Cubicle Fight

Pop-ups (17 · 6 fan picks from YouTube comments)

1. A cold open about diarrhea

   0:41

   The hosts open by swapping stomach woes, then coin the 'live to diarrhea another day' misdirection joke that Seth dubs the cold open.

   What do you call it when you think you're going to have diarrhea, but then you avoid it?

2. The 2006 cast is lean and mean

   4:30

   Seth explains that the 2006 season had no new featured players, with Tina Fey, Chris Parnell and others leaving, so the 11-person cast gave everyone more room to try things.

   Seth: Tina Fey leaves. Finesse Mitchell leaves. Chris Parnell.

3. Fans point here

   7:58

   1 YouTube comment timestamps this moment, 9 likes.

   Keev, is that Impact as a font? It looks slightly different to me. Or is it that you crushed it together? Sorry, this is very nerdy that I would ask that. No, let's take a look. I'm going to pull up. It looks like…

4. Cubicle Fight came from Dane Cook

   8:57

   Dane Cook pitched the Cubicle Fight idea himself, which the hosts say made the writing process easier and gave the team a breather after Hot Rod.

   But it's Dane's idea. Dane Cook came in. Hot. He came in hot. And had this idea.

5. Fans point here

   10:28

   1 YouTube comment timestamps this moment, 9 likes.

   We came up in Chicago together. He's a colleague. That's how Akiva talks about me, but I still consider him my boss. There you go. We're colleagues. I will say, Akiva has a real boss energy, and even when he started at…

6. Fans point here

   19:00

   3 YouTube comments timestamp this moment, 46 likes.

   Later era, after you guys are gone, I wrote a sketch where Melissa McCarthy was a girls basketball coach who was very abusive towards her team. And I think we're in New Jersey and she was shooting a t-shirt cannon at… — Seth

7. Lorne and the Hitters mix-up

   21:37

   A story about the 'hitters' versus 'killers' name in the cast intro, with the hosts joking that the talent department misread Lorne's word.

   I think that Lorne said hitters, but that it was interpreted as killers.

8. Barry started with Bill Hader

   24:21

   Jorma and Akiva recall Bill Hader talking his way into the Barry role, and the hosts jokingly suggest Andy refused to cut his hair for it.

   He was in the room, right? Because you were supposed to be Barry, right? He got in the room first.

9. Fans point here

   25:00

   1 YouTube comment timestamps this moment, 8 likes.

   Before we move on to the second show of this season, can we pop over to Seth's Corner real quick? Yes, absolutely. You know it. Seth's Corner, you're all invited. Seth's Corner, it's happening right now. Take it away,… — Seth

10. Seth's Corner: a fan favorite

    29:07

    Seth's Corner is the segment where Seth talks about the parts of the SNL episode he wrote, and this run includes the cold open and the McCain line he cut.

    But there is more Seth's Corner, guys, because one of my favorite sketches of this era that I wrote.
    Seth's Corner

11. Quatto: the Total Recall mutant

    31:36

    Andy explains that Quatto is a mutant who lives in a character's stomach in the 1990 film Total Recall, and that the sketch's Quaid name grows from there.

    Quatto is a mutant who lives in the stomach of a character that you've seen for most of the movie in The Resistance on Mars
    KuatoQuaid

12. Fans point here

    31:47

    1 YouTube comment timestamps this moment, 29 likes.

    Quatto is a mutant who lives in the stomach of a character that you've seen for most of the movie in The Resistance on Mars in the film Total Recall, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, based on... What is it based on?… — Andy

13. Quaid: the listener term is born

    38:07

    The Quaid term starts in the Quatto sketch, where Cuado calls everyone Quaid, a nod to Arnold Schwarzenegger's Douglas Quaid, and Jorma hopes it spreads.

    Our version of Quado calls everyone Quaid.
    Quaid

14. The Smint sketch line

    39:10

    The Quatto sketch has the line 'Any of you quades got a smint?', which the hosts treat as the sketch's main joke and a classic bit of 2006 SNL writing.

    Any of you quades got a smint?
    SmintQuaid

15. Molson beer and the joke beer

    41:26

    The hosts recall Molson as their go-to joke beer from high school, a running gag that also turns up in MacGruber.

    Molson was our go-to joke beer, and I don't know why.

16. Fans point here

    45:06

    3 YouTube comments timestamp this moment, 46 likes.

    What else? What else? Hold on. I want to look at the rundown. Yeah, so we've switched shows. We're in the second show, still exhausted from Hot Rod. Yeah, because there's still no digital shorts. And once again, you…

17. New York Stories interstitials

    45:54

    Fred and Amy's New York Stories bumper pieces played between sketches, shot guerrilla style, including Lou Reed and Patti Smith at CBGBs.

    We're going to talk about CBGBs. CBGBs. You see this place? Last great place in New York City.

18. Fred's Fran Lebowitz impression

    46:45

    Fred Armisen's Fran Lebowitz riffs as a near-prophetic take on the documentary Pretend It's a City, years before it aired.

    It does seem like Fred is doing an impression of Fran Lebowitz's documentary with Marty Scorsese, Pretend It's a City

19. Out of Breath Jogger was an audition piece

    54:40

    Andy's audition piece came together when he found early 80s Adidas running shorts at the Chelsea flea market and wore them for Liz Kikowski.

    I went out in New York. with one of the only people I knew there, Keeve's then girlfriend, now wife, Liz Kikowski.

20. Gerard, the worst dude ever

    ~58:14

    Gerard is a recurring obnoxious character from the previous season, and the hosts reminisce about him and his Jamiroquai obsession.

    Gerard, the worst dude ever. He smokes a whole lot of beefy whang.

21. Gerald, He's Always Sick

    58:41

    The hosts made a minute-and-a-half theme song for the sick Gerald character and played it at the table read, drawing Lorne's frustration.

    We made a title song, Gerald, He's Always Sick, that lasted a minute and a half.

22. Lorne's disappointed face

    1:00:02

    Andy remembers the Gerald theme song prompting one of the first times Lorne visibly put his face in his hands.

    I do think during the theme song was one of the first times we saw Lorne actually put his face in his hands.

23. Next episode: Harpoon Man

    1:03:42

    The hosts tease Harpoon Man, starring John C. Reilly, as the next sketch to tackle.

    Harpoon Man, John C. Reilly.