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  • Thank you all SO much - you helped us get to 9,000 new and upgrading members and so we have written and illustrated a wikiHow article of our very own, on a topic chosen for us by our team: “How to avoid interacting with someone you know in public”. Head over to bit.ly/MFDWikiHow to see the full article!
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  • @octo_contra
    @octo_contra 6 місяців тому +577

    justin writes wikihow articles like they're internal dialogue in disco elysium

    • @firstlast6796
      @firstlast6796 6 місяців тому +40

      "Crime is your bedroom now"

  • @aspengolden9577
    @aspengolden9577 6 місяців тому +279

    Juice starting to write "fear is the mindkiller" got me good

  • @Roman-hg6rg
    @Roman-hg6rg 6 місяців тому +380

    One of the best Max Fun Drive bonuses ever. A perfectly selected wikihow article for the hosts and audience of MBMBaM. I can action so many of these steps.

    • @skunkdoctor
      @skunkdoctor 6 місяців тому +7

      Protip: put in earbuds and if anyone tries to talk to you for any reason just shake your head, point at your ear, and nod like you’re listening to a very important call/meeting.

    • @singingsunflower9000
      @singingsunflower9000 6 місяців тому

      ​@@skunkdoctoryou dont even have to have an earbud, you can put in bluetooth in hearing aid devices that isnt even visible to people. You just have to be old enough to get away with having hearing aid 😏

    • @pepesilvia429
      @pepesilvia429 6 місяців тому +4

      ​@@singingsunflower9000This is a bad choice of podcast for you to imply that young people don't have hearing issues, most of us can't even tell their voices apart!

    • @ebock6094
      @ebock6094 5 місяців тому

      @@skunkdoctor😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @ebock6094
      @ebock6094 5 місяців тому

      oops tube..

  • @AvisSapiens
    @AvisSapiens 6 місяців тому +70

    Ah yes, Uncle Ben's famous last words: "Spiderman bears a lot of responsibility for no reason"

  • @benparker7891
    @benparker7891 6 місяців тому +197

    “Lube up your slide ruler and slide over to these rules.” Brilliant work

  • @Billie-Mcii
    @Billie-Mcii 6 місяців тому +98

    I know this is a bit but this project genuinely demonstrates how well the brothers collaborate on the fly

  • @AMpersand_videos
    @AMpersand_videos 6 місяців тому +65

    I love Justin immediately usurping the other brothers and changing the author header so it only mentions him

  • @variousdinosaurs
    @variousdinosaurs 6 місяців тому +243

    Now that they're experts, they should do a wikiHow on how to Write & Illustrate a wikiHow.

  • @_daveyw_
    @_daveyw_ 6 місяців тому +17

    One of my favourite McElroy bits is when its time to come up with a human name. Such as "Crombus", "Jjerrmm", or "Google"

  • @AnthonyZiblis
    @AnthonyZiblis 6 місяців тому +92

    I have to take this call my grandmother just signed over power of attorney to an evil butler.

  • @yourhighschoolenglishteach8405
    @yourhighschoolenglishteach8405 6 місяців тому +60

    34:26 thank you to the editor for this slow zoom on justin

  • @LilacStar34
    @LilacStar34 6 місяців тому +108

    Gotta get Drawfee to reimagine these drawings, would be the collab of the century for me at least

    • @ruleofthree99
      @ruleofthree99 6 місяців тому +8

      yes i just had this idea omg

    • @thekidwhopopstoday
      @thekidwhopopstoday 6 місяців тому +7

      This is that next level thinking I keep hearing about - You won.

    • @DrLazerbeam
      @DrLazerbeam 6 місяців тому +7

      Griffin & Justin have been on Drawfee if you didn’t know

    • @karinemw
      @karinemw 6 місяців тому +4

      @@DrLazerbeam YES. one of the best episodes ever

    • @thebadpoet
      @thebadpoet 6 місяців тому +6

      In a perfect world, Caldwell comes back for that one, his knowledge and appreciation for the WikiHow house style is deep and abiding.

  • @bitrotter
    @bitrotter 6 місяців тому +57

    man, this was hilarious. they should make this a regular bit.

  • @OliviaStransky
    @OliviaStransky 6 місяців тому +41

    That "what have I done?" image would make a powerful tattoo

  • @Takowowo
    @Takowowo 6 місяців тому +50

    I gotta say, Travis I'm digging the hair style. Also I like how all three are morphing into Clint

  • @Griffin519x
    @Griffin519x 6 місяців тому +73

    This could easily be their shows new format. I love this 😂

  • @yorkcommatyler
    @yorkcommatyler 6 місяців тому +91

    No Wikiwheres needed for this one. I’m strapped in and ready.

