"THIS DOESN'T SEEM LIKE HOW YOU INSTALL A FRIDGE!"note
- The episode simply titled "Bob's Fridge
," in which Bob tells the story of his attempts to get a refrigerator installed.- The first group of deliverymen, which Bob describes as the competent ones, get the fridge to Bob's backyard, where they discover a dent in the front. Bob doesn't want a dented fridge, so he has them take it back. They then proceed to give zero fucks about denting the fridge, pushing the fridge through his back gate so hard, he was worried the gate would be damaged (and inadvertently, the gate was right next to his gas meter and the gate banged against it several times).
- The next morning, after a cold night, Bob noticed the heat wasn't on and any gas-powered devices in his new house were now not working. It turns out that his gas meter, like a lot of California homes, has an earthquake sensor, to automatically shut off the gas in the event of an earthquake. It turns out the deliverymen banged the fridge so hard against the gate and the gas meter, that the meter thought there was an earthquake!Wade: And this was the good team?
Bob: Yeah, they did a great job. I love those guys. - Then, Bob describes the hassle of trying to get a replacement fridge from Lowe's. He said he called 11 times in a day, waiting on hold for over an hour and never talked to a single person after it automatically disconnected him after a few minutes. He mentions that in the automated menu where it asks for the department, at first he's like "Uh, Appliances, please." and after the sixth time, he's "Fucking Appliances!"
- Nine days after the first delivery attempt, a second one is scheduled for 11AM - 3PM. An hour and 40 minutes before 11AM, they call and tell him they're delivering it in 10 minutes, as Mark, Bob, and Wade were preparing to start recording their Distractible episode. This is the morning before the episode was recorded, so it's fresh on his mind. Bob tells them it's inconvenient for them to deliver it at that time, but they tell him they're delivering it anyways. So, Bob delays the podcast (for the better... For the audience, at least).
- Bob tells them what the previous deliverymen had said, that the fridge won't fit through the front door, but the head deliveryman insists on measuring the door, only to find out that it is indeed too small. Bob is already annoyed and grumpy after the previous experiences, so Bob says he's in the mood of "Give me the fridge and GTFO!" They proceed to take the fridge to the side yard, with the lead deliveryman whining about having to go through Bob's overgrown lawn.
- The deliverymen can't find the shutoff for the water to the fridge, so the deliverymen disconnects the water, kinks the line, and has Bob hold the line. Bob watches them bring the old fridge out and start to take the new one in. He sees them go to the backyard, where he hears them hit something and then a loud "whoosh" sound and them yell "Oh, shit!" and Bob hears them rushing around, but he can't see what's happening, because he's holding the hose. After 10-15 minutes, Bob messages his wife, Mandy, to come hold the hose, so he can see what they're doing. Apparently "Genius 2" had the fridge on the dolly sideways and decided that running the fridge through the bush was alright, and knocked down a water sprinkler, causing water to gush up and spray everywhere. For the entire ten or so minutes, one was staring at the water geyser, and the other moron was holding the broken pipe up to the gushing water, which did absolutely no good, just causing it to spray farther.
- Naturally, Bob started getting angry as Genius 1 looks at him like he's wanting Bob to tell him what to do about it. Bob then rages against Genius 2, about him being such a moron that driving a fridge through a bush sounded fine to him. Bob's like "Just shut the water off, you fucking idiots! The pipe's not gonna work, it's snapped off!" Genius 1 then tried to shut off the water to the house at the street main, but the water shutoff valve is rusted open. The deliverymen start looking to Bob for guidance, like he's their boss, and Bob is like "This doesn't seem like how you install a fridge! I had different expectations!" Finally, Bob finds the indoor water shutoff valve after half an hour of water destroying his backyard. Bob then points out that his new fridge was sitting in a big muddy puddle for half an hour, also being only 3 feet away from the broken irrigation pipe.
- Now, Bob is asking how they would fix this, and finds out that they're just 3rd-party contractors for Lowe's. Bob was pretty sure the deliverymen were scared of him at that point, saying about how his face looked. Bob then calls Lowe's and the customer service representative is unhelpful, saying that Lowe's will initiate contact with the delivery company after Bob gives his information to Lowe's within 24-48 hours, causing Bob to rage at the poor guy (who Bob acknowledges didn't deserve it), and the poor guy to shut down and just say "Uhhhh... It's a process..." Bob almost throws his phone away.
