@@jollimaiahtacksworthMaybe it's that we see it as a relay race more often than others do if they do at all. And so when we hand something off they're like "wtf is this object and why am I holding it now?"
"Emily is one of the best D&D players in the world, endlessly creative, so fun to play with. She was also sent from hell to kill me." - this scene was the actual embodiment of this quote. Brennan bluescreens for a full 30 seconds while Murph just weeps with laughter.
What is funniest to me is, you can see Brennan almost recover on more than one occassion, just for Emily to open her mouth again and knock the air out of him
My favorite part is I don't even think Emily was intending for this to be something that tripped Brennan up. I think she was just giving the answer she thought was genuine, if a little funny. Brennan just wasn't ready for it.
I love that it's almost like the moment of buffering is him reciting Three Blind Mice and thinking about the logistics of it as someone's favorite story and then trying to figure out how to continue the conversation with that knowledge
@@debran940 Brennan's Internal Supercomputer for 3 whole milliseconds: "But this does not compute! How can "Three Blind Mice" be an adequate fairytale, let alone serve as someone's preferred hero's journey adaptation?!"
That's what I love about Emily, she's not trying to be whacky or chaotic for the sake of it, she has a brilliant creative mind that approaches things in ways that other people wouldn't think to (as well as a great sense of humour).
She made it happen again! This is just the "broth in the river" incident all over again. The line was so out of left field that it pulled Brennan back from his mind palace.
"Sometimes it feels like in my social interactions I set up hurdles that other people aren't willing to jump." My entire personality summed up beautifully.
“Sometimes it feels like in my social interactions I set up hurdles that other people aren’t willing to jump” I know this is a joke but I felt that in my soul
"sometimes in my social interactions it feels like I set up hurdles that other people aren't willing to jump" is one of the most amazingly self aware statements I've ever heard
"Listen, Emily is one of the best D&D players in the world, endlessly creative, so fun to play with. She was also sent from hell to kill me." - Brennan Lee Mulligan
@@derenathorI didn’t quite understand what he meant by that until I saw this clip. I have never seen a man socially parried like that before, it was an experience
I love emily and the way her brain works. she doesn't purposely choose the most out of the box choices she can think of, that's just what she thinks is the most obvious choice.
Murph absolutely losing it because this is the exact same stuff she pulls in his games too and i bet seeing that from the outside is always a treat lool
Brennan is severely stuck on trying to remember how the ‘3 Blind Mice’ limerick goes and he’s been thrown for a loop with dividing his focus between that and moving the plot along lol
Especially for something so mundane. This isn’t like Mice and Murder “I rolled a nat 20 so now ghosts are real, so you need to deal with that.” This is just “I like 3 blind mice” and that REALLY threw him off!
@@brianmorton9419 no literally hes so good at improvisation and going with the flow and making up all of this coherent verbose on the spot and then. His brain just shortcircuits at "i like three blind mice"
Emily is the funniest person in the world but also Brennan was so in the story, the character, the EMOTION, that I kinda feel bad for him. He was trying to get back on track but the little ADHD gremlin that lives within us all was so baffled, I was expecting him to drop everything to grill her on what the FUCK she was talking about.
I saw someone say in a comment on a CoC short that Emily is too powerful for combat and can only be defeated in roleplay and like, naw man, she's OP in every scenario
"Have you ever had a story that you loved so much that you were always excited to hear it again?" ... the devilled eggs on the window sill... I don't know how many times I've watched it now 😅
This scene is the epitome of Brennan’s comment where he starts by staring Emily is one of the best D&D players out there, then says “also, she was sent from hell to kill me.”
Given Murph’s reaction, this isn’t the first time he’s heard this exact statement about 3 Blind Mice. As soon as it escaped her lips, he had the expression of “oh, here we go”, followed by “that’s all it took to completely break Brennan? He’s been buffering for 30 seconds now”
And how he has his face in his hand for the entire rest of the video meanwhile Zac is directly next to him flat-faced for half of it looking like he’s dissociating
Emily Axford is far and away one of the best role players for DnD. And for her to be the only player that has ever been celebrated by every popular DM for her extreme talents at playing the game is astounding.
My favorite part about this bit is that literally every single line Emily drops is a hammer; Brennan gets knocked back off the first line and every single one of her responses after that just dazes him more.
I feel like Brennan and the character became one for a moment there, like they both couldn't imagine that was about to come out of Emily's/Ylfa's mouth
Hahaha 😂😂!!! The fact that Murph is just falling to pieces next to her 😂! Emily is such chaos and I love it! Brennan-“She’s an amazing player, endlessly creative! She was also sent from Hell to kill me”.
