i saw this comment before i got to that point and my initial reading was a cute "i became whole, i found my missing piece when i got this job" sort of way but it was so much better than i could have imagined
@@dianatellooo Brennan is basically saying Sam didn't remember meeting him five years ago due to the fact that he probably didn't recognize him as a person. When one works any kind of job where they have to deal with a group of people, instead of identifying each person as an individual, one tends to group them as a collective. Since Brenan was talking to him as a fan at the time, He was likely seen as a part of the collective of fans , rather than as an individual human, thus making him much less memorable to Sam.
The fact that Brennan not only remembers an insane amount of details about meeting Sam but also throws in "your lovely wife Elaine" really twists the knife in terms of the embarrassment Sam is feeling during this.
"if I haven't squeezed a joke in by the end, it's because I'm genuinely excited about this whole concept I've made up" is the most Brennan line I could ever imagine hearing.
The last two minutes are a beautiful slow motion train crash, but the best part is listening to the crew ABSOLUTELY LOSE IT when Brennan reveals he knew Sam WELL before he worked for him.
I feel you,chica,I never fit in either... I also feel you,bearded man,I can forget people before they have left the room.....but I must've been memorable myself because people I didn't remember were constantly coming up to me and clearly we had met before because they would know my life story. If I have met someone and had a 15 minute conversation with them,I probably had told them my life story, when asked "how are you?" And I'd be like "in therapy because my mother hates me and I was bullied badly in school." Inevitably the person who had the misfortune of asking me how I was doing would come to regret that life choice. Well,nice to meet all of you. My husband has been a fan for years. .oh,by the way...could you take back your nutritional advice... Quardly is not poison. My husband is pretty sure that Quardly stands for Quinoa and I love Quinoa but he says that it's been scientifically proven to be poison. So,thanks a lot for that... Where am I supposed to get my protein and fiber?
"Brennan, PLEASE tell me we met when you were a writer for Um, Actually." "We met _five years_ before that." You can just see Sam's soul leaving his body.
@@aprilfools9741 I’m guess they are talking about when his manager paid for a super expensive dental procedure he needed. When he came back years later to pay it back the guy didn’t recognize him. He realized it was because the guy gave out money to whoever needed it and with no expectation of it being paid back so often. I recommend looking up the clip cause I definitely didn’t do the story any justice
It's very well suited to the loser, too. Like, incredibly well tailored to "amiable former boss with whom you have an ongoing friendly working relationship".
Trapp: Gives Sam an out by saying they were in costume, so it's forgivable if it's not the first memory that comes to mind Brennan: Performs a verbal crucifixion
Trap is a dog that loves you, and Brennan is a cat that loves you. A dog just loves you unconditionally and thinks about your well-being. A cat needs to remind you every once in a while how lucky you are that the cat doesn’t hate you instead, so that you better appreciate that it’s on your side since things could be so much worse.
i love every bit katie did in this but can we all just appreciate everyone, cast and crew, absolutely LOSING IT over how sam just never remembers meeting anybody?
@@lulusobel8643 I mean, probably closer to something like 4th cousins twice removed, but I have no doubt that she was telling the truth that they're related
I think this might have been the lowest number of laughs from the players, but one of the funniest breaking news I've seen yet. not only that but the punishment was absolutely glorious. as someone that has no idea how I met anyone I know at all, I admire Sam's good humor in participating. You all are wonderful, I'm so glad you guys continue to make content.
I love how when Sam is doing the how we met thing, it starts with Katie which he basically he gets right, then Trapp which he gets wrong but for good reason, and then Brennan which he gets so fantastically wrong. Rule of threes, comedy of heightening, truly amazing
@@DONTworryIgotTHIS Yeah, if the stories had been in any other order, Sam would probably have made some sort of relieved comment that at least the other stories aren't as bad as Brennan's
I know she is a normal person with thoughts and feelings.... But when she's on Breaking News she is a straight up robot. Like she's got those shark eyes and SHE WILL NOT LAUGH
It's astounding how the "we've met before' actually became the best bit at the end. At first I thought they were joking but quickly I realized they werent
I'm pretty sure Katie was joking. Trapp wasn't. And while I think Brennan was serious, I give him enough credit as an actor to be able to pull that off convincingly. Especially since he had plenty of time to prepare.
Truly because of how horrified Brennan was by the muppet and prosciutto slander, I thought this episode was going to be nothing but things that would piss brennan off when I first watched it. Only Katie's hilarious we've met before/it's a long story stuff made me realize that wasn't the theme of the episode.
@@yoketah not gonna lie, my entire fathers side of the family I havent seen in person in over a decade and I have pretty bad long term memory due to passing out from heat exhaustion. So I might legit run into one of, I think a half dozen cousins, one day and not realize it. But Sam DOES NOT HAVE THAT EXCUSE! THEY WORK TOGETHER!!
@@yoketah I have a huge extended family (mom & dad both came from big families) that lives all over America, some people I’ve met maybe once or never. So although it would be a crazy coincidence, I could see this happening to me. Not if we worked together though 😂
@@yoketah I think 2nd or 3rd is what she meant. She first said "we have a family connection." Which might even mean like, a cousin married a cousin or something. And the "We're cousins!" was a joke exaggerating it. It's probably pretty forgettable considering it wasn't even what she first said for how they met.
tbh, my grandpa is one of 13 siblings and my dad is one of 5, so i could barely name all my direct cousins MUCH LESS all of my 2nd cousins... someone completely random could tell me we're cousins and i would just have to believe them
One time I got a number and a date set up with a girl I met at the mall. We met had a lot in common spent all day together and exchanged info and set up a full on dinner date. Later that week and the day before the date (we'd been talking on the phone everyday since meeting too btw) at a family reunion we saw each other and after some questions and investigation around the room we found out we were cousins. Me and my immediate family almost did not go to that family reunion and decided to last second. So that could have been a really awkward situation just waiting to happen and a bullet we both barely dodged.
it's really funny how trapp tries to downplay sam forgetting their first meeting, but then brennan comes in with the most brutal story directly afterwards.
