's kind of amazing how she balanced.

There was a year where she was on SNL and also creating 30 Rock, which is kind of mind-boggling.

No small thing.

No a small thing.

Hats off, Tina.

Hats off.

I think that a couple of things happened in this episode where you realize the hundred days we're on strike, some real bangers of films came out because they become sort of a bit of a light motif throughout the episode.

Because I wrote a sketch where Bill played Daniel Plainview.

Was that the same episode?

The same episode.

That's why I realized, like, oh, this is the same episode.

Seth, I didn't remember that you wrote that.

I love that sketch.

Yeah, so it was

basically a.

I mean, it was Daniel Plainview had a milkshake place, right?

I mean, that's

kind of odd, jerk your milkshake.

Yeah, and Bill's impression was predictably great.

And then Fred was Anton Sugar from No Country of Walman.

Yep.

How are you, Anton?

What business is it of yours how I am?

Frindo.

Very good.

Very good.

You remember my boy, HW?

No!

No!

I've abandoned my child!

I've abandoned my boy!

I've abandoned my child!

Oh, here he is.

He's right there.

All three of these films are also referenced at the Digital Short.

That's right.

When do you think the Oscars were?

Aren't they always in February?

Yeah, so it must have been right around then.

I bet you that's why.

But also, I think those were all the movies we sort of watched during the writer's strike.

For sure.

Absolutely.

That kind of came out and we had nothing to do but like go see movies.

And it was was a real, I mean, a hot time.

The other one we're going to mention in the digital short, Michael Clayton.

I think, like, for me, Keith, you are, you share my love of Michael Clayton, correct?

Yeah, I'm a Clayton head.

I feel like ultimately, what new films and television shows run up against when they want me to watch them is, are you going to hold my attention better than the 10th viewing of Michael Clayton?

Right.

Were they written by Tony Gilroy or not?

Yes, exactly.

Well, if it's a Gilroy, I'll watch it.

Sure.

Tony Gilroy, who directed Michael Clayton, which is, if you haven't seen it, it, a fantastic George Clooney movie.

Maybe my favorite George Clooney movie.

I'll go out on limb and say it.

And then he did Andor.

The greatest.

Which is maybe my favorite Star Wars property since fucking Star Wars.

Yeah, it was very good.

It's very good.

So shout out to Andor.

Kevin Rodin said the Oscars were the very next day.

So we were doing this Saturday night.

The Oscars were on Sunday.

Oscar Fever.

We had Oscar Fever.

What was Beth's picture that year?

No Country for Old Men.

No Country for Old Men.

No Country for Old Men.

It's insane to think that in one year, No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood were both the same year.

Like both of those would win every year otherwise, probably, right?

It did feel unfair they had to compete with each other.

Yeah.

Another two movies that are like eminently, you can go back and revisit.

I was going to say rewatchable, but I didn't want them to think I was, you know, that's another podcast.

I just don't want them to think that we had an idea that you can re-watch movies.

Yeah.

Oh, I see.

They were the ones who had that idea.

I mean, I wouldn't know because I don't listen to podcasts, but keep going.

Yeah, you've established that.

Before we get to the digital short, maybe

I would save a top, certainly in my time there, Annual is as good of a commercial parody.

I did that.

You shot Annual?

Yeah.

It was an interesting one because they asked me kind of last minute because I could do things and they wouldn't cost anything.

And it was going to go through the film department where everything gets done the right way and costs a fortune.

And it was going to get cut.

And so Tina and Paula came to me and said, do you have a way to just shoot this on the cheap so it can get on the show?

And I shot it.

I haven't seen it since it came out, but I remember I shot like, there was a bridal showery kind of scene or something.

And we just did it literally in Lauren's office waiting room on 17, like where those couches are, as opposed to building an entire set.

Like they just put some balloons there and a bunch of women sitting around a couch.

And you're like, yeah, it's fine.

And so I did it our scrappy way, even though it was a commercial parody.

And then the, this is something I can't remember ever doing again.

And I wasn't in charge of this part.

The main part of it's them on a white psych, kind of all five standing there, or however many there were, kind of doing um, you know, the monologue to the camera talking about annual.

