The Zac Efron Episode

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1. Standees in movie theaters

   0:07

   A standee is the life-size cardboard cutout displayed in movie theater lobbies. The hosts note it still feels exciting despite streaming and AI.

   A standee is the thing when you walk in the movie theater that's the big cardboard cutout.

2. Fans point here

   0:18

   1 YouTube comment timestamps this moment, 6 likes.

   And he saw one up in New York in Lincoln Square. Lincoln Center. Lincoln Center. There you go. You've been gone so long, you forget. Is it a center or a square? Well, what's the square called there where there's the… — Akiva

3. Pamela Anderson's career reinvention

   2:30

   Pamela Anderson had just shot Gia Coppola's The Last Showgirl and a documentary made with her kids, plus cookbooks, marking a new phase that the hosts link to The Naked Gun comedy.

   she had just come off of shooting the Gia Coppola Last Showgirl movie.

4. YouTube caption mishearing 'in the stude'

   4:23

   Andy said 'in the stude' for studio, and YouTube auto-captions rendered it 'in this dude', which the hosts then riff on.

   You said you were in the stude, meaning in the studio, but the closed captioning on YouTube said you were in this dude.
   in the stood

5. Fans point here

   5:04

   4 YouTube comments timestamp this moment, 30 likes.

   So just for the next video, go back and forth a few times fast saying in this dude, in this dude. So I was in this dude. I was in this dude. So I was in this dude. So I was in this dude. So I was in this dude. That's… — Seth

6. The butt sign above the studio door

   5:29

   Jorma's hand-drawn sign reading 'the butt' hangs above the studio door, a joke from taking phone calls 'in the butt'.

   we would say, I'm going to take it in the butt.

7. Sudeikis's 'Use your Sundays' sign

   6:36

   Jason Sudeikis put a 'use your Sundays' sign above his office door that people tapped on the way out, a precursor to the Ted Lasso 'Believe' sign.

   And he made a sign on a piece of paper and put it above his door.

8. Boom Chicago perform-like-a-champion sign

   6:56

   Seth recalls a sign at Boom Chicago reading 'perform like a champion today,' borrowed from Notre Dame's motto, which performers tapped before going on stage.

   I put up a sign before you walked on the stage that said, perform like a champion today

9. Seth guest-stars on Digman season 2

   7:59

   Seth has a guest role in Digman season 2, whose trailer and poster dropped the same day as Naked Gun's. Digman's first season aired on Comedy Central and streams on Paramount+.

   I'm on Digman this year, guys, and it was so much fun.

10. Andy's Queen Bee suspense

    13:04

    Andy's spelling bee result, announced randomly in episodes, causes a viewership drop-off as listeners wait. Hosts joke about a companion pod and bonnet slang.

    whenever Andy announces if he got Queen Bee, you see this huge drop-off right after.

    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.

    Queen Bee

11. Bonnet in your B coined

    15:14

    Seth proposes 'bonnet in your B' to mean being in a great mood after getting Queen Bee, extending the crown-themed slang.

    Do you think should we say that when you've got a bonnet in your B
    Queen Bee

12. 'Me likey dat' callback

    15:43

    Akiva uses the Jorma-coined phrase 'me likey dat' to signal approval of the bonnet slang.

    Me likey dat.
    me likey dat

13. Father's Day Beastie Boys dance

    15:48

    Seth's son played 'Shake Your Rumpa' on a Sonos speaker outside and danced for him as a Father's Day gesture.

    My middle axle basically carried our Sonos speaker outside like a boombox

14. Beastie Boys fandom roundtable

    17:13

    The hosts list favorite Beastie Boys tracks, from Paul Revere and Shake Your Rumpa to Car Thief and Slow and Low.

    Do each of you have a favorite Beastie Boys song?

15. Beastie Boys' Letterman subway performance

    18:26

    The Beastie Boys filmed a live street performance coming up from the subway, then walked onto Late Show with David Letterman, performing 'Check It Out'.

    they came up from the subway?

16. Overalls Bill's Beastie Boys set list

    19:55

    During Lonely Island live show rehearsals, a laminated 1994 Beastie Boys set list from the turntable coffin was gifted to Jorma and now hangs framed at his house.

    And it's framed now in my house.

17. Fans point here

    23:17

    1 YouTube comment timestamps this moment, 3 likes.

    Good diversion to go to the Beastie Boys. So much fun to talk about them. Well, I just liked when Jorm said, like, it was a surprise. Like, I just wanted to be those guys. Like, anybody looking at the three of us…

18. Lonely Island as Beastie Boys tribute

    23:39

    The Lonely Island modeled their act on the Beastie Boys, with songs like Brass Monkey, Uniform On and Slow and Low echoed in their parodies.

    who literally are modeling ourselves after them on many songs from the third grade

19. Balcony Songs watch-along begins

    24:42

    The hosts introduce Balcony Songs, an unaired sketch from the Zac Efron episode that was cut at dress rehearsal, and watch it together.

    there's a sketch called Balcony Songs, which I'm sure sucked, but we thought it should air.

