Smosh Mouth - We Found Our So Random Scripts!

Episode Date: March 4, 2024

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Hello, I'm Shane and welcome to Smosh Mouth. Hi, I'm Amanda and we have a wonderful special guest, Damien Haas. Hey, great to be here, Amanda. Great to be here, Shane. Thank you for having me on your show. Thanks, Damien. We're so excited to have you. Glad to have you here. This episode's going to be really cool. We've talked about So Random before on podcasts here at Smosh, but I was rummaging around my room and I found some old scripts.

Legitimately. I found three. So random scripts from back when we were on the show. I also found the iCarly script, found a Henry danger script, found a movie script. I found deer lemon Lima movie. I did when I was a teenager.

I found, I kept all these scripts, but somewhere Quentin reviews is foaming at the mouth. He's like oh! But the So Random scripts I even found, here's the one I found. Oh my god. Has, I'll show it briefly.

We might have to blur some stuff out, just some stuff, but there's a bunch of signatures from all the cast, including Damien, you wrote, ooh, ooh! Because that was the inside joke. And yeah. Do you want, I'm going to, there's going to be a lot of inside jokes. Do you want us to explain everyone?

So basically, I am here as a voyager. I am sitting in a passenger seat with my seatbelt on. And I am going to be asking questions of things that I don't know or curious about but I want to hear about your So Random journey because I feel like me as Amanda I know you guys from Smosh I know Shane and Damien from Smosh

right but I you guys have brought up So Random so I'm so glad that he found these scripts because I want to know and you've never watched a single bit of So Random I haven't watched a damn episode of So Random not on purpose scripts because I want to know. And you've never watched a single bit of So Random. I haven't watched a damn episode of So Random, not on purpose, just because, life. Yeah, that's okay. I would be almost a little weirded out

if you were like, oh yeah, I've watched. I've seen every single episode and that's why I'm on Smosh because I beg to get on here because I love So Random. We inspired Amanda to get into sketch. Imagine it if I admitted that, if I was like, okay, I'm going to fangirl real quick, but you guys are the reason why I got into sketch.

I mean, that would be huge. But I have had people say things like, oh, I used to watch you as a kid where I'm like, oh, that hurts my feelings because now I feel older. But like I was saying earlier, you know, while waiting for this, I didn't get recognized for So Random Stuff until I started on Smosh because I was in college at the time. So unless I was at the grocery store after work hours,

when would a kid recognize me at all? When would I be around people of the age to watch this? That's true. So like, yeah. So So Random came out in 2011? Yes. Was it 11? I think it was 11. I'm looking at the date. I thought it was 10. It was 11?

I think it was 11. I'm looking at the date. I think we started. It is there. This first sketch was written in March. So literally, quite literally 13 years ago. Wow. As of this. And this is when you guys met.

How are we doing? Yes. It's funny because i i remember like getting on the sound stage and not being sure where to go and shane walks by and there was just a little like i don't believe in too much metaphysical stuff but there was just a little like sort of like radar going off and i was like i'm probably gonna talk to him way more um and then he was like the first person i met in our not audition actual table read. Yeah. Cause I, we got hired.

All the cast kind of came in at like different times, like the first two weeks. So they brought in a couple of the newer cast in the first week and I was in on the first episode. And then a second week they brought in you, Matthew Scott, a couple of the people into the table read. And I remember since I didn't know what the deal was with this show, I wasn't hired on as a regular. To this day, we still don't. We still don't know where we were.

But we weren't hired as regulars. I auditioned. And do you know the whole background of this whole thing? Do you know about Sunny with a Chance and stuff? That sounds familiar. So Sunny with a Chance was a sitcom on Disney Channel, similar to Hannah Montana, Wizards of Waverly Place.

It was around that time. And it starred Demi Lovato. Denim La Bamba. Yes. Yeah, we were talking about this. This was, I was like, it wasn't in my vicinity. I was too old. Yeah, both Demi and I were too.

I was, I mean, mean generally speaking I was 19 at the time so I wasn't watching Disney Channel and not that anyone can't yeah exactly well

but I at the time I wasn't and but Demi Lovato but I was very aware let me be clear

I was very aware of all the Disney shows because I was auditioning for that I had auditioned for Hannah Montana I'd probably auditioned for Wizards and stuff. Okay.

So had the first two seasons. It was a big show. And then for reasons that- I think they won three. They won three seasons. Did they go three? We were the fourth. Interesting.

But it went for a couple seasons with Demi Lovato as the core selling point star of this show. And she's a huge star already. She leaves the show for, for reasons many people are, you know, aware of now and stuff.

This was a long time ago, but she leaves the show. And so now they still contractually need to do another season, but they don't have their literal star. So they're like, what do we do? The show is about the behind the scenes of a sketch show. A la 30 Rock.

So they, it's literally 30 Rock on Disney Channel. Oh, I get it. And this is the sketch show. So then they just go, let's make the sketch show. That's actually smart. I think so. I think that's brilliant. But it was also, it was weird to do because I'm like,

Disney's never done sketch. Can I give you the crazy background for before that? Sure. Years prior, I'm living in Georgia, still auditioning for things. And I auditioned for a show called Sketchpad. And I get called back a few times. And I'm like, oh, man, like this might be a thing. And it is a sketch comedy show for the Disney Channel with a small element of focusing on the players in the sketch show.

So I end up getting called back a few times. I audition. I don't end up booking it. You know, disappointing, but so it goes. And then when I'm auditioning for So Random, it's the same casting director. And she goes, oh, I'm so glad you're here. Oh, it's so good to see you again. And I'm like, oh, that's exactly what you want to hear um come to find out as you know production hell goes it started out as sketchpad became sunny

with a chance and then when she left i think it was like let's pull the ripcord on what this was supposed to originally be and turn back did you know that i i remember i never auditioned for sketchpad but i remember my agents at one point being like, we got to get you in the room for Sketchpad. They've got that. Were they chomping on a cigar? I don't know. I don't know why I'm making them that. They're women and they're not.

But I never got an audition for it for whatever reason at the time. And I remember being like, damn, OK. And then it came back around and I got the audition for So Random. And yeah, the audition process was very similar to Smosh. Really? Where they were like, prepare a bunch of characters and come in. There was no script. There was no nothing.

And so like bring in impressions, characters and stuff. So I came in with some similar characters that I did for Smosh, honestly. I was like, I can do a Tom Cruise impression. So I did stuff like that. What was your audition like? I know we've talked talked about, I mean, they recognized you. They knew. Yeah. Um, I do a lot better flying by the seat of my pants than I do with like a written out script. So I had some general ideas of like, okay, these are some character types. These are like impressions I can kind of do. And I just sort of improv. I was like, give me a word. And they

were like bubbles. And I was like, great bubbles, then I went from there and just went in character to character to character, and that was it. But that's more comfortable for me, because I would have been so nervous having to like, memorize, yeah, I figured like, hey, game recognized, game. For those of you with the audio version, we just bumped fists.

But yeah, so when we went in for the table read, I was told it was still an audition. They were like, hey, they want to bring you in for a table read, see how it goes. And so I did that. And then they were like, all right, so tomorrow we're going to meet up and do the whatever. And I was like, for me too on the, the, huh?

And they were like, yeah, it's, you're going to film this. And I was like, oh God. And it was like that for all 24 episodes we did of like, I guess you're back this week. And bro, they throw you in and it's a Disney Channel show where, so my first week I'm like, okay, I'm showing up. What is this?

And I'm a guest star, but I'm fully in this show. We do the table read and it's shot like a sitcom. So you show up on Monday, we're table reading that episode. And then we go into a light rehearsal, and then you rehearse, you rehearse, you shoot some stuff on Thursday, I think.

Live show on Friday. And then we do live on Friday. Live sitcom style? Live sitcom, but live sketch. So it's more like SNL. And it is in front of a big audience. 100 children.

100 fucking kids. And it's my first week And it's my first week. I've never done live. I have done stage shit. I didn't know that. I didn't do live. I was 19. I would have never known that. I was not doing live performances. I had been

on sets. And iCarly was the crew that does the laughter. Live is a totally different game. So I get in front of live and the first sketch we're doing, I am for some reason the lead of it. And I'm doing an impression of Billy Mays. He had died eight months prior to this sketch being filmed. And I was like, Disney, what are you doing?

