Grandkids in the Movies

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1. Tina Fey's return after the 2007-08 strike

   0:28

   The first episode back after the writers' strike hosted Tina Fey, who had never hosted before. Her 30 Rock was being developed alongside her SNL writing, which the hosts find remarkable.

   The first show back is Tina Fey, who at this point had never hosted the show.

2. Akiva shot Annual on a shoestring

   4:25

   Annual was initially set to go through the expensive film department, but Tina and Paula asked Akiva to shoot it cheaply. He filmed the bridal-shower scene in a waiting-room set, and the live monologue portion was pre-taped at dress and aired.

   Do you have a way to just shoot this on the cheap so it can get on the show?

3. Annual: one period a year

   5:38

   The Annual sketch parodies a pharmaceutical commercial for a pill that reduces menstruation to once a year. Seth praises it as a sharp observation that he thinks only a woman writer would have come up with.

   a medication that made you have one period a year.

4. Yorm's Corner

   7:52

   Yorm's Corner is a recurring segment in which Jorma sends in an audio message. The hosts sing him in and let him share updates when he is unavailable.

   Oh, Yarm's Corner, you're all invited.

5. Jorma's Land of the Lost audition during the strike

   8:32

   Jorma auditioned to play Chaka, the monkey boy speaking an invented language, in Land of the Lost. He asked Lorne for permission to shoot during the strike, and it cost him cortisone shots from crouching through improv scenes.

   I got the opportunity to audition for Chaka, the monkey boy who speaks a whole other language

6. Grandkids in the Movies premise

   11:58

   This short plays on the complaint that older viewers struggle to follow modern or classic films. The grandfather's wife solves this by putting his grandkids into the movies, with Bill Hader and Andy Samberg playing the kids.

   grandkids in the movies is the name of this digital short.

7. Cutting actors into the films

   14:20

   The Lonely Island composited Bill and Andy into scenes from No Country for Old Men, Michael Clayton, Juno, and Transformers. Akiva says the effects do not look polished, but the rough finish suits the low-budget commercial style.

   considering we did it all ourselves, the fact that the premise even is pulled off is good.

8. The phone beat in Michael Clayton

   15:25

   The hosts agree the Michael Clayton line about a phone being on the grandfather's side is the best beat in the sketch, because it never repeats the joke used elsewhere.

   That's not your phone. Don't get it. You're okay. Okay. Bye. Bye.

9. Alex Bay on Transformers

   18:15

   Alex Bay described sitting through a Transformers film as being like sitting in a canoe with a boombox duct-taped to your head. Seth shares his dislike of the movie.

   he described going to Transformers as sitting in a canoe with a boombox duct taped to your head.

10. Andy attends Transformers premiere

    18:41

    Andy was invited to the live-action Transformers premiere thanks to his SNL profile, and he was thrilled. He recalls the theater's reaction when the first Transformer transformed on screen.

    I was so amped Transformers was coming out.

11. Fans point here

    25:04

    3 YouTube comments timestamp this moment, 36 likes.

    No, was I in it? Not only were you in it, you wrote it with Forte and Jost. Anything? Forte's the first name, according to this rundown, though. Yeah. Tina episode? Tina episode, cut from dress. So it did actually…

12. Jorma's favorite prop email story

    29:43

    Jorma recalls Akiva emailing the SNL props department at 11 p.m. with a bizarre list titled 'Things I Need,' and receiving a reply saying the sender was in the wrong email address. Jorma says he thinks of it often.

    Akiva sent a email to the SNL props department when we were making Virginia Horsons.

13. Akiva wrote Virginia Horsen alone

    31:31

    Akiva says he wrote the Virginia Horsen short by himself on a random Sunday, then recruited Jost to help. It was shot on a Tuesday before writing night so it wouldn't affect the rest of the show.

    this I just wrote alone by myself and then roped Jost into kind of doing it with me.

14. Wig's Virginia Horsen performance

    33:55

    The hosts note Kristen Wiig's performance is partly an impression of Akiva's own hand-signal style from the group's 'Just Two Guys' work.

    she's also doing an impression of me doing it.

15. Virginia Horsen's YouTube reach

    36:07

    The sketch aired in 2008 and was posted to the SNL YouTube channel about five years later, where it has accumulated around 191,000 views.

    It has 191,000 views in 11 years.

16. Fans quote Virginia Horsen line

    36:27

    A YouTube commenter praised the line 'I bought a balloon and it doesn't mean I think I'm better than everybody else' as one of the best lines in SNL history.

    I bought a balloon, and it doesn't mean I think I'm better than everybody else.

17. Listeners object to ads in stopgap episode

    37:38

    A friend of the hosts relayed that listeners were unhappy that the 10-minute stopgap episode contained ads. The hosts say the ad placement was not their choice.

    a lot of other people, took umbrage with the fact that we posted a 10-minuter and also put a bunch of ads in it.

18. Fans point here

    37:41

    1 YouTube comment timestamps this moment, 17 likes.

    But they also mentioned that they, and apparently, according to this person, a lot of other people, took umbrage with the fact that we posted a 10-minuter and also put a bunch of ads in it. There were ads in the… — Andy

19. Ads were not the hosts' choice

    37:51

    The hosts state they did not choose to include ads in the stopgap 10-minute episode.

    Not our choice. Not our choice.