The Always Sunny Podcast - Bloopers, Pt. 1
Episode Date: December 5, 2022That's wild, baby....
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Well, it's nine o'clock. Oh, it is nine o'clock and well he he does have until 901 doesn't he?
He has till 901 to finish up that peepee and get that cut that mug in.
Because then he is?
He knows what he's doing.
He knows exactly what he's doing.
Nothing, nothing. There's no drama to be had.
He knows exactly what he's doing.
Oh man.
It's up, boys.
Hello, fellas.
How was your Thanksgiving, man?
It was good. Yeah, I went to Denver and saw my sister and her husband
and their two kids who are very cute, one and two.
Our kids are named one and two?
Yeah. It's one of those new fangals.
Simplifies it.
But in reverse order where the older one is named two and like because they knew they were going to have another one.
Oh, that's so cool.
Yeah.
Pee and poop.
Let's get a couple jokes in.
The fans just want to hear us talk about what kind of turkey we ate or they want,
they want some jokes, right?
All right, I don't know.
Maybe they do want to hear about it.
Go on, go on, go on.
No, it was awesome, but it was one of those typical thanksgivings where like,
it came in the house and a child was put into my arms.
Yes.
Take your responsibility.
Thrust into your auntie.
Do this.
Bye.
And also my nephew had hand foot and mouth disease.
Oh yeah.
Oh, sure.
Now, what is that again?
It's like sores that are in your mouth and on your hands and on your feet.
And I immediately looked it up and it is contagious to adults,
but like, yeah, no, I don't think I caught it.
But it's one of those delightful things.
This is not sitting well.
He's not sitting well.
Check your hands.
Now, why is it that it's just the hand, the foot, and the mouth?
Yeah, why those things?
Extremities.
All those are going into the same, the foot's going.
Well, they're little kid things.
So maybe the foot's going in the mouth and the hand's going.
Is it that literal?
Like, is it because the hands and the feet are going in the mouth?
Are we talking like, you know, because babies do?
Yeah, yeah.
Meg, you looked it up.
Is it a virus or is it viral?
It's viral, yeah.
And there's nothing to do about it.
It's just one of those things that just goes away on its own and the kids get
and then they don't get again after they get it, I think.
Oh, it's like a chicken pox type.
It's like one of those viruses that you can't get again.
Now, what is that?
Why are there some viruses you can't get again and other ones that you just get
after the fucking year?
But they live with you, yeah, the chicken pox virus lives with you forever.
Yes.
It just stays inside of you.
A party of like viruses where they're all hanging out, you know what I mean?
It's like, are you a repeater or are you like a one-time guy?
Yeah, yeah.
Like seriously.
Me, I go to the hand, I go to the foot, I go to the mouth.
You what?
I kind of show up in the hand, I show up in the foot, I show up in the mouth.
The kid feels terrible.
I also go to adults.
And herpes is like, I go to the mouth, I go to the mouth.
Oh shit, Colby's here.
Big deal.
Hey Colby, what's up, new guy?
This is so fucking cool.
Killed like a million people with a fucking creep.
I didn't kill people.
I find it interesting that some diseases have names that are terrifying
and some diseases have names that don't sound so bad.
Like hand, foot, and mouth disease just sounds gross.
Sounds terrible.
It sounds nasty.
It really does.
You know, but something like
something like the Benz, which is not a disease, but something that happens to you,
you hear like the Benz, that's not, you get a little goofy, feel a little bendy.
It sounds like a dance craze or something, you know, like truly one of the most
potentially horrific ways to die.
Now, what is that again?
That's where your blood, you come up too fast.
And so the, you get air bubbles in your blood.
Yeah.
Is that right?
Actually, I think it's nitrogen.
Oh, so your body builds up in your, when you're in the air.
Your body builds in your, when you're under low pressure.
And so if you come up too quickly, it doesn't release.
And so I believe that you have like too much nitrogen release.
So we're all breathing, so we're all breathing right now nitrogen,
but your body is releasing it.
So when you go to, how?
Just through your skin.
Okay.
So, okay.
Through your skin and through, and you're breathing it out and whatnot.
But when you go, your hand, your foot, your mouth,
when you go under water, say you're scuba diving,
you're still breathing in nitrogen because you have the tank.
Yeah.
But your, because you're under such pressure,
the nitrogen is not leaving your body.
And then when you come up, it slowly comes out.
So that's why you do safety stops.
How's it get out through that tight wetsuit?
How's it get out?
Well, it, water can, water, air, model, things get in and out of it.
It's not that tight.
But if you come up too fast, the nitrogen all tries to come out at the same time.
And it can turn your fucking blood to foam.
Yeah.
That's crazy.
What a funny thing to be like.
And it's called the bends.
Human beings being like, I, we've just discovered a way
that we can swim to the bottom of the ocean.
Awesome.
Let's go do it.
This is incredible.
We're like down lower than we've ever been and we're breathing under here.
We're so brilliant.
And then the first sucker comes up too fast and like, sometimes wrong.
It's even, it's even sadder than that.
That one of the reason, one of the ways that it was discovered,
the, the, the whole idea of it was when they were building the Brooklyn bridge.
And the guy and the, the builder had figured out a way.
These poor guys were going down into these caissons, which were pushed down deep underwater.
And they had to walk up and down and up and down and up and down.
And the builder was like, I feel bad for these guys.
They're, they're putting in a long shift all day long.
Let me build them an elevator.
