Party at Mr. Bernard's

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1. Beating off to Jorma's voice

   0:39

   Andy claims he and Seth were texting that they beat off to Jorma's voice, a playful jab at Jorma's congested sound. It fits the show's tradition of teasing each other's audio performance.

   Me and Seth were texting that we beat off to your voice no problem last week.

2. Timing and Column A/Column B

   0:52

   The hosts joke about timing each other's performance and comparing stats 'based on the New York Times,' a nod to their growing obsession with NYT word games.

   You time it. We are so hooked. Column A, column B.

3. Way in in the titties

   1:01

   This is the show's recurring call to weigh in in the comments, here used as a sign-off gag. The show later adds 'punt us in the cuntus' as a British alternative.

   Well, I guess weigh in in the titties about it.
   hit us in the tittus

4. Hernia Harness and Brine Bright

   1:26

   Akiva mentions his hernia belt and a bit about moving heavy rocks, which the hosts riff into a 'Hernia Harness' slogan and a fake pickle jingle about the saltiest pickles brining brightest.

   Yeah, that makes sense for your body. It sounds like you were swallowing them.

5. The panini hat

   2:25

   Seth named a hat a 'panini hat' because it looked pressed, and the hosts revisit the name as a recurring joke about Jorma's headwear.

   You called it a panini hat. I called it that.

6. Bullshit list as episode title

   3:50

   A listener suggested 'The Bullshit List' as a title for the previous week's episode, since it was mostly a run of tangents. The hosts treat it as a format name for the list segment.

   Hey, somebody said that a good title for last week's episode was The Bullshit List.

7. Fans point here

   4:39

   1 YouTube comment timestamps this moment, 17 likes.

   Just four guys having a good time, having a good time, having a good time. Just four guys having a good time. Seth, Andy, Keith, and Yorm. Jesus. Oh, my God. He needs his own podcast. Yeah, he should probably come on…

8. Greg Chun's AI-voice theme song

   6:44

   The hosts play a theme song Greg Chun made, and the group debates whether his voice sounds AI-generated. Greg then records a message insisting it is really him.

   Don't listen to people like Andy who think that this is AI and not my voice. It is. This is me.
   Chun the waters

9. Laser cat wins Cannes prize

   7:21

   Seth announces that Lucas Asche's short Laser Cat won the Cannes La Cinef Best Short Award. The hosts react with mock outrage and then tease the fictional short's plot about a bored teenager on a planet where cats shoot lasers.

   Won the Cannes Festival's La Cinef Best Short Award.

10. Fjord vs Fjari

    8:45

    Andy jokes about a prequel to a fictional film Fjord vs. Fjari, a bit that builds on Seth's mention of a Cannes winner and Sam Mendes's supposed Beatles-style biopics.

    Fjord vs. Fjari.

11. Voldemort Seth Reese

    9:30

    Andy's movie-set contact is a secret, so the hosts mock his 'live out loud' nature and deflect with a Voldemort-style gag about a named person who cannot be named.

    Voldemort. Got it. Thank you. Voldemort. Voldemort did punch-ups.

12. Yorm the Mini coined

    11:40

    Jorma's crossword speed is a source of joking, and a listener suggested 'Yorm the Mini' as dictionary term for taking over two minutes on the New York Times Mini. Jorma admits he is still learning the crossword language, like how question marks signal wordplay.

    Somebody asked, can we add Yorm the Mini to the dictionary? And that's when you take over two minutes to complete the New York Times Mini.
    jorm the Mini

13. Fans point here

    13:00

    1 YouTube comment timestamps this moment, 4 likes.

    Keith, somebody said Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves, great score. Right, Keith? Oh, the music. Yeah. Yeah, the music was very good, but it wasn't the thing I took away from it. But I'm sure if I went and threw on that… — Seth

14. Fans point here

    13:55

    1 YouTube comment timestamps this moment, 3 likes.

    Oh, that's right. Yeah. And somebody wrote in, out of breath jogger does spelling bee on the streets of New York. I was out there. Very much what it sounded like. Well, I was also like surrounded by crew and stuff. And…

15. Jogger does spelling bee on NYC streets

    13:56

    A listener voice note described Andy doing a spelling bee while jogging through New York. Andy confirms the scene and jokes about claiming his Quibi victory.

    out of breath jogger does spelling bee on the streets of New York.
    quibi

16. Who's on First improvised

    15:27

    Akiva says the Abbott and Costello routine 'Who's on First' was improvised and filmed in a single take, and the performers only realized they had captured it when they watched it back.

    Abbott and Costello's who's on first was improvised top to bottom.

17. Chekhov's gulp

    16:25

    Seth notes Andy has promised a gulp without delivering one, and a listener calls it a Chekhov's gulp, a reference to the dramatic principle that a set-up must pay off.

    Somebody said we got ourselves a real Chekhov's gulp situation.

    Goes back to gulp, Ep. 104, 43:10: Now Andy has to gulp. That should have been the whole thing.

    gulp

18. Quaid Army sightings

    16:45

    Andy mentions meeting Quaid Army members in the street, including a Sherman Oaks Quaid Army, a regional reference to the show's listener group.

    I got a Sherman Oaks Quaid army yesterday. Oh, a Shermstick.
    Quaid Army

19. Almanick dictionary scribe

    21:53

    The hosts discuss what to call the person who runs the dictionary, with Jorma suggesting 'chaucer' and 'almanac' before the group settles on the term 'Almanick' for the Quaid dictionary.

    Nick is his name, but what would you call him? He's our... He's our chaucer?

20. Pitbull and Nickelodeon upfronts

    22:48

    A listener notes Pitbull performed at multiple upfronts over four years, including Nickelodeon's, with backup dancers in less revealing outfits. The hosts find it funny that the performance was toned down for the children's network.

    there was like a four-year period of time where Pitbull performed at multiple upfronts.

21. Maverick's Goose tribute

    25:57

    Andy recommends Top Gun: Maverick, confessing he cried at the ending when Maverick tells Goose's son, 'thanks for saving my life.' The movie's Goose tribute is a notable emotional beat.

    thanks for saving my life.
    not agonk

22. Impeachably great

    26:39

    Seth calls the film Gone Baby Gone 'impeachably great,' a phrase Jorma misunderstands as meaning someone should be impeached.

    I was in an airplane and I watched a pretty impeachably great airplane movie, which is Gone Baby Gone.

23. Fans point here

    27:34

    1 YouTube comment timestamps this moment, 5 likes.

    Seth, Out of the Past has a little bit of almost Naked Gun style dialogue when him and her are like sitting by the lake, right? Oh my God, Akiva. It's amazing. And she gets some part of it's like, I bet you say that to… — Akiva

24. Naked Gun parody source: Out of the Past

    27:45

    Seth points to the scene in Out of the Past where the detective finds Robert Mitchum via a gas station sign, which he sees as the language that inspired the Naked Gun parody style of dialogue.

    is the guy in the early finds when he tracks down Robert Mitchum, he sees his sign on a gas station

25. Fans point here

    28:43

    1 YouTube comment timestamps this moment, 5 likes.

    That's kind of nice. Hey, just so we can steal it for later, can you say Bombas are the best socks I've ever worn? Bombas are the best socks I've ever worn. Quince has changed my life. Quince has changed my life.

26. Party at Mr. Bernard's writing credit

    30:39

    Andy recalls the sketch was written by Andy and Akiva with Bill, and that Akiva directed it. The hosts recall they were excited about its look and being on set.

    We wrote it together with Bill, is my recollection.

27. Wasting De Niro as a corpse

    31:17

    Andy notes that the sketch deliberately wasted legendary actor Robert De Niro, playing a corpse, and that the joke partly relied on that. Lorne reportedly commented on the choice sarcastically.

    we're literally going to have him playing a corpse

28. Lorne on the 'greatest living actor'

    31:28

    Akiva recalls that De Niro was always referred to as the greatest living actor ever, and that Lorne sarcastically commented on this fact about the casting.

    He was just always referred to as the greatest living actor ever.

29. Premise: what would really happen

    32:18

    Andy explains the sketch belongs to a category of premises where the joke is what would really happen if a famous story played out literally.

    where if it really happened, what would it like?

30. Babe hounds: 80s comedy tone

    33:03

    Andy says the funniest part of the sketch in the writing was the babe-hound characters, a staple of 80s comedy, and that doing that tone was funnier than the actual turn of the sketch.

    these like babe hound characters and how that was such an 80s comedy staple

31. Akiva's favorite part: pre-joke minute

    33:17

    Akiva says his favorite part of the sketch is the first minute before the actual joke happens, which sets up the tone of the party.

    is the first minute before the actual joke happens

32. Whoopi-coded babe hounds

    34:03

    Jorma and Andy note the sketch's 80s babe-hound genre, and Akiva describes it as Whoopi-coded, referencing the genre's shared space.

    You're saying it's Whoopi-coded? It's Whoopi-coded.

33. Revenge of the Jocks pitch

    34:28

    Jorma recalls Akiva's old Revenge of the Jocks idea, an 80s-movie premise echoing Revenge of the Nerds, and the hosts discuss how many people developed similar concepts.

    I always liked your other idea, Keeve, of 80s movies of Revenge of the Jocks.

34. Sensitive bullies in 1980s culture

    35:14

    Seth notes that the only bully type that worked in that cultural moment was the sensitive bully, a nod to the Griff Banks sensitive-bully character.

    the only thing that was working bully wise in that cultural moment was sensitive bullies.

35. Bill's promotion obsession

    38:40

    Jorma and the hosts describe Bill's character as obsessed with getting the promotion, a running idea in the sketch.

    Bill being like I just want that promotion.

36. Within two sentences the characters are set

    38:45

    Akiva praises the sketch's clean opening: within two sentences, the characters are established, one as the loose Hawaiian-shirt guy and the other as the stockbroker.

    within two sentences, you're like, he's the Hawaiian shirt loose guy

37. Watch the whole thing

    SNL Digital Short: Party at Mr. Bernard's - Saturday Night Live

    38:53

    The hosts play this one in 5 parts from 38:53 (126 seconds of it in all, talking over the rest). Watch the whole thing here, from Saturday Night Live on YouTube.

    Watch the whole thing (3:11) Saturday Night Live on YouTube

38. Glass brick tiles and early Lonely Island

    39:30

    Akiva notes the set's glass brick tiles, which were popular in the 1990s, and Andy mentions they were seen in the early Lonely Island work.

    It's got those really popular in the 90s glass brick tiles everywhere.

39. Don't Go Chasing Waterfalls music

    39:49

    Andy notices the sketch's music is almost a version of the Tlc song Don't Go Chasing Waterfalls, which the group decides to listen for.

    the music is almost Don't Go Chasing Waterfalls.

40. The tummy choice

    41:24

    Andy calls the sagging tummy his favorite element and assumes it was an actor's choice to play the character as a tub, which the hosts treat as part of his backstory.

    I'm going to just assume that it was a choice as an actor

41. Hard cut to courtroom

    41:38

    Seth suggests the sketch could have hard cut from the wig yelling to the courtroom, a critique he now strongly considers.

    is there anything to just, after wig yelling, he's fucking dead, hard cutting right to the courtroom?

42. Everyone's a critic joke

    41:54

    Akiva describes the picture-frame-to-the-head moment as a pure 'everyone's a critic' joke that has nothing to do with what is happening.

    taking the picture off the wall and hitting someone with it is just a pure everyone's a critic joke.

43. Color correction flip joke

    44:20

    Jorma and Akiva praise the color-grade joke, where the palette shifts from bright 80s to muted courtroom drama and back, a bit Akiva says he's never seen before.

    That color correction joke is pretty great.

44. MacGruber TV series color grade

    44:56

    Jorma recalls a similar slow color-grade change used in the MacGruber TV series, and notes the DP suggested the slow shift in this context.

    We did something like this in the MacGruber TV series.

45. Color grading explained

    45:49

    Akiva explains that color grading is another way of saying color correcting, for listeners curious about the technical term.

    color grading is just another way of saying color correcting.

46. Andy's Corner: biggest SNL show

    46:28

    Andy recalls his biggest show during his time at SNL, appearing in six or seven live pieces, and how reviewers later called it the worst episode in ten years.

    So I had maybe the biggest show of my whole time at SNL, this show.