Okay. And I'm doing this whole bit. And I remember, I remember getting into it. I'm like, okay, I'm filming this sketch in front of a bunch of people. They don't know who I am. So I need to be good or else this is going to flatline because these kids aren't like stoked to see me because they know me.

They were so hyped to see the rest of the cast. Yeah, and there was always like a musical guest too, where it's like, we even had Justin Bieber. And so we always feel like, but I had only done live cause I barely ever booked on camera stuff. Cause I'm not, um, like believable as an actor. So, so I was like, so I would like did an improv theater, you know, that was my like entire high school thing. I worked at an improv theater in Atlanta would drive up every day, but like the on

camera stuff scared the crap out of me. So I guess we just tagged out who was going to be shitting themselves that day. I remember- What? Now I really want to watch it. They yelled action on it. And I remember I have to pop up and start doing this bit.

And I'm in this insane character. And I remember I pop up, I save my first line and then I get a response. And I remember I had like a second where I'm, and I was doing my bit to the camera because I'm a salesman. I'm Billy Mays. Yeah. And I remember, I still vividly remember I had like a second where I'm and I was doing my bit to the camera because I'm a salesman I'm Billy Mays

and I remember I still vividly remember I had like a second where I froze and I was just there and I was just like and maybe it read as nothing to people but I remember I had the split second where I go holy shit and then I just like I was like I gotta just go and that was your moment

it could have gone this way or this way I had to go. And that was your moment. It could either have gone this way or this way. I had to go for it. And those first two episodes, I watched them and I'm like, all right. And then this first sketch that we have, that I pulled, this is episode. Oh, yeah. So we have scripts with us. This is episode five.

This is wild. That we're going to read. Yeah. So I found the scripts. So I pulled a. That we're going to read. Yeah, so I found the scripts. I found the scripts. So I pulled a bunch and we're going to read them today. I guess I should have clarified that. Oh my God.

I'm so excited. So this is from episode five. This is around the time when I started to feel comfortable. And this first sketch is called Garlic Garden. Right. I don't know, were you on set for this? I remember watching it. I think I was on set watching it, but I wasn't know were you on set for this I remember watching it I think I was on set watching it but I wasn't in it and also

I haven't seen these scripts in a long time because they all went to my college email because I was like I'm gonna have that forever and I plan ahead I would take some from the table reads and from our and I would stack them up in my dressing room and the LaCroix cans let's unpack this

because now it's a thing I love stacking things. I think Shane wants to live in a castle. I would legitimately stack all, and you'd get like four scripts throughout the week because they're revising them. But I hit a point where my script stack in my dressing room was like six feet tall.

It was huge. So every week, every Friday, every Friday was a sketch. It was a live show. No, multiple sketches. Yeah. Was multiple sketches a sketch. It was a live show. No, multiple sketches. Yeah. Was multiple sketches. And how long was the live show?

Handful hours. So it was like what? Nine? Oh, these were long days. They were long days. No, nine sketches, eight sketches, six sketches. Five or six eventually. They usually come in with like seven and a couple would get pared down during the week

because they had a team of 800 writers. And yeah, I remember they had to be very careful about how long they had the kids on set. So that was something we had to be aware of. Child labor laws. So this, the script I have is for the final episode. Oh. Episode 26.

That's where I have this whole script. I have the other scripts at home. This is actually amazing that you guys did this. So what was crazy is since they kept you in this kind of like weird loop, like, did I get it? Did I didn't? You probably couldn't really celebrate while you were doing it. We guest starred for 26 episodes.

But here's the difference. We got paid like a third of what the series regulars did. It's my big break and you're like, oh, I still have to struggle for rent. I do remember getting my first ever bachelor pad apartment after that. And looking back now, the rent was

bone cheap, even at the time. But I was like, this is going to last forever. And it was Los Angeles. So within a year, I was like, uh-oh! Time to learn how to sell jeans! But yeah, so this first sketch then, yeah, there's roughly like eight or nine sketches per episode, but this first sketch

is from episode five, so this is around March, and we started in January. Love it. This is the first time where I couldn't stop breaking up until this point my nerves

my nerves had kept me where I didn't break at all in any of our sketches I didn't even smile because I was so nervous I knew this was when

I was finally comfortable because I and this wasn't live this one was one of the ones we filmed on like a Thursday because that's a lot of cunts but I remember

I could not hold it in were they mad about that or okay at first we were all laughing and I wasn't the only one laughing but at a certain point they were like alright come on let's get this together yeah I also had that problem at that time and I remember like there was one background actor that was like

hey it'd be funnier if you weren't laughing at the joke and I was like thanks man your background I'm guest star was like, hey, it'd be funnier if you weren't laughing at the joke. And I was like, thanks, man. Thanks. You're like, your background, I'm guest star. I'm guest star. Okay, so this is called The Garlic Garden. Amanda, can you play Mom?

Of course. And also, can you play Farrah? Yes. Damien, can you play Dad and Timmy? Yeah. Is Farrah, can you play Farrah? Yes. Damien, can you play Dad and Timmy? Yeah. Is Farrah, how old is Farrah? Farrah's ancient. She's like a- I thought you were going to say 16.

She's like a grandma, right? No, that was played by Allison. I think that's a kid, right? It says teen girl Farrah. Wait, this is before the recast. What? So Farrah was recasted by an ancient woman? She's like super old.

That was the fun part of So Random. It was a bunch of teens and then one really old stinky lady. Sorry, sorry. I have this wrong. I have this wrong. Mom is ancient. Of course. Disney.

Motherfuckers. Mom is so ancient, nobody knows how she was ever hot. Well, here's what's confusing. So the rest of the cast, the regulars on the show, they have their character names, but all of us that were hired on, they have our first names, but then they would give us a different last name

so that we weren't playing ourselves. We're characters. Yeah. Do you want to guess what my last name was? Shane, like, Michaels or like Rich. Shane Zabo. A proud Polish name. No, what is Zabo?

I don't know what it is to this day. It's cool. It's Disney. Shane Zabo was my name. What was yours? Damien Johansson. I'm like, that's vaguely Franco-Dutch. Sure.

Great. Shane Zabo. Zabo. All right, so you'll be mom and Farrah who's a teen I think Farrah's an adult it says teen girl Farrah

damn okay yeah because I was also do I know this show you're so lucky you got 26 episodes out of it let's just read this

and see what's going on yes sir this is probably before the edits before they revised it do you want me to read the stage directions or you got it I can read the stage directions or you got it? I can read the stage directions.

Okay. And I'm Dad and Timmy. Yeah. Okay. Here we go. Interior, the garlic garden. Music cue, happy commercial background music. Angle on, a sign for the garlic garden restaurant.

A happy family. Mom, dad, teen girl, and young Timmy sit at a table laughing and eating in an Olive Garden-esque restaurant. More breadsticks, Timmy? Oh, thanks, Mom! This place is awesome. And I'll have some of that unlimited salad. Vito Banducci, Shane, steps up to the table. That's what it's there for!

More laughs. Hey, I'm Vito Banducci. Welcome to the garlic garden. Here, we treat you like family. I sure would love some water. So you got legs, get it yourself. And you're wearing too much makeup. Thing is, I don't like my family. Oh, elbows off the table, huh?

Vito slaps the back of Dad's head. What are we, animals? Like I said, we treat yous like family. Oh, elbows off the table, huh? Vito slaps the back of Dad's head. What are we, animals? Like I said, we treat yous like family. Um, could I get the chicken zucchini ravioli, but with no zucchini? I'm gonna make an extra pot of food just for you. You'll eat what you'll get, and you'll

like it, you ungrateful jamoke. What do you think this is, a restaurant? Um, yeah? Um, yeah. All right, Mr. Smart Alec, that's it. You lose. Off the bed, no dinner. Vito takes Timmy's plate. Mommy?

At the garlic garden, you'll get authentic American chain Italian food at not very reasonable prices. But hey, you're family. A white dog jumps up on the table. Ew, gross. The dog starts eating off Farrah's plate. Get away! Don't you talk to her like that! Camilla eats on the table. She's done more

for me than any of yous ever will. At the garlic garden, when you're here, we treat yous like family. Interior of the garlic garden, as're here we treat you like family interior of the garlic garden as before angle on Vito leaning into mom look all I'm asking for

is a small loan you know a couple of grand till the end of the month I'll pay you back hey we're family oh incredible

this is way before they added in this is amazing I was in this sketch Shane yeah I was gonna say cause of the rewrite there was huge rewrites where Vito's mom keeps coming out with a pot that she's stirring.