So he built them an elevator and some of the guys would still walk up.
And some of them would, would, would come up in the elevator and they would,
yeah, but you feel fine at first.
And then you're on your way home and you start to like not feel so,
and they call the bends.
If you feel a little bendy, they didn't know what it was.
They couldn't, they called it case on disease
because they thought it was something that you were getting.
And they didn't realize until later that the guys that were walking up
were okay.
And the guys that were taking the elevator were
punished for their laziness by me, John Bend.
How are your thanksgivings guys?
Anybody got any good stories?
That good, huh?
I mean, I saw Danny and Rhea.
Yeah, we, we popped over and saw them and the kids and they're looking good.
They're looking good.
Danny's looking well.
I see this.
So John Albow, who's one of Danny's pals.
Yeah, John Albow.
Well, right.
Looked exactly the same.
Look great.
Is that the guy with ponytail?
Yeah.
John Albow is, is, is an inspiration for something.
Is it on go?
It's on go, go blow.
Yeah, there's a lot of, there's a lot of Albow.
Yeah, baby.
It's the way it talks like that.
Not the name, but the, the character that he did.
The way that Danny was presenting that character.
Okay, yeah.
Yeah.
Although, yeah, sure.
Yeah.
It's like that groovy 60s thing.
That's wild, baby.
I love talking to them.
I love talking to them too.
You guys are still doing the thing, man.
That's so groovy, man.
I dig that.
You know, I'm really dissed.
Wow, man.
You cats are wild.
Like, why do we ever move past that?
I don't know because it all sounds cool.
Like you say it now and I'm like, that's cool.
That's cool calling people cats.
That's cool.
Yeah.
Saying stuff's wild.
I like that.
Groovy and digging it.
Stuff's groovy.
Like, you know, I like that.
I like all that, like all that language.
Well, we finished season four.
So I thought this might be a good time for us to watch
some of your bloopers from one through four.
The sunny bloopers, I think, are the best that are out there.
I watch them all the time before I came on the show
and I still watch them now.
They're amazing.
I have a theory that it's maybe because your characters
are so awful to each other most of the time
so that when you break and you're laughing with each other,
it's like the biggest distance
between the way you were acting previously.
Right.
You get to see the real friendship
underneath the terrible characters.
Exactly.
Right.
Yeah.
But I just love bloopers in general.
I don't know.
You guys ever watch blooper reels on shows?
Well, actually, we have a tradition.
We didn't do it this year,
but I think this is the first year in a really long time
that we didn't do it and maybe we should.
Well, we're about to.
Well, we are.
That's true.
Do we do it at this stage
or do we do it right before we go into scripts?
No.
We do it right before we even start the room, usually.
And that's what I remember is that we,
so we will say what it is, but we will often,
especially in the, it really started happening
in the later seasons of the show
when the three of us would get together
before we would sit down with the room
for the first day of writing or breaking stories.
And we'd be like, oh, boy, this is kind of this thing.
Oh, Jesus, we got to do this again.
You know how we're going to do this?
And then we would just sit and watch
like a season or two of bloopers
to remind ourselves of what we like about the show.
Oh, that's sweet.
Because it's good.
You know, it's a good way to kind of remember like,
oh, yeah, when it's good, it's good.
Like it's really fun.
Like once the scripts are written and everything's popping,
it's a lot of fun.
We have fun.
We have fun.
So we have that on the horizon.
We have a great scenario.
We're going to have a lot of fun on set.
And that's why we do it, really.
Yeah.
What are your, just off the top of your head,
what are your favorite bloopers from the show?
Like what, seasons or?
From any season.
I can tell you, for me, the ones where I'm,
well, I know that I still continue to laugh the hardest.
The one in the dance, dances their asses off
where we're eating chips.
Yeah.
Talking about cream.
For me, I just couldn't stop laughing on the day
and it still makes me laugh.
I haven't seen the bloopers from last season
with Frank eating the ship.
Meatball, oh yeah.
The meatball, but I know that that's going to be funny.
Yeah.
I'm already projecting a future where we have a whole sequence
in an episode that we're breaking right now
that we can't stop laughing as we're talking about it
in the room.
We're going to talk about it while we're writing it.
We're going to talk about it while we're,
we're going to be laughing hysterically
when we shoot it and it's going to be fantastic.
And then there's going to be a ton of stuff
in a blooper reel.
Yes, 100%.
When we hit on something like that,
then I know that we've really got something
because I'm just picturing that scene playing out
and we can't say what it is, obviously, but it's going to be.
I know.
I'm superstitious.
I don't even want to talk about it.
I mean, like, because then sometimes I feel like
we're like, this is going to be so funny.
And they're like, it's not that good.
Yeah, something else winds up being,
but I have a feeling, yeah, it should, it should be.
It should.
But then everyone will just assume that that is,
that a different scene is the one that gets me every time
in a major, major way.
I can't even, I can't even, I laugh just thinking about it.
It's, I think it's from, yeah, it's from the gang group dates.
And Danny is like describing how in the 70s
he would go to all the orgies.
And there was sounds like the 70s.
A bunch of people would get together
and the next thing you know, it was all hands and butts
and tits and woo.
I could just slip right in there and out.
Nobody would know the difference.
It was great.
Then AIDS ruined everything.
The way, the way he like drops and says that like,
and I, I mean, I break, the way I break in,
in the blooper is exactly how I break every single time
I watch the blooper of it.