So, I did all the things at cuts to, and then that part they did live.

So, my things were technically just getting cut to, right?

But they did that during dress, and then at air, they just used the dress, so it became a full pre-tape, it was a hybrid address, and then a full pre-tape.

Ah, yeah, and I think I even took what they did at dress and maybe re-edited it a little bit to make it tighter, too.

This is also, you know, an example of why anytime somebody like Tina hosts the show, she comes back with one

just ice-cold killer of a sketch idea, which is Annual, for those who don't remember, was a medication that made you have one period a year, correct?

Right.

And it's just so it's great, but that one, you just fucking lose it.

New Annual extends the time between your period by 11 months.

How does it work?

Each Annual pack has 44 weeks of active pills instead of the usual three, keeping you on a constant stream of hormones so your time of the month can be just once a year.

That's all I have time for.

And when it is time for your period, hold on to your fing hat.

And it's just that thing that Tina did.

And again, she wrote it with Paula.

Lauren Pomerance was on it and Carlock as well.

But it was like those observations that Tina and Paula had that, like, I feel like nobody had before they showed up on the show.

They were just like writing really funny things that I'm going to go out on a limb and say only a woman would think of that idea.

And it was so very funny and great.

Or probably should.

Yes.

Yeah.

If I had written it, I think it would be a bad look.

I think you're right.

There was also a sketch called What's That Bitch Talking About?

Definitely, definitely wouldn't call a sketch that in 2024.

Is it time to talk about why?

So, Jorm, during the strike, he went did land and lost.

He talked about that in previous episodes.

Yeah.

And then, so he can't be on this podcast today because he's in Finland, but we did want him to talk about where he was.

And he was not even at this episode.

I don't know how many episodes we'll have to ask him.

He missed because he then was committed to a movie.

So he didn't come back to SNL right away when we did.

Right.

That's right.

Because he was still shooting.

He was still getting in that little monkey suit and doing his weird made-up language language and getting cortisone shots in his thighs.

All things we should ask him about.

Right.

Because he had to crouch for 12 hours a day because he was in a monkey stance.

But let's see, he sent this.

I have not listened to it.

Oh, hang on, hang on, hang on.

Okay.

I think what you're saying is we're going to Yorm's Corner.

Oh, interesting.

Oh, yeah.

Sing us in.

Oh, should I do the song?

Well, I think we should all take a turn.

Okay, great.

You go first.

Oh,

Yorm's Corner.

You're all invited.

Your corner is happening right now.

Take it away, Yorm.

Your arm's corner, it's what they're talking about all that time, my dear.

Shocker land of the lost.

Take it away, your arm.

Don't be a loner.

Come to your arm's corner.

Oh, wow.

Bing!

A little bell at the end, too.

Okay.

That was more of a reinvention.

Yeah.

Yeah, it was great.

Not a reboot.

Definite fave.

Well, he's a different guy.

All right.

All right.

Share sound.

Here I go.

Okay, I'm going to try to keep this as lively and brief as possible because I know Andy's judging me right now.

So

when the strike was happening, I didn't know how long it was going to last for.

And I got the opportunity to audition for Chaka, the monkey boy who speaks a whole other language in the film Land of the Lost, starring Will Farrell and Danny McBride.

And I think this is before Anna Friel got involved in the cast.

But anyway, so I auditioned for the part.

I had to play a little monkey boy and come around.

And I can't remember how I even did it because there was no words to it.

Anyway, I got the part and I had to go to Lauren Michaels and I was like, there's a strike on.

I would really love to do this.

And because we didn't know how long the strike was going to last for, he allowed me to do it.

God bless.

Thank you so much, Lauren.

And then

after I shot for 65 days or so, and these guys had gone back to the show and I was like, oh my God, like now the show's back on.

And they were doing this Tina episode.

I was like, what am I doing?

doing I'm dressed.

I'm waking up at three in the morning and putting three and a half hours of makeup on to play this monkey boy character.

Um, and also, I was getting cortisone shots

because I was basically having to um crouch every day during improv scenes of like five minutes of Danny McBride and Will Farrell improving while I was like crouching for five minutes.