I love how genuinely sad and hurt Katie seems to be about no one remembering her. Playing something so silly as dead straight as she did is hilarious...
@@rockyledonio5341 im honestly surprised sam had no reaction when she said that lmao, he must've remembered right there cuz i would be so surprised finding out a coworker is related to me lol
@@drsupermonk7831 ... where exactly do you live in the world that not at least a chunk of your coworkers are to some extent related to you? Outside of big cities, as in in towns of up to 15.000 you are usually distantly related to at least a tenth of the towns population, meaning that as long as you work somewhere with more than ten employees chances are extremely low you're not working with a distant relative
Sam forgetting that him and Katie are cousins and then immediately going into meeting Brennan 5 years earlier. Like this is better comedy than the rest of the episode and it isn't even scripted.
Katie did the perfect impression of an absolutely misserable human being who was forced to relive three different reunions on live television. I did not know such human being could exist but now I am convinced that this is what it would look like XD also, Sam. PLEASE XD
I really thought Katie had bullied Sam into a corner with the “WE’RE *COUSINS”* And then Brennan, stone cold, poker-faced, absolutely emotionless in his delivery. _”We met five years before that.”_
You could tell going into the final question that Sam was mortified and just wanted it to end before it got any worse and that he was SO hoping there wasn't a story there.
It would be too personal of a question to ask, so this isn't me asking, but: I really, really wonder at what life story adds up to working with someone every day now, but they were born from a sibling of your parent, and that's so irrelevant that you never remember. They can't have had events together before then at the sort of things you see your cousins at, right? Because Katie did say that they first met at work. But like ... okay, speculating further would be rude, we're done.
I think watching Sam's breakdown at not remembering all the meetcutes is a pretty good indicator that his heart is in the right place, even if his memory isn't
Normally I don't like the improv segments, but Katie's stories definitely saved this one. When you're over five minutes in and no one has lost a point...
@@rockstermaniac grant did super well in the very first episode then it was trainwreck after trainwreck but no one will be bea Amy and Ericka for biggest unmitigated disaster
Its really great how they adapt to the cast, a cast full of notorious laughers gets jokes upon jokes, while the more dead inside crew gets to flex their improv muscles
Not only is Katie nigh impossible to break, but she also knocks the improv sections out of the park. The crying and the tone with which she delivered her lines were just so perfect.
Brennan almost made it! Trapp just caught him off guard in that last moment. Lol And what is there to say about Katie. At this point, I convinced that she has a story about how she's met me before. She OWNS this game!
Incredible that no one has commented on the fact that one of the ONLY things that has made Katie laugh in one of these sketches was Sam, exhausted, saying "I'm an asshole".
This show makes me develop both an endless respect for Katie's acting ability, and also an absolute conviction that she is a high functioning sociopath
Sociopathy and acting ability certainly aren't mutually exclusive. A common symptom of sociopathy is lying and manipulation. Aka, behaving in a way designed to elicit a desired reaction. Katie tells lies in a particular way designed to elicit the emotional reaction of laughter. Acting.
@@sybariticcupboardrat3763 Unbelievable, we have been emotionally manipulated into performing an involuntary bodily reaction typically associated with joy? Truly despicable.
@@cabbage2329 I once had to work with a guy who fit the description. His company was a client of my company. He was a cold hearted controlling psycho when he thought he was the most powerful person in the room. Employees from more than three companies (including his own and my own) quit so they could get away from him. But then he'd turn on the charm and make people laugh when he thought he needed to ingratiate himself. Yes, it actually was very despicable manipulation.
i actually love this combination of talents, Brennan is just a comedic genius, Sam is weirdly charismatic and fun to just listen to, trapp is so obviously mentally deranged but holding it together somehow and katie here plays her character so weirdly well that it actually makes me like her bits. Usually i'm not a huge fan of the "katie shits her pants and does a baby voice" type of humor or the "katie doesn't have emotions" opposite she sometimes has, but here it all just works out amazingly. this is just honestly one of the best scripts with the best cast to use it. next to everyone bagging on grant of course.
@@Ailieorz I like her deadpan stuff, the katie goes nuts for attention and shits her pants sketches were alsways some of my least faveourite from college humour
Brennan having to force a joke because they were too excited to analyze the concept of space pool, incredible. I had to pause the video even before he said that because I was too excited to think about space pool as well and I made a drawing about it that I am very proud of. Three dimension non-average gravity pool is incredible as an idea I really really like it.
Katie being stone-faced as ever, Brennan really getting into the lore of space pool, Trapp's timing, and Sam just being THE character in his own life. Really solid cast overall. Probably the most hilarious and the lowest point count I've seen of this.
The fact that the entire backstage crew burst out laughing at 11:58 is incredible. That wasn’t just a joke for the camera, that was a genuine moment of pure comedy we were simply lucky enough to partake in as viewers
This scene has got to be the peak of Katie's life! And yet somehow Brennan managed to get more laughs with his indignation about the middle of a game of pool. This show is nuts!
