Episodes › Ep. 125 2026-08-18 · 53:08
Beastly
Episode 125 covers two Season 36 Digital Shorts: 'Beastly' (Declan returns, played by Gene Hackman via Andy, the final of a two-part recurring piece) and the 'Our Time!' sketch with Taboo and apl.de.ap., plus 'The Essentials: The Sound of Music' and 'Moisturizing Facial Cream and Rock-a-Billy Lady Party.' Akiva is on Kiv leave; Andy, Jorma and Seth discuss Spelling Bee wins, JJ Casuals' New York Times mention, and Jorma's Nair routine. The memorable moments are the Kiv-less bits, the 'Beastly' Declan callbacks, and the 'canon vs. Criterion' debate.
Shorts discussed: Beastly, Our Time! With Taboo and apl.de.ap., The Essentials: The Sound of Music, Disney Channel Acting School, The Miley Cyrus Show: Justin Bieber, Secondhand News, Moisturizing Facial Cream and Rock-a-Billy Lady Party
Guests: Sheila Wacco (NBC Philly traffic reporter and former Late Night photo…), Tiffany Haddish (guest on the Boston live taping; Jorma recalls pitching…)
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Pop-ups (15 · 6 fan picks from YouTube comments · 4 clips to watch whole)
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Amy Poehler's bad hang
15:15Amy Poehler's podcast Good Hang is a rival the guys mock with the 'bad hang' term when she tries to tank their pod.
Yeah, she's after us big time. Bad hang.
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Digman joke at Spelling Bee
15:31Andy jokes that Digman, his 2025 Netflix movie, was not accepted in the Spelling Bee.
Digman wasn't accepted in today's Spelling Bee
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Amy Poehler's show has Dig
15:44Seth reports a listener question about Amy Poehler's archaeology show with Dig in the title, which Andy sees as her returning the favor of ripping him off.
And now she's clearly returning the favor and trying to bury me. Pun intended.
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Our Time! With Taboo and apl.de.ap. - SNL
16:56The hosts play this one in 3 parts from 16:56 (60 seconds of it in all, talking over the rest). Watch the whole thing here, from Saturday Night Live on YouTube.
Saturday Night Live on YouTube
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Our Time! sketch and Black Eyed Peas
18:59The Our Time! sketch has Taboo and Apl.de.ap. hosting a show; Andy says Taboo was kind about it afterward.
Taboo came like right up to me and was so nice.
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The Essentials: Mulaney and Fred
19:38The Essentials is a Mulaney and Fred parody where Jason Sudeikis plays host Robert Osborne showing cut scenes; the Sound of Music segment features Fred's Richie Inez Jr. character.
Hello, I'm Robert Osborne, and welcome to The Essentials, where we take a behind-the-scenes look at America's greatest films.
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Disney Channel Acting School - SNL
25:39The hosts play this one from 25:39 (24 seconds of it in all, talking over the rest). Watch the whole thing here, from Saturday Night Live on YouTube.
Saturday Night Live on YouTube
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Moisturizing Facial Cream and Rock-a-Billy Lady Party - SNL
29:37The hosts play this one in 7 parts from 29:37 (210 seconds of it in all, talking over the rest). Watch the whole thing here, from Saturday Night Live on YouTube.
Saturday Night Live on YouTube
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Rock-a-Billy Lady Party infomercial
31:27Miley Cyrus and Vanessa Bayer sell a facial cream with a rockabilly CD in a sketch Seth says is a sister piece to I Wish It Would Rain.
This is sort of a sister piece to I Wish It Would Rain.
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Fans point here
33:401 YouTube comment timestamps this moment, 5 likes.
So call now. One operator is standing by. Out of nowhere, a third person is mentioned. Beth. Beth, yeah. But she's a lot. She's a lot. And one of them made a mistake at the printer because they were watching Beth's…
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Fans point here
34:103 YouTube comments timestamp this moment, 16 likes.
Cream and CD sold separately. Just fun time. I think my favorite part is that they're not sold separately, but you do get a CD with the cream, right? And then they repeat that, that they're not sold separately.
