-The new "Pokémon" movie,
"Pokémon: Detective Pikachu,"
hits theaters this week --
-Aah! Hey, hey, hey, everybody!
It's me, Squattle!
Your favorite "Pokémon" character!
Who wants to buy a T-shirt?! [ Shouting ]
[ Cheers ] -No, no, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry, everyone. This is, uh...
This is one of my writers, John Lutz.
-No, I'm not. I'm Squattle, the best Pokémon!
-Lutz... [ Cheers and applause ]
-Yay! -No, no, no.
Lutz, Lutz, Lutz! -Yay! I need this!
-Lutz, you're Lutz! You're Lutz.
You're, Lutz.
-Okay. Sorry, everybody.
[ Audience "Awws" ] Yeah.
It's all right, yeah. -We love you.
-Thank you. I love you guys, too, but...
I just want to let you all know I'm not really Squattle.
-No one -- No one thought you were Squattle, Lutz.
[ Laughter ]
Squattle's not a -- What's going on, buddy?
-Well, Seth, remember that sketch we did
back when "Pokémon Go" came out?
-No. [ Laughter ]
-You were trying to catch Pokémon creatures, remember?
-No.
And, "Pokémon Go" -- what was that, like 2016?
-Yeah, yeah! And I came out dressed like this,
playing a Pokémon character called Squattle.
And I kept saying my popular catchphrase,
"Throw your balls at me!"
[ Laughter ]
Are you seriously telling me you don't remember that?
-We do a lot of shows here, Lutz.
-Well, when we did that sketch, the audience loved it.
-Did the audience love it? -Yes! Yeah, big-time.
[ Cheers and applause ] They're loving it now!
They're loving it now!
-They are. -Yeah!
-They're hopped up. -It went so well, I thought,
"Squattle is gonna be the face of the show."
-Wait. I'm the face of the show.
-Throw your balls at me!
[ Cheers and applause ] -Lutz!
Lutz!
Please, buddy. Please, you gotta stop this.
-Yeah -- Okay. I need this, Seth, okay?
I thought Squattle was gonna be so popular...
-Uh-huh. -...that the NBC Store
would be stocking the shelves with Squattle merch.
-Uh-huh. -So I thought I'd
beat them to the punch, and I made a bunch
of Squattle T-shirts myself. -Oh, boy.
How many T-shirts did you make?
-20,000. -Oh.
[ Laughter ]
-Lutz, you -- you have two kids.
-Oh. Oh, thanks for the update, Seth.
That's something I definitely didn't hear from my wife
back when a truck full of T-shirts showed up to my house.
-Well, that still doesn't explain
why you decided to come out here dressed like that.
-Well, when I heard about the new "Pokémon" movie,
I thought it was a perfect opportunity
to bring Squattle out here
and make my money back on these tees.
I guess it was just a -- one of my stupid ideas.
-Yeah, no. [ Audience "Awws" ]
I think it's really stupid, too.
Because you can't just legally license a new Pokémon character.
[ Laughter ]
-Shut up. -All right.
[ Laughter ]
-You know what?
[ Laughter ]
You know what? -What?
-I'm sorry, everybody, for wasting your time.
-Yeah, thank you. [ Audience "Awws" ]
-No, no, no, no. This was bad.
-This is real. -I guess, uh...
[ Laughter ]
I guess my kids will just have to go to community college.
-Oh, okay. [ Audience "Awws" ]
Boo! Boo!
Boo! Oh, I'm all right.
You know what, Lutz? I'm sorry.
I'll take a shirt. -Really?
-Yeah.
-But say it like you really mean it.
[ Laughter ]
-Lutz, I will take a shirt.
-Yay! Here you go! -Great. All right.
Thank you. [ Cheers and applause ]
-And that'll be $1,000, please. -What?!
What?! -Yeah.
-[Bleep] you, Lutz! Get out of here!
Get out of here!
[ Cheers and applause ]
Give it up for that guy.
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