I'm glad this isn't just on Dropout now so I can leave a comment. The muppets are fantastic, hilarious people enjoy them, and Grant's words through Trapp's mouth were wrong
I am so sad that dropout is missing two things A comment thread The little tag at the end to subscribe... Which, if I'm incorrect, PLEASE let me know - was performed by the writer of the sketch Now that's for the "CH Originals" clips, but still... I would try to guess who would pop up. Yeah, some are obvious, but there are enough surprises that I miss seeing 'em (Haha not like Ive dropped my sub to Dropout... Just waxing nostalgia ;))
Is this another attempt by Grant to get revenge for the "True facts about Grant" bits. Also full transparency ever since seeing those episodes I think every sketch by Grant is a bid for revenge.
@@CompoundingTime ok, sorry, I'm not super pedantic (narrorator: "he is.") but due to my absolute love of Brennan's completely dumbfounded delivery, its said "hello.... I'm.... Fiiiifty? ...that can't be right." Brennan'a got the greatest 'disbelief face' (and deliveries) of all of the college humor alums
Of course you guys would remember that, you've been morphed into a single amorphous blob with me and all the other viewers of this video ever since the fateful day we caught Katie.
the absolute best part of the entire Dropout community is the fact they are willing to set each other up for a a gag... Grant and Sam being primary targets.
I love how Katie’s “Yeeaah” when responding to “Did you know them as “the audience” at that point?” Because she sounds both offended and baffled by the question as if the only reasonable answer to that question is yes.
It's actually been so fascinating to watch her evolution in collegehumor content, in her first sketches she was always the sad new girl no one would be friends with, then she became addicted to cocaine and the insane but hypercapable kingpin, and then in breaking news she became the stone cold emotionless robot. She really is an excellent actress
Hey the first time was more or less correct sides the details The 2nd is a honest mistake because they wouldve had no reason to recognise each other and they didnt know each other The 3rd however lol lmao
This was like Breaking News all-stars. They went so long without laughing, while I'm dying over here. That last question to Brennan absolutely destroyed me
Absolutely underrated line: "Now obviously when I became your employee is obviously when I became a full human being" *sam face-desking and slapping the table in shame*
I love the pool table was set up specifically to get Brennan to rant about how it is clearly the middle of a game of pool. We all know Sam loves Brennan's tangents, like the rest of us.
This episode is so good because it’s so different 😂😂😂😂 no laughs until Katie’s improv steals the show, plus the impossible-to-plan reveal of Sam’s bad memory at the end 😂😂😂😂😂😂
It was kinda refreshing to see it take so long for someone to lose a point. Great cast this episode, I always love seeing the ones who are that tough to crack There's so much that makes this the best episode
There's been a ton of episodes since then, this is actually rather old. Dropout is well worth the 5 bucks for the dnd campaigns, this, and game changer
@@IceMetalPunk um actually was awesome at first but more often than not people cheese the game by taking shots in the dark tweaking other people's answers. The new one with lily is kinda funny, but (personal bias) I really only like seeing the main crew do stuff. I lose interest quickly when they get random cast in the mix
can we talk about how funny it was seeing brennan losing it over the fact that the "middle of a game of pool" was set up to be the beginning of a game of pool
I'm so happy they finally released this on RUclips. It's been one of my favorites since I first saw it on Dropout. Now everyone gets to share in this moment :D
You can see as the weight of memories long gone meteor shower Sams guilty soul for not knowing when he first met his friends and colleagues xD Love it tho, and they love you, you magnificent bearded guildmaster
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"When I became your employee I became a full human being" is a line that will live in my head rent free.
Such a Brennan thing to say
i saw this comment before i got to that point and my initial reading was a cute "i became whole, i found my missing piece when i got this job" sort of way but it was so much better than i could have imagined
At least his employer treats him as human.
@@johvie Could you explain this? I also thought that's what he meant but it didn't make sense lol
@@dianatellooo Brennan is basically saying Sam didn't remember meeting him five years ago due to the fact that he probably didn't recognize him as a person. When one works any kind of job where they have to deal with a group of people, instead of identifying each person as an individual, one tends to group them as a collective. Since Brenan was talking to him as a fan at the time, He was likely seen as a part of the collective of fans , rather than as an individual human, thus making him much less memorable to Sam.
I thought Katie being cousins with Sam was bad, but then Brennan came in with the, "No we actually met 5 years before that" really got me lmfao
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I'm so glad Sam saved him for last 😂
At first I thought it was a fake-out, too good to be true
He really knows how to twist the knife lmao
I’m a little upset that he didn’t start that story with “Um… actually…”
Katie ability to tear up from that space camp story terrifies me. What an absolute unit
she regularly kills it to a point where i just expect her not to crack ever.
@@awakennomore this video is literally the only time I've seen her laugh in the Breaking News series, and it didn't even count for the actual game.
@@TheSequelWasBetter She laughed 3 times in the previous episode CH uploaded. I was beyond shocked.
It sort of looked like spontaneous method acting. I could feel it was coming from a real place almost instantly. 😢
@@oohdannyboy Hello, greetings from Canada 🇨🇦. How are you doing today?
Ah, little Katie. I remember when we all collectively caught her at the bottom of a rollercoaster like it was yesterday.
Its a shame we don't travel as an audience together anymore.
@@IRanOutOfPhrases we should get a reunion tour going!
