Talking Dog

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1. Seth's Corner opens with Fringe Candidates Debate

   3:38

   Seth's Corner is the segment where Seth Meyers discusses sketches he wrote. Here he introduces the Fringe Candidates Debate, a 2007 sketch parodying the primary debates.

   Wrote a sketch and I'm mentioning because back to back weeks, I wrote a couple of my favorite kinds of sketches
   Seth's Corner

2. Frisbee becomes a running joke about Andy and dogs

   19:00

   The hosts joke that Andy's willingness to let a dog lick his lips suggests he is not truly anti-dog, only anti-Frisbee, a recurring bit about Andy's dislike of the dog.

   Yeah, were you picturing Frisbee? Yeah, that's how he got through it.

3. Dog Lover endures as indictment of Frisbee

   19:55

   Akiva jokes that the short's lasting legacy is proving Andy is not dog-racist, a callback to the Frisbee dislike bit.

   Kiva, your argument is the way this short will endure is as an indictment on Frisbee.

4. Ephemeral live comedy versus lasting YouTube

   22:04

   The hosts reflect on how live improv and sketch used to vanish after performance, while YouTube made their work permanent and therefore open to judgment.

   And you could just enjoy almost like going to the theater or something or to see an improv show.

5. Frisbee the dog joins the show

   22:26

   Seth lures Andy's dog Frisbee into the room as a bit, and she gets judged in real time while Andy listens from the other room.

   I'm going to go pick up Frisbee and hear in real time what Andy thinks about her.

6. Frisbee's gender revealed

   23:08

   Seth jokes that Andy did not know Frisbee was female for her first eleven years.

   Which by the way, Sandberg fully didn't know for the first 11 years of her life.

7. Andy drops Frisbee as a puppy

   24:01

   Seth recounts the story of Andy dropping Frisbee on the ground when she was a puppy, a story that explains her sad expression.

   Andy just fully dropped her on the ground.

8. Fans point here

   27:21

   2 YouTube comments timestamp this moment, 30 likes.

   The musical guest was Maroon 5. Andy, without cheating, tell me what they sang. Moves Like Jagger. Wrong. Makes Me Wonder and Won't Go Home Without You. Oh, I know that. Now, you had an update that was cut, Andy,…

9. Hot Rod release and box office

   28:22

   The guys recall Hot Rod's summer release and its modest success, and Seth reports that kids enjoyed it when rewatched.

   I heard from a lot of people post the Hot Rod episodes that they rewatched it with their kids and their kids loved it.

10. Dog Lover is not Criterion

    28:52

    The hosts joke that Dog Lover does not rank Criterion in the podcast's short ranking system.

    First off, dog lover, not criterion.
    Criterion

11. Dog Lover misses top 64

    28:56

    Seth notes Dog Lover did not make the top 64 in their ranking.

    Didn't even make the top 64.

12. Hot Rod laundry scene pants question

    32:31

    A listener asks whether Rod's pants switch in Hot Rod was intentional, and the guys say it was intentional, though not necessarily planned.

    I know it was intentional that it ended up in the movie.

13. Anti-continuity hire idea

    33:02

    Jorma recalls wanting a continuity person who would deliberately mess up shots on early Lonely Island shorts.

    I almost wanted to hire someone for continuity who was anti-continuity.

14. Japan's video premise

    34:06

    The song Japan's premise is that the label must pay for a video mentioning expensive things, and the joke is that the guys are ugly Americans taking a ruse to fund a trip.

    anything we say in the song has to be in the video and our label has to pay for that video.

15. Label offered to fund Japan video

    34:57

    The head of the label agreed to fund the Japan video, but the guys were too busy with SNL to make it happen.

    And the craziest part is when we finished the song and turned in the album, the head of the label was like, let's do it.

16. Semicolon and Solange

    35:42

    Semicolon has hits on YouTube audio, and the guys regret not making a video with Solange, who was featured on the track.

    Semicolon has a fair amount of hits just on the YouTube audio only

17. Bill Clinton on sax

    37:30

    Bill Clinton on saxophone was the guys' running answer whenever asked about a dream celebrity cameo.

    Bill Clinton on sax.

18. The most-asked interview question

    37:42

    The guys say they were asked about dream celebrity cameos in every interview and always answered Bill Clinton on sax.

    We used to get asked this question in every interview.

19. Bill Pullman and Bill Paxton

    37:50

    The guys' answers included Bill Pullman and Bill Paxton, the two Bills, which they kept repeating for the laugh.

    Yeah, we kept saying that. I don't know why, but we just thought it was funny.

20. Jay-Z was the other dream guest

    37:56

    Akiva adds Jay-Z as a dream guest they would name, knowing he would never do it.

    We just knew he'd never do it.

21. Incredibag listener story

    38:19

    A listener recounts a garage mechanic reacting to Incredibag's lyrics after Seth had been listening to it constantly.

    I turn your car on and get my eardrums blasted out by some woman rapping about shitting in someone's shoe.

22. Best 90s hip hop albums

    38:44

    The guys offer examples of influential 90s hip hop albums, including Raekwon's Only Built for Cuban Linx and Wu-Tang's 36 Chambers.

    Raekwon, Only Built for Cuban Links.

23. Higgins's Pimm's Cups

    39:45

    Seth recalls producer Higgins making Pimm's Cups in the office, the only person who ever offered him one.

    And it was still to this day, the only person who's ever offered me a Pimm's Cup.

24. Fastest written short

    40:07

    Daiquiri Girl is the fastest written because it was improvised on camera, though the hosts note the other script they wrote first.

    the one that was the fastest to ever be written was Dakari girl because we improvised it on camera.

25. Quick writing on Dick in a Box and Lazy Sunday

    40:53

    Once they agree on a premise, they write a lot quickly and then read it aloud to pick lines.

    A lot of them, once we arrive at a premise we like, we just write a ton and that goes fast.

26. Key in the ignition homage

    42:10

    A listener asks about the parking-garage clip where Andy struggles with the ignition key, and the hosts trace it to a tense Hitchcockian homage in The Pelican Brief.

    It's the Grisham one with Julia Roberts.

27. How SNL shows shorts to the audience

    43:05

    Monitors hang above the studio so audiences can watch pre-recorded sketches, similar to what home viewers see.

    There are monitors. Yeah.

28. Home base placement and the door rule

    43:55

    Seth explains that home base is prime staging and that Shoemaker advised avoiding doors there because they cannot be placed at home base.

    Shoemaker said, don't put a door in your sketch if you don't need a door in your sketch.

29. Cold opens at home base

    44:46

    Seth describes that cold opens ideally play at home base, and that Bill was handed many cold opens early on due to his impressions.

    Almost all cold opens in a perfect world are at home base.

30. Shit Can Alley

    45:36

    Dratch dubbed the stage-right corner Shit Can Alley, where sketches were hard to see, and the response to complaints was that Cowbell was back there.

    Dratch famously called Shit Can Alley.

31. Origin of migrating tree frogs

    46:31

    Migrating tree frogs is a deep-cut graphic that began as a Tina and Jimmy bit with Robert Carlock, and is used as a fake-out before interrupting segments.

    it started with Tina and Jimmy as migrating tree frogs would be what they were talking about