when did bill grates invent michaelsoft?

[indridsglasses]

This is,, one of my favorite moments from the MBMBAM tv show

THIS IS JUST A PHONE NUMBER YOU CAN CALL

[tooty-mcfarty]

[felicitywilds]

i don't know why this time relistening was special, but its only just struck me how consistently unwavering griffin's characterization of johann is.

from episode 7 when we meet him, all the way through episode 59 when he dies, johann just absolutely fucking HATES the idea of the voidfish erasing people and especially himself.

[duskodair]

relistening to Taz and I'm really enjoying listening to each arc and relating it to the relevant bird.

like yeah here there be gerblins is about lup it's about you should have thought about that before throwing my dog in the fire, it's about falling in love with Barry Bluejeans, it's about trying to save so many people but failing, it's desperate odds and flying away from a disaster you couldn't avert, it's about being bitten in the back by an earlier decision to trust someone.

murder on the Rockport Limited is about Dav. It's about seeing the truth behind the illusion. it's about a town of people all with the same face. it's about losing the driver and trying to save the vehicle without him. it's about the youngest member of the crew holding a book that catches the truth and stops it reaching its destination. it's about beheading and loss of identity. It's about remembering to get your roommate pringles

petals to the metal is about Merle. It's about don't be chopping on these sweet sweet babies. it's about reaching out to someone you love who has been consumed by a power they can't fully control. it's about dying in the hope they can be saved. it's about racing as fast as you can, with all that you have, in the hope that something can be saved in the end.

crystal kingdom is about taako. it's about loving someone you've lost so much you'd turn the world to crystal to try and save them. it's about Kravitz. its about learning more from thousands of realities to make new and wonderful things. its about walking through your legacy. its about the best sandwich and taako's good out here. its about seven birds being seen, its about the thousands of lives that Boyland touched

the eleventh hour is about Magnus. It's about rustic hospitality. it's about recklessly breaking reality trying to protect people you love. it's about fate and choices you make in life. it is being a small town hero. it is making promises and keeping them. it's about the downfall of a corrupt leader and the people he took down on his way. it's about fallen temples and burnt out buildings. it's about embracing the inevitable and holding the hand of the clock that strikes your doom as the weapon that will save you

the suffering game is about Barry. It's about looping through endless pain again and again in the hopes of reaching a dream. it's about liches and death and love. it's about losing your body and being saved from permanent death by the power of your friends' love. it's about working out how things are working and then pulling them apart to understand them. it's about choosing to lose everything in the hopes that it might let you save something. arms outstretched. trust Barry, love Barry

the stolen century is about Lucretia. it's one hundred years of journals. It's learning world after world and watching them die. It's working to protect those you love by saving the light. It's about running away again and again, and loving only in goodbyes. it's about being alone and dying again and again. It's about bonds growing stronger even as something comes relentlessly to consume them

story and song is about the starblaster flying into, not away from the storm. it's about hear that babe, we're legends. it's about bringing together all the arcs and all the relics into one hope to undo mistakes. it's about the magic in a bardsong. it's about the light of creation being used as a barrier against darkness.

[davebebubidifiersdehumidifierdpo]

tbf after griffin suggested "20-big ol' tits: welcome to jug city" i knew whatever they actually came up with would fall flat

rip jug city, you'll always be 2026's icon for me 😔

[davebebubidifiersdehumidifierdpo]

to be clear, i don't actually hate the actual name (altho they should have kept "throw harder"). it's just that nothing is going to ever be better than jug city

[davebebubidifiersdehumidifierdpo]

tbf after griffin suggested "20-big ol' tits: welcome to jug city" i knew whatever they actually came up with would fall flat

rip jug city, you'll always be 2026's icon for me 😔

[secretlykogane]