I'd say for me, it's so funny.
You and me in the police station and I just,
I just can't keep a straight face.
But snapped at it.
Just denying or getting that very specific about the assault.
You know, what do you, he like bit your penis or something.
And like, yeah, he bit my dick.
He tried to, he tried to snap at it, but it was fine.
He was like trying to snap at it.
My friend's not gay.
And he was getting a blow job from the guy.
He's like, I'm not gay.
And then the guy goes snapping at him.
I go, how?
Yeah, but the good news, and then he shushed him.
Yeah, but the good news is, he was raping you.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I guess so.
Yes.
Most of you.
No, no.
No, that can't rape.
That'd be great.
Can't rape too.
No, just my friend here.
He got the worst.
I shook the guy off in time.
No.
So he was only raping you.
You know what I think is really great about that one too,
because it goes on for potentially too long.
Like, there's almost too many.
But we kept it in there.
Yeah, we kept it in there because it is funny.
But also, like, I think it's fun for people to see.
Like, and it really is true when there's a scene like that
in the show.
One of the things that's really fun about doing the show
is every take is different.
Like, you know what I mean?
It's not, the scene is scripted.
It's definitely scripted.
But like, you know, you find these little pathways,
these little alleyways to go down
and you hit on different things.
And like, if you watch that,
every single one is different.
I mean, they've got, there are similarities there.
But like, and that's what's so fun about doing the show
is like finding those things and each take,
every single take, making it different
and, you know, finding new things.
My favorite is the one where Charlie says,
it's like, I don't even think he gets us, man.
Oh, yes, yes.
That was totally improv down the drain.
It was not scripted.
Because your face is.
The first one is the first one.
The reaction of like,
you're confused, like, did I get the line wrong?
And then you're like, then you gotta understand.
And then you watch your process.
That was the very first scene we shot that season, wasn't it?
I think it was.
Yeah, it was the first scene we shot.
And I think we might even mention it in the blooper reel,
like it's going to be a long season or something like that.
Wait, we did that, that happened before.
Yeah, the cat scene, the cat food scene,
like you need to stop eating cat food.
It got cut from the episode.
It got cut from the episode.
It was just you guys coming over to my apartment.
Sitting you down.
And we wanted to start with just a long back and forth.
You guys staring at me and me staring at you.
And of course that was very difficult for us to get through.
Now, my brain is mush.
Have we not looked at the bloopers on the podcast yet?
We have watched some of them.
How many Manhattan's did you have in Mexico?
Did it mush your brain up?
I drank tequila in Mexico.
Yeah, right.
Did you just drink tequila?
Last night I had a very big Manhattan.
I was watching the Eagles game and it was awesome.
Did they win again?
They did.
They're on fire, huh?
Ten and one.
Ten and one.
It's a good solid season for the Philadelphia Eagles.
Football.
Yeah, football.
Thanksgiving football, man.
Thanksgiving football, man.
That's the best.
I got to say, of all the things Thanksgiving food wise,
the stuffing I think is, if someone makes a good stuffing,
the gravy on it.
Love stuffing.
I love mashed potatoes.
Yeah, mashed potatoes are good, but the stuffing.
The stuffing's great.
Here's a question for you.
Do you guys eat one food at a time?
In other words, do you take a bite of green beans or whatever
and chew that up before you take a bite of mashed potatoes?
Or do you just get it all in there?
I certainly don't do what you do.
Yeah, it's outrageous.
You chew the green beans and then you file them back here
and then you get the potatoes and you file them up here somewhere.
No, I mix them together.
And then you get some steak and then you get it all chewed in there.
You swirl it all around and then you make, yeah.
It's outrageous.
It's outrageous.
I put too much food in my mouth.
You know what it is?
It's because I want everything in my mouth at the same time.
Okay, cut that.
No, I want to take a bite of turkey
and I want there to be some gravy on it.
But then once I get the turkey in my mouth,
I'm like, ooh, you know what would go great with that?
It would be some stuffing.
So then I put a little stuffing in my mouth.
Right?
I'm like, oh, that's fucking great.
Ooh, there's green bean casserole.
That's going to mix really nice in there.
And then before I know it, I'm like, you know what I mean?
And I'm like, it's disgusting.
But that's what's good for the sandwich.
The sandwich is that you can have later
because you could put all of it together
on a Hawaiian sweet roll or something like that.
I think what I find so funny about that
is the amount of thought you're putting into it.
You know, like, I think I go a little more lizard brain,
you know, with the eating.
And it's just like, try to eat now.
Just your eyes glaze over.
Yeah, I'm biting whatever.
It's like, that looks weird.
I mean, it's not a lot of thought.
It's not a lot of thought to just like.
Sounds like, it's not making it sound like
for really all it is is this.
It's, it's, mm.
No, I know.
But there's thoughts in between those, mm.
See, I, this is a listener for the listener at home.
This, that's gross.
This is a non-creek.
He was, he was mime-ing eating.
Yeah.
I mean, not really, but I find that creepy.
I wish I could mime-ing eating as funny as, as David Hornsby.
You know, we could write, we could write it in a thing
for cricket where he, he mime eats an entire
Thanksgiving dinner for.
Yes.
Oh, there you go.
Yeah, yeah, that's right.
That's right.
He doesn't have one.
Yes, he doesn't ever have one.
Yeah, he doesn't have, so he mimes a huge meal.
Yeah.
Tis the season to travel.
