Improving Your Favorite TV Sitcoms - Monster Factory: Sweeps Week Ep. 1

We're kicking off a new miniseries here in the Monster Factory! It's called Sweeps Week, and it's going to CHANGE THE FACE OF TELEVISION AS YOU KNOW IT.
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[@nightmare_creature3757]

The only true way to play the sims is with your sibling looking over your shoulder and giving you dumb suggestions and laughing hysterically, its the best

[@c1oudydo11s]

i know this isn't how you meant it, but imagining the boys recording this in the same room with justin _literally_ learning over griffins shoulder is very good and it brings me much joy lmao

[@douglasappleman2965]

"So, here's the thing, I'm an alpha. And other men--how long do you have?" Beautiful.

[@kigut7443]

the worst part is that ive met men like that lol its so refreshing to hear a dude like justin make a joke like that tho tbh //highfives him

[@CheeseSnow]

as someone who have never watched most of these sitcom shows, I'm both utterly confused and utterly entertained

[@arandompieceofinternettras6461]

Same

[@ceilingeye]

That feeling is a constant in McElroy content. In MBMBAM a large portion of jokes surround celebrities you’ve never heard of before and yet that doesn’t diminish the quality in any way

[@asmrtpop2676]

Anxious Anarchist speak for yourselves! millenials get it

[@ManiacHate]

@@asmrtpop2676 many of us come from countries where these shows and celebrities aren't widely known, so no, not all millennials get it...

[@ceilingeye]

asmRTPOP ok boomer

[@ZombieFobby]

I just want to let whoever edited this know that the Polygon logo and NSFW warning done in sync with the opening riff of the Family Matters theme was done so well and smoothly that I've watched it like 8 times.

[@ZombieFobby]

Now it's something like 30. I've just been coming back to loop that bit a few times. It's so well done.

[@jeroennijkamp5257]

@@ZombieFobby Pretty Sure it was Griffin Himself. Its fantastic!

[@samphoenix794]

I didn't even notice because it's 4am but I had to go back to check it out and now I have repeated it about 10 times. Wow, Griffin.

[@augustagajoshestep]

Agreed.

[@ZyilxX]

And now i have as well.

[@GioTheVax]

New cryptid: Ray Romano

[@magecalamari_damace3989]

GioTheVax what do you mean new? He has always been a cryptid

[@TheAmetralladora]

Dark Steve Urkel didn't die, you fools. He danced all night with the fire god and became part of the Sun.

[@kenirainseeker539]

Don't you mean Steve Yurkel

[@arandompieceofinternettras6461]

Apollo always kills his boyfriends :(

[@samanthaistan]

when justin said "did I do that?" I deffo started cry-laughing

[@slendy9600]

Samantha Tan when they made urkel a vampire i was like "please make a did i do that joke, please make a did i do that joke, PLEASE make a did i do that joke!"

[@howlem508]

thank you mcelroys for my life

[@41dn]

Howie Lemonds *thenks

[@reighfreuden6473]

Howie Lemonds Your hair is too nice to not save.

[@beatall3]

I too would have killed myself a long time ago if I hadn't found their podcast

[@ambrrland86]

SECOLIFE

[@sidney9796]

am I the only one who always reads out mcelroys in my head as m celery because i swear to god I have no idea how to actually say it

[@ProxyLou]

Steve Urkel got turned into Steve Urnkel

[@monkeyhook6856]

Stefan Urquel

[@smelly6137]

underrated comment

[@ansel3551]

*turns carl winslow into a vampire and rips his mortal life from his blood* did I do that????

[@iblame_nargles]

When I die I want the following to happen: 1. Arrange a funeral for me. 2. Hire Justin McElroy to run up to my coffin and recreate the scene at 26:15.

[@Zarmdthecoolest]

I had a drink of water in that scene and let me tell you. It was a real battle

[@Zarmdthecoolest]

Also do you want him to say his real name or Geoffrey Linagram

[@hadrianvii1]

"An Al Hirschfeld caricature of Kylo Ren" legit just made me spit out my drink.

[@elimccormack4728]

"why is sims the only game that's learned how to make things reflect in a mirror" I will not tolerate this 2003 harry potter erasure

[@slendy9600]

Eli McCormack dont forget deus ex (i think 2001?)

