The Reel Rejects - DOCTOR WHO: Christmas Special "Joy To The World" REVIEW!!

Episode Date: December 25, 2024

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John, you're crying. John, John, John, tell us why you're crying. Tell us what's going through your mind right now. John, tell us what you're feeling, John. You know, it was very touching. It was a very heartfelt episode, you know what I mean? And that's perfect for the Christmas season. That's what people expect.

It's what people want. It's the gift you give to the world. True. No, yeah. This was a lovely, delightful episode. And I like a doctor who's subversion, you know. When you think you've got a ticking time bomb and, you know, there's a big old threat. But then you soon realize, like, ah, it's something else entirely.

And there's bitter sweetness to that. but it's not bad and it's not like oh we thwart it the villain necessarily it's just that yeah this thing transcended the potentially nefarious ends that it was designed for and just became this beacon of yeah

hope and joy for all of time and uh and i don't know i think it's appropriate that it should be you have the star of david motif but also just i don't know stars are often used as you know this sort of uh aspirational

people look to the stars and contemplate their place in everything and you can feel the light shining down of ages and centuries and you know you just feel a different element about your place in all of time in the world but yeah I thought this was lovely I love I love in Chutti Gatwa so much and it's such a joy to watch him and and the supporting cast I thought was great across this trev was my dude uh joy that actress did a terrific job and especially anita uh that that short film in the middle was such a delight such a joy to behold what'd you think gee i'm thinking that we need to get both audiences so i'm going to tell you why this episode was

terrible yes dr smit too much time helping women and being gay when they brought the word mansplaining episode i turned it off That just dictated the rest of the episode moving forward, in my opinion. Absolutely. I thought this was a delightful episode. I thought it was a really delightful episode. You know, the concept of, the concept of a star is a fascinating one to me because it is like looking ahead in time. A lot of people kind of forget that.

When you look at stars, it's easy to just kind of look at the beauty of what a star is. But when you are looking at a star, you are looking like millions or billions of years ahead and the future. A head and behind, you know? Yeah. So I love the idea of how they actually used the concept of a star as, yes, it happens to this one moment in time. But because of how a star operates, and granted, I am no astrologist, I have no physicist. I don't know anything of what even the proper scientific department would be when we're talking about stars. However, what it...

Astrophysics? Astro, maybe. Call Neil dat-ass Tyson. Whatever, Matthew McConaughey, a Texan. That's right. I'm a corn farmer. Fly planes. Murph.

Murph, yeah. Go back, Murph. Make me stay, Murph. My other side. My technique that I used back then ain't working. Shalema. Go back to being Shalemate, Casey Affleck. but to use that that concept like I maybe there's someone who would watch us to be like

that's not how it would work actually and I'm like maybe but I don't think this ever happened in the history where a human being decided to become one with a star and let themselves into the sky you know so but but I love using that concept of how a star is a way of appearing in a time and how it is kind of like the connection with the star can make it feel make the time feel like nonlinear can make you feel more omnipresent and using that as like the final nail on the button with it was a beautiful

idea and I agree with your sentiment too about how it does subvert the expectation where it does seem threatening. It is a little threatening, it is kind of killing people I mean the briefcase of life once we get the briefcase taking care the briefcase is the villain

villain villain guard's briefcase Yeah, it is, it is a, it is villainous. But I thought this was a great example of how to do a lot in, and little chunks of time. I could see one side of the coin being like, eh, you kind of rush through some stuff. I'm like, I don't know, maybe. You know what the problem is? Here's the problem, guys. I'll be up front with you.

And not the episode. The problem is I've been too exposed to like people just talking shit on a doctor that I love. Like, I've just been too exposed to it. So my mind I notice is, it's something I'm processing in real time in front of you guys is of like, oh, okay. My mind is like bringing up like, what would like negative people say? I'm like, why am I focusing on that? Yeah. Why is my mind doing that?

Oh, it's because I've exposed myself too much to that. Because I'm used to the rage mill that comes out every time a doctor who episode releases. How that can like ruin the fun of something. And now I'm like, oh, shit, my mind's kind of like subconsciously defaulting to that when that is not my, my experience with it. And I should just focus on my experience with it. So, yes, I'm having a therapeutic process in real time with you guys. So, yeah, I think that, like, for example, the chunk of time I actually found very impressive with Anita where it's like, it just sort of deviates where he's going to have to be there for a year. He's stuck without his time machine.

