Step inside the pitch meeting that led to Sharknado!
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Jaws is known as one of the best movies of all time. So if a studio upped the stakes by a million percent, that should be even better right? What if thousands of sharks were caught up in a tornado and started eating everyone?
Sharknado raises a ton of questions. Like why does it exist? Who thought that such a high concept movie would work with such a low budget? Why is it alway sunny during this hurricane? How are these sharks alive? How will dropping bombs into tornadoes help at all? Why did that guy just dive inside a shark with a chainsaw? How is it possible that that’s the same exact shark that ate his friend in the middle of a tornado?
To answer all these questions and more, step inside the pitch meeting that led to Sharknado! It’ll be super easy, barely an inconvenience.
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"What are the odds that this will make any money?" "50%. Either it does or it doesn't"
Math equations are tight
thats brilliant
@@cashmancool2879 Don't you mean methematical equations?
I actually for a minute thought it was from 69 years ago
@@certifieddumbass7110 me too
Sharks seeing tornadoes in the movie: well if he’s in I’m in
If he's in, I'm in.
@@SethanderWald, if he's in... I'm in.
Well, if he's in........ I'm in
Call backs to previous videos are TIGHT!
Hey that's from that other thing!
This might be the first time a Pitch Meeting sketch might have actually been 100% accurate to the real pitch meeting for the movie.
First time? 😂
Yeah. He even quoted everyone word for word in this one! Complete with that spider attack. I should know. I was off screen! ... Wait, aren't you that drunk guy from the pier?
Yeah that movie is tight. No really, it’s so bad I think the only thing that drags people to see it is that the title sounds intriguing.
Today I learned that "peer reviewed" has a much different meaning than I thought. This channel teaches me so much.
Pier reviewed
Well you either learn or don't, so 50%, that's how math works.
"The story, script and CGI are really average at best" "That's because money is TIGHT"
"Well OK then."
bugjuicer oh are you having financial troubles?
It was SUPPOSED to be bad! Like Deep Blue Sea.
Quite literally
I see what you did there! Lol
"What sparks the explosion?" "Just you know, life." "That'll get ya." 2020 in a nutshell.
Facts tho 😂😔
@@mattstorm6568 Everyone regardless of political affiliation agrees that 2020 is a mess; they just think it a mess for different reasons.
Matt Storm Bruh, literally nobody on this thread is going down the road you are referring to. The first comment was made days ago, and nobody made it into what your trolling about.
@@mattstorm6568 it's like you wanted this to become a political discussion, and if it did you would say "see i told you." When in fact you would have instigated it in the first place. Neither the comment nor the replies suggested or warranted anything political, it was just a joke about the year of 2020. You are the only one here it seems that wanted it otherwise, please do not push your intentions and call it "the norm." Thank you and have a nice day.
@@mattstorm6568 holes* Like i said have a nice day
Pier reviewed/peer reviewed is one of the most underrated puns in the history of Pitch Meeting.
I usually love Pitch Meetings but the "peer review" joke was an absolute classic!
Oh, young jedimaster...actually, it's a "pier review". Much to learn do you have...
You're using the word "but" wrong
And you hate absolute classics, I take it?
I was expecting the paper to be yellow and dripping.
Saying 'but' here implies you DON'T love "absoliute classic" jokes.
I'm glad they finally increased the Pitch Meetings budget. That CGI spider attack was insane!
"How did they fend off the spiders?" "Unclear" "Fair enough"
Yeah, but they only increased the budget up to Sharknado's level.
@Kyler Rodgers I think you'll find they actually bite
That was CGI?
It scared me
"What are the odds?" "50%, either it was or it wasn't" Those are some Schrödinger's sharks.
Quantum Meth
😂😂
Reminds me of my airtight logic about speeding: If you drive twice as fast, you're half as likely to come across a bad driver.
@@alexanderkilburg7415 Aren't you just as likely to come across a bad driver? You'll just pass them twice as fast
@@dipdop9734 You are missing and ruining the joke. His analogy was better.
