Episodes › Ep. 105 2026-04-01 · 1:01:31
Rescue Dog 3D & Relaxation Therapy
Episode 105 covers the Season 36 shorts 'Rescue Dogs 3D' (Ep. 2) and 'Relaxation Therapy' (Ep. 3), with a detour into 'The Bielland Brothers' (dress vs. air versions from the Bryan Cranston episode) and Boogerman. Seth apologizes for poor audio from spring break, and the hosts workshop a reverse ALF sitcom pitch after Jon Hamm sends competing ALF impressions. Andy's voice note and the Quaid Army's reactions to podcast lore (quibi, iwantstraunts.com, Quaid bump) round things out.
Shorts discussed: Rescue Dogs 3D, The Bielland Brothers (dress vs. air), Relaxation Therapy, Boogerman
Guests: Chris Fleming (Comedian Seth had as a guest on Late Night; praised by Seth)
← Ep. 104 Boogerman Part 1&2 · Ep. 106 I Broke My Arm →
Pop-ups (17 · 5 fan picks from YouTube comments)
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Pluto TV sponsor read opening
0:00The episode opens with a Pluto TV ad read, a free streaming service with Anchorman and other favorites. Sponsors are featured in these ad reads.
Escape to Pluto TV, where you can watch movies and shows that you already love, like Anchorman.
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Seth buys iwantstraunts.com
3:01Seth bought the domain iwantstraunts.com right after the episode, teasing a reviews site for straunts (restaurants). The hosts treat it as a new Yelp.
The minute our podcast was over, I bought IWantStrontz.com.
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Quaid premiere bus giveaway
6:02Ryan Gosling's premiere for Project Hail Mary gave audience members free bus rides to the event. Jorma notes the gesture; Seth wasn't able to attend.
Ryan Gosling then invites your entire audience to get on buses and go to the premiere.
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Fans point here
7:222 YouTube comments timestamp this moment, 14 likes.
Liar Liar, Full Blast. Talk about another scene-stealing performance. Steve Carell, when basically Jim Carrey's controlling him when he's doing the news. Oh, right. Worth a rewatch on YouTube. Just incredible. Evan.…
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Fans point here
8:342 YouTube comments timestamp this moment, 4 likes.
quations yeah patience and quay oh that's quait quations the equations quations the d there's no real room for the d there but that's what they should keep in mind instead of getting mad um heist songs we talked about…
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Fans point here
9:282 YouTube comments timestamp this moment.
I mean, it's a bummer that Andy's not here, but this is a really genuinely good idea for Andy. A reverse ALF sitcom, which is Andy goes to space and crash lands on Melmac, and then he lives with a family of ALFs.
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Alf's real name: Gordon Shumway
13:30ALF's real name is Gordon Shumway, a trivia question Seth poses. The writers' room in LA is praised for naming him.
Do you remember what Alf's real name was? ... Gordon Shumway.
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Boogerman Sega Genesis game (1994)
16:25A Boogerman game was released for the Sega Genesis in 1994, where the hero flicks boogers and farts at enemies; hosts discuss its bizarre live-action trailer.
There was a Boogerman Sega Genesis game in 1994.
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Quado: unborn child reference
23:19A female Quaid referred to her unborn child as 'Quado,' a nickname for Jack Quaid, the only known double Quaid. The hosts riff on Quado as a sitcom character.
Referring to my unborn child as Quado and my husband's not unborn.
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Rescue Dogs 3D short introduced
24:40Rescue Dogs 3D is an Andy Samberg digital short about a 911 app going wrong during a home invasion. Akiva Schaffer helped shoot or edit it, though he's unsure how much.
So we have Rescue Dogs 3D, which I definitely helped on, but I don't remember how much I helped.
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Quomp reaction in comments
29:52A YouTube commenter wrote 'quomp,' a play on the Quaid bump, while another praised the short as better than expected.
Some of the comments, the newest comment was from 17 hours ago, and it just says, quomp.
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Kreisel's direction of Rescue Dogs
30:24Jonathan Krisel directed Rescue Dogs 3D; Jorma notes the camera movement and sliders. The short was shot on a built set, a rarity for this show.
Because there is more movement to that than maybe we would have done.
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Fans point here
31:251 YouTube comment timestamps this moment, 13 likes.
So, yes, of course, technology is always, you know, getting in bed with marketing departments for stupid movies. And it's still going on. And I think this piece is still relevant today. But anyway, I was, you know,…
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Krisel's voice note on Rescue Dogs
32:53Jonathan Krisel explains the short came after Tim and Eric and parodies tech marketing and a bad dog movie, taking stupid concepts seriously.
Taking very stupid concepts very, very seriously.
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The Bielland Brothers sketch
36:15The Bielland Brothers is a sketch from the Bryan Cranston episode where Cranston and Fred Armisen perform an earnest song about sparkling apple juice, with Bill Hader and Kenan Thompson playing instruments offscreen.
Sudeikis on drums. Long-haired wigs.
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Dress vs. air audience reaction
41:36In the dress rehearsal, the audience understood the joke and didn't sing along; in the live air version they sang along, which the hosts say breaks the sketch.
The audience at air did sing along.
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Jon Hamm's ALF challenge for Andy
45:12Jon Hamm sent two ALF voice notes after Andy's impression, challenging him to an ALF-off. Andy responded with his own voice note, calling Hamm's a bit too raspy.
If it's an Alf-Off you want, then it's an Alf-Off you'll get, Jon Hamm.
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Gulp the Digman
54:11Andy's 'gulp' bit returns: fans who watch Digman on Netflix and give it double thumbs up may be gulped on the street.
if you see me you don't have to prove it again ... just say hey i watched it all
Goes back to gulp, Ep. 104, 43:10:
Now Andy has to gulp. That should have been the whole thing.
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Relaxation Therapy shot in Brooklyn
59:30Relaxation Therapy was filmed at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden, a location the hosts recall visiting as tourists during their SNL years.
This was in Brooklyn at, I believe, the Botanical Garden.
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Jane Lynch's comedy roots
1:01:59Jane Lynch was at the Annoyance Theater and played Carol Brady in the Real Eye Brady Bunch, a Chicago-area comedy history detail Seth shares.
She was at the Annoyance Theater, played Carol Brady in the Real Eye Brady Bunch.
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Jorma vs. Jeremy Allen White body
1:03:54Jorma jokes about his body shape compared to Jeremy Allen White's ripped physique, a recurring 'jawb' bit where Jorma aspires to a fitter body.
Jorma: I genuinely thought I could sort of do it
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Fans point here
1:06:511 YouTube comment timestamps this moment, 3 likes.
Because you're supposed to be not leading with your forehead like that. I just want to outlast him. Jorm looks like his form is very good, maybe, but I can't tell. He did kind of a low angle up at his face, kind of…
— Akiva
People and sketches mentioned (12)
Jon Hamm Ryan Gosling Helen Mirren Cranston Jeremy Allen White Chris Fleming
Rescue Dogs 3D The Bielland Brothers Relaxation Therapy Boogerman Alf Digman
Source: whisperx-v2+speakers transcript, read by anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5 on 2026-10-19; audio timestamps mapped to the YouTube cut by word alignment. Timestamps shown are YouTube time. Report a bad pop-up.