So, I was getting cortisone shots in my butt, I couldn't walk.

Anyway, that's what I was doing during this period when these guys were making the Tina Fe show.

Also, I want to say, because I think that was lively enough, hopefully,

that I uh loved Sushi Gory Hole.

Sushi Glory Hole was great.

Good job, guys.

You made our first music video off of whatever this is going to be.

Who knows?

Maybe it's an album.

Maybe it's not, you know?

And anyway, I thought it was really funny, and it was really great to watch from Finland.

I love all of you turkeys.

I'll talk to you next week.

Bye.

Excellent.

Beautiful.

Really nice.

I do think, and I hope Joram doesn't take this some way.

Jorm is not a gym rat.

Huh.

Yeah.

And I'm just wondering if like another person had to crouch like five minutes at a time, if they wouldn't need cortisone.

I think he did it better than most people would have done it.

You think he like went for it and kind of put his thighs and butt through the ringer?

Yeah.

Based on our past experiences, like he's done a lot of puppeteering, especially in early Lonely Island work, like Stork Patrol and the Boo.

We had a puppet for a while when Sarah Chalk was unavailable.

And Yorm, I know, Keeve, you also were part of the puppeteering.

No, no, but he commits his body to that stuff.

Yeah, he throws his body into the fray for the art and often ends up a little mangled and spit out the other side.

But in hindsight, maybe he would have started hitting, you know, leg day a little bit leading up to it.

Yeah.

Do you think like when the reviews started coming in for Land of the Lost, Jorm thought, I probably could have just stood.

I feel uncomfortable answering or laughing at that when he is not here to defend himself.

I think he would, I believe he's already floated to those who hadn't checked how Landed lost it.

He's got those Razzies that he's proud of.

He brings them up.

You know, and also, by the way, you know, a really great actor is like, no matter the project, right?

Yeah.

I'm going to do it to the height of my crouching.

I do like thinking about opening weekend, him being at home going, man, I should have fucking stood.

I should have stood, man.

We mentioned Milkshake, and now I feel like it's important to get to the digital short.

So Grandkids in the movies is the name of this digital short and i had only a slight hazy memory of this one insane i liked it more in rewatch than i had thought i would okay but seth you've said multiple times on this podcast in the past now we get into a run of four that you guys did that i think are spectacular yep and then i in my head every time you say that i go grandkids in the movies yep yep yep that's the mistake but what i like about the run of four is the other thing i've said is they're all very different from one another That's true.

That's fair.

And Grandkids in the movie is very different.

Will you describe what it is?

It's different from anything we did before or after.

It was just a weird little idea.

Yes.

Also, it starts like a commercial.

It is a very well-cast old man.

Yeah, he was great.

There was a little bit of I Think You Should Leave vibes happening in this because we cast an actual character actor as opposed to had someone dress up.

To say things phrased very specifically odd.

Yes.

So glad about what my wife did.

Exactly.

And basically the established complaint for this product, this commercial product, is old people don't like watching movies where they can't tell what's going on and they don't know who the actors is and they can't follow the plot.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And so this product is solving that problem.

So his wife put his grandkids in the movies he wants to watch so that he feels safe and understands what's happening and recognizes someone.

We see his grandkids are played by Bill Hayter and Andy Sandberg.

Their names are are Kevin and Thomas.

And the first time we see him, they're kind of like low-key mouthing along with the text of the commercials.

They're not talking, but they're like a little bit of clearly reading the prompter.

Yeah.

But Keeve, the thing I will say that I had not remembered as well is how good the effect was of cutting in Andy and Bill into the movies.

That couldn't have been easy because we see a very iconic scene from No Country for Old Men where Javier Bidem is giving a hard time to a guy who runs a gas station.

Check out this scene from No Country for Old Men.

Y'all getting any rain up here, White?

What business is it of yours?

Where I'm from.

Friendo.

Hi, Grandpa.

Hi.

Hey!

Did you see them?

I mean, you're being generous.

It doesn't look good like when they do it on the MTV Movie Awards or the Oscars, but considering we did it all ourselves, the fact that the premise even is pulled off is good and it kind of fits the low-budget commercial vibe.