Honestly I respect the sharknado makers for having the balls to come up with this thing
and they made 6 of those 😂
@@theparadoxgamingofficial369that’s the killer for me lol who tf watches these things enough for them to make 5 sequels??😂😂
@@jordancave3089 well i did 😆😆😆 They are good for a laugh. Nothing more.
@@jordancave3089 These 'so bad they're good' movies are a true gift from God, the clincher though is can't want to make one, that never works
They will never be ‘fin’ished
The scary part is, at one point this movie was actually pitched to an executive in real life and he green lit it… Let that sink in
Six times actually.
I don't want to let it sink in, because there are SHARKS down there.
I've often wondered if at the Syfy channel they occasionally get an actually good script on their desk and the executive is like "well, yeah, it's pretty good but where's the humiliation for everyone involved?"
If you only new how the asylum worked...
Not really tho. This is a low-budget parody movie done badly on purpose. The pitch is "let's make a shitty movie", literally.
“50%, either it was or it wasn’t” I have never, ever laughed so ugly in my life Genius
Best line. I'm stealing it.
fantastic, I'm learning so much
Yo I was too lmaoo 😄
Best line ever, also stealing it.
Agreed. That was gold. And it is funnier because in real life that is how people miss use statistics.
"What are the odds?" "50%, either it was or it wasn't" Omfg that's an instant legend 🤣
I told that to my math teacher when he asked what the probability was of two people of a group that have birthday on the same day. I felt smart back then.
I have felt challenged in probability so much that this made sense even though it shouldn't
Technically in a binomial distribution it is. Either it's one outcome or the other so he is right and it math.
Lmao this guy's a genius
Also, that is exactly how "METH" works.
0:05 “I completely understand. Thanks for your ti- WAIT, YOUR LISTENING?”
This pitch meeting is some of your finest work, in an already excellent catalogue. One of the things I loved about this movie was the climactic battle at the end, with the sharks swirling around in the tornado eating people, and then - when the hero kills them with a handgun - falling out of the tornado. As if they had been intentionally flying whilst alive.
Can we take a moment to appreciate that this could have been the final episode of Pitch Meeting if they hadn't managed to fight off the spiders?
@Stellvia Hoenheim 😂😂
@Stellvia Hoenheim I find spiders in my home all the time, it adds up.
Legend has it they’re still lurking just off screen
how can you know they are not spiders in human costumes?
You sure they weren't sharkders?
My son is autistic and is doing extended school year online. He was doing math problems on Zoom with his class and said to his teacher that the problems were "super easy, barely an inconvenience." At times he would throw in a "yeah yeah yeah yeah."
Making pitch meetings for all the Sharknado movies would be tight. Also, I'm so glad you finally did a pitch meeting for Sharknado - if any film deserved the pitch meeting treatment, it was this film. Made me so happy to see this in recently uploaded.
He is the chosen one.
How do you know that?
@@mantonythe1st Why did you wrote this comment as an answer to another comment?
Same
Shark ado is such a classic, you know everyone involved was just dying laughing at the script reads and the fact that they’ve made like 6 sequels and they get more and more ridiculous is just epic
This was absolutely hilarious. That spider attack was insane
"Is that how meth works?" When people ask how this movie was possible.
The movie is pier-reviewed, so they should approve. Also, it got EIGHT wows from producer guy.
StarWarFan yeah, that’s The Point Of The Video
Being on meth is tight!
@@Grasslander Eight is the number of legs on the spiders that they had to fight! Wow wow wow wow wow wow wow. Wow
No, meth is how the grips work.
"What are the odds?" "50%. Either it was or it wasn't" The elegance of mathematics here is astounding.
I think you mean methemetics
You mean Methamatics.
@@acidic_pasta_sauce906 lol
@@liammckinley2976 🤣
Methematix you mean?
5:18 That advanced statistics lesson was tight!!
This is more Sharknado than I’ve ever seen, and it’s going to stay that way. Perfect.
I’ll keep that in mind for a rainy day.