You know what keeps happening to me when I travel?
I keep overpacking, you know, I pack shorts for you,
for running, shorts for training, you know,
swim trunks for, for swimming, joggers, for yoga.
You're doing all of those things when, when you're traveling?
Absolutely not.
No.
Um, but every time I tell myself, I'm going to,
before I know I'm committed to the lie
and the lies eaten up half my suitcase.
Okay, that suitcase full of lies.
Okay.
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Why do I call bloopers?
Because it goes boop.
In between takes.
Maybe.
Yeah, that could be it.
Oh, it could be a boop.
That's why.
I don't think so.
No, I don't think so either, but good theory.
Thanks, man.
Oh, let's see.
Let's find out.
Why do I call it bloopers?
The word blooper was coined from the word bloop,
which was a term used in American radio in the 1920s
to refer to a terrible, annoying feedback noise
that affected nearby radios
when users tuned their sets incorrectly.
See?
It wasn't even good.
So today YouTube is rife with blooper videos.
So a blooper, as definition,
could you go back to that real quick?
Terrible.
Is a terrible, annoying noise.
Correct.
Well, by the way, terrible, annoying feedback noise.
I will say that I'm always amazed
when people put bloopers at the end of a film
or like they do the bloopers from a show or whatever.
And it's not funny at all.
It's just people messing up.
Yeah.
It's just like somebody makes a mistake
and then everyone's like, oh, let's do that one again.
And it's like, that's not a blooper, dude.
That's what that's annoying.
It's annoying.
It is a blooper by the original definition.
You're actually right.
I think the reason why people seem to enjoy our bloopers
is because what you're saying before,
it's alternate attempts at finding the joke.
So there's a surprise there every time.
There's a surprise.
Yeah.
If it's just someone screwing up a line, then it's...
Yeah, I don't watch other people's bloopers.
Messing up, though, maybe back in the day
would be more interesting
because you never got to see any outside material.
Right.
It was before, certainly before social media,
there wasn't direct access to people.
You would just see them in movies and TV shows.
You wouldn't see even like making of or the process.
Yeah, you get a little taste of humanity.
What it's like to be there.
Yeah.
On the actual film.
Yeah, you're right.
In the movie, being there, at the end of the movie,
they cut to Peter Sellers doing...
He's laying on a table and he's trying to sort of explain
like who mugged him and who he was supposed to...
And it's multiple takes of him doing it.
It's like 19...
What year is it?
1970 something?
Yeah.
Yeah.
First example, I can think of a blooper reel
at the end of a movie.
And yet like a comedy movie, but not...
Yeah, but not like the kind of comedy movie
that you would expect bloopers to come after.
Yeah, yeah.
There are now...
I've seen compilations of like classic Hollywood bloopers
from like the 50s and stuff.
I watch this from time to time.
No, that's cool.
It's really weird.
But it is a lot of people just messing up.
And they're just like, oh darn it.
But they talk in that...
You know how like people used to talk in that like...
Mid-Atlantic.
Yeah, is that what it's called?
Mid-Atlantic, yeah.
It is mid-Atlantic.
Yeah, it seems very British influence.
It's almost like everyone wanted...
That's what it's called, Mid-Atlantic.
It's halfway between us and...
Some tension here.
Just play the...
Count, three, two, one.
Count, three, two, one.
But if you could give us some advice
on how to handle a certain situation,
then we promise we will come back
with our butts filled.
So filled, so filled for you.
So filled for you.
It was the specific that it's for you.
Yeah, filling our butts for you.
Now I know it's coming.
And there's no way I can stop it.
So now Charlie knows that you know it's coming.
And so he's going to change it.
He's wriggling my eye though.
He knows he's going to do it again.
Situation, I promise we will come back with our butts...
I apologize because I messed it up for you.
If you could just give us some advice on how to handle a situation,
I promise we will come back with our butts filled.
Oh, I feel like a Christmas stocking.
How do you get up?
Nice to see Gregory Scott Cummins laughing.
We should have caught him there.
Why didn't we do that?
In the blooper room?
Maybe we need to have a camera on the back then.
This one.
Come on, man.
Sorry, I didn't see you running and smiling at us.
That's always fun when the camera guy is laughing.
This is for our listeners of Blooper
where the guys are massaging Charlie's shoulders.
I love this because
you guys aren't even saying anything
and you can't stop cracking yourself on that.
Yeah, just groaning.
It's because it was the silence
and just the occasional like...
And it's amazing like in the process
of making anything,
how many different lives it takes.
And I'm sure that this was not scripted.
I'm sure it was that
we thought, oh, you know what would be funny?
Let's start the scene with just a slow, long massage
so that the audience doesn't know exactly
what's happening yet.
Yeah.
And so it's extra funny to us because it's new.
We haven't even really thought about it.
Where was this basement?
Was that the Herald Exam?
Yeah, it was.
By the way, the number of times that the basement
has changed over the course of that show
because it's just crazy.
The base of the bar is very different.
Yeah.
This is a completely different fucking basement
than what we had.
We saw it in the Storm of the Century.
The Storm of the Century.
It's nothing like that.
There's something about it being the actual basement
of the actual building with the
actual original bar set was
that ties it together in my mind
to make you feel more legitimate.
But I don't know if it feels
maybe just because it's less of a
By the way, this says season one and two bloopers.
Are there any bloopers from season one
in here?
I don't know. These are the ones combined.
I don't remember having that much fun on set season one.
