- That's Thomas Middleditch.
- That's Ben Schwartz.
- Together we are "Middleditch & Schwartz,"
we have three totally different,
unique long-form improv comedy specials right now.
- Whew, watch 'em!
- Whew, watch 'em right now!
We watch other things on Netflix.
- Yeah, it's a great platform.
- We're hip.
- What's your favs?
What are your favs?
- I'll give you my top fivse diveses.
- [Middleditch] Okay.
- I love "Bojack Horseman."
- Okay, I like "Sheet Metal Crimpers."
- What's "Sheet Metal Crimpers"?
- It's this competition show,
they've got these big, big sheets of sheet metal
and it's like they're crimpin' 'em
in all these different shapes--
- The whole show?
- Yeah, and it's like if you don't crimp 'em
in the shape that you were told to do--
- You get crimped out? - You're out!
That's what the guy says, "You're out!"
- Is that the catchphrase, "You're out"?
- Yeah.
- I also love "The Movies That Made Us," I love that.
Because, first of all, it's like that nostalgic look
of all those movies that I watched growing up,
but also tells you all like the turmoil and the craziness
that happens within the actual filming.
- I haven't seen that.
Have you seen "Mud Sloppers"?
- No, what's "Mud Sloppers"?
- Okay,
"Mud Sloppers" is like--
- On Netflix, "Mud Sloppers"?
- Yeah, "Mud Sloppers" is a show where a bunch of kids,
they are slapping around in the mud.
It's 20 minutes even because then the timer goes off
and it's like, "Okay, that's 20 minutes kids,
"like, come on out!"
And they all, like, come out and they, you know,
they wash off, but that's off-camera.
Really you're just watchin' these kids like slop around.
- So you're literally just watching a program
where kids are getting money and running around?
- I don't know if they're getting money, dude.
I think this could be the love of the game.
Anyway.
"Mud Sloppers," check it out. - What are you talking about?
- It's like deep cuts Netflix, I like all the,
it's just somethin' for everybody.
- But like mainstream stuff too,
like "Stranger Things" I think is amazing--
- Oh, such a good show! - I'm a big Joe Keery fan,
of course.
Think about a TV show or movie that's a Netflix thing
that's like more mainstream
like that. - No, I know, I know,
they have tons of-- - Yeah, so "Stranger Things"
is one of their top three programs.
- Okay, here's one, here's one--
- Something like, take "Stranger Things."
- Yeah, okay.
Well I don't, I haven't seen "Stranger Things"--
- [Ben] It's great!
- And I never will.
Okay, what's something that I watch--
- And a big thing.
- That, okay, it's one of the more big things.
Um, oh, okay, you've probably seen this one.
- Probably.
- "Hoppy Hoppy Gotta Get Out"?
- Uh, it's a show on Netflix called "Hoppy Hoppy--"
- "Hoppy Gotta Get Out", yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Is it about a rabbit or something?
- Yeah, so you have seen it.
- No I haven't seen it.
- Yeah, the rabbits are in the little boxes
and they gotta hop, hop, hop and get out.
But they don't really know where they're going
and they're all placed on, like,
precarious edges and surfaces.
So some like, hoppy, hoppy and then they fall off the cliffs
to their deaths or like, you know,
off a cabinet and it's not that bad.
- It's a series?
It's not more, it's not like a--
- It's a series, they're in their fifth season.
- Is it funny, is it funny, is it like?
- It's funny, but it's also kind of sad 'cause, you know,
some of the bunnies don't make it.
- So you watch bunnies die on this thing?
- Inadvertently, no one's killing the bunnies, you know.
They just, like, can't see and they inadvertently hop
to their death.
It's better than "Cheer."
- Uh, oh!
So you know what "Cheer" is!
- I've heard it's good.
But this is guaranteed better.
- If you like comedy, you wanna talk about comedy?
Tim Robinson has a show called "I Think You Should Leave,"
which I think is really funny.
It's a fun sketch show
and it kind of-- - Oh!
- Like goes in the vein of the stuff that we came up with,
that funny, alternative type comedy.
- Have you seen "Get In Here, We're Going"?
- Is it a sketch show?
I literally have never heard of
any of these shows you're naming.
- Well, it's a hidden camera game show.
- "Get In Here, We're Going"?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Is it with someone captures someone in a car
and they leave?
- Yeah, and they leave, and then they go,
and then they're like in a confined space for like an hour.
And it's really time.
- So the whole show is just watching this person in a van
for an hour?
- In a van, in a bag, like tied up and suspended,
like it's weird.
It's so funny though.
- What, how's it funny?
It's just someone in a van thinking they've lost their lives
or been kidnapped. - Yeah, 'cause
in order to get out they gotta come up with jokes.
- Oh, you didn't explain that.
- So there's like, yeah,
there's like four judges. - How do they know that?
How do they know that there's judges?
- I mean, they get captured and they're blindfolded then,
obviously, but when they're brought
to like the warehouse or like the arena--
- The warehouse, the arena?
- Sometimes they do arenas.
And there are four judges and they go,
"Okay, now, tell us some zingers or you will never be free."
And so--
- So their lives are threatened unless they think
of zingers. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's Naomi Campbell, David Chang,
Bruce Vilanch-- - These are the hosts
or the people that they--
- Let me finish, and Whoopi Goldberg and they're just like,
you know, "Tell us the jokes!"
- Oh, they're the, they're the hosts.
- They're the hosts, they're like the panel.
- And who are the people who get captured?
- Just people, just folks,
they're shopping or like getting--
- Well how 'bout this, we'll talk about movies.
We got one more that's four of the five,
we'll do one more
for movies. - Oh, I'm a real movie-head,
this is probably my specialty.
- All right, good.
And like mainstream, like I'll even go big.
One of my favorite franchises is "Back to the Future",
I think Bob Zemeckis is a genius and they,
on Netflix right now, "Back to the Future III",
which I think is amazing.
(Ben sings)
- It's called "Back to the Future"?
- You've never heard of "Back to the Future"?
- Where do they, they go?
- 88 miles per hour, Marty McFly, Doc Brown?
- How do you go back to the future?
- Doc Brown builds a time machine
and the whole idea is they go back in time,
but they didn't bring enough plutonium,
so Marty McFly's stuck there and he has to find the Doc
to build the time machine and go back.
That's the first one, there's three.
- Okay, well it sounds a little far-fetched,
I kinda like more grounded stuff.
Have you ever seen "Wizards"--
- Stop stop stop stop stop.
Before you finish it, because I heard wizards
and I think it was cream?
- "Wizards"-- - You gotta be stopped.
Think of a movie that everyone in this room knows.
- If you haven't seen "Wizards and Cream," you're insane.
- Who's in it, give me the--
- Jack Black.
- Oh, I love Jack Black.
- David Duchovny.
- I love David Duchovny.
- They're wizards.
- I'm so afraid to find out where the cream comes in.
- Cream comes in at the end.
You'll see.
- So those are our five each.
That gives you ten special things to find on Netflix.
Check out "Middleditch & Schwartz"--
- Yes!
- We have three different long-form improv specials.
- Completely made up, on the spot.
- One's about a wedding, one's about a job interview,
one's about the hijinks that happen in law school.
Everything made up on the spot, nothing written beforehand,
we'd love it if you watched it and didn't watch--
- Well, no, do check out "Wizards and Cream."
Definitely.
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