RIP Frisbee: Here’s Why Andy Samberg Hated Seth Meyers’ Dog

“RIP to Frisbee, our OG IG who I was happy to go grey with,” wrote Seth Meyers yesterday after the passing of his beloved dog, a late-night star in her own right. “She was at her best curled in your lap and patient when we dressed her up like a pilgrim. Thanks for 14 amazing years, girl.”

While Frisbee was a frequent guest on Late Night with Seth Meyers, the pooch is best known as the archnemesis of Meyers’ old Saturday Night Live costar Andy Samberg. In an audience Q&A just a few months ago, the late-night host explained just how deep the animus had become. 

“He’s hated my dog since she was little, and now she’s 14 years old,” Meyers told the crowd. “Here’s a true thing he did: I sent our Christmas card — Frisbee’s in it every year — he scratched out her face like a serial killer and mailed it back.”

All of which begs the question: Why? After all, Meyers recently told Amy Poehler, Samberg insists he likes dogs in general. “It’s just my dog,” Meyers clarified. 

Samberg met Frisbee when she was just a pup and took an immediate dislike to her. “That dog looks like a rat,” Samberg said, a position he held firmly to the end of Frisbee’s days. Samberg recoiled when Meyers put the young dog on his friend’s lap, allowing Frisbee to flop to the floor. The relationship went downhill from there.

As a prank, Meyers asked Poehler to break the news to Samberg that Frisbee had died (this was last month, before the actual sad event). Poehler played along on her Good Hang podcast, solemnly informing Samberg that the dog was no more.

“Don’t even play because I’ll be so happy,” Samberg responded. “I will never back off that. That dog sucks, dude.”

 At least Samberg is consistent. Here are a few choice quotes he’s made about Frisbee over the years:

• “Frisbee, the piece of shit.”
• “I'm not one of these bandwagon Frisbee haters. Now everyone wants to hate Frisbee, but I was there at the beginning, hating Frisbee, saying he was an ugly little piece of shit.”
• “I've been walking home in New York, drunk at four in the morning, and seeing rats I like more than Frisbee.” 
• “You now have kids, and I'm like, ‘Why keep Frisbee?’”
• “Freaking little skeleton rat!”
• “Frisbee, it’s all in good fun. You’re a good dog.” (Said while holding up a post-it note that reads, “Frisbee sucks.”)

Samberg’s hatred became a running gag, but to be honest, it seemed like he truly despised Frisbee. And as it goes in many such relationships, the feeling was mutual.