And she's like, when are you going to meet a nice Italian woman? I'm like, get back in the kitchen, ma! And I would come out as an old man and be like, hey! They added so much shit to this. Yes. But this is the original. This is the table read version. I could see this happening on the UCB stage right now.

I'm not kidding. This is actually really funny and good and also very Italian. Very Italian. No, it's very strange that they cast me, who's not Italian at all. She's so white, you're like, you, you guys. They're like, Shane Zabo is Italian? As in Italian. I give you permission to say that. Thank you, is Italian. As in Italian. I give you permission to say that.

Thank you, Damien. Okay, so they rewrote this whole thing. They rewrote it a lot. And we would be getting rewrites on the day. Oh, yeah. That makes sense. Yeah, because it's like sitcom style. It reminds me of Sketch, where you would get rewrites up to an hour before the show.

Very much so. Usually they had it locked at least, but like there were like a couple tweaks. Well, go ahead. Well, unlike SNL, we didn't need teleprompters, but they would make changes in the moment because like, you know, you read the same sketch all week. You've heard it all week. It's not going to make you laugh the same way all week. No, it's not.

But in the moment, they're going to be like, it's not funny to me anymore. What if the dog was a man? And you're like, oh, okay, I guess. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I understand. No, and what was so weird about it is it was run like a sitcom. And we kept sitcom writers. We kept the entire same crew and everything.

So we had a, it was a sketch show with an entire sitcom cast, including all the regulars were sitcom actors. These weren't, you know, they're all hilarious. I love them. But nobody was like, the people who were on Sunday with a Chance weren't like sketch actors. Now they were thrown into this. You know what I'm realizing is I think that that was actually a very good thing for how

the cast worked together and bonded because I, you know, come to find out after getting to know them, some of them felt like, oh no, they're bringing in these like sketch actors who really know what they're doing with sketch and like that's what they're here for. I hope we don't get forgotten. And we're in that same position of like, oh God, we're joining a show where everybody already loves these characters

and they know what they're doing. Like, do we even have jobs next week? And so we were all just sort of in the same area of like, oh gosh, I'm not as good as you. Yeah. I guess, no, that's bad for us. That kept us all low. That kept us all down.

It was so trippy. And yeah, the entire time we were like, am I going to come back next week? Yeah. For 26 episodes. Oh God, that's so stressful because you're probably thinking like, okay, we did the show.

Oh God, did I mess up that line? Maybe that's not why they're going to call me back and maybe da, da, da, da. Well, and I think part of a stipulation of not being a regular, being guest star is you can't be in every single episode. I think I'm in 24 out of 26. I'm in like 24 or 25 out of 26.

So I, and I think mine was like episode eight where they pulled me. And I remember doing seven episodes and be like, this is awesome. It's going great. And then they're like, yeah, they don't need you for next week. And I was like, oh shit. But like, I had been on this show every week for seven weeks and suddenly I was just like, oh, I guess I won't go.

Talk about the FOMO of my life. Yeah. Where you're just like at home and you're like, okay, so how's it going? It's kind of like with Smosh. They're like, hey Amanda, Angela's going to take over. I'm like, okay. And she texts me. She's like with Smosh. They're like, hey, Amanda, Angela's going to take over. I'm like, okay. And she texts me. She's like, miss you.

You're not missing anything. And then I look at all the stories and everyone's like, la, la, la, that day of my life. That was the best video we've ever done. We got tattoos. It says Angela Courtney Shane. I get like Smosh TikToks, though, that like, like you know whether it's from someone's story or like someone has put it together like there was one the other day

where it was you while someone else was making coffee you were in the background and it like zoomed it on you and it was like they're having so much fun Amanda love her and I was like

that's great they're making coffee no I saw that video I'm not doing anything you're not doing anything I'm making coffee I'm like this I'm just like

she's radiant while making it. That's nice. I should read the comments more often. It's always a healthy thing to read comments. But FOMO is a real thing. And also, you're 19 or 18. I was 19. That's really overwhelming.

Oh, it was my first like, it was, you know, you hear, and I think it's a little bit of a myth now, but you hear a lot about like your big break. Yeah. Yeah. And I think it's a myth. I think, you know, you kind of, a career is a weird thing that goes up and down, but I was like, oh my gosh, this is my big break. Like after this, I'm going to find work. I'm going to be working always.

That turned out not to be true. But I remember like, oh shit, like I can't blow this. Right. And you know, you have agents and managers who are like, we should, they're screwing you over. We should negotiate for something. And you're like, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, don't say anything.

Don't rock the boat. I'll do it for free. I'll kiss them. I'll make you feel good. I'll paint their house. I'll do whatever. Yeah. I'll do the funny dance.

We get so desperate. We're like, don't rock the boat. I'm so sick. Yeah. I'll do the funny dance. We get so desperate. We're like, don't rock the boat. I'm so sick. I'm coming into work. It's like, yeah, if we unionize

and stick together, we can get what we deserve. Right guys? Guys. And everyone's like, I'll do the backpack kid dance. There was, there was so much anxiety

around the whole show. And I remember, and I wanted to say earlier of like when you came in, you and like other people came in for the second week at the table read. I was like, oh fuck, we're getting replaced. I was like, I was like, I was like, oh in you and like other people came in for the second week at the table read i was like oh fuck we're getting replaced oh i was like i was like i was like oh us and the other people that came in for the first episode we clearly didn't pass the test

and they're showing us our replacement so everyone thought they were getting replaced nobody got replaced like everyone was there do you think they do that on purpose uh i think they on purpose don't really try to comfort you or tell you producers are not going to be there to be like hey we just want to let you know like we think this cast is solid and you guys are going to be here from start to finish they don't want you to have too much confidence

I think there's a part of it that's like that for manipulation to put it bluntly but I also think it's just like legally you can't promise work to anybody but like I remember I was in a position there where like I was considering dropping out of college because I was showing up to classes just to like take tests and I would like skateboard as quickly as possible back to where my car was parked

you know half the campus away and would drive to Hollywood to film as quickly as possible and try not to be late and I was like what am I doing and my dad had just passed too and I was like I what am I doing? And my dad had just passed too. And I was like, I don't really have a whole lot of like cornerstones to be like, is this a good life decision to drop out of college and do this show, which is clearly the only thing I have time for.

So I kept asking them like, hey, like, I know you can't say officially, but like, between you, me and the wallpaper. Yeah, but officially. Am I employed for seven more episodes, please? And they were like, we don't know. They were like, we're having a great time with you. And I'm like.

They might. I will say, though, they might not have known. I don't think they did. They might have been like, we're just hoping on this week. Well, maybe. I think that's part of it. And it's true, because even the people most in charge at So Random were answering to someone else from the Disney execs. We're probably giving them

vague answers. Yeah. And I know towards the end of the show, they were upset that like the Disney execs didn't want it, you know? And those decisions are ultimately made by like the ultimate ultimates. I think that's pretty dumb on their part because like

All That was a sketch show, but the thing is, all that wasn't live wasn't it? I thought all that wasn't filmed live, I thought some of it was but was it? So I'm not saying it wasn't like live as in like live

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Rocketmoney.com slash smoshmouth. Back to the show. Back to the show. But this is in a different era. And we were talking about this the other day. Yeah. We were talking about how different kids sitcoms were in the 90s versus this is the era, like after Hannah Montana,

it was the era of merchandising and the era of like pushing all this stuff. Yeah. And it was like, you want to be famous. You want to be a singer. You want to be all this and like just all this merchandise. And so Random couldn't have any merchandise

because it was sketch. Yeah. It was hard to merchandise off of it. The dancing show, like Step It Up or what was it? Shake It Up. Shake It Up. And it was like, oh, so you would have like- It was hard to merchandise off of it. The dancing show, like Step It Up, or what was it? Shake It Up. Shake It Up, and it was like, oh, we've got the Bella, I'm sorry, I'm forgetting all of this.