[@hearhurgle]

what about the time busto 2.0 was in busto 1.0's bus, yet the bus was invisible in its own mirrors and busto was the only thing you could see in them

[@serkif1]

That's just Busto's infinite power overwriting the beautiful perfect 100% accurate reflection engine in BeamNG.Vroom

[@alienguardian]

Redneck Rampage was doing mirror reflections in the 90s

[@ambrrland86]

DO MORE SECONDLIFE

[@peepytime]

Yes good, my favorite episode of Family matters: steve urkel becomes a vampire and fucking dies

[@kenirainseeker539]

Don't you mean Steve Yurkel

[@cannedmeat]

ＳＰＩＤＥＲ ＤＲＥＡＭＳ

[@juliaschneider4518]

monster factory: now with pre-monstered monsters

[@DoggyGoWoof]

im losing my goddamned mind at ray romano ghosting tf out of family matters

[@giggleloop13]

"What's the President of America doing? Making some fuckin omu-rice, looking like a fuckin goober."

[@YeetusVanitas]

Take it to the bank boys, this one's just like Family Matters.

[@magicoA]

Just like Urkel!

[@crowe3301]

Toe to tip, this is a Family Matters!

[@erinmcgee1160]

UrkelLover69 says, "Just like Family Matters!"

[@jjju3]

"OK go to bed- DONT GAME _god"_ that's just me talking to myself, 95% of the time.

[@SW33wNecie]

The women of the Winslow family were birthed by a failed cloning experiment when The Final Pam tried to reproduce the perfect warrior - Truck Shepard.

[@HeyItsNovalee]

proud of my boy griffin for using the apparently correct pronunciation of "proboscis" that he learned during the adventure zone

[@LiarJudas666]

I'm sorry but it isn't simply "apparent". He thought it was "pro-biss-kiss." It's literally pronounced how it's spelled and I'm glad we bullied him into saying it right

[@Sud0wood0]

The last thing i expected to hear today was a Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego reference from Griffin.

[@leiram8833]

This isn't even the first time he's referenced that.

[@hasdgfas]

I am shocked you overlooked "This plasma really pleases my palate" when mama winslow bites Urkel. That line of dialogue had me dying on the floor laughing

[@celestialsblues]

"WE BEAT KZbin" honestly this is the best

[@skiffguard5951]

Justin & Griffin are excellent improve comedians, absolutely brilliant! The inherent chemistry and comedic timing is on par with the most skilled professionals. I have steadily become a huge fan of both these gentleman due to their quick wit, absurdist tangents and ultimately relatable humor that is truely under appreciated in our broad modern landscape of entertainment

[@FelixJacobus]

I'm gay.

[@crowe3301]

Wow you really used some big words there. Here we enjoy “boy” and “good”

[@leiram8833]

@@crowe3301 Translation of OP's comment: Take it to the bank, these are some good, good boys!

[@WritingOnGames]

matrix-themed leisure suit is WHOLLY my aesthetic

[@BrothersWeird]

My god, references to Al Hirschfeld and Shadrach, Mesach and Abednego within a minute of each other. That's why I love you boys.

[@theoneandonlyhaley]

26:14 He's trying to bring Urkel back!! It worked for Knife Dad....

[@mossymoobloom1384]

This makes me want to put my TAZ Family on the gallery

[@mossymoobloom1384]

I have THB + Ango, Kravitz, and Julia

[@illtardisyourdoctor]

do it! there's only a couple TAZ families on the gallery last I checked (which was less than a week ago)

[@mossymoobloom1384]

I'll do it after I get off work today

[@dylantharp87]

What is TAZ?

[@mossymoobloom1384]

ShroomyHoles , TAZ is short for The Adventure Zone, a dungeons and dragons podcast made by the McElroy family

[@redj1101]

Perfect Strangers looks like that "where do you work out?" "at the library" comic

[@xlr20ice]

To this day, this video is the sum of my knowledge about Perfect Strangers

[@TheQuashingoftheTub]

Says a lot about my experience with Sitcoms that Big Bang Theory is the only one I have slight knowledge of, and that I mistook Family Matters for Family Ties.

[@ThatPazuzu]

According to the Family Matters wiki, Stefan Urquelle is cloned but the failed clone gets sick and dies and merges with Urkel Prime to create a slightly cooler Urkel

[@thedingo6577]

Watching literally all of these with my family growing up makes this about a thousand times better. I'm a big fan of the Frasier Boys, it doesn't get better than Squish Niles.

[@kenna2090]

Cotter And His Potato Agreed!!!

[@MisterBeees]

I swear to god if yall don't have The Nanny in this town I'll riot

[@ThomasOnTape]

I'm genuinely baffled as to how Griffin McElroy can accidentally trap some dudes in a huge -barbeque- propane accessory and _instantly_ bust out Shadrach, Meschach, and Abednego??? Although it seems all he remembered of their story is "some dudes got put in fire one time." I'm still impressed.

