My Secret Weapon & Mugless

Pop-ups (25 · 6 fan picks from YouTube comments)

1. Hit us in the titties, a new callback

   13:15

   Andy's comment-section call, hit us in the titties, got a future as a show running gag and a suggested callback in the comments.

   hit us in the titties does have a future.
   hit us in the tittus

2. Happy Keef, the video

   15:43

   Akiva found a behind-the-scenes video Matt Yonks made of him grinning at the monitor, emailed as Happy Keef.

   I just searched Happy Keef and found it in my photos.

3. Fans point here

   24:36

   2 YouTube comments timestamp this moment, 6 likes.

   Before we dive into the Will Ferrell sketch, I just want to point out that this is a Yorm episode because Mugless and My Secret Weapon are Yorm specials. Neither that the public got to see. Yeah. Both, you know, at… — Akiva

4. The kangaroo puppet's paper-mache origins

   27:33

   Jorma built the rabid kangaroo puppet himself, drawing on earlier puppets like the Stork Patrol stork. He had wanted to make this creature for a long time.

   I always sort of knew that I wanted to be this psychotic kangaroo.

5. Mind Squad, the title they hated

   30:58

   Rolling Stone's Mind Squad title for The Lonely Island was a constant source of ribbing.

   We always hated that title so much.
   Andy Samberg’s Mind Squadmind squad

6. Fans point here

   39:40

   2 YouTube comments timestamp this moment, 16 likes.

   Yeah, because it's against God. Yeah. Well, because the only thing my dad told me using a rubber, never that. The only thing my dad told me. Sorry, that was Seth's thing that he tells us when we're not recording. Yeah,…

7. Fans point here

   40:36

   1 YouTube comment timestamps this moment, 3 likes.

   Mugless. Okay. First of all, so Mugless, I think because it's called Mugless, we just talk about it more than maybe it deserves, but Mugless just always made us laugh as the title of a sketch. Yeah. Now, Yoram, you can…

8. Mugless: Jorma's rare solo sketch

   40:54

   Jorma wrote this sketch alone, which the hosts call a rare Taccolo, or solo Taccone effort.

   this is one of the few sketches that I, like, wrote just me solo at the show.
   Taccolo

9. Champion cutters at Pure Beauty

   42:04

   A temp receptionist called Andy and Jorma her champion cutters while they sliced paper, a detail that anchors the Mugless story.

   she kept calling us her champion cutters.

10. Jorma's mug theft from a temp job

    43:49

    The hosts recount Jorma stealing a coffee mug from a boss at a temp cutting job. Akiva and Andy say they never stole things, and the story becomes the basis for the Mugless sketch.

    He stole. He's in his very early 20s. And I will say, we immediately were like, what are you doing?

11. Fans point here

    45:06

    1 YouTube comment timestamps this moment, 8 likes.

    He's got a little bit of a pranky evil little streak, a little gremlin streak. If it's funny enough. If it's funny enough. Yeah. So again, let's get to the funny enough. Okay, so I steal the mug. It's the next day. We… — Akiva

12. Fans point here

    45:50

    2 YouTube comments timestamp this moment, 31 likes.

    And she's freaking out about it. And... And he was like, you're a bad person. I remember he turned to me like, you're a really awful person. You should get back. I was like, no fucking way, dude. I'm like, I love that.…

13. Frisbee comparison and Seth's 'losers' jab

    46:07

    Andy draws a parallel between the mug theft and Seth's Frisbee bit, arguing both come from a blind spot about being good people. The banter ties into the show's running Seth-Frisbee gag.

    Frisbee thing, though, where you can relate? Because you also have a similar blind spot of being a really good person.

14. Jorma calls the boss 'Muggles' to her face

    47:47

    Jorma began calling his boss 'Muggles' to her face, a nickname that became the sketch's title character. He says he kept doing it mostly for Andy's reaction.

    I started calling her Muggles to her face. So when she came in, like... She would say like, oh, what was that, Michaelis?

15. Jorma writes Mugless for Will Ferrell

    48:29

    Jorma wrote the sketch as a near beat-for-beat retelling of the real incident, with Will Ferrell as the mug thief and Abby Elliott as the coworker. Andy notes it played for SNL audiences much as it did in real life.

    So anyway, then I wrote the sketch, which is basically Will Ferrell doing basically beat for beat.

16. Jorma gets a framed card and a returned mug

    49:31

    Seth gave Jorma a framed card from the Mugless prop board as a gift, and later mailed back a mug Jorma had left at his house about ten years earlier, which Seth had kept as karma.