And this is just a great example for the doctor to live kind of day by day. And it's just this, like, pleasant, joyful experience. And, you know, if we're talking about holiday season, even though it spans a year. so much of the time is not Christmas. In fact, he doesn't spend Christmas with Anita. So much of what Christmas and the holidays is about is about connection, relationships. And that's what it captures between him and Anita so well. And I think the performers do such a great job.

Everyone in every scene here, they do such an excellent job of having you become endeared and connected to them in a really fast. fast way. Like Trev, you don't really know much about him, but you become connected to him right away. Anita, this passage of time, you know, like there's, there's so much personality that they bring. Yet the actors, I feel, bring a lot of depth to more than just the person. Like, Anita, she kind of just comes across as like, oh, you're kind of that quirky person who's just like a little bit not phased by the weirdness you're surrounded by it. Yeah, yeah. Which I like. I like that kind of like personality. I thought that was a little refreshing for Doctor Who when everyone was always like, oh my God, what the hell's going on? Yeah. I liked having just like this

random human being like oh this is this is weird but you know like this is the first yeah yeah i really enjoyed that that flavor to it but i think every actor brought so much death like when we were watching it by the time joy was saying bye it really did feel like damn i feel like the doctor and i've known each other forever that i kind of reminded myself like they've only known each of like 20 minutes like it hasn't really been that long yeah but that is the strength of great acting and solid writing and also like a lot of like really good editing so yeah but i think this brings like the favorite kind of christmas specials to mind of the whimsy and stuff and i think this is one of my favorite shootigawa performances as the doctor i think it's been great throughout but maybe

maybe having like a bit of a you know sometimes people's sophomore seasons can be stronger than their than their freshman seasons because you get a little bit time away yeah and then when you When you come back to it, you're a little bit just more slip into it a different way. You have a different sense memory now. And also you have different things that I'm sure you've come up with to add to all that in addition. And I feel like, too, there was a moment maybe like three quarters of the way where I was like, ah, is this going to have the problem that a lot of this Christmas specials have had in the past where you feel like, oh, man, if this had just been a little longer or, you know, whatever else.

but I thought this was nicely proportioned in the time that it got because you know it's like you cast oh golly I don't remember the actress's name but you know the girl who was just on that season of Bridgeton for joy and part of me was like oh you know

it deviates and then I thought like man it kind of feels like this is Anita's episode and it's not really Joy's episode as much anymore but it really brought it back around to that feeling that I ultimately shared with you by the end of like man I really do feel like they've been through a bunch together and that they've known each other for way longer than

the span of this episode, which is a great feeling to have in context of bigger on the inside, Doctor Who. And two, yeah, it's like you meet Anita through joy, and like their whole back and forth initially is really fun and charming

and bubbly, and then you see Anita on her own, and I love the time loops that this episode incorporated. Like, the motif of the hotel alone is lovely and wonderful and totally in the spirit of Doctor Who, and I love like i want to go there i would that sounds so fun and fanciful and then you have that you know timey whimey thing where he's trying to figure out the code which is so funny like that whole

back and forth about like you know we only have four seconds but a bucket's a time or whatever bags of time uh and then yeah he has that whole rant at himself about why you're so alone and and that comes directly out of both the previous season and just like a lot of the previous doctor who in general and then yeah you watch him literally grow past or at least grow in a way that confronts that directly and then he comes back in and you know you see in the performance there the different perspective and and how the two demeanors are different and there's a sort of a version of that with anita also because you meet her when she's already working at the time hotel then you go back and really fall in love

with her when she's just in 2024 regular mode and you know they found time and place to do all that amidst all this and it really did feel like a kind of communal experience even though you do have these very prominent supporting guest characters who yeah i really loved each one of and you get your little ruby cameo at the very end hinting like part of me wonders if they'll find a way to bring her back or if they are really just going to you know let the doctor go off and find a new companion or whatever but i like that as of an episode like this i'm kind of not really concerned about it like this is a really nice piece i am ah go get trev go download trev out of the machine and make him your companion i think you should

