Stumblin'

Pop-ups (27 · 5 fan picks from YouTube comments)

1. Seth flags the cleanup segment

   4:51

   Seth signals the hosts to revisit listener comments from the prior episode before moving to the main short. It's a regular housekeeping beat on the show.

   Somebody's got a heart out and we're desperate to get to stumbling. Can I do a little clean up from last week?

2. Fans point here

   5:58

   2 YouTube comments timestamp this moment, 3 likes.

   I don't know Dragon Wars. It sounds like something I would watch. Does anyone know what the D stands for? Oh, you know what it stands for, Jorm. That seems like they're using the colon as an AKA.

3. Fans point here

   9:00

   5 YouTube comments timestamp this moment, 5 likes.

   Gahoolie, G-A apostrophe H-O-O-L-E. Zack Snyder animated it. Is it not Gahool? It's Gahool. We always said Gahool, but I don't know if that's right. It might be Gahool, yeah. It's Gahool. It's like a World War II Nazi… — Seth

4. Colon movie title listener bit

   11:08

   Listeners sent in movies with colons in their titles, and the hosts sort through them as the episode's running theme. The bit reflects the show's habit of building segments from audience submissions.

   multiple quades of course pointed out pop star colon never stop never stopping

5. Fans point here

   13:18

   2 YouTube comments timestamp this moment, 1 likes.

   It's one dinosaur story. There's multiple dinosaurs on the cover, but it's only one of their stories. One of them is telling it, yeah. You have to guess which one. Or it's about one of them, truly. The protagonist, the…

6. Stumblin' avoids reruns due to music

   13:55

   Music clearance issues keep certain Digital Shorts off repeat airings. Stumblin' is one of the shorts that can only be found through unofficial channels.

   when a sketch has music you can't clear it does not repeat

7. Fans point here

   19:12

   1 YouTube comment timestamps this moment, 36 likes.

   All right, Andy, you go to a seafood restaurant sometimes, right? Absolutely. And maybe you order the lobster, and what do they give you? When you order the lobster. You don't want to get it because you don't want to… — Seth

8. Salacious Crumb at the Met Gala

   21:42

   Salacious B. Crumb, a Star Wars character, gets a joke about showing up on a red carpet. The hosts treat it as an image Andy found while looking up the spelling.

   artwork depicting salacious crumb on the red carpet at the Met Gala.

9. Quump jokes return

   23:58

   The hosts keep the quump bit going, playing on the term for podcast-driven viewership.

   Maybe that's nice for our listeners not to have the pressure of feeling they're quumping something.
   qump

10. Quump hunt and the dump-the-quump joke

    24:03

    The hosts play on 'quump,' the term for a viewership bump from being discussed on the podcast, joking about needing a week off from quump hunting. The term is one of the show's coined words.

    Yeah, take a week off from, like, quump hunt. Yeah, dump the quump.
    qumpQuaid bump

11. Gahoolian craftsmanship callback

    24:35

    Gahoolian craftsmanship, the detail-oriented praise coined after the Owls of Ga'Hoole discussion, comes back as a joke about forging quality work.

    You're going to have to use a little bit of Gahoolian craftsmanship if you want.
    Ga’Hoolian craftsmanship

12. Original lyric: tumble vs stumble

    25:15

    Andy realized after shooting that he had the 9 to 5 lyric swapped: the original song opens with 'tumble out of bed,' which Stumblin' twisted into the title's theme of stumbling everywhere.

    in the original 9 to 5, it's stumble out of bed, right?

13. Akiva's pregnancy shaped his schedule

    26:20

    Akiva was not at the start of the week in December 2010 because his wife was pregnant, and he came in later in the week to help with the short.

    my wife is pregnant and due in like a week or two. In 16 days was the actual due date.

14. Akiva's late-stage edit fix

    27:45

    During editing, Akiva suggested adding big on-screen graphics at the end of each section of Stumblin' to fill dead air and boost energy.

    you should add a big... at the end of each section and put a big graphic on the screen.

15. Paul Rudd's physical comedy

    28:24

    The hosts praise Paul Rudd's physical, grounded comedy, which they say made him ideal for a short built on stumbling. Wet Hot American Summer is cited as proof.

    he's so good at doing physical performance that is both sarcastic and grounded at the same time.