    He framed it and gave it to me as a gift. And then another great gift that he did was that just recently

17. Will's scratching-butt cutaway

    53:56

    Seth points out a cut in the sketch where Will's character claims the coworker is scratching her butt, and the scene cuts to show she is not. The hosts praise it as a character study.

    Hey, check it out. Mugless is scratching her butt. Definitely not.

18. Will's real stunt fall

    55:55

    Will Ferrell performs a physical fall out of a window while holding the mug, a stunt Seth calls a crazy good fall. The sketch ends with the protagonist dying.

    A crazy, crazy good fall by Will.

19. I Think You Should Leave comparison

    56:24

    The hosts compare Mugless to I Think You Should Leave, citing the escalating, self-justifying excuses of a bad-person protagonist. The sketch is seen as a precursor to that style.

    A protagonist who's a bad person, who is wrong, and then has a series of excuses when his first main excuse doesn't work.

20. Sports almanac joke

    57:04

    Seth jokes that Yoram would not know enough about sports to bring any facts back from the future, a riff on Back to the Future's Biff.

    So you're Biff and you traveled to the future and stole their ideas?

21. Fans point here

    1:02:12

    2 YouTube comments timestamp this moment, 6 likes.

    I was looking at the rundown and I couldn't really remember any of it, so I'm excited for you to remind me what things were. All right. Well, we'll start over in Seth's corner. Cold open, which was not the cold open… — Andy

22. Wade Blasingame: the dog-suing lawyer

    1:05:17

    Will Ferrell's commercial parody has him as a lawyer who sues dogs for humping people. Seth notes the Parnell-in-a-Speedo gag and the scratch scar that hints at his backstory.

    Wade Blassingame. Blazingame.

23. Mark: TNT halftime promo parody

    1:07:03

    Bill Hader, Kenan Thompson and Will Ferrell star in a sketch parodying TNT's invasive promos. Charles Barkley is taken with Mark, a single dad with three kids, and the sketch is credited to Solomon and Klein.

    One detail here is not in the transcript.

    Do you remember Mark? Oh my God, Mark. I quote Mark all the time.

24. Celebrity Jeopardy featuring Sean Connery

    1:09:38

    Celebrity Jeopardy features Kristen Wiig as Kathy Lee Gifford, Tom Hanks, Sean Connery, and Norm MacDonald as Burt Reynolds. The final Jeopardy answer is a nonsense word, and Connery's wager is a drawing of him defecating on Trebek's grave.

    Sean Connery was negative 69. And Trebek says 69 wasn't your score.

25. Norm MacDonald as Burt Reynolds

    1:10:27

    Norm MacDonald's Burt Reynolds cameo appears in the Celebrity Jeopardy sketch, which Seth describes as the second killer cameo of the night. Norm chases Trebek around the set in a Hulk costume.

    Second killer cameo of the night.

26. Polar back for Weekend Update

    1:11:34

    Seth notes that Polar returns to Weekend Update for the season finale, after she had been gone for a time, and a Will Ferrell Harry Carey impression is discussed.

    Polar's back for update. Another cameo. Just for shits and gigs.

27. Harry Carey impression on Weekend Update

    1:12:26

    Will Ferrell's Harry Carey impression on Weekend Update includes a Manny Ramirez-as-Predator bit and a Pete Rose-from-heaven steroids joke. Andy notes they watched it on VHS dozens of times.

    He asked me if I think Manny Ramirez looks like the Predator monster

28. Hamilton-parody funeral sketch

    1:14:16

    A funeral sketch features Bill Hader and Will Ferrell, with Ferrell as a stand-up named Graham Yost who hands out flyers. Maya Rudolph returns as Glenda Goodwin, singing Amazing Grace about a Sasquatch.

    no blood relation to the screenwriter of Speed, who is also named Graham Yost.

29. Summer Plans closer and Goodnight Saigon

    1:19:22

    The closer Summer Plans takes place in the Oyster Bar set at Grand Central. Will Ferrell suddenly sings Billy Joel's Goodnight Saigon, and more cast and guests join the band until the whole cast is on stage.

    Then Will stands up and starts singing Goodnight Saigon.

30. Goodnight Saigon ends the season

    1:20:27

    As Goodnight Saigon builds, the entire cast gathers behind Will, with appearances by Green Day, Tom Hanks, Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph, Norm MacDonald, Paul Rudd, Anne Hathaway and Artie Lange, and the hosts say it feels like the end of a season.

    it feels like the end of a season.

31. Season wrap: 2009 finale and Later Quaids

    1:23:08

    The hosts work out that the episode is the finale of the 2009 season, Seth's fourth. They sign off with Later Quaids, a nod to Arnold Schwarzenegger's recorded parting line.

    Later, Arnold. Later, Quades.
    later, Quaids