It’s been 5 months since Severance’s devastating Season 2 finale aired on the 2025 TV schedule, and I nonetheless get excited on the point out of an ORTBO (it occurs extra typically than you’d assume in my home) or once I recall Mr. Milchick’s marching band efficiency. As large of a fan as I’m, I nonetheless wouldn’t have anticipated the Apple TV+ collection to return into play throughout a screening of Zoolander, one other of Ben Stiller’s greatest creations, and but right here we’re, being gifted the musical mash-up I by no means knew we would have liked.
On August 16, a displaying of the 2001 comedy Zoolander was held on the Hollywood Endlessly Cemetery, the place Ben Stiller made a shock look because the titular character — a wildly exaggerated model of himself — to introduce the film. That wasn’t the one bombshell of the night, nevertheless, because the USC marching band then paraded onto the stage led by none apart from Tramell Tillman. Try the wild second on Instagram:
Reward Kier, certainly! As cool because it was to see Tramell Tillman channeling his terrifying Mr. Milchick persona, the ridiculously handsome actor Ben Stiller (as Derek Zoolander) hoped for one thing extra in step with the theme of the night, saying (per Selection):
That’s nice, however that is sort of extra like a Zoolander factor than a Severance factor. So possibly you would, I don’t know, play like a Zoolandery sort of tune?
The Emmy-nominated Tramell Tillman instantly blew his whistle, with the band hanging up the Powerman 5000 tune “Loosen up,” which is featured within the film. This appeased each the filmmaker and the gang, who cheered because the band ran offstage and the film started.
Regardless of Ben Stiller’s contribution to each Severance and Zoolander, I feel it’s fairly secure to say that no person would have ever anticipated a collaboration of the musical sort between the 2. This man’s simply filled with surprises, although, as a result of I actually didn’t anticipate the Severance Season 2 finale to characteristic such an intricate quantity.
After the notorious Music Dance Expertise in Severance Season 1 was probably the greatest music moments of that yr, it was solely pure that Ben Stiller and firm would up the ante in Season 2. They did it in a giant means, with Milchick first buying and selling barbs with an animatronic Kier Eagan earlier than going full band chief with a spirited efficiency to rejoice Mark S.’s completion of the Chilly Harbor file.
If there was any query as to how good Severance’s second season was, simply take a look at the report 27 Emmy nominations acquired by the present and its forged. Not less than we’ll have the awards present to stay up for as we take care of the lengthy wait between Severance seasons.
We don’t but know what Severance Season 3 shall be about, however it would undoubtedly tackle the infuriating determination made by Mark (Adam Scott) on the finish of the finale. Within the meantime, no less than we will proceed to rewatch the primary two seasons with our Apple TV+ subscriptions, and also you by no means know when Tramell Tillman and the USC marching band will present up. Zoolander, in the meantime, is obtainable to stream with a Netflix subscription or Paramount+ subscription.