Picking Nits
Peter should have known the crime show was canceled since he wrote its music; Rachel lacked the authority to hand him the $6,000-a-night suite; Aldous Snow is far too famous to travel without an entourage yet gets a normal room; Sarah Marshall going to Hawaii so soon is a snake move; how Hader could know she was going to Hawaii; Peter fully naked in his unlocked dressing room
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- Wouldn't Peter have known the crime show got canceled, since he wrote music for it? The hosts wonder what year it came out and note he uses a cell phone a fair amount, though it could plausibly slip past him.
- Does Rachel have the authority to give him the Kapua suite? No way; she is fired within ten minutes, there does not seem to be a lot going on at Turtle Bay, she fraternizes with guests and cuts out for a hike, and she hands over the $6,000-a-night Oprah suite on the condition that he clean up after himself.
- One host wonders about trying this at hotels, asking for the suite saved for someone like Megan Allison (as transcribed) and promising to clean up, which would require being embarrassed by your ex in front of the receptionist; staging that with a fake divorce announcement earns the reply that it sounds like a sociopath, and the joke shifts the analogy onto a host considered a more realistic divorce candidate walking up to reception.
- The defense is that Sarah Marshall is famous and he was dumped and humiliated in favor of Aldous Snow; the counter is that real hotels make you fill out a form to get toothpaste, and she is not the manager; the hosts concede it is a leap of faith they never questioned, since she could simply have said they had a room and he just gets a dope suite.
- How famous is Russell Brand's musician supposed to be? He closes Access Hollywood and writes the anthem of his generation, a male Winehouse and an A list celebrity, yet he is the first musician ever with no entourage, which is completely unrealistic; he would have had three people and a bodyguard and is far too normal for a famous person.
- He reminds one host of Richard Ashcroft of The Verve walking into a Hawaii bar grill ten years after his hit, but Access Hollywood presents him as a major star, more like Adam Levine meets Liam Gallagher; Adam Levine at Turtle Bay would not be alone and would probably rent the whole resort.
- The couple has a normal room with another room on the other side of the wall while Segel gets the suite; he is about to go on an 18-month world tour, so he is obviously successful but not enough for the $6,000 suite; that may have been improvised rather than accurate tour logistics, and the hosts joke about deleting the movie from Sling.
- The hosts want a consulting firm for questions like this: any basketball scene, the 100-yard football field with no end zones, the boxing ring that is too small, and the last-minute drive that somehow goes backwards from the 40 to the 30.
- It feels like a real snake move by Sarah Marshall to go to Hawaii so quickly after the breakup, though she had dated the guy for a year; when Hader tells Peter to go on vacation alone but not to Hawaii, the implication is that he knows she is going there, and nobody can explain how, unless he simply thought it was weird.
- At the very end the callback has him completely naked in his own unlocked dressing room when Mila Kunis walks back in; nobody likes being naked, and one host marvels at how many human-anatomy conversations they have had with Bill in two weeks; the explanation offered is that he is taking off a unitard with no underwear underneath and is comfortable in his own body, and the Stoller interview had nothing on his prep for that shot.
- Earlier, before the Joey Pants Award, one host asked to pick nits because of a Turtle Bay complaint and was told to hold on.