This is without a doubt one of my favorite scenes. Barry thinks he safe but they’re Cleary lying to him. Fred Armisen acts like there’s no tomorrow. Finished with some of the tightest action mixed with comedy I’ve ever seen.

Congrats to Fred Armisen for making a facial expression no one's ever made before.

You can see the exact moment Barry realised: "The FBI are worthless to me, aren't they?"

I love how they preface these assassins with the fact that they have a podcast where they cover shitty gadgets, only for Armisen to get his fingers blown off by malfunctioning gadget pen-gun.

Barry always has this weird vibe of being surreal while also being very realistic. It's hard to explain, but no other show has ever given me this specific feeling.

Bill Hader really knows how to shoot an action scene. Damn, I’m gonna miss this show.

“Directed by Bill Hader” says it all. This man needs to make his own movie

I love how Barry immediately knows that the dude was there to kill him He saw the sweat, the heavy breathing, the death stare, and knew in an instant

2:26 I just love Barry’s double checking and rapid blinking here. He’s just like “is this.. REALLY happening right now and here of all places..?”

You just know this was their 50th take, because Hader couldn't stop laughing at Fred! 😂😂😂

Who else died laughing at Armison only to be shocked by what comes after 😂

The dude in the ceiling is Barry-level. 4 headshots in 2 seconds, and a fifth against a running guy who just entered the room? That's next level.

" You might blush at the idea of being referred to as an egg. I dont-i dont know barry" This show is amazing

This scene completely swept me, one of the best wtf moments in the series. The jarring gore and Barry's grouping on the ceiling sniper was phenomenal.

A ceiling sniper is probably one of the most unique and creative ideas I've ever seen. I'm going to miss this show.

Armisen's face had me on the floor, lmao. It's only episode 3 and shit is already off the rails.

I love how Barry does a double take when he sees the guy hanging from wires, also when he blocks the shots with the steel plaque

I love how the law enforcement in this show are generally incompetent as compared to regular tv cops cliche 🤣🤣🤣

2:03 “It wasn’t my fault! I told you! I told you it’s wasn’t going to work. KILL HIM, KILL HIM!” Also at 2:19 “The pen broke! ):”

This scene is so awesome, I just love how Barry knows that guy is there to kill him.

Fred Armisen blowing his fingers off is the funniest shit I've ever seen

Armisen’s performance in this episode is just perfect. The facial expressions he makes are so disarming. Couldn’t stop laughing

1:51 It's so funny how all the agents step out of the way to let the hitman try and kill Barry lmao

When Fred's rolling into a cameo wide-eyed, shit's about to get real weird.

Barry’s facial expressions and movements from 2:25 to 2:35 cracks me up. They look goofy somehow, almost like he’s a cartoon character.

Hader gives a masterful performance during the action scenes. This is where we see Barry in his comfort zone. He has no emotion on his face, only calculation on how to get out of the situation alive and on top. Killing is second nature to him or it is just his nature. Showing emotions, being human is unknown territory for him and it's scary. So, throughout the season, we keep seeing this side of him pop up to save him from harm, physically or emotionally. And he hates himself afterwards or regrets his action. Kind of like how an addict acts. He is superb in how he portrays this multifaceted character so effortlessly. Praise is always thrown to some shows as being the best that TV has to offer with some performances being heralded as the best ever. But more attention should be paid or should have been paid to this show and Hader's performance in particular.

This show features the best action on television. Unreal.

The payoff of the bit they did at the beginning about the podcast when Fred Armisen pulls out that shitty pen-gun and it just explodes in his hand had me fucking dying of laughter

this scene was so fucking surreal lmfao

2:10 It's very funny how the guy on the roof gets in a bad position and has to move.

No one is mentioning the fact that the guys hired to kill him had a podcast where they try out ineffective gadgets and then Fred Armisen trying the disguised Pen gun blowing up his fingers is like the most intricate Set up and Payoff Joke in this show

I could imagine Bill cracking up in the director’s chair on those Armisen close-ups

Maybe a stretch but I think Barry was okay to die when the guy pulled out the pen but until it backfired he instantly wanted to live again in which he started to run for it as he heard the second round of shots. I think this perfectly illustrates the human nature of survival. That just me tho.

