One of the most Scorpio things I’ve ever seen is Justin and Travis attempting to trick their father into thinking their birthday is over a week sooner than it is just to get double presents
what continuously amazes me about the mcelroys is that justin looks like a gay elf, and travis looks like a portland barista who takes regular business trips to narnia. they both look like weird, cool, funny guys. but then griffin looks like if you hit ‘random’ on a character generator for a game exclusively about tax accountants. he looks like he was born with a polo shirt on. he looks like both his first and last names are jeff. he looks like he organizes socks for fun, and then he opens his mouth and says something funny enough that you rupture all your internal organs laughing about it. it’s incredible.
i just want to say that the first time i saw griffin in the wwe monster factory video (i think), i was floored. i couldn’t believe my eyes. he was exactly like op says and i was not prepared for that at all and i was unable to process anything for days
I think one of my absolute favourite things about TAZ is that Griffin got to write a campaign in which the three free agents, the three moving parts that he relied on to make his story work, were the three people he knows best in the whole universe. People talk about Griffin’s story being ‘on rails’ but it’s not. It’s just that – unlike most DMs – Griffin can predict his family’s behaviour in advance in a way most people couldn’t hope to do. If he were playing with a different group, the story never would have turned out the way it did, but because he knows his family, he could fairly accurately predict the big decisions.
He writes a voidfish into the story, because he knows his brother is kind to animals, knows he’d never leave a sentient baby jellyfish on a planet about to get eaten, not even narratively. He’s not writing Travis into a corner, Travis would never consider doing anything else. He writes Taako a sister – a best friend, a twin, a soul mate – because he knows that Justin is a big brother to his very core, knows that his instincts will always fall in line with sibling loyalty and devotion, even when he’s playing an aloof elf who doesn’t care about anyone. He writes his dad into the trickiest position of them all – facing true horror, sitting across the table from the end of the world – and he knows that his father will respond with compromise and understanding, with love and joy and compassion, because he’s seen that grace in his father his whole life. Griffin was betting on those qualities that he already knew his family possessed, and it was the safest bet he ever made! Because they were amazing, and he always knew they would be.
“I do that” is basically “as you wish” in the language of the McElroys
there’s nothing better than griffin mcelroy completely apathetically and deadpan doing a bit while his brothers literally choke on their breath screaming with laughter in the background
oh sorry sorry but this is FALSE—patently FALSE—information because i’m pretty sure what’s better is Justin struggling to get through what is probably not even a very good bit while his brothers shout over him and also each other in the background
this is
“hey, uh, trav?”
“hmm?”
erasure
I see you all, and raise you Clint McElroy reading the room (of his offspring) and making a completely blasé sex joke.
Griffin: We’re killing fashion, one shirt at a time. Take that.
Justin: I will, I – so, so sue me! It’s October in West Virginia, I’d like to live on island time for a day.
Griffin: You…
Justin: Cut me some slack.
Griffin: I have Spotify, open right now on my computer. Do you want me to blast you? [holding back laughter] Do you want me to put you on blast? ‘Cause I’ve got your history right here in the sidebar:
[Growing increasingly angry]
“Take It Back” by Jimmy Buffett,
“Nautical Wheelers” by Jimmy Buffett,
“Jolly Mon Sing” by Jimmy Buffett,
[Justin holding back laughteras Griffin continues]
“Steamer” by Jimmy Buffett!
“Treat Her Like a Lady” by Jimmy Buffett!
“Manana” by Jimmy Buffett!
“When Salome Plays the Drum” by James Buffett,
“Havana Daydreaming” [sic] by Jimmy Buffett. What the fuck happened to you?!
[Justin and Travis losing their shit]
Justin: I had a case of the Mondays!
Griffin: Are you haunted? Are you FUCKING POSSESSED? You used to be my BROTHER!
Justin: [holding back laughter]I had a case of the Mondays! I had those old Monday blues, and I was just trying to chase ‘em away!
Travis:
I just want to remind people of the concept of the show, is that Justin
makes up one third of the team, that feels qualified to tell other
people how to live their lives-
Griffin: How to do fuck all!
[beat, quiet laughter and indiscernible chatter]
Griffin:[completely calm] You guys want a Ya- do you guys want a Yahoo?
god i had a weird dream that the Mcelroy brothers started doing their own paranormal adventure show but it was just them going to haunted places and rating them based on how haunted it was.
At the end of the show Justin was like “yeah it’s a haunted hospital so it loses points for being overdone but Griffin got possessed and ghosts tried to kill Travis so that brought in some fun and flair. 7/10″
Griffin and Justin don’t actually look that much alike, in an obvious way, and could probably pull off saying they’re not brothers, until Travis is put in the middle and then suddenly the McElroy Boy Gradient is complete.
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