have a child companion he should you know that would be fun like the blues brothers did in the year two thousand have get he should go back and you know who she he should get key kwan to be his sidekick that would be awesome short rounds yeah i like your point a lot about the recontextualization of that one scene when they do with the two doctor or the same doctor but different points of time do meet with each other because yeah the first time you see that scene where you're focused on the doctor the present day version of that we are following the past version so to speak as he's labeled where it when he is shouting like this is why no one likes it would seem like the doctor from the future a you don't know how much from the future that doctor is yeah when you're first

encountering that doctor and it would seem that there is nothing different to that doctor in fact he might be even a little colder or something like that might be exactly the same and he's even though he's playing it with the exact same some same expressions similar demeanors maybe just I could be wrong I have to watch it again obviously yeah um but then when you do go back to that you do see like oh it's the exact same dialogue and such and the same performance but now with a different type of perspective you see that oh wait no this doctor is he's actually being kind of coy about the whole thing with like you're yelling all this stuff of you i'm no idea you're about to change it's that patience of like i know you need to get this out yeah just just keep going you'll get

to me eventually. Yeah, yeah. I thought that was really strong. And this has a lot of heart. This is a very sweet episode. Absolutely. And a lot of good production designs. Yeah, it looked like Christmas the entire time.

It looked like Christmas and a whole, and every other place they went to. Like, you know, the temple room is great. The Everest stuff and the old, you know, hotel during the war and everything. Orient Express. Even the T-Rex look good. You know. The T-Rex. actually looks really good surprising it was kind of scary yeah yeah it was scary and like

i didn't understand the room though i'm not going to want what was it in room i was like who built this 65 million years ago yeah who had enough uh yeah the salurians john uh yeah oh it's probably you know what it looked like people with time travel to that moment i mean because they had like different devices i'm sure that yeah the time hotel probably would have to have certain rooms that were built post time period. Oh, yeah, no, you do have for like staycations and stuff. Yeah, exactly. So if you want the 65 million years experience, we built this for you and who's

really going to notice back then? So when people are not being pulled out of time and being brought to there, it looks like people are like dressing up to go into, I don't know. It was confusing. I was confused by that. I thought it was that people really were entering from all points in time. Yeah, like a night of museum, Bill and Ted's excellent adventure. Like, that's what it looked like to me.

Yeah, but is it Westworld? That's a good question, partly just because I would have to imagine that if you... How in the present day do you stumble upon the Time Hotel and how do you make any sense of it to the point where you don't lose your mind, you know, or in the past, anywhere, you know, pre the advent, you know, in real time of a place like this? How do you cope with that? I have no fricking clue, but what I do know is that was a solid episode. of Christmas television. Terrific. For the wonderful, ever-present, Dr. Octavius, who?

That's his first name. What did you guys think about this Christmas special? Where would you rank it? Is there anything else that we're missing that we really need to get off our chest? John, you tend to have something. There's something, John. Usually, John has to get it all out before he, like, hops on his phone and insert something here. Jesus. Jesus is real.

Jesus is real. Jesus is back. Back from the dead, baby. That's going to be the new companion the next season. Dr. Jesus going around time. Saving souls.

It's going to be good. That's good. That should satisfy that angry alt-right crowd who hates this show. Yes. Yes. And every episode. I know not everyone who hates the show.

It's a crazy alt-ride person. All right. Yes. There are legitimate criticisms. You can have. Just make sure your criticisms. are based in something legitimately a part of the episode. But no, I think it was kind of cool to tie it back into.

A lot of people do forget that, oh, yeah, the Christmas idea is Christ's Mass. And this story, at least to my understanding, I actually haven't deep dove into it. Like, maybe the evolution of it has been somehow appropriated over time. I know the idea of like the Christmas trees or something was like, a lot of our celebrations and rituals. come from pagan stuff and maybe there's a little saturnalia in there and things like that yeah so actually actually i mean jesus's birthday is rumored to have not been in december but more like in april or something like that's not true i read it really bible yep says right the bible that's right

yep matth and matthew fact says it says december 25th 121 p. yeah we all hung up the holly wreaths and we welcomed our lord and savior a lot of people forget that yeah a lot of people forget that it's in the bible we brought him a gift card um yeah I don't have any frankincense, but here, get yourself something nice. Little drummer boy showed up. Yeah. So, yeah, but to bring it back to that traditional celebration, I feel like it's a fantastic. It's a perfect button on the end.