  • @dimensionalvintage
    @dimensionalvintage 6 місяців тому +46

    You guys could literally read a phonebook and it would be incredible content. Y'all are so funny always, you bring so much joy to this terrible world. Thank you a million times for grinding so hard.

  • @unhingeDoor
    @unhingeDoor 6 місяців тому +9

    cannot believe you forgot the classic move of pretending to spot The Time Bandit™, pointing at your chosen escape route, and sprinting towards it. Not only do you get out of the conversation in a perfectly reasonable manner, you also become the hero of your small town

  • @georgiimay
    @georgiimay 6 місяців тому +52

    Spiderman IS known for being incredibly sad, that's why he kisses upside down

    • @aryst0krat
      @aryst0krat 6 місяців тому +6

      oooh, so his frown looks happy and doesn't put people off! brilliant!

  • @freya241
    @freya241 6 місяців тому +12

    i wrote an essay on taz for my undergrad and a real essay i cited did in fact refer to yall as j mcelroy et al. which is wild since it was taz and clint is both first in the alphabet and also oldest ? so idk what was going on there but it did make me laugh

  • @wut...
    @wut... 6 місяців тому +23

    33:44 "looks like the devil, Trav" sent me into orbit and idk why

  • @BZanders
    @BZanders 6 місяців тому +12

    i ***NEED*** that crop top. NOW. and maybe a shirt that is totally plain with a crab on the back, for when i am shuffling along the wall. pls mcelboys i am begging

  • @6Shooter28
    @6Shooter28 6 місяців тому +13

    "Crime is your bedroom now" is either a bit of dialogue from an Elmore Leonard novel or a lyric from a Tom Waits song

  • @lpBren
    @lpBren 6 місяців тому +39

    i saw the number get to 9000+ in the maxfun page and i got so excited for this, lets fucking go

  • @emilyjaffe9808
    @emilyjaffe9808 6 місяців тому +22

    39:51 Griffin pod person shriek

  • @ugh_naught5009
    @ugh_naught5009 6 місяців тому +34

    in 2024 we need not approach the Wizard - we are become the Wizard
    praise be to Fungalore

  • @skylerdickson2939
    @skylerdickson2939 6 місяців тому +22

    Travis: "Dont get in trouble with your parents and teachers because then youll have to talk to them". I am laughing like a hysterical maniac. XDDDDDD

  • @themadwriter
    @themadwriter 6 місяців тому +6

    I leveled up my membership. I have helped. 😌

  • @blueskybelyr
    @blueskybelyr 6 місяців тому +17

    3:43 Justin encapsulating social anxiety so well that it made me extremely uncomfortable and I feel like they all read my diary

  • @MathewSchaffer
    @MathewSchaffer 6 місяців тому +20

    Damn it I was taking a drink when Griffin said "sleep in shifts" and now I have water up my nose

  • @faithchilders9377
    @faithchilders9377 6 місяців тому +6

    Linking to the Wikipedia article as one of the steps in a wikihow is crazy lol

  • @tampertamper
    @tampertamper 6 місяців тому +13

    bumper sticker -
    "my other bedroom is crime"

  • @ChristinaSuper
    @ChristinaSuper 6 місяців тому +13

    Travis--the extravert of the group-- being confused on how *not* to interact with people is very canon.

  • @wynngwynn
    @wynngwynn 6 місяців тому +11

    I loved the little drawings

  • @brianmacdonald17
    @brianmacdonald17 6 місяців тому +17

    I wonder if the brothers are the first NYTimes best-selling authors to write a wikihow.

  • @Jeevesie1988
    @Jeevesie1988 6 місяців тому +11

    Wikihow - "How to be Sexy", edited in part by Griffin McElroy
    1. Act confident, y'know, like Charizard.
    2. Sorry, you need more than that? Uhh okay, keep your grades up I guess.

  • @kirotalon
    @kirotalon 5 місяців тому +3

    Nothing on Earth is funnier or more wholesome than the youngest brother Griffin aggressively making his oldest brother laugh, and then doubling down because it makes him happy to hear his big brother happy. These boys are the best thing in the world.

  • @DataRew
    @DataRew 6 місяців тому +12

    I feel bad and have forgotten your video editor's name, but the addition of the wiki article about Project Skyhook made me SUPER HAPPY because I was thinking about it as soon as they said it! THANK YOU!

  • @Nono-hk3is
    @Nono-hk3is 6 місяців тому +43

    Edit: I spoke too soon. Great work, boys!!
    ~~I CAN😢NOT BELIEVE the first discussion point was not "keep your grades up"~~

  • @spehizle
    @spehizle 6 місяців тому +7

    "Hide your virgin pills in some apple sauce" is SO POWERFUL.

  • @karinemw
    @karinemw 6 місяців тому +4

    "The Banshees of Inisherin" would have been a much shorter movie with these rules for Non-Discussion.