- Genius 1 says to Bob that there should be a way to just turn off the water at the sprinkler system, but is very unhelpful in trying to get it turned off. Bob finally finds the shutoff valve for it, by himself, as they're finishing up setting up the fridge. Genius 1 has the gall to tell him "See, I told you so!" Bob simply clenches his fists and grimaces at the guy. He then storms off to the water shut-off valve and turns the water back on. When he goes back inside, they are gone. All of his water taps work too, and he sees them frantically yeeting all their tools into the back of the truck and quickly driving away. A bit later, Bob is told by Mandy that the fridge isn't cooling down... Mark speculates that they realized they'd damaged it and freaked out because of Bob and that Bob is normally a nice, funny guy, but can be very intimidating in his "indignant rage" mode, and he is 6'4" and a big guy...
- In "Hold My Beer", Bob gives an epilogue to the saga. Apparently, after recording "Bob's Fridge", he found a box of wires on the side of the road outside his house, which were supposed to be given to him during delivery. He could only assume that the deliverymen threw it out the back of the truck on their way out rather than face his wrath. At that point, the absurdity of the whole incident finally dawned on him and he started laughing (also, his new fridge works fine now).
- Then, during "One Paw In The Grave", we finally get a fridge update: The fridge sucks and has a leaking problem because of how it cools, meaning he went through all that misery all for nothing!
- "Hold My Beer" has Mark and Bob sharing college stories of Too Dumb to Live moments that they can't believe they survived, such as amateur parkour that maimed Mark and possibly killed a fellow freshman, Bob nearly freezing to death on his motorcycle during a four-hour road trip, and the pair working together to bunk Mark's bed on top of Bob's using pins made from plastic clothes hangers instead of the intended metal rods. The whole episode is hysterical, and it's the only one to date that has three official animations.SHSandid: I'm convinced Mark just put all of his skillpoints into Endurance and nothing else.
- In the episode "Wade's Secret Words," Wade awards points to Mark and Bob based on a list of words he's created and the number of times they say the words. Partway through the episode, Mark and Bob start to catch on that something's up and just start shouting random buzz words associated with the topics.
- In "We Got Screwed," the boys share the times they got shafted by customer service. It begins with Wade talking about seeking a new veterinarian for his dog because he had a relative get their dogs misdiagnosed with terminal kidney disease when they were just dehydrated. Mark relates the eight-month-long saga he endured while trying to get a new prescription filled, which takes on the dimensions of an Abbott and Costello routine as he has the same conversation with a CVS pharmacy at least three times:
- In "Fast Food Tier List", Mark shares a story of an incident when he went to a Popeye's Chicken and waited for about 20 minutes in the drive-through to get his food while the manager and four probably-too-young employees had a screaming argument with each other. When one employee finally took the time to wait on him, he first asked "What'd you order?", and then recognized him as Markiplier. When Mark finally got his food, it was a single chicken leg, a fistful of fries, two nugget pieces, and "a "Diet Dr. Pepper" that was basically fizzy water with dirt in it... and then the screaming fight resumed, whereupon Mark just left.
- The various AI-generated jokes which are read during "Funniest Joke In The World," due to how absurd and over-the-top they are.Mark: Knock knock. Who's there? "Ghosts," I would tell them. "There's no one here." Knock knock. "Nope, just me." Knock Knock. "I just wanted to make sure you were still out there. As the nights grewnote colder and the moon was swallowed by clouds I started sitting on the swing just inside the back door."
- It then devolves even further, with Bob's laughter getting harder as it goes on:Mark: Knock knock. Who's there? "KEEP OUT! YOU ARE NOT WANTED HERE!!" Knock knock. Who's there? "FUCK YOU! STAY OUT! LET ME IN!" Who's there? "STEP ASIDE, I'M MARRIED" Who's there? "LEAVE ME ALONE, I'M GETTING HORNY!" Who's there? "DON'T TOUCH ME!" IF YOU TOUCH ME I'LL HAVE TO SUE YOU!" Knock knock. Who's there? SANTA CLAUS! YOU'VE BEEN VERY GOOD THIS YEAR!