And he's saying his wife did it.

So it does also fit that it's not perfect is excused, I think.

I do like that you guys say hi, grandpa, really loud and then it cuts back to the old man.

He said, did you see them?

Yeah.

You could have missed it.

Did you see them?

They're just as big as the main character.

They're just as big as the main character.

Another example, Andy, of a very good line for an old man to say, he goes, I love my wife so much, even though we sleep in different beds now.

Yeah.

Real fun.

Yeah.

Not upset about it either.

He's He's just like, this is a thing I need you to know.

As many couples are not upset about it.

Yeah.

They just reach the age where they decide they want their own space.

Michael Clayton's the next movie.

And again, what I really like, everything you do, you never repeat a beat.

It's not going to be hey, Grandpa.

Check out this scene from Michael Clayton.

Right now, there's a BCI unit pulling paint chips off a guardrail.

Tomorrow they're going to be looking for the owner of a.

That phone's in the movie, Grandpa.

That's not your phone.

Go get it.

You're okay, okay?

Bye.

Hi.

That's the best beat in this thing.

It is the best beat in the thing.

Honestly, I was ready for it to be a repeated beat of every time it goes to the movie.

Then it's just where they're going to be and they're going to go, hi.

And the fact that this one had a genuine observation and a real thing and it was second, I felt the physical relief watching it when I watched it just before now.

Now, Bill wrote this with us, right, Keith?

Maybe.

I feel like he did.

That sounds familiar to me.

Yeah, maybe it was his bit.

Yeah.

Third beat is Juno.

And Juno is again, it's look,

we're all in agreement.

The phone was the best beat, but this is a fun thing in Juno, which is it's Rain Wilson talking in that, um, you know, that's a real Diablo Cody, right?

Yeah, and that real Diablo Cody writing way that was very unique at the time and would be very hard for an old person to follow.

That's right.

Now, Andy is sort of translating what your eggo as Prego means.

I don't understand anything like in this scene from Juno.

Third test today, Mama Bear.

Yerego is prego.

He's saying that he thinks she's pregnant, Grandpa.

Your little boyfriends get meeting sperms, knocked you up twice.

I'm not actually sure what he meant that time, Grandpa.

And I couldn't even follow it watching it now.

I'm sure in the context of the film, I would get it.

Oh, yeah.

Transformers.

That's just basically you start screaming at Grandpa.

It's too much action.

Turn it off.

And then I do like that you hold up a remote in Transformers to show them which button to throw.

Green button, yeah.

Green button.

I remember this one being so shaggy, and I think it's just because the nature of the movies themselves are paced at movie pace, and we couldn't speed them up.

And so it just is longer, and there's a lot more air in this one than our normal stuff.

But I also, in hindsight, having not remembered it, I was like, that's fine, it's cute, and it's totally fine.

It feels almost like a live sketch because it's paced more deliberately like that.

Okay, but answer this, Akiva.

Yeah.

If you could, would you go back and cut it tighter?

Yeah.

Or like you're asking, if we were making this today, would I cut it tighter?

And yes, I probably would take more liberties with the movies we were using and just cut them tighter so that the piece can move faster.

Transformers also just brings me to one of my favorite things Alex Bay has ever said.

We were working on the Espys and we went, we all went to the Arclight to watch Transformers, one of the Transformers movies.

And hopefully this won't come as too much of a surprise to people who now know that I've seen Michael Clayton 10 times.

Don't love Transformers.

Okay, well, that's where we're going to butt heads, my friend.

Not a fan of Transformers, and

I thought it was very loud.

You know, I realized I was already the old man, even however many years ago.

And Alex Bays is there, and he described going to Transformers as sitting in a canoe with a boombox duct tape to your head.

Okay, can I just piggyback on that?

Yeah.

By saying I agree, and I love it.

You like it.

You like having a boombox duct tape.

I like the feeling of being in a canoe with a boombox duct tape to my head.

Okay.

I was at the first Transformers premiere.

Okay.

I was so amped Transformers was coming out.

I grew up loving Transformers.