@@gingerbreadbard570 Man, it would be nice, but that bus and hotel fare would be insane.
At least we remember when we met her
@@KingCheshireZorua not if we split it 14.6 million ways
The fact that Brennan not only remembers an insane amount of details about meeting Sam but also throws in "your lovely wife Elaine" really twists the knife in terms of the embarrassment Sam is feeling during this.
"if I haven't squeezed a joke in by the end, it's because I'm genuinely excited about this whole concept I've made up" is the most Brennan line I could ever imagine hearing.
That's his inner DM showing through. I bet he'll incorporate it into a space campaign at some point.
@AiIshiloveteruyou Man's really out here turning billiards into turn-based Quidditch in SPACE
I was getting excited about how that would work too lma
you know whats sweet? there's a vr qeust game like this now, i believe its just called 3d pool my memory sucks to
I hear this comment in Zac's voice going "That's the most Brennan shit I can think of..."
The last two minutes are a beautiful slow motion train crash, but the best part is listening to the crew ABSOLUTELY LOSE IT when Brennan reveals he knew Sam WELL before he worked for him.
We all learned from this video, Sam has TERRIBLE memory 🤷♂️
For a second I thought I wrote this comment without realizing
IT WAS SO FUNNY I LITERALLY THOUGHT HE WAS KIDDING AT FIRST
I laughed so hard poor sam 🤣
I feel you,chica,I never fit in either... I also feel you,bearded man,I can forget people before they have left the room.....but I must've been memorable myself because people I didn't remember were constantly coming up to me and clearly we had met before because they would know my life story. If I have met someone and had a 15 minute conversation with them,I probably had told them my life story, when asked "how are you?" And I'd be like "in therapy because my mother hates me and I was bullied badly in school." Inevitably the person who had the misfortune of asking me how I was doing would come to regret that life choice. Well,nice to meet all of you. My husband has been a fan for years.
.oh,by the way...could you take back your nutritional advice... Quardly is not poison. My husband is pretty sure that Quardly stands for Quinoa and I love Quinoa but he says that it's been scientifically proven to be poison. So,thanks a lot for that... Where am I supposed to get my protein and fiber?
"Brennan, PLEASE tell me we met when you were a writer for Um, Actually."
"We met _five years_ before that."
You can just see Sam's soul leaving his body.
"Now obviously, when I became your employee is obviously when I became a FULL human being, but prior to that...."
I had no idea Um, Actually had been around that long!
I just can't believe he wasted such a perfect opportunity to respond "uuumm, actually"
I feel for Sam because that's exactly how it would go down if people asked me when I first met them.
@@JamesAlexanderMartin Maybe, but I think the way he did it packed more of a punch.
Best part of the ending: Brennan explaining how Sam’s skit group had a meaningful impact on his life, to which Sam could not remember.
Is this the *second* time someone has essentially "But for me, it was Tuesday"'d Brennan?
@@ZT1ST when was the other time?
@@aprilfools9741 I’m guess they are talking about when his manager paid for a super expensive dental procedure he needed. When he came back years later to pay it back the guy didn’t recognize him. He realized it was because the guy gave out money to whoever needed it and with no expectation of it being paid back so often.
I recommend looking up the clip cause I definitely didn’t do the story any justice
@@kris778 right i remember that, thank you
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God, I would say Katie is made of stone, but the fact that she was able to make herself cry during a fake, improvised monologue is absolutely insane
A lot of people do that in arguments
That’s cold blooded shit in my world
@@pencilbender Whoever you're around that fakes crying during an argument is a toxic person and you need to not be around them.
Literally wringing water from a stone
Katie is so powerful
I thought brennan was making a joke when he said '5 years before that'. The punishment was unbelievable funny, really glad they put it in for youtube!
It's very well suited to the loser, too. Like, incredibly well tailored to "amiable former boss with whom you have an ongoing friendly working relationship".
I agree! I like seeing the punishments and the actors' real sides.
Yeah I really though he was gonna follow up with: "...At space camp."
Same here, I can’t believe how perfectly the joke of him forgetting everybody layered
@@XHackManiacX Hello, greetings from Canada 🇨🇦. How are you doing today?
Trapp: Gives Sam an out by saying they were in costume, so it's forgivable if it's not the first memory that comes to mind
Brennan: Performs a verbal crucifixion
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I'll use "Verbal Crucifixion" quite freely from nlw on
Trap is a dog that loves you, and Brennan is a cat that loves you.
A dog just loves you unconditionally and thinks about your well-being. A cat needs to remind you every once in a while how lucky you are that the cat doesn’t hate you instead, so that you better appreciate that it’s on your side since things could be so much worse.
@@McCaffeteria Nah, Brennan has dog energy
@@turoni314interesting, because he is NOT a dog person
"We met FIVE YEARS before that."
Protect this man at all costs
i love every bit katie did in this but can we all just appreciate everyone, cast and crew, absolutely LOSING IT over how sam just never remembers meeting anybody?
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Can we just acknowledge Katie’s stone cold humor in filling in her own last name for Sam, making it look like he didn’t remember it 😂
It’s especially funny because she was probably trying to help him piece together the cousin part 😂
And her voice when she said "we're cousins!" was the most sincere I've ever heard her 😅
Katie took the whole "This one time at Band Camp" schtick to a whole new level! Lol
Are they really cousins?
