Ryan kicks the season finale off in a British accent, which we will not explain, and from there the episode is about humor — specifically, the humbling realization that the comedy you love and the comedy you write are often two completely unrelated genres operating in two completely unrelated brains. Pete worships the broad, sandwich-falling-from-the-sky lunacy of The Young Ones. Kyle reveres physical comedians who can walk into a room funny. Ryan grew up on Monty Python. None of them, it turns out, write anything resembling any of that.

Up top, Kyle tells a story about a script of his turning up somewhere it should not have been, by mechanisms still unclear, with an ending we won't spoil. Pete confesses he's drowning in two writing projects at once, learns from Ryan about word clouds, and longs for the halcyon days of just moments before he learned about them. Then a Conan O'Brien tangent, a Harrison Ford appreciation, and a Mae Martin break-up story.

We close out the season with Romance Novel or Death Metal Band, Part Two — Pete is on a heater, several of these are not what you'd guess, and one of them is Howlers in Heat — and a parting line from Douglas Adams about the knack of flying. We'll see you next season. Go make weird art.

Mentioned in This Episode

Films

• The Hangover — Letterboxd
• Forgetting Sarah Marshall — Letterboxd
• Tig (2015 documentary) — Letterboxd

Shows

• The Young Ones — Wikipedia
• Freaks and Geeks — Wikipedia
• Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend — Wikipedia
• The Sarah Millican Television Programme — Wikipedia
• Good One: A Podcast About Jokes — Vulture

Comedy Groups

• Monty Python — Wikipedia
• The Lonely Island — Wikipedia

People

• Conan O'Brien — Wikipedia
• Sona Movsesian — Wikipedia
• Matt Gourley — Wikipedia
• Sarah Millican — Wikipedia
• Harrison Ford — Wikipedia
• Jason Segel — Wikipedia
• Mae Martin — Wikipedia
• Tig Notaro — Wikipedia
• Buster Keaton — Wikipedia
• Harold Lloyd — Wikipedia
• John Ritter — Wikipedia
• Jim Carrey — Wikipedia
• Dick Van Dyke — Wikipedia
• Mr. Bean (Rowan Atkinson character) — Wikipedia
• Jen Silverman — Wikipedia
• Ithamar Enriquez — IMDb
• Douglas Adams — Wikipedia

Books

• Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams — Wikipedia

Stage Show

• Ithamar Has Nothing to Say — The Elysian

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