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SCOTT (A): But the few times I’ve had to- I have had to kiss Natasha Leggero, and Delana- and both times I just feel uncomfortable doing it. I feel weird doing it! (A) SCOTT: Awwwwwe, Scotty. Y’okay? JIMMY: Maybe you don’t write that into the script then. How ‘bout that? You control those scripts. Maybe you shake hands with those ladies. Such a great exchange.

When Do You Get There, Bro? is an amazing addition to the podcasts-within-a-podcast. Frides! Also, "Fuck You, man!" Also also, "WHO CARES?!" "SHUT UP." (Everyone predicting that this week's episode would feature a couple of punchy Scotts were right on the money)

http://www.earwolf.com/episode/titans-of-comedy/

Regarding the mnemonic bits, what I enjoyed on TB3 (that was somewhat absent from TB2 from what I can recall) was that everyone expressed fatigue in creating them at one point or another, because the bit is indeed exhausting. This endeared me to the bit more, because I knew we were in the bit together. This was not an issue with TB1 because K.N.I.F.E.G.R.A.B. was manageable to an extent, both in number of letters as well as what each letter stood for. But from what I can recall of TB2, they just soldiered on with their crazy Fry Vault mnemonic, and while still funny, my brain was fried trying to keep up. Of course a bit must be elevated if it is to be repeated, so it's nice to know they're mining it for comedy while acknowledging that what they're doing is increasingly insane and unwieldy. To use a fun-with-spaghetti analogy, if one starts with fistfuls of crisp, uncooked noodles and waves them around and hits the coutnertop with them, their rigid uncookedness makes a certain sound and they break and shatter in a delightful mess of poppy-ness. When you're done having your fun, you throw them in the pot of boiling water. They cook a bit, then you decide you want to wave them around some more. Now the noodles are a little softer. So you thrash them around harder, and it's messier because now they're wet too. They're not really snapping, but they're spraying water everywhere, which is its own kind of fun. At the end of the day, you're still waving fistfuls of noodles around. By the third time out the noodles are wet and limp. Now in order to replicate the flailing that preceded these cooked noodles, you must thrash them around frantically, slapping against things with onomatopoeian squishes. Now you can fling them against cabinet doors and delight in them sticking to walls. It's still funny for sure, but the bit has evolved out of necessity to not be repetitious in its delivery. You break a noodle. You squish a noodle. You throw a noodle against a wall to see if it sticks That's how you get comedy out of repetition. Actually, I have no idea what I'm talking about. I think I'm just hungry.

This episode certainly wasn't special or memorable. I can only handle so much of Fourvel trying to stab everyone and curse every other word. And ALW? We get it: he adds the suffix 'ing' to everything, and that's the entirety of his 'character.' ZZZZZZZZZZZZIIIIP! Just kidding! This episode was a lot of fun! Jazz Jazz got some love!

A little more story (that overlaps with Scott & Scott's telling on UTU2TM?) is told on Scott's appearance on this week's Never Not Funny. It was interesting because he also talked about how his OC conservative parents reacted to his involvement with Barack Hussein Obamacare and the current administration.

APOLOGIZE TO BONOBOS.

The Legend of Zelda: Osinara of Time is such a good game! Scott played one of the best. And when you think about it, it's just like this Solo Bolo episode-- 64 bits!

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand 10 more minutes.

I did not have that problem. Do you have any questions about who was who? Btw, in case anyone is interested in news like this, The kickstarter-funded Thrilling Adventure Hour graphic novel is nominated for an Eisner Award this year for Best Anthology.

What kind of monster thinks it's ok to crapstealdrugs?! Disgusting...

Who do you think you are, "Marilu" Henner?

Wowwee wow wow I can’t believe it’s over. I appreciated the skilled takedown of the Runic Baby Necromancer. I could practically hear Sir Richard swooning at his compatriots’ coordinated attacks and successful rolls, particularly Blackie’s lightning q-tip and ESPECIALLY Damien’s warhammer attacks. Although they differ in alignment and the gods they pray to, I think Sir Richard would’ve heartily clapped Wormwood on the back and offered him a celebratory swig of dwarven moonshine. Rest easy, Amarth Amon and Ell Ryan. Your contributions were not made in vain. I second everyone’s sentiments of a bit more of an epilogue/synopsis of what played out after the defeat of the Necromancer and how the worlds were affected. Since it is from the players’ perspectives it’s not like we would be able to find out whether all the other worlds survived this necromantic(?), galactic assault and assimilation, but at least a little poking around would be nice (like, did the wolf-dwarf ever make it back to the Dwarven city?! Probably not, knowing Sark’s proclivities...) It’s nice that they went topside into Glenishmore because emerging from a dark pit of despair into the sun’s welcoming rays is always a nice codifier for a job well done, but even during the course of the episode Mildred wanted to look around the dark, cavernous room and Sark said it’d be spoilery so he didn’t reveal what was there. What was there?! I never played D&D before, and I started attending a D&D game right around when Nerd Poker started, but then my work schedule changed and I could no longer make it. Nerd Poker has really scratched that itch (as well as Harmontown’s D&D segments). Now, it looks like my work schedule will finally be switching back, and when it does I totally want to do some dungeon-trawling of my own. Thanks to Nerd Poker, I’ll have a much better idea of how to go about doing that once I jump back in. Congrats on defeating the baby, and congrats on succumbing to the demands of real babies!