[@weirdrabbitgirl]

Veggie tales babeyyyyyy

[@StylinGreymon]

hearing Justin say 'omurice' is a real treat, even 5 years on.

[@AquaDivider]

and so continues the time-honoured tradition of attempting to resurrect a character through push-ups. they did not push hard enough

[@Valtharr]

Balki looks like he's from the Beatles cartoon

[@lyz8908]

"I SHOT A KID" IM fucking dying

[@Tuxfanturnip]

"Mid-transish": The McElroyism I never knew I wanted....

[@COWHATE]

When my phone alerts me for a new Monster Factory I turn to whoever is near and go "Excuse me I have to go get my fix of pure joy and happiness real quick".

[@blueblueberry4973]

The next time I stay up all night playing stardew griffins voice saying "Go to bed. Don't gAME GOD" will haunt me

[@kiba_the_lucky]

you do sitcoms but you don't even bother with fresh prince of bel air how dare you

[@rynemcgriffin1752]

Gnokx Fastpaw Or That 70s Show

[@sarahharman9879]

Ok

[@leiram8833]

OR SEINFELD. WHAAAAT'S THE DEAL?

[@nightmare_creature3757]

Malcom in the middle

[@rachelfish19]

IVE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING FROM UR CHANNEL BEFORE BUT THIS HAD ME FUCKN DYIN

[@scarritt]

Rachel Fish you have a ton of quality content ahead of you.

[@Arkane416]

Rachel Fish welcome to the McElroy brand of amazing content.

[@DAToft]

The McElroy part of this channel, that is.

[@Wolvinof]

If you think this is hilarious, you'll love the main Monster Factory stuff, Touch The Skyrim and Car Boys.

[@bifflechips-t5r]

And then when you finish that, get into their podcasts. I never laugh harder at anything in my life than these beautiful boys.

[@toasterbot599]

19:00 is it just me, or are dj grandmas becoming a monster factory trend? i mean, i'm not complaining.

[@darkxarth]

Can we get a Monster Factory where Griffin and Justin make 4 Sherlock Holmes characters but also one of the Sherlock Holmes is a vampire?

[@StanleyFlinn]

Perfect Strangers have a real Ernie and Bert Vibe except that both of them are Ernie and Bert simultaneously.

[@chaircheck2424]

I'm kind of glad that Death is a young adult.

[@giggleloop13]

"All bets are off." "How off are the bets? Are they this off?" Cousin Balki isn't a furry. YET.

[@c1nnamodoll]

whoever did the intro i hope they know they triggered my so-excited-im-incapable-of-standing-still-and-am-now-furiously-punching-the-air feature

[@c1nnamodoll]

ive learned this is called stimming and i am autistic

[@willsisskind]

"Hey, you're eating my dad" is worthy of T-shirts, political slogans, iconoclastic manifestos, etc.

[@fakealias1990]

Griffin this is incomplete. You HAVE to somehow add Seinfeld and Always Sunny.

[@fakealias1990]

Fresh Prince, too.

[@slendy9600]

Fake Alias omg seinfeld would be fucking god tier

[@gruntbones]

We need to see stretched head Danny devito

[@Bi_scotti_5]

And A.L.F.! Maybe minus Alf though lol

[@Copio2]

Always Sunny! Always Sunny! Always Sunny!

[@NickFoose]

Whenever Justin gets a lil' giddy, he sounds like Flapjack

[@J____L]

Vampire Master DJ Mother Winslow is my favorite new Monster Factory character

[@exclasen]

i am here for Canonically Trans Urkel tho

[@janab1130]

I'm imagining the long pause after the steve dark form reveal is either justin screaming so loud his mic cuts out or him out of his chair doing some sort of delighted jig

[@rorygiambalvo2955]

26:20 anyone can tell that those are life-giving push-ups, from the ancient Knife Dad lore.

[@jakemalkowski1078]

Always Sunny is a must have. I need me some Danny "The Trash Man" Devito.

[@lin_darrow]

yooo guys not that you wanna mess with Fate, but if you enter 'testingcheats true' and then 'cas.fulleditmode' before clicking 'edit in cas' then you can change your sims however you want (including body/gender/age)

[@WerkinWB]

i literally just rewatched the first Sims 4 MF last night/this morning. I fear this is no mere coincidence.....

[@iblame_nargles]

REWATCH SECOND LIFE REWATCH SECOND LIFE REWATCH SECOND LIFE REWATCH SECOND LIFE

[@mysillycomics]

You have the power... you must do the people's work of rewatching every single MF

[@J____L]

Dark Vader and Cousin Special Agent are my favorite creations from this series, so I'm super jacked about this new mini series

[@shizaya]

It's a wonder the McElroys keep making these references to the absolute wrong audience and yet we keep coming back

[@rachelladue1572]

exactly what i was thinking lol, they know perfectly well young millenials and gen z are their demographic and yet time and time again they make jokes for older millenials, but here we are anyways. although tbh i like learning older references and cultural touchstones. i imagine much of the rest of their audience does too

[@roguetheotter]

@@rachelladue1572 as an older millenial who's been following the mcelroys for years now.... I still know none of these references lol. I never watched any of these shows so i'm still confused but amused.

[@oznyx3935]

I'm sipping my sparkling water, voring my gummies, and watching some fuckin' monster factory. Today is a good day.

[@goofygoober4901]

2:37 looks like a caricature of Ringo Starr circa 1965

[@rileylungthief]

AMBER IS THE COLOR OF YOUR ENERGY

[@sunnivaixchel2]

When he turned into Stefan I straight up cried

[@vvolfsblood]

can you please layer all the theme songs on top of each other for the outro

[@giggleloop13]

"He's the best there is at what he does - but no one's exactly sure what that is."

[@enbytoon]

the potential for this extended sitcom universe is UNREAL, lets go sweeps week!

[@AugustQ-p1w]

My mom recently started watching through all of Perfect Strangers on Hulu and this is the only thing I can think of every time I see it on the TV

[@threadspool]

this new vampires: the masquerade game looks buck wild

[@Dabednego]

I heard that cousin Balki has an eight pack. That cousin balki is shredded.

[@shaurmiath6719]

I love getting the lore information I needed about Cousin Specialagent. I knew he was dead, but I'm glad to know he's also in Hell. That's important.

[@fionatherobot4777]

im shoveling half cooked rice into my mouth

[@boricuagirl3281]

"He looks like an Alex Hirsch caricature of Kylo Ren" no he just straight up looks like Kylo Ren

[@joeyfromschool]

Boricua Girl I think he said Al Hirschfield, but also, who cares

[@timcronic2341]

Sincerely this is probably THE best monster factory series, it's just a non-stop stream of extremely good goofs from both boys in all of the videos.

[@sisyphus7931]

Yo is no one gonna mention that intelligent off-handed reference to Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego?

[@CircusPeanut]

"That's very good. That seems excellent to me."

[@fite-4-ever876]

spider dreams is my new perfume

[@emmalaplant7865]

7 years later and “video of the year! we beat youtube!” 22:07 is still one of the funniest things to me 💀💀💀

[@emmettmoses5206]

i'm glad i'm not the only one who still comes back to this video

[@savon1710]

i CANNOT get over the RIDICULOUS eyes on the family matters people

[@emrysss]

i’m here to celebrate the study saying that spiders Do dream. by watching the iconic “SPIDER DREAM!” episode 🙏🏼

[@aclevername8399]

"Urkel did a science and turned someone into a vampire."

[@ThatPazuzu]

I've never heard of Perfect Strangers until today

[@ozpunk]

Justin with the called shot of the century

[@ohmygodsquad]

16 people aren't standing tall on the wings of their dream

[@SFinerFACE]

I can NOT wait to see what they do for Frasier

[@MoxStash]

Daytrader Vader is one of the favourite Monsters. So glad they returned to this :)

[@toxicsockwarrior]

Family Matters was a spin-off of Perfect Strangers which gives an entirely new level of goof to Monster Factory: Sweeps Week. A+

[@suburbanindie]

Bruh. The video hasn't even started yet and I'm already laughing at the Family Matters theme. I NEEDED THIS

[@PhantomSniper100]

When I saw Dark Vader run in I was just elated. What an unexpected cameo.

[@FinalGamerJames]

Everytime I think Larry is normal, he turns to face the camera and I get hit with psychic damage.

[@alidottxt]

"Family Mattresses" is possibly my favorite joke ever.

[@lorddenoche]

Man, I remember when monster factory just started. That's when I first found the mcelroy's. Truly a national treasure.

[@crowboi4124]

"Lookin' like a _F*****G_ goober" made me screamlaugh

[@ghoulstreet]

Why was Merle on the wall behind the DJ booth?

[@StilettoHeeledFreak]

For party points!

[@crownounsarchive]

Tricky he finally got that 2000th party point

[@jodorambam]

Oh thank god my good bois are back post monster factory more bois

[@siren7362]

pls include the nanny also i wanna hear griffin say "oh mr. sheffield" in frans voice

[@LWillRuleTheWorld]

[to the tune of "bette davis eyes"] 🎶she's got truck shepard eyes🎶

[@infernocop1009]

man this factory just keeps producing those beautiful beautiful monsters