@@lulusobel8643 I mean, probably closer to something like 4th cousins twice removed, but I have no doubt that she was telling the truth that they're related
I think this might have been the lowest number of laughs from the players, but one of the funniest breaking news I've seen yet. not only that but the punishment was absolutely glorious. as someone that has no idea how I met anyone I know at all, I admire Sam's good humor in participating. You all are wonderful, I'm so glad you guys continue to make content.
Yeah, I wouldn't have fared any better than Sam at the end there.
That is _exactly_ what I was gonna say!
Apparently I'm memorable but have no memory because I'm just like Sam on this
absolutely best-case scenario for sam to be the loser there
Meh I thought it was pretty weak having multiple repeating jokes and too much improv.
I love how when Sam is doing the how we met thing, it starts with Katie which he basically he gets right, then Trapp which he gets wrong but for good reason, and then Brennan which he gets so fantastically wrong.
Rule of threes, comedy of heightening, truly amazing
I mean basically right BUT he did forget that they are freaking RELATED! that seems like its gotta cost him a few "being right" points surely
It’s possible it didn’t happen that way but it was funnier in the editing bay to move the clips around so they escalated
@@lavenderwalrus9875 I’m pretty sure they’re distantly related
@@FallenTako possibly but the way Sams reaction also ramps up would lead me to say no.
@@DONTworryIgotTHIS Yeah, if the stories had been in any other order, Sam would probably have made some sort of relieved comment that at least the other stories aren't as bad as Brennan's
Katie has gotten so good at not laughing during this that she's now started to cry instead. Very impressive.
Interesting strategy and it's definitely paying off for her.
I know she is a normal person with thoughts and feelings....
But when she's on Breaking News she is a straight up robot. Like she's got those shark eyes and SHE WILL NOT LAUGH
It's super easy to not laugh when there's no jokes.
@卐 thanks swastika guy
The cocaine really did work
It's astounding how the "we've met before' actually became the best bit at the end. At first I thought they were joking but quickly I realized they werent
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2nded
I'm pretty sure Katie was joking. Trapp wasn't. And while I think Brennan was serious, I give him enough credit as an actor to be able to pull that off convincingly. Especially since he had plenty of time to prepare.
Brennan's visual offense at "prosciutto is overrated" is just so indicative of his status and taste. Truly a classy man
Truly because of how horrified Brennan was by the muppet and prosciutto slander, I thought this episode was going to be nothing but things that would piss brennan off when I first watched it. Only Katie's hilarious we've met before/it's a long story stuff made me realize that wasn't the theme of the episode.
Screw prosciutto, jamon iberico only. Lol😂
@@mrzoohasaninn I could feel the seething in brennan's face when it cut to him during the Muppet slander.
Truly a classy and sexy man
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Sam (to Katie): we must've met when you were an intern
Katie: we're cousins!
@@yoketah not gonna lie, my entire fathers side of the family I havent seen in person in over a decade and I have pretty bad long term memory due to passing out from heat exhaustion. So I might legit run into one of, I think a half dozen cousins, one day and not realize it.
But Sam DOES NOT HAVE THAT EXCUSE! THEY WORK TOGETHER!!
@@yoketah I have a huge extended family (mom & dad both came from big families) that lives all over America, some people I’ve met maybe once or never. So although it would be a crazy coincidence, I could see this happening to me. Not if we worked together though 😂
@@yoketah I think 2nd or 3rd is what she meant. She first said "we have a family connection." Which might even mean like, a cousin married a cousin or something. And the "We're cousins!" was a joke exaggerating it. It's probably pretty forgettable considering it wasn't even what she first said for how they met.
tbh, my grandpa is one of 13 siblings and my dad is one of 5, so i could barely name all my direct cousins MUCH LESS all of my 2nd cousins... someone completely random could tell me we're cousins and i would just have to believe them
One time I got a number and a date set up with a girl I met at the mall. We met had a lot in common spent all day together and exchanged info and set up a full on dinner date. Later that week and the day before the date (we'd been talking on the phone everyday since meeting too btw) at a family reunion we saw each other and after some questions and investigation around the room we found out we were cousins. Me and my immediate family almost did not go to that family reunion and decided to last second. So that could have been a really awkward situation just waiting to happen and a bullet we both barely dodged.
it's really funny how trapp tries to downplay sam forgetting their first meeting, but then brennan comes in with the most brutal story directly afterwards.
To say nothing of Katie just coming in with: We're actual family.
God damn, a noble boss!
And Sam just falls to pieces as Brennen just eviscerates him
Trapp being polite, excusing Sam's lapse and generally being magnanimous ... Brennan then just SWOOPS IN FOR THE KILL. I was _crying_ laughing.
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I love how genuinely sad and hurt Katie seems to be about no one remembering her. Playing something so silly as dead straight as she did is hilarious...
The irony is that they she REALLY WASN’T REMEMBERED SINCE SAM WAS HER COUSIN
@@rockyledonio5341 im honestly surprised sam had no reaction when she said that lmao, he must've remembered right there cuz i would be so surprised finding out a coworker is related to me lol
@@drsupermonk7831 ... where exactly do you live in the world that not at least a chunk of your coworkers are to some extent related to you? Outside of big cities, as in in towns of up to 15.000 you are usually distantly related to at least a tenth of the towns population, meaning that as long as you work somewhere with more than ten employees chances are extremely low you're not working with a distant relative
@@wouterkessel4852 wait, there are towns with less than 15k people? I think the smallest city I ever lived had 200k when I was young lol
@@drsupermonk7831 Hello, greetings from Canada 🇨🇦. How are you doing today?