Totally. Yeah, what did you guys think? Leave your thoughts down below. And, hey, we will see you guys in the near distant future. Peace. Wow, last thanks. Well, last month, we got to see what everyone gave. to the Thanksgiving dinner.

Oh, yes, we did. Our Friendsgiving, but this month, we're going to see what they've contributed to the white Christmas. Hey, oh my God. Everybody brought a gift. Everybody brought a gift. And now we're going to unpack them and just see, that's what it is, white elephant. White Christmas, white elephant. Both are concepts that are real.

I was just considering the fact that in order, if you're not Caucasian, you have to bring a gift to get in. That was the rule. Yes. Anyway, you bring a white friend. Boing 84. Oh, we open. We were open, Boeing 84's gift. We were surprised to see that it was a cup of, in the shape of Taylor Swift.

Definitely. From when she first became famous at 18. Absolutely. So that way it's a legal bottle. Love that Taylor Swift cup that I drink out of daily. Also, Justin Foster's here. Welcome, buddy. And he's brought a six pack of Foster's Australian Fabia that no one in Australia actually drinks, apparently.

but thanks for bringing it anyway fantastic news John got to get wasted oh my god but Stephen Subbrien he showed up with a Hadukin he brought an actual Hadukin to the party create a storm but man was an impressive and it powered the whole house for the rest of the party

very practical also Fam 5678 brought an abacus so that we could all run the numbers in terms of our holiday cheer the value of everyone's gifts when weighed against each other's it's really important that you know we focus on the monetary when it comes to the thoughtful nature of gift giving i get where you're coming from definitely and with that in mind josh poke

it was surprising that he actually brought um a cactus oh josh how you know size cactus i mean people were poking it when it was rap going i think it's a cactus based up the fact that i could see it breaking the wrapping and it was that's right it was it was great cactus i love that cactus i use it to Home my hairs. Brandon Camacho, also showing up to the party with a bunch of Blu-ray copies of idiocracy. Good. Because everyone loves that movie, and it only gets more relevant as time progresses. That's what I hear.

I hear relevancy is an important word that we use when we talk. It is an important. Oh, I lost my training. I don't know what work goes there. Juxon, Ang, 31. Mm. Juxon. Angel.

Angel? Oh, that makes more sense. Just say angel. He brought a dictionary. Oh, yes. A modern dictionary. And it was for himself. So he could learn how to spell Angel instead of what these dumb kids do nowadays. Hey, literacy is a gift to everybody.

Literacy is a gift. Illiteracy is a condemnation on your own brain. That's true. Just saying. That's true. Juxon. Free your mind. Throw the dictionary in the trash. And oh, hey, look who's showing.

up as well as Shannon Darbond. Oh shit, what's Shannon bring? Shannon brought a bonfire. Oh, no way. A whole bonfire just lit in a trash can. She got to pull over twice. That's right. It was a real dangerous ride over.

Yeah, you didn't roll down the windows in the car even which I think would have been the first step. But either way, I appreciate you warming us with both your cheer and your bright presence, but also with physical fire. The laws of physics. Oh, wow. If you think that was special. Oh, no, what? See what Uncle Dog brought. Well, we got Dog.

My Uncle Dog brought a confession to what he did to me when I was a little boy. Oh, what was that? I hope nothing sinister. I am imagining a lot of things that Uncle Dogg could have done. He used being the cool uncle as a way to get me over there. That's right. But we don't need to talk more about it. No, of course not.

I don't know why he put the confession in the White Elephant, honestly. You know, why not? It would have been weird if no one else, if someone else got that, They wouldn't have understood the context. No, it's really lucky that you pulled the right number. Let me tell you, number 69. Requitistmda, thank you so much for showing up. Requudismda brought a tome of unintelligible language,

and it is used for decoding ancient alien tongues, except we don't have any ancient alien scrolls or artifacts on hand. But when we get some, we will be able to decode them with the scroll that you have brought. Wow. Yeah. Well, that's ironic because Brady Torres brought the Dial of Destiny. Oh, Indiana Jones. Right, not the movie.

