And with each resounding gunshot, the Imogen Heap song cues anew.
(Watch the short above.)
Mmm… Whatcha say we parody this?
SAMBERG:When Hide and Seek aired onThe O.C., we all became somewhat obsessed with that song.
[The sketch] was 100 percent because of that the season 2 finale.
Its a classic moment, and we love doing digital shorts about movie and TV tropes.
We actually started shooting a version of that short before we got hired atSNL.
But we never finished it.
We got hired pretty soon after that.
TACCONE:Wed only gotten three or four gunshots in our version.
Up to where Shia was in theSNLone.
TACCONE:It was originally me on the couch and Andy entering and shooting me.
We have a weird idea.
SCHAFFER:I dont think we showed [thatO.C.scene] to anybody [on the cast].
We just said, Trust us.
We have a weird idea.
We just told them, You guys are cops.
Show up at this place.
SAMBERG:Bill [Hader] loved it.
Hes a super cinephile as people now know.
But he understood and loved it immediately as I recall… Everyone else kind of got the reference from other stuff too.
SCHAFFER:We knew that most people wouldnt know theO.C.reference so we werent like, This is only forO.C.fans.
We figured it was funny on its own to some degree.
Its not a traditional sketch.
Were gonna go artsy today…
SCHAFFER:There wasnt even any preproduction involved.
The fake gun isnt even fromSNLprops.
Its one that we personally owned.
I forgot where I bought that plastic gun, but it was something weve had for years.
SAMBERG:Thats so crazy.
TACCONE:The fear of not having an ending inspired us.
SAMBERG:How much of that ending did we come up with at that moment?
SCHAFFER:I think that was it.
During the editing, I kept layering music and going, Ooh Were gonna goartsytoday…
This is like an independent film.
TACCONE:We did shoot till pretty late.
Not as bad as some of our other shorts.
I think we shot until four.
SAMBERG:That was one of the first times we went really deep.
Shout out to Shia!
SCHAFFER:I dont remember this but did we show Shia our original half-finished one?
Or did we keep that one a secret?
TACCONE:I think we didnt even have that available to show him.
Was that on another computer in L.A.?
SAMBERG:I dont think we did.
But I feel like Shia was just like, Cool!
He was really, really chill when he hosted.
SCHAFFER:He was just kind of up for anything.
SCHAFFER:Thats a real actor.
He kept his eye for the shot of his eyeball.
We were like, This is a real actor.
I remember thinking thatnotironically.
SAMBERG:Shout out to Shia.
Were big Shia heads.
The Force It Awakened
SCHAFFER:I remember feeling pleasantly surprised that people got it.
Im not even sure what there is to get.
But the audience seemed to enjoy it and cheer when it was over.
That was a relief and somewhat of a surprise to me.
TACCONE:And that song holds up.
Bon Iver did his own version of it on that new album.
SAMBERG:We have heard from their camp that we cant have the sketch on Hulu.
SCHAFFER:That was just not for any real reason except that we didnt pay for the rights.
That was back before the Internet mattered.
SAMBERG:It actually wasnt originally called Dear Sister.
The internet named it.
SCHAFFER:That is true.
It was before things got put on the internet right away onSNL.
We didnt get to name it ourselves.
We called it The Shooting all week and it was called that in theSNLrundown.
TACCONE:There are a lot of copycat videos, which is cool.
Homage videos on YouTube.
People do it with other movies and they would make their own and stuff, which is awesome.
SAMBERG:Its pretty great.
TheresPlatoon,Lord of the Rings,Star Wars, andHarry Potter.
All these moments where somebody gets killed, where you dont see a gun.
SCHAFFER:Did somebody do it with Kylo Ren killing Han Solo?
SAMBERG:Oh my god.
Thats a perfect one.
Also, spoiler alert!
Look at the date I put that up compared to when it came out.
That view count would be much, much higher had that been posted at the time.
This was me a few years ago realizing that, Oh, its nowhere online.
So that 14 million is what it got this farafterits popularity.