There’s a reason the audience travels together as a collective, but it’s a long story
"I met you FIVE YEARS before I starting working here" was said with the perfect levels of annoyance, and confidence.
Sam forgetting that him and Katie are cousins and then immediately going into meeting Brennan 5 years earlier. Like this is better comedy than the rest of the episode and it isn't even scripted.
Katie did the perfect impression of an absolutely misserable human being who was forced to relive three different reunions on live television. I did not know such human being could exist but now I am convinced that this is what it would look like XD
also, Sam. PLEASE XD
She is only that type of human because she became 100% human when she started working for BBN
Exist
Katie's "I've actually met the audience before... it's a long story" bit was absolutley brilliant
Totally
What the… you and I share the same first and last name. 😮
Does your middle name start with a “J”?
@@NaughtyShepherd no middle name unfortunately
@@NaughtyShepherd There's another Symphantic? As it's a mononym, how do you even have a middle name?
I really thought Katie had bullied Sam into a corner with the “WE’RE *COUSINS”*
And then Brennan, stone cold, poker-faced, absolutely emotionless in his delivery.
_”We met five years before that.”_
You could tell going into the final question that Sam was mortified and just wanted it to end before it got any worse and that he was SO hoping there wasn't a story there.
It would be too personal of a question to ask, so this isn't me asking, but: I really, really wonder at what life story adds up to working with someone every day now, but they were born from a sibling of your parent, and that's so irrelevant that you never remember. They can't have had events together before then at the sort of things you see your cousins at, right? Because Katie did say that they first met at work. But like ... okay, speculating further would be rude, we're done.
@@MoonShadowWolfeshe didn't really say how close of cousins they were. Could be distant cousins
Like a third cousin once removed
@@MoonShadowWolfe I met one of my cousins in University, so it *does* happen somehow.
10:39 I love Katie telling Sam her last name, making it look like he couldn't remember.
I mean, he didn’t remember that she’s his cousin
This feels like a 10 minute build up to the punchline of Brennan's withering recollection.
5:10
Katie: I had a panic attack and started crying.
Grant: *laughs maniacally in the background*
Wait that was grant?
@@williambutcher7429 don’t you mean Keith?
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Honestly if you want to make a bunch of comedians laugh saying the saddest thing you can think of is a pretty good bet.
😂
I think watching Sam's breakdown at not remembering all the meetcutes is a pretty good indicator that his heart is in the right place, even if his memory isn't
I can't imagine being such a busy individual that you have no choice but to forget half the people you mean on the virtue of how brains work
Brennan's malicious compliance is the BEST.
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FOOT STUFF!
FROGGY STYLE!
I love Brennan’s little rant about the pool set up not at all being in the middle of a game of pool.
They *clearly* set the table up like that to screw with him.
I really thought we were going to see what would happen if everyone held it together for the full episode
I really wanted them to name Grant as the loser for making nobody laugh
Brennan once again proving that despite Katie being unbreakable and Amy losing her shit every episode, he's the GOAT.
@@jackasplat I think some (or all) of the crew laughter was his...
@@spiderwrangler4457 Hello, greetings from Canada 🇨🇦. How are you doing today?
I love how Grant immediately laughed when Katie said “in third grade” even though that was NOWHERE NEAR the punchline lol
Grant's just glad he's off camera so he can laugh freely
I love that we can all tell it’s grant just from the laugh
yeah, you can tell who wrote the joke when they start cracking up early
@@azarinevilhe didn’t write that part, it was improv
Normally I don't like the improv segments, but Katie's stories definitely saved this one. When you're over five minutes in and no one has lost a point...
It usually means Grant wrote it 🤣
The improv sections are the best
The final minute or so takes this from one of the worst to one of the best.
@@lowkeylokii4205 to be fair that's because otherwise Grant would be on the cast and Grant cant go 2 seconds without laughing
@@rockstermaniac grant did super well in the very first episode then it was trainwreck after trainwreck but no one will be bea Amy and Ericka for biggest unmitigated disaster
I love the look of sheer rage on Brennan's face at the thin ham thing.
I love his rage at the MIDDLE of a game of pOoL.
Its really great how they adapt to the cast, a cast full of notorious laughers gets jokes upon jokes, while the more dead inside crew gets to flex their improv muscles
Not only is Katie nigh impossible to break, but she also knocks the improv sections out of the park. The crying and the tone with which she delivered her lines were just so perfect.
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Those distressed "yeah"s at 7:00 were amazing
Her story was so uncomfortable to listen to though 🥴
Brennan's "this is the middle.of.a game of pool" fucking WIPED me OUT I'm wheezing and crying from laughing so hard
Brennan almost made it! Trapp just caught him off guard in that last moment. Lol
And what is there to say about Katie. At this point, I convinced that she has a story about how she's met me before.
She OWNS this game!
She already the story of how she met you. It was when you and I* went to Disney World that one time!
*and the rest of the audience
@@Shakooba I remember that! The puke was a little unfortunate, but I’m glad we were able to crowdsurf her to safety in the end.
weren't you listening? you met her at space camp
That was a good trip to Disney. When are we all going back audience? I think there are some rides we haven't hid under yet.
She only laughed when Sam said he's an asshole. Lol
Incredible that no one has commented on the fact that one of the ONLY things that has made Katie laugh in one of these sketches was Sam, exhausted, saying "I'm an asshole".
