Adam Scott Challenges Bill Burr To Rewatch “CHiPs” | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

What are you watching when you're a kid? What are the shows that mean something. to you on TV? Letterman was a huge one. Um, we didn't have you I grew up in. Santa Cruz, California, which is little. h kind of hippie beach town. And so we. didn't have a TV in our house. I live. with my mom for um for a majority of the. time and then went back and forth. But. for while I was living there, my dad got. me this little 5-in black and white TV. that I just kept in my room and I was. just glued to it. uh uh you know without.

cable television you have three stations. so I would just watch whatever was on. from 700 p.m. or whenever till they went. off the air at what was it 1:30 or 2 or. whatever. Anyway, uh Letterman, um you. know, and Different Strokes and whatever. network comedies were on Hourlong dramas. always felt like too grown up and boring. until I got older and and now you go. back and look at hourlong dramas when, you know, we were coming of age and.

they're just like pornography bad, you. know? Yeah. Like not only are they just. weirdly bad, but They show there's so. much shoe leather just because they're. trying to fill up the 42 minutes. Oh, I'm obsessed with I've had huge fights. I had a huge fight with Bill Burr who. loves Chips and I went after Bill and. said Chips is a piece of and he's. like, "What are you talking about?" He's. getting crazy on me about about how much.

he loves Chips and how much it meant to. him. But if you watch those shows now, the editing they'll I don't know if. everyone's on Coke that's making them, right? But the shots are lazy. The whole. point of the show is there's going to be. this big meeting, right? You know, and. so a guy's going to pull up in his car. and go talk to someone who's in another. car. The car will pull up in some big. parking lot. 30 ft away. The guy will. get out and shut the door and walk 30 ft. to the other guy. Totally. No cutting. No. No editing cuz they're like, "Yeah,

we can kill some time walking from that. giant bad late '7s American car to this. one." That's right. That's right. Like. people have no idea how lucky they are. with Breaking Bad and the surp you know. whatever you know modern television we. did those those um those uh uh credit. sequence things the the greatest event. So we had to go and watch like Simon and. Simon episodes to find these certain. scenes to get context on some of them.

And like Bill Burr, like my memories of. Simon and Simon are one thing, like it. meant so much to me as a kid, but then. kind of diving in and really watching, it's just a whole different like I would. challenge Bill Bird to binge chips right. now. Like really see if he can hang in. there. Well, I'm sure I'll be getting a. call from him very soon. I just saw him. the other day. We had a lovely meal and. now he's going to feel like I betrayed. him. I think we are in TV's golden age. keep saying that that it's just uh.

because clearly the whole business. changed, but we but what you're. describing and now we sound like uh you. know the two old men on the Muppet Show. in the balcony, but you watched what was. on, right? And you had an awareness. sometimes this doesn't seem that good, right? But it was all there was. Yeah. There's three networks and also there's. what can what comes in meaning what will. what will my reception capture? Yes.

Because sometimes there's a good show. and you'd go to turn it on and the the. antenna I keep moving the antenna. around. That's right. And so just this I. don't know where it was inconsistent. Some nights CBS would come in great and. some nights it was just garbage. Right. And so uh now there's the other problem. of I have 7,000 options. Yeah. And yes, there are some very obvious choices I. can make when I know there's a really. good documentary out or hey, severance. is back. I know what I'm doing. It's.

appointment television. But then there's. so much where people have told me, you've got to watch GubGub Nation. And. I'm like, what is it? I love I do, too. You're you're surrounded by people that. love Gub Nation. Gub Nation. We're. gubbers. Yeah, we're just from heads. What's up, everybody? One gub head. Oh. Oh my god. And I'll say, "What is. it?" And they'll be like, "Oh, it takes. place at an advertising. agency. It's British." But you're going. to really And then I'll watch like two.

episodes. And oh, you got to hang in for. seven. Seven. Get to seven. No, you have. to get to seven cuz that's when the. GubGubbers show up. And those Gubers walk in. Lights out. The episode with the landslide. Oh, boo. It's divisive, but it's amazing. Yeah. And we could like cuz now kids can it's. all dependent on they can watch whatever. they want. So it's just depends on their. taste what they're going to watch. Back.

then like you said we just watched. whatever was on and that's how we came. up with our taste was by watching. everything. So it's just a completely I. have no idea what I'm talking about. Never mind. Never mind. Never mind. the. uh I remember my my writing partner when. I came out to LA for the first time, Greg Daniels, of course, the great Greg. Daniels. He and I came out here and. we're both 22 years old. There wasn't. that much television. There was just, as. I said, a couple of networks and a. couple of big sitcoms and so and some.

dramas and so you you'd seen everything. There was no such thing as a show that. you had never heard of because there. there weren't that many shows. Yeah. So, I remember once Greg and I are working. late and I think we were over at Sunset. Gower Studios, which isn't too far from. where we are now. And we're these like. wideeyed 22-year-old guys right out of. college. We're working on this show. called Not Necessarily the News. And but. then we're also wandering around cuz. we're like, "Wow, this is where they. make television." And we wandered on to.

Oh my god, this is the set where they. make Benson. Whoa. And Benson with uh. Robert. They were still making it. I. think they were still making it. And. this would be 1985. And we I'm seeing an actual This is the. governor's mansion where Benson lives. And what? This is it. And it's all the. lights are kind of down. There's a. couple of lights on, but there's like. cloth over things. They put the things.

over the sheets over the furniture. And. we're we're wandering in and Greg and I. I mean it's so funny now Greg has made. so much iconic TV but I remember very. clearly him being like wow and I'm like. yeah and then we walk in and we get up. close and we look and we're looking at. the actual like vase and table and it's. supposed to be a rich like governor's. mansion and it looks like It's. like because fake. It's It's all fake. and it's all slapped on kind of fake. gold paint and that's a The vase looks.

like it cost $2. And I remembered having. this revelation of it's all a lie, man. Totally. Benson's mansion sucks. What is this? You know, and then and. then having that realization over and. over and over again whenever I was on a. set and sitting down and like this is. the chair where the girls on Facts of. Life sit. Wow. How much time did you get to spend. on the facts of life? I know. I used to. go over there a lot. Hang out in the.

chair. That sounds so creepy. Um where. do you know where the chair is from. where the ladies sit? Um all of them at. the same time. There's that one scene. No, I don't. That one does Mrs. Garrett. sit in. Yeah. Point me in the general. direction.