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Dead Pilots Society

Bonus: Top Five Funniest Openings in Dead Pilots Society History - Number 4

Dead Pilots Society

Ben Blacker and Andrew Reich

Tv & Film, Dead Pilots Society, Tv Pilots, Tv Reviews, Andrew Reich, Documentary, Comedy Interviews, Comedy, Ben Blacker, Sitcoms, Society & Culture

4.6563 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2026

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

As a special bonus for MaxFunDrive 2026, we bring you the top five funniest openings in Dead Pilots Society history, as voted by the DPS staff. It was a challenge to narrow it down to just five, but that just means you’re getting the best of the best.

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You know the thing and no one picked up your thing

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And so you buried the thing

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That's not the end of the thing

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Don't you like eyes yet there's a spooky surprise

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And though you cannot revise

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And nothing ever really dies.

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Okay folks, it is Max Fun Drive. We're continuing to bring you the top five funniest dead pilot openings in Dead Pilot Society history, as voted on by the staff of Dead Pilot

0:50.5

Society. That staff being me, Ben Blacker and Britt Robes Show. Today we are bringing you

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number four. And before I tell you what it is, I got to remind you why we're here. And that is

1:01.6

to ask you to please become a member, become a part of the Dead Pilot Society family by going

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to maximum fund.org slash join dead pilots and becoming a member for

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as little as $5 a month. You'll get access to tons of bonus content, all the video from our

1:18.1

reads, and you'll just have the good feeling of being part of this wonderful thing that we do here.

1:24.3

All right. The number four pilot is Spacebound by Emerald Fennell. That's right.

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Emerald Fennell, writer and director of Promising Young Woman, Saltburn and Wuthering Heights.

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We had her on the show before Promising Young Woman came out with her great dead pilot, Spacebound.

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One of our most insanely great casts.

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As G-456, Carrie Mulligan, as the tall man, Rain Wilson, as round man, someone who pops up in a lot of this top five, Mr. Craig Kakowsky, as the barista, Marcus Bishop Wright, and as the obnoxious guy, another dead pilot

2:03.3

society regular Greg Santos. Also later in this episode, we had Max Greenfield and Sam Richardson

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and Richard E. Grant. I mean, come on, people, isn't this worth $5 a month that we can bring you dead pilots from

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writers who go on to win Oscars and direct blockbuster movies and, you know, with cast,

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with Carrie Mulligan and Rain Wilson and Richard E. Grant? I mean, isn't that worth going right

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