Episodes › Ep. 80 2025-10-07 · 46:10
Tizzle Wizzle Show
Episode 80 covers the 2009 Christmas-show Digital Short 'The Tizzle Wizzle Show (Jammy Shuffle)' with James Franco, plus the team's rewatch of Nick Cage UN ambassador, Mark Wahlberg Talks to Christmas Animals, Jerry and Carl Christmas presents, and Underground Festival. Andy, Akiva and Seth host, with Jorma absent for much of the episode (arriving late), and they respond to listener comments including the 'cube job' and 'hit us in the tittus'. The memorable takeaway is Mike O'Brien's voice note crediting Jorma for the Underground Festival VO and the team's bit that Jorma was never coming.
Heard here, not in the AlmaNick yet
- Underground Underground Festival “let's just call it the underground underground festival which is such a better name”
Shorts discussed: The Tizzle Wizzle Show (Jammy Shuffle), Nicolas Cage / Get in the Cage (cut update), Mark Wahlberg Talks to Christmas Animals, Office Christmas Presents (Jerry and Carl), Underground Festival (Kick-Spit Underground Rock Festival)
Guests: Mike Tyson (Special guest on the Christmas show episode in What Up…)
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Pop-ups (16 · 6 fan picks from YouTube comments)
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Fans point here
2:031 YouTube comment timestamps this moment, 6 likes.
We're like, well, we got those funny ones we did for when it airs on TV. Let's just show those. Putting all the horniness aside from Basic Instinct, I will tell you that when I saw it in the theaters, when it ended, I…
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Jorm is late again
4:19Jorma is running late for Mari's birthday and does not join for most of the episode. The hosts keep teasing that he might show up, and he finally arrives at the end.
One detail here is not in the transcript.
Yorm is running late because it's Mari's birthday and he just sent me a text
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Hit us in the tittus
5:25Andy calls for comments with 'Hit us in our titties,' the show's signature call for listener comments.
Hit us in our titties.
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Cube job from listener comments
5:36A listener comment called the Tapper drawing a total cube job, a term for drawing someone to look like Mark Cuban.
the first comment underneath it was total cube job.
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Quaid Army greeting
8:18Akiva says he was told someone shouted Quaid Army at a restaurant and the group should ask Jorma about it.
He did say he was just at a restaurant like five minutes ago and got a Quaid Army.
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Queen Bee and frisbee
8:26A listener suggested a slang term for being mad you didn't get everything, and the hosts joke that 'frisbee' is the lowest version of queen.
Someone suggested when you are super mad that you didn't get everything.
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.
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Fans point here
12:223 YouTube comments timestamp this moment, 10 likes.
Thank you. Thank you, Seth. It's great to be here. You know, I've always considered myself a bit of a global ambassador. It's nice to finally make it official. So, uh, what exactly are we doing with this new position?
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Fans point here
17:142 YouTube comments timestamp this moment, 3 likes.
I mean, I'm looking at the rundown from that week. It looks like it was Bill and Bobby doing Snooki from Jersey Shore. So that's pretty political. And they were kind of national. They had gone national at that point.…
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Mark Wahlberg sketch cut short by rundown
20:24Mark Wahlberg Talks to Christmas Animals was last in the rundown, and Andy ran out of time as the sketch played. Floor manager Chris Kelly was counting him down while he kept going.
That's the one where it was last in the rundown and we ran out of time on the episode.
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Fans point here
23:501 YouTube comment timestamps this moment, 4 likes.
I mean, as soon as I enter that frame, I know for a fact I've never been mauled by a reindeer, but I immediately was like, oh, God, I hope I don't get mauled. It's a very small reindeer. Those horns are big and scary.…
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The Tizzle Wizzle Show's influences
32:04The hosts compare the Tizzle Wizzle Show's kids-show parody to Teletubbies, Bananas in Pajamas, Yo Gabba Gabba and The Wiggles, and mention Wonder Showzen's skewed take on children's programming.
It's also a little bit of like Teletubbies and Bananas in Pajamas and what's the other one?
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Criterion ranking on Tizzle Wizzle
34:29Andy calls the Tizzle Wizzle Show 100% Criterion, the top tier for the show's shorts.
And it's 100% Criterion.
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Kim's Video ranking
34:40Andy and Seth rank the Tizzle Wizzle Show as Kim's Video, a second-tier ranking for shorts worth a deeper dive.
I think it's Kim's video. All right, Kim's video.
Goes back to Kim's Video, Ep. 39, 23:35:
Kim's videos. Ooh, like cool underground. Yeah. Like all Tim's videos was a video store in New York that like the cine files would go to.
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Dagger jokes cut the Cage piece
35:00Seth jokes that the Cage piece was cut because it had too many daggers, since the writers had already written two dagger sketches.
You can't have two daggers.
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Fans point here
39:551 YouTube comment timestamps this moment, 3 likes.
I think that's fair. And by the way, knowing him, he'll show up like as we're saying bye. Yeah. We can also ask him next week about the Tis a Wizard show. He honestly might remember more than us. But I do think this…
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Underground Festival name change
41:06The first Underground Festival sketch was titled Kick-Spit Music Festival, and the team spent an hour naming it. The next version became the Underground Underground Festival.
Because the first one was called the Kick-Spit Music Festival.
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Mike O'Brien's festival writing process
42:51Mike O'Brien wrote the Underground Festival concept, and the rewrite table would throw in dumb ideas like the band names and Iron Sheik joke while he wrote things down.
And a lot of them come from him. And then he would also sit at the rewrite table and he would just write stuff down.
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Ask Dan memorial
44:11Ask Dan, the Underground Festival's mud-eating champion, is referenced in the sketch's memorial service joke after a previous invitation.
Don't miss a very special memorial service for Ask Dan.
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Mike O'Brien's voice note on Jorma's VO
44:57Mike O'Brien explains that he and Jost first asked Jorma to voice the Underground Festival VO, and that a replacement for the table read was rougher.
I don't remember why Jost and I first asked Jorm to do those VOs, but he was so great at them.
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Fans point here
47:531 YouTube comment timestamps this moment, 5 likes.
Well, you have to think that. Yorm is not here, but I texted, I looked at the YouTube comments this morning and texted one to you, Seth, to say to Yorm, did you see my text? Oh, yeah. Remember Yorm said somebody just…
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Postcard pelvis
48:02A listener wrote 'penis' on a postcard but meant 'pelvis,' and the hosts discuss how the V and L letters look similar.
Remember Yorm said somebody just wrote in a postcard that said penis.
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Later, Arnold sign-off callback
51:48The hosts use Arnold Schwarzenegger's 'Later, Quaids' soundbite as a sign-off, with Andy cueing Jorma with 'Later, Arnold.'
Andy, as soon as you see him, just say, later, Arnold.
People and sketches mentioned (32)
Mike Tyson Jake Tapper Charlie Saxton Michael Bryan Bill Hader Chris Kelly Rob Klein Daniel Radcliffe Joaquin Phoenix Cameron Diaz Lorne Michaels Alex Baze Jake Gyllenhaal Garth and Kat Michael Douglas Jost Nicolas Cage
Mark Wahlberg Talks to Christmas Animals Office Christmas Presents (Jerry and Carl) Underground Festival Get in the Cage Basic Instinct Naked Gun The Happening Wayne's World Snooki from Jersey Shore Hung Wonder Showzen Teletubbies The Wiggles Star Wars Shawshank Redemption
Source: whisperx-v2+speakers transcript, read by anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5 on 2026-10-19; audio timestamps mapped to the YouTube cut by word alignment. Timestamps shown are YouTube time. Report a bad pop-up.