47. Friends tell you your show sucked

    47:39

    Jorma and Andy discuss how friends visiting the show tend to think the show was great, while texts afterward can be blunt about an episode's quality.

    Everyone who comes to the show believes they just saw the best episode of all time

48. Feedback is not for mid-show

    48:19

    Seth says that during the live show is not the time to seek feedback, and that his friend Alexi is a good honest source of notes, though she always loved the show when visiting.

    during the show is not when you want feedback.

49. Sixteen-year-old note

    48:35

    The De Niro episode aired in December 2010, and Seth says he waited sixteen years to tell Andy the courtroom should have come faster.

    I waited six, I waited 16 years to say, I think you should have gotten to the courtroom faster.

50. Robin Williams on What Up With That

    48:47

    Robin Williams appeared as a special guest on the What Up With That sketch, and the hosts recall meeting him that week.

    it says special guest Robin Williams is one of them

51. Akiva yells GARP

    49:26

    Akiva recalls shouting 'GARP!' at Robin Williams to show he knew the deep cut from The World According to Garp, not just the Aladdin genie.

    I just remember I kept yelling, GARP!

52. Patch Adams fanatics

    49:42

    Seth jokes that Akiva was a deeper-cut Robin Williams fan than the Patch Adams crowd, standing by the page desk reciting The World According to Garp.

    you weren't one of those many, many Patch Adams fanatics.

53. Harpy Christmas and Joanna's album

    50:15

    Andy and Seth riff on a Joanna Newsom parody album called The World According to Harp and a Christmas album titled Harpy Christmas, a pun on Happy Christmas.

    should Joanna's next album be called The World According to Harp?

54. Spider-Man update desk piece

    51:22

    Seth asks Andy about his return as Spider-Man on the update desk, which they then watch: a parody of the Broadway Spider-Man musical's injured cast and delays.

    Hey, Andy, were you surprised to know that you came back as Spider-Man on the update desk?

55. Fans point here

    53:05

    3 YouTube comments timestamp this moment, 6 likes.

    Oh, no. What villains do you have left? Well, we got some cool new ones. We got Margarita Man. Bizarro Jerry Seinfeld. That sounds bad. The Shmoop. What? Yeah. Shrek stops by for like an hour.

56. Hook Up the Schmooch

    54:16

    The hosts laugh at the update desk's upside-down kiss bit, dubbed 'Hook Up the Schmooch,' with Andy noting the blood-rush effect on his voice.

    I forgot that we shoehorned in a hook up the smooch into it.

57. Akiva's De Niro voice note

    55:29

    Akiva shares a voice note from Billy recalling De Niro's full commitment on set, going limp and never pretending to act between takes.

    that Robert De Niro is such a good actor that he really did go completely limp

58. Voice-note ghosting and the ALF request

    56:13

    Akiva asked De Niro's associate for an ALF impression and a scream voice, but the associate ghosted him; the hosts suggest his agent told him to stop giving things away for free.

    I asked him also if he had an ALF impression and or a Scream guy impression

59. Quibbied Queen Bee

    56:54

    Akiva announces he quibbied Queen Bee on the Spelling Bee, and Seth jokes about getting Genius before using hints.

    I quibbied Queen. It felt so good.

    Goes back to Queen Bee, Ep. 8, 18:30, Seth: By the way, I also got, he didn't tell me to check my phone, but he also got Queen Bee on the spelling bee, which he texted me right before this started.

    quibiQueen Bee

60. Seth's hint count

    57:04

    Seth admits he quibbied with hints and says he tries to reach Genius before getting to hints, a line the hosts poke fun at.

    I at least, I quibbied with hints.
    quibi

61. Yorm's two-minute mini

    57:46

    Andy and Seth discuss Yorm's mini crossword time, and suggest a new segment checking in with Yorm on how fast he finished the mini, a possible callback to Jack Black's song.

    Well, he ain't getting off. Oh, by the way, I think that could be a new little segment, too.
    jorm the Mini

62. Later, Quaids sign-off

    58:55

    The hosts sign off with mutual love messages; Jorma reclaims Arnold's 'Later, Arnold' soundbite and the episode closes with 'Later, Quaids.'

    I love you guys. Later, Quaids.
    later, Quaids