Also, kids in cages
I can’t believe that this entire episode was just a set-up for the brutal punishment at the end that payed off absolutely perfectly
This show makes me develop both an endless respect for Katie's acting ability, and also an absolute conviction that she is a high functioning sociopath
No doubt
Sociopathy and acting ability certainly aren't mutually exclusive. A common symptom of sociopathy is lying and manipulation. Aka, behaving in a way designed to elicit a desired reaction. Katie tells lies in a particular way designed to elicit the emotional reaction of laughter. Acting.
The crew had promised her an ounce of cocaine if she won
@@sybariticcupboardrat3763 Unbelievable, we have been emotionally manipulated into performing an involuntary bodily reaction typically associated with joy? Truly despicable.
@@cabbage2329 I once had to work with a guy who fit the description. His company was a client of my company. He was a cold hearted controlling psycho when he thought he was the most powerful person in the room. Employees from more than three companies (including his own and my own) quit so they could get away from him. But then he'd turn on the charm and make people laugh when he thought he needed to ingratiate himself. Yes, it actually was very despicable manipulation.
Brennan looking intensely into the camera and shouting “FOOT STUFF” is absolutely sending me
*[hits billiard balls]* "BUKAKKE!"
@@neptunenix2000 the way the banner changed to “yummy, my favorite” 😭😭
I lost it at "BUKAKKE!!" 😂
@@dragon1512sounds like Grant
i actually love this combination of talents, Brennan is just a comedic genius, Sam is weirdly charismatic and fun to just listen to, trapp is so obviously mentally deranged but holding it together somehow and katie here plays her character so weirdly well that it actually makes me like her bits. Usually i'm not a huge fan of the "katie shits her pants and does a baby voice" type of humor or the "katie doesn't have emotions" opposite she sometimes has, but here it all just works out amazingly. this is just honestly one of the best scripts with the best cast to use it. next to everyone bagging on grant of course.
like honestly get Sam to be in more stuff. Sam, trapp and Brennan are your star talents
@@loydtheliar5659 I was gonna say how rude it is to say that but I remembered you’re a liar.
Deadpan is thoroughly underrated comedy. It's incredibly hard and she absolutely nails it
@@Ailieorz not always, but in this definitely
@@Ailieorz I like her deadpan stuff, the katie goes nuts for attention and shits her pants sketches were alsways some of my least faveourite from college humour
My God. Katie is a juggernaut at this game. And her delivery of the teleprompter was brilliant.
Brennan having to force a joke because they were too excited to analyze the concept of space pool, incredible. I had to pause the video even before he said that because I was too excited to think about space pool as well and I made a drawing about it that I am very proud of. Three dimension non-average gravity pool is incredible as an idea I really really like it.
This is my favorite don’t laugh news. Also all episodes should have a mild “consequence “ for the loser because Sam’s was hilarious
This one is also my favorite. Katie is an amazing actress and Sam's punishment is perfect.
Katie being stone-faced as ever, Brennan really getting into the lore of space pool, Trapp's timing, and Sam just being THE character in his own life.
Really solid cast overall.
Probably the most hilarious and the lowest point count I've seen of this.
I like how Katie always looks serious even when laughing
Hey, stop flirting with Katie
The fact that the entire backstage crew burst out laughing at 11:58 is incredible. That wasn’t just a joke for the camera, that was a genuine moment of pure comedy we were simply lucky enough to partake in as viewers
That's why they have sustained for long, CollegeHumor/Dropout is just incredible authentic and genuine
This scene has got to be the peak of Katie's life! And yet somehow Brennan managed to get more laughs with his indignation about the middle of a game of pool. This show is nuts!
I'm glad this isn't just on Dropout now so I can leave a comment.
The muppets are fantastic, hilarious people enjoy them, and Grant's words through Trapp's mouth were wrong
I am so sad that dropout is missing two things
A comment thread
The little tag at the end to subscribe... Which, if I'm incorrect, PLEASE let me know - was performed by the writer of the sketch
Now that's for the "CH Originals" clips, but still... I would try to guess who would pop up. Yeah, some are obvious, but there are enough surprises that I miss seeing 'em
(Haha not like Ive dropped my sub to Dropout... Just waxing nostalgia ;))
I do believe you can also join via youtube and get all dropout content. I could be wrong
@@gasterg.continent3118 you can, but then I can't tell all my friends about how I have an app that's "like Netflix but worse"
@@rdarkstorm8414 worse UI wise, but way better content
@@KusaneHexaku I agree, but it's also their tagline lol
Is this another attempt by Grant to get revenge for the "True facts about Grant" bits.
Also full transparency ever since seeing those episodes I think every sketch by Grant is a bid for revenge.
Didn't Grant make those bits about himself?
@@9nikola i think he did the second one in which the script clearly leads to everyone praising grant but the cast still find the way to shit on him
And they didn't a second segment of "True facts about Grant". It's only on their app but it's GOLDEN 👌🏽
Oh yeah and it's somehow worse than the first. Hello 50
@@CompoundingTime ok, sorry, I'm not super pedantic (narrorator: "he is.") but due to my absolute love of Brennan's completely dumbfounded delivery, its said
"hello.... I'm.... Fiiiifty? ...that can't be right."
Brennan'a got the greatest 'disbelief face' (and deliveries) of all of the college humor alums
I do remember catching Katie at Disney world actually
Yes I was there as well, I can confirm this
It's all true, I was the one who started the chant “Drop her, Drop her!” Good times.
Of course you guys would remember that, you've been morphed into a single amorphous blob with me and all the other viewers of this video ever since the fateful day we caught Katie.