I like how the assassin is scared shitless, he knows Barry is pretty much the Grim Reaper

lmao "me rompio la pluma!" He broke my pen 😂 2:18

Something that I love - and will deeply miss - about this show is how damn good it is at throwing off the scent. Like they have these insane endings that never fail to shock me. But then I'll remember that they laid the groundwork for those endings in the episode, and the middle is so dense and good that I'll forget it ever happened. Like here, The Toro states in the beginning of the episode that those two assassins are killing Barry today. And this scene still shocked the SHIT out of me. That's so impressive for a half hour show.

The little shuffle of the gun moving to Barry's position nearly makes me cry laughing every time.

I laughed so hard at Fred's reveal. Such a well done cameo.

Shit was so fucking hilarious and badass all at once. Everything always ties back in the end in the most hilarious of ways. Bill hader writing don’t miss. Barry was looking like John wick at the end. He still got it😂.

Barry might be a little gullible and clueless when it comes to people genuinely caring for him… but he has great survival instinct

The coincidence that both the writer and director of the movie “Rain Man” are both named Barry is hilarious

The moment Fred Armisen’s face appeared is the hardest I’ve laughed in a very long time. Too good

“Autism be damned my boy can work a gun.” - Fuches

This and the motorcycle sequence last season were really well made

Wasn't expecting Guillermo Del Toro or Fred Armisen,loving the final season so far

The visual comedy of a silenced pistol sticking out of a ceiling tile is golden 😅

‘Barry’ infuses tension, awesome action shots, dry humor, smooth dialogue, and laugh-out-loud hilarious comedy with such finesse.

One of the best scenes I have ever seen in any series. Absolutely insane

Just that last shot with barry stood with gun in hand is enough to tell the audience that he's gonna escape lol. Dude is an absolute monster, but is also such fun to watch in action

Watching season 4 feels like a reward for keeping up with the series all these years.

The best show any SNL character has ever had

Obsessed with the Lynchian vibes of Fred Armisen staring at someone from the back of the room like he's trying to make their head explode

Never has comedy, action, suspense, and drama been blended so seamlessly. There is so much about this show that I love and I could go on all day about the notes embedded in this show. It's an absolute masterclass of writing, directing, casting, adaptation, irony, satire, and more.

The way Hader directs the action scenes in this show is just unbelievably impressive.

This show really does the "short yet effective" action sequences better than any other show out there. The comedic touches are just the cherry on top.

I always love how calm Barry is in these moments of someone trying to kill him

I thought Fred Armisen character knew him from possibly serving together but then I realized the hit hank put out... this scene had me cracking up 😂

If you added a laugh track this would literally be an SNL skit. Bill might’ve hated his time there but god damn he learned some things

The writing for this was so spot on. Being able to identify a threat and change immediately is something that only experience can do. The calm demeanor when Barry identified the threat was perfect.

Best scene....best episode ever!!!

I love Fred Armisen so much and being surprised by a peak goofy Fred Armisen scene made my damn day. Absolutely incredible.

Every cinematic production with any action sequences need to take note of the action sequences in this show. This is top-tier filmmaking, but there's nothing flashy about it! Incredible!

(SMALL SPOILERS) Just realized that Chuy is the last person Barry kills in the whole show

Man I miss this show. Such a great mixture of so many genres. I love how Barry mainly survived by sheer luck due to everyone being so incompetent. Always gave him the opportunity to put his lethal skills to use because they mess up somehow. Only show you'd be laughing during a horrific gun fight.

Barry finds a gun and immediately takes control and handles the situation, great example of PTSD

The guy merc'ing 4-5 people but then somehow getting himself strung up in the wire out of incompetence as he bursts from the ceiling is the funniest visuals I've seen in this show so far.

1:50 i love how instead of trying to disarm the assassin the agents just move out of the way for him to shoot

Armisen totally threw me off in this scene and I couldn't stop laughing at him, so the action surprised me. I had to rewind the scene and watch it again. The cameos for this episode were surprising and fantastic.

