While the director asked Rudd to not show the Mac and Me clip, he still went ahead and kept the tradition alive. The host then reminisced about a time Rudd appeared on the show to promote Judd Apatow’s This Is 40. “This is the first time that we even addressed it,” the actor added. One fan even made a mashup of the clips from the many times Rudd has pulled the gag, which O’Brien noted “means nothing” and that there’s not point behind it. O’Brien said that fans have come to expect Rudd’s Mac and Me bit every time he appears on Conan. “I assume the budget was so low that there was this one maniacal laugh that the kid makes and every time in the movie, they just use the same laugh. This team of thugs are trying to track him down, trying to get this baby, and then they cut to the baby fighting a group of men and it’s clearly a stunt little person just beating up these guys,” he explained. “There’s a scene where a baby - I want to say they have this super baby in a lab, I don’t know - and he escapes. He explained that the premise of the 1999 film was that all babies knew “the secrets of the universe and can talk to one another before they turn two, where they forget it and as they start to talk, it goes away.” He added, “Love the idea.
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