Over Your Dead Body

Pop-ups (29 · 6 fan picks from YouTube comments)

1. Fans point here

   6:20

   2 YouTube comments timestamp this moment, 2 likes.

   It didn't feel like the other theater, just even in the same... It's because the sound is going in a straight line. So if it's going right over people's heads, you're actually not hearing the person behind you… — Akiva

2. Fans point here

   8:31

   3 YouTube comments timestamp this moment, 12 likes.

   The recliners and the bad screen and the sound didn't look as good. And it's interesting because it's a different experience. But all those people would leave saying we saw it at the same theater the same night, but… — Akiva

3. Popstar's Segel prosthetics joke

   9:26

   Popstar's prosthetics scene turns into a Jason Segel impression reference to Forgetting Sarah Marshall. The guys worried it was uncomfortable, and Judd Apatow said to roll with it.

   And then it gets to your part and it turns into Jason Segel.

4. Fans point here

   15:47

   3 YouTube comments timestamp this moment, 1 likes.

   Disclaimer, PayPal pay later data, eight markets, March 2025 to February 2026, repeat users more than one pay later purchase in the past year. All right. So let's go back to the beginning here, Jorm. We'll decide, you…

5. Tommy Wirkola sparks the remake

   16:29

   Producer Guy Dinella, who was on set with Tommy Wirkola, pitched Jorma a remake of Wirkola's film The Trip after Tommy kept quoting Popstar and Hot Rod.

   every day he was quoting Gruber and Popstar and Hot Rod, like over and over.
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6. Karen Gillan's Finland connection

   21:33

   Karen Gillan, an executive producer on the film, had a connection to Finland from shooting the film Duel there with writer Nick, whose partner Brian co-wrote the script.

   Nick, one of the writers, is married to Karen. They were shooting a movie for XYZ in Finland called Duel.

7. Finland doubles for upstate New York

   22:05

   The film is set in upstate New York but was shot in Finland. The production chose Finland over Winnipeg for budget reasons, and a cabin near Tampere served as the location.

   when it came time to share my two options for budgetary reasons were Winnipeg and Finland.

8. Finnish cabins without bathrooms

   23:47

   Jorma learned many Finnish cabins lack running water or bathrooms, so the crew built the interiors on a stage.

   Cabins in Finland bizarrely don't have running water, a lot of them, or bathrooms, which I did not understand at all.

9. Jorma's Brooklyn-style pickleball stage

   24:26

   Among the candidate shooting spaces was a pickleball stadium, and the crew ended up in a warehouse once used to store boats in winter.

   One detail here is not in the transcript.

   we ended up in like a big warehouse that they would use to store boats in the winter.

10. Home Alone shot in a Chicago high school

    24:55

    Akiva notes Home Alone's stage was built in a suburban Chicago high school gym and pool, close to John Hughes' home.

    It was in Chicago or out, you know, suburbs of Chicago.

11. Shooting away from home bonds the cast

    25:37

    Shooting in Finland made the cast feel like a destination wedding, bonding them and giving time to rehearse. Akiva compares it to Hot Rod's Vancouver shoot.

    It became like Destination Wedding, where it's like... because we're all just stuck together.

12. Jorma's movie promo video message

    26:34

    Jorma recorded a 30-second video message urging listeners to see Over Your Dead Body in theaters on Friday, April 24.

    Special video message. I know we don't usually do that. Uh, the movie is coming out Friday.

13. Fans point here

    29:55

    1 YouTube comment timestamps this moment, 6 likes.

    That's paying respect for, you know, across the pond quades. Yeah, I got you. For the quids and quades. Oh, wait, let me just take a total detour. I texted you guys. I saw a comment on the YouTube video from last time,…

14. ALF and the aardvark tangent

    30:21

    The hosts open a tangent about ALF, speculating he was never an alien and that his story was a lie the dad told after fooling around with an aardvark.

    Because he had fucked an aardvark and brought it home.

15. ALF fan theory about the Melmac plate

    30:59

    Akiva and Jorma riff on a fan theory that ALF's mom discovers the alien was a lie when she reads the back of a Melmac plate. Jorma jokes the show needed to be weirder.

    I like thinking that the show ALF wasn't weird enough.

16. Fans point here

    31:07

    3 YouTube comments timestamp this moment, 3 likes.

    That'd be like a fever dream. Maybe he smoked and fucked an aardvark. Maybe that's more realistic and brought home. Anyways. The 80s was a better decade. Maybe it was possible. Make sure you beep what I said, of…

17. Fans point here

    31:44

    1 YouTube comment timestamps this moment, 3 likes.

    I mean, I'm sure I'd seen her in something else, but our friend Matt made Ready or Not and Ready or Not 2. And when he made Ready or Not, I was like, whoa, where did this woman come from? She's so funny and likable and… — Akiva

18. Samara Weaving as a standout find

    31:47

    Akiva praises Samara Weaving, whose work in Ready or Not he admired after friend Matt made the film. Jorma says she is funny, gorgeous, and a great actress, a rare find.