I'm sure we were just trying to figure it out.
Yeah, I'm sure we were.
I don't think it was quite the same vibe though.
We'll save there any from season one.
How's this feel?
That's good. You want me to crack your back?
I'm going to crack your back.
Yeah, it is. Stay away from that.
Yeah, it is.
What do they know? How many scenes
have Danny done before this?
A piece of food in his hair.
A piece of bread in his hair.
Yes, it is.
You better stay away from stuff like that
because there is no future in it.
There's no future in it.
There's no future in it.
She's smelling her.
Where's your breath?
Oh, this one's great.
In my mouth?
It starts in your chest. You've got to focus on your diaphragm.
What is a diaphragm?
Right here.
The diaphragm is on.
Charlie, really? No.
That's all you know about diaphragm.
She's pretty good at it.
There she goes.
She very rarely wins.
She's tough.
Oh, God.
I was laughing.
I'm gone.
So do you.
The dollar bill.
It's funny.
I feel like that's one of our most popular bloopers.
And yet, I'll be totally honest.
I don't think it's that funny.
You said that last time, but...
I don't know why.
It's how irritated you are.
It's not the words.
It's the fact that you're so irritated reading it
that it's so stupid that you're like,
I cannot believe I'm reading this.
Do you want me to read it back to you?
Which, by the way, and again, I think we talked about this,
but that wasn't in the script.
We didn't read that before we read anything.
Yeah, that was another example of the props department.
Props department.
Just writing out some things so that there looks like
there's writing on the paper and you deciding to read it.
Well, and I read...
I skip words.
You know what I mean?
I purposely made it more incomprehensible.
So there's a scene in there that we just watched
with Charlie and Dee that
last week we were just referencing
because we were breaking another story for this season,
just in terms of process,
which is interesting to fence,
where Meg, Rob, Roselle, and I were talking about a scene
between Charlie and Dee,
and we're like, okay, well, what's funny about it?
And then we referenced this episode,
and we were like, there's a few scenes over the years
where the two of them together
were trying to figure out something,
and the process by which they get there
is the comedy of the scene,
is what we're going for.
So we set up this template,
you know, what was that, season two?
Yeah.
And then we can return back to it,
and we see that happen very often, right?
Where we set up a template,
and then we come back to it for future episodes.
Well, there's also really something really fun,
and it works with any dynamic
of setting up that someone
is confident about
something that's stupid and wrong,
and the other person is irritated
or confused and explaining to them,
and it works, you know,
obviously great with Dennis's upset
that I'm very bullish about
read the speech that's going to work.
He's like, you want me to read it? I'll read it.
And then that's why it's funny,
because of the coffee he's getting in now.
You're warming up to it.
And then, like,
same with, like, even last season
where you're explaining, you're irritated
that you have to explain Pittsburgh to me, right?
Like, that works. But it works the other way, too,
with me being like,
no, dude, I have a gun, you have a ninja sword,
and you're like, you're like,
yeah, and you're like, no, but I can zigzag it,
and I'm like, bang, bang, bang.
And even though, like, I'm not, like,
some brilliant guy, it's just I have
some mental advantage
over the other character. And I think just watching
that dynamic play out
with someone so bullish and confident
about something that's so clearly wrong to the audience,
that the other person can kind of sit back
like the audience and be like, no,
that's wrong.
You know, it works, like, every time.
It's the same when it's the three of us across the desk
from someone that we're like, we need a loan,
and this is why it's going to work.
And they're like, this is crazy, and this is madness.
Or it's just trying to do something so simple
like create a dating profile.
The whole point of that,
what's funny about that scene when you sit down
and break it from a story breaking perspective,
you go, well, what's the story beat here?
There really is no story beat in there.
It's just creating a dating profile
for Charlie. That's it.
There's not really a very strong advancement
of the narrative, which is generally a no-no
in a scene.
However, we figured let's just give it a shot.
And then the whole scene becomes about
the two of us simply a very simple task,
set up a dating profile,
and then the comedy comes from
asking, like, knowing that that's
a very simple thing to do.
We know what the right answers are,
and now we're going to get Charlie's answers.
And it's like jumping deeper into character
because you're trying to understand Charlie
better as an audience member.
So I think, right, every scene,
every single character,
you also want to push the action forward.
You want to push the plot forward.
I would argue that what we're actually setting up
there is how bad he's going to be on that date.
You know what I mean?
In a way, we're setting up, like, who is this guy
under, you know,
who is this guy going to be on an actual date?
Right? So we start to hear these answers
and we're like, you know,
so then when we get to the actual date,
we're like, we already know it's not going to go well.
We just don't know exactly what's going to happen,
you know?
Let's talk about your likes and dislikes.
How about your favorite food? What would that be?
Oh, milk steak.
What?
Milk steak.
I'm not putting milk steak. I'm going to put steak.
Don't put steak. Put milk steak. She'll know what it is.
No, she won't know what it is. Charlie, nobody knows what that is.
Okay, all right. What's your favorite hobby?
Magnets.
Okay, what?
Making magnets, collecting magnets, playing with magnets?
Just magnets. I'm going to put snowboarding.
I don't really have snowboards. All right.
What are some of your likes?
Ghouls.
You know, you guys have the objective of getting me on board
to try this dating thing and then quickly realize
you're just going to have to do it yourselves.
And then you've set up that I have bizarre interests
that are going to be funny on a date.
Yeah.