I had the comic books.

I had some toys, what I could get.

And I, of course, loved the cartoon.

And I saw the animated Transformers movie in the theater.

They killed Optimus Prime.

It was crazy.

Rise Rotimus.

And then I saw a live action one was coming out, and the trailer looked so dope.

So I went to the premiere because I was on SNL enough to get invited to the premiere.

I sat across the aisle from Tyrese, who's in the movie and the franchise, who I didn't know yet, but we later had one magical night with.

And the first time a Transformer transformed, the whole theater went, oh, and he jumped up out of his seat and went, oh, shit.

Because you just had never seen that effect before.

And the CG was so dope.

It was such a leap in that moment.

I'm being totally earnest right now.

I believe it.

Yeah, we were all just like every dude and woman in there who had been a kid that grew up on Transformers was like, they did it.

Like we're going to get to see them do that now like a thousand times in this movie.

And it's so awesome and the sound design is so huge and amazing.

And it was a very fun, special moment for me.

It would have been so funny if the premiere Transformers had a scene where you just see the Optimus Prime truck and then it like cuts to a bunch of people going, like, oh my God, holy yeah, and then you just hear like,

and then you just turn it back to a robot.

It's changing, it's changing.

Oh my God.

It's like that wet hot American summer beat with Ultra Hill.

Oh, yeah.

He's doing it.

He's really doing it.

Just re-watching this short when it cut to the Transformers beat, I was like, holy crap, that looks amazing.

Just in our short.

Yeah, it looks great.

I also, I really try to hammer this home a lot on my show just because I want to like things.

And I'm really happy that you like Transformers.

Thank you.

You know what I mean?

Like, I'm not being judgmental.

I'm just saying.

You wish you could wear Chris Martin's jacket to call it back from a while ago.

Yeah.

But again, I don't think like Chris Martin isn't like while he's wearing it going jacket, jacket, jacket.

Yeah, no, he's just doing it.

But that's my problem.

I have to constantly remind myself that I'm wearing the jacket.

There's a there will be blood scene.

You know, and it's just the old man's problem was that scene was too quiet.

You guys just kind of walk through and wave.

I assumed he was gonna, that they were gonna like just yell the words louder, but they just kind of went through to entertain him while he can't hear what's happening.

And you know what?

It is uh very nice and very fine.

Agreed, not even close to criterion, but nothing too embarrassing.

No, no, I feel like on any given week, it was like an interesting idea.

We hadn't done it before.

It incorporated uh top goal movies and it had a beginning, middle, and an end, kind of.

Yeah,

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Do you remember Claire's coming to dinner, Andy?

No, was I in it?

Not only were you in it, you wrote it with Forte and Joast.

Anything?

Forte's the first name, according to this rundown, though.

Yeah.

Tina episode?

Tina episode.

Cut from dress.

So it did actually block.

And I helped write it and was in it.

Still nothing?

Nothing.

All right, let's open Claire's Coming to Dinner and maybe do a dramatic reading.

And at any point, you're allowed to be like, I remember it.

I will let you know the second I remember it.

I'll read Will and you read Andy.

And should it come to it, akiva you will read tina fe okay all right clara is coming to dinner uh exterior house interior family room will is in a sharp tuxedo andy is on the couch in an oversized football jersey and sweatpants he has greasy matted black hair buck teeth and a thick unibrown trevor we need to have a serious talk will sits okay Now, Clara is about to come over here and meet mom and dad for the first time.

And I don't need to remind you of your history, but I will.

For the past 15 years, every woman I have brought to the house to meet mom mom and dad, you have ended up making love to.

That was cute when we were 30, but we are 45 and 43 years old now.

You're older, and I think it's time for a change.

So, can you, Trevor, my brother, promise me that tonight, February 23rd, 2016, when Clara comes over, you will not make love to her?

No.

Aw, man, not again.

How many women do I have to lose to your superior charms?

I don't know, all of them.

Well, I hope you're joking.

Nope.

Well, I hope you are.

Nope.

Well, I hope you are.

Nope.

Well, I hope you are.

I'm not.

Aw, man.

Not again.