Its good bro! just flat out ridiculous
Seeing Matt Layer getting eaten as Al Rocker was trying to kill the shark was worth the whole movie sequels right there! All Roker's "sharknado" forecasts was my ultimate favorite bit from the entire series.
"What sparks the explosion?" "Just...you know....life" "That'll get ya" That sums up 2020
.... yeah.
The film secretly takes place in 2020.
@@WesMordine This makes total sense....That explains so much
Every movie in the 90s especially Michael Bay lol
Went looking for this comment. It was super easy ... barely an inconvenience :)
"It's called Sharknado" "I'm listening.." "I completely understand, thanks for your- Wait, you're actually listening!?" Is probably the most accurate part of this entire pitch XD
I guess cus I summed it up so well, there's just nothing more to say :P
@Halo fan Thanks~
It actually had a lot of potential. It should have been a comedy. You know, on purpose.
@@Arigator2 it was
He literally roasted the movie Lol
Never thought I’d see Sharknado, but now I’m compelled. Thanks, Writer guy and Producer guy! 👍
It actually IS a hilarious movie. you just have to complete suspend your sense of reality. entirely.
The quick, subtle jokes are by far my most favorite part of this channel
"Here's the pitch... Sharknado!" "Shark NATO? A union of Atlantic rim nations formed to combat a giant alien shark invasion?" [hides script] "Yes sir!"
With the tagline Pacific Fin
That would fit perfectly inside the DCEU. *Waterman 2: Time for Negotiations*
Not gonna lie. If it has a ton of horrible cgi effects, I'd watch it!
A much better movie
Does NATO get eaten by sharks? 'Cause I, um, I want to see that movie.
"It must be hard to carry a KZhead channel alone." "Actually, super easy, barely an inconvenience."
And his own channel too!
That's the thing the guy says😆😆
“You back must hurt from carrying screen rant” “Yeah yeah yeah”
Wow wow wow wow wow wow
Oh yeah this is screen rant I keep forgetting
Man... almost 3 years and this is still my favorite pitch meeting. Your greatest work IMO lol
I’m rewatching too 😂 so damn funny.
You have to come back to good old classic pitch meetings from time to time. One of my favourites!
"It's called Sharknado" "Okay I'm listening" "I completely understand thanks for your tim..wait you're listening??" Lmao that's great
"What are the odds?"" "50% Either it was or it wasnt." This sounds like a line from a terry pratchett novel.
The Terry Pratchett line is actually "One in a million, but it just might work." I think it's "Guards, Guards", definately one of the City Watch books. Then there is this discussion according to which chances of one in a million always work, but let's hope its not 1:999,999 or 1:1,000,001 because then they'd be in real trouble.
@@countluke2334 Yes you are right, but also am I. Both versions appear in the books. (im just reading throiugh all of them^^)
@@countluke2334 Damn you I wanted to comment the same (only 5 month late, what are the odds?)
its like pastor's line from young sheldon
that's how to calculate odds when buying lottery tickets - 0% if you don't buy, 50% if you do
My dad used to love these movies. Now I kind of want to watch them just to feel close to him. I still miss him.
One positive from 2020 is there was a Sharknado marathon on TV so I watched the entire series. May never have even watched the first one otherwise. The over-the-top events in these movies were a great stress-reliever. Would love to see Ryan do pitch meetings for other movies in the franchise when things get really crazy.
“that’s the name of the movie” gets me every time
Also really enjoy "he was in the first movie!"
"Roll credits!"
You know what geta me every time? Ass. I love eating ass. The rib meat is the best.
“Roll credits” *ding *
"that doesn't seem possible" "Yeah, I know it's going to be great." "I mean physically." "Yeah, he takes him down physically."
LOL xD
An excellent spin on the "barely an inconvenience" running joke 👏
I think of all the Producer/Writer duos we've seen in this series, these two get along the best.
