♪ ♪
-Ya! -Hoo!
MAN: These guys are...?
(both imitating impact noises)
♪ ♪
Oh!
Ow! I punched myself in the face! Is that cut?
♪ ♪
Welcome, to...
"Behind the Curtain with Rhett & Link."
-Wh... Where's the curtain?
LINK:
Welcome to behind it.
Buddy System
me losing my phone, and us trying to find it.
The person who took his phone, who happens to be
our co-ex-girlfriend, who is now a crazy infomercial queen,
is trying to take over the world of
We threw a lot of stuff...
-LINK:
we threw it at
We innovated some new methods for
fast songwriting.
LINK:
like you play something on the keyboard...
♪ And then just start trying to sing something ♪
♪ When, oh, there it goes ♪
-♪ Oh, there it is, yeah ♪ -♪ Yeah ♪
Yeah. We wrote all our songs like that.
(rapping): Everybody hides a slide, supersliding
door before you made it slide.
Power!
(shouting): Pants! Drawers! Face! Balls!
Phantom Menace! Strikes back!
More crap! Power nap!
That's how Little John would do it. (laughs)
RHETT: Buddy System is a fictitious version
of our actual friendship.
We knew that we wanted the music videos to feel like
a total separation from the narrative.
What environment would kind of complement that?
So I do think it's lighting.
♪ ♪
Well, hello there.
RHETT: You know what? He's kind of in his own world right now.
I'm not gonna interrupt him.
RHETT: So, you're gonna leave the nipple out of yours, too.
-LINK: The nipples are being sidelined.
Called the old skipple move.
♪ I'm not afraid of the dark, I'm afraid of what's ♪
♪ in the dark that I cannot see because it's so dang dark ♪
♪ So dang dark, so dang dark, so dang dark, so dang dark ♪
It's not even real. It's nothin'.
It's computer-generated.
No it's not, it's some sort of a painted pipe.
♪ I see because it's so dang dark, so dang dark ♪
♪ So dang dark, so dang dark, so dang dark ♪
The inspiration for the power nap was, um...
the Puff Daddy and Mace...
-Like, yeah, like 90s rap video. -90s.
♪ ♪
We should take an ironic power nap right now.
(laughs) You know what I'm sayin'?
LINK: Page Kennedy, uh, is a great guyner
and social media person.
You can actually just go and look at Page's Snapchats
and recreate the entire
(audio playback/rapping): A power nap gives you power!
Give twenty minutes now, get power for hours!
Don't walk through that.
-What is that? -We both find it out.
-I thought it was never-ending.
(laughs)
♪ ♪
(audio on playback) ♪ Then you better take ♪
♪ a power nap first ♪
♪ You oughta know where the power's at ♪
-Moving cars... -♪ It's in the middle of ♪
♪ A power nap, word. ♪ -Hey!
-This is dope. -Yeah, this is over the top.
If you could've shown the actual 1990s versions
of Rhett and Link that, hey, when you're 38, you're gonna be
in pajamas, dookie ropes, lying- lying in a bed together...
LINK: Right. If you could just--
-Rapping about a power nap. -Just show the footage,
with no explanation, would you have just been like,
-We made it. -We did it.
(laughs)
Six music videos in five days.
This crew is absolutely amazing.
With the arms, it's really good!
♪ ♪
We're filling up the entire Stage 1 at YouTube with
1,008 inner tubes.
♪ ♪
MAN: And... bubbles!
(audio on playback) ♪ That's how we roll ♪
♪ And everyone else is a butthole ♪
♪ People with their wheels a buttholes ♪
MAN: Great, and cut!
Man, I'm really hungry for some Fruit Loops. Don't know why.
This is Ms. Molly Shannon, she, uh... you already know her.
But she is our Rhonda, of course.
Uh... gang leader... Look at that gang face!
-(laughs) -I'm normally very sweet,
but I'm doing a character of a tough gang member!
There was that moment where, uh... her
-Superstar character came out. -Yes.
-LINK: Whatever. -Oh, oh, oh, oh!
-LINK: Yeah, whatever, Rhonda! -Whatever!
-LINK: No! I-I-- whatever. -No, whatever! Ooo!
-LINK: Hey! What do you want? -What do you want?
-What do you want? -What do you want?
Can I-- Do you wanna try some other stuff?
RHETT: Yeah, anything you want. -Okay, cool.
Well, I'm off to drink blood. Not human blood.
RHETT: Chris Parnell,
he asked us if he could experiment with his lines.
The blood orange-- not necessarily the blood orange,
just juice of the orange, orange juice.
LINK: Blood orange... ha!
-He just... that was a surprise. -Beautiful.
I bid you adieu!
LINK: So, Leslie Bibb plays Aimee. We're huge fans of hers.
Once Leslie gets in the scene, she is thoroughly committed.
I mean, there was that one scene, where
she gets frustrated with the idea light on my head,
and she yanks it off... (glass shatters)
And the bulb breaks, but she doesn't break.
LINK: And then she just kept going,
-and she said, -You almost killed me!
-Get him! -Oh!
That was pretty impressive.
Hey. What's that evil look on your face?
I'm so stoked to do this here today!
Peder, with a D, was a physical challenge for me.
-(gruff voice) Good morning. -(laughs)
He's always so grouchy in the morning.
It definitely needs to be a cry.
I just thought it would be funnier for it to be
that long, (whines), like this extended yell cry,
verses a (short sobs), that kind of thing
which will seem really act-y.
(growling whine)
(whining sob)
(growling sob)
LINK: Probably. Get in there. Even closer.
It's gonna be fine. Right in there will do it.
-RHETT: Agh, okay. -LINK: You see yourself?
RHETT: I don't think I can get any closer.
So, I didn't necessarily see anything when I was
looking into Peder's eye-hole, but I can say I felt something.
I felt that... I wanted to leave,
and I wanted the scene to end.
(gruff voice): If you look deep within my Prophes-eye,
you will see the answer to the question that plagues you.
Get closer. You're not closer enough.
Focused on max, you get... get really closer.
Closer! Closer!
What'd you see?
Don't answer that. It's just like your birthday wish.
Never tell people what you wish for your birthday.
This is the... not the first time I've worn a wire.
RHETT: My favorite part of O'Dell's character
is his very intense backstory.
I was an informant, uh, for the Mexican government.
I'm not actually sure what they were tryin' to get.
Roger, be gentle with me.
Be gentle. It's a man thing, remember? Just...
RHETT: I'm especially excited about wearing
the Power Pelvis, and shooting massive quantities
of water from my nether regions.
Whoa, that's a-- that's a tight tie. Whoa!
(laughs)
(water sprays in bucket) Oh. Oh! Oh yeah.
Jesus. I knew that was going to happen.
That felt great.
(loud spraying)
(spraying stops)
-MAN 1: Oh, that was it! -MAN 2: Cut!
("BFF" song playing on speakers)
WOMAN: Five, six, seven, eight!
♪ You need a BFF ♪
We, we had this whole routine choreographed, um,
with strong inspiration from 90s boy bands,
N'SYNC, the Backstreet Boys, a little Britney Spears,
and a lot of sprinkler.
A lot of sprinkler.
(rapping): I'm sure he'd be an excellent guy,
I don't care if he was just some teeth and an eye.
WOMAN 1: Oh! WOMAN 2: Oh my God.
(laughs) This is grossing everybody out.
Like, nobody can take it. -WOMAN: Oh my God! No!
MAN: Okay, grab the-- Let's go.
You have your staring contest?
-This is what they look like. -You wanna blink first.
Is it up, is it high, is it low?
JENNA: (humming)
Stop laughing at me, man! Dude, stop laughing!
-Okay, action! Action. -I can't learn if you laugh.
You know, people go, look, I'm black, oh, it's a black guy.
He's gonna be cooler than anybody else.
Until they see me, and they're gonna say,
"Oh, we've been lied to!"