The actual dial of the actual dial. All you found Archimedes is thing of what's in. And that we use the dial of destiny to go back and fix the ending of Indiana Jones to give us a actual satisfying conclusion to one Indiana Jones. Brandon Torres really cares about the family. They always say you should give the key to the fans. You should. Plus, you know, all those articles about how sad James Mangled was, they all just changed in real time, how happy he is now.

Yeah, how well received the movie. Yeah, and George McFly now owns Biff. That's right. He owns his human soul. And, yeah, he's essentially his slave now, which is right. Oh, Elaine Dolores, how's it going? Bringing your pet llama to the party. Why not?

Giving rides to the kids. spitting on people, you know, causing lots of reasons for conversation. And, you know, people love animals and bonding with nature. And this is the way we can all do that. And also, you know, there are probably llamas at the birth of Jesus. You think so. You know, good touch of religiosity for the party as well. Juvento Salas brought a magic carpet.

And we all went on a magic carpet ride all through Brandi Torres' home where we had the party. Don't you dare, close her. And it was a short-lived ride. It's a one-bedroom apartment. It really wasn't too far to go. We were worried about the landlord getting caught. And then the carpet reps and then stop working. So really it was kind of a disappointing time.

I'd take the carpet to the shop. And, hey, speaking of which, Cyrus Solcah brought all his mechanic tools to fix the carpet. You got a carburetor you can put in there. You got some struts. Yes. A timing belt. you know a solenoid those fix lots of things

solenoid plungers thanks Cyrus and Cyrus also going to you know conduct a workshop and teach us all about how magic carpets and cars work so that's a big old favor for us I'm glad you'd let it there A-A Ron they brought a

news station with them to report on how great this party was going there was no other party going on this well in Bakersfield, California where it's usually thriving where the population is quite dense out there.

I love Bakersfield. There's always so much to do when no one ever goes crazy for boredom at Bakersfield. Not when you got parties like this. Not at all. And not when you have Dylan Jagger coming to the party

with a bunch of DVD copies of the hit television series Jag. Wow. All about the Navy and their various legal struggles dealing with crimes that involve

naval officers we love it Dylan it's about time that show gets a reboot and you are leading the charge this holiday season I'm so glad that two people brought a blu-ray and or DVD but lame pat did not follow that structure they brought stephen and Mel oh hey buddy how cool is it to finally get stephen Amel to show up at one of our parties yeah and he's mad he's constantly in a grumpy mood yeah it's like playing green arrow was just a bad thing and no one knows why but he is just not a happy individual and in fact he kind of brought the mood down a little bit we can cheer him up here at the party in fact right maybe ben can help cheer him up why because ben why brought benzodiazepine oh good and uh you know that way

everyone's you know engaging in the fun you know chilling out you know pharmacologically speaking Fair enough. And really reaching that, you know, sort of peak level of mid-range drool. You know what I mean? I think that's what Benzos do. I really don't know, in fact. But thanks for bringing them anyway. It's time to experiment.

Huh. We were so overwhelmed. It was a good thing Jackson Ryan brought their gift, which was an oxygen tank. That's right. We all got high off oxygen that day. You know, that's the best kind to indulge in. Especially when you have so much anxiety. going on it's difficult to breathe

when you have this many people out of one-bedroom apartment in Bakersfield, California where the air is just not moist so nor nope so Jackson Ryan really helped save us that's right now who else did was Ryan Lenzy who brought

the lens app and then made AI art depictions of each of us oh that's really lazy gift that's a real lazy gift and I know that it looks like art but really like is it really a machine just kind of kind of mocked that up based on a whole bunch of other people's hard work and our likenesses. And what you ended up doing is you gave our likenesses to the machine to use for future stuff.

And we didn't sign off on that, you know. We didn't sign any waiver or contract. So we'll have to talk after the party, Ryan. Good call. And Anthony Donato brought Eric Voss's head from new rock stars. Eric's head. But in the way Eric would want to have been brought, which is not just a capitate and bloody and gross. like the Futurama bottle.