“i asked chatgpt” well i asked the voidfish and they said ^̴̲͂%̵̬̀+̵̨̈#̴̗̔*̶̟͐#̷̤̀^̷̙̈́#̵̮̇€̵̖͐#̸̖́+̵̻̅#̵̮͝*̵͇͛#̸̫́ #̸̠͠^̴̲͂%̵̬̀+̵̨̈#̴̗̔*̶̟͐#̷̤̀^̷̙̈́#̵̮̇€̵̖͐#̸̖́+̵̻̅#̵̮͝*̵͇͛#̸̫́ #̸̠͠^̴̲͂%̵̬̀+̵̨̈#̴̗̔*̶̟͐#̷̤̀^̷̙̈́#̵̮̇€̵̖͐#̸̖́+̵̻̅#̵̮͝*̵͇͛#̸̫́ #̸̠͠^̴̲͂%̵̬̀+̵̨̈#̴̗̔*̶̟͐#̷̤̀^̷̙̈́#̵̮̇€̵̖͐#̸̖́+̵̻̅#̵̮͝*̵͇͛#̸̫́ #̸̠͠^̴̲͂%̵̬̀+̵̨̈#̴̗̔*̶̟͐#̷̤̀^̷̙̈́#̵̮̇€̵̖͐#̸̖́+̵̻̅#̵̮͝*̵͇͛#̸̫́

[mint-clackelroy-deactivated2026]

So we all have our favorite TAZ moments, story beats or character interactions or lines of dialogue. But I'm curious, what are everyone's favorite OOC moments. Those little moments where it's just four guys playing games together. Fourth wall breaks or table talk or giving each other hard time. For me it's a tie between Griffin's "oh my god!" when he realizes that Justin is attempting to scam Garfield in episode 50, and the boys reaction to Griffin saying "And then you wake up," at the end of the first episode of Eleventh Hour.

[davebebubidifiersdehumidifierdpo]

to add a few that aren't as common in the tags, in no particular order (coming off the dome so they're probably not verbatim correct):

-first amnesty ep: "what's your last name pigeon?" "oh i don't know i didn't give her a last name" "well you can pick any name you want, griffin, start 'yes and-ing' please"

-somewhere in balance: "how did you roll an 8 on a d6?" "actually that's a really good question, let's dial in on that"

-the boys actively wishing for death when clint mentions having grey pubes

-in suffering game when justin texts griffin and makes him describe dupree the trex. it's the exasperated "oh my god, justin" that gets me

-the ten hour long death of magic brian

-after the aubrey/dani kiss: "we have, once again, managed to find a way to kiss our brother" "yup 😐"

-party points

-the argument about whether or not slime has skin and griffin saying it doesn't and not letting justin cast a thing, then cut to a little while later after justin blows his nuke on the slimes out of spite and griffin is like "man, this fight was supposed to be a lot harder," and justin is like "WELL IF YOU HAD LET ME CAST WHAT I WANTED TO CAST"

-"falafelers stone"

-"you want to do this? you really want to do this now, huh? i have to build myself an exoskeleton out of pillows. i'm not PROUD of it"

-stolen century void fish ep: "griffin?" "yeah?" "i'm not leaving that fish behind"

-balance live show: "I DIDN'T GIVE MARVEY XP!"

-at the beginning of the second amnesty arc when justin rolls shit for his destiny's plaything vision and explains that it means "something bad will happen to you," and griffin says in a high pitched laugh, "OH NO!"

-clint's jetpack stunt:

g: "if you do this i am going to hurt you very badly"

c: "that's all right, i can live with it"

t:"'live with it' is an interesting turn of phrase to use there"

-travis cracking up whenever justin does a "duck can't lie" bit

-justin teaching everyone what a cloaca is

bonus:

-not taz but dimension 20 tiny heist, when griffin asks brennan, "were we supposed to fill [our character sheet details] out? bc bean has no aspirations, but he also has no flaws"

[mcelroyfamilystaff]

Another highlight from this past MBMBaM ep, and this one's a true Tumblr 'Sclusie!

Also a reminder, we won't have any new episodes coming out Dec 24th - Jan 2nd, the whole team is taking off for the end of the year. Hope y'all have a safe and happy holiday!