Bella Thorne and Zendaya. We got the Bella Thorne lunchbox, and you want to buy that, and we couldn't do that. Because we- We didn't have a singular character. We realized the other day, when we were talking about this,

Disney doesn't have commercials. They only have their own, it's all Disney all the time. If it's a commercial, it's a promotion for a movie of Disney. So Disney doesn't, at least, yeah, it doesn't make money off of its TV shows directly. They make money off the merchandising that comes with their shows. So it's simply because they couldn't make merchandising off. That's our guess.

That was our guess. We never got told that officially, but I thinking about it, knowing this industry, it's that it's also that it was expensive. Sketch is expensive. The pig outfit. Oh, but they also would spend so much money on money.

They're building brand new sets every week for sketches. The sets were great, but like we didn't, we did a sketch where like someone had to play Porky pig and you know, you would imagine maybe like a little nose, some like ears, like that's sketch comedy, that's enough. They rented a, to the best of my knowledge,

I think it was $10,000 to rent this very true to life pig mascot outfit that you could not act in. Okay, we'll put this up on screen. Can you pass her the prosthetic? So I did a sketch called Jack Sparrow, where I am a sparrow. That's funny though. And they did full on prosthetics.

That is a beak that moves up and down with my mouth. That's funny though. Wait, that's... Yeah, but that's really good. Wait, that's you? Yes, I was in hours of makeup. And they did prosthetic stuff like this all the time. Damien had a sketch called My Big Hands.

Oh, yeah. Sorry, that was probably too loud. My Big Hands. Apparently, it was a prop that was used on some Star Trek shoot. But they were just very realistic hands that were very comically big, but looked real and were articulated and I could move perfectly. And they had to put me in these very realistically. And that was the whole thing. It was a kid with really big hands.

It was a whole sketch. So they were doling out. You guys are cool. The budget was insane. That is so cool. We're doing stuff that like should never have, they shouldn't have been spending that money. But that's so cool.

It was really cool to experience special effects makeup. Yeah. Like that's, unless I get on a Star Trek show, I'm probably not going to have that level. What is it like to get special effects makeup on?

So for the beak that they had to put on my face, where literally like, I think I could still breathe out of my nose is what's crazy. But no, it takes forever.

Like they were like, all right, you're going to sit down with this special effects makeup person early in the day. We're going to film this later. And also, mind you, I'm in a gigantic fucking feather suit with a pirate costume over it. Comfy.

But I forget, they apply a bunch of stuff and then they put this beak on and then they spend forever applying onto that. So you have this beak on your face, but when you open your mouth, it opens and you're just start, you start talking. And when you talk, it talks and you do have to be very, um, uh, pronounced with how you talk. Like I had to make sure I was talking like that while also doing my Jack Sparrow impression

and we're filming it in a nest. Make sure I was talking like that while also doing my Jack Sparrow impression. And we're filming it in a nest. I'm sorry. That sketch does embarrass me. Honestly. Well, that was when I didn't get to see filming. So I only saw it filmed. I think that was like the week after or the week before I joined.

And so I was just impressed as hell by it. It was one of the first weeks and it got hot and we're in all this stuff. So when you're sitting in the chair, do you have anything to pass the time? I mean, you would talk to the special effects person. A lot of the makeup artists and hair stylists would just be really cool, chill people that

you could talk to. I had a recurring character that was a zombie that in a write-up, they said was the darkest thing to ever happen on the Disney Channel. But the whole joke was that oops, a kid went missing. It was probably the zombie that ate him. And so I had like a mild amount of special effects make up and they sort of got it down pat. They could get it done within an hour

and they're like basically like gluing crepe paper to my face to make it look like shredded skin. But like it was the first sketch I filmed and I'm also in like a Letterman jacket in the heat of a blacktop pavement parking lot in LA in the summer. And I'm just sweating this all down. And it was just the most like,

it's so fun in the moment, but then when you're done, you're like, that is every ounce of energy I've ever had in my life. Yeah. Wow. Speaking of your sketches, our second one I printed out, I wanted to find Zombieman,

but Zombieman didn't have a lot of, like, I didn't find a Zombieman sketch. It doesn't have a lot of performance in it. It's a little bit more of a... Okay. No, I'm kidding. But I found the one that does have more performance, and that is Olaf Glutella, fake foreign exchange student. Oh. Olaf Glutella, fake foreign exchange student.

Olaf Glutella, like Nutella? Probably. But Glutella. Does she bake a lot of gluten? This is also from the same episode as the Garlic Garden. So this is early on. How you feel about the Jack Sparrow one? I think I feel that way about this one. Really?

You had a lot where you had to do accents, because you also had the Irish teacher one. Yeah, so for this one I was like, oh, do you want like a realistic any kind of accent? And they were like no, make it weird and different because he's foreign. And I'm like, what can I do? Can I pick a place? And they're just like, no, make it wacky

because you're a fake foreign exchange student. I'm like, okay. So this came out in 2011. Everyone just heads up. That's fine. And this is on the Disney channel. Yeah. In 2011.

So Amanda, can you play Mrs. Jaffe? Of course. Is she ancient? I don't think so. She's an ancient teenager at Natalia. I am actually cast as the announcer. And then Damien, can you be Owen Gordon and Olaf?

Yeah. Wow, Olaf. Who are the students? The students? They're extras. Yeah, fuck them. Yeah. They don't matter.

Like, they don't matter. True. Now, would you like me to do it as I did in the day? I want you to try to do it as you performed it. I don't remember normal Owen, but I do remember Olaf, so let's make that happen. I remember

it too, very vividly. Alright. Interior, classroom. Owen Gordon, Damien, is being tossed out of his classroom by Mrs. Jaffe. After being expelled for extreme class clowning. Exterior, school hallway, sag down smack

down set. That's a different sketch. Continuous, the classroom door slams behind Owen. He pouts and then gets an idea. Typical American teenager, Owen Gordon realized there was only one way to return to school and continue his shenanigans.

Cut to, interior bathroom, bedazzle zit bathroom set. Continuous, Owen looks at himself in the mirror, dips down out of view. When he pops up, he is wearing a bushy mustache, crazy wig, wild and crazy guy's shirt, dark eyebrows, revealing a foreign look. O-M-G.

Announcer via. Just quick check-in. We sure about this one? We sure, right? All right, here we go. This is what we were handed by. This is from 2011 from an actual Disney show that Shane and Damien did.

He became Olaf Glutella, fake foreign exchange student. Olaf looks in mirror, points a water gun and squirts. Olaf looking in mirror. How do you say, in my country, it means,

welcome everybody. Interior. Interior classroom. High school classroom. The no-nonsense teacher, Mrs. Jaffe, enters. Students, please join me in welcoming our new foreign exchange student from Glendovia, Olaf Glutella. Olaf Glutella enters the class doing the same crazy flailing arms and legs walk. Then kicks Mrs. Jaffe in the butt. The kids laugh.

Olaf smiles, loving it. Olaf, why are you kicking me in the buttocks? How you say in my country, it means hello. Again, hello. Olaf kicks Mrs. Jaffe in the butt again. Class laughs. Olaf, that Jaffe in the butt again. Class laughs. Olaf, that's enough with the hellos. Take your seat and leave mine alone.

And don't feel like you have to participate, but you can if you want. Olaf does his crazy walk to his seat to laughs. Mrs. Jaffe riding on the whiteboard. Who can tell me what X cubed is? Slam! A beach ball smacks the board, bounces off. Ah!

Mrs. Jaffe turns around to see Olaf volleying a beach ball. Olaf! How you say, in my country, this is participate! I love participate! Olaf bounces the beach ball into the air a few times, then sends it flying at Mrs. Jaffe,

just missing her head. He keeps smacking the beach ball at her air a few times, then sends it flying at Mrs. Jaffe, just missing her head. He keeps smacking the beach ball at her. She keeps screaming and ducking. Participant! Participant! Participant! Ow! Mrs. Jaffe tries to catch the ball, fails, tries again, runs all over the class until she finally grabs it and holds it, panting.

The class is laughing. Olaf, in America, we don't participate by throwing beach balls at heads. Show your teacher some respect. Oh, no. Let me sorry. Olaf runs up to the front of the class, pulls out silly string from his backpack,

and sprays Mrs. Jaffe's face. Olaf, why in the world will you spray me with funny floss? Rotten egg-s scented funny floss. Oh, you see, in my country it means respect. Kids probably love this sketch.