16. Wet Hot American Summer's Rudd

    28:33

    Paul Rudd's performance in Wet Hot American Summer is singled out as a standout comedy turn, including his petulant physical bits.

    His performance in Wet Hot is fucking phenomenal.

17. Rudd's path into Wet Hot

    29:54

    Seth recounts Paul Rudd's own story of how he got into Wet Hot American Summer: he worked with Zach Orth, saw the State guys perform, and was pitched the film by David Wayne.

    David Wayne basically went up to him and was like, hey, we're trying to get money for this movie.

18. Gahoolian craftsmanship returns

    31:00

    Gahoolian craftsmanship, coined from the owl helmets in Legend of the Guardians, is invoked again when the guys joke about the detail in a helmet. The bit has been part of the show's vocabulary for several episodes.

    Cahoolian craftsmanship. When something is made with an attention to detail.
    Ga’Hoolian craftsmanship

19. No one knows, no one cares

    31:17

    Jorma and the guys riff on the podcast's free-form nature, a recurring theme in how the show describes itself.

    No one knows. No one knows, and no one cares, you know? No one cares. That's what's so cool about it.

20. Open your mind, Quids

    31:29

    The hosts address listeners as 'Quids', the British form of Quaid. The term is a regional variant that fans have adopted for their UK listeners.

    Open your mind, quids.
    QuidQuaid

21. Day in the Life, a rare performance

    32:22

    McCartney performed A Day in the Life for the first time on SNL, around the anniversary of John Lennon's death. It made that week's musical guest appearance especially notable.

    Like halfway through the week, it became clear he was going to do A Day in the Life, which he had never performed before.

22. Akiva directed McCartney's segments

    33:38

    Akiva Schaffer was called in from home to direct the Paul McCartney segments, since John Solomon was still gaining directing experience.

    I directed the Paul McCartney segments.

23. Rudd's first take bleeds

    37:40

    Paul Rudd cut his hand open on the elevator door frame during the first take of Stumblin', yet kept shooting. The crew was shocked by the blood and considered stopping.

    First take, first stumble past the elevator, he sliced his hand open on the like metal siding of the elevator door frame.

24. 24-hour marathon shoot

    44:53

    John Solomon describes Stumblin' as the craziest SNL shoot he took part in, running around 24 hours with crew members curled up on the stairwell.

    It was a marathon shoot definitely the craziest shoot that i have participated in at snl

25. McCartney's cashews

    46:05

    Solomon recalls McCartney offering him a tub of cashews upon meeting him, a moment the hosts later play for laughs.

    And he had a little tub of cashews.

26. Fans point here

    47:30

    5 YouTube comments timestamp this moment, 3 likes.

    Were you raised in a fucking barn? Oh, I suppose you were going to handsome school when you were supposed to be learning about cashews. Oh, cashews for everybody. Oh, hey, one of the Beatles is giving out cashews. All…

27. Rudd recalls Berlin recording

    48:39

    Rudd describes being in the booth while McCartney recorded the Berlin song, with Akiva giving direction, a moment he calls surreal.

    Keev, I remember you were sitting behind a like kind of a mixing board and giving him direction on how to sing the Berlin song.

28. McCartney wanted direction

    49:53

    Akiva says McCartney asked to be bossed around on set, so he could be told when he was doing something wrong.

    Just give me tons of direction. Shout it out.

29. Andy's pangram clean

    53:57

    Andy reports a Queen Bee result on the NYT Spelling Bee, a clean pangram first, the term used for a clean win with no hints.

    the answer is I quibbied clean pangram first.
    quibicleanpentafecta

30. Jorma's dragon van

    55:15

    Jorma's 1996 Daihatsu Atrai, nicknamed the Dwagon, gets a riff on names and its lack of shocks.

    the truck, the van, the K truck, has made its way to New York
    Dwagon

31. The tiny harmonica of cars

    57:32

    The van is described as the tiny harmonica of cars, linking McCartney's tiny harmonica from Stumblin' to Jorma's ill-conceived car.

    Would you say it's like the tiny harmonica of cars?

32. Sign-off to Quades

    1:00:28

    Andy closes the show with 'Later, Quades', the show's sign-off that fans borrow from Total Recall.

    Later, Arnold. Later, Quades. Later, Ghostface.
    later, QuaidsQuaid