- It then devolves even further, with Bob's laughter getting harder as it goes on:
- "The Bobs & The Bees" quickly spirals into hilarity, with Bob going through stages of growing up with both Mark and Wade challenged to act as his father figure. This extensive prompt leads to Wade creating a custom lullaby for baby Bob that puts Bob in hysterics, and Mark improvising a bizarre slideshow about where babies come from that horrifies teenage Bob, which later hits hard as a Brick Joke during the lightning round.
- "Who's The Worst" has Bob and Wade playing a Deal or No Deal-style game called "Moral or No Moral" in which Mark gives them a prompt and they win the ability to open Mystery Boxes based on who gives the most amoral response.
- The result is a solid hour of Crossing the Line Twice. Highlights include:
- Bob covering up an Accidental Murder by stealing someone's car and framing them for a hit-and-run;
- Wade letting his daughter and cousin drown at the beach because they didn't help him unload the car;
- Bob manipulating his hospitalized father into shooting himself so he can cash in a life insurance payment, which Mark reveals was unnecessary because the father wasn't even dying, and Wade points out that the insurance would probably be cancelled out anyways because of a suicide clause;
- Wade setting a Sinking Ship on fire to distract the passengers so he can steal a lifeboat, lowering it on top of a drowning family in the water on his way out;
- There's Bob's Insane Troll Logic about teaching his thieving son a lesson by secretly following him around after they robbed a liquor store, putting on a mask, then pretending to be the shop's owner, a crazy guy named Two Toes Johnny, who viciously thrashes his son's friend's car in retaliation for trying to rob him. It ends with Bob unmasking himself (in front of all the thieves, at that) and demanding that his son get in the car so they may report to the police station.
- The episode ends with Bob losing the episode because he choose to switch his case with Wade's case, which he's been holding onto for the entire game. Turns out, Wade's case contained just 1 point, while Bob's had 75 points. Therefore, Bob literally handed Wade the win accidentally.
- The result is a solid hour of Crossing the Line Twice. Highlights include:
- "Don't Laugh" is a sequel of sorts to "Wade's Secret Words," in which Wade secretly gives out points based on how often Mark and Bob make each other laugh. Bob claims to have figured out the gimmick about twenty minutes in, and the episode quickly goes Off the Rails as Mark tries desperately to catch up to him while Wade makes increasingly-panicked Aside Comments to the audience.Wade: What is this? I'm so sorry, everyone. I thought this would be funny. This is pain. This is misery. Please, just laugh!
- The kicker? Bob hadn't figured it out — he just assumed that Wade was rigging the contest against Mark so Bob would win. Wade spends the last ten minutes chewing them out for missing the point and being so unfunny... which naturally makes both of them laugh harder than they have the entire episode.
- In "That One Guy," Wade finishes telling a school story about how one of his classmates would deliberately ask the teacher if there was any homework if they happened to forget by the end of class. Bob is so frustrated by this story that he says if he were in that situation he would shove the kid out of his desk and fart really hard into his chair. Like, so hard that the kid would question if Bob might have crapped himself in the process. Mark and Wade are left in hysterics.
- In "Anything Goes", Mark sets up an alarm to go off at random times, and awards the person speaking when the alarm goes off a random number of points. It goes so badly for Wade that he ends up with negative points... and Mark actually ends up winning his own random game. Wade's escalating rage throughout the episode is not defused in the slightest by Mark's decision to forfeit to Bob:Wade: I DON'T CARE which one of you fuckers I have to deal with next week! I'm a basement-dweller regardless!
- In "The Boys Bet It All," Bob and Wade compete in a Google search competition. Eventually they all fall down a rabbit hole regarding targeted ads, and why Wade's getting ads for vibrators for some reason:Wade: $189.99? What the hell? How much does it cost to get off?
- In "Naked", Mark tells the story of his first time getting a very rigorous "massage" at a Korean bathhouse (animated here), or more accurately, an intense full-body scrubbing with a towel which Mark compares to a cheese grater. Pain and several Groin Attacks ensue, and Bob and Wade are left in hysterics.
- In "Devil's Advocate", Wade's argument for allowing private citizens to own nuclear weapons:"A lot of nukes already exist, the world is still here. More nukes, still world. And on top of that, when the aliens come, who the fuck is ready? Our planet. Time yielded. Bring it on, little green men! We're ready for you!"
- In "The Perfect Day", Bob and Wade start bickering over what constitutes a perfect day — Bob envisions getting up at the crack of dawn, meditating, and then being productive, while Wade favors sleeping in till noon, eating a huge breakfast, and then spending the whole day relaxing on the water. Every time Mark tries to get them on the same page, it just derails further.Mark: Alright, hold on, okay! Instead of going hour-by-hour, we'll work backwards to that. We'll propose what the perfect day is made of, and we'll slot in where it fits in the day, okay?
Wade: BOAT! BOAT IS PERFECT DAY! WADE WANT BOAT! - In "Wonders of Our World", Wade nominates the International Space Station as a modern wonder, which Bob rejects because it technically orbits the world, much to Wade's displeasure. A few minutes later, Mark nominates the Falcon Heavy dual booster landing. Cue much Angrish from Wade, especially when Bob accepts it as a valid submission.
- "Riddles and Rhymes" is an absolute gold mine of funny moments, with Wade presenting riddles to Bob while Mark has to speak entirely in rhymes (or one-word-answers) for the whole episode.Mark: Riddle-man, what do you say? Does he get points in that way?
Wade: Sure.
(they all burst out laughing)- Mark starts out using an AI to help him come up with rhymes, but runs into trouble when he submits too many prompts and gets locked out. This happens just fifteen minutes into the episode.
- Forced to come up with rhymes on the fly, Mark quickly becomes flustered, culminating in this wail of despair:For this round, Bob gets one!
No minuses, his deed is done!
Good job Bob, a pat on the back!
I'm going to have a heart attack!
ChatGPT, where did you go?
I've lost you in the blinding snow!
- The episode "Bread" goes off the rails so thoroughly by the end that the Boys conclude that a baby is basically a bowl of soup in a bread bowl.
- "Three Peens In A Pod" is a nice, relaxing throwback to the old format, being more like the smalltalk portion of a normal episode stretched out to the entire runtime. The points are even decided by Mark simply flipping a coin (actually a lenscap), and either Wade or Bob calling heads or tails, perfectly fair right? Except that somehow, Wade keeps winning, while Bob gets angrier each time and sends increasing amounts of accusations about how Mark is rigging the outcome, such as a crane affecting the coin when it goes out of screen, to Amy being just outside of view and handing Mark double sided lenscaps. Meanwhile, Mark tries to show increasing amounts of evidence that it's not rigged, until he's attempting to raise the cap to the camera with his mouth.Mark: [deep breath out] ..My hands are up here. I'm gonna hoover it.
Bob: Okay.
Mark: ...But it might be hard to hoover it from this side.
Bob: THAT'S NOT GOOD, MARK! THE SIDE IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE WOULD BE VERY EASY TO SUCTION ONTO!- At the end, Mark just changes the camera to focus on his desk so the "coin" can be seen naturally landing and prove 100% that he isn't touching it, showing his Lady Dimitrescu boob-mousepad in the process. Wade still wins the coin toss, the final score being 8–0, causing Bob to Rage Quit and leave the room. As a bonus, while Bob's outside the room, Mark flips it again and Wade calls heads to see if it can actually land on heads, which it does, technically making the score 9–0, which would have a 1/512 chance of naturally occurring.
- This becomes a multi-episode Moment of Funny, as it marks the start of Bob's increasingly improbable losing streak going through The Wheel of Fate, Will You Press The Button?, Hypocrisy?, Artificial Intelligence, and What I Want, where Bob somehow keeps losing coinflips and wheelspins to determine the winner of the episode, the latter often by comically tiny margins.
- This ultimately culminates in Bob Wins This Episode, where Mark only gives points to Bob and Wade ends up in the negatives by the end of it, so there's no way he could lose again. But then Wade comments on this being the most utterly unfair episode ever, and Bob proposes to decide the winner based on a coinflip, saying that there's no way he could possibly lose another coinflip.Wade: I feel like this episode was designed for me to lose. I can't believe you found a way to lose.