She's as good as made love to, and I can't do a thing to stop it.

Doorbell.

All right, quick stop here.

Any memory?

No, zero.

Okay, so this is a thing.

You were in a costume.

Will was in a tuxedo.

You did this in front of an audience.

All right, doorbell.

Oh, man.

Clara's at the door, and you look gorgeous.

Looks like this night is going to end in canile-style intercourse for you guys.

Great.

Will opens the door to find Tina.

Hi, Bennett.

Clara, you look so good.

Thanks.

i wasn't talking to you trevor i was talking to clara

he's funny what's his name trevor introduce me oh man okay clara on one condition before you meet my brother you need to promise me i can't make that promise tina crosses sits on andy oh man clara this is trevor i like that jersey did you ordered it online i found it in a public toilet again anything andy just checking back in literally no recollection you played a man named trevor who wore a jersey you found in a public toilet.

Nope, nope.

It is gone.

It is gone.

Truly.

Are you surprised it didn't air based on what we've heard so far?

No, not in the slightest.

Yeah.

It's also, this is really funny when you think about who Tina Fey is.

That a sketch was written where the comic thrust is she's just like.

Yeah, so far she has maybe 0.25 of one joke.

And all she wants to do is get with you, Trevor.

Forte's name is first.

Forte's name is first.

I think we could probably just stop it now.

Well, does anything interesting happen?

You guys have sex.

I don't think it's very good.

No, I think sometimes the right stuff gets cut.

It's got funny writing in there.

It's just not.

There's some good turns of phrase.

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Steve Martin was in the monologue.

Ooh.

Which is a very big deal for all of us.

Steve, as one might guess, a fan of Tina's and showed up to support there.

Super fun.

He said, one day I'm going to cash in this chit.

And then he did on Only Murders.

He was like, remember when I showed up for your monologue?

You owe me one.

Now you're the podcaster on my show.

I'll see you at 7.30 a.m.

in the makeup trailer.

There was both a Rock of Love parody and a celebrity apprentice parody.

So that gives you a sense of what time we were living in.

Wowie, wowie.

Wowie, wowie is right.

We kind of already talked about Virginia Horsens, but it actually aired here.

Was this the first Virginia Horsons?

Yeah.

I keep saying Virginia because, no, it is Virginia.

I don't want to mess it up with Virginia, which was something very different.

Yeah.

But Virginia Horsens,

I feel like we talked about it a little bit the other day, but this is where Jorm did actually say he had stuff to talk about that.

So maybe we get a ask him for a voice note that we can put in here, but we can't hear it at this moment.

Thanks, Keeb, for throwing to my voice note.

So my main memory of Virginia Horsens, and I think about this often because it's a constant reminder to me of having a really good job in life and feeling really lucky that I get to do really dumb, dumb shit in life is that Akiva sent a email to the SNL props department when we were making Virginia horses.

I remember it was super late night and it was for like the next morning and he sent it at like 11 o'clock at night and the email was titled Things I Need.

That was a subject line.

And then it was a list of like a series of bizarre things like hot air balloon basket, no balloon, parenthetical.

Horse's head.

It was like a series of props that we were going to use.

Some that we did use and some that we didn't in Virginia Horsens.

And it was like,

you know, one carrot on stick.

One, like, it was just like a series of bizarre, bizarre items.

And then he got an email back like 20 minutes later that the response was, I don't know what your job is, but whatever it is is great.

Keep doing it.

You have the wrong email address.

And I think about that so often.

And I've told that to many people, especially when I'm like having a bad day or like of like, ah, why am I I just think about, you know what, it's a pretty good job making really, really dumb shit for people to hopefully laugh at.

And I, uh, yeah, that was my Virginia Horsen's story remembrance.

Bye.

So we did this one and we broke it into two.

The first one is the one that aired.

It's like maybe a minute long.

And then the second one was just like a 30-second callback.

It aired address and when it didn't air live, it was like, oh, it can't really ever belong anywhere.

Because without the first one, it was kind of meaningless.

So then the second time this aired, we'll get to at some point, but we did a new one that I think Joast came up with the idea for me, which was that now she's selling Pony Express.