Oh, yeah. So that way Eric could live on forever, doing breakdowns and Easter eggs, till the end of time, stuck here, away from his child and his wife, just talking about Marvel and D.C. The way he always hoped he could. Into the afterlife. Yes. And speaking of the afterlife, stardust and madness has just shown up on a literal star

and is sprinkling literal star dust made of plasma on everyone at the party. are burning. It's an imperceivable level of heat and white hot pain that even transcends that into some kind of pleasure realm where both pain and pleasure are one and we all unite

cosmically rithing in the stars. And Matthew Arms brought a centaur. Oh hey! Where the bottom half is a Joe Pesci and the top half

is a is a goose is a goose so the bottom half which is the part of Joe Pesci that we all love is the centaur and then a regular goose

just the top half that's right of Joe Pesci's body skocking around as they do that's what goose do right honking at people

asking if they may amuse you yeah yeah I forgot I mentioned Matthew Arms did that himself that's right He decapteage, he cut Joe Pesci now. Oh, that's okay.

It's okay, though, because 100% wood is here with a wood carving of everyone at the party. But what we all don't know is that those wood carvings actually have a personal item or, you know, piece of somebody, you know, each person, they have a personal item from that person on the dog. So they're all voodoo dolls, but they're made of 100% wood. So everyone's admiring the craftsmanship before they realize that, you know, their bodily autonomy is about to be usurped by magic. Dope. Dope. Well, Kevin Meek. Kevin brought Donald Trump's Bible.

Hey. Oh, that's the only Bible for me. It's made out of gold. It's difficult to flip the pages because the entire book is made out of gold. The text is engraved. Hand with a knife. Yes. Into the gold.

The booey knife. It is a very big book, biggest book they've ever seen. It's the best book. According to Kevin Meek. Ask anyone. It's the biggest book, the greatest book. Especially Kevin Meek. Ask Kevin. No, they, everyone at the parr was like, they've never seen anything like it.

That's true. So everyone keeps saying, they kept saying this is the greatest, most fantastic book they've ever seen. That was their words. Very envious of that book, honestly. Yeah. There's nothing like it, I kept saying. Nothing at all. In fact, I mean, Zen science showed up right after and was like, how am I going to top?

that I can't. So I brought nothing because I'm just so Zen that nothing could even, you know, attempt to satisfy this. It's very zen. It's very Zen's personal. No material item or good could possibly bring the kind of joy that just your presence here at the party could. There are a lot of gifts. There's a lot of gifts and a lot of guests. This is a big old party. Well, Navdiv Sidhu, they brought, um, they brought a camera equipment to film a sex tape and they thought it was a very different kind of white elephant party. They thought there was going to be real white elephants there.

And then I was like, if you thought that, then why did you think we were going to do a sex tape? Then they proceeded to explain. Yes. And Alexander the Great themed tape. And we said, you're welcome to stay. Absolutely. And maybe we can encourage this throughout the night because he convinced a handful of people that is probably what we should do. That's true.

But ultimately, majority boats. And people in Vegasville, California, a bunch of prudes. Hey, you know who you are. Heather Gear brought a bunch of Pam Greer life-sized cutouts. I've always wanted to see that. That's right, because Pam Greer is objectively the hottest person of all time.

Objectively. And, you know, that's what we need for the party, honestly. We don't have enough physical heat. We need some, you know, conceptual heat. You know, some attraction-based heat. And also, you know, just a reminder

of one of the greatest era in cinema. So thanks, Heather. Really showing the authenticity. Oh, well, Kayla the King brought CBD pens. Good. Actual pens with CBD and ink. There we go.

So you can really relax whatever documents you're trying to fill out, you know, and yourself by proxy. They use it to inscript the Trump Bible. Yes, of course. It's got real CBD in the ink. They've never seen anyone more relaxed reading the Bible. Not one. Oh, and hey, Kira brought the Torah.