Mark: I can't understand what's happening...
- This ultimately culminates in Bob Wins This Episode
- Toward the end of "Dicebreakers!", Bob challenges Mark to answer the question "Is a hot dog a sandwich?" using as few words and as many noises as possible, while also tailoring the quality of his answer to a die roll of 3/20. Mark's answer must be heard to be believed.
- In Distractible Escape Room, the trio's long Running Gag of how you can earn an automatic win if you manage to wet your pants finally comes to a head in this episode's Cold Opening where Bob proudly makes an announcement, much to Mark and Wade's utter shock.
- This little jab at Mark after Bob explains the three drawers puzzle:Bob: Three holes [are] on top of the dresser.
Mark: Okay, how big?
Bob: Kind of oddly shaped.
Mark: Like cylindrical?
Bob: Each of them is different. Similar, but different. It's too small.
Wade: The hole is, or his dick?
Bob: His dick. Too small.
Mark: NooOOOOOO!! - When Wade obtains a vial of fart-smell as a gag item, he decides to uncork it and gas Mark with it. This becomes a Running Gag throughout the episode, with Wade using it as a weapon to kill an animate shark figurine as well as a magical scroll that gave them too much attitude (despite the latter not having a sense of smell).
- This little jab at Mark after Bob explains the three drawers puzzle:
- In "Wade, Bob, and Friend", Mark is told to play Devil's Advocate for a species of alien that wants to eat humans. Mark decides it would be rude to deny them Sacred Hospitality, and launches into a song to the tune of "Be Our Guest" from Beauty and the Beast.Mark: Eat some STEVE, eat some BOB, eat some ASHLEY on the cob...
- "Illegal Advice" goes increasingly Off the Rails in its second half, with Bob and Wade delivering bizarre and deranged "bonus stories" that crib from each other's previous stories and often involve a ten-gallon bucket of something. By the end Mark is laughing so hard he literally can't speak for several minutes; upon recovering, he declares the episode over because they've killed comedy.
- Wade hypothetically managing to kill God, then eating his remains to gain his powers solely to spite an airline and UPS respectively.
- Bob’s idea for getting a certain fast-food chain to make him a chocolate milkshake if they don’t have any prepared is a particularly silly Bavarian Fire Drill. It’s to dress up in clown makeup and clothes (which he just happens to have in his car trunk), clomp in wearing his big clown shoes, announce a surprise "Clown Inspection”, deflect the manager by yelling "WHOSE CLOWN NAME IS ON THIS CLOWN RESTAURANT?!", go into the back, look for the meekest-looking employee, bully them into making a batch (“RONALD WANTS A CHOCCY SHAKE!!”), take a sip, tell them “GOOD JOB!”, clomp back out, then return minus the makeup and clothes and order a chocolate shake since now they have a batch prepared. Wade’s response to all this is the icing on the cake.Wade: Sir, this is a Wendy's.
- …At which point Bob announces he’ll head right back out, grab a red wig…
- In Appeasing Our A.I. Overlords Bob recounts a tale where he wasn't feeling well at a college party. He decides to sneak outside to the back porch and, when he thinks he's alone, uncorks a rupturous, soul-expelling fart... until it's revealed that there were a few guys nearby that were smoking. Mark adds to the hilarity by assuming that the moment they came around the corner towards Bob's general direction they just exploded from the gas he had just released.
- "King of Horror Hill" starts off simply enough with Michael Myers vs. Jason Voorhees, but almost immediately derails with the next battle: Nemesis vs. The Gingerdead Man. The guys spend at least 10 minutes trying to come up with ways the Gingerdead Man would even come close to winning, with Mark even consulting ChatGPT about the odds in Gingerdead Man's favor.
- "Wade Wins", much like Bob Wins This Episode above, manages to end with Wade not winning, despite the episode starting off with Mark stating that Wade was going to win. Was it because he gambled away his victory at the end like Bob did? Nope! Wade loses simply because Mark wanted to give the subreddit a real piece of injustice to complain about.