What were you doing at Disney, besides catching Katie?
Nice to meet you audience
Trap: "Prosciutto, for instance, is just thin ham."
*Brennan's eyes burn with the fury of a New Yorker scorned*
The Muppets jokes were trying to get him too. xD
the absolute best part of the entire Dropout community is the fact they are willing to set each other up for a a gag... Grant and Sam being primary targets.
I love how Katie’s “Yeeaah” when responding to “Did you know them as “the audience” at that point?” Because she sounds both offended and baffled by the question as if the only reasonable answer to that question is yes.
Hearing the crew laugh while everyone on screen is still straight faced is beautiful
Katie being sad no one remembers her, and then Sam actually forgetting that they're cousins at the end 😂
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How is Katie a complete robot and the shy new girl at the same time?
It's actually been so fascinating to watch her evolution in collegehumor content, in her first sketches she was always the sad new girl no one would be friends with, then she became addicted to cocaine and the insane but hypercapable kingpin, and then in breaking news she became the stone cold emotionless robot. She really is an excellent actress
The absolute best part of this was Sam trying to recall the actual first meeting and failing miserably at
Every
Single
One
Hey the first time was more or less correct sides the details
The 2nd is a honest mistake because they wouldve had no reason to recognise each other and they didnt know each other
The 3rd however lol lmao
@@Freedmoon44brennans emphasis on the five in five years. Just a knife being turned. 10/10 chefs kiss
@@Freedmoon44If the cousins thing is real, the first one is pretty bad too.
I love how they got the FOUR HARDEST PEOPLE TO BREAK for this episode. It's great!
This was like Breaking News all-stars. They went so long without laughing, while I'm dying over here. That last question to Brennan absolutely destroyed me
Brennan's "5 YEARS before that..." and continued story, in great detail, was the best part of this one, hands down.
Absolutely underrated line: "Now obviously when I became your employee is obviously when I became a full human being" *sam face-desking and slapping the table in shame*
Katie's reluctant "It's kiiiind of a long stooorryy..." got me every time!
Sam's complete and utter mortification at the end of this sketch makes my soul sing.
Everyone was holding it together. Then Katie started talking
I love the pool table was set up specifically to get Brennan to rant about how it is clearly the middle of a game of pool.
We all know Sam loves Brennan's tangents, like the rest of us.
The actual sincere rage on Brennan's face when they said prosciutto is just thin ham
This is the closest to an all-star lineup. And Katie still dominated.
11:52 I was SO hoping Brennan would say "Um, actually, we met five years before that"
This episode is so good because it’s so different 😂😂😂😂 no laughs until Katie’s improv steals the show, plus the impossible-to-plan reveal of Sam’s bad memory at the end 😂😂😂😂😂😂
brennan at the end there living out everyone's fantasies of banishing their boss's soul into the shadow realm
The cast reaction to "we met five years before that" 11:52 is incredible
I love how the people behind the camera laughed way more than the people on camera
This episode was for the crew really
Katie is so beyond underrated that it’s criminal! She is so frikken funny! It’s that dead pan humor and 1000% serious tone that sells it for me.
It was kinda refreshing to see it take so long for someone to lose a point. Great cast this episode, I always love seeing the ones who are that tough to crack
There's so much that makes this the best episode
And then we have the newest episode, from a few weeks ago, where Amy Vorpal is in the 20s by a minute and a half into the video. lmao
I’m actually one of the travelling audience for Katie. I’m disheartened that she couldn’t recognise me eventhough I caught her.
Let's get a whole show for "the first time I met Sam"
"We met five years before that."
You can almost see the exact moment Sam's soul leaves his body.
It's impressive that Sam not only went 0 for 3, he also got progressively more wrong from person to person.
Grant is still recovering from the absolute _BRUTALITY_ of his last appearance i take it?
There's been a ton of episodes since then, this is actually rather old. Dropout is well worth the 5 bucks for the dnd campaigns, this, and game changer
@@lowkeylokii4205 And Dirty Laundry and Um, Actually.
@@IceMetalPunk um actually was awesome at first but more often than not people cheese the game by taking shots in the dark tweaking other people's answers. The new one with lily is kinda funny, but (personal bias) I really only like seeing the main crew do stuff. I lose interest quickly when they get random cast in the mix
I’m just gonna say Katie’s acting was ON POINT for this breaking news
well, the good news is that the end segment was so mortifying for sam that he'll probably remember where he met everyone now
can we talk about how funny it was seeing brennan losing it over the fact that the "middle of a game of pool" was set up to be the beginning of a game of pool
Brennan not being able to make jokes simply because he got so excited about the mechanics of a 3D pool game is on brand.
Brennan's delivery of when they first met is comedy gold. 😂
This video is like 10 minutes of improv and edging before 2 minutes of glory
She must have a REAL photographic memory to remember all our faces. Memory spaces that a phone couldn't beat.
Five and a half minutes for someone to laugh that has to be a record for breaking news
I'm so happy they finally released this on RUclips. It's been one of my favorites since I first saw it on Dropout. Now everyone gets to share in this moment :D
You can see as the weight of memories long gone meteor shower Sams guilty soul for not knowing when he first met his friends and colleagues xD Love it tho, and they love you, you magnificent bearded guildmaster
3:28 is my favorite noise Brennen has ever made. Look at that face he makes too :) he’s so proud
Katie seems morally invested
Brennan starts talking and people start to laugh immediately but Katie only managed to get a few? She is so underappreciated