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| 4 | ''Key & Peele'' is a [[http://peabodyawards.com/award-profile/key-peele-comedy-central Peabody Award winning]] sketch comedy show starring Creator/KeeganMichaelKey and Creator/JordanPeele from the FOX sketch show ''Series/MadTV1995''. The show was the first production of Peele's newly founded production company Monkeypaw Productions, and premiered on January 31, 2012 on Creator/ComedyCentral. In terms of format, it brings to mind a mix of ''Series/ChappellesShow'' and the last two seasons of ''[=MADtv=]''. |
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| 6 | It ended on September 9, 2015 with a total of five seasons. |
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| 8 | Following the completion of the series, the pair produced the film ''Film/{{Keanu}}'' together in 2016, which is usually considered an expansion of the themes present within the show. |
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| 10 | !!''Key & Peele'' provides examples of: |
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| 14 | * AccentRelapse: The two slaves in the Confederate reenactment sketch, played by Key and Peele, drop their ridiculous Southern accents and speak in their normal American accents [[spoiler:as they rob the reenactors at gunpoint after the lead actor almost drops an N-bomb]]. |
| 15 | * AccidentalInnuendo: [[invoked]] This is featured at the end of the "[=McCringleberry=]'s Excessive Celebration" sketch. During the replay of Hingle [=McCringleberry=]'s third excessive celebration penalty, the color commentator inadvertently draws a penis next to the ref's face when he is staring at [=McCringleberry=]'s crotch. The color commentator apologizes to the viewers watching at home. |
| 16 | * ActorAllusion: |
| 17 | ** During Creator/LiamNeeson's guest appearance, the valets go into such a huge fangasm that they ''explode'' -- then reappear as [[Franchise/StarWars Force ghosts]]. |
| 18 | ** The referee in "Rap Battle Hype Man" is certainly qualified for it, [[WebVideo/EpicRapBattlesOfHistory being a veteran of sorts]]. |
| 19 | * AerithAndBob: |
| 20 | ** The "East/West Bowl" skit has names like Ozamataz Buckshank, Beezer Twelve-Washingbeard, Hingle [=McCringleberry=], X-Wing @Aliciousness, Donkey Teeth, and... [[spoiler:Dan Smith]]. |
| 21 | ** Vandaveon and Mike are a pretty deliberate version. The former is sometimes shortened to "Van" in some cases. |
| 22 | * AffablyEvil: |
| 23 | ** Nazi colonel Hans Muller in "Das Negros". Despite being on the lookout for Jews and negros, he is shown to be polite. |
| 24 | ** The black and Hispanic {{Gangbangers}} that appear regularly on the show are mostly goofy and personable. |
| 25 | ** The two robbers who hold up and rob the [[spoiler:Confederate reenactors]] speak to their victims cordially and don't even do anything violent. |
| 26 | * AlienBlood: The aliens in "Alien Imposters" have green blood. |
| 27 | * AllWomenAreLustful: They still go for Tha Incredible Mack, despite the fact that he got shot in the dick. |
| 28 | * AlterEgoActing: Vandaveon and Mike, wannabe Website/{{YouTube}}rs who critique the actual show and give their own interpretation... which can get ''a little'' [[ClusterFBomb fixated]]. |
| 29 | * AlternateTimeline: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5Zdp1RfoyI "Family Matters"]] sketch. Due to Creator/JaleelWhite [[spoiler:being a psychotic, murderous psychic]], ''Series/FamilyMatters'' wound up lasting for another six seasons. It's worth pointing out that the sketch takes place in 1997, one year before ''Family Matters'' got ''cancelled'' in real life. |
| 30 | * AmbiguouslyBrown: [[invoked]] Key, who is biracial. [[PlaysGreatEthnics He uses it to his advantage]], just like he did on ''[=MADtv=]''. In fact, both Key and Peele were born from biracial families (half-black, half-white), but generally Peele tends to just play black characters, while Key has a wider range.[[note]]Mostly if he's not playing a black man, he plays Middle Eastern, Indian [both the Native American Indian and the "from India" Indian], and Hispanic.[[/note]] |
| 31 | * AndIMustScream: [[PlayedForLaughs Played for]] [[BlackComedy dark]] [[PlayedForLaughs laughs]] in "LMFAO's Non-Stop Party", which is about Music/{{LMFAO}} singing about partying nonstop. After partying for more than a week, they try to leave the party, only to find that every way out only leads back to the party and they're unable to escape. [[spoiler:[[DrivenToSuicide They eventually kill themselves to escape]], only to be revived with the party starting all over again]]. |
| 32 | * AngryBlackManStereotype: |
| 33 | ** Luther, UsefulNotes/BarackObama's anger translator. |
| 34 | ** Ironically, the Black Republicans behave more like this. [[GangOfHats Possibly on purpose]]. |
| 35 | * ArentYouGoingToRavishMe: Non-sexual example in the "Auction Block" sketch, where two slaves at an auction become increasingly offended that the slavers ''aren't'' bidding on them, taking it as a personal affront, despite initially claiming that they didn't want to be owned by another person. |
| 36 | * ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: The "Inner-City Wizard School" sketch; the wizard school in question suffers from supposedly stereotypical problems found in typical inner-city public schools. It also apparently has rats. |
| 37 | * AsHimself: Creator/LiamNeeson appears in a sketch to promote ''Film/NonStop'' with the valets. |
| 38 | * AscendedMeme: Luther finally gets to translate for the ''real'' [[http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/04/obama-just-skewered-republican-climate-deniers-epic-anger-translator-rant President Obama.]] |
| 39 | * AteHisGun: Gene, the producer of ''Series/FamilyMatters'', kills himself in this manner. It's uncertain whether Jaleel/Steve psychically forced him to do this or he simply hit the DespairEventHorizon after realizing how powerless he was in the face of a reality-warping monster. |
| 40 | * AttractiveBentGender: In a meta-example, a ''suspiciously'' high number of comments on the Website/YouTube video of the "Meegan, Come Back" sketch are about how well Peele plays a woman. |
| 41 | * AxCrazy: The fighter in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-eJSHoH9Fs this skit]], who crosses over with SoftSpokenSadist. |
| 42 | ** Mr. Garvey, who has an incredibly short temper and will "go to war" with students over names or school clubs, repeatedly threatening to "bust a CLUB up in (Aaron's) butt!" |
| 43 | * BaitAndSwitch: |
| 44 | ** The "Bros Do It Together" sketch has two sweaty topless guys facing each other as they gyrate their hips, with one of them trying to avoid eye contact. The sketch ends with the reveal that [[spoiler:they were trying to break a hula hoop record]]. |
| 45 | ** The beginning sketch of "Parole Officer Puppet" has a news anchor talking about two men who were arrested for domestic violence. It's revealed at end of it that the anchor is actually the sportscaster. |
| 46 | ** "Movie Hecklers" has Key as a guy in a movie theater who continually talks to the screen, saying things like "C'mon, man, what you doin', man, that's stupid," and getting louder and more obnoxious, to the annoyance of a guy and his girlfriend two rows ahead, who think he's just some loudmouthed idiot. Then Key says "Do '''not''' go into a crane shot right now!" and is joined by Peele, who calls out "This movie's got a [''sic''] inconsistent visual language!" The guy decides that they're actually making some good points, although when he tries to join in their cinematically erudite heckling, they're not happy about it. |
| 47 | * BaldOfEvil: The majority of the Neo-Nazi prisoners in the "Bald Brotherhood" sketch, to the point that a rather dimwitted, bald black prisoner thinks they are a gang united around being bald. This gets him beat up by them repeatedly. |
| 48 | * BalkanBastard: Played with: the dueling Albanian and Macedonian cafe owners are trying to be good businessmen, but their old ethnic animosity has combined with their adjacent location and tendency to be confused for the other to make them both unreasonably defensive about the superiority of their own cuisine. |
| 49 | * BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: In one sketch, Peele plays a prisoner guarded by an ''incredibly'' gullible and slow-witted guard. When the prisoner tells him to let him out of the cell, the dimwit promptly complies (repeatedly). Alas the guard's colleagues aren't nearly as dumb and the prisoner is quickly re-captured each time. In fact, the guard even tries to help the prisoner escape a few times, but pulls the alarm -- not because he's trying to sabotage the escape, but because he's just ''that'' stupid. Soon, the prisoner stops seeing these as opportunities but instead as tedious exercises in futility. |
| 50 | * BerserkButton: |
| 51 | ** It's not a good idea to mention the Albanian Cafe across the street to the owner of the Macedonian Cafe and you ''certainly'' shouldn't imply the Albanian kebapi is superior. |
| 52 | ** In "Don't Press the Walk Button", Key's character becomes increasingly annoyed when Peele's character wonders if he really pressed the crosswalk button. |
| 53 | ** Don't [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQrYjOU6qMw hate on the Hathaways]]. Or [[Creator/SandraBullock the Bullocksies]]. |
| 54 | * BigBudgetBeefUp: Sketches like the Obama and Luther ones or "Roommate Meeting" only need one set, compared to "White Zombies" and "Alien Impostors", which not only use outdoor sets but have practical and special effects to boot. Some others like "Les Mis" and "Pirate Chantey" may use just one set, but the costumes and makeup are extensive to say the least. |
| 55 | * BigNo: From "Pizza Order" when Carlos believes that "Claire" was shot and killed. In reality, Wendell lied so he could get out of the awkward situation he put himself into when Carlos tried to ask "Claire" out on a date: |
| 56 | --> '''Carlos:''' [[TheLostLenore CLAIRE!]] NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! |
| 57 | * BitingTheHandHumor: One sketch has a hypothetical meeting between Jordan and his father who refuses to believe that the former is his son until Jordan lets it drop that he has his own TV show. The man then tries to get Jordan to stay until this exchange happens: |
| 58 | -->'''Jordan:''' When I first came in here, you wouldn't even acknowledge that I could possibly be your son. But now, only after I tell you that I have my own show on Comedy Central--\ |
| 59 | '''Earl Peele:''' Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Comedy Central? Get the fuck out of my house! |
| 60 | * BlackAndNerdy: |
| 61 | ** ''Both'' Key and Peele, as several of their skits references and/or parodies TV shows, movies, etc. They also established their nerd credentials early in their careers, when they made an extended cameo in [[Music/WeirdAlYankovic Weird Al's]] "White and Nerdy" video. |
| 62 | ** Wendell. His sketches are full of pop culture references. |
| 63 | * BlackComedy: All over the place. For example, in "Rap Battle Hype Man", [[spoiler:the hype man is so out of control that he has to be put down.]] |
| 64 | * BlackDudeDiesFirst: Inverted in the "White Zombies" sketch. The duo is introduced as the "sidekicks" to a gun-toting white hero played by Kevin Sorbo. He promises to get them out safely and is immediately chomped. It turns out [[spoiler:the zombies are still more afraid of black people than vice versa, much to the duo's indignation:]] |
| 65 | --> [[spoiler:"What was that? They ''seriously'' wouldn't let her eat us?"]] |
