brennan has never been this invested in a story

[@vante2]

"Unfortunately, very sick. Continue..."

[@florphy1237]

the duality of brennan's wild reactions and izzy's composure made the story just *that* much better

[@Anno_Al]

The secret to a good relationship is taking turns being the unhinged and the normal one, Izzy and Brennan have this down to pat which is why they're the perfect couple

[@sparki9085]

A true role reversal

[@EzloMinish]

"NONONONONONO" says Brennan, with a face that screams "give me MORE"

[@thestarsailor972]

2:42 for those curious

[@IfEnjoinder]

+

[@noemi9161]

I love their faces as hanna tells the story. "Don't tell any little kids that that can happen" 😂😂😂😂

[@xatlern]

I'm pretty sure this was filmed after they had the baby but before they told anyone about the baby, but I feel like you can see a part of them going into parent mode at that point 😂

[@thedofflin]

When izzy says that you know it crosses a line

[@KentuckyKaiju]

Did not know it was possible for a person to get straight-up Ghoulied

[@sarah.s.flanagan]

"I forgot the beginning of this story" is big ADHD vibes

[@caleblindsay-manning8895]

"Sucked into the toilet" had the same reaction, the wildest direction the lady and the story could have gone

[@UsedtobeaDuchess]

Izzy’s face as she hears all this is priceless.

[@jasonclinton3367]

She is very concerned that Brennan is getting ideas

[@maike__-]

Hannah is a great story teller clearly but Brennan’s reaction is what sold me

[@gabrielromancena4788]

I am thoroughly convinced that Izzy and Brennan´s kid will either fix the world, or doom it forever.

[@IDrawSometimes_]

Why not both

[@remisica]

I want to follow the doomchild into the void

[@jacobbastin802]

Yes

[@JosephZygnerski]

Their kid is going to be the weirdest and most well-adjusted person in the world

[@shepardren8006]

And by Doom the World. They mean actually fix all the issues but.... problematically???? Maybe????

[@JackBarlowStudios]

Fun fact: that coin thing she did the sound effects for is called an “Euler disk”

[@Danmarinja]

when its a manhole cover it's a "poo-ler disk"

[@krystalkomics8757]

cool fact my dude!

[@metallsnubben]

@@DanmarinjaI appreciate the pun but I really had to switch my brain to "English-speaker mode" to make it work (Euler is the surname of a German dude and they pronounce "eu" as "oy")

[@jkid1134]

​@@metallsnubbenEnglish speakers know this (mostly), it's just easy to get mixed up with Euclid. anyway, how do we fix the joke, eulet coin or what

[@cinderwolf32]

​​@@metallsnubben it's pronounced "oyler's disk" in English too. It's a good effort on the pun though.

[@dsdots]

I DIDN'T KNOW THE SEWER SYSTEM WORKED LIKE THAT... NEW PHOBIA UNLOCKED

[@jauxro]

well usually there's not gasoline explosion

[@spacegay6030]

@@jauxro Well, and usually there's not a snake hiding in your toilet that comes out to bite your ass when you sit down...but the fact that snakes _have_ shown up in people's toilets before was still enough to make me irrationally fear it constantly for a good chunk of my life lmao the human brain is a strange place...especially when phobias/anxiety get sprinkled on top lol

[@JF-um3wz]

It’s basically a pressure system, a lot of pressure was expelled nearby, causing a vacuum. It’s obviously a niche occurrence, though, so don’t get TOO worried. The effect would lessen the further away you are from the expulsion.

[@boop6616]

I went from “Her uncles like 40?” “Oh he’s like 10.” “OH HES AN ADULT?”

[@laceisaverb]

Once she said car, I imagined late teens early 20s at most

[@subman23]

I love the fact that Hannah didn't correct them on what the manhole cover was doing because she very clearly was describing it spinning on its side before falling over as what was flinging the s*** _(it landed_ but did the whoop whoop coin thing+her hand motions). She never once agreed with Izzy's "poop geyser" description so she didn't lie, either. She deserves more credit than she even got as both a storyteller and a crowd work audience member

[@AgelessCharade]

To be fair, there likely was _some_ form of geyser, because those covers are typically pretty high up away from the actual sewage, meaning it would have been relatively clean if it had been launched from air pressure alone.

[@Artofcarissa]

“That was not the direction I thought!” Lmfao Brennans reaction killed me there

[@ClonedGamer001]

"This is the greatest day of my life," he says, speaking to his literal wife.

[@jimmy_the_squid9456]

The mother of his child is merely a prop for him to hear unhinged stories with

[@rollergalaxy9997]

This is… actually the perfect story. Brennan is my brain listening to this.

[@matthewlebo1841]

Brennan has never been more relatable.

[@tedursus]

"This is the greatest day of my life" - Brennan, to his wife, who had given birth to their first child 4 months earlier. (I looked it up, it says the live taping was in February at the Elysian)

[@dootdoodle569]

oh man i hate when im taking a shit and some kids outside throw a makeshift grenade into the sewer creating a vacuum that sucks me into the toilet

[@deathbyirony7035]

Brennan's praise is so powerful that it has an area of affect and makes other people feel good about themselves.

[@ezekielmartin4323]

Bad influences are my favorite relatives

[@SirHarryDave]

I was actually at this show, couple rows behind this person (they never got me on camera tho😢). Great show!! Fun fact: Brennan is very loud irl

[@AbisexualCarpenter]

It’s the camp counselor in him. Quite a few people have mentioned he is quite loud

[@lunatheluma3804]

I love the mentopolis clip where hank green says "You are very loud" and Brennan just goes "Yeesss"

[@EinDose]

@@lunatheluma3804 And before Hank says this Brennan says 'yeah' loud enough to echo in the dome. He really is a VERY loud man.

[@emmakane6848]

The sound mixer for Dropout says that he created a custom program to automatically lower the volume for Brennan’s mic.

[@calliopeshif7581]

@@emmakane6848 absolutely incredible piece of information

[@limelantern5637]

I got so immersed in this story that I completely forgot there was gonna be improv after this.

[@carolynv8979]

Looking at his WIFE and declaring without a touch of irony that this is the best day of his life lol. I love their relationship

[@sunset-luver]

izzy’s “WHAT did you just say?” is hysterical

[@aletheran8590]

This feels like the plot of a south park episode xD

[@lizz83]

when i watched this for the first time i, too, forgot the sewer part and was just fascinated by the manhole cover flying into the air. very fun reacting w brennan in real time lmao

[@JosephWithaG]

Hannah's story on its own was the highlight of the special, and it led to the best skit of the set!

[@starfalco13]

1:49 love that silent second of Brennan still processing that info

[@Speedy-vy4kq]

Brennan became Hannah's hype-man, making the storytelling even better 😂

[@YurikRoss]

I love Izzy casually telling Brennan "well yeah the poop pushed the cover up"

[@Juice1984]

2:00 Brennan-sensei encouraging new students.

[@shinybugg9156]

I honestly don't even care if it's true or not

[@pure0mornings]

I would just like to point out that at this point Brendan has recently become a father, which was his Dream. So when he says this is the best day of his life…

[@thesandwich5321]

He has?! Oh wow that's awesome, good for him!!

[@BulletFestival]

Right? I wanted her to go, "We're married." Audience laughter, and then once it starts to die down a bit, "We have a *child.*" Lawl!

[@londongirl2768]

@@BulletFestivalto be fair they may not have had a child when this was filmed, although I could be wrong

[@jimmy_the_squid9456]

​@@londongirl2768this was filmed in February and Brennan announced the baby in January when they were already 3 months old

[@m4rt_]

I was scared for years to go to the bathroom as a kid after I read a book in the school library showing some old spy techniques or whatever it was, and on one of the pages it showed someone hiding inside the toilet (the kind where you essentially just shit into a hole in the ground) who was poking people with a spear... it was from that moment my childhood changed, and I was scared of being poked with a spear while sitting on the toilet, even on the modern kind with water pipes, etc. So I agree, DO NOT TELL KIDS THAT STORY!

[@MarioGMan25]

Fuck me I nearly lost control of my legs and spine I was laughing so hard.

[@solarprogeny6736]

he misunderstood the wohwohwoh sound effect :(

[@javiskii]

This would be such a good Mythbusters episode

[@TheMidnightPhil]

"Oooooooh nooooooo"

[@gabriellafreund3793]

I just love the little jog around the stage

[@Gala-yp8nx]

That story found Brennan right where he lives. Bwahahaha

[@Hey-Its-Dingo]

Bigger was so great.

[@lucyferos205]

So that's how Mario gets into the pipes

[@SnowMenAtWork]

I fucking love this so much, hannah what a g

[@antiquatedspanner912]

Oh god I knew what it was like to be in brennan's mind hearing this same thought almost the entire time

[@dragoneye2874]

I love the guy next to this person just dying laughing

[@TheGeekyandproud]

i have also never been so invested in a story holy shit 😂

[@OMGSAMCOPSEY]

He thinks its cool now until one of his players uses this exact method to cause a distraction and/or suck the bbeg into a toilet

[@guilhemmarty6287]

"don't tell kid that can happen". oh boy.

[@amelialikesfrogs5778]

i just watched this special. it was so good

[@commonviewer2488]

The guy next to our narrator is losing it 😊

[@MrBogus213]

God damnit Bigger was so good

[@richardlindquist709]

This entire show was so good

[@helpinghand97VT]

"don't tell any little kids about this" YOU TOLD THE INTERNET. YOU TOLD GROWN ADULTS WHO HAVE ACCESS TO THESE THINGS IN LARGE QUANITY. WE, MEN, ARE JUST BIG CHILDREN WITH A BIT MORE MONEY

[@norahdevore]

we WILL be experimenting, MAKE NO MISTAKE !

[@itsAnaMC]

this is the best story ever

[@jennyhughey7557]

I hope Hanna showed this to their dad😂

[@Michaelonyoutub]

This sounds like an Adam Sandler comedy movie

[@m4rt_]

the tiome shit hit the fan

[@Cab1726]

It is the greatest day of mine, as well.

[@ansoncall7357]

Is this a comedy show? What is the event?

[@DarkkestNite]

Brennan and Izzy did an improv show called "Bigger!" where they took audience stories as prompt inspo. The full special's on Dropout

[@dialog_box]

where can i findd the full thing this from?

[@norahdevore]

"bigger" on dropout tv

[@dialog_box]

@@norahdevore ohhhhhh see i saw that in the description and i thought you were just saying like we could see it in higher resolution on dropout. no it's literally called bigger, gotcha 😂

[@norahdevore]

no problem dude! i'll clarify that in the description

[@victorbartlinski4319]

What was this from?

[@jimmy_the_squid9456]

The show is called Bigger! and it's on Dropout

[@peter_pansexual6243]

One time I was in a zoo that had a rhino in a big cage. Just after we walked away from it it started projectile shoting it's shit through the cage.