-Just don't do this! -(laughs)
Like, you're gonna mess up your whole sequence
by having this in the background.
RHETT: Page is protesting a little bit.
He, uh... even though he's only doing an upper-body dance,
while seated.
He doesn't wanna ruin his, in his own words, "street cred."
♪ Best friends forever ♪
(song ends)
(crew cheers and claps)
...a full thirty days of shooting,
is that you-you really get to know
your crew, and everyone you're working with.
Unfortunately, we lost somebody very close to us
during the making of
(snickering)
So, I'm shaving my beard for the first time in a decade,
because within the show, there is a prom
flashback to 1996.
I know it's gonna look horrible.
I know I'm gonna want it to grow back as quickly as possible.
But I'm willing to do it just to get a reaction.
-Ready? -MAN: Ready?
(electric shaver buzzes)
There's no goin' back from this.
Oh. It's really, really, really hard to do this.
(shaver buzzes)
I look like somebody who's playing a bit part
in a high school Shakespeare play.
Oh, gosh.
I don't know what I'm gonna find, man.
I'm not happy about this.
And you're not gonna be happy about it, either.
So we had a fake beard created so you wouldn't know
that I actually shaved my beard.
And I'm actually wearing that beard right now.
Seriously?
Where's Link?
(laughing)
Ah! It stops right here.
I am never doing this again.
We were so cool in high school.
LINK: I looked exactly like I do in the flashback.
But we were, you know, what I would say, pretty cool.
RHETT: It didn't take much to be cool
at Harnett Central High School in 1996,
but we were pretty cool guys.
LINK: Of course, you got that...
that quintessential prom moment where,
the mom comes out, and says, "Wait, wait, wait!
"We have to take some pictures."
-In the yard. -"In the yard!"
You gotta take a yard picture.
I-I'm sure we took pictures with our dates,
but they were, like, let's take pictures with each other...
-Yeah. -...without our dates.
And then we invented that pose.
LINK: And then we just started doing things,
and then, and then it just kind of happened:
the hands clasped in a businessman shake,
and then the-- we just said, hey,
-"Why don't we lift the leg?" -Yeah, yeah, of course.
-Why not? -Why not?
Okay, so, in this scene, uh,
at my peak of anger towards Link, at our prom flashback
I throw the microphone at his head, knocking off of his hat.
And so, it's a rubber microphone,
but I am going to knock his hat off.
-You're a punkass! -AIMEE: Ah!
RHETT: (groans)
-You're a punkass! -AIMEE: Ah!
-You're a punkass. -AIMEE: Oo-- Ow!
You're a punkass!
(various yells)
You're a punkass! -AIMEE: (yells)
You... missed.
-Grazed it. I grazed it. -(crowd laughs)
-Not going down that easily. -RHETT: (laughs)
I just hope you had fun!
I mean, it's just good, clean, fun!
RHETT: There was something about envisioning something,
and then finding yourself in the midst of it on set.
I think
of what we've always wanted to do.
LINK: This is our vision for how we want the world to be:
we want people to be able to put on pajamas, and bling.
RHETT:
Just have fun.
-You got a good shot of this? -MAN: Oh yeah.
Look at yourself in the mirror, and say... "Hey, Rhett."
Hey, Rhett.
"I see that you shaved your beard."
I see that you shaved your beard.
"And I, I can imagine that you might have been
a little nervous about that."
I can imagine that you might have been
a little nervous about that.
-"But you know what, dude?" -But you know what, dude?
-"You're still cool." -You're still cool.
This is where pants should fit.
Right here, on the waist.
Because they never move. They're completely secure.
Somebody put this thing in gear.
So, where would the gear go?
Whoa-ho. Don't-don't reach for any sticks.
Wait, what kind of car is this? She said that--
Don't reach for any sticks!
Do not put this car in gear at all! (laughs)
This is my kitchen.
This is my living room.
This is my bedroom. Whoops!
I'm goin' in the hole.
MAN: And, action.