But then you've also established that you have sort of created
the profile in which you say that I'm a philanthropist,
which is all leading
towards me saying I'm a full-on rapist,
which is all leading towards the date going poorly.
But you're right.
Very little actually happens.
No, but it's foreshadowing, right?
So we're setting up
what your character is going to be like when the thing actually happens.
But again, it's the dynamic of like,
you guys have a simple task
and I have a bizarre answer,
which I'm confident on.
And you're not giving us the answer that we want.
But you're giving the answer that's true.
And it's also fun
for the audience sometimes,
that weird phenomenon where you know what's going to happen
and that's fun
because you're expecting something
and then you get
a specific that you weren't expecting
and that's what makes it funny.
But as an audience member, you're in on the joke.
It almost makes you feel closer to the characters.
You're going, you know, if you're sitting there
with somebody who's never seen Sunny before,
it makes you feel like I know this band.
You know, I've been around since the beginning.
I know that Charlie is going to say something funny here.
I just don't know what it is.
You know what I mean?
The anticipation, the joy.
But it's not a total surprise.
No, no, no.
This is when she really hit Tracy with that.
The wrong...
Oh, yeah, you heard it too.
That it wasn't a rubber.
I saw Tracy's daughter Polly
at Danny's thing,
which I had not seen since we did the tour,
which was 15 years ago.
That was funny.
Here's a classic with the McPoils.
The sweat pattern on my shirt is bonk.
You know what I mean?
I think they're going for it, but it's just a little overboard.
We don't want your lukewarm milk, Liam.
Then start breaking bricks, wet nips.
I mean, we had no idea he was going to say that.
I mean, that's start breaking bricks, wet nips.
The line was start breaking bricks.
And then he added wet nips.
Wet nips, which is a classic Jimmy style.
Yeah, very Jimmy.
That's very Jimmy.
We don't want your warm milk, Liam.
Start breaking bricks, wet nips, huh?
Mike, Mike!
The little nose flick today.
Jimmy.
Deandra, I haven't even begun to peek.
Trust me, when I peek, you'll feel it.
This is one of the first...
I feel like we really...
This is the first time we really started to find
just how arch my character could be.
This is when we really started pushing like the...
Leading into that sort of like...
villain talk?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay, so look, if we're trying to break down
what's funny about it.
Charlie, when you're...
When you're...
When you're...
When you're...
When you're...
You're on his side kind of.
You're like, oh, shit.
How's this going to go down?
You get it.
You agree with him that he's going to peek at some point
and it's going to be incredible.
You're also looking to see Dee's reaction.
Because what we're witnessing together
is amazing.
But it's also a little bit like...
She thinks it's ridiculous, but he's on board.
Like a child taking sides in a power dynamic.
Being like, which one of these
is going to...
I'm pretty sure that it's this guy, so I better jump on him.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's a very uncharly shirt.
Do you remember?
We got it from England.
He stole it.
It's quite a shirt.
Yeah.
We're making fun of that whole
nRD phase.
When I peek...
You've got to swear
that you will not tell anybody about this, okay?
I swear.
I swear.
I mean, this is going to wind up
giving us indigestion.
You've got to eat.
Here.
Where'd you get food?
It was down there.
It was the first time, Danny,
started doing that.
It was like that,
almost like barely a pulse
kind of casual
attitude, which he does sometimes,
which is so...
Down there.
You shouldn't have seen how passionate he got
when he showed him the dick flyer.
Come on!
Who was that?
Okay, so that was definitely
Adam, because he's moving the camera,
but this is an example of something that
we knew in the room
because we drew it up on the board
and we were like, this is going to be funny.
Let's just do anything and everything we can
to make sure that this scene happens.
That's it. The dick flyer thing.
The dick flyer, yeah.
Whenever we came up with the concept of the
bicep, the inverted bicep,
I think game over.
What was different here was,
I think on the day I improved that I knew.
I think it wasn't scripted
that I knew it would look like it did.
No, no, no.
You thought it was a dick.
Yeah, that was not scripted.
We all thought it was a bicep originally.
And then on the day I was like,
wouldn't it be funny if I come to you guys?
I knew it was a dick and I thought that was cool.
That's why we were doing it.
There's a scene before this dick flyer thing
that's actually almost like the opposite
of what we were talking about earlier,
which is all three of you are writing this
message that you're putting on it
and nobody is the straight man.
Nobody is saying, well, this sounds weird,
and nobody is disagreeing with each other
on that really.
You're just loving it, underlying that.
You're just loving what you're coming up with.
Everybody's fully on board with something,
and that works because you know that the audience
is looking at it like, this is fucking ridiculous.
The audience is straight, man.
So we just knew it was going to be funnier
if we were actually all on the same page about it.
This is so great.
But it's also, like you said, it's a setup
for something you know is going to pay off later.
Where you're listening to that letter
and you got to change it up, right?
Because I think you're expecting someone
to be the straight man in that scene
and be like, wait, we can't do that.
It's ridiculous. You know what I mean?
And so it's just constantly subverting
expectations is something I think is always
really important to us in the writing process on the show.
You're the one that came up with the bicep.
I know, and then you started to cut it like this
and I thought it was a dick.
And I was like, well, that's kind of cool too
because that's what's more masculine than not.
You know, if you wanted to be a bicep,
it should have more veins in it.
Yeah, I know.
So that went into the show, right?
And we had to cut out immediately.
I can't believe we made that into the show.