That's right, because, you know, we got to remember where the first half of the Bible that, you know, is the cornerstone of Christmas where that came from, which is the Torah. And now it's not so much a party as it is an opportunity to sit and learn and study together, which is a real party to me. Well, Juan Longoria brought all of Mexico

Hey, that's good. We didn't have enough people here. Well, unfortunately, who brought the Trump Bible again? They raised hell about that. I was just tell you when Kevin Meek or Matthew Arms. Kevin Meek, when Juan Longoria brought all of Mexico with them, they were like, well, Greg assigned this to me because he's racist and heard my name was Juan. So, of course, he brought, told me to bring all in Mexico, which he did. I didn't think he'd actually pull it off.

um he did but then you know person with the trump i was like well they had questions about a lot of people in attendance that day sure and let's just say most of them uh got kicked out oh of course well you got kicked out permanently that's right you know not just a bagos field uh they're taking they're dug got ugly that's right they got ugly but you know who isn't ugly is cliff rodriguez uh who showed up with clifton collins junior who is uh you know one of those guys you've seen in a thousand movies and you don't know his name, but you've seen him. I'm crazy. And everyone at the party's like, oh my God, it's you. You're from the, you're from

the, yeah, you know, and they're all waiting for Clifton Collins, Jr. To, like, fill in the blank. Yes, he doesn't. He doesn't do it because that is a blow to his ego. That's right. Waiting for the one person who knows that he was at least in Scott Pilgrim versus the world as one of the vegan police. Well, you should have seen what overly ambitious brought. What was that?

They brought Joe Biden's soul. Yes. It's long separated from his body. That's what a lot of people don't realize is that there's someone there literally just turning some knobs and dials and putting Joe Biden out there. He's just like, he's a turn him out, he's turning enough and he was able to walk to certain distance. It'll stop. And that's what we've been seeing out there. And, you know, because let's face it, maybe he was overly ambitious getting into office at his age. Maybe. With very obvious signs that maybe something ain't right. I don't know what you mean. I think we all know

Four more years Four more years And speaking of four more years I want four more years Of intimate friendship With Lorenzo Baxter Totally Who brought a batch

Of fresh baked Brussels Sprouts to the party You know Because there's so much You know like Confectionary sugary stuff You're like

People here need to actually Get some nutrition All right And I think that's a good idea You know That's good One nice, warm, leafy greens. I like those roll these, those like a cylinder crackers,

but you dip in that cheese. It's really healthy. Yeah, definitely. Oh, Lorenzo Baxter's who you just talked about, well, I'll talk about differently sane. Please. It's differently sane. They brought all of late night television's recent jokes in the last year.

It was like pages upon pages. It looked like FBI files. And then they concluded that they're all pretty much the same jokes. about Republican presidency. Mm-hmm. And we realized they're not that original because they ran out of shit to say. And they only had like a day to come up with half these jokes. Yeah, it was really, it really shine differently saying was trying to make us same being like,

I feel like everyone on network television from Channel 2 through 9 are talking about the same thing. All the networks. It's past 10 p.m. And differently sane, proved a solid point. That's true. That's true. Oh, and hey, look who else has just shown up. It's Marco Tunstill with a big bag of Voss water bottles

because this party doesn't have a working bathroom. So now everybody's got one of their very own. There's no excuse to relieve yourself on the floor or under the craft services table because that's what we call where the food is in this house. So thank you, Marco, because I've been holding. it all day and you're a real life saver if i do say so myself my dude simply faded oh you know what simply faded brought no i definitely what but but subversion oh they subverted us that's right they brought a gift of subversion it wasn't at all what we expected with a name like simply

faded we all knew for sure like on simply faded we know what they're going to bring based off of their name and profile but no they subverted expectations that That's true they did. That's what they brought. And you know who else subverted expectations was SJ94. Oh, shit. Who brought some jellical 94 live cats to the party. Whoa.

And all the cats have been upgraded with Elon Musk's Neurrelink. So now they can actually sing the songs from cats in their cat voices. No way. That is true. You've cracked the code SJ94. You've done it. Wow. And you've given us the gift of both art and science this day.

Well, Justin Martin, they brought a whoopee cushion. Hey, classic comedy. And it really turned the vibe around. Honestly, when we were trying to listen to Joe Biden's soul, argue with Trump Bible. It really actually made the mood like a little brought down. And with Stephen Amel in the corner trying to play both sides. We really knew what side you were wrong.