"What sparks the explosion?" "Just, you know life." "That'll get ya." That actually got me. 😂
life
In 2020 I wouldn't be surprised at all
It always does😂
he wasnt wrong
Bro, my luck is so damn bad. If that happened to me, I wouldn't even bat an eye.
"And then they run away from a giant ferris wheel." "Can't they just run to the side?" "No because all of these characters have graduated from the Prometheus School of Running Away From Things."
With Honors!
Quoting other awesome movie channels is tight!
The "Prometheus School of Running Away From Things"
Still waiting for the Pitch Meeting for Prometheus! And Alien Covenant!
Ding!
I want to see a pitch meeting for EVERY ONE OF THE SHARKNADO FILMS!!!!
This is my favorite pitch meeting of all time 😍😍 Don't know how many times I've watched it 😁 "You're not wrong" 😂😂
This should have started with, "So you have a TRAVESTY for me?"
Yes sir, I do.
@@chasehedges6775 "The title is Sharknado!" *Wow this already sounds awful, let's make it!*
"Unfortunately sir, I do"! I'll never understand HOW they are able to keep making these"
This movie must be the stupidest stuff of all time🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. The house is flooded but the streets are dry, sharks can fly now and breath on dry land, life ignites gas tanks...lol
Pirates of the Caribbean 2 and 3 have so many plot holes it might be the funniest one you Ever do.
‘That is technically “pier reviewed”.’ 😂 I love it
Omg pier I get it now thank you 😂
so funny. this is really intelligent humor. I do love Pitch Meetings for that very reason. They have taken movies I would never have been interested in and made them very watchable for me. Pitch Meeting with Ryan is Tight!!
That joke is genius xD I realized it when he mentioned the junkie at the pier.
@@thegrayyernaut ...or "drunk guy." Either way ;)
I want a pier reviewed tshirts
Never lost it this early in a Pitch Meeting 1:10 🤣
My personal favorite was Sharknado 2, especially that moment when Finn lifted his gold chainsaw in the air while giving a speech and straight up gutting a shark!
"50 percent, either it was or it wasn't!" *screams in monty-hall problem*
BONE?!
Booooonnnnnee!!!;
Schrodinger agree's 50/50
Why does this movie fit as a Pitch Meeting so well?!
Probably because of the low production value
I don't know.
Romain Savioz I think u mean VERY HIGH production value
@@football4life85 oupsie
@Kyler Rodgers 🤦🏻♂️
Probably the most accurate pitch meeting yet.
"Fifty Percent. Either it was or it wasn't." Best Pitch Meeting joke yet
I love how he proceeds to hold up the ‘Scienk’ paper for the rest of the pitch. Until ‘Meth’ came along.
Meth definitely provides a logical explanation to why Sharknado got made
Pretty sure this movie wasn't even gonna get made...until meth came along
I love eating ass. The rib meat is the best.
This made me want a Dragonball: Evolution Pitch meeting so bad. These pitch meetings for the horrible movies are top-notch
@Wrong Think you're not missing anything
the poor guy had to sit through cats and the emoji movie don't make him sit through another abomination
@Wrong Think Man your blessed
that would be cool but id have to bang my head on the wall a few times so I can forget it again .
I thought it was only me. That it was just extra awesome because I'm drunk.
Screen rant is my favorite KZhead channel because of this man and the pitch meetings. Absolutely simple and brilliant.
It always gets me the : " I don't know !" " fair enough" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
"Just, ya know... life." I think we found a new Pitch Meeting meme
Yep
Life uh.., life finds a way
PLEASE! MAKE IT HAPPEN
Great idea. Im in.
@@ingydegmar2060 well if he's in I'm in
4:31 “wow what sparks the explosion?” “just- you know life” “that’ll get cha”
Yep, that IS what he said!
Noah Carriere it sure is
Truer words have never been spoken
Karen The kat ZON you get it
will you respond to this 2 years later
I love his enthusiasm when he is like your listening for real
I definitely want to see this movie now! The pier review joke is just so good 😂
The more "wow's" I hear the better my day gets.
Wow wow wow.