I have so much respect for you. So much respect. The class is dying. Olaf, no more anything. No respect,. Olaf, no more anything. No respect, no participate, no hellos. Sit quietly and do nothing. Do nothing.

Do you understand? Olaf nods like a bobblehead. The rest of you, while your teacher tries to get a certain classmate transferred to another school, you'll take a pop quiz. Groans from the class, but then the fire alarm goes off. Mrs. Jaffe turns to see Olaf pumping the fire alarm. Olaf! No! Bad Olaf!

Well, you see, in my country, this doing nothing! Olaf pumps the fire alarm. Doing nothing! Doing nothing! Doing nothing! Pop quiz cancelled. Everyone file out. The class cheers, Olaf, Olaf, Olaf, as they file out of class.

Olaf's the last one out. How do you say? Dropping accent and act. I'm getting away with murder. Wink. Disney taught children to act like this? Oh my God. The iPad generation is Disney's fault.

This is why teachers were miserable. Are miserable. This explains Gen Z. This was a lot of fun. This is a very well-crafted sketch. It's a lot of fun. These are very well-crafted. They're perfectly wrapped up.

They're great. The writers knew what they were doing. They all had pretty impressive resumes and like really knew what was up. They're great. And that is, this is, it's cool seeing this because like, this is one of the ones that gets brought up the most when people talk about it. Really? To me, I guess.

It's not like it happens that often, but like when someone brings it up, I'm like, oh yeah, that was a thing. So it is a well-crafted sketch. It is goofy, and it really did give me an opportunity to be pretty wacky in one of my first episodes. I don't know. I love it. I feel like if this sketch was brought to now-age theater,

like UCB, they'd be like, all right, super cool. What if Olaf was like, you know what? You're right. I'm going to reveal something to you. And know what you're right I'm gonna reveal something to you and then he just goes I'm not from Gundovia I'm from

blah blah blah and we all think that you're gonna like take off your mustache and stuff and then she's like Olaf yeah

different disguise the Derek comedy like let me get the principal right perfect sketch come on students wow

we played a lot of characters. We sure did. Because you had Zombieman, you had Olaf Glutella, you had the Irish, he had an Irish teacher character where the whole point was that you couldn't say,

there was a word you couldn't say. They wanted me to say 40 and it sounded like farty. Oh, 240. Like I'm farty. Yeah. You couldn't say 240.

240. I had like watched like a few Colin Farrell movies to like prepare. I'm like, I really want to do a good Irish accent. And they're like, no, we want you to do like the hoity-toity-toity. And I was like watched like a few Colin Farrell movies to like prepare. I'm like, I really want to do a good Irish accent. And they're like, no, we want you to do the like the hoi-ta-toi-ta-toi.

And I was like, okay. Let's go, baby. No, be offensive. Yeah, but also like no kid is going to be like, that's Belford. That's Belford Abbey. I'll spell faster. I don't know. It's too far, T-Kids.

Yeah. We had a lot. That's County Cork. Because I had a character that I loved called Mr. Goodman. Yeah. We had a lot. That's County Cork. Because I had a character that I loved called Mr. Goodman. Yes! Which was like this teacher who's trying to be really cool. And I would roll around the class in Heelys.

And it always had crazy stunts. So in like one sketch, the first one I ever did, I had to Heely around the room, like run into things. I had to throw a book through a window. So breakaway glass for that. I had to heel around the room, run into things. I had to throw a book through a window. So breakaway glass for that. I had to break a guitar on a desk. I had to then karate chop the desk in half. It was not a breakaway desk.

Shane just focused all his power. It really was strong. And then I had to roll out of the classroom, out back, and then I had to fall on the ground right around where the glass broke. It was so much shit. That's so broke. It was so much shit. That's so cool. It was crazy, man.

That, I mean, I would want to do that now. I feel like those type of shows are so fun to be like, all right, you're going to do all this crazy stuff. Also, the cool teacher. But do the students think he's cool? No. Okay, that's the best character ever. It's great. You're trying to play it cool. What's funny is that the kids weren't making fun of me.

They were just kind of like, hey man, you don't have to do this. And he's like, don't worry guys. Watch this. Yeah, it was very fun. You brought him to a Smosh sketch though. Did we call him Mr. Goodman? No, we didn't call him Mr. Goodman. We did every substitute ever. If you watch it, it's literally. The origin of Mr. Grubb as well.

I was in that. Were you in every substitute teacher? I thought that was before. No, that was before. I think we hired. It's the one with the Merrill twins in the background. And for some reason we didn't have them speak. And everyone's like, are those the Merrill twins?

If you watch it, my look is completely different, but I literally just was like, I'm just going to do the same bit. And I literally do the exact same thing. Oh, my God. I can't wait to see it. It's very fun. And then I had, oh, a character that is quite literally the same. I had this character called Simple Country Boy.

Oh, yeah. And he would just end up in insane situations where, like, these two, like, bomb squad members are trying to defuse a bomb. And it's got,, which wire do we cut? It's got like five minutes left. And I would come up as like a simple country boy with like overalls, no t-shirt and like a straw hat. And I just back, well, I'm just a simple country boy,

but I guess I could figure this out. And were you right? Usually. And I would, I would always help and figure it out. I would solve the situation. You would know like the most important thing about it where he's like,

well, from what I can tell, it's a neutron bomb, which means the connectors are actually at a positive and negative discharge. Like, wasn't that the kind of vibe? Yeah, and that sketch was crazy because they actually put a legitimate timer on this bomb. It was a real bomb.

On this fake bomb. But we had this timer, so we had to time our jokes to land right when it needed to. And we actually ended up with too much time. And I added this joke of like, oh, we're actually doing fine. We got extra time here. And they're like, no, no, no,

no. That's funny. There was, there was improvised moments we would throw in. You were physical comedy and like impressions. And we both had characters and they gave me the accents. Cause I had like the French hand guy. You had accents.

I had like weird shit. I did a Jerry Seinfeld character. That's awesome. In one of the first episodes, they're like, you're Jerry Seinfeld. You were from White Sajak too. The kids will love that.

Yeah. What? I know, dude. There's some weird shit in there. It was a one in a million chance. Because I know you are a sketch actor, obviously. So talking about this, like, oh, yeah, we just got to do this thing when we were 19 and 20. I'm being disparaging because I'm like, oh, yeah, I was goofy.

I'm doing that to myself. But in reality, what a cool thing. Oh, we loved it at the time, too oh yeah, I was goofy. Like I'm doing that to myself. But like in reality, like what a cool thing. Oh, we loved it at the time too. We were in it. Oh, I can tell. It was great. Like a lot of jobs you end up on and you're like, fuck. And like, I look, no, truly.

I step up for a cigarette, you cry. A lot of jobs you work and you're like, God damn, like this is brutal. And you look back and you're like, God, that was a great job. But it was hard that week up. This job, we were legitimately like, all of us were stoked to be there. It was crazy. We would go to UCB every Friday and just bond and be like,

hey, let's just go watch a show. Honestly, that is so fun. That's my dream. It was a dream. That's my dream to just like, but it's so cool that you get all week to kind of prep and then Friday's the show and it can change and there's costume changes and you get to just like move your

body physically and mentally and do all these cool things like that's a dream. It was a freaking trip man and there were there were episodes and sketches that were hard as shit Damien has one that makes me laugh to this day because I've never

I saw Damien in true hell. Uh, well also let's be clear. There is a joke that Damien and I still reference and it's happens here at Smosh is there's the mustache versions of our ourselves. Whenever you have a sketch, we have to wear a mustache. Your entire personality is about to go away. You're about to be so sad. Cause it's so uncomfortable to have a fake mustache. Obviously, like, because that's the origin of what we called, like, dark Damien or whatever. Yeah. But I realize now, like, you know, I'm sure I've talked about this plenty, but, like, I've got a lot of neuro spicy things going on. And I realized, oh, I was so overwhelmed in a sensory way. That was me going nonverbal. Everyone's like, Damien's so sad because he has a mustache. And now looking back, I'm like, oh, I should have talked to somebody.

Do you know the sketch that I'm talking about? Robot? Yeah, it was Jamtron. He had a sketch where you had to be in a full robot suit. I had to be in a full robot suit made for a different Disney actor who was a different size than I was. And it was very

rigid. These parts were, any joint was able to be articulated, but I would have forearm guards, and shoulder pauldrons, and all these things. And I was in full metallic face paint, and there was a whole song, basically, what if your Scantron came to life, and was here to dance with you?

And he- Like Scantron Tess? Yeah, but he was your Jamtron. So I had to do this whole dance with it. But because these things were so rigid, I was bigger than that guy. So my circulation was being cut off the whole time. And the rap was basically, there was like a rap, of course there's a rap.

There was this little rap breakdown where the lyrics were just answers to the test. We'd be like, A, B, C, B, D, B, C, B, A, B, B, C. And they were very specific. They were like, no, you need to get those right because we have to harmonize with those. And then at the very end of like hours of sweating and dancing and making sure it's right

and not being able to get out of it, the producer comes up to me and is like, hey, what is this thing? And pokes it and lights turn on on the robot. And we filmed the whole thing without the special effect robot. Like Jamtron, like Neon was like, Jamtron, like across the front.

And we did none of it. And so we all just said, screw it. Like, we got what we got. It's too late. You didn't reshoot it? No, it was hours, Amanda. Like six hours. We had spent hours on this sketch.

Like way more than most sketches. And I, you know, as we described the vibe of the show where we're not going to complain. No. We're trying our best. I witnessed Damien in the middle of this sketch there. Just the brightest smile on his face. But I could see the pain there. And I was just like, that guy is in hell right now.

I don't remember. I wasn't in the sketch. And I remember sitting off, there's some sketches where you're not in and you're just like, thank God I'm not in that one. Everybody had just a red solo cup at the like dance party, just watching me do this. I don't remember any of it though.

Other than like, I remember like shots of it. Like I remember watching the episode, but I don't remember sort of like coming back online mentally until the like, boop, lights. And you're like, duh. I'm like, huh? Jam chat. Yeah. Help me.

You're a jam troll. Sometimes you just black out. I remember I blacked out a little bit on, there was a sketch that Damien and I pitched. So you could pitch sketches or no? So it was a thing that kind of only a couple of us were like, let's do this. But officially we weren't allowed to be credited on them.

Otherwise they'd have to pay us as writers, which they couldn't. Yeah, they said they couldn't do that. Couldn't do it. But we had a whole sketch that was literally like, well, a couple that were like, came from us. And one was staring contest. Oh my God, yes. And I, where I sit down on a bench and Damien's sitting there across the way just staring at me, staying perfectly still and I'm like, nice day, huh?

And I look at him and I'm like, okay. I see how it is. Staring contest, you're on. And I sit there and my entire life goes by. It's a time lapse but it goes for decades. Beard. A beard fully grows and I'm married but I'm

staying in the staring contest the whole time until I'm an old man. And then someone walks up. Damien hasn't aged, but my character ages. Someone walks up and they go, that's where I left my mannequin. And they pick him up and walk away. Yeah, I did not have to actually be in the rest of the sketch. Wait. I was just like, have fun.

That's a brilliant sketch. It was very fun. Thank you. But mind you. I love that. Time lapse. So I go through multiple beards. They're applying spirit gum and then getting off the spirit gum, reapplying spirit gum,

putting on new beards. I had several different things in the course of a couple hours. My face hurt so much. I was like, it was a glimpse into why I understand why Jim Carrey had to have CIA training for the Grinch. Yeah. Because I'm like, oh, my God, it's a nightmare. Spiricum, I have gone through my plenty and plenty of Spiricum. The smell alone now brings back this old nostalgic vibe.

Here's the thing. I actually love wearing mustaches. They give me comfort and joy. I don't feel sad. But when I have to take them off and put on a new one, this weird kind of like Nana's basement vibe comes in. Yes. Yes.

Where you're like, you smell and you're like, I've been here before. Yes. Do you know what I mean? It's like nostalgia, but not great. And you're like, I kind of want to go home, but I know we have to be here. And Nana's on her way out. I've got to stay. What was Christmas like in the 30s?

Has that smell. For anyone who doesn't know, spirit gum is this skin glue that you use in theater and film for prosthetic stuff or mustaches. But for me, it's not just the smell of spirit gum, which is so distinct, by the way. in theater and film for prosthetic stuff or mustaches. But for me, it's not just the smell of spirit gum, which is so distinct, by the way. The remover of it leaves this oily residue where it's like, imagine eating chicken wings,

but you're not allowed to wipe your lips. And that's what it feels like to me. Oil, it's like oil. It's just oil on your face. It's truly the worst. I did it for the elf ears for Halloween this past year, and I was like, this is the first time I've ever chosen to wear spirit gum. Oh, yeah.

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All right, back to the show. Back to the show. Is there any way that you could do that sketch again? Because I love that idea. I should just find it and show it to you. Let's make that a full day of filming. Let's do it. Yeah, let's do the whole thing again.

Yeah, Jumbotron. Jumbotron is the sequel. I was like, Damien, can you gain 600 pounds for this role and be an even bigger robot? But we pitched a lot of stuff. And one that I know came from us, but we didn't write this. But the idea is the Anime Brothers, which is very funny. Like now looking at Smosh and all the stuff we've done here.

And also the fact that you are now literally several anime characters. Yay! But like, this was a fun thing because we would always hang out. My dressing room was the first one when you turned to go into the dressing room. So it was often where a lot of us hung out. And so we would back and forth. In fact, we made up the like,

the make me laugh and spit out the water thing. Yes, we started doing that. We started just doing that. We would be out sitting outside and one of us would take a seat. You guys started trying not to laughugh before Try Not To Laugh? I guess we're owed something. But no, we would also do just like anime voices back and forth.

And it was like the first friend I'd ever connected with where I'm like, oh, I could do goofy anime humor. And he kind of digs this. Oh, so funny. This is great. That's where the best ideas come from, honestly, is in the dressing room. You're messing around with your friend. And then you're like around with your friend,

and then you're like, should we write this? And it's, I swear to God, it's always like the last thing you want to pitch and then you pitch it and the director's like, that's great. Where'd you come up with that? Why did you save that? And you're like, oh, yeah, okay, we'll do this. But um, our friendship really blossomed in those goofy little jokes. And I love you guys have your own dressing rooms.

Hello. That, boss. That was wild. Some people didn't. Some people had to go to the building next door that had no power. Oh, yeah. Oh, that sucks. But we were famous. We got lucky.

I had Demi Lovato's old dressing room. I thought I did. Did you? I guess you did. Well, if that was... No, I'm pretty sure I did because I was right next to Tiffany. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

That makes sense. You guys okay? Yeah, I guess we'll get over it. Remember when that skeleton kept making the rounds? Yes, Allison from the show, she would always leave this horrifying Halloween doll skeleton thing in different people's rooms. Like a giant skeleton, but it had a wig on and a dress,

and so it was a skeleton, and so people would be putting it in each other's dressing rooms. I come in first. I'm first to set one morning. I walk down the hallway of dressing rooms. I go to open my door. It's dead silent because it's like 8 a.m.

I open the door. As I'm opening the door, it's dark in my dressing room. But as I open it up, there is this person right there. And I legitimately, it's the smoke. Like it was one of the biggest jolts of my life. Talk about five nights at Freddy's.

That was the experience. Oh my God. And no, yeah. No, I did it immediately. You did it to me. So I, that same morning, I, it happens to me. I go, oh, oh. And then, and then I was like, I was like, oh my God. And I go, I go, Alison, oh my God. And I grab it. I, in my anger, I grab it and I go I go Allison oh my god

and I grab it in my anger I grab it and I take it to Damien and I put it in his dressing room and I shut the door and I'm like I didn't feel the angry vibes there

when I discovered it no no I did it to you I was angry at just that it happened to me but I was like I know I immediately need to prank someone else of course

I need to pay double it and give it to the next person I need to pay it forward and so then I go and I hear I hear Damien walk in it was one of those things that like you knew it forward. And so then I go, and I hear, I hear Damien walk in. I, I,

it was one of those things that like, you knew it was going around. Like I'd heard for a while, it had been happening to people. So I was mentally prepared in general, or like had been thinking about it as a possibility, but that morning I was zoning out. So the sound I made as best as I can recreate it here was, ah,

damn it. Like there's that moment of like, I remember that. Just scream and then realizing and I think you then go Allison like I think you said something about Allison and then I peek out and go it was me I think

Brandon still has my push up bars I brought in my Gamecube my push up bars I hung up posters like I was like screw it if you're not gonna make us like know that we're here for 26 episodes I'm gonna to move in. Do you remember when Bryn was playing Dead Space? Allison's Xbox in his dressing room, yes.

Allison lent him his Xbox and he was playing Dead Space. And this was the impression. You're just for a whole day, because he's playing Dead Space in his dressing room. Spooky, spooky game. And all of a sudden you would just hear, ah! It was just that all day. Like, he just, it's a scary game. It's five nights at Freddy's, but you have kind of a gun,

and you keep walking down dark hallways. Yeah. Holy God. Anyways. This isn't too far off from, like, any kind of theater. It was very theater. It was very theater. Because Groundlings, we had a girl who would, like, flip over,

and her hair was matted, and her face would always be turned and she was missing an eye. And so people would fuck with her all the time. They'd put her in the dark and you'd be like, Sandy. As a prop, got it. Sorry, we were like, we had this girl at the Groundlings.

Oh no. She was missing an eye. We had a human person that we would hide. The chapter in the dark is a joke. We do it with real people. Yeah. It's called hazing. That's theater for you. So anyways, back to is a joke. We do it with real people. Yeah. It's called hazing. That's theater for you.

So anyways, back to the anime brothers. Anime brothers. So I have the script here. This is the first one. We did several. It was one of the most recurring batches of characters. We did one where we were fighting the- The Sprouses.

Yeah, the Sprouse twins. Whoa. It was crazy, man. Before the Riverdale. I didn't tell you about, oh, sorry, this is, we're going on so many tangents, but like, I remember playing Minecraft one day with, um, Doug, our castmate, um, online, like we're in our individual homes and he's like, oh, a couple of my friends are going to join us.

And they, they were into like role-playing these characters, I guess. And so it was like, you know, you can't join a tree house. Okay. Yes, you can. And it was, i remember texting or like feeling later like i kind of just wanted to play and i didn't really like that i didn't know we all had to be like be in character like i don't know if i liked doug's friends very much and then um when i finally met the sprouses when we were all playing games it came up that that was them

and i was like oh crap and then we all played games online for like a few years after that but i like first impressions, I was like, I'm glad I didn't talk crap. It's a little intense. Your friends are a little weird. That is a little intense. Whatever. So this is the first Anime Brothers.

Amanda, could you play pretty much all the characters except for you guys? Tay and Zan are our names. Heard. So I'm Mark, Coach, Dinsy, Jeff, and Heather.

Got it! Now this is, once again, this is the first draft, so I'm curious how much it changed when it aired, but alright, I'll read stage directions. Interior school gym day. A bunch of students in gym clothes wait for class to start. Mark

and Jeff talk at the front. Oh, man, I can't believe summer's over already, and we're back in school. I know. I get this. And get this. I have to sit next to the same clown I sat next to last year. Hey, that's me.

Heather enters. Guys, guys, have you seen Zan and Tan cornbluth? Tay cornbluth. Zan and Tay cornbluth? Yeah, I heard they spent all summer locked in their basement watching anime cartoons. The gym door flies open, revealing Zan and Tay looking mega anime. Zan has tall blue hair. Tay has yellow spiky hair.

They sport wristbands, headbands, etc. They jump into the gym like cartoon characters, landing back to back. All of their dialogue is spoken in rapid, over-the-top staccato style, like in a dubbed anime cartoon. Greetings! You heard right. I am Zan!

And I am Tay! And we are here for Gym Class! Tie up. They clap their hands once and pose. Do you want to just do the pose? Oh, yeah, yeah. What was it? It was kind of like dabbing before dabbing.

We kind of invented dabbing. Yeah, we kind of invented dabbing. Not a big deal. Don't worry about it. They clap their hands once and pose. Zan and Tay approach the group of kids. Hello, friends. I am very happy to see

you! I am even happier than my brother! What? How can this be possible? I am kidding with you, brother! You are kidding with me! They pose again. Okay guys, we get it. You like anime.

Yeah. I like Twilight, we get it. You like anime. Yeah. I like Twilight, but you don't see me coating my face in powder and glitter like that Twihard that sits next to me. Hey, that's me. They pose. The gym teacher, Coach Dinsy, enters. Okay, class, attention. Coach Dinsy is here. I will gain his respect with my competent attitude.

I will gain his respect with my competent attitude. I will gain his respect more. No, I will gain his respect more by being even more competent than you. They growl at each other, then break up as Dinsy approaches. Okay, kids, today we're playing dodgeball. Split up by size. Heather, Jeff, you guys are captains. Choose your teams. I don't care who I get as long as I don't get stuck with that kid that stands next to me in gym class. He's terrible. Hey, dude, that's me.

I'll take Zan. I'll take Tay. Devastated. My brother, we are on opposing teams. We are torn apart. They both sigh and look sad. Suddenly, Zan changes his tone to hyper-aggressive. Then you are my enemy, and I will destroy you!

You may try to defeat me, but you will not succeed, for I possess the amulet of Domuto! He pulls an amulet around his neck, close on it. Dramatic music sting. You got that at Anime Fest 2009! Its power is worthless! We shall see! Tinsy blows a whistle and tosses the ball to Zan. In a series of intercuts, Zan and Tay stare each other down.

Sweat forms on their faces. Zan holds the ball in one hand like he's building up power. You know, anime style. Finally, he can hold back no longer, and he lets the ball loose. Zai Fu! He shoves the ball away from him. It dribbles lamely onto the floor. Coach Dinsey blows his whistle.

What was that? What is wrong with you two? Just knock it off. Zan and Tay his whistle. What was that? What is wrong with you two? Just knock it off. Zan and Tay look embarrassed. Oh no, we have shamed ourselves in front of our teacher. I am devastated. I feel worse than

Jesus, this line. I feel worse than Maruto when he lost the ninja ball tournament to the second to last Windbender. God, I want to die. Zen and Tay strike crying poses and gesture tears from their eyes. It was like, wah! Wah! Wah!

Wait. Ninja Ball? Windbender? Windbender? Are you guys talking about Myrtle Ball D? They nod. I too watched that box set.

It brought me much pleasure. Then we shall join our powers and fight! All three put their fists together. Zo-ya! Ah! Dinsy, Tay, and Zan freeze. After a beat, Heather, Jeff, and Mark staring at them.

So does this mean we get to leave class early then? Hey! And bye. Bye! Those guys are weirder than that kid I got stuck with as a lab partner this year. That's me! The class dismissed, we cut to Enske.

Cut to Enske. Yay. Yeah. So the names they ended up going with were Scott and Elliot Cornbluth. Still Cornbluth, I believe. Yeah, that's right. This was the first.

This gets just so good. It explains a lot about you guys. Yeah, well. In a good way. I'm glad I feel seen. Do you remember, we, I realize we don't have an end segment for the show,

but I just, a really crazy thing that I wanted to talk about. Jaw drop. Well, okay, I got a jaw drop. Yeah,

I got one too. But I'm not done. I still have some more stuff I want to talk about. I'm not done, but then jaw drop. But I'm not, we're not done

with the episode yet. But, okay, I want to know, I have what I still think to this day I'm like, this was the coolest thing we got to do. And I'm curious what you think it is. Is it

Anime Bros related? Because I've got a quick jaw drop about Anime Bros. It is Anime Bros related but I want to hear yours first. So they asked because we, you know, sort of ideated the sketch they were like, what do you want to look like? And so Shane was based off of Goku from Dragon Ball Z and so they changed his color scheme, and so he had blue tall hair,

but that ended up being a thing in Dragon Ball Z later. You know what I mean? And I looked like Naruto, but with a blue outfit instead of his characteristic orange. Totally. And then you had red hair. Red hair, which I based off of Reno from Final Fantasy VII. That's true.

Because they initially wrote him with blonde hair, which I was like, Cloud, great. But yeah, they did everything they could to differentiate. We love him. So the thing that was so cool to me was one time, and this is all rumor, all speculation, hearsay. In fact, I'm making it up right now, legally. But I remember talking to Wardrobe,

and they were like, we need to get you fitted your anime bros costume and make some changes for the uh for the other show and i was like what other show and they're like i don't know some kind of like pitching thing and i was like wait what and they were like oh i don't think you're supposed to know about it don't say anything here i am um so i think they were trying really hard to make the anime bros like a spin-off disney show. But I think it was probably too hard of a sell. But the one writer we knew the best, I think he was really gunning for it. I mean, yeah, it probably would have been sick.

Yeah, but this was before anime was awesome. So, you know, and everybody thought it was cool. It wasn't like, it was getting mainstream at this time, but it didn't quite hit what it is nowadays, I feel like. Yeah, they added in like the speed racer old timey, like, wah, ha, ha, wah, ha, ha, as opposed to like. This was a bunch of people who didn't know anime. So it was a miracle that it got.

Dog, they didn't know Harry Potter. They knew Harry Potter sketch and be like, what are they, so they got wands? But like anime at this time, like the adults that we're talking to or writing this stuff weren't like familiar. And so that's why it's like Marutobaldi, like they.

But it was very cool. No, I wanted to say, I guess this will be my jaw drop and then we can talk a little bit more about some stuff. But we had a lot of guest performers and guest stars, musical guests and stuff. We had some cool ones, you know, we had all sorts. I remember Andy Grammer was there, Coby Callie, all guests and stuff. We had some cool ones, you know, we had all sorts. Uh, I remember Andy Grammer was there, Kobe Callie, uh,

um, all sorts of people. Justin Bieber, Justin Bieber, LMFAO wanted to be on so random, but they couldn't be because of their name. Yeah. Yeah.

But we had a guest, we had a guest that was actually to this day. I look back and I'm like, this is one of the coolest things in my life. And we still have a photo of us as the anime brothers with her. Um, we had Miss Piggy as a guest actual puppeteers Jim Henson company

so all these it was like several puppeteers and so I got to do wait Miss Piggy's like a bunch of dudes that's the jaw drop Miss Piggy is actually several guys I know that it's a puppet but also what it's not a grown woman with

big blonde hair and a tiny little dress and a little purse. You think there's a human that looks pretty much equivalent to Miss Piggy playing Miss Piggy? Yeah. Okay, continue. I'm sorry. But to truly, what's crazy is these puppeteers are so good

that you're like, okay, I'm going to act in the scene. I'm going to look at Miss Piggy. Yeah. And I remember being like, kind of, you get lost a little bit and you're like, yeah, you're okay. Yeah. Miss Piggy is here. You're gorgeous. It's so fun.

And I, to this day, I'm like, that's the coolest person I've ever gotten to work with. Miss Piggy. Yeah. It was crazy. That is amazing. Yeah. It was so sick. Can I drop a little, a little brag here?

Yeah. Because it's one of the things drop a little, a little brag here? Cause it's one of the things I'm proudest of in my life before I ever got into voice acting, but I knew I really wanted to do it. Um, there was, I don't remember if the puppeteers had left rehearsal or they hadn't gotten there yet, but they were like, we need someone to meet, read like Miss Piggy lines. And I did. And I was like reading them on a microphone, like way across the other side of the stage. Um, and the producer ends up coming over and being like, you know i need to find the you know the actor who's doing miss piggy like

where are they and i was like oh that was me and he was like that was you and i was like yeah um and so like after that i was like oh maybe i can do like voice match stuff cool cool yeah and it was right after that that i got my voiceover agent and started doing this path. Holy crap. That's crazy. Voice matching is hard. I don't realize how long ago you started it. Technically, I was in an educational video game when I was eight. But otherwise, voice acting, I started when I was 19 or 20. That's crazy. You started it right after So Random.

Auditioning in my bedroom with a $50 microphone USB and just trying my best. So So Random was your guys' breakthrough. In a lot of ways, yeah. $50 microphone USB and just trying my best. Yeah. So, so random was your guys' breakthrough. In a lot of ways, yeah. Because it like,

jump started this friendship, your ideas. Yeah. Actually, yeah. It definitely was the start. Yeah. And I mean,

there was a couple of years after where there wasn't much work and it was kind of like, oh shit. Like, I remember it was a, it was a stark realization of like,

there's no such thing as a big break. Like, you will book a job. It'll be great. It'll be a dream come true. And then it's going to end. And then you're going to kind of, in some ways,

be back to square one. You're going to have more connections. You're not back to exactly square one, but you may not work for a little bit. That was the tough thing with like my college friends at the time who were studying theater, because that's what I was studying too. And I kept encouraging them like, hey, like if you ever want to go try to get

an agent or something, like I'm happy to help you, you know, find someone or guide you in that process. And most of them had the mindset of like, I don't really want to do that right now. I want to focus on, you know, studying, which is 10,000% fair. But I remember feeling, you know, worried for them. Cause I'm like, look, already nobody gets a free pass here. But once you enter the market, you're going to have kids like we've seen on all these Disney shows who have colossal resumes and are your age and like already know what they're doing. And even they don't have any kind of guarantees. So it's like, I guess my worries were unfounded because it just, it doesn't matter. Like it doesn't, there's no like, finally I'm in, I've got my ticket.

But you guys did this show, which is like, to me, every sketch person's dream to do. And you did it and it's like, you did it. You had the footage also. That's another thing is like sketch artists like we don't like sketch artists that sounds like we're drawing um we don't have the footage of a lot of shows like shows that were like oh that sketch was so good like i think it's amazing what you guys have done like it's it's really cool it's and it's trippy to think about we were doing that show

that was around the time when Ian and Anthony were like at their peak yeah like that's what's it's weird to think about that and not realizing where your path was gonna

these converging paths are wild because I watched Smosh back in the day like I watched them on YouTube and then probably while I was auditioning for Sketchpad and then I did this

we meet each other you know we're friends we end up becoming roommates later in this big house of people you you get the Smosh, you know, well, you get a commercial before that. And I'm, I end up, we float through these other jobs here. So you got a commercial, I had a small Cartoon Network booking and then like you get the Smosh audition

and then years later you were like, hey, like potential for games, then you got me the audition and now we're here and like,, it's just like you said, it is our big break, but just not in the way that we thought. But yeah, for friendship

and good connections to build with each other. I'm your guy's fairy godmother. Super cool. And my job is done here. And now I just disappear. And Amanda. Yeah.

That was DB Cooper. They found new evidence on him really? on D.B. Cooper that's my jaw drop oh shit do you have another hour? let's do it well I don't give a fuck

about Sarandon now more on that later well that was really cool thank you guys so much for sharing those clips with me now I understand you guys a lot better

thank you really? yeah honestly yeah yeah I haven't like reminisced about the specifics of it in so long.

We talk about it so generally, but being able to be here and share with you, but also hear it through your lens of somebody who had not seen it or heard of it or whatever, thank you, thank you for giving us this platform and thanks for giving me this time, both of you. Yeah, of course. It's very sweet.

You're welcome. Well, there's more sketches that we could come back and bring back some other time it'd also be fun to get some other cast members back here

we did a So Random reunion episode on the old Smosh cast with Matthew Scott and Allison but we could bring one of them on again

that would be fun it'd be really fun do like a little table read I think table reads are really good to be like we did that I wonder if they have any

because there was some rejected sketches some sketches that we did that. I wonder if they have any because there was some rejected sketches. Some sketches that we read that were way inappropriate for Disney that they tried to pitch. Like the writers, we would read them at the table read. I would read rejected sketches as long as they're safe

for work. They are. They're for Disney. There was one that was literally lifted from a Tim and Eric sketch that I had to take the producers aside later. I'm like, I don't want to be this guy. Whoever wrote this one either forgot that they saw this, fell asleep, woke up with a great idea,

and did it. Was Mr. Spaghetti in it? No, it was da-da-doo-doo. It was da-da-doo-doo, do-da-doo-doo, da-da-doo-doo, except he changed it to bada-bing-bong, but otherwise it was verbatim.

Oh my God. Yeah. A lot of stories. Yeah, a lot of stories. Anyways, thank you so much for watching. except he changed it to bada bing bong but otherwise it was verbatim oh my god yeah a lot of stories yeah a lot of stories wow anyways thank you so much for watching Damien thanks for being here

thanks for being here hey thanks for having me and thanks truly like this was a really cool special thing that just I don't know thank you of course

and we'll see you next week bye guys bye