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Beastly plot and Declan's return
34:45Beastly is the second Declan piece, recast with Gene Hackman and written by Jorma's collaborators John Solomon and Rob Klein. The guys explain the arrogant student-turned-beast premise.
Beastly. An arrogant and cruel student prone to humiliating, unattractive classmates is cursed by someone he hurts
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Beastly - SNL
38:16The hosts play this one in 3 parts from 38:16 (72 seconds of it in all, talking over the rest). Watch the whole thing here, from Saturday Night Live on YouTube.
Saturday Night Live on YouTube
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Beastly's Rango callback
39:56Jorma reveals that Andy and he met at the MTV Movie Awards writing movie parodies, and that Beastly's Rango ending is a callback to an earlier beat.
I think it's relevant to note that Andy and I met at the MTV Movie Awards where it was our job as writers
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Declan's Beastly: two-part piece
40:49Beastly is the final Declan installment; Andy wonders whether Lorne will bring Declan back for SNL's 50th anniversary given the blue-chip jokes.
That's all kind of why I worry that Beastly might have kind of soured Lorne on wanting to include Declan
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Rob Klein watches Twins instead
41:14Co-writer Rob Klein declined to join the pod because he was watching the movie Twins all day with his twins, which the guys find an excellent excuse.
he's watching the Twins all day, because he has twins
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Fans point here
44:297 YouTube comments timestamp this moment, 151 likes.
If I'm being honest, I'm not locked in. You're not locked in. It's fine. It's fine. Sometimes people, you know, in the comments, they'll have a time code. And then it'll allow me to reference something. Like, for…
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Jorma's unfinished dance-song verse
46:34Jorma says he wrote part of a verse for a dance song, The Creep, but the group decided it was redundant and never completed it.
It was me under the bleachers, and I wrote part of it, and we started recording it
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Fans point here
48:183 YouTube comments timestamp this moment, 4 likes.
I was saying it was part of our canon, our canon of work, an accepted body of official, genuine, or highly respected writings and creation. Interesting. You know what I mean? I meant like canon, like kaboom. That…
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Akiva's voice note
49:23Akiva Schaffer, on Kiv leave, sends a voice note praising the app and sounding off on Criterion rankings.
Hello everybody, it's Akiva. Sorry I couldn't make the episode this week
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Criterion rankings for shorts
49:41The guys debate whether these shorts belong in the Criterion Collection and whether a Kim's Video ranking applies. Jorma says the Creep is canon in its own way.
Criterion, and you're wrong, Seth. Andy, I can tell you're on the fence
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Kiv's Peeves on catsup
~50:06Andy's Yorm Thorn about McDonald's ketchup in Spain evolves into a Cat's Eye joke, the band Seth says his Yorm's favorite.
Yorm's thorn, what's a Yorm thorn? Hit us with a thorn, Yorm.
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Fans point here
50:466 YouTube comments timestamp this moment, 3 likes.
You fucking love it, bro. I didn't say I didn't love it. Andy, it feels like that maybe the telling of that story is your Yoram's thorn. We've all got our thing, guys.
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Fans point here
51:322 YouTube comments timestamp this moment, 24 likes.
I'm sorry. Yeah. Sound off in the comments about what Andy's complaints should be called. Or maybe it's just like Yhorm Thorne's Andy's version. We just gave up. We gave up with wordplay. What episode is this? Finally.…
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Quaid Army sign-off
52:50The sign-off closes with 'Later, Quaids' and a fun exchange with Arnold.
Later, Arnold. Later, Quades. Later, Keef. Later, fellas.
People and sketches mentioned (28)
Gene Hackman Ben Kingsley Amy Poehler Jack Johnson Emmett Molloy Lin-Manuel Miranda Rory Scovel Tiffany Haddish Sheila Wacco Robert Pattinson Lorne Michaels John Solomon Rob Klein Rory Scovel Kevin Miller Taboo Apl.de.ap Richie Inez Jr. Cat's Eye Mari
Beastly The Roommate Home Alone Brass Monkey The Creep The Miley Cyrus Show Secondhand News Wayne's World
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.