Hot Rod

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1. Fans point here

   0:07

   1 YouTube comment timestamps this moment, 145 likes.

   Whose hair looks better between the three Lonely Island guys? It's all bad. I feel like we're in a... Die for worse? It's a real arms race. Yeah. I have so much to say about hair in this episode. It's a race to the… — Andy

2. NAB market exploding among the hosts' age group

   0:53

   NAB is slang for non-alcoholic beer. The hosts joke that pandemic drinking sent their peers toward NAs, and that the market has grown.

   I think that is my guess is what happened is everybody drank too much over the pandemic.

3. Frappers and fake rappers

   ~2:16

   Frapper is the hosts' term for a fake rapper, coined around The Lonely Island's fake rap work. Seth jokes that fans take the insult personally.

   Frappers.
   frapfrapper

4. Early Hot Rod rewrite in Lauren's office

   12:22

   After their first SNL year, the trio flew back to the Paramount lot to rewrite Hot Rod in Lauren Michaels' office, a room they remember as a real film-industry perch.

   Well, me and Andy and Keeve all just sort of sat around being like, like not even awake yet.

5. Bill Hader's Dave inspired by a high school friend

   16:24

   Bill Hader explains that his character Dave came from a high school friend named Eric who later became a professor. The visor came from a Flaming Lips documentary.

   Dave came from a guy I went to high school with named Eric.

6. Fans point here

   17:58

   1 YouTube comment timestamps this moment, 145 likes.

   On brand. Very on brand. Support comes from Airbnb. As we've talked about, I just got back from St. Lucie watching the Mets. I stayed at a home on Airbnb in Stewart Island, Florida.

7. Fans point here

   20:09

   1 YouTube comment timestamps this moment, 145 likes.

   It does it all. The other thing I remember is then we move up to Vancouver and there's still some rewrite. Now it's getting really close. Yeah. And one of the things I remember how close it was then, now we are in a…

8. Stuntman femur injury in the opening scene

   26:18

   The movie's opening jump over a mail truck went wrong, and the stuntman broke his femur. The crew realized the accident gave them footage better than planned, and the stuntman only cared that it would be used.

   I broke my femur. I broke my femur.

9. Ian McShane and the Deadwood ADR

   32:14

   Ian McShane recorded pickup lines for Deadwood during Hot Rod's shoot. The hosts remember him repeating a profane line during ADR.

   He was doing ADR and he was going like, you motherfucker.

10. Andyism 'whiskey' safe word

    33:40

    Andy's 'whiskey' safe word bit is a recurring Andyism. It started from a college habit of riffing on the 'what' inflection in a Gang Starr skit.

    That sort of started because me and my friend Chester, who's all of our friend.

11. Whiskey safe word origin

    34:45

    The 'what' bit grew out of a Gang Starr skit where Premiere says 'what' when told Guru got knocked, and Andy and Chester riffed on every WH word.

    Yes. Saying what, what way?

12. Hill stunt and broken ankle

    35:04

    The production had to find a steep enough hill for a stunt, and a stunt performer broke an ankle before doing another stunt later that day.

    It was hard to find a hill that was steep enough, right? Right, but we did find one.

13. Fans point here

    35:33

    1 YouTube comment timestamps this moment, 145 likes.

    Well, we hide the hitting of it and just have the windows blow out, which is obviously a special effect, not a visual effect. We didn't need to hide the hit because he broke a bone. Because he really did it. Isla… — Akiva

14. Fans point here

    36:49

    1 YouTube comment timestamps this moment, 145 likes.

    And the scene we meet Isla Fisher, I forgot this line, which is it sort of plays off that trope of you seeing an old girl you grew up with who's back in town. Yes. And she walks away and you say sort of nervously, you… — Seth

15. Fans point here

    39:10

    3 YouTube comments timestamp this moment, 1 likes.

    Yeah, they were able to put a lot of atmosphere in the air, which is hard to do sometimes when you're outside because it dissipates so quickly. But they knew how to do it. Andrew Dunn, DP. Yeah. Do you want to do your… — Akiva

16. Andrew Dunn, cinematographer

    39:41

    Andrew Dunn, the film's DP, had shot Gosford Park and Hitch. His polite Englishman manner became the basis for a running impression.

    He had done that, and he had done Hitch, the rom-com, and we were like, if he can do Hitch and Gosford Park

17. Denise's cut bugs backstory

    40:25

    An early Denise storyline had her into bugs as a kid, a backstory that was cut.

    Yeah, as a kid.

18. Stunt doubles for the falls

    42:43

    Some falls were practical stunts, others a dummy, and a team of stunt people did most of the big falls over about two days.

    It was a team of highly dedicated stunt people who spent how many days?

19. Akiva on learning to ride a motorcycle

    43:38

    Andy learned to ride a real motorcycle for the film's ending, which he never did again.

    I learned how to ride a fucking motorcycle, you know?

20. Day-one 'I like to party' reshoot

    49:34

    The first-day shoot of the 'I like to party' scene was a bonus shot in a parking lot that looked flat, so it was reshot later with better backgrounds.

    I remember watching it in dailies and being like, wow, that's really flat and annoying

21. Jelly Bean flavor-guessing scene

    50:38

    The flavor-guessing jelly bean scene was likely Andy's idea, and it left him unable to eat jelly beans comfortably since that shoot.

    I can't really eat jelly beans.

22. The horse painting gag

    54:05

    A portrait Frank paints of Rod turns out to show Rod getting humped by a horse. Multiple versions were made to satisfy the MPAA.

    And then he turns it around and you're getting humped by a horse.

23. Painting hangs at Lorne's office

    55:20

    The painting used in the film hung in Lorne Michaels' Paramount office for years, and the production made two painted versions for the MPAA.

    And that one is hanging proudly at Broadway Video SNL Lorne office.

24. Dog humping footage from The Long Goodbye

    56:00

    The dog-humping video on Kevin's screen was licensed footage from Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye.

    That footage is just licensed from the Robert Altman film, The Long Goodbye.

25. Douglas Bubble Trousers

    57:05

    Douglas Bubble Trousers is a fake director name Rod uses to praise Kevin's editing. It is an invented in-universe filmmaker.

    You're a regular Douglas Bubble Trousers.

26. The Whoopi Boys poster

    58:21

    The Whoopi Boys is a 1980s-style R-rated comedy whose poster went up in the film's set. The team later held a private screening of it in Vancouver.

    And it's a poster that's up in Jorma and Kevin's bedroom.

27. Whoopi Boys screening night

    1:00:12

    A 35mm print of The Whoopi Boys was shipped to Vancouver and screened for crew, with limos and Jagerbomb shots.

    And he got a 35 millimeter print shipped to Vancouver.

28. Seth's Hot Rod runtime tease

    1:01:54

    Seth jokes that the podcast about Hot Rod ran longer than the film itself, so it was split into two parts.

    The podcast about Hot Rod was so long we had to cut it into two parts.