I think it's about half and half, half are indeed completely random off the street, the other half are pre-interviewed for a fake travel show about New York, and are told they will be picked up and taken to the location of the shoot.

I just loved the sight of Jimmy Fallon galloping around making horse trotting noises on his thigh, and the idea that people were supposed to buy that that was a horse. Very Monty Python. I lost it when he started talking, they kept finding ways to twist the joke and make it more absurd, which seems to be the stumbling…

That's the thing - it's not a trademark of the show, it's a recent development that came out of the regular caller ban. With the ban in effect there are way more first time callers who for some reason don't get it. Which is weird because everyone else seems to get it.

Tom had two heave-hos for the ages in this show.
"WFMU you're on the air."
"Tommy!"
*2 second pause*
"WFMU you're on the air."

Yeah, Archer's the light at the end of the tunnel. Just rewatched the three part special, it's insane how good it is.

Community on hiatus, Sunny ending its season, P&R on break… this is gonna be a long December of our December.

You're the worst.

Yeah, I remember loving this movie at a very young age, 4 or 5 maybe, but the only memory I have of it is the flying and the music. I don't remember it making me sad, I think the whole getting to fly around with a living snowman aspect outweighed the ending. I guess I had a very Zen outlook on life as a four year old,…

all his UCB contemporaries are now also in their 40s and are still funny, so that kinda throws a wrench in that theory.

The ultimate fear, confronting your own nonexistence! It's time for the ego death challenge!

Moment of the episode?

Oh wow, I didn't even consider that but that must be happening. They've brought it back before, it's pretty much a classic at this point.

I'm betting Kel Mitchell is pretty hungry these days… Plus he was always the funny one anyway.

Plus the fact that cast members often play characters from different countries, so it wouldn't be too hard to see them doing a sketch like this that is actually set in Japan. That's what I thought it was the first time they did it, which made Sudeikas's reveal hilarious, but knowing that going in the second time made…

Yeah agreed. Way too much contrast and makeup. Whodathunk trying to make a redhead look like Marilyn Monroe would look unnatural?

It totally blew my mind when I realized the object of Louis CK's affection was Bobby Hill.

"For that matter, are high school classrooms still as low-tech as
presented on the show now, or should there be laptops and monitors all
over the place?"

Check your labels: https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…

I never know if these are legit or not.

Yeah, episodes with in-studio guests are a good place to start. I've said it before, but IMO the best place to start is the July 21, 2009 show with PFT in-studio wherein they discuss the Gathering of the Juggalos: http://wfmu.org/flashplayer…