[uwillneverknowwho]

Tiny Heist is underrated!!!! Watching it right now and it’s a delight. Plus, as a Dimension 20 fan who isn’t super familiar with the McElroys, I love seeing their reactions to Brennan’s DM-ing (they love it so much :D)

[cellard0ors]

This is one of the funniest things I've ever seen on Dimension 20 and I'm kind of disappointed in Tumblr for not having this in some form somewhere.

[feralenby-moved]

Reminder and fun fact:

Today is the 4 year anniversary of the first ever taz episode

[weaver-z]

Happy 5!

[raspberrybluejeans]

Happy 10 years!

[adventuresloane]

[ID: A screenshot from Spotify showing a podcast episode title, which reads, “Ep. 1: Here There Be Gerblins - Chapter One.” It is dated December 3, 2014. End ID.]

[davebebubidifiersdehumidifierdpo]

the only downside to relistening to amnesty once or twice a year is that i am always viscerally reminded of the devastating lack of ducknerva content. a real tragedy

[ducknewtonscoolhat]

On this day I present

Every single time Duck Newton is horrible at lying !

Episode 7

Duck: Yeah, it’s a nickname. Listen, y’all got a van handy, why don’t you hop in and get on trucking. Don’t forget to— don’t worry ‘bout your clothes. We’ll drive them up seperate.

Swimmer: Why can’t we take our clothes?

Duck: [freezing up] You need to— you need— uh. Here, I’ll get them. Y’all start loading in the van and I’ll bring your clothes out to ya’s. Just another one of the many services we offer from the Forestry Service.

Episode 10

Pigeon: Well, I know how to do it, I just wanna know why.

Duck: Perfect. Perfect. Why? It's for firefighter training? Yeah, it's for firefighter training. It's been a little while since I last told someone that, so I had some time to forget it. But it's for firefighting training, cuz we can't get enough water pressure to fight the fires, forest fires.

Pigeon: Out in Monongahela?

Duck: Yeeeeeeep.

Pigeon: Duck, that's on the opposite side of town. I can find other places that I can get you some more water pressure instead of pumping it out of the water park almost a mile away.

Duck: Yeah, but the water park is definitely gonna be closed. If you can tell me somewhere where you can guarantee that they're not gonna need that amount of water that's using that amount, I'd love to hear about it. Cus, off the top of my head, I can't improvise anything.

Pigeon: There's a reservoir right next to Monongahela.

Duck: The reservoir is a source of water but it's not gonna give other— fuck, listen Pigeon, here's the thing. I... love... to… practice fishing. But... the running water... frightens me, it's called hydrophobia. And I would love to practice my cast in a real water environment where I can get in a large body where I can guarantee that running water won't be a factor. And I would just love to practice my cast in a guaranteed still body. But here's the other thing, sometimes if you do it in a lake, that's what you're thinking, a fish will bite it and normally that's ideal, but I'm just trying to practice casting. It's like, when you don't want to catch, that's when they're biting, y’know what I mean? So I need a still body of water that I can guarantee won't move to practice my fishing casting.

Episode 13

Duck: I should’ve put some time into it, honestly, but I uh… I was real busy with family over the holidays, so I didn’t make much—

Mama: You literally just said you didn’t have any family in town over the holidays.

Duck: God dammit. Dammit!

Mama: I mean, it’s fine if you couldn’t dig anything up, but you don’t gotta lie to old Mama, you know?

Duck: Dammit! Dammit, Duck!

Mama: You don’t have to beat yourself up about it, Duck, I mean po—

Duck: Fuck!

Episode 14

EMT: Do you know what happened to him?

Duck: Oh boy…um…do you want the truth or a more convincing lie? Um, nah so, okay, right… so the Pizza Hut sign started to fall, ‘cause of the weather, and he ran up there on… a fire escape… and tried to push it? …With a bat? Damn it. Nah, he just pushed it, and it fell, but then he fell ‘cause he got shocked. I bet… mmm…I didn’t see. I was in-Ah, shit! Alright, hey fol-hey guys, rewind. I-hey guys, rewind a second. Ah fuck! I was inside, I didn’t see. Anything! I don’t know… this man. I do know this man. His name-Fuck!  Alright, I Ned, hi, here's-hmmm. Alright, so this man’s name is Ned, and he’s a friend of mine, and I don’t know what the hell happened to him, but you know this guy. He’s always getting into something. I don’t know, I was in the building, I almost got killed by a Pizza Hut sign. I might be in shock!

Episode 18

Duck: Honestly… uh if I gotta tell you the truth, Juno, I’m— I was trying to get into character. I’ve been—

Juno: You’re going undercover with these teens?

Duck: —I’m going undercover. I got a undercover teenage identity. It’s— it’s Frick Richums and when I assume the identity of Frick Richums, I’m trying to get undercover, with the Hornets [hisses] so I can find their illegal grow thing. [grunts]

Juno: You are a truly miserable liar, Duck Newton.

Duck: Goddamnit! I put on such a good— damnit!

Juno: Hey, when you’re finished with the… with those, those nails. Would you mind taking them back to the station? I need to sort of keep going around the perimeter see if I can find something to, you know, maybe help with your investigation to take down those— those drug kingpins, the Hornets.

Duck: Yeah, Juno, about that. I— I was kidding about that, of course. I was just having some fun. But I did… I did hear some of them talking on...... Facebook about you and how they were gonna target you. Like they need to get you out of the way. And it kinda freaked me out a little bit. Can you think of any reason anybody would wanna get you… outta the way? Or— or be targeting you? Like… for this?

Episode 21

(Deputy Dewey is asking for alibis)

Duck: Me— Me— Me too.

Deputy Dewey: You too what? You were

Duck: Yup.

Deputy Dewey: Alright…

Duck: Me too. I was— Yup, I— Yup, me too, for both. Yup, me too. Mmm…

Aubrey: Duck, are you okay? You look like you need to use the bathroom.

Duck: Nope. Yeah, I do. Yup. Uh, Burritos, alright… Bye.

Episode 22 Featuring Ned and Aubrey also being bad at lying

Morgue Technician: Can I help y'all with something?

Duck: Well, we would like to see the bodies of--

Aubrey: My brother!

Duck: My dad.

Ned: My son.

Duck: His brother. Her-- His-- His son, her brother, my dad.

Aubrey: Not related. There's two of 'em.

Ned: But you have to figure out which two.

Duck: We need to see a body for a dare. I'm sorry about all the lies from before but we need to see a body for a dare.

Aubrey: I was dared to look at the body of my brother.

Ned: And my son.

Aubrey: I was dared to look at the body of his son. Who is also my brother. Because he is my father.

Episode 32

Duck: Um… yup. It‘s… Harpo. Uh, all… [imitating crackling noise] Y‘all hearing this? [imitating crackling] The… radio break up. Radio break up. Mrrr.

[davebebubidifiersdehumidifierdpo]

so good, op! but missing my favorite one from episode #15 (understandable, bc there are many episodes), but never fear bc someone made an animatic of it so everything is right with the world 🙌🏽

(they way he says "mON-Eee" is ingrained in my head, and i think the words "so that was all lies" at least once a week, duck newton is the best taz character fight me)

[moghedien]

Do people know about the long term sponsorship MBMBAM used to have with Extreme Restraints (like several months of weekly ads) where they’d have to talk about various sex toys and once had to talk about them in a completely PG-13 way for candlenights. Do PEOPLE NOT KNOW that Extreme Restraints sent the McElboys an anonymous list of all the weird shit people bought with their coupon code.

No one talks about the long period of time when the McElboys were sponsored by a sex toy/bdsm online store and put their hearts and souls into those ads and I’m afraid it’s because people don’t know about it

[zinglebert-bembledack]

[keelymikkelsen]

The Voidfish & Magnus - been wanting to do some TAZ fanart and felt like noodling around on a painting last night before bed. Voidfish is perfect for noodling. His arms are like spaghetti.

[longlivechips]