| 66 | * BlackRepublican: A running sketch deals with Black Republicans. They are portrayed as having zero individuality and looking and dressing similar: they ''all'' start their speeches by announcing to the others that they're some variation on very angry because of the way black Republicans are depicted as being all the same, and then they ''all'' introduce another of their members as someone who's got some out-of-the-box or iconoclastic opinions but who's worth hearing, whereupon the next guy gets up and makes exactly the same type of speech, and introduces another guest speaker in exactly the same way. And they all have wives who are white. |
| 67 | * BlingOfWar: Invoked. Luther has several chunky rings on both hands so you ''know'' he means business. |
| 68 | * BoomHeadshot: At the end of "Alien Impostors" when Key's character intentionally kills a human after he's given the keys to the latter's Lexus. |
| 69 | * BorrowedCatchphrase: Liam Neeson does this after he meets the valets to promote ''Non-Stop'': |
| 70 | -->'''Valets:''' LIAM NEESONS IN ''NON-STOP'' IS...\ |
| 71 | '''Liam Neeson:''' '''MYY SHIIIIIIIIT''' (valets explode) |
| 72 | * BrainsVersusBrawn: In the "Super Bowl 2015" skit, Key and Peele play two sportscasters who invites a third white sportscaster to give his analysis on the upcoming UsefulNotes/SuperBowl match up between the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks. It becomes quickly apparent, however, that this sportscaster is constantly describing white athletes as hard-working, analytical, cerebral, and intelligent and black athletes as strong, freaks of nature, and potentially {{magical|Negro}}. When Key and Peele's characters ask him to describe then Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson, who is of mixed ancestry, he says "hybrid." |
| 73 | * BreadEggsBreadedEggs: One sketch is about Key's character ending up boarding a plane ''last'', as Peele's character, who is the flight announcer, delays him by going through with every possible combination of old folks, folks in wheelchairs, small children, religious people, military personnel, etc.: |
| 74 | --> "Old religious folks with small military children." |
| 75 | -->[[RefugeInAudacity (an Asian lama with an infant in a navy dress uniform step up)]] |
| 76 | * BreakoutCharacter: Luther has proven to be so popular that he's been briefly revived on Key's talk show guest appearances and even [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kysijp1Qimk his NFL Honors hosting stint.]] Oh, and that White House correspondents' dinner ''alongside the real UsefulNotes/BarackObama''. |
| 77 | * BrickJoke: Throughout Seasons 4 and 5, Key and Peele drive through the Mojave Desert having random conversations that lead into the next sketch. In the final scene of the final episode, they stop the car and turn to each other: |
| 78 | -->'''Peele:''' Is this the place? |
| 79 | -->'''Key:''' This is the place. |
| 80 | -->'''Together:''' ''(beat)'' [[spoiler:I said biiitch.]] |
| 81 | * BriefcaseFullOfMoney: "Counting the Money" has a drug deal where the party receiving the money has a lot of trouble deciding how to count it on-site. One of them [[InsaneTrollLogic reasons]] that if they look up Yahoo Answers for a briefcase with that much money, they can compare it to the one they received, but the resulting picture was one taken by them minutes ago and posted online to ask if it looked right. |
| 82 | * BringMyBrownPants: One sketch has Peele as a gangster claiming he'd soiled himself before they could make their move, and Key as the other gangster claiming that's not normal for an adult. [[OhCrap Until the other gang finds them and point guns in their faces]]. |
| 83 | * BrutalHonesty: |
| 84 | ** Zigzagged in "Apologies" where Key and Peele play two black men in a bar. While there, some white patrons awkwardly approach the duo. [[spoiler:At the end, when the bartender admits that black people makes him really uncomfortable, the men thanks the bartender for his honesty.]] |
| 85 | ** "Sex with Black Men" zigzags this one with a vengeance. |
| 86 | ** Done with Asians in "Roommate Meeting". |
| 87 | * TheBully: Peele plays one that openly voices all of his problems to his victim (as does his father), with Key's character asking why he's so open with his issues and yet still a bully. To hear him tell it, he's afraid that introspection might make him dredge up even more morbid, deep-seated emotional problems. |
| 88 | * CallBack: |
| 89 | ** Obama and Luther have Negraph. |
| 90 | ** In the 2013 East/West Bowl lineup, there a guy named A. A. Ron Balakey. |
| 91 | ** The soccer sketch in Season 3 has a team called the Power Falcons, a nod to the show's {{Sentai}} / {{Tokusatsu}} parody of the same name. |
| 92 | ** In the ''Film/IAmLegend'' parody, Key is jamming to the party song from the "LMFAO's Non-Stop Party" sketch. |
| 93 | ** The bros in "Roomate Meeting" have an Omega Pi Omega banner. Peele also has a Power Falcons T-shirt. |
| 94 | ** Several football-related sketches, such as "[=McCringleberry=]'s Excessive Celebration", reuse some of the more ridiculous names from the "East/West Bowl" sketches, with some lines making it clear they are the same characters who have gone pro. |
| 95 | ** The "Ultimate Cockblock" sketch has a blink and you'll miss it one: the news item being read by the newscaster Peele's character is hitting on is about the Pegasus riot. |
| 96 | ** One sketch has Key and Peele crossdressing as "D-Nice" and "J-Quellin".[[note]]Both names unwillingly given to unrelated characters in the "Substitute Teacher" sketch.[[/note]] |
| 97 | ** A subtle one in the "Pirate Chantey", which includes the words "We don't say bitch...", a possible reference to the Season 1 sketch, "I Said Bitch". |
| 98 | * TheCameo: |
| 99 | ** [[Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys Kevin Sorbo]] appears [[DeathByCameo very briefly]] in "White Zombies". |
| 100 | ** Creator/WayneBrady in the "Reunion of the Human Centipede". |
| 101 | ** Ty Burrell of ''Series/ModernFamily'' fame appears as a Nazi officer in "Das Negros". |
| 102 | ** Paul F. Tompkins of ''Podcast/TheThrillingAdventureHour'' as one of many Republican politicians in a roundtable discussion with U.S. President Barack Obama. |
| 103 | ** Billy Dee Williams of ''Franchise/StarWars'' fame appears in the laundromat sketch. |
| 104 | ** Creator/BrendaSong is the [[CaptainErsatz Purple Falcon]]. |
| 105 | ** Cedric Yarbrough of ''Series/{{Reno 911}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' fame appears in "Pegasus Sighting". |
| 106 | ** [[Series/TheCosbyShow Malcolm Jamal-Warner]] as a royally pissed Black Republican. |
| 107 | ** Music/KekePalmer as Malia Obama's anger translator. |
| 108 | ** [[http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/83722347/ Say]] the [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare Bard]] [[Series/BattlestarGalactica2003 is looking]] [[Literature/BridgetJones very]] [[Film/{{Austenland}} familiar]].... |
| 109 | ** Natasha Leggero and [[WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra Janet Varney]] as the two white women in "Sex With Black Guys". |
| 110 | ** [[Creator/RocketJump Freddie Wong]] in "Roommate Meeting". |
| 111 | ** [[WebVideo/EpicRapBattlesOFHistory EpicLloyd]] as a referee in the "Rap Battle Hype Man". |
| 112 | ** "[[{{Pun}} High on Potenuse]]" featured [[Series/DrewCareysImprovaganza Heather Anne]] [[Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway Campbell]] as the teacher and a cameo in the end by [[Creator/GabrielIglesias Fluffy]]. |
| 113 | ** Creator/JamesHong in the sketch with Peele as the OlderAndWiser wannabe. |
| 114 | ** [[Series/EverybodyHatesChris Tyler James Williams]] as an evil psychic version of Jaleel White in the "Family Matters" sketch. |
| 115 | ** Creator/ChelseaPeretti as the narrator of "Dicknanigans". Also, Creator/NeilFlynn, a.k.a. the Janitor from ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'', appears as a doctor. |
| 116 | ** About a third of the people in the third "East/West Bowl" sketch are actual NFL players. |
| 117 | ** Creator/BoBurnham in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EtalOOS-eM "A Capella"]]. |
| 118 | ** Creator/ErnieHudson as the father in the "Clive" sketch. |
| 119 | ** Creator/RashidaJones is the titular spouse in "Lying to Your Dying Wife". |
| 120 | ** Creator/KateMicucci in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g-s-pghtYQ "Mr. T PSA"]] |
| 121 | * CampGay: |
| 122 | ** PlayedForLaughs and {{deconstructed|Trope}} in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jitocz4kB3k "Gay Marriage Legalized Sketch"]] with Lashawn and Samuel, showing why a pairing of the two really should not be expected: |
| 123 | -->"We gonna rent the moon and fill it with ROSES!" |
| 124 | ** "Office Homophobe" does this with Latrell thinking he's being discriminated against by someone he brands as the titular homophobe, [[spoiler:who turns out to be StraightGay:]] |
| 125 | --> '''Latrell:''' Ooohh! I'm not persecuted, [[HeelRealization I'm just an asshole!]] |
| 126 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtgY1q0J_TQ "Gay Wedding Advice"]]. A family is still in the process of accepting a gay cousin's marriage, and bring in a straight gay man for advice, except all they've learned to expect is a camp gay wedding. |
| 127 | * CaptainEthnic: Deliberately played with in "Power Falcons" -- as Green Falcon notes, despite Key's character being an extremely stereotypical MagicalNativeAmerican, he's still referred to "Yellow Falcon", while the Asian woman in the group is "Purple Falcon"; only Green Falcon himself is condescendingly referred to as "Black Falcon" by the others. |
| 128 | * CharacterCatchphrase: |
| 129 | ** Wendell, the lonely nerd constantly lying about having more of a social life, has a tendency to [[DontExplainTheJoke clarify]] that he has done certain things... ''[[HaveIMentionedIAmSexuallyActiveToday "...sexually".]]'' |
| 130 | ** Meegan, when she's playing the victim: "Omigawwwd.... who DOES that???" |
| 131 | ** The two movie fanboy parking valets' hype for their favorite films and actors inevitably culminates in "[[MadLibsCatchPhrase [Name/Title] ]] IS ''MYYYYYYYYYYY!'' '''''[[LargeHam SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT!!!]]'''''" |
| 132 | * ChekhovsGun: The bucket Peele's character is holding in the Confederate Reenactment sketch [[spoiler:is hiding two guns that he and Key's character use to rob the actors.]] |
| 133 | * ChewOutFakeOut: Exaggerated in the "Gideon's Kitchen" sketch, a parody of Gordon Ramsey's ''Series/HellsKitchen'', has the titular host rapidly switch between insulting and praising his contestant's dish, much to the latter's confusion. Gideon goes back and forth multiple times, which culminates in him murdering the chef while praising his dish. |
| 134 | -->'''Gideon''': Unbelievable. Well Drew, I have a huge problem with this dish.\ |
| 135 | ''(Dramatic sting)''\ |
| 136 | '''Gideon''': It's that you haven't made it for me sooner.\ |
| 137 | '''Drew''': Thank you Chef.\ |
| 138 | '''Gideon''': Because if you had, Drew, then I'd know how good you are at making food... that's bad.\ |
| 139 | '''Drew''': I'm sorry, Chef.\ |
| 140 | '''Gideon''': And when I say "bad", I mean "Music/MichaelJackson bad".\ |
| 141 | '''Drew''': Thank you Chef.\ |
| 142 | '''Gideon''': You know how he looked really, really bad at the end of his life?\ |
| 143 | '''Drew''': Chef... I'm sorry, I don't know if you like the dish or not.\ |
| 144 | '''Gideon''': You don't know if I liked the dish or not? Well let's put it this way, pack your fucking knives, get out, you're off the show.\ |
| 145 | '''Drew''': Sorry, Chef.\ |
| 146 | '''Gideon''': Because... you should be working in the finest restaurant in the world.\ |
| 147 | '''Drew''': Thank you Chef.\ |
| 148 | '''Gideon''': Just not any world that I live in. |
| 149 | * TheChewToy: |
| 150 | ** Key as the TV reporter, who's either on a disastrous helicopter flight, or getting attacked by a dog that's learned how to get around his protective gear. |
| 151 | ** Andre. When he's not getting beaten up or menaced by guys Meegan pisses off, she's manipulating and emotionally abusing him. |