  • @quincygagnon
    @quincygagnon 6 місяців тому +2

    this video helped distract me from my tummy ache, and I got some chuckles in too. thanks!

  • @greenllamasnails
    @greenllamasnails 6 місяців тому +2

    i sung "secret tunnel" in unison with Travis and it was wonderful

  • @phoenixsplash135
    @phoenixsplash135 6 місяців тому +3

    I can't unsee Griffin's Yertle the Turtle reemblence.

  • @cameronkelly848
    @cameronkelly848 5 місяців тому +3

    The last time someone I knew saw me in public, I flat out denied I was myself. I was walking my dog and a girl from highschool asked if I was so and so that they went to school with. I went, no, sorry. You have the wrong person. Continued on my walk like nothing happened. No regrets.

  • @blundermoth4720
    @blundermoth4720 6 місяців тому +22

    Trav putting the Founding Fathers on blast now, Trav Nation gunboat diplomacy baybeee

  • @versebuchanan512
    @versebuchanan512 6 місяців тому +10

    I'm sixteen minutes in, and they're basically just recreating the lore for Nosferatu clan vampires in V:tM.

  • @r.d.shepard9728
    @r.d.shepard9728 6 місяців тому +3

    I absolutely love everything about this, except your editor might need to go over the subtitles because I'm pretty sure what was supposed to be "Travis' drawing" ended up as "Travis's drug" and as much as I agree that Travis is addicted to drawing large devilish muscular men, I do not believe that was intended

    • @Owen.Fallon
      @Owen.Fallon 6 місяців тому +2

      I'm pretty sure they used some speech-to-text tech for the subtitles -- I'd love to see them hire some proper subtitler(?)s in the future

  • @fearsomefivefilms
    @fearsomefivefilms 6 місяців тому +7

    In the VERY MOMENT that Travis said the name "Tom," the intercom in the work lunch room called for Tom to get a parked call in his office. I actually had to stop and acknowledge that all of this was real.

  • @Treeboar8
    @Treeboar8 6 місяців тому +3

    First of all, just sweet sweet blessings to the spirit of collaboration that the brothers are bringing to this, God bless them, what would hip hop be without them.....king wizard

  • @mordecai2169
    @mordecai2169 5 місяців тому +3

    it's just three clints on my screen right now

  • @orgeuillealkali
    @orgeuillealkali 6 місяців тому +7

    Yasss pumped to restart my sub during the max fun drive now that I’m a bit better off financially 🥰 love you guys and everything you do~

  • @VeronicaWarlock
    @VeronicaWarlock 6 місяців тому +2

    12:30 the simultaneous small convulsive laugh of shock at “no longer require” from Griffin and Travis

  • @colonelstunts4885
    @colonelstunts4885 6 місяців тому +6

    getting a tattoo that says crime is your bedroom now

  • @awzthemusicalreviews
    @awzthemusicalreviews 6 місяців тому +15

    How-ster Factory

  • @kencarlile1212
    @kencarlile1212 6 місяців тому +1

    In college, super grumpy face was how I made it through walking through the main square on campus without getting a thousand flyers shoved into my hands.

  • @iantkach6640
    @iantkach6640 5 місяців тому +1

    16:30 I’m so glad that at least one of them had the same thought as me upon hearing the phrase “secret tunnel”… namely, the fact that I *immediately* remembered the ATLA song 😂

  • @abj6920
    @abj6920 6 місяців тому +1

    I wish they did a final full reading of the article, because by the end I forgot some of the gems they cane up with. But hey, one more for fungalore to hear!

  • @belen.asteinle426
    @belen.asteinle426 6 місяців тому +6

    Now I know how to avoid conversations in public

  • @HB-ct2nv
    @HB-ct2nv 6 місяців тому +1

    knocking this years boco out of the park gang. love u guys

  • @psychotripnerdstuff
    @psychotripnerdstuff 6 місяців тому +3

    This is so good. Just classic Mcelroy comedy.

  • @sherrickmads
    @sherrickmads 6 місяців тому +1

    this is probably my new fav video thanks guys!!

  • @mariah9824
    @mariah9824 6 місяців тому +1

    This topic speaks directly to my soul

  • @keenywah6349
    @keenywah6349 6 місяців тому +1

    I wish 100,000,000 likes for this video ❤
    Edit: omg the existential/ethical contemplation toward the end 😂

  • @Tomato_egg_sugar
    @Tomato_egg_sugar 6 місяців тому +1

    Loving this type of video content!