Right.

But this first one is hot air balloons.

All right.

So Virginia Horsen, hot air balloon rides.

Kind of just a white, hot, perfect minute of Wig being Wig.

This is a Keith special.

Usually I won't just say that because we're all in a room and I don't remember who do what, but this I just wrote alone by myself and then roped Joost into kind of doing it with me.

And then he might have come up with some of the little jokes in there, but it was like a random Sunday and me just wanted to do it.

And then I remember shooting it on a Tuesday before writing night because I didn't want it to.

affect the rest of the show because I was not embarrassed of it, but it was so slight and so weird.

Just needed her on a green screen and nothing else that I just wanted it to be my little side project because I wasn't sure if it was going to be anything or if I was going to throw it away.

Where'd you set up the green screen?

On a Tuesday?

God, I do not remember.

I almost want to say it was like in the hallway on 17.

Yeah, it was truly like unlit.

It was the most unprofessional thing that I just wanted to make.

And then that's also, it was shot pre-strike and didn't air till after-strike.

Oh, I did not do it that week, I don't think.

Or maybe it was a hot fever dream strike right that no, it couldn't have been.

I don't know.

Talk about a timeline tidbit.

Yeah.

It's a timeline tidbit.

Virginia Horsen, first of all, perfect name.

And so, Virginia Horsen, she's selling hot air balloon rides, but it becomes pretty clear.

And again, this is only a minute, and we find out a lot about Virginia.

She's going to be on the ride with you.

Yeah.

And so, kind of the most of the back half is her trying to explain that she's not a bad time to be on it with.

Yeah, this is clearly she needs friends.

And someone said, Why don't you start a business?

Yeah.

And maybe you'll meet people like out there.

And so, this is her business idea.

It's also really funny.

The thing, long lines at TSA seems to be the thing she keeps coming back to.

Hey, I can see my house from here.

Just kidding.

Why not take a ride in my balloon?

I'll cut you a deal.

Forget about airport security.

See you later, suckers.

I'm taking myself a hot air balloon ride.

Ooh, fresh air.

Listen, I'm not one of those college types that's going to talk your ear off.

I bought a balloon, and it doesn't mean I think I'm better than everybody else.

Or I can just read a book.

I'm not one of those people people who doesn't know how to be quiet.

She's got ideas.

Did Wig immediately, I mean, it seems like a very well-realized performance.

Did Wig know exactly what she wanted to do with Virginia Horsen?

Yeah, but I honestly, not to take anything away from her, because she's doing it perfectly and she's doing it very wiggy, as you said, but she's also doing an impression of me doing it.

Yeah.

And it's basically the guy from Just Two Guys.

Like when she holds up her hand, I forget what she's symbolizing.

I think it's like terrorists, right?

It's like, no, terrorists.

Yeah, the threat of terrorism.

And she makes makes a circle with her hand.

Yeah, that's that's straight up just two guys stuff.

We would always have hand signals that don't match what we're saying, but are very calculated, that are clearly something we've rehearsed and know we're going to do, but they don't make actually any sense.

I should say I like exactly what the audience is giving Virginia.

Like the people who like it are liking it exactly the right way.

I'm shocked that for 30% of the audience, every joke's landing, every little weird thing she's doing.

It's not killing with the whole audience, but for those 30, they're picking up on every little nuance.

It honestly, it is like in a laser cat's way.

Like, I think for those 30%, the trust had been earned enough that they were like, oh, it's intentionally slow in this moment before the words start floating at her.

Yes.

That was an intentional thing to be a joke, and it gets a laugh.

Stuff like that's fun.

I will occasionally have someone who's maybe 35 years old right now because they were probably the right age or 30 who will come up and ask me about this one specifically.

Really?

And I always go, Whoa, really?

That one?

Okay.

But they're like super comedy people at rules.

I'd wear a Virginia Horson's t-shirt.

Oh, sing.

I think that would be a

nice deep-cut shirt.

Yeah.

Is you saying you would wear a Virginia Horsen t-shirt, Seth's Corner?

Yeah, it's Seth's sartorial.

It's Seth's Closet.

