Honest Teaser - The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) is an episode of the Screen Junkies comedy series Honest Trailers. It was written by Spencer Gilbert. It featured the voices of Scarlet Sheppard, Brian Fisher, David Odom, Joseph Kramer, Ferguson Sauve-Rogan, Michael Schroeder, Rachel Jenkins, Michael Davis, Bryan Forrest, Spencer Gilbert, and Lon Harris. It parodies both the 2025 teaser trailer for the film The Fantastic Four: First Steps and film geeks more generally. It was the fourth of only four Honest Teasers ever produced, and was published on April 25, 2025. It is 3 minutes and 12 seconds long. It has been viewed over 500,000 times.
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Script[]
(the The Fantastic Four: First Steps trailer plays)
Crowd: (applauds)
"Ted Gilbert": Now, folks, we all know the story.
(shows footage from Fantastic Four (2005))
"Ted Gilbert": Fox held the rights to the Fantastic Four.
Johnny Storm (Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer): (with his body covered in rocks à la the Thing) Oh, you gotta be kidding me!
(shows footage from Fantastic Four (2015))
"Ted Gilbert": And they blew it every time.
"Children": (looking at the Thing through a gate) Please don't suck! Please don't suck!
"Thing": How's this? (lifts a Volkswagen Beetle)
"Children": YEEEEEAAHH!!
"Thing": Ha ha ha...
(shows footage from The Fantastic Four (1994))
"Ted Gilbert": This franchise owes a debt to all those failures.
Thing (The Fantastic Four (1994)): It's clobberin' time.
"Ted Gilbert": And while we will never rewatch them, we can finally move on from them.
"Woman": Thank you, Mr. Iger!
"Children": Thank you!
"Firefighters": Thank you, Kevin Feige!
"Ted Gilbert": Disney purchased... the Fantastic Four!
Crowd: (applauds)
Title Card: Marvel (Finally)
"Man 1:" Is that Stark Tower?
"Man 2:" Baxter Building, idiot!
"H.E.R.B.I.E.": *beep boop*
"Thing": H.E.R.B.I.E., how's that trailer hype looking?
"H.E.R.B.I.E.": *boop beep*
(shows the view count on the trailer climbing past 16 million)
"Thing": O-kay! (claps) That's fantastic!
"Johnny": You're a mom.
"Susan": What do you mean?
"Johnny": Everyone's calling you "mother", and he's a daddy.
"Susan": Yes, we are.
"Thing": You're a mom?
"Johnny": Still no Alba.
"Thing": Are you pregnant?
"Johnny": WHAT?!
"H.E.R.B.I.E.": *boop*
"Johnny": I didn't know Jack-Jack was in this movie! (to Reed) And you are gonna be the best dad. Just kidding; we all know how that goes. (to the Thing) You are gonna be the best cousin ever!
Richard "Richie" Jerimovich (The Bear): Cousin!
"Susan": We can do this. Nothing's gonna go "bwaaaaah".
Title Card: This Fiscal Q3
"Man 2": (as the Silver Surfer appears) A girl? Are you f*cking kidding me?
"Silver Surfer": Are you nerds mad I'm a girl in this timeline?
"Susan": Yes, we are.
"Silver Surfer": Your planet is now marked for death.
(shows the Human Torch chasing after the Silver Surfer)
"Man 1": Uh, actually, flames wouldn't burn in the vacuum of space.
(shows Johnny losing his flame powers after entering space)
"Man 2": Heh. I bet you feel dumb now.
"Man 1": Shut up.
"Reed": It's my fault. I'm in too many other franchises. But they're good.
"Man 1": Not all of them.
(shows Pedro Pascal as Maxwell Lord in Wonder Woman 1984)
"Reporter": Is Marvel cooked?
"Reed": ... ... ...
"Thing" and "Johnny": ...?
"Reed": I don't know. There's not enough time.
(multiple articles pop up detailing Marvel's recent struggles)
"Susan": Marvel's not falling off. We will work our effects team to death.
(shows M.O.D.O.K. from Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania)
"Susan": We will smother original films... as a family.
(shows Dom Toretto in Fast X and the Hulk with his son Skaar on She-Hulk: Attorney at Law)
"Susan": It has to be us.
(shows Chris Evans' Human Torch in Deadpool & Wolverine)
(shows the Thing running through a line of concrete pillars)
"Man 1": Okay, this actually looks sick.
(shows Reed stretching)
"Man 1": Eww!
"Man 2": Eww!
"Man 1": Never mind...
"Reed": We will protect you.
"Man 1": Unless you're Jack Kirby.
"Choir": Fanservice!
The Fantastic Four: Please Clap
The honest title for The Fantastic Four: First Steps (Honest Teaser) was ‘The Fantastic Four: Please Clap’. Titles designed by Robert Holtby.
"Man 2": Your mom is so fat...
"Man 1": How fat is she?
(shows Galactus walking through the city)
"Man 2": Yay, Ant-Man!
"Man 1": That's Galactus, idiot!
Trivia[]
Reception[]
Production Credits[]
Produced by: The Warp Zone (@TheWarpZone)
Edited by: Kevin Williamsen
Written by: Spencer Gilbert
Voices:
Scarlet Sheppard
Brian Fisher
David Odom
Joseph Kramer
Ferguson Sauve-Rogan
Michael Schroeder
Rachel Jenkins
Michael Davis
Bryan Forrest
Spencer Gilbert
Lon Harris
