Trivia / My Brother, My Brother and Me

• Author's Saving Throw: After an episode discussing furries, where they joked that they should undergo state mandated castration, the very next episode had them apologize to the fandom and admit the joke was in poor taste.
• Creator Backlash: The McElroys have all said on numerous occasions that they don't like their earlier episodes, as they were more insensitive and close-minded back then, and openly warn people against starting from the beginning of the podcast for about the first 100 episodes or so. On a less emotional level, they also mock the terrible audio quality of the early episodes.
• Missing Episode: Because the brothers couldn't think of a concept that would do justice to episode number 420, they decided to just skip it and go to 421. Ultimately they did release an Episode 420, much later, to commemorate the closing of Yahoo Answers (which went read-only on April 20th, 2021, in anticipation of a complete shutdown the following May 4th.)
• Role-Ending Misdemeanor: The podcast used the song "It's a Departure" by John Roderick as its theme song since 2011. This ended on January 3, 2021, after Roderick posted a multiple-tweet story on Twitter the day prior revealing that he made his nine-year-old daughter spend six hours figuring out how to open a can of beans by herself, which got him accused of child abuse. The "#BeanDad" story then led people to look into his old tweets and discover that he made numerous racist, anti-Semitic and ableist statements over the course of several years. The backlash led Roderick to delete his Twitter account, and within mere hours, the McElroy Brothers announced they would no longer use Roderick's music on the show and would be looking for a new theme song.
• Why Fandom Can't Have Nice Things: After a trainwreck series of audience questions in Episode 373, ^note The first "question" was the asker saying that raccoons are actually ghosts of Confederate soldiers, the second was Shameless Self-Promotion for a (now-defunct) podcast, and the third flagrantly disregarded "no bummers" by trying to start a conversation about the patriarchy the McElroys instituted a "best of two" policy to discourage people from treating audience questions like an open mic. As of Episode 406, this has been replaced with audience members emailing single-sentence questions so that the brothers can screen them before inviting the question-asker up to the mic.

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