Wow wow wow wow.
woww
Wow wow wow!!!
Wow wow wow wow wow wow wow Wow wow wow wow wow wow wow Wow wow wow wow wow wow wow Wow wow wow wow wow wow wow Wow wow wow wow wow wow wow Wow wow wow wow wow wow wow Wow wow wow wow wow wow wow Wow wow wow wow wow wow wow
"Ya know, life." "That'll get to ya." mood for all of 2020
This one is soo ridiculously funny, i guess it helps that the movie it self was so far fetched 🤣🤣
The guy that goes down in ankle deep water is frickin hilarious😂 Even with no budget, just go 100 feet back til it’s like 4 feet deep
"That is technically "pier" reviewed." 😂 Ryan doesn't fail.
"What sparks the explosion?" "Just you know, life." "That'll get ya." 2020 in a nutshell.
He could also have had it be reviewed by a guy who was peeing, and then it would have been peer reviewed. And it's not perfect, but he could also have had it reviewed by a peeping tom, and then it would be peerer reviewed.
You’re not wrong.
I love this one because it's got such a happy ending. The writer with no credibility finally realized his dream of selling a Sharknado script, and the producer with no money finally realized his dream of getting money.
And they both learned about scinenk and meth! Two very important things
@@brantleyhester6641 wowowowowowowowowowowowow...wow
"You're not wrong" should be one of his go-to lines for Producer Guy.
My father's usually not one for comedies, but we really bonded over watching this whole series!
The house being flooded and full of sharks inside, when there's no flood outside, was even dumber and more senseless than tornadoes dropping hungry sharks on people. Especially since the house was ON A HILL!
scienk and meth proves that
@@Eisinas I'm sure there was a lot of meth involved while writing the script. And multiple scienkists.
If you are going to get technical...
Look man, what do expect from you a film written whilst using the butt end of a loaded revolver to smash up meth rocks and snort them?
I don't KNOW.
I never thought that "pancake sharks are TIGHT" would be a sentence I would ever hear or be cheering at but here we are
More likes would be tight!
When he said this line it felt like he was in a real rush to get this done like it wasn't worth his time lol.
Do you usually think about sentences you could possibly hear one day?
😂😂😂
Well, you can't go wrong with a wobbegong. It's rhymes, so it's true.
This one so cheered me up after a crap day at work! Thanks.
“I don’t have any money, is that going to be an issue?” “Actually it’s not easy, definitely an inconvenience.”
Is there a pitch meeting for "Snakes on a Plane"? Because there should be.
What are you doing here?
^^ This
Omg yes!!!!!
omg please do snakes on a plane!!
Will it be hard to come up with a pitch meeting for Snakes on a Plane? Actually it'll be super easy, barely an inconvenience
The fact that the Sharknado franchise is 1. a franchise and 2. still going strong is something that I'm amazed about.
Money
And they are so bad they are awesome
There's 6 of them. And it's incredible
@@adelucas4824 exactly
@@gummysnacksandknives9229 wait, there are 6 of them? Really? I knew about only two, damn, but then again theres like 100 fast and furious so it makes sense
"What are the odds that that was the same shark Nova fell into?" "Fifty percent. Either it was or it wasn't."
There is so much awesome in this pitch meeting, I literally can't even
When he jumps into the shark with a running chainsaw and succeeds in killing the shark, how does he NOT also kill the girl?
He had a 50% chance of saving her.
Because
Its life
Scienk.
Unclear
"Its peer reviewed." "Multiple scientists looked at that?" "No, I showed it to a drunk guy on a peer." I have never, ever, laughed so hard in my life.
*pier If you look (peer) at it, your way of spelling it a...peers to be correct. Oooh. Oooh. "There is no I in peer review. Well, in the peer part anyway. And review has We. But backwards"
I almost choked on my lunch at that. Brilliant.
Pier homonyms are tight!
Best science joke I've heard in years
Technically pier reviewed
I love how producer guy even looked entertained and supportive of the pitch in a meta sort of way lol nice touch
This is one of your best! THANKS!
