We'll Kill U

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1. Fans point here

   3:20

   2 YouTube comments timestamp this moment, 22 likes.

   And I think we could get a little bit of money from the U.S. military. I think right now with the sort of marketing they're doing. And we should have a character named Josephine who's a boy. Oh, you think it's… — Seth

2. Seth's Simpsons brag: Marge's hall pass

   4:00

   Seth says he has never been asked to voice on The Simpsons, but a recent episode joked that he is Marge Simpson's hall pass. The clip plays as a fan-favorite brag point.

   I am Marge Simpson's hall pass.

3. Fans point here

   6:06

   2 YouTube comments timestamp this moment, 7 likes.

   And I've heard that Malkovich is... Let's just say there's a little bit of buzz, and I think you guys know what kind of buzz I'm talking about. There's not a bee infestation at his house. It's a different kind of buzz.…

4. Watch the whole thing

   John Malkovich Doesn't Look Back At Explosions | The Graham Norton Show

   6:37

   The hosts play this one in 2 parts from 6:37 (54 seconds of it in all, talking over the rest). Watch the whole thing here, from The Graham Norton Show on YouTube.

   Watch the whole thing (3:20) The Graham Norton Show on YouTube

5. Malkovich names Cool Guys Don't Look at Explosions

   8:09

   On Graham Norton, John Malkovich recalled Con Air and named the Lonely Island short Cool Guys Don't Look at Explosions, a rare high point of fan recognition for the group.

   He did one called Cool Guys Don't Look at Explosions, which featured this explosion in Con Air.
   Cool Guys Don't Look at Explosions

6. MacGruber's gas station gag cut

   9:31

   Jorma describes a MacGruber idea that was cut: the car fire would reveal a gas station behind it rather than blowing both up. Another cut gag had a burning monastery.

   we wanted to do was that he was going to have a line of gasoline leading to the car.

7. Quaid Army comment wins: premature ejoculation

   10:54

   A Quaid comment joked that Elton John's excitement at the Sting tantric joke was premature ejaculation, and a reply of just "no" stole the laugh.

   Elton John being too excited about the Sting orgasm joke and flubbing is an example of premature ejoculation.
   Quaid Army

8. SNL 50 exhibit at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

   15:42

   The Rock Hall's SNL 50 exhibit includes Dick in a Box costumes, life masks, Shy Ronnie, and a Boombox glove, a rare crossover between SNL music history and rock museums.

   Not only do we have Shy Ronnie currently on display, but we also have Andy and Justin's Dick in a Box costumes

9. Jorma's grandmother and the Emmy photos

   17:08

   Jorma's grandmother, Sybil, carried photos of the trio at the Emmys for Dick in a Box and couldn't explain what it was for.

   She had multiple pictures, clearly, in her purse of us winning an Emmy for digging a box.

10. Fans point here

    18:15

    2 YouTube comments timestamp this moment, 16 likes.

    she was in the club with us it was like two o'clock in the morning and i pulled her up onto this like platform and we were dancing and whatever and then the next day on the bus my grandmother brought me over and she… — Jorma

11. Fans point here

    21:00

    2 YouTube comments timestamp this moment.

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12. Just Two Guys: the third installment

    24:59

    We'll Kill U is the third Just Two Guys video. It was written during the Turtleneck & Chain era but left off the album and released as a YouTube video.

    So we made this song during turtleneck and chain times at the house.

13. Why Just Two Guys was left off the album

    25:31

    The team decided against placing the song on the album, instead releasing it as a standalone video. Earlier entries like We Like Sports ended up on Incredibad.

    So Just Two Guys predated any album, and then We Like Sports we put on Incredibad.

14. Comment section as time capsule

    26:10

    Seth jokes that the YouTube comments work like a murder-mystery microfiche, rebuilding the old house from the video footage.

    It is like if there was like one of those, you know, girl with the dragon tattoo type murder mysteries

15. Naming the Just Two Guys genres

    27:58

    Akiva frames the series as different rap genres: the first a party song, the second a sports anthem. This is the first time the group explicitly ties the Just Two Guys videos to genre categories.

    the first one's a party song, just two guys. The second one, I guess, is a sports anthem?

16. Toy pistols and BB guns

    28:32

    Jorma explains the video's intent: too much bravado from characters who ultimately pose no real threat. The guns are toys, and a BB gun is mentioned as the only real prop.

    They have toy pistols and yeah, it's all sort of pathetic. Well, I guess we have a BB gun.

17. Watch the whole thing

    We'll Kill U

    28:42

    The hosts play this one in 13 parts from 28:42 (126 seconds of it in all, talking over the rest). Watch the whole thing here, from thelonelyisland on YouTube.

    Watch the whole thing (2:10) thelonelyisland on YouTube

18. Making the posters at Kinko's

    31:35

    Jorma notes the group made the poster themselves, printing it out the way their characters would. The art-imitating-life approach is central to these videos.

    So we made this poster, printed it out. So just think about us going down to Kinko's or wherever we were.