@@ChrisAshtear I saw some snippets of the interview with those words and I was just very very amused. Like hey, I know this dude from College Humor, does it mean that Emily is THE Emily from College Humor as well? And so I searched for her surname and then I went to youtube and tried to find anything connecting her and Dnd. And I found incredible battle from ACOC in that small village. Long story short, now I'm dming my third campaign, and my husband who started watched Dimension20 because of me started to play DnD too. And DM sometimes. And he is truly incredible DM. Can't wait for his homebrewed campaign based on Classical Argentinian Tango. And all of this became possible because TH-cam showed me that snippet of Brennan's interview. (I played dnd before this discovery almost 20 years ago)
Honestly I wondered for a short time how Murphy and em stayed together so well and then I realized it's just sheer chaos and I cannot imagine a better bond. Their home life must either be insanity or the most casual calm environment. I can't see a middle ground
My headcanon has always been that the seven and the 3 girls from the bad kids form a super group/party every now and again, where they are known as The Bad Girls (with the appropriate M.I.A. song as their theme).
Ive never seen an actor struggle so deeply to stay in character before
in normal filming circumstance it would get cut and they would restart the scene.
are you not familiar with the concept of a blooper reel?
Actor? Have you ever heard of a thing called roleplaying?
@@valkoharja roleplaying is a form of acting. and i believe they are in the same union as actors.
And it's Brennan too of all people. Mr. my whole life is Improv.
OH also "sometimes i feel like i set up hurdles that other people aren't willing to jump" is such a great line
it's SO good and so fkin relatable lmao
In my eyes, it' not that they aren't willing to jump the hurdles, but that it was a relay race and they weren't expecting to.
@@jollimaiahtacksworthMaybe it's that we see it as a relay race more often than others do if they do at all. And so when we hand something off they're like "wtf is this object and why am I holding it now?"
It like she knocked him prone for the first one that cut reduced his movement to zero with the second line.
@@thomascochran7907She obviously has some kind of augmented versions of the 'Crusher' and the 'Slasher' feats! 🤭
"You really threw me for a loop" 0:58
- Brennan freezing during improv for the first time in centuries
"Emily is one of the best D&D players in the world, endlessly creative, so fun to play with. She was also sent from hell to kill me." - this scene was the actual embodiment of this quote. Brennan bluescreens for a full 30 seconds while Murph just weeps with laughter.
Especially funny when you remember that after Brennan declared Emily's origins, Murph enthusiastically agreed.
I hope to someday have a silently dying Murph to my nonsensical Emily
I'm silently dying every day!
,,, Hey.
Murph's head did not leave his hand for a full minute
I just know he was sitting there like “god i love my wife”
He was going through it!!!!!
What is funniest to me is, you can see Brennan almost recover on more than one occassion, just for Emily to open her mouth again and knock the air out of him
"Emily is... One of the best D&D players in the world, endlessly creative, SO fun to play with... She was also sent FROM Hell to kill me."
Weird that you stressed "from" like that, but a great and apropos quote nonetheless
@@micahnewby7964 It's a quote from this part of an early Adventuring Academy: th-cam.com/users/shortsfjV5Vdz9AHY?feature=share
@@eriklind7055 I...... know the quote. The fact that I do is in fact _entirely_ why I recognized the odd emphasis.
@@micahnewby7964 Ah, ok. Got it!
My favorite part is I don't even think Emily was intending for this to be something that tripped Brennan up. I think she was just giving the answer she thought was genuine, if a little funny. Brennan just wasn't ready for it.
I love that it's almost like the moment of buffering is him reciting Three Blind Mice and thinking about the logistics of it as someone's favorite story and then trying to figure out how to continue the conversation with that knowledge
@@debran940 Brennan's Internal Supercomputer for 3 whole milliseconds: "But this does not compute! How can "Three Blind Mice" be an adequate fairytale, let alone serve as someone's preferred hero's journey adaptation?!"
@@xmlthegreat "It's only 8 lines and 3 of them are the title???"
That's what I love about Emily, she's not trying to be whacky or chaotic for the sake of it, she has a brilliant creative mind that approaches things in ways that other people wouldn't think to (as well as a great sense of humour).
@Sorry, its "Moops" I will half agree with you but hilda hilda exists so it might just be that she is flying by the seat of her pants constantly
You can tell Murph and Emily are a great fit because whilst everyone else just is chuckling away, he literally can't deal.
100% silent too. Head in hands for pretty much the whole clip, shoulders shaking but not a sound coming out.
You can see Brennan's brain just slam into park.
"I normally don't get sort of stumbled like this" - Brennan and Grandma speaking as one.
This was the Golden Goose actually
@@joobus-stoobus-magoobus I thought so but someone else called her grandma and I got confusled.
She made it happen again! This is just the "broth in the river" incident all over again. The line was so out of left field that it pulled Brennan back from his mind palace.
You know those stun mechanics in RPGs? That's what it looks like IRL.
"Sometimes it feels like in my social interactions I set up hurdles that other people aren't willing to jump." My entire personality summed up beautifully.
I love how FAST Emily went to 3 Blind Mice. Like that *moment* the question was asked, there was no hesitation. It was right there.
“Sometimes it feels like in my social interactions I set up hurdles that other people aren’t willing to jump” I know this is a joke but I felt that in my soul
that's just every single character Emily has ever played and also every time I have to talk to anyone
Brennan fighting with every atom in his body to not break character and ask further
I love how Brennan stays in character and lets the grandma be just as threwn for a loop as he is.
"sometimes in my social interactions it feels like I set up hurdles that other people aren't willing to jump" is one of the most amazingly self aware statements I've ever heard
i love how Murph is her biggest fan
They are married, why wouldn't he be?
murph just silently weeping with laughter into his hand as emily doubles down on her choices is absolutely golden
"Emily is one of the best D&D players in the world, so creative, fun to play with. She was also sent from hell to kill me." -BLM
What a crazy way to realize that Brennan Lee Mulligan shares initials with Black Lives Matter.
@@explosivekobold5529 And Black Lives Matter shares initials with the Bureau of Land Management, and conservatives hate both!
@@explosivekobold5529 he has requested to be referred to as BLeeM for this reason.
it's murphy skipping the laughing part entirely and going straight into crying for me
His subconscious mind has adapted so thoroughly to living with Emily axford that it takes shortcuts to save time in situations like this
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Murph dying immediately, just saying in his head " I Love my wife so much"
And he keeps just silently cracking up for the Entire Minute
wait those two are married?
Holy shit dude I thought they were siblings this whole time
@@TheLemonyOne 9 years now, I think
Brennan was great but Murph silently DYING next to Emily brings great emotions.
Murph just silently losing it really brings the whole clip together
For me it was the one clap from Lou
Murph just sitting next to Emily shaking with silent laughter
Murph is Emily's biggest fan
Emily's ability to be unhinged comes so naturally to her, she can do it just by replying to a direct question with an on-topic answer
"Lou claps once."
I love how Murph is just COMPLETELY broken for nearly the entire duration of this interaction
He KNEW what was coming
Would love a compilation of Murph taking his glasses off in Neverafter, because 99 times/100 its caused by Emily doing batshit things
I've never seen Brennan Lee Mulligan struggle so much to "yes and..." with someone before. It's amazing.
"Listen, Emily is one of the best D&D players in the world, endlessly creative, so fun to play with. She was also sent from hell to kill me." - Brennan Lee Mulligan
@@derenathorI didn’t quite understand what he meant by that until I saw this clip. I have never seen a man socially parried like that before, it was an experience
I love emily and the way her brain works. she doesn't purposely choose the most out of the box choices she can think of, that's just what she thinks is the most obvious choice.
Every supervillain needs their archenemy. The foil to their whole ideology.
The Joker has Batman.
Freeza has Goku.
And Brennan has Emily.
"Emily axford is the greatest dnd player ever, and she was personally sent from hell to kill me"
Murph absolutely losing it because this is the exact same stuff she pulls in his games too and i bet seeing that from the outside is always a treat lool
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i come back to this every now and then just for the "sometimes i set up hurdles other people aren't willing to jump" line she was so real for this
I love these clips. Short. Sweet. It's got Brennan losing his sanity. I'm in.
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I love Murph silently dying with laughter the entire time 🤣🤣
just another reason why we need Emily to play with Matthew Mercer
You wanna see him get carried out in a straightjacket?
You can see the exact moment that really sank in and he blue-screened.
Brennan is severely stuck on trying to remember how the ‘3 Blind Mice’ limerick goes and he’s been thrown for a loop with dividing his focus between that and moving the plot along lol
Murph laughing because he knows exactly how Brennan feels cause Emily uses that trick on him all the time.🤣
Murph is married to her and still breaks every time. If that's not love I don't know what is
the way murph just covered his face and shook for over a minute
0:42 I love this part because it's like Emily just threw another twist at him that he's now got to parse on top of "Three Blind Mice"
indomt think i have ever seen Brennen stutter foe this length of time
ive literally never seen him speechless or at a loss for words this is Insane
Especially for something so mundane. This isn’t like Mice and Murder “I rolled a nat 20 so now ghosts are real, so you need to deal with that.” This is just “I like 3 blind mice” and that REALLY threw him off!
@@brianmorton9419 no literally hes so good at improvisation and going with the flow and making up all of this coherent verbose on the spot and then. His brain just shortcircuits at "i like three blind mice"
It's just how fast Emily responds on the spot, I don't blame Brennan for almost breaking character. I both pity and envy the man.
He once said something along the lines of "Emily is one of the best D&D players in the world, she's also a demon from hell sent to destroy me" 😆
i love how immediately she says that. like no hesitation
Emily is the funniest person in the world but also Brennan was so in the story, the character, the EMOTION, that I kinda feel bad for him. He was trying to get back on track but the little ADHD gremlin that lives within us all was so baffled, I was expecting him to drop everything to grill her on what the FUCK she was talking about.
If it was any other NPC, he would have. But he was desperately trying to maintain focus!
What a relief to see him get flustered like this, makes me feel better about when I do it
I saw someone say in a comment on a CoC short that Emily is too powerful for combat and can only be defeated in roleplay and like, naw man, she's OP in every scenario
Honestly I feel like she's weaker in combat because there's at least limitations to what she can do.
I've never seen Brendan so flustered
Murph just quietly crying
"Have you ever had a story that you loved so much that you were always excited to hear it again?"
... the devilled eggs on the window sill... I don't know how many times I've watched it now 😅
Why would there be a deviled egg on a window sill if you're not supposed to eat it?
It'll only get worst the longer it sits there. So the best time to eat it is now.
Just do it, hard and fast
Now eat that second deviled egg...
It's INHUMAN how lightning quick Emily is with her improv, that shines through multiple times in Neverafter
"Sometimes it feels like in my social interactions I set up hurdles that other people aren't willing to jump" is SO fucking good it's insane
You're teeth are honkin' big!
“Emily is one of the best D&D players in the world. Endlessly creative, so fun to play with. She was also sent from Hell to kill me.” - Brennan
"Sorry you really threw me for a loop" that wasnt mother goose
This isnt a conversation. This is a hostage situation where you either get Stockholm Syndrome and play along or you get the hell out immediately.
The genuine confusion on Brennan's face was palpable. He didn't expect to get blindsided by the Three Blind Mice, but here he is!
Murph just losing it and Brennan trying to just hold it together 😂
Man really loves his wife what can I say
You can just hear the visceral derailment of Brennan train of thought when he said "THAT'S THE ONE?"
"ThaAats's the one?"
He was so close to regaining control and then she trips him again with the grandma line😂
This scene is the epitome of Brennan’s comment where he starts by staring Emily is one of the best D&D players out there, then says “also, she was sent from hell to kill me.”
*murph voice* “emiLYYyyYYYYY!!!”
I got to hear him do it once right in front of me it was amazing best live show ever
when lou makes that furrowed brow face like at 0:29 that's how you know he thinks something is so fucking hilarious
I think it was also a sort of, "Yeah, for SURE" clap from what Emily said because he was her partner in chaos during another campaign 😂
Now I don’t feel so bad about getting stumbled… happens to literally the best of us
Axford remains a human conversation minefield.
Truly a walking beacon of random psychic damage
Murph: This is my life folks… welcome to the show!
Given Murph’s reaction, this isn’t the first time he’s heard this exact statement about 3 Blind Mice. As soon as it escaped her lips, he had the expression of “oh, here we go”, followed by “that’s all it took to completely break Brennan? He’s been buffering for 30 seconds now”
Murph’s face fully burrowed into his hand is so funny. I would have not been able to keep it together either if i was there.
And how he has his face in his hand for the entire rest of the video meanwhile Zac is directly next to him flat-faced for half of it looking like he’s dissociating
I've never seen anyone stunlock Brennan that hard
Emily Axford is far and away one of the best role players for DnD. And for her to be the only player that has ever been celebrated by every popular DM for her extreme talents at playing the game is astounding.
My favorite part about this bit is that literally every single line Emily drops is a hammer; Brennan gets knocked back off the first line and every single one of her responses after that just dazes him more.
"Have you ever had a story that you loved so much that you were always excited to hear it again?" Well, NOW I do...
I swear Ive watched this nearly 10 times since I first saw it last night... cracks me up... every... time
I feel like Brennan and the character became one for a moment there, like they both couldn't imagine that was about to come out of Emily's/Ylfa's mouth
You can see his fucking eye TWITCH
Right when he says "...Yeah..." 😂
0:42
very clever ending rylee
thanks!^-^
i also love how you can clearly tell that between the two of them, only Brennan actually remembers the story of Three Blind Mice 😂
He wants to follow that, but has to continue the point he was gunna make.
Murph had his head in his hand for a full minute
Fellow dm empathy
As a weird husband to a weird lady I felt that in my soul
Emily stunlocking Brennan is surprising and impressive.
I'm freaking dying over Zac's completely blank stare - mans is zoning during the absolute chaos of this convo 😭
I love the contradiction of Zac's absolute detachment and Murph's absolute breakdown at his wife's chaos
That's the most visceral "THAT'S THE ONE?" I have ever heard.
it’s the fact that she came right out of the gate with three blind mice. NO thinking necessary, like it was just completely normal
I love Murph silently losing it
He's DMed for Emily
He knows
He's MARRIED Emily, if anyone has to know!
Emily just casually murdering her husband. 😅
I love how he went down and stayed down for a whole minute pretty much 💀
Honestly Murph is the luckiest man in the world and he knows it ❤️
You can see the dial-up tone going in Brennan's head...
I love how Murph had his head in his hands the entire time after it 😂 and Emily's NADDPOD shirt
Watching Murph . 😂😂😂
Brennan's eye twitch at 0:41 lol
Hahaha 😂😂!!! The fact that Murph is just falling to pieces next to her 😂! Emily is such chaos and I love it! Brennan-“She’s an amazing player, endlessly creative! She was also sent from Hell to kill me”.
Shes what got me to try fantasy high for the first time and im glad i did cus it was amazing.
@@ChrisAshtear I saw some snippets of the interview with those words and I was just very very amused. Like hey, I know this dude from College Humor, does it mean that Emily is THE Emily from College Humor as well? And so I searched for her surname and then I went to youtube and tried to find anything connecting her and Dnd.
And I found incredible battle from ACOC in that small village. Long story short, now I'm dming my third campaign, and my husband who started watched Dimension20 because of me started to play DnD too. And DM sometimes. And he is truly incredible DM. Can't wait for his homebrewed campaign based on Classical Argentinian Tango. And all of this became possible because TH-cam showed me that snippet of Brennan's interview. (I played dnd before this discovery almost 20 years ago)
@@VereskVeil Hell yeah!
appreciate the murph head in his hands visual bc i am i the midst of listening to NADDPOD C3 and i really feel like that’s what he looks like
Honestly I wondered for a short time how Murphy and em stayed together so well and then I realized it's just sheer chaos and I cannot imagine a better bond. Their home life must either be insanity or the most casual calm environment. I can't see a middle ground
I love Emily, she clearly knows what Brennan's buttons are and loves to push them until she finds the one it breaks him.
someone on tumble referred as emily bluescreening brennan and it’s so accurate
how did i fuck up this sentence so badly and not notice
Murphy spent this whole clip with his head in his hand cry laughing at Emily's antics. Folks, get you a partner that's your biggest fan!
I think if they had let Emily join The Seven for an episode the sheer choas energy could have ripped a hole in the universe
The sheer chaos of having Emily, Izzy, Erika, and Aabria in one game together
My headcanon has always been that the seven and the 3 girls from the bad kids form a super group/party every now and again, where they are known as The Bad Girls (with the appropriate M.I.A. song as their theme).
@@toobin8r Aabria isn't actually that chaotic; it's Becca Scott you want here
@@frederickbeuttler2811 Abria can ABSOLUTELY bring the chaos. Just peep highlights of her current guest stint on critical role.
@@frederickbeuttler2811 Abria's Antiope will not only 'yes and' a bit but is also a great springboard for comedy.
He error 404'd *so* hard. 🤣
If the DM corpses in a session, is it a 500 error? I think that usually means the server's down.
Emily has the potential to destroy anyone's brain in a single sentence.
It's a trick of when you stop the video
;)
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i could watch murph’s reaction to this over and over again
I also could. And I have. Many, many times now. 😂