    She's so funny and likable and gorgeous. And I mean, obviously just the rarest find of a movie star.

19. Prince of Persia video game connection

    33:01

    Jorma notes that Samara Weaving and her husband Jimmy Warden, who wrote Cocaine Bear, are obsessed with the Prince of Persia video game. Akiva recalls playing it on his parents' computer.

    Sam was obsessed with, and probably still is obsessed with... Prince of Persia, the video game

20. Weaving's script-wall preparation

    34:25

    Jorma describes Samara Weaving printing the full script and pasting it on her wall, Homeland-style, to map every connected moment. Jason Segel similarly recorded the script for self-study.

    She, like a psychopath, like prints out the entire script and then pastes it on her wall.

21. Segel's solitary script recordings

    35:08

    Jason Segel recorded the full script with all the parts, then a version with everyone's lines but his, and walked the Finnish streets at dawn rehearsing.

    he had a version where he recorded him doing all of the whole script, doing everyone's parts, listen to that.

22. Over-rehearsed actors can calcify

    36:04

    Akiva and Jorma discuss how deeply prepared actors can lock into a choice so that repeated takes come out identical, sometimes requiring a director to jar them out of it.

    You can feel that a choice that they made of how to say it has now become calcified.

23. Tim Olyphant's flashback suggestion

    38:54

    Jorma credits Timothy Olyphant with a note that a flashback should open with an unexplained line resolved by its end. Jorma calls it a strong note and says directors should listen to good ideas over ego.

    That was Tim's suggestion to be like it would be neat if at the start of a flashback there's something that's being said that's sort of a mystery

24. Naked Gun prison wall idea

    40:31

    Akiva describes how the script's swimming-pool wall gag was replaced by a prison reveal when production designer Bill Bredsky suggested it, a far funnier and more repeatable gag.

    And we were just going through all this and it was going to be impossible to reset. And then we were like, God, what else could it be?

25. VFX gag plates shot with family

    47:52

    Jorma says VFX director David Nienagel, who did around 300 shots, filmed plate versions of the violent gags with his daughters, which will go on the extras if the film gets a home release.

    he's doing it with his, like, daughters.

26. Popstar quick-change proof of concept

    48:01

    Akiva recalls earlier Popstar test videos in which David Nienagel's daughter demonstrated a quick-change cloth-tube gag, years before these more violent versions.

    We had videos of his daughter doing in Popstar when Andy's doing the quick change thing

27. Akiva's pitch for the film

    52:52

    Akiva delivers his crass but sincere pep talk, arguing the film is already successful because people like it, and Jorm's job is done regardless of box office.

    And the truth is people already like it.

28. Spanglish laughs and story-driven comedy

    53:11

    Akiva recalls Adam Sandler saying Spanglish got bigger laughs in theaters than his comedies, because audiences are pulled into a story and characters so small moments land.

    Sandler talking about the movie Spanglish. How in the theater, even though that movie's more drama than comedy

29. Akiva's morale pep talk

    54:54

    Akiva tells Jorm he has already won because he made something good, and that in ten years the film will feel like a screening worth celebrating, the way Popstar does now.

    Like, if he can jump forward in his head, it's already done.

30. Jorm is already maxed out on pills

    56:15

    Akiva jokingly says Jorm is already on every pill, so he cannot mask his feelings with sedatives, a deadpan running bit about Jorm's emotional state.

    He's already on every pill you can take, so he's not going to be able to mask it with drugs.

31. Segel's wood-on-the-head prank

    57:53

    In Segel's voice note, Jorma dropped a two-by-four on his head after he asked not to be hit; Segel says the prop was used anyway and Samara Weaving looked appalled.

    I'm going to drop this on your head.

32. Jorma's rebuttal to Segel

    58:36

    Jorma replies to Segel's voice note, insisting the wood was a light prop, and jokes that Segel's brain damage and inability to afford a lawyer make the retelling funny.

    It was prop wood and very light.

33. Weaving's thin-walled trailers

    59:46

    In Samara Weaving's voice note, the trailers had thin walls and she could hear Jason Segel loudly enjoying lunch every day, which he then turned up louder.

    the trailers that we had had very thin walls. So you could sort of hear everything anyone said

34. Stoic Finnish culture

    1:02:04

    Jorma describes Finnish culture as stoic and recounts Segel enjoying a donut loudly alone at a food court, which drew concern from a security guard in Finland.

    Like, it is a stoic culture. Oh, hell yeah.

35. Quaids sent to theaters

    1:05:11

    Akiva closes by asking Quaids to see Over Your Dead Body in a theater to help Jorm, saying the hosts want to avoid Jorm getting sad.

    Just like the Quades are going to be running into the theater so that Jorm doesn't have to run from his emotions.
    Quaid