19. Stewie shirt and the what recession line

    33:07

    A pool-scene shirt sets up a callback to Seth MacFarlane's line, which the group treats as a favorite and wants to replay at the episode's end.

    that's why we had Seth MacFarlane say, what recession? That was our favorite.

20. Shoulder kickback joke

    33:22

    The characters worry about gun kickback hurting their shoulders, a running joke the hosts find funny. Seth and Akiva build on the idea that guys brag about it at slumber parties.

    they've thought a lot about how much shooting a gun probably hurts your shoulder.

21. 90s wardrobe as deliberate ugliness

    33:47

    The outfits were picked to be as out of fashion as possible, drawn from the 1990s. The group has since noticed some of the looks have come back into style.

    we were trying to wear stuff from the 90s, 20 years earlier, that felt as out of fashion as you can kind of get

22. I can shoot all day line

    35:53

    Jorma calls this his favorite line in the song, praising how specific and unexpected it is. It is one of the moments the hosts return to when rating the video.

    the, I can shoot all day, it doesn't hurt my shoulder, I think is maybe my favorite line in the song.

23. Turtleneck and Chain placement

    36:33

    Seth notes the group tried hard to fit Turtleneck and Chain into the videos where it made sense. This echoes the real-life album reference the show is built around.

    it did seem like you tried pretty hard to get Turtleneck and Chain in things when it called for it.

24. Fans point here

    38:20

    1 YouTube comment timestamps this moment, 3 likes.

    I remember we really did it because as we've talked about this house where we had our BB gun range, we did set up the camera on it. And then what was that? The lamest fall of a can ever. The thing about these videos… — Akiva

25. BB gun range in a horse stable

    38:39

    The shooting scenes were staged in a stable the group turned into a shooting range, with the camera set up to capture the BB gun action.

    It was a horse stable that we turned into a shooting range.

26. Heaven for gangsters trope

    39:06

    The line 'Is there a heaven for gangsters like us' draws on a hip-hop trope, most notably associated with Tupac. Akiva says the melody is original but the idea is borrowed.

    the idea of heaven for gangsters is a trope in a few different hip-hop, most notably, I think, Tupac.

27. Fans point here

    40:26

    1 YouTube comment timestamps this moment, 3 likes.

    Yeah, I'm doing you too is like they rushed into that lyric without thinking about it. Yeah, they don't know. — Seth

28. Al Capone hat and Tim Robinson

    42:36

    The group jokes about the source of the Al Capone hats, linking them to Tim Robinson's character and a film prop stock.

    He's got 50 of them he needs to sell from his Al Capone movie.

29. Jonah's voice note

    42:48

    Akiva introduces a voice note from Jonah Goldstein, a longtime helper on the Just Two Guys videos, who was asked about We Like Sports but remembered We'll Kill U.

    I have a voice note he gave us when we did We Like Sports.

30. East Flatbush Project's Tried by 12

    43:55

    The group cites the 12-inch single Tried by 12 from East Flatbush Project as a source. Akiva says it was a small underground hit and still has his copy.

    Tried by 12 by East Flatbush Project. They didn't have many other singles, really, but that song is fucking fire.

31. Ahead of the curve on fashion

    46:31

    Seth jokes that the group thought they looked ridiculous, but they actually anticipated a fashion trend. Akiva agrees.

    I think my favorite part is how Keeve is just like taken aback by how ahead of the curve he was on a fashion level.

32. Too many takes on We'll Kill U

    47:33

    Jonah recalls that the shoot required many retakes because the performances were overdone and needed to be pared back to feel genuinely awkward.

    we had to redo takes like over and over again, like so many times because it was just like, you were given too much

33. Snake search for the Steve cutaway

    48:55

    Jonah describes the hardest shot to get: a one-second cutaway of Steve with a snake. The original snake started molting two days before the shoot, forcing a search that ended in a basement full of snakes.

    the snake started to shed its skin it was molting so we could no longer use that snake

34. Basement snake room

    49:25

    Jonah recounts visiting a man who kept many large snakes in a creepy room under his stairs. He browsed the snakes and found the right one.

    he kept them like in a room under his stairs of his house. It was like this like creepy room filled with a ton of snakes.

35. We'll Kill U view count

    50:43

    The hosts note the video has about 15 million views, which they consider a solid number.

    So that's We'll Kill You. It has 15 million views. That's not bad.

36. Quibi clean Spelling Bee callback

    51:22

    Seth takes a jab at his Spelling Bee results, a recurring point in the show's word-game segments, where Queen Bee status without hints is the goal.

    Today, hey, a Quibi to clean.

    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.

    quibicleanQueen Bee

37. Sign-off callbacks

    51:34

    The sign-off strings together callbacks to Arnold Schwarzenegger, Stewie, Sebastian Stan, and Winter Soldier, all recurring in the show's closing ritual.

    Later, Arnold. Later, Quades. Later, Stewie. What recession? Later, Sebastian Stan. Later, Quades. Later, Winter Soldier.

    Goes back to What recession?, Ep. 128, 41:57: What recession? Is that what you said, Jerm?

    later, QuaidsWhat recession?winter soldier