| 152 | * ChildrenAreInnocent: In the "White Zombies" sketch, [[spoiler:the only zombie who actually tries to attack the duo is a little girl, but her parents pull her away]]. |
| 153 | * CloudcuckoolandersMinder: Samuel to [=LaShawn=], as the former has to constantly deal with the latter's lunacy. |
| 154 | * ComicallyMissingThePoint: In "Bald Brotherhood Gang," an inmate played by Key thinks a neo-Nazi skinhead gang is in fact a gang of bald guys who will readily accept him, as a bald guy himself. When they start beating him up because he's Black, he thinks they're simply hazing him and he's on his way to full initiation. |
| 155 | * TheComicallySerious: Legataux in "Les Mis", as he becomes annoyed when everybody interrupts him while he's trying to speak. |
| 156 | * ContinuityNod: |
| 157 | ** The College Bowl Rap Videos (and pretty much all the football-based sketches after that) bring back as many names from the 2013 College Bowl sketch as they can. For that matter, the name "Donkey Teeth" calls back to the "Soul Food" sketch. |
| 158 | ** The "Sexy Vampires" sketch ends with the gothic vampire den remodeled into something more normal, including a TV with the regular "Metta World News" segment playing. |
| 159 | ** The "Tackle and Grapple" coach looks like your regular sex maniac, but is later seen giving actual lessons in another sketch. |
| 160 | ** [[Series/ModernFamily Ty Burrell]] returns as [[Film/IngloriousBasterds "Jew Hunter"]] Muller in Season 4. |
| 161 | ** Season 5 takes this up to ContinuityCavalcade levels, from the followup to the RetiredBadass Wannabe to the return of the Continental Breakfast guy. |
| 162 | * CrazyIsCool: Invoked, deconstructed, and parodied in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDzpzYzp9HE "Loco Gangsters"]] -- when Carlito feels snubbed by the possible induction of Eduardo, an inhumanly fearsome and intense maniac, into the gang, he tries to prove he's the most ''loco'' instead; not only are most of his attempts (such as pretending to be a duck or wastefully collecting multiple punch cards for frozen yogurt) acknowledged as [[CringeComedy outright pathetic]], but his efforts make Eduardo seem even more ''loco'' in comparison. |
| 163 | * CreepyChild: |
| 164 | ** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxwMTAy1gP0 "Baby Forest Whitaker"]] sketch pretty much hits the nail on the head. |
| 165 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5uyq0aMRw0 Liam]], the terminally ill child who says a lot of creepy things: |
| 166 | -->''"I wish... to take all the prosthetic legs in the hospital... and '''bind''' them together... with the dried flesh of the dead... to create a webbed, '''massive''' creature..."'' |
| 167 | * CreepyGymCoach: Sensei Doug Duggart is a non-pedophile martial arts variant. He runs a Brazilian Jiu Jutsu dojo made up near-exclusively of blonde white women (and TheOneGuy), who he suggestively tackles and grapples with and gives "hands-on training" (except TheOneGuy, who he tries to interact with as little as possible): |
| 168 | -->'''Doug:''' Special discounts for college students. |
| 169 | * CursedWithAwesome: The world is being attacked by a ZombieApocalypse in "White Zombies", [[spoiler:but the zombies are racist. The duo are miffed at first, but then get invited to a party where everyone is happy that they're not being attacked.]] |
| 170 | * DemonicDummy: Although [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSDTmJtE-Bc "Little Homie"]] is technically a PerversePuppet, he fits many of the criteria: a propensity for violence and manipulative behavior, appealing to the darker side of others, and autonomy over his master. |
| 171 | * DenserAndWackier: |
| 172 | ** Parodied in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02cSc5a49LA "OutKast Reunion"]], where André 3000's increasingly over-the-top eccentricity is beginning to drive the quiet, average Big Boi up the wall. |
| 173 | ** How exactly did ''Film/Gremlins2TheNewBatch'' turn from silly and outlandish to an outright live-action cartoon? [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x01l_jMhjVM Star Magic Jackson Jr.]], that's how. |
| 174 | * DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: The song in "LMFAO's Non-Stop Party" includes lyrics like "Tonight we gonna party till the party don't stop/And the party don't stop because it keeps on going". |
| 175 | * DestinationDefenestration: One sketch has Peele portraying a husband who finds his wife ReadyForLovemaking, asking him to request his "deepest desires". He starts talking about calling her friend Erica... |
| 176 | * DownerEnding: In the fourth "Substitute Teacher" sketch, a math teacher named Mr. Williams has to deal with a rowdy student named Jimmy. The sketch ends with Mr. Williams losing his job when he goes insane, while Jimmy gets everything he ever wanted. |
| 177 | * DrugsAreBad: Parodied in one sketch in "Scariest Movie Ever". In it, a creepy man tells another man about a drug that is placed under a eyelid and the effects said drug has. When the man tries it, he screams in horror and asks when does it start to work. The creepy man's responds that he doesn't know since he doesn't do drugs. He then turns to the camera and says that drugs are for losers. This followed by a banner that says, "Don't even try it. You'll poop your mouth." |
| 178 | * DudeNotFunny: [[invoked]] The comedian in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlTbJZ64sVM "Insult Comic"]] bases his act around making fun of people in the audience. Unfortunately for him, one of them turns out to be a gay paraplegic burn victim with an electrolarynx. The comedian tries to avoid making fun of him. However, when he finally relents after being pressured to do so, the audience turns on him. An outraged audience member even [[GrievousBottleyHarm brains him with a liquor bottle]], which the crowd ''applauds''. |
| 179 | * DrugsAreBad: One of the StockAesops that the kids in the Mr. T video try to set him up for, only for him to miss it completely because he's trying to teach children not to make fun of his hair. |
| 180 | [[/folder]] |
| 181 | |
| 182 | [[folder:E-H]] |
| 183 | * EnemyMine: Between the Aryan Brotherhood and the non-white prisoners in the "Bald Brotherhood" skit, after both groups bond over beating up Lewis. |
| 184 | * EngineeredPublicConfession: Parodied in "Rap Album Confessions", where Gun Rack has recorded an entire cassette tape's worth of BoastfulRap detailing how he killed Darnell Simmons with [[HandCannon "a long-ass gun"]], the exact time and location of the murder, how his alibi is demonstrably false, and the tics he shows when he's lying. Gun Rack claims it's all just a massive coincidence. [[spoiler:The "bonus track" even reveals that his side girl is willing to take the fall for him, and predicts his quick re-capture.]] |
| 185 | * EverythingIsRacist: In "Office Homophobe", Latrell assumes that any problem someone has with him is because they hate gay people, and not because of his obnoxious behavior. [[spoiler:When he sees that the titular "homophobe" he had been berating for the entire sketch is actually StraightGay, he realizes that he was being "an asshole."]] |
| 186 | * ExtremeOmnivore: [[http://www.comedycentral.com/video-clips/95gxxc/key-and-peele-soul-food The "Soul Food" sketch.]] |
| 187 | * FatBastard: Wendell Sanders is ''[[GeekPhysiques considerably]]'' fat, trying to scam Skymall customer service into refunding his Fortress of Solitude bed that "arrived broken", and ordering multiple pizzas in one night that he tries to pass off as for a party. Part of the reason the "Power of Wings" music video budget runs out so quickly is because he needs to hire a stunt double to ride his horse in long shots, since he's incapable of even mounting it. |
| 188 | * ForegoneConclusion: Possibly. One of the ''earliest'' Meegan and Andre sketches, "Meegan Your Jacket", ends with [[spoiler:Andre following Meegan with her jacket until they collapse in a desolate wasteland where several other boyfriends and their girlfriends have died a long time ago.]] And the last Meegan and Andre sketch [[StatusQuoIsGod has Meegan guilt Andre out of breaking up with her]], so this could still play out. |
| 189 | * ForcedMeme: Discussed in, and ultimately fueling, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He7TnoCM7fo "Pussy on the Chainwax".]] |
| 190 | * ForcedTransformation: [[spoiler:Mr. Mahina]] was turned into a [[spoiler:mop creature]] by a witch. He's not happy about it. |
| 191 | * ForeignCussWord: In the [[https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x43qe3n "Macedonian Cafe"]] sketch, the owner of the eponymous place pulls it off twice. |
| 192 | * FramingDevice: The first three seasons featured Key and Peele setting up the sketches in front of a live audience. Seasons 4 and 5 drop this and instead use scenes of Key and Peele taking an extended road trip through the desert, which ends up in the series finale [[spoiler:as a CallBack to the first episode's "I Said Bitch" sketch]]. |
| 193 | * FreezeFrameBonus: In the "Inner-City Wizarding School" sketch, there are a whole bunch of made-up wizarding school names in a list, many of which can be read by pausing the video. |
| 194 | * TheFriendNobodyLikes: Carlito the proud gangsta. His gang can't ever get rid of him because, really, how do you get rid of someone who God allows to go to heaven but outright refuses it because he thinks heaven is for pussies? |
| 195 | * FunnyBackgroundEvent: Of a sort, more like background commentary. During the [=McCringleberry=] skits, the sportscasters make some bizarre asides as we watch the antics on the gridiron: one even nostalgically talks about vacationing with his family in Bogata and being kidnapped and tortured by a cartel. |
| 196 | * GangBangers: One sketch is about a Hispanic gang in a secret meeting -- which comes after a bit where Key's character claims that one such individual ''intimidated'' him into making more material about Hispanics. |
| 197 | * GangOfHats: |
| 198 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2tLyqfJd54 The Tallahassee Black Republicans]], who continue to insist, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, that they're a diverse group. |
| 199 | ** "Cult Mass Suicide" is about a CargoCult with every member in bowl cuts and the same yellow T-shirt with a big eye on it. Key and Peele play two members who chickened out of the ritual suicide, and try to disguise themselves with jackets over said T-shirts. [[PaperThinDisguise It works, of course]]. |
| 200 | * GenreSavvy: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLnUJzueBOQ "Is This Country Song Racist"]], after Key's character has sung two outrageously racist songs, he promises repeatedly that the third song will be completely non-racist and impossible to misinterpret as such. This is Peele's character's response: |
| 201 | -->"It seems like you're about to sing the most racist song so far." |
| 202 | * GhettoName: |
| 203 | ** All the names in their "East/West Bowl" sketches vary from this to outright being TheUnpronouncable. And then there's the craziest one of all: [[spoiler:Dan Smith, BYU.]] |
| 204 | ** In "Substitute Teacher Pt. 1", the titular teacher has spent his entire career teaching in the inner city, so he assumes ''every'' name is like this, confusing his new class of suburban white kids when he calls out names like "J-Kwellen" (Jacqueline) and "Balakay" (Blake). When the kids correct his pronunciation, he assumes they're trying to play a joke on him because [[YourNormalIsOurTaboo nobody could ever have such silly-sounding names]]. With each correction, he becomes increasingly enraged and hostile, demanding that the kids stop screwing around and say their names "correctly", which culminates in him sending a kid to the principal's office. Finally, he calls out one last ghetto-fied name... and the only black kid in class responds immediately, because it actually ''is'' his name: |