Come on, man. It was a really awkward time and the whoopee cushion just because once once Brandy Torres sat on it and we all thought she just let a big on rip

Oh no, Brady. The mood definitely changed and then she farted for real after that and it was not funny. It's actually really gross. Farts are actually not funny in real life. They're not. They never are. They're just gross because you have someone else's bum molecule

in your nose. And then you just think about their butt doing that. Uh-huh, you do. And then you never see them in the same life. Yeah. That's why women don't poop.

Uh-huh. They don't. Scientific fact. And you notice doesn't poop is Drew. And that's the gift you brought to the party is your, you know,

squeaky, clean colon. Oh, yeah. Yep. It's just cemented now. It is. In fact, and you have like one of those little colonoscopy cameras

in there at all times so that you can plug it into the TV and show everybody what they should aspire to be. Yeah, that's great. Which is clear. cleaned out

empty ready to go their butt looks like all for one's face that's yep just no just a giant smiling butt just no eyes no nothing yeah just just clear as day

and Philip J. Smith Jr. Uh huh wow they brought an R gemma award Hey I was wondering where that went or like how they get it and they they just admitted they stole it it's messed up dog and I was like huh come work for me

because our this is just the front really we're a heist team all of us that's true errands on the computer andrews in the van john's the guy we put through vents that's yes of course i'm the brain guy coy is uh the muscle who's beats people one muscle guy one muscle guy uh yeah definitely and uh terra Broxie's on assault rifle. Broxie has the assault rifle. Michael Tesler is who else needs to be on the highest.

He's the guy in on the job. He's the guy who works at the bank. Yeah, there you go. He's been working there for months. Case in the place. And Tara thinks she's working on a real place. So, who have Marjorie? Marjorie?

Oh, Marjorie. Thanks for showing up and for bringing several live gerbils to the party. Thank goodness. I feel like people need to give more living party favors in this life. That's what Richard Kew. This is right.

Yeah, we dodged a bullet there. He's quite a capacious guy that Richard gear, especially at this age. So, you know, it's lucky that, you know, everybody who's a party goer at this party will be able to leave with their gerbil. Hopefully, you know, in an open-air scenario. But thanks for being so thoughtful and for robbing that petco. Well, Jen Smith, they brought. check this out what do we got they brought a massage chair oh oh it was yes such a relaxing time people but here's the best part about the massage chair what do we got that when people

stood to get up there's a whoopee cushion there oh the boogie person is back and they stood up they reached up that they were so relaxed that you farted and every time it was like it was Oh, no, no. But we wouldn't let them, we would have to admit it. We just pointed it and said, no, it was you. And then when they cried from us pointing and laughing at them, we just said, take a joke. Yeah, come on. And they were talking about their trauma.

Learn to laugh at yourself. You know how to handle the over-stimulation of a bunch of people. Learn to laugh at yourself when we already all are laughing at you. Exactly. That's right. You need to mature. Yeah. Take a joke.

Get thicker skin and be mean to yourself. Yeah. as well and oh Melanie LeBlanc finally now the party can begin and Melanie brought the actual white elephant to the party. Elephant

LeBlanc. Wow. You know, which is great. You know, she comes in riding on its back dressed as Alexander the Great because I think we mentioned him earlier. It is hot. Have you seen that movie? It's pretty hot. Where he does it with his mom? Where he does it with his mom.

I haven't seen it, but that made me want to brought her mom not to do it with just because it's nice to you know have your mom at a party and you know make a grand entrance because too you know people of of an older generation probably didn't have that luxury growing up that's what i thought it was back in my day it was much harder to get an elephant in the room for sure so thanks for bringing that melanie and for capping off this party in style and snarled asp don't think i didn't see you sneaking in the back door trying to catch us off guard like you weren't here this whole time i appreciate you showing up and bringing your amazing spiritual presence really nice way to cap off the party and now we can all relax

we can all enjoy the festivities get ready for the new year thanks for coming buddy here at the tail end of the year of the month all that stuff thank you all for coming and being so thoughtful and uh hey you know we got a fresh new year to look forward to that's a gift from my us to you is the year 2025. We did that. So stick around and don't die and don't stop pledging. And we'll treat you

to more amazing improv next month. Yeah. It's also okay to end this anytime. We're done. Bye. Happy. Happy holidays. Love you all.