  • @notastupidurl
    @notastupidurl 6 місяців тому +1

    video of the year

  • @TrevNasty00
    @TrevNasty00 6 місяців тому +7

    “A pleasure doing pleasure with you.” Hahahaha

    • @TrevNasty00
      @TrevNasty00 6 місяців тому

      I’m here to say that they’re speaking about me. The mental illness is why I practice most of these regularly. I LITERALLY trained myself to sleep with my eyes open. Don’t shower. Don’t change clothes. Do not shave or cut your hair or grass.

  • @senseisleepyhead
    @senseisleepyhead 6 місяців тому +1

    15:22 for the cutest little Griffin laugh!

  • @justahippiekid
    @justahippiekid 6 місяців тому

    Incredibly helpful and highly informative. Thanks, guys!

  • @musicselekta
    @musicselekta 6 місяців тому +9

    What then, poindexter?

  • @c4tp
    @c4tp 6 місяців тому +1

    This is a good bit. Y'all need to find a way to gamify and shorten it to do it at live shows! Like maybe 1 round, everyone has to suggest a topic, then everyone comes up with 1 or 2 steps of the best topic, then everyone draws

  • @rancidprince3133
    @rancidprince3133 6 місяців тому +2

    You can absolutely discriminate based on height if it’s necessary for performance of the job. I believe being tall enough for someone to hide behind qualifies.

  • @katiejanemorgan5184
    @katiejanemorgan5184 6 місяців тому

    The second Travis said the topic I said aloud to the empty room, "Oh that is good. Thank you. That is perfect." And I'm happy to say it was as informative as it was hilarious. Thank you, sirs!

  • @eldritchzora
    @eldritchzora 6 місяців тому

    Great show!! 😊

  • @Laundry_Hamper
    @Laundry_Hamper Місяць тому

    Until I've Had My Coffee is my favourite shop rag

  • @atsumaruthepartydragonslay5007
    @atsumaruthepartydragonslay5007 6 місяців тому +3

    Gotta say, transitioning into a woman around the time I graduated high school and becoming visually unrecognizable has given me a MASSIVE boon here! :P

  • @ptownspazz7587
    @ptownspazz7587 6 місяців тому +1

    Travis you did good

  • @catfoodzplz
    @catfoodzplz 5 місяців тому

    I would love a shirt of any of this. “just think about the sins” is killing me

  • @jacobclay2415
    @jacobclay2415 5 місяців тому

    Justin’s hair is on point here

  • @researchherpetology
    @researchherpetology 6 місяців тому +1

    this was so good

  • @Nono-hk3is
    @Nono-hk3is 6 місяців тому +1

    Great job

  • @codyroyston8169
    @codyroyston8169 6 місяців тому

    Love the RSVLTS shirt Justin!

  • @herculesrockafeller
    @herculesrockafeller 5 місяців тому +2

    One of my favourite things is whenever Justin loses it.

  • @ava_dom
    @ava_dom 5 місяців тому

    this reminded me the brothers are actually brilliant. like that would take me 10 business days?

  • @abj6920
    @abj6920 6 місяців тому +1

    This was stellar, truly destroyed me

  • @jiffy-jef
    @jiffy-jef 6 місяців тому

    omg this is so much fun

  • @kit2323
    @kit2323 5 місяців тому

    so true besties

  • @MsDianagentaToYou
    @MsDianagentaToYou 6 місяців тому +2

    Subject = perfect.

  • @sierraveree
    @sierraveree 6 місяців тому +1

    #4 sounds like a mountain goats song.

  • @charliecrossing
    @charliecrossing 6 місяців тому +2

    HELL YEAH

  • @bricknolty5478
    @bricknolty5478 5 місяців тому

    I love how quickly they went from, "we want to get this article accepted" to Spiderman Mask 😂

  • @TheUnJed
    @TheUnJed 6 місяців тому

    omg my favorite topic

  • @GrydyneZe
    @GrydyneZe 6 місяців тому +3

    I joined max fun because y’all sounded so sad and scared about the numbers lol

  • @ManyMonstersMedia
    @ManyMonstersMedia 6 місяців тому +2

    remember OUR rights

  • @sobertillnoon
    @sobertillnoon 6 місяців тому +3

    A wiki about the wiki for the movie Wild Wild West? Link please.

    • @Carlos-Mora
      @Carlos-Mora 5 місяців тому

      A "Wiki-wiki Wild Wild West Wiki" wiki?

  • @ruleofthree99
    @ruleofthree99 6 місяців тому +1

    i NEEEEEED a drawfee collab where they do the drawings

  • @NerdicusGoblinski
    @NerdicusGoblinski 6 місяців тому

    "The nasty Daddy long legs wall scuttling crab man "
    I think is the best

  • @warninggoose429
    @warninggoose429 6 місяців тому

    this sounds like a character generator with all the different choices

  • @LateNiteRamen
    @LateNiteRamen 6 місяців тому +3

    First for these good boys