“That’s the blood of a man that was alive a few seconds ago” “Yeah perfect time for a period joke”
"Disrespecting the dead is TIGHT !"
Should also have a dick joke inserted in there
Yea we all saw the video actually
@@PiOfficial ok? He was just commenting his favourite part I of the video
@@brotherhoodofsteelsoldier1356 no he was just directly copying the video we saw and putting in the comments in some gay attempt at scoring internet points
Scienk & Meth: These two papers contain the sum total of all human knowledge.
Knowleg*
That's like two books I read that contain the sum of human knowledge: "What They Teach You At Harvard Business School", and "What They Don't Teach You At Harvard Business School".
3rdAlbum underrated comment this needs more likes
3rdalbum haha that may or may not be what I was thinking of
@@3rdalbum Theoretically true
The 'pier review' line broke me. 😂This is a glorious episode!
The “math” paper spelled “meth” killed me 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I’m mad that the “fin” joke hit me at the same time as it hit him
Like a fish outta water?
wowowowowowowowowowowow...wow
Bass went unnoticed though.
You know they're the same guy right.
@@jobri5688 Why are you telling me this as if that isn’t extremely obvious?
"How did this script make it to production?" "Unclear" "That works"
"I don't know" "Fair enough"
Yeah
I just started binge watching these, i love it!
This video as a whole is probably my favorite thing
“What sparks the explosion?” “Life” “Life will do that”
*Bro that's so deep it has me in tears*
Life, uhh, finds a way
That'll getcha
The amount of times producer guy says “why” perfectly sums up this movie
I don’t know this movie, but this was one of my favorite Pitch Meetings
Brilliant! Pier reviewing part cracked me up!😂
"50%, either it was or it wasn't." No joke, a teacher friend of mine was telling me about a student of his that made that argument.
It is a good argument!
@@superbeltman6197 50%, either it's ''you're'' or it's not!
@Ridwan Ademola it depends on the question. If someone asked what is the probability that she was in the shark then it is 50/50. She either is or isn't. But when you ask what are the chances of finding the exact same shark that she was swallowed by, then you consider all the other sharks.
Without prior knowledge, the only unbiased choice is indeed 50/50 - we might however use Bayesian statistics to infer better estimates by chainsawing a few more sharks
@Ridwan Ademola I did some research and either sharks don't have territory or it is inconclusive depending on sourse
"Why aren't they running to the side a little?" "Well, they went to the Prometh... wait this is not my script"
I also thought that would have been a nice crossover haha, setting up the KZheadverse
I heard that automatically in my head too. PM, Honest Trailers and Everything Wrong With videos have ruined me forever. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
For those wondering what got cut off, "They went to the Prometheus school of running away from things." Which is not actually said in the cinemasins video on Prometheus AFAICT.
@@njnjhjh8918 Literally every movie director went to that school though TBH
God damn I completely forgot about Cinemasins. After he just started reuploading old videos I stopped watching the channel.
This was the most hilarious of all the pitch meeting, imo; or may be the movie itself was generous enough to give grent contents for humor 🤣 anyway loved it, thank you ❤
"Suspension of disbelief" was taken to a whole new level with these movies.
"You're not wrong" hundreds of minutes of cinemasins "Prometheus school of running away from things" comes to mind.
OMG that was tight. 😂
That was a tight crossover coming to mind
@@fletcherbrown2776 wow wow wow wow wow. Wow.
Jurassic Park took it in a whole new direction with Prometheus School Of Climbing Away From Falling Things Added a whole extra dimension
And who can forget the Game of Thrones running away in a straight line... do not deviate!
That was about 15 “wows” for the Finn pun, that’s high praise.
Andy Sambergs Nic Cage wants to know why he’s not in this movie!
He heard the actor there got fed
I don't understand how the wows get me every single time
Wowowowowowowowowow
"What sparks the explosion?" "Just you know, life!" "That'll get you."
I could only imagine this pitch meeting and it didn’t disappoint