Do you guys, when you're shooting,
do you try to, if you're like on the other side,
do you try to pause just long enough
before you laugh so that you can use that
like you're thinking about that now?
Absolutely.
Sometimes I know it's coming
and I know there's no stopping it.
So the best you can do is to just try
and hold it for just one second
to give you time to cut.
I mean, I'll try everything to keep the take alive.
I'll look down, I'll turn around.
And we've used that like when Glenn's like yelling
at the girls in the department store.
I was fully like turning around and pretending
we got the store, although everyone watching it
at home knows what it is.
That's a great bar.
You gotta be free drinks for everybody.
So you know, you'll come, you'll party with us
and you can bring your girlfriends too.
We don't want just to do you.
You gotta bring your girlfriends.
That's a requirement.
Sounds like fun.
Can our boyfriends come too?
Oh.
Your boyfriends?
Yeah, our boyfriends.
Do you have boyfriends?
How did you not know
that the reason I invited you back
to my bar
was because I love you.
So funny.
But I think they enjoy it.
I see a lot of people responding that way
about how much they love watching us
smile or laugh or try to hide it.
It just shows we're having fun.
Yeah, it's good for comedy
because it shows that it's like this high wire act
that could fall apart at any moment.
Like that's part of what's exciting to watch.
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Something about the way you read that
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You see that door right there, man?
The one marked pirate.
You think a pirate lives in there?
I see a door marked private.
Mm-hmm, is that the door you're talking about?
This is a funny exchange.
We got a problem.
We got a problem.
Smart man done, man.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
Is that the door you're talking about?
Why'd you say?
You're the duster and all.
Yeah, with the applets.
Wow.
Oh, dude, do you think a pirate lives in there?
It's such a stupid joke.
It's so stupid.
Adam Stein, I think, was that?
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Was that the pirate private thing?
He was good for like a...
Yeah, he was good.
He was good with those little things like that.
Charlie Kelly joke for sure.
Yeah, yeah.
You got to leave so I can get...
Oh, yes.
So this is the scene where you're talking to Wendell, right?
Yeah.
So somebody else had to be on the show.
Yeah, it was me and you guys were just laughing at my face.
I was laughing at your face.
You were laughing at the whole...
I was laughing at the scenario.
You were probably just breaking it.
I was probably just breaking it.
And I'm like, you can't be brave.
You're not on camera.
Like, you're just messing up.
I know, I'm not even on camera.
I'm already enjoying it too much.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
To be a functional stand-in for your Wendell.
For my Wendell.
So then I, when I was behind the camera and then we just switched.
Yeah.
Then, yeah, you're probably at like a video village, as they say.
All right, listen, douchebag.
Apparently people think we look alike, personally.
Yeah, I'm out.
I gave it a couple tries and now here comes you.
You're looking at the lines.
You're looking at the sides.
All right, listen, douchebag.
Apparently people think we look alike.
I don't see it.
Oh, yeah, yeah, I sit out.
I was trying to do your voice.
I mean, it's reaction, genuine shock and surprise is great.
Yeah, just registering him doing an imitation of mine.
OK, now here we go.
We have talked about this one in what may be one of the original,
like the first few episodes of the podcast.
We talked about this.
Because I referenced Nick Grads.
So one of the executives at FX lived in the neighborhood
and decided to stop by and see, you know, they very rarely came to set.
They just kind of let us do our thing
and they trusted that we weren't wasted their money.
And here we just spent like five hours on this.
Wasting their money, but I kept looking back
and he was laughing, so that was a good sign.
But you shoot the show so quickly that you know that.
Yeah, it doesn't matter.
You always stuck to our schedule.
We always made our days.
5807. Wow.
Oh, Jesus.
Dooley. Yeah, Dooley.
It's called Dooley.
Dooley loves a party.
Dooley's dead.
Yeah.
He often dropped that two years back.
Still.
Just wait, was that scripted?
The Dooley's dead thing?
Like it was supposed to end that.
So yes, knew that one.
And we knew that the more excited we were.
Yeah, the funnier it would be when it's our crew.
Our all of our crew is either dead or in jail.
Or has some sort of lawsuit against us.
College buddy of mine.
It's Mike Armour, who went by Dooley,
who I wonder if he's, I lost touch with him,
but I wonder if he's seen this episode.
One of the other things that's nice is the flip phone
that you always like flip it down right before.
It just gives a little, I don't know,
something to it.
Flip it closed.
Guys, Dooley's dead.
Dooley's dead?
Yeah, he killed himself about two years back.
I don't know why.
I don't know why I just felt right.
Yeah, Dooley's dead.
Yeah, he offed himself.
Why?
I don't know.
I can feel your face so close to mine.
This is also something you don't,
it's a phenomenon that's strange
when you're watching it on TV.
It doesn't look like we're standing that close to one another.
It's a very normal to see on TV.
But very rarely do you stand that close
to another human being.
Yeah, it just looks normal
because you're so used to it,
seeing it in films and television.
It's also that you're facing forward
and you feel this man right here,
right next to you, looking right at you.
Yes.
Man, this place is actually pretty nice.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
No, it's very charming.
Oh, yeah, here you go.
This is just that it doesn't break.
Should we do that again?
Yeah, I still can't wrap my arm.
It's very charming, very quaint.
Yeah.
It's the bouncy face.
It's bizarre.
Quaint.
Look how hard I'm doing it.
This is an unbreakable face, dude.
Is this a joke?
Very charming.
I thought it was being pranked.
Fuck you!
I can't break the fucking thing.
How is this unbreakable?
Let's get something different.
I really did think I was like,
oh, it's a prank.
And I was waiting for somebody to be like,
yeah, we pranked you or whatever.
And I was like, are you kidding me?
I really can't know.
This is just the thing that I can't break.
The close-off, pose-off.
Oh, my God, this is so funny.
This is when we found Frank.
Yeah.
The close-off.
Or he found Frank, but like,
just the hair, the big glasses.
Oh, and the pursed lips.
The pursed lips.
At the end, how are you supposed to look?
Impossible.
Impossible not to laugh at that.
He wants to be you, getting banged by me.
Your apartment.
Oh, my God, I know what it is.
Oh, this is sick, but I think he wants to be you
having sex with me and my butt.
Just a pencil, just a pencil, yeah.
Just a pencil going up the butt.
Yeah.
Pencil is new.
Now that's a body that just won't quit.
Just won't quit?
He ain't gonna quit.
See, I bet you if you pop those jeans up,
you're gonna find a sweaty hog that won't quit either.
Nonscripted?
Nonscripted.
What was in the script?
Like, I bet you're gonna find a bird.
I think it was a bird.
No, I don't even think that popping jeans off
was even part of it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I think it was just.
It's just he won't quit.
He won't quit.
But calling it a sweaty hog, just destroyed me.
I think there you're supposed to jump to like,
now you quit and you're no longer legit.
Yeah, you're no longer legit.
But you popped in the hog talk,
which was good foreshadowing for where
your character's gonna go.
Yeah, sure.
Sweaty hog.
Sweaty hog.
Not before or after have I ever heard
a dog referred to as a sweaty hog.
And it's a shame because that really should be more common.
Fuck.
Well, we're slashing prices, Sulu.
You don't have to be buried in a pot of gold to get slushy.
I'm just confused.
Slushy.
Slushy.
What?
Well, we're slashing prices, Sulu.
You won't need a pot of gold to get slushy.
Slushy.
I've never.
I've been married to this woman for 14 years now.
I've never heard her laugh like that.
Uh-huh.
Yeah.
That's not a way that she normally breaks.
It's because she's starting by trying to laugh in character,
but then breaking.
So it's like a combination of Crazy Patty and Gaitlyn.
Why is she on the cream?
Ah, good afternoon.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
It's only a matter of time because cream always rises
to the top.
There's so much cream inside.
And it's always getting up in Dennis' face.
Dennis hates my cream.
He hates that, dude.
Because he's like, it's all over him.
And he can smell it on him.
And he dries him nuts.
Yeah.
Oh, I got it too bad.
The eating the chips enhances it.
Yeah.
Was this scripted, the cream conversation?
So part of it was.
So Dennis hates my cream.
And then you can smell it.
No, that was not.
And then he gets into a thing where he says,
you know that cream?
That cream you're always talking about.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like, I don't know why that was so funny to me,
but something about the chips made it funny too.
I remember getting like so sick from those questions.
Like I had to like lie down.
Yeah, you took a nap.
Because you couldn't get through the take.
So you just kept eating chips, chips, chips, chips,
and just, yeah, it was awful.
Yeah, it was a lot of chips.
I actually remember we were, in terms of proximity,
we were right behind that wall where you guys were shooting.
Because I remember very distinctly being back there
and laughing my ass off behind the monitor.
Why don't you take that hot white cream that's inside you?
Get all that hot white cream.
Get it right up in your stomach.
Oh my God.
All you gotta do is take those dance moves, man.
That cream, that hot white cream you're talking about.
The hot white cream you're talking about.
Oh, that's all right, we got it.
These are making me sick.
All you gotta do is take those dance moves,
you know, that cream that you're talking about,
bring it to the top.
All you gotta do, dude.
Well, it's,
amen.
The cream rises to the top.
This is my favorite.
Well, you just are laughing and for some reason
you're trying to get back into it with a triple kick.
The triple kick will bring me back in.
But this is why we do it.
This is what keeps me going.
This is what keeps me going.
This is what keeps me coming back
and it's by the fact that I keep trying to leave.
It's this, man.
It's, you know what I mean?
Like I miss that.
I don't, it's gonna be.
That's why we do it.
That's why we do it.
That's why I do it.
I do it because I, it's just,
it really is an extension of, of what I've always loved,
which is, you know, being together with your friends
and making your friends laugh.
Like, and having your friends make you laugh
and, and surprising each other.
And, you know, if they weren't for that,
I would.
Right.
Like we, we have enough time filming wise,
the way we like the show, the way we shoot it,
that we have room to do that.
And it's not like we're burning through.
We keep the coverage simple so that we can do take after take
and find things.
And find things.
And make each other laugh.
Laughing releases endorphins, which makes you happier.
Plus that, you know.
And how often in real life do you get to laugh that hard?
On a job.
On a daily basis, at your job.
Or even in your personal life, it's very, it's very rare.
So.
Well, it's very appropriate then.
It's a, it's a blessing.
Right after Thanksgiving to feel gratitude for the show,
feel gratitude for your friends,
feel gratitude for.
Feel thankful.
Yes.
Feel thankful.
Yeah.
So.
Very grateful.
Very grateful for you.
Yeah.
For you all for, for making me laugh as,
as hard as, as I just was for the last 15 years.
Thank you very much.