The Easter Egg Basket

## The Thumbnail Fairy

FAH make their own custom thumbnails in Photoshop instead of using a suggested still by YouTube (as any YouTuber should!). They either use a screenshot from the sketch or they go the extra mile and Photoshop together cut-outs of a couple of main characters. They paste their Youtube Thumb logo on top, like so (for The Real Victims of Scams):

Around the end of October 2020, FAH started revamping YouTube thumbnails for their sketches. One commenter on YouTube noticed and got this reply from the lads:

I (@Heleendje) tried making one myself for Start-Ups (Vol.1), which is one of FAH's own favourite sketches. But the very next day, the Thumbnail Fairy had struck again!

We'll collect them in the gallery below, paired with their old version (if we can retrieve it!) so you can compare. What do you think?

### Made for YouTube Sketches

On 3 Dec 2020, the lads changed both title and thumbnail for their first Christmas-themed sketch of the year!

* **from this**
* **to this**

## Running Gags & Recycled Jokes

It's bound to happen after having written and performed 300 sketches and 12 live shows! The lads have been 'caught' to return to certain jokes and themes, and that's permitted of course... it's actually a lot of fun to go 'familiar gag spotting'. Let's see how many we can find...

### Name Drops: Who the F\*%$ is Ciarán Ahern??

You will have noticed this name drop in a couple of FAH sketches, and that's not a coincidence. Here's the full list:

* Don't Recycle, It's Garbage
* How They Really Predict the Weather
* Every Committee Ever
* Competitive Office Lunches (the Ahern account)

Ciarán has also commented recently due to Hog sharing another personal story from his younger years in a Twitch stream (AHnecdotes | Bus Grudges and How NOT to sneak into a film) on some FAHn art. The sketch was drawn by the lovely fah\_sketched on Instagram, quoting “Love this ❤️❤️. Honoured to be included!! 😂😂” confirming the up-to-that-point unknown identity of "the friend that cannot lie".

In early 2020, Hog was in 2 campaign ads for his friend (you can see them in our page Guest Spots)

### Websites & Phone Numbers

It's ALWAYS worth the trouble of entering an URL or dialling a number mentioned or shown on screen in a Foil Arms and Hog sketch. We'll collect some of the best examples below!

#### How To Stop Worrying

This sketch (premiere date 16 Jan 2019) was essentially a fake ad for a call agency, so obviously they had to have a phone number appear on screen.

#### The Vaccine we REALLY need

This sketch (premiere date 7 Jan 2021) included an Irish government website address, which was mounted to the front of the speaker's desk (made by the FAH prop department aka Hog). It was revealed by slow zoom out just as the relevant (punch)line was dropped by the Hog character.

Several viewers tried navigating to this website of course, but because it's an .ie extension they obviously could never have made a fake one. Shame. To one of the Facebook comments, Arms (or Hog) replied in gest:

## The Museum of FAH & FAHnart

Some sketches (and outros) have all sorts of **FAH-related pictures and posters** in the background. Sometimes it's intentional, sometimes they simply hadn't bothered to turn their office into a set, and a Fringe poster just happened to be 'in shot'.

## FAH: The Great Educators

This is has evolved into a running gag by now (2020), but FAH sketches have been featured in both an English textbook and a dictionary entry, which is absolutely FAHntastic of course!

### Sensodyne Parody Commercial: a lesson in satire

Someone stumbled upon this question in an English textbook and mentioned it in the comments underneath the lads' FAHrchive upload on Facebook.

*Arms continued in the comments:*

I'll try and see if I can answer the questions... I mean if I don't know, how could those poor children.

* **Question 1**: Why do you think the dentist keeps referencing the fact that he is a dentist - **Answer**: Because he is a dentist
* **Question 2**: What makes the advertisement funny? - **Answer**: Because it was filmed by a cameraman who was undoubtedly drunk
* **Question 3**: What features of a real advertisement can you identify in this - **Parody Answer**: Bad graphics, The Science Bit and definitely real dentists

### Dictionary references

The Great Educators have been quoted in A Dictionary of Rhyming Slangs (2017) by Antonio Lillo and Terry

Victor, published by De Gruyters. One of the authors tweeted the news to the lads the same week the dictionary was released (it seems they have been quoted for their Modern Rhyming Slang sketch).

Foil Arms and Hog also have an entry in **Urban Dictionary**. Do you agree with the definition?

## Fun & FAHck-Ups with Flags!

When something about a sketch is ever so slightly off, you can count on the comment section to point it out, and on FAHns to slag the lads for it! More often than not in FAH sketches, the FAHck-up has got something do to with flags!

In the outro for The Snob, the lads held up the **flag of New Zealand** when plugging their Australian tour. They noticed (got alerted to) their mistake however and simply cut the outro on YouTube at the point where they were about to reveal the flag. Sadly, Hog's silly plug of a non-existent Chinese Tour, complete with matching flag, fell victim to the cut as well. Luckily, the uncut Facebook upload still exists!

In **Getting Past Irish Immigration** (5 Aug 2021), the Facebook upload shows the original video whereas the YouTube and Instagram versions were **flipped**.

Arms started off by denying the whole thing, posting a flipped version and commenting:

> I've no idea what you are talking about"
>
>

To a commenter asking whether there were extra points for noticing that YouTube version is a mirror version of the Facebook version, he snarked that you can trade them for cash at your local supermarket.

But then finally shed some light on the matter: