Alan Sepinwall
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83 appearances
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1 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
Alan Sepinwall’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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My pleasure to be here.
Terrible no. I mean, they're definitely going, you know, small hall here, which I think I endorse. You know, I had a short list myself, which was a little longer. I think the only one I might strongly disagree on is Roy Rules, which I have, like, just the softest of soft spots for, just because there's so many great jokes in there.
Like, I think Andy noted in the episode you did on that when he says he loves wearing T-shirts and Roy is wearing, like, a button-down and a tie. Like, that's... It doesn't get better than that. Not a big tent joke, but a pretty great joke. Yeah. But there's so many of them in that one sketch. So I would say that I would agree. United Way is, it's a great sketch.
It does not feel like a Lonely Island sketch. Very true. It's a Peyton Manning sketch. So that shouldn't be on there. So wait, did you guys not take any of the laser cats?
We split. I was pro first laser cats.
I feel like you have to have a laser cat somewhere in criteria, right?
But I just think that LaserCats is so fundamental to the story of The Lonely Island and of the digital shorts. You have to have one on there. Even if you're not like the hugest fan of the idea or the execution, it's... I mean, they did five of them?
I've lost track. Alan, which one would you put on? If you could only pick one. Which one was Chris Dodden? I would probably do, I think Chris Dodd was in 3D, which is also the one with Walken. So it's got Walken, it's got Chris Dodd, it's got Kenan, it's got Andy getting his bionic eye. I mean, I think that's your one right there. I love how Chris Dodd is mentioned alongside Chris Walken. Yeah.
Yes, I remember watching that and realizing what they were doing and saying, wait, they're doing a parody of that? And I just couldn't believe it. And like a lot of their humor, they just kind of kept going to the well and going to the well.
And the more they did it, the funnier it got until you get to the moment where the song just sort of keeps restarting over and over and over again in the span of about 10 seconds. I mean, maybe that's in some ways like the quintessential Lonely Island sketch. Because A, it goes back to their origins with the boo. It's making fun of something that by that point was relatively obscure.
And like they sort of kept picking at the scab over and over again until they got through all of it.
Yeah, exactly. It's like cool guys don't look at explosions. It's just sort of it's taking a trope and, you know, hanging a hat on it.
No, no, I think they did a good job. I mean, the only one I even really thought about that's not on their list is The Tangent. And that's one I think I discovered through the pod because it was so hard to find for so long. But I think that's probably more of a Kim's video anyway.
Yeah. And like Andy doesn't have to be the central character in a short for it to be criterion because he's not in Natalie's rap. He just does a verse. But it has to in some way like have the sensibility of those guys in order, I think.
I think that's why United Way isn't criterion.
Thanks.
So we decided on the 34 that we went through, we decided six unanimously, and then we diverged on two. So I picked eight and Sher picked six. I think that's good because they get stronger, I think, the Lonely Island oeuvre, I think, as they proceed.
I will say just because, you know, the odds of me and Mike being on this podcast again, a second time, maybe not that high. One day I was at the Parks and Rec writer's room and they played Captain Jack Sparrow on the writer's room TV at least seven times.
There was a mindfulness to this. Yeah, good word for it. That's also one of the reasons that we're honored that we are chosen to be Criterion judges.
I was taken to a warm bath of resistance nonsense.
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