20. Lauren Michaels' cut decisions

    25:11

    Hosts recall that Lauren Michaels left dress rehearsal before watching the full sketch lineup, possibly passing on Balcony Songs and Betty White's Scared Straight.

    that was Betty White, Scared Straight.

21. Balcony Songs pitch

    25:47

    Andy describes Balcony Songs as an Aladdin-style duet between balcony neighbors that escalates into a song with many weird characters.

    it was like a, you know, let's say American tale or Aladdin kind of a vibe

22. Fans point here

    33:30

    1 YouTube comment timestamps this moment, 5 likes.

    All right. So this thing should have aired, number one. I thought I was going to see something and go, oh, I see why they didn't air this. No, fuck that. This is good. It just cut to Bobby, and he just did that little…

23. Efron's singing was overdubbed early on

    36:08

    Akiva notes that Efron was overdubbed on the first High School Musical, then sang on the sequels and was annoyed by the dub.

    If you watch the first High School Musical, it's not his voice.

24. Efron's baby blue eyes

    37:01

    The writers told Efron to cover his baby blues during the unaired short because he looked too handsome.

    You're supposed to look like shit right now.

25. Efron spotted in Peru

    37:32

    Seth recounts spotting Zac Efron and his dad on a Peru hike during his honeymoon, followed by a line of Peruvian fans.

    And it was Zac Efron and his dad.

26. Jack Quaid's voice note about his band

    39:32

    Jack Quaid (Quaido), the only known double Quaid, sends a voice note from his kitchen. The hosts had been teasing him about listening in his apartment.

    Hey guys, Jack Quaid here. Yet again, I am in my kitchen making mac and cheese for breakfast.
    Quaidodouble Quaidmac and cheese

27. Mac and cheese as Quaido's proper response

    39:34

    Mac and cheese is the response Jack Quaid should give when someone yells Quaid Army at him. Here he references it while cooking mac and cheese for breakfast.

    I am in my kitchen making mac and cheese for breakfast. Nailed it.

    Goes back to mac and cheese, Ep. 63, 53:48: Like a grilled cheese or you got some mac and cheese?

    mac and cheeseQuaido

28. Fans point here

    44:31

    1 YouTube comment timestamps this moment, 3 likes.

    All right, the last thing we should do is I should play Guys in Sunglasses looking dope. Yeah, let's watch it. Let's check it out. This was a digital short we made the week with Zac Efron, and it did not air. So, I… — Akiva

29. Guys in Sunglasses was an unaired short

    44:38

    Guys in Sunglasses Lookin' Dope was made the same week as the Efron episode and was not aired; the hosts debate whether it should have replaced Balcony Songs.

    This was a digital short we made the week with Zac Efron, and it did not air.
    Criterion

30. High School Musical 4: Senior Class

    50:08

    Efron's High School Musical sketch has him returning as a graduate to tell everyone no one sings outside East High, a bit Seth recounts in Seth's Corner.

    I'm here to talk about what happens after you leave East High.
    Seth's Corner

31. Fans point here

    50:49

    2 YouTube comments timestamp this moment.

    And especially ones that relate to High School Musical, of which we also wrote one at some point when the third movie was coming out. Is that in here somewhere, too? No. It might have been. Did he host twice? Or maybe… — Akiva

32. Yeah Yeah Yeah's Maps on MTV Movie Awards

    54:10

    Karen O and the Yeah Yeah Yeah's performance of Maps; Spike Jonze art-directed the stage at an MTV Movie Awards rehearsal the hosts watched.

    Spike Jonze did the, like, art direction, and it was really dope.

33. Andy's Company 3 vault job

    55:05

    Before SNL, Andy worked nights logging film reels in the vault at Company 3, which is now owned by Technicolor.

    I used to work for Company 3 in the vault in L.A.

34. Digman plug and paramount jokes

    56:48

    The hosts plug Digman and joke about needing clicks, with a tangent about political jokes and Paramount+.

    But you guys, if you watch one thing this year, make it Digman on Comedy Central.
    dem clicks

35. Arnold's Later, Quaids soundbite

    57:43

    Seth got Arnold Schwarzenegger to record the official parting line, 'Later, Quaid,' which the hosts now plan to use to end episodes.

    Can we play that real quick? Okay. Later, Quades.
    later, Quaids