MusicalGuest

As we all know, it's Podcast Oscar season and this episode was Sean's bid to take home the gold. He is tired of sharing his statue with Hayes, it's time he gets one all himself that he can put in his room instead of just going to Hayes's house to visit it. It's like when Ernest Borgnine won for "Marty" in 1955 after his comedy duo Borgnine & Lassie broke up. It was his time for solo recognition without that spotlight-hogging pooch and now Sean will shine on Podcast Hollywood's biggest night.

I like how Gemberling the x-treme deviant ended up in the role of deeply confused straight-man to Sean and Hayes

Formerly known as MusicalGuest. Hayes wanted me to change my name so here you go Hayes. You're welcome.

Such a loopy episode with a really fun, laid-back energy -- no one promoting anything, just genial weird silliness. The combination of the Time Keeper and New No-Nos was just insane and wonderful. One of my favorites of the year, I think, and one where you can tell how much Scott is enjoying the proceedings, which is always contagious.

Pretty good clevernesses in this ep. Love a good cleverness

I was absent for like three weeks and my silence was rewarded with the pro version! I'm too lazy to change my username, sorry Hayes

Just remembered Tom's genuinely confused reactions to Sean and Hayes rattling off actual Earwolf shows and laughed for a while about it

This definitely would be a good intro, especially for Best Show fans. It's very accessible with no inside/running jokes, a funny standalone intro segment, and a great interview with a clear straight-man/weirdo dynamic that people know from Best Show and elsewhere. Plus it's just an instant classic ep.

Well, here's my theory about what happened with this weird episode. I think Paul's intention with the character was centered around the ISIS thing, but Scott didn't really pick up on that, so Paul was lost. By the time they came back to it (Paul finally brought it up himself), it was pretty much too late.

Speaking of Frankingsteins, does anyone else constantly think about the time Sean mentioned "Kevin Baking"? One of those great one-off jokes too perfect ever to be revived.

Sean's energy level is always a little different/higher on the live episodes. The best example of that here was his delivery of "not this time" when he told us why he isn't scared of the the nice Frankingstein from The Munsters. That's an all-time great HH moment as is Brian Huskey's freakout at the very dedicated fan's question about Teen Pope being a real movie.

Speak on that

I've been trying to listen to Reality Show Show and I found the origin of Hayes' obsession with "loads," they play a clip from the reality show "Gigolos" (which must have also inspired "Gigolo House" from Nick Kroll TV show) where a guy says he likes to "cook off monster loads." Hayes loves to talk about loads

Frances Bean Cobain... is she Mr. Bean daughter?

LOL I'm gonna watch this awkward hangout without participating

I'd just like to point out that the Tedd Talk on "kid acquisition" lines up good with Neil Campbell's rap battles about picking up boys at the pool from the other show. You can tell Wolfcool is a offshoot of Earwolf because both have really cool and smart joke about preying on children, almost as smart as British comedy.

This is a great example of how the show is better when no one is promoting anything. Such a loose vibe but every moment was occupied by something funny. Heynong man

So did Scott just miss LL and TM's early attempts to point toward their dad as the killer, or was he consciously not following them down that route? He's usually pretty sharp about seizing on stuff like that within the improv, so it was weird.

I noticed no one said speak on that in this episode, do you think Hayes and Sean were being scared of the mean guy on the CBB forum who told us not to say it anymore?

Old town playhouse. Surrogate incest. Bug lord. There were like 20 bits per minute during the table read, my man (and none of them were HH callbacks).

I tried the first ep of Reality Show Show after I'd caught up on my HH binge and needed a fix, but I know nothing about reality TV and had a hard time following it. But the comments above are my own personal "ehhh, wrong" clarion call to give it another shot.

It's so funny to me to imagine people unfamiliar with HH listening to this and thinking "why do these guys keep messing up plurals?"

This makes me very very happy. Scott Anchorman is such a natural third for Hayes and Sean, I almost want to hear the three of them together every week, all telling each other to speak on that. I love how the guys wasted no time launching into as many HH running gags as they could, coming out of the gate with farmy brat, seguing immediately into too scary, even mentioning science book. Now I understand why "fan service" is so fun for comic books nerds.

Please include the "yeah right" bit from the Pete Holmes episode!!

Almost choked on Wendy's in my car when I heard what "Cody's feed" is