Seeing them back together was awesome!

Just got to love how quickly this all devolves into pure chaos. What a great ending.

If the pen gun had worked it would've actually been a really good hit. The guy in the ceiling i think was supposed to clean up the guards and he did his job perfectly.

Some fargo level absurdity. I love Barry ahaha 🤣

Let’s acknowledge how epic it is that Bill got Fred Armison on the show.

Really cool that Bill managed to get Fred into his show and not have it feel like a forced cameo.

The second I saw Fred Armisen I couldn’t stop laughing and knew immediately that he was one of the hitmen referred to in the beginning of the episode and that Barry was in danger

Any time Hader and Armisen are in anything together, it's perfect. I laughed so hard at Armisen's face and knew something awesome was about to happen as soon as he appeared. I'd love to know how many takes this scene took based on how easily Bill always broke on SNL, especially when Fred was in the scene

Man this episode was brilliant. The moment Fuges watching rainman and saying " this is us" 😂 oh my god that was brilliant

YOOOO THIS SEASON IS CRAZY

I love how he keeps peeking at the ceiling waiting for the other assassin

Okay, so I know that, diegetically, Barry's busy squinting at Fred's character trying to figure him out but given how bemused Barry looks in this moment I also desperately want to think that Fred just randomly walked onto the set, one day, and Bill only noticed he was there in the middle of filming the scene - like "Fred?! What the ever-loving heck are YOU doing here?!?!" Honestly? Fred would! 😂

This scene and the Rain Man needle drop had me pissing myself

Kudos for the extended version that put this into perspective!!!

One of the funniest and best action scenes in Barry yet. I laughed so hard at Freds character. That look he gives is so unsettling.

I love this and have watched it a couple times. I still wonder how you hide an assassin in the ceiling of a maximum security prison.

You know I saw this scene online about a week before I started watching the show. Despite that, I STILL laughed my ASS OFF at it like it was new. Ridiculousness at its best!

There are mag dumps, then there are MAG DUMPS From a fundamental perspective, I love that Bill or the showrunners have at least had some light weapons training that really ties it all together with his line of work and backstory. Amazing series; epic scene!

It's how calmly he expressed "he's here to kill me" 😂

Best scene in one of my favourite shows ever I’ll miss it but it’s been a journey

The assassins facial expressions and the way Barry does a double take after leaving the room, like he can’t even believe it’s real and he just looks so confused. This scene was as hilarious as it was awesome

That "shit" is so subtly hilarious and casual at 1:50. This whole scene is magical but that gets me every time.

Omg I can't wait for these bloopers. Bill probably laughed the entire time😂

I live in the scene, how he is being explain to in crate detail how he’s been protecting people for 20 years, and essentially saying that berries in such good hands just as Barry moments later, identifies a terrible threat to him in the room itself, and none of them are keen to seen that threat at all, and they all end up dying because of it. That’s pure comedic genius if I don’t mind saying so. And as far as Bill tactically removing himself from the room as he’s shooting, that’s incredibly great attention to detail. Even in serious gun films, they advance towards the target while using a range weapon. It makes absolutely no sense.

Seeing the barrel have to move around in the vent in order to shoot berry adds such a realness factor to the scene that I just can’t describe but I love so much

This scene was fantastic, hilarious having Fred make a cameo. I just loved how it started off funny, got kinda serious then funny when he blew his hand off, to super serious, then i started dying at Barry's face looking back into the room🤣 too stunned to accept what he just saw

How this show can have so many scenes that are funny, scary, riveting and well done lol this show has evolved into amazingness

Barry - A great antithesis for Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul

Barry immediately being an ace with a pistol is so badass. Scary, but badass.

You might blush at the idea of being referred to as an egg, I don't know..made me laugh so hard I almost pee'd myself

I keep coming back to this because of the way Barry looks around when the cop says his name. It’s just too good.

Great cameos and surprises all around this episode, including the warden… ‘Where the hell is Berkmann? I have People Skills, don’t you see that?!!!’