Oh, that's nice.

That's very if it's about something I'd wear, it's Seth's Closet.

And again, Yorm's not here, so can you do a Seth's Closet song?

Seth's Closet, you're not invited.

Seth's Closet, there's a Virginia Horson t-shirt in there, and nothing else.

He's Donald ducking it.

All right.

Thank you.

Yep.

I do think Virginia Horses is also one of those things that for those 30%,

they know they're going to watch it again.

You know what I mean?

It feels like you're like, oh, there's going to be fun to watch a second time because there's going to be fun little things to catch.

So this was how many years ago did we do it?

Oh, eight.

2008.

So it was 16 years ago, basically.

Yeah.

And it was posted on YouTube on the Center Life channel 11 years ago.

So five years later.

So nobody, you know, maybe there had been a previous post, but I doubt it.

It has

191,000 views in 11 years.

So those people, you know,

they've been really sucking it down.

And now you're there, Keeve.

What are the last three comments for January Horsen?

Let me sort by most recent.

Well, the top comment that has 35 likes is by Abba Daba232 is, quote, I bought a balloon and it doesn't mean I think I'm better than everybody else.

One of the best lines in SML history.

Great.

35 pluses on that.

Hold on.

I'm going to sort by most recent now.

From two weeks ago.

Mr.

Piccolo, 93 wrote, I promise.

There you go.

All right.

Okay.

I do always love any joke that starts with, I'm not one of those people that.

Yeah.

This is an interesting one.

Five down from three weeks ago from Aiden Artichoke.

I just want to stress that Yorma is my favorite.

Go Yorma.

You do those ad reads.

Oh, nice.

So somebody's reaching out as a listener at the pod.

Yeah.

So the cast is feeding the shorts.

So maybe they went and listened knowing it was coming up soon.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Love that.

And they knew it was coming.

So they went to it to put this here for something for us to find.

Interesting, though, that you're the one who always checks the YouTube comments and they went out of their way to say they like Yorm.

The next one is, hey, Seth, has the podcast started yet?

Also, three weeks ago.

Wow.

Three weeks ago must have been when we sort of talked about this.

Yeah.

Someone who is a friend of ours listened to the very nice stopgap 10-minute you and Yorm did, Seth.

Yeah.

But they also mentioned that they, and apparently, according to this person, a lot of other people took umbrage with the fact that we posted a 10-minuteer and also put a bunch of ads in it.

There were ads in the 10-minuteer?

Yeah, that's what I was told.

Dude, no, they should not have been ads in the 10-minute.

Not our choice.

Not our choice.

Oh, by the way, I was going to say, there's only 71 comments in Virginia Horson.

That's correct.

And it was 71 of the people that were there that night.

Yeah.

If this had been posted the day after, whoo boy, it would have a lot, a lot of hits.

You think so?

Definitely.

Someone wrote, this feels ahead of its time, and I'm very surprised it's not more popular.

There you go.

Yeah.

How many years ago was that?

That was like 10 years ago.

So do we think it was exactly 10 years ahead of its time?

Yeah.

Now it's 10 years too late.

So people who watch it now are going to be bummed out.

They're going to be like, this isn't ahead of its time by 10 years.

Here's someone wondering if her concealer is meant to be that light.

And I would say, yes.

I definitely said, do her makeup poorly like she did it herself.

I guess we should just tell people listening, if you haven't gone and watched it yet, if you're expecting something 10 years ahead of its time, don't bother.

Yes.

But if you're expecting something that was right on the money 10 years ago, go get it.

Or that's just like exactly what you'd expect today.

Right.

If you've noticed my energy tailing off, it's because I got a burrito getting cold on the counter.

All right.

Well, you know what?

I think we've talked enough about the Tina Fey episode, and I know how much Andy likes burritos.

And so we're going to be back next week, hopefully with Yarma and the Elliott Page episode.

And you know what?

Now I will say it, Keeve, and I mean it.

I think the next three in a row, I delighted.

If this goes down to two next week and then down to one,

all right, I should watch that one before I made my

all right.

I love you guys.

Love you, buddy.

Talk soon.

Love you.