| 205 | --->'''Mr. Garvey:''' A-A-Ron! Where are you? Where is A-A-Ron right now? No A-A-Ron, huh? Well, you better be sick, dead, or mute, A-A-Ron!\ |
| 206 | '''Aaron:''' Here!\ |
| 207 | '''Mr. Garvey:''' Why didn't you answer me the first time I said it, huh? I'm just-- y'know, I'm just askin', y'know. I said it, like, four times, so why didn't you say it the first time I said "A-A-Ron"?\ |
| 208 | '''Aaron:''' ...Because it's pronounced "''Aaron''"?\ |
| 209 | '''Mr. Garvey:''' '''''SON OF A BITCH!''''' ''[pushes everything off his desk onto the floor in anger]'' YA DONE MESSED UP, A-A-RON! NOW TAKE YO' ASS ON DOWN TO O-SHAG-HENNESEY'S OFFICE RIGHT NOW, AND TELL HIM ''EXACTLY'' WHAT YOU DID!\ |
| 210 | '''Aaron:''' ...Who?\ |
| 211 | '''Mr. Garvey:''' O-SHAG-HENNESEY!\ |
| 212 | '''Aaron:''' ...Principal O'Shaughnessy?\ |
| 213 | '''Mr. Garvey:''' '''''GET OUTTA MY GODDAMN CLASSROOM BEFORE I BREAK MY FOOT OFF IN YA ASS!''''' |
| 214 | * GivingRadioToTheRomans: In one sketch, "Congressman Peele" begs the other Founding Fathers not to sign the Second Amendment because of the potential for future massacres. When they laugh at his warnings, he announces he's actually from the future, [[GunsAkimbo draws a pair of MAC-10s]], and [[ThisIsMyBoomstick blows away the Amendment and the table it's laying on]] to make his case. The MAC-10s disappear from Peele's hands in a flash of blue light, but when one of the Founding Fathers audibly expresses his amazement at the destruction wielded by the "muskets" and a second one pulls out a piece of paper to make a sketch of them before he forgets, [[AlternateTechline a pair of nasty high-tech looking weapons appear in place of the MAC-10s]]. |
| 215 | * GloveSnap: At the end of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc_F0zP9usU this one.]] |
| 216 | * GotMeDoingIt: At the end of "Power Falcons": |
| 217 | --> "That's it! Black Falcon out -- GREEN FALCON! GREEN FALCON! DAMMIT!" |
| 218 | * GroinAttack: |
| 219 | ** The "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Shot in the Dick]]" music video by Tha Incredible Mack. |
| 220 | ** The sketch where a news reporter (Key) gets attacked by a dog. |
| 221 | ** The vast majority of "Dicknanigans" features Key and Peele's characters doing this to each other. |
| 222 | ** The African warlord gets a potful of boiling water poured on his crotch. |
| 223 | ** At [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-C9q-Na6_w the end]] of the Georgina and Esther sketch, Esther snaps the devil's dick off while she's possessed. |
| 224 | * HalloweenEpisode: "Michael Jackson Halloween" and "Scariest Movie Ever". |
| 225 | * HardboiledDetective: In "Filling Jimenez's Shoes", Detective Hobbs has a very hard time accepting his new partner, Joshua Taye. |
| 226 | * HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday: "Secret Emotions" features an R&B duo singing. During the performance, it becomes abundantly clear that one of the members is in love with his partner. It ends with him awkwardly doing this after he reveals his feelings. |
| 227 | -->''I've never liked a man in my life before''\ |
| 228 | ''[[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial And I don't like one now...]]'' |
| 229 | * HaveIMentionedIAmSexuallyActiveToday: "Sex Addict Wendell" has Wendell attending ''a sex addicts support group''. |
| 230 | * HeadphonesEqualIsolation: "[=LaShawn=]'s Insurance Plan" ends with Samuel resorting to this in order to drown out [=LaShawn=]'s lunacy. |
| 231 | * HeelRealization: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3h6es6zh1c "Oooooooh, I get it... I'm not persecuted, I'm just an asshole."]] |
| 232 | * TheHelpHelpingThemselves: In "Stan Lee's Superhero Pitch," one of the AuthorTract characters Stan pitches is a villainess named "Overweight Jamaican Maid," whose only notable trait is stealing things. |
| 233 | * HenpeckedHusband: In "I Said Bitch", two husbands brag about the times they called their wives bitches whenever they're being unreasonable...after making sure that their wives are nowhere within earshot. They both get so paranoid that they take the conversation into ''outer space''. |
| 234 | * HighSchoolAU: [[http://www.vimeo.com/channels/keypeele/54162829 Vincent Clortho Public School for Wizards]]. It is essentially a poorer, inner-city version of Hogwarts. |
| 235 | * HilariousOuttakes: The end of Season 5 has a compilation of these. |
| 236 | * HistoricalBadassUpgrade: PlayedForLaughs with the UsefulNotes/HarrietTubman sketch. The real Tubman suffered lifelong fainting spells due to head injuries -- the one here is not only in perfect shape, but able to flee the South using LeParkour! |
| 237 | * HistoricalInJoke: |
| 238 | ** [[http://www.comedycentral.com/video-clips/89gnsm/key-and-peele-speaking-after-mlk-jr- What happened to the guy who had to speak after Martin Luther King.]] |
| 239 | ** [[http://www.comedycentral.com/video-clips/2nmzjn/key-and-peele-ancestry-website Thomas Jefferson!]] |
| 240 | * HurricaneOfPuns: The PrisonRape sketch has a gangster visiting the victim in prison, having no idea about it and unknowingly leading to a hurricane of double entendres. |
| 241 | * {{Hypocrite}}: |
| 242 | ** In "Movie Hecklers", Key and Peele play two movie hecklers who shout criticisms at the movie as it is playing. A woman finds them annoying, while her husband does not mind as much, finding their criticisms to be insightful. When he briefly tries join in, he is then immediately hassled by a theater employee who tells him to be quiet. Who brought him to the employee's attention? ''The two hecklers.'' |
| 243 | ** In the "Bagels are for Sales Associates Only" sketch, Ron is ordered by his boss (Rob Riggle) to make sure only sales associates take in free bagels. However, as Ron interferes with a janitor who tries to eat/steal a bagel, his boss complains to ''Ron'' for being too loud! |
| 244 | ** In Andre and Meegan's final sketch, he tries to break up with her... and [[ManipulativeBitch she]] ends up confusing him into taking it back by accusing ''[[GoodIsDumb him]]'' of being a manipulative and controlling snake. |
| 245 | ** In the "Offensive Boss" sketch, the black man, woman, and gay man get offended by several things their boss says that they interpret as being attacks against their groups. But when he starts reading his dinner speech that he asked them to help with, they find it hilarious when he starts off with a joke about "a Chinaman, a Polack, and an Arab". |
| 246 | * HypocriticalHumor: Purple Falcon and Yellow Falcon are Asian and Native American, respectively, yet have no issue referring to the African American Green Falcon by the racially insensitive name "Black Falcon". When he turns the tables on them, that's when they find it racist. |
| 247 | [[/folder]] |
| 248 | |
| 249 | [[folder:I-L]] |
| 250 | * IAmNotSpock:[[invoked]] |
| 251 | ** Inverted by the valets, who do this sort of thing constantly, whether referring to the Joker as "Heath Ledgers" and the Penguin as "Danny [=DeVitos=]", or talking about "Liam Neesons" as if he himself is the main character of ''Taken''. |
| 252 | ** Played for drama in "Family Matters". [[spoiler:Jaleel White has gone so mad with power that he now refers to himself solely as "Steve", and calls Creator/ReginaldVelJohnson "Carl (Winslow)" in a sadistic, dehumanizing fashion, letting him know that he can't escape.]] |
| 253 | * ImAHumanitarian: The "Soul Food" sketch ends with one of them ordering a human foot. |
| 254 | * IgnoredEpiphany: |
| 255 | ** When Mr. T is lecturing some kids about not making fun of a person's appearance, he never fails to overlook a more pressing issue that was brought up, such as racism or buying drugs. |
| 256 | ** In "Wendell's Broken Superman Bed", Wendell yells at his [[WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpy Stimpy plush]] (which he's pretending to customer support is his son "Stimpy" that he ordered the Superman bed for) that he's throwing away all the figurines his "son" owns because they're not real people and he needs to stop being so lonely, clearly talking about himself. He seems shaken until the customer support, still on the phone, gently suggests that his son should talk to someone...and then Wendell [[CrossesTheLineTwice throws the plush out the window and tells the customer support that "Stimpy" killed himself and he needs the new Superman bed order to remember him by]]. |
| 257 | * InelegantBlubbering: Carvel in "Trying Not to Laugh When Your Friend is Crying" does this after he's learned that his childhood friend's body has been pulled out of the river, which makes Key's fellow gangster want to laugh, which he attempts to deal with by warning the other gang members not to laugh. It doesn't help that Carvel has a huge lisp. |
| 258 | -->'''Carvel''': [''lower lip wobbling''] Twig and I would thpend the good part of a afternoon tryna figure out which C-Care Bear we wath. |
| 259 | -->'''Key''': [''chuckles, shaking his head, threateningly''] Ohhh, ho, I '''wish''' one a y'all motherf***s would just start laughin' cause y'all '''know''' you think this s***'s funny, Carvel over here, blubberin' and talkin' about Care Bears! But you know what?! [''pause, almost loses it''] But you... [''corpsing silently''] Those are '''manly tears'''! Okay? Those some '''manly-ass tears''' right now that you lookin' at! Go ahead, Carvel. |
| 260 | -->'''Carvel''': And then [''hic''], and then [''hic''], and then [''hic''], and then [''hic''], and then...[''breaks down into hiccups and sobs uncontrollably in a weird ululating way''] |
| 261 | -->'''Key''': [''squeaks with suppressed laughter''] [[BlatantLies I'm sorry, man, that was a weird-ass sneeze I just did right there, goddammit, can a brother get some ***in' Clarityn in here?]] |
| 262 | ** Eventually Key just bursts out laughing, whereupon Carvel [[spoiler:shoots him dead.]] There's a pause, then: |
| 263 | --->'''Carvel''': [''sniff''] ... A'ight. Let's go thell thome crack. [''The others all get up and leave''] |
| 264 | * InnocentBigot: The new neighbor in [[http://www.vimeo.com/channels/493367/53749150 this sketch.]] He plays country songs that he does not believe to be racist despite their blatantly racist lyrics which his friend keeps pointing out. |
| 265 | * IntercourseWithYou: Discussed in one of the road trip bits: |
| 266 | -->'''Peele:''' Modern R&B nowadays is ''literally'' a description of sexual intercourse... |
| 267 | * JekyllAndHyde: The plot twist of [[spoiler:"Ultimate Cockblocker"]]. |
| 268 | * {{Jerkass}}: |
| 269 | ** ''Meegan''. PassiveAggressiveKombat is her at her ''nicest''. |
| 270 | ** Adversity Johnson, who follows basketball player Charlie Sanders around to slap him, drink all his water, etc. Sanders claims Adversity "doesn't pick up social cues," but Adversity says he "just like[s] f***ing with [Sanders]." |
| 271 | * KarmaHoudini: Jimmy the disruptive kid. Not only does he manage to get his teacher fired and driven insane, he also succeeds at everything he does in his life. |
| 272 | * KentBrockmanNews: Metta World News, which apparently can't afford a second newsreader. Or a working teleprompter. |
| 273 | * KilledMidSentence: In the "Pirate Chantey" sketch, one pirate gets shot in the head as soon as he starts singing about objectifying women. (To be fair, his song ''did'' start "There was a slut with tits to here / And an ass that--" [''boom'']) |
| 274 | * LargeHam: |
| 275 | ** Ty Burrell gets special points for his Nazi act. |
| 276 | ** Luther, who was hired by President Obama as critics felt that Obama was too stoic and aloof. |
| 277 | ** The substitute teacher Mr. Garvey, who becomes angry whenever he thinks the students are messing with him. |
| 278 | ** The two valets who are always fanboying over media topics such as '[[Creator/LiamNeeson Liam Neesons]]'. |
| 279 | ** Adversity Johnson is loud and hyper just for the sake of being obnoxious. |
| 280 | * LatexPerfection: "Cunnilingus Class" is about two women [[spoiler:impersonating Key and Peele's characters this way to lecture men on proper cunnilingus.]] |
| 281 | * LineOfSightAlias: In one sketch, a potentially-pardoned prisoner answers all the detective's questions based on what's in the room. Badly. "His name was Baldy Tallman Coffee Coup!" [[spoiler:At the end, it turns out that many of the detective's responses, like "I'm getting too old for this," were actually on the posters behind the convict's side of the room.]] |
| 282 | * LiteralMetaphor: Levi owns lightning in a bottle, the goose that laid the golden egg, and a pair of the cat's pyjamas; being baked out of his skull, none of them seem quite as important to him as the idea he suddenly has for a smartphone app. [[spoiler:He also owns a "high horse" that's just as much of a stoner as he is.]] |
| 283 | * LittlePeopleAreSurreal: "Shady Landlord" has the apartment manager Devon hunting for a crack smoking, apparently murderous dwarf on the premises, using a sword cane: |
| 284 | -->'''Devon:''' Okay, y' know what, I'm gon' level wit' y'all -- there is a 4'3" nigga with a purple beard named "Gerald" somewhere in this buildin'.\ |
| 285 | '''Tenant:''' ''Why'' does he keep getting smaller every time you mention him?\ |
| 286 | '''Devon:''' Seriously? Because I didn't want to ''alarm'' y'all. H-he is ''disturbin'ly'' small. |
| 287 | * LoveBeforeFirstSight: Carlos, the employee from Mario's Pizza, falls in love with Wendell's ex-girlfriend Claire without having met or spoken with her. Too bad she is really a plastic figurine. |
| 288 | [[/folder]] |
| 289 | |
| 290 | [[folder:M-P]] |
| 291 | * MagicalNegro: |
| 292 | ** "Magical Negro Fight" focuses on two black men using magic to [[ThereCanBeOnlyOne fight for the right to help a white man with his marriage problems]]. At the end, they actually drop both trope names -- "There can be only one Magical Negro!" -- and have a BeamOWar. [[spoiler:They ''both'' die.]] Then a black woman shows up and the white man mistakes her for a third one: |
| 293 | --->"Who you callin' 'negro', bitch?" |
| 294 | ** "Auction Block" focuses on a old-timey slave auction where one of the slaves claims that he knows magic. |
| 295 | * MajorInjuryUnderreaction: The ''{{Franchise/Saw}}'' parody. They even explain it as ''going into shock!'' |
| 296 | * MeaningfulName: [[UsefulNotes/MartinLutherKingJr Luther again]]. |
| 297 | * MicDrop: Barack Obama gives the ultimate reply to a long BoastfulRap in one sentence: |
| 298 | -->'''Obama:''' I'm the leader of the free world. ''<mic drop>'' |
| 299 | * MistakenForGay: In the [[https://youtu.be/9-GRzu6zbS0 "Town Hall Audience Member"]] sketch, everytime Congressman Paul Brooks (Key) talks about gay people, the camera immediately focuses on Peele's character, who try as he might, tries to quietly point out to the camera he's not gay. By the end of the sketch, the Congressman tells the audience to look at your fellow gay person, leading to everyone in the Town Hall looking at Peele's character. |
| 300 | * MondegreenGag: [[invoked]] The punchline of "Black Ice". It sounds a lot like [[spoiler:"black guys"]]. |
| 301 | * MoodLighting: Whenever the two black students in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EtalOOS-eM "A Capella"]] confront each other, the lighting and color balance instantly changes from bright and warm to cool and desaturated. |
| 302 | * MoodWhiplash: |
| 303 | ** The punchline of "Negrotown." |
| 304 | ** Da Struggle's introspective and morose rhymes of the black struggle are jarringly juxtaposed with Bling Benzy's loud, crass, violent, oversexed and offensive clowning. |
| 305 | * MortonsFork: The insult comic in ''Insult Comic'' finds himself in this situation; exclude an eager, yet deformed audience member from his act because of his condition at the risk of enraging his audience, or insult someone with severe deformities. |
| 306 | * MotorMouth: The "East/West Bowl Rap" shows that [[spoiler:[[TokenWhite Dan Smith]]]] is actually the fastest rapper out of both teams. While most of the other players' verses are simply saying their own names, [[spoiler:Smith]] has fast and verbose BoastfulRap. |
| 307 | ** Shaboots and T-Ray in "Cunnilingus Class" have hilariously sped-up delivery. |
| 308 | * MundaneMadeAwesome: |
| 309 | ** "Flicker" and "Dueling Hats". |
| 310 | ** One opening bit has Key lining up an epic high five. "I had my plant foot, I got some torque in my hips, and I went straight Tiger Woods on it..." |
| 311 | --> '''Peele:''' It hit so hard my shit became a pink mist! |
| 312 | ** "[=TeachingCenter=]" is about a ''[=SportsCenter=]''-like program about ''teaching''. |
| 313 | * MustBeInvited: The twist ending to a sketch with two Jamaican ladies. Peele's character just dropped by the other but is too polite to come in, despite Key's character saying it's okay, leading her to formally invite her friend in. [[spoiler:Turns out the friend was a vampire, who wasn't being polite but just needed to hear those exact words to come in and suck out her victim's blood]]. |
| 314 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: About telling off someone at a dance circle, no less. |
| 315 | * NWordPrivileges: |
| 316 | ** The Negraph app, which tells you when and where it's appropriate to use the N-word. [[DontExplainTheJoke It'll always be rendered invalid if you're white]]. |
| 317 | ** It's on the list of the things that Obama's Anger Translator is allowed to say (and by extension one of the things Obama is allowed to say). |
| 318 | * NeckSnap: Parodied ''mercilessly'' in the "Strike Force Eagle 3: The Reckoning" sketch. |
| 319 | * NegativeContinuity: Between "Retired Military Specialist" and the second sketch starring Decker. The first sketch ends with Decker being denied the mission, shot in his gut and both shoulders and implied to have been killed with one final shot in the head. In the second, not only has Decker been recruited for the mission, [[UnexplainedRecovery he's totally fine]]. |
| 320 | * NeverMessWithGranny: Esther and Georgina, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-C9q-Na6_w two church ladies]] who take on the devil. |
| 321 | * NoIndoorVoice: |
| 322 | ** Luther. This is justified since he's Obama's anger translator. |
| 323 | ** The valets do this every time they talk about movies. |
| 324 | * NoTrueScotsman: The CampGay confronting a "office homophobe" [[spoiler:who turns out to be StraightGay]] contains elements of this. |
| 325 | * NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: Invoked at the ''very end'' of the ''Gremlins 2'' meeting. While the meeting obviously didn't happen, ''all'' the crazy stuff suggested during it ''is'' in the movie. |
| 326 | * NotSoAboveItAll: How several of the Obama/Luther routines end, with Obama joining in. |
| 327 | * ObviousStuntDouble: Invoked for laughs: the hero riding in "The Power of Wings" video is obviously ''not'' Wendell, who is shown to be too obese and clumsy to even ''mount'' the horse. |
| 328 | * OddNameOut: In the first "East/West Bowl" skit, where the other players are all played by Key and Peele with increasingly absurd names, the last player is [[spoiler:a TokenWhite from Brigham Young University named Dan Smith]]. The same gag returns at the end of the sequel, where the last player is [[spoiler:another TokenWhite from Morehouse College (a historically-black college) named [[CallBack A.A. Ron Balakay]]]]. |
| 329 | * OffTheShelfFX: The Power Falcons sketch uses repainted Quinjet toys from the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse. |
| 330 | * OhCrap: [[CampGay Latrell]] when he sees the coworker he had been bullying and calling a homophobe [[spoiler:[[StraightGay kiss his boyfriend]]]] and realizes: |
| 331 | -->'''Latrell:''' I'm not persecuted...I'm just an [[{{Jerkass}} asshole.]] |
| 332 | * OmnidisciplinaryLawyer: Parodied in "Judge Jessie", where his myriad and varied careers (master surgeon, skilled carpenter, deadly black belt) are all touted as having contributed to his legal expertise. He's also a crackhead, which mean he's openly fiending in court. |
| 333 | * OnceAnEpisode: There is at least one Obama sketch (some of which include his anger translator, Luther). |
| 334 | * OneDialogueTwoConversations: In "Driver Conversation", a businessman jokingly tells his chauffeur, who he believes isn't paying attention, that he is going to do a lot of terrible things during his presentation. When the businessman arrives at his destination, [[spoiler:the chauffeur, without a hint of irony, suggests that he should use a serrated blade to cut his victims' faces off. It is then revealed that the chauffeur is actually a Nazi.]] |
| 335 | * TheOner: |
| 336 | ** The Tea Party "Chosen One" sketch. |
| 337 | ** The "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0FMk2zUHA0 How Not to Remember Where You Parked Your Car]]" sketch appears to be an unbroken two-minute shot. |
| 338 | * OrWasItADream: InUniverse use of the trope -- in "East/West Bowl Rap Showdown", the eastern team's rap video opens with Leoz Maxwell Jilliumz asleep on a bench and dreaming of the team dancing around and rapping as a framing device. At the end, he wakes up and mutters that it was AllJustADream... before noticing he still has glitter in his hair, giving the obligatory "or was it?". |
| 339 | * OurZombiesAreDifferent: |
| 340 | ** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xyhVO-SWfM "White Zombies"]], [[spoiler:they're racist]]. |
| 341 | ** Subverted in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_qZggrYHRQ "Zombie Attack"]]. Key's character thinks racoon bites turn people into zombies. [[spoiler:They don't.]] |
| 342 | * OvercomplicatedMenuOrder: In the "Outkast Reunion" sketch, André 3000 (as portrayed by Key) orders a half-caf half-decaf mint mocha latte with green food coloring, foam on the bottom, served in a flower vase. |
| 343 | * OverlyLongGag: |
| 344 | ** In "Gideon's Kitchen", Gideon keeps getting Drew's hopes up, then trashing them back down, over and over and over. |
| 345 | ** The entire point of the "East/West Bowl" skits as almost all the names for the players venture into this territory. |
| 346 | * OverlyNervousFlopSweat: The "Clear History" sketch. It's taken up to eleven, of course. |
| 347 | * PaperThinDisguise: |
| 348 | ** In "Das Negros", Key and Peele plays as two World War II African American pilots who hide in a town occupied by the Nazis by using whiteface. Despite how obvious it is to the audience, the disguise works as the Gestapo agent searching for them is fooled and believes they are white Germans. |
| 349 | ** One Save the Children ad has the host (Peele) ask the audience to buy fake beards for African kids so they won't be kidnapped and forced to become child soldiers. And despite how silly it sounds, the disguises work when a warlord (Key) and his militia try to find more children to kidnap and become child soldiers but only found "old people" instead, a.k.a. the children wearing fake beards. |
| 350 | * PirateGirl: "Pirate Chatney" featuring a (male) pirate crew singing a song that sounds like they're bragging of conquests, but the last line of each verse reveals them to be unusually enlightened in their attitudes towards women. For example, a verse about a woman who gets so drunk she passes out ends "so we took her to bed, and rested her head, and we left 'cause that's what gentlemen do". The last pirate to sing starts in on something that's clearly ''not'' going that direction, and [[KilledMidSentence he gets out about two lines before being shot dead]] by the (unseen before this point) female captain, of whom the other pirates are all visibly terrified. |
| 351 | * ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: This is Carlito's problem in "Loco Gangsters". Fellow gang member Eduardo gets admitted to the gang because he does things that are legitimately loco, like break a bottle against his own forehead. Carlito's idea of being loco is to imitate a duck, or drop his shorts to his ankles. When he does attempt to break a bottle against his own head, it doesn't break; it just really hurts his head. When he uses a staple gun on his own hand, Key's character informs that that was loco, "but not in an entertaining way." |
| 352 | -->'''Key''': This is like watching the British version of ''[[Series/TheOfficeUK The Office]]''. Like, it's funny, but awkward, and sad at the same time. |
| 353 | ** Averted when Carlito plays with a gun and drops it on the floor, whereupon it goes off and shoots Eduardo in the head, whereupon an exasperated Key informs him that, yes, he ''is'', "by process of elimination", the most loco guy in the gang. Cue tiny FistPump from Carlito--whereupon Eduardo leaps to his feet and reveals that he caught the bullet '''in his teeth'''. The others immediately declare that to be the most loco thing they've ever seen. |
| 354 | * {{Pluralses}}: The two movie-loving valets refer to actors such as "[[Creator/LiamNeeson Liam Neesons]]", "[[Creator/AnneHathaway Annie Hathaways]]", and "[[Creator/MelGibson racist ass Melly Gibsons]]". They also have an entire sketch about how "you don't mess with the [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Batmans]]". |
| 355 | * PoliceAreUseless: One sketch is about a policeman who pulls a gun on a perp and only keeps telling him to freeze, up until the perp pulls a gun on the cop and gets away pretty much unscathed. |
| 356 | * PoliticalOvercorrectness: |
| 357 | ** Mocked in "Offensive Boss", where a company's vice president calls a gay man, a woman, and a black man into his office to help with a speech he is giving later. He asks them to raise their hands and say something if they find anything in his speech to be offensive. He can't even get a word in edgewise before they start jumping on him for interpreting everything he says as a personal attack. Mind you, this is all before he even gets to ''start'' his speech. When he finally does: |
| 358 | --->'''Vice president:''' Okay, here goes. A Chinaman, a Polak, and an Arab walk into a bar...\ |
| 359 | '''Gay man:''' I love Arab jokes.\ |
| 360 | '''Woman:''' Ching-chong, bring it on.\ |
| 361 | '''Black man:''' You had me at "Polak." |
| 362 | ** The "Pirate Chantey" sketch plays with this a bit towards the end. The third verse on the song has one pirate talking about how his girlfriend was pregnant, making it clear that he wanted a child and using words like "child" and "heir" that suggest he considered the fetus a living person, and yet he still supported her decision to get an abortion. Though this becomes most egregious in the forth verse of the song; another pirate sings a song about a woman getting sick with a terminal illness and donating all her money to charity in an attempt to save herself, and ends the song with "But the scariest part of the story from the start is I bet you assumed the doctor was a man." |
| 363 | * PoliticallyCorrectVillain: "Pirate Chantey" features a crew of pirates holding some rather enlightened ideas... Because [[PirateGirl their captain]] will shoot anyone who sings sexist songs. |
| 364 | * PoorCommunicationKills: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naleynXS7yo "Text Message Confusion"]] sketch shows a text message exchange that is interpreted as insulting by one side and casual on the other, which culminates in the former interpreting a meet-up at a bar as a challenge to a fight. [[spoiler:This is subverted at the end. When the aggressor confronts his friend at the bar, he is enlightened when the latter orders a drink for him and no one is brutally murdered that night.]] |
| 365 | * PragmaticHero: PlayedForLaughs with Otis Carmichael, an incredibly important actor and civil rights leader who spent the first part of his career playing grotesque racial stereotypes. |
| 366 | * PrejudiceAesop: One of the StockAesops that the kids in the Mr. T video try to set him up for, only for him to miss it completely because he's trying to teach children not to make fun of his clothes. |
| 367 | * PretentiousPronunciation: Inverted in the "Substitute Teacher Pt. 1" sketch where an InnerCitySchool teacher is substituting at a predominately white suburban HighSchool. He mispronounces ''all'' his students' names like {{Ghetto Name}}s when calling attendance, and when they correct him, he angrily scolds them for trying to mess with him. Standouts include "Blake" as "Bah-Lak-Kay" and "Aaron" as "Ay-Ay-Ron". |
| 368 | * PrisonRape: |
| 369 | ** "Lil Wayne in Prison" is about Music/LilWayne, played by Peele, being followed by a film crew while in prison. He's in the showers when he drops the soap; the camera pans down to show that indeed happened; by the time the camera pans back up, everyone else in the showers is already surrounding him. |
| 370 | ** Another sketch is about Peele as an inmate who's apparently gone through so much prison rape that he's pretty much catatonic: |
| 371 | -->You do not want to have [[UnusualEuphemism animal relations]] with the other inmates... You are not earning anyone's undying respect when you fart and it sounds like a bottle... |
| 372 | * PullingYourChildAway: In the sketch ''What Happens When Zombies Are Racist'', the child zombie attempts to eat the two men, but are quickly pulled away by the parent zombies. |
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| 375 | [[folder:Q-T]] |
| 376 | * RageBreakingPoint: Mr. Williams in the fourth "Substitute Teacher" sketch. He starts out acting calm and laid-back. However, when one of his students, Jimmy, keeps misbehaving, Mr. Williams tries to humble him by putting him in front of the class. Jimmy just responds by imitating the sub, upon which Mr. Williams ''loses it'' in a furious imitation of Jimmy so over the top that Jimmy and the rest of the class are completely shocked and silent: |
| 377 | -->'''Mr. Williams:''' Oh yeah?! ''OH YEAH?!?'' '''''OH YEEAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!??!?!!! OH YEEEEAAAAAAA-LA-LA-LA-LA-AAAH!!!!!''''' ''WELL, THIS IS YOU, JIMMY!!!'' |
| 378 | * RealMenWearPink: The buccaneers in "Pirate Chantey" might be typical hard-drinking, hard-living scalliwags of the era, but they also sing of anachronistically progressive feminist causes, decoratively whittle, and show genuine concern when members of their crew are injured. [[spoiler:As Peele noted on Twitter, even if some of them do it only out of obedience to their fearsome lady captain, it's still a very nice gesture.]] |
| 379 | * RealisticDictionIsUnrealistic: "Everyone gets their turn" is hilariously averted and conversed with the "Les Mis" sketch where Legataux is frustrated at the inability to get his lines in while everyone else drowns him out. |
| 380 | * ReallyGetsAround: [[invoked]] Peele tells a story about his estranged father supposedly fathering several children ''in several states''. [[CrossesTheLineTwice "He just sticks his penis out the window as the bus keeps moving..."]] |
| 381 | * RearrangeTheSong: The theme tune for Season 4 has been overhauled completely, from the Reggie Watts jingle to something sounding like the ''Series/TrueDetective'' themes. |
| 382 | * RedOniBlueOni: A majority of sketches will have Key playing the Red while Peele does the Blue. This is most evident in ones with Obama and his anger translator, Luther. Possibly lampshaded in that in the opening that they wear a red shirt and blue hoodie, respectively. Throughout the series it's done straight, exaggerated, inverted and subverted, totally played with in every way. |
| 383 | * RefugeInAudacity: |
| 384 | ** The whole show runs on this (mostly of the "Let's see how far we can ramp up the insanity" variety, but they do dabble in the "Let's make light of something serious" variety of RefugeInAudacity), but nowhere more than the [[http://www.comedycentral.com/video-clips/5fndtz/key-and-peele-key---peele--east-west-bowl East/West Bowl sketch]]. And it's just a list of names. It starts with comparatively reasonable names like "D'Marcus Williumz", "T.J. Juckson", and "Ibrahim Moizoos", and gets to unbridled insanity like "[[PunctuationShaker X-Wing @Aliciousness]]", "[[OverlyLongName T.J. A.J. R.J. Backslashinfourth V]]", "[[HellIsThatNoise EEEEE EEEEEEEEE]]", "[[SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud Torque [Construction Noise] Lewith]]", "[[TheTropeFormerlyKnownAsX [The Player Formerly Known as Mousecop]]]", and [[spoiler:"[[TokenWhite Dan Smith]] [[UsefulNotes/{{Mormonism}} from BYU]]".]] [[http://youtu.be/rT1nGjGM2p8 The 2013 season is even more ridiculous.]] There's names like ''[[EveryoneKnowsMorse Morse Code spoken in Morse Code]]'', ''[[NonIndicativeName Harvard University]]'',[[note]]from [=DeVry=] University[[/note]] ''[[OnlyOneName Fudge]]''[[note]]''just'' Fudge, no college[[/note]], ''[[TheFaceless Firstname Lastname]]''[[note]]from College University[[/note]],'' Creator/BenedictCumberbatch, [[RepetitiveName Jammie Jammie-Jammie]]'', [[CallBack A.A. Ron Balakay]]... |
| 385 | ** Racist zombies. |
| 386 | ** Just the punchline to [[http://www.comedycentral.com/video-clips/fcv5mj/key-and-peele-mixed-wiener this one.]] |
| 387 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB7MichlL1k "Auction Block"]], wherein Lot B and Lot C eventually [[SeinfeldianConversation get somewhat offended]] that they ''aren't'' getting sold. Eventually, ''the slave auctioneer himself'' calls them "superficial" and "bigoted": |
| 388 | --->''[They look at a tall, muscular slave trudging off the block]''\ |
| 389 | '''Lot C:''' Okay, well, you ''have'' to buy that dude.\ |
| 390 | '''Lot B:''' It's a no-brainer.\ |
| 391 | '''Lot C:''' I mean, that guy's HUGE.\ |
| 392 | '''Lot B:''' Massive individual.\ |
| 393 | '''Lot C:''' That's ''two'' of me.\ |
| 394 | '''Lot B:''' Anybody would buy him.\ |
| 395 | '''Lot C:''' ''I'd'' buy ''that'' dude.\ |
| 396 | '''Lot B:''' ''My'' question is, how'd they ''catch'' him? |
| 397 | ** The church ladies, Esther and Georgina's descriptions of what they plan to do to Satan. [[spoiler:Esther follows through on it.]] |
| 398 | * RetiredBadass: "Retired Military Specialist" starts out like an '80s / '90s action flick, with a soldier tracking down a retired super-badass living in isolation. It turns out they ''don't'' want him for this mission, they just need him to recommend someone, at which point he claims to have been "talked into it" and starts trying to prove he's still got it. |
| 399 | * {{Retool}}: Mild case in Season 4, which replaced the studio audience in favor of short dialogues on a long road trip, and a redone title theme. However, the rest is exactly the same barring the odd BigBudgetBeefUp. |
| 400 | * {{Retraux}}: |
| 401 | ** The "Aerobics Meltdown" sketch does everything it can to imitate the look and feel of the '80s, specifically the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozoTzkCeO-A Crystal Light National Aerobics Championship]] broadcasts. |
| 402 | ** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-jv7doUI8o Strike Force Eagle 3: The Reckoning]]". |
| 403 | * ReversePsychology: How Obama deals with Republicans that always disagreed with his proposals. |
| 404 | * RichInDollarsPoorInSense: |
| 405 | ** Peele as Creator/JadenSmith asks his agent in one sketch to try to get him a part that's ''not'' [[Film/AfterEarth science-fiction]], wanting to play a normal, down-to-earth role; the agent, in turn, offers him the lead in ''Street Ball'', a drama about a poor kid who has to choose between pursuing his dreams as a basketball player or quitting to support his single working mother instead. To Jaden, the concepts of houses ("tiny mansions"), supermarkets ("mansions full of food" where "the butlers go"), working ("like [what] a maid [does]"), [[GildedCage the outside]], and ''being denied things'' are also sci-fi. |
| 406 | --->'''Jaden:''' ''[uncomprehending]'' Choooooose...\ |
| 407 | '''Agent:''' Yeah, "choose" is when you have to make a decision between two things you want, but you can have only one.\ |
| 408 | '''Jaden:''' [[ShelteredAristocrat But... there's two]]? |
| 409 | ** Wendell has $15,000 to spend on "Power of Wings" but, instead of sensibly spreading out his budget to complete his project, blows it on expensive aerial shots and special effects and gets hosed by an actress who appears on screen for all of ten seconds. |
| 410 | * RippedFromTheHeadlines: From the Obama skits to a Chris Brown and Music/{{Rihanna}} one, a lot of their humor runs on this. |
| 411 | * RuleOfThree: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGJb2iLvOKE You can get flagged for three pumps. Referee calls excessive celebration.]] |
| 412 | * RunningGag: Anytime one or more fictional sports teams appear, expect one of them to be named the Rhinos, usually the one that is being focused on. |
| 413 | * ScaryBlackMan: When Key is on the phone and Peele walks past on his phone, speaking in a very tough gangster voice. Key deepens his voice in order to not come across as a pushover, then when Key is out of earshot, Peele's voice goes up an octave as he says, ''"Oh, my god! I almost got mugged!"'' |
| 414 | * SchmuckBait: The "god drug" in the "Scariest Movie Ever" episode. Even though the dealer only lists all the horrible side effects, Key's character tries it anyway, convinced that the high you get from it must be amazing if the users are willing to go through all of that for it. |
| 415 | * SecretTestOfCharacter: In "Little Homie", a parole officer named Daniel Tate is communicating to a parolee named Clive through a puppet named Little Homie. Little Homie appears to have grown sentient, encouraging him to go back into crime, tossing him a weed cigarette (when Clive questions Tate, Tate says "I want you to clean up your act, but [[WhamLine you're not talking to me right now, you're talking to Little Homie]]) and threatening to shoot Tate if he doesn't smoke it. [[spoiler:When Clive calls his bluff, Little Homie shoots Tate, who collapses to the ground. Little Homie cleans off his fingerprints, tosses Clive the gun so his fingerprints get on it instead and asks him to be "in together on this" (probably to keep quiet). Clive stutters "Ok, Little Homie, yeah" At that point, Tate climbs up, informs Clive he failed the test and sends him back to prison.]] |
| 416 | * SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: |
| 417 | ** The gang leader in the Latino gang sketches has a surprisingly adept vocabulary in "Loco Gangsters": |
| 418 | -->"Carlito, that's just being cavalier with your finances instead of collecting your free dessert. I mean, that's not ''loco''. It's just like... financially irresponsible." |
| 419 | ** While trying (and failing) to get the rapper Young Bidness to listen to him again after accidentally angering him in "The Morty Jebsen Show Goes Off the Rails", Mort the talk show host at one point tries calling him "Youthful Commerce". |
| 420 | ** Mr. Garvey from the "Substitute Teacher" skits sometimes goes from cursing "disrespectful" students out to berating them for being such things as "insubordinate and churlish" or "chicanerous and deplorable". Overlaps with SophisticatedAsHell. |
| 421 | * ShallowCannotComprehendTrueLove: In "Pizza Order", Wendell, a BasementDweller who doesn't want to admit he's ordering multiple pizzas all for himself, makes a phone call to a pizza place but pretends his various action figures are actually party guests at his home. The pizza clerk taking the order, Carlo, falls for his lie and tries to ask out "Claire", so Wendell tries to discourage him by coming up with shallow reasons for not dating her such as "[[SexinessScore her body is a 4]]" or "[[DefiledForever she's used goods]]". However, none of this deters Carlo, who launches into a heartfelt speech about how passionate he is for "Claire", so Wendell, realizing Carlo is genuinely in love with her, resorts to faking "Claire"'s death instead. |
| 422 | * ShootHimHeHasAWallet: The "[[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/6rkam6/key-and-peele-he-s-got-a-gun He's Got a Gun]]" sketch. The white police officer mag-dumps a black guy holding a popsicle, thinking he was about to pull out a gun. Then, two guys eating bananas, one black, one white, stumble onto the scene, and he shoots the black guy, after "warning" the white guy about the black man about to steal his banana. Following that, he comes across a gunman who's armed to the teeth, brandishing a shotgun, carrying a rifle on his back, and decked out with bandoliers of ammo...and the police officer just tells him to leave because there's a disturbance. The gunman promptly does so and stumbles into a black man holding a huge giraffe plushie, whom the officer ''does'' shoot, screaming that he's got a giant fuzzy gun. To top it off, he shoots his own police chief, because he thought his white foam coffee cup was a gun. |
| 423 | * ShoutOut: |
| 424 | ** Ty Burrell as "Jew Hunter" Muller is most certainly one to ''Film/IngloriousBasterds''. |
| 425 | ** At the end of the Hypeman sketch, they blatantly make one to ''Literature/OfMiceAndMen'', even ending the sketch with a black screen that simply said "Steinback, Y'all!" |
| 426 | ** "[[{{Film/Looper}} It's like the old Mitt Romney went back in time to try and kill the young Mitt Romney!]]" |
| 427 | ** After trolling some Republicans, Obama says, "[[WesternAnimation/BugsBunny Aren't I a stinker?]]" |
| 428 | ** [[http://www.comedycentral.com/video-clips/89pr17/key-and-peele-post-apocalyptic-hunt This]] may remind some of the opening for the [[{{Music/LMFAO}} Party Rock Anthem music video.]] |
| 429 | ** In "Pussy on the Chainwax": |
| 430 | --> "You been saying some shit that doesn't exist, and you got [[Creator/DrSeuss Thing 1 and Thing 2]] corroborating your story like it does!" |
| 431 | ** After they name drop ''Series/GameOfThrones'', the "Sex with Black Guys" sketch starts with Key and Peele discussing "the huge woman" and "the red witch", which are most certainly Brienne and Melisandre. In fact, any skit where they are themselves has them talking about Game of Thrones as casual conversation. |
| 432 | ** One of the Wendell sketches has him calling a bust of [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Elrond]] [[Creator/HugoWeaving "Hugo"]] and a statue of [[{{Series/Firefly}} River Tam]] [[Creator/SummerGlau "Summer"]]. |
| 433 | ** Peele's stoner gangster character keeps a rat he keeps calling WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}. Not in a rat trap, but a [[{{Franchise/Ghostbusters}} ghost trap!]]. |
| 434 | ** The Vincent Clortho magic school is named after The Keymaster in the original ''Ghostbusters''. |
| 435 | ** [[Series/MiamiVice LA Vice]] anybody? |
| 436 | ** The HalloweenEpisode in Season 3 has a pile of 'em: |
| 437 | *** "Roommate Meeting" pulls the round-table gimmick straight from ''Series/That70sShow'' [[spoiler:with ''Film/TheGrudge'' thrown in.]] |
| 438 | *** The zombie show that's filmed for over three years is most certainly ''Series/TheWalkingDead''. |
| 439 | *** "Continental Breakfast" [[TheEndingChangesEverything is revealed at the end to be]] a reference to ''[[spoiler:Film/TheShining]].'' |
| 440 | *** The final sketch is this to ''{{Franchise/Saw}}.'' |
| 441 | ** In "Laron Can't Laugh", the titular character wanders off while [[Franchise/MassEffect Leaving Earth]] plays. |
| 442 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQM2joP4fsQ "Slap-Ass: In Recovery"]] gives one to, of all things, the very special "pill addiction" episode of ''Series/SavedByTheBell''. |
| 443 | ** "Cat Poster" is one to Verbal Kint's interrogation in ''Film/TheUsualSuspects'', right down to Peele's clothes, hair and speech mannerisms. |
| 444 | ** [[invoked]] In the "Family Matters" sketch, "Steve Urkel" at one point says: "[[Film/GhostBusters1984 There is no Jaleel... only STEVE!]]". Later, when the actor playing Carl tries to shoot him, he says: "[[Film/DieHard Yippie-ki-yay, motherfucker!]]". It gets even better when you remember that Creator/ReginaldVelJohnson used to play [[{{Typecasting}} a policeman]] not only on ''Series/FamilyMatters'', but in ''Film/DieHard'' and ''Film/{{Ghostbusters|1984}}'' too. |
| 445 | ** The Michael Jackson sketch blends several of the late artist's signature songs: "Thriller", "Smooth Criminal", "Bad", and "Black or White". However, Noah runs them all together in a mishmash. |
| 446 | ** Star Magic Jackson Jr. in "Gremlins 2 Brainstorm" is essentially [[{{Film/Mannequin}} Hollywood Montrose]], gaudy elaborate sunglasses included. |
| 447 | ** In "Fighting Meegan's Battles", an angry Meegan tells the bouncer who prevents her and Andre from entering a club that he looks like Music/{{Common}} meets ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk and asks him what it's like to have [[Film/{{Candyman}} bees coming out of his mouth]] (in reference to Creator/TonyTodd being a very tall man). |
| 448 | * ShownTheirWork: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g-s-pghtYQ Mr. T PSA]], an AffectionateParody of ''Be Somebody... Or Be Somebody's Fool!'', is almost indistinguishable from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmQGxzIUVbk the real thing]], right down to the incredibly awkward music numbers. |
| 449 | * SlaveMarket: The "Auction Block" sketch is about two slaves in a slave auction complaining that no one is bidding on them. |
| 450 | * SlowNo: Used in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQM2joP4fsQ "Slap-Ass: In Recovery"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ycih6B6iqM "LA Vice"]]. The latter case is lampshaded. |
| 451 | --> '''Key:''' "Oh, I get it. When I say [[BigNo no]], stuff blows up. Cool." |
| 452 | * SmugSnake: Carter Finley of "Cat Poster" thinks he is a criminal mastermind who can trick the detective interrogating him by making up names based on things in the room. He's ''really'' not very good at it, exacerbated by the fact that he doesn't stop even when it makes no sense. |
| 453 | * SnowballLie: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uG9PGqaWeo "Pegasus Sighting"]], based on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nda_OSWeyn8 the leprechaun of Mobile, Alabama]]. |
| 454 | * SophisticatedAsHell: |
| 455 | ** The Obama & Luther skits. Especially when the dance was involved for the election celebration. |
| 456 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntfProwNYkE "Movie Hecklers"]], where two guys begin loudly criticizing a horror film in the theater for its "inconsistent visual language", among other sins. Even the other patrons silently concede that they have a point: |
| 457 | -->"I mean, this nigga tryin' to do some ''homage'' to the German Expressionists or ''some'' shit!" |
| 458 | ** Key's inner school substitute teacher often goes through this into SesquipedalianLoquaciousness. |
| 459 | --> "Take yo' ass to Mr O-Shag-Hennessy's office RIGHT NOW before I bust a "club" UP IN YO' BUTT!! Mischievous and deceitful! Chicanerous and deplorable!" |
| 460 | ** "Rap Battle Hype Man" ends with a simple black frame that says "Steinbeck, y'all!" |
| 461 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-C9q-Na6_w Georgina and Esther]], the two old church ladies who describe in the most profane terms all the filthy things they'll do to Satan... [[MoodWhiplash with their prayers]]. At the end of the sketch, Esther [[spoiler:follows through on her threat to snap Satan's dick off during sex.]] |
| 462 | * SouthernBelle: Hillary Clinton's Anger Translator Savannah is this. She is hyperactive, with the pronounced twang, and very bold makeup with double lashes! |
| 463 | * SpaceWhaleAesop: In "Consequences", former gang member Donnie Herrera talking to an auditorium at a high school. He tells them how he did bad things (stealing, hanging out with tough kids, smoking weed, etc.) followed by him dealing with the consequences of this. The problem though is that the "consequences" are so wild and unconnected with the deeds he is guilty of that nobody takes any of it seriously: |
| 464 | --> '''Donnie:''' So I got really deep into crime. I did a drive-by at my own daughter's quinceañera! Yeah, shot up everybody-- dead, killed! Yeah! Yeah! Then I got sucked into a wormhole. |
| 465 | * SpecialEffectFailure: Invoked for laughs in the "Power of Wings" video. As Wendell's budget starts to get low, the effects and production values start to get hilariously cheap. |
| 466 | * SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Series/MadTV1995'' and ''Series/ChappellesShow''. This is even lampshaded in a Dave Chappelle special, when he notes how mad he gets "watching Key and Peele doing my show." |
| 467 | * SpoofAesop: Creator/MrT misses every opportunity to teach the kids about making good life choices like avoiding strangers or drugs, and instead tries to make sure no one makes fun of his clothes and hair. |
| 468 | * SpookyPhotographs: Continental Breakfast Buffet, 1935. |
| 469 | * SpotlightStealingCharacter: Parodied in "Family Matters," where an angry Creator/ReginaldVelJohnson complains to the producer about Steve Urkel's increasing presence in [[Series/FamilyMatters his show]]: |
| 470 | -->'''Reginald [=VelJohnson=]:''' In a couple of weeks, Harriette, Eddie, Laura, Grandma, Aunt Rachel, Little Richie, [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and the other little kid]] are gonna get teleported to another dimension! And then Steve injects Carl with his own DNA, so Carl turns into another Steve Urkel! That's two Steve Urkels and no family ON A SHOW CALLED ''FAMILY MATTERS!'' |
| 471 | * SteamPunk: Peele gets into the style in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbq6Wfh9fi4 When Your Friend Goes Steampunk]]. He describes it as "Creator/JulesVerne and shit". |
| 472 | * StepfordSnarker: Peele plays one in "That One Friend Who Makes Everything Awkward" and gets [[DeconstructedTrope majorly dismantled]] by Key's character, right down to his true pitiful, sorry self -- turns out he passive-aggressively snarks at everyone who expresses an unpopular opinion without ever being more direct because [[TakeThat he's embarrassed that he doesn't have any strong opinions, himself, and just follows the herd]]. |
| 473 | * TheStoner: Levi, from such sketches as "Where My Dookie Go" and "Lightning in a Bottle". He swings back and forth between being an EruditeStoner and just being sort of an airhead, to the chagrin of his buddy Cedric. |
| 474 | -->'''Levi:''' I am a-leg-ted to marijuana... |
| 475 | * StraightGay: |
| 476 | ** [[spoiler:Peele's character]] in contrast to Key's CampGay character in "Office Homophobe." The realization of this for the latter has this last line: |
| 477 | --->'''Latrell:''' Ohhhh, I get it... I'm not persecuted, I'm just an asshole. |
| 478 | ** Samuel, CampGay [=LaShawn=]'s husband, who also plays the StraightMan (ha-ha) to [=LaShawn=]'s CloudCuckoolander. |
| 479 | * StupidEvil: Exaggerated in the "Pawn Shop" episode. For starters, the guy claims to be Christmas shopping in April. |
| 480 | * StupidSacrifice: One sketch is about a CargoCult that commits mass suicide in order to be taken away by the mothership. In the end, it turns out that not only is the mothership real, it takes the two living members who'd chickened out earlier! |
| 481 | * StylisticSuck: |
| 482 | ** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g-s-pghtYQ "Mr. T PSA"]] skit, complete with {{Spoof Aesop}}s, [[BadBadActing deliberately bad acting from both Key and Kate Micucci]], being shot on VHS tapes and an incredibly awkward PissTakeRap from Mr. T. Seeing how it's based off the memetic "Be Somebody or Be Somebody's Fool" tape, [[ShownTheirWork this is surprisingly accurate.]] |
| 483 | ** Done with the College Bowl Rap Videos, after a bit where Key and Peele point out how football players can't really be rappers. [[spoiler:Until Dan Smith starts ''[[MotorMouth tearing it up.]]'']] |
| 484 | ** Wendell`s "The Power of Wings" music video goes from an epic-looking tale of swords and sorcery to a cheap-looking backyard piece with no cast, crudely-made props, shoddy picture quality and rough sound. Even the plot gets worse, going from just being minimalist and familiar to downright cliche ([[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack the masked warlock that Wendell fights is revealed to be his doppelganger]]). |
| 485 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-jv7doUI8o "Strike Force Eagle 3: The Reckoning"]] is a parody of late 80's/early 90's low-budget DirectToVideo action movies/vanity projects. |
| 486 | * SubParSupremacist: While the show doesn't sugarcoat the level of power racists have over non-white communities, the supremacists are usually depicted as idiotic or oblivious to their own bigotry. |
| 487 | * SubvertedPunchline: From the sketch "Continental Breakfast": |
| 488 | -->"And who are you, my little friend? Not a spoon, not a fork, but something in between...a fpoon!" |
| 489 | * SuddenlyObviousFakery: In one sketch, several friends having a party panic when they see what appears to be an incoming drive-by, when it's really an acquaintance pulling a prank. When Peele's character first shows up, he's in a black jacket and fancy car and drawing a pistol, but when his prank is revealed, the jacket is now made out of a garbage bag, the pistol is made of licorice, and the car is just one painted wood panel. |
| 490 | * SuperGullible: An segment of the "Severed Head Showcase" episode had an [[UnwittingPawn prison guard]] at the Bloomsville State Penitentiary that [[TheChessmaster the prisoner]] tried playing [[MotivationalLie mind]]-[[CriminalMindGames games]] on and [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption consistently fail at]] ''lives'' being this when the prison guard's acts of gullibility would later reach into the TooDumbToLive territory when it shows that 2 years later, [[spoiler:he becomes a {{Cloudcuckoolander}}-like SpannerInTheWorks for the other prisoner's comical but ill-fated defeat.]] |
| 491 | * SurprisinglyCreepyMoment: A notable number of skits racket up the absurdity before the punchline takes it to some kind of horror: |
| 492 | ** The end of [[http://www.comedycentral.com/video-clips/wfjmn7/key-and-peele-damn--check-that-s---t-out "Damn, Check That Shit Out"]] is a good example -- the ''very last moments'' of a skit about two goofy guys ogling a woman at the park involve [[spoiler:the guy who seemed not to be getting the other guy's sexual comments suddenly gaining a VoiceOfTheLegion and HellishPupils as he thanks the other guy for explaining to him what a vagina is right before disappearing into thin air, leaving the other guy to freeze up before running off trying to process that he just talked to an undercover alien]]. |
| 493 | ** [[http://www.comedycentral.com/video-clips/zrcleg/key-and-peele-ultimate-c--k-blocker "Ultimate Cockblocker"]] is probably one of the most notorious examples of this -- it's goofy enough at first as Key's character can't understand how Peele's character always seems to be able to get to women he finds attractive within seconds of him expressing that he finds them attractive, [[spoiler:and it's just wacky at first when this ends up extending to ''a reporter Key's character sees on TV and a stick doodle he draws of a woman''... but then Key's character hugs his wife when she comes home, and catches a glimpse of what the reflection of that looks like]]... |
| 494 | * SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: The "Negrotown" sketch. It's actually PlayedForDrama. |
| 495 | * TakeCareOfTheKids: Creator/RashidaJones in "Lying to Your Dying Wife" plays a terminally ill wife in hospital, whose list of things she makes Peele's character promise to do includes this--and also ''slightly'' less reasonable things, such as that he'll never sleep with another woman, he won't look at porn and that he will never, ever think of someone else while masturbating. Peele character's increasingly absurd attempts to get out of promising to do these things irritate his wife considerably. When she asks him to promise to go and see her mom every day, he shouts "NURSE! FIX MY WIFE!" and bursts into tears. |
| 496 | * TakeThat: |
| 497 | ** To [[http://www.comedycentral.com/video-clips/c3iii4/key-and-peele-dubstep dubstep]]. |
| 498 | ** "Loco Gangsters" has a jab to the British version of ''Series/{{The Office|UK}}'', where the gang leader mentions that the show is funny, but "awkward and sad at the same time." |
| 499 | ** In the "Family Matters" sketch, Creator/ReginaldVelJohnson rants about how the increased focus on Steve Urkel and his transformation machine has turned a blue collar show into "goddamn ''Series/QuantumLeap''". |
| 500 | * TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat: At the end of "Rap Album Confessions", Gun Rack apparently knew exactly how and when he was going to get caught when he recorded the bonus track. |
| 501 | -->''Ha-ha ha! That's right, I'm a murderer, come get me!\ |
| 502 | I'm down the hall, you can't get me!''\ |
| 503 | Oh- oh, ok you got me! You got me. Oh whoah whoah, damn damn damn chill! Ow, OW! |
| 504 | * TaughtToHate: In "White Zombies", the ZombieApocalypse takes a turn by most of the zombies, being mutated white people, still carrying their former selves' prejudices and thus avoiding black people rather than eating them. One child zombie tries to bite Key and Peele's characters, but her parents hurriedly pull her away. |
| 505 | * TeenyWeenie: In one sketch where a teenage played by Peele is about to get laid, but is worried that his white girlfriend would be put off when she sees his biracial-ness caused him to have a white dick. The day after, he complains that his girlfriend was ''also'' biracial and has a black vagina. |
| 506 | * ThereCanBeOnlyOne: In "A Capella," Troy makes it clear to Mark that there is only room for ''one'' popular and non-threatening black guy at this white school. |
| 507 | ** Said out loud in the climactic battle at the end of "Magical Negro Fight", when Mr. Stanley and Carl have a magic battle which ends up destroying them both. |
| 508 | * ThisLoserIsYou: The Wendell sketches. |
| 509 | * ThisIsGonnaSuck: Andre feels compelled to duke it out with much more formidable guys who have insulted Meegan, despite knowing he's gonna get clobbered. He gets bonus points for punching ''himself'' out for calling Meegan a bitch in a moment of anger. |
| 510 | * ToiletHumor: "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Where My Dookie Go]]": |
| 511 | --> [[invoked]] "[[FauxSymbolism If my dookie can get out of the hood... maybe we can too.]]" |
| 512 | * TokenBlackFriend: |
| 513 | ** Discussed in one of the standup bits. Key and Peele apparently try out for this role a lot because neither of them make a convincing ScaryBlackMan, and thus end up with a set of oft-rehashed lines like "[[Creator/WillSmith Aw HELL naw!]]" and "[[ShipperOnDeck Y'all two clearly like each other!]]" |
| 514 | ** "A Capella": Parodied. Peele's character is the only black guy in an all-white a capella group, and he gets territorial when Key's character tries out. Later, Peele's character shows up at an all-white improv group Key's character has joined. |
| 515 | -->''"Those are ''my'' seven white boys!"'' |
| 516 | * TokenMinority: Downplayed, since ''every player'' is technically a minority [[spoiler:minus [[TokenWhite A.A. Ron Balakey]]]], but three non-African American minorities show up in the second East-West Bowl sketch. |
| 517 | ** On the East team, there's Decatholac Mango, from Georgia Tech, whose accent implies he is an immigrant, though where exactly [[WhatTheHellIsThatAccent he is from is a mystery]]. |
| 518 | ** On the West team, there's [[OverlyLongName Huka'lakanaka Hakanakaheekalucka'hukahakