0103 The Alistair Watkins Show – Ratmatology
Bret Thompson shares his enormous wealth of knowledge with us yet again, this time astounding us with information regarding the importance of rats to our universe. The rats he brings to the show mysteriously escape, and the set becomes disrupted in the ensuing chaos.
The entire show reminds us of how nice Antarctica can be with its lack of rattus rattus.
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Waaaah! I have lost my email that liveblogged my responses to this video! It is a very good video, tho. I think it is my favorite.
I’ve already told you all my favorite parts. One I forgot to mention: How do you spell the new Big Bang? Big Puhhhhhuhhh? And what does the Rat Box label say? All I can read is the massive part that says “RATS.” But there appears to be fine print. What does that say?
One thing I wish Bret had done: I wish he had violently shaken the box at some point before he opened it. Like maybe he’d said to Alistair, “Yes, there are rats in here. I’m pretty sure of it. Only one way to tell–the Christmas Present Method.” SHAKE SHAKE SHAKE. “Well, judging from that fleshy thwopping sound, I’m going to assume there ARE rats in this box. And good sized ones too.”
I am especially enamored with the fact that your Rat Mating Science NEVER actually sees rats mate.
Which is a blessing from God, I suppose.
Ew.
OH! And also! I almost forgot how much I love the part where Bret retrieves his globe! I remember that “globe.” It is hilariously inaccurate. And squishy. And ridiculous.
It says, “(DON’T OPEN)” in very primitive marker font.
The only things we planned before the shoot: the globe and letter (my ideas), and the “rat box” (Robby’s imaginative epiphany).
Sometimes, genius pours out of me. And sometimes, I’m stupid. Mostly stupid. We actually cut a large portion of that episode because it wasn’t funny.
Curtis and I love the hand popping out of the box.
And the cuts that occur at random times. (like the globe)
And the subtitles.
And I personally enjoy how absolutely dejected I sound. It’s deliciously weird.
Guess how we came up with this idea!
I’ll tell you since you suck at guessing.
We had brainstormed for about ten minutes and came up with nothing really good. Then I was sitting in the cafe and I said out of nowhere: “What about a scientist? One who studies rats…”
Curtis says “A Ratmatologist – you study rats mating!”
And a short film was born.
Robby is very good at this. The emotion in his voice is like swaggerific. There you go. Watch more Denzel son. You guys gotta hit with this one! Keep it up! I love this one!
I’ve been trying so hard to be swaggerific. You have made my day, my friend.
And Denzel is my hero. WWDWD!