Seconded.

I loved the "Cake Canaveral" button on the last sketch so much. Seth completely blindsided me with his callback to Tim's temporary, seemingly harmless flub of mispronouncing "Cape Canaveral" (and Tim was not even in character when he flubbed; he was just trying to make a stage direction to 'Cut to Cape Canaveral'). Since Seth had already established his wife character as a strong woman with ideas for creative endeavors and passion projects (her desire to take pottery classes was great!) that the non sequitur fit PERFECTLY within the context of the scene (and the fact that Tim was in character as the Real Doll's physical therapist at the time and not McDonald the NASA Employee is irrelevant because McDonald didn't mispronounce Cape Canaveral, Tim did). Hilarious! I was not surprised that Matt started giggling uncontrollably. Seth knocked that callback out of the park. Best podcast in the universe.

YEAH?! And of course while not technically characters, her impressions of a bike horn, spring, and pull cord curtains are top notch foley work.

It's not dumb to think that, it's just a poor assumption to make. Tig is more well-known than Lennon and has a very dead-pan delivery, so I can see why someone would hear a person playing a character with a similar voice on a show that they know Tig has been on before and assume that it is Tig; never realizing that Jessica St. Clair and Lennon Parham are longtime writing partners with origins at the UCB which is why Listler and Wompler work so well together. And it's not just about tone of voice either, it's also about style of comedy. In general, Tig doesn't DO characters (other than the Good One Robot and the Little Suitcase Kid, and both of those consist of one to two sentences, tops; listen to Professor Blastoff for the latter). She is a pretty straight-forward stand-up comedian and sometimes actor, not an improvisor. Even when she is on shows, she plays herself. Tig is a huge personality. I understand your surprise at discovering a low-voiced woman was not the low-voiced woman you thought it was, but it does feel like a huge level of credulity was required for someone to-- having done zero research-- accept an assumption as fact only to then express such disbelief at the revelation that said assumption was completely wrong upon doing the research. I cannot grasp how someone listening to CBB does not check out who are the guests in order to put names to the comedy being enjoyed. I can't relate. I'm glad you've discovered Lennon Parham. She is hilarious!

I was audibly losing my mind at my desk when this happened. I had to pause the podcast so I could laugh it all out, wiping tears from my eyes for over a minute. So good.

"When you say plot-" "-How do you mean?" Lololol

Now I'm starting to think that when Traci was very abruptly and very gently attacked the night before Riot LA before she could even say "Help me, Rhonda," it was NOT random at all...

This made me guffaw: RIO 2: "We're not people, we're birds! We have to get out in the wild and be birds!-" HOWARD: "JUST BE humans that need to go out somewhere! Like, you know? Stop personifying it! I mean-" NATASHA: "Oh, but the JOKES in these cartoons, how 'bout 'em?" (and that Andy Dick Four Quadrants joke? Joan Rivers better watch her back. How-How's coming for her comedy stylings lol)

Sark, NICE The Proposition reference! That image you described was such an amazing end to that scene in the film. So dire.

All signs point to yes. It's not like they're tooling around in the ratman-infested, abandoned dwarven mines for kicks. They're in the middle of the shit. It sucks they lost Gerry's Sir Richard's single-minded focus, but that doesn't mean their quest is even close to being done, and it certainly doesn't mean they don't care. Like any game, what matters is the journey, not the destination. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlITBBDrsbc

I loved the cop sirens on Sunset Blvd contributing to not one but two scenes, especially because the second time occurred right after Matt was able to incorporate the Facebook line he mentioned on last week's ep.

That's why I must insist you check out the DC show. Toronto was fine for PFT's Thicke, but DC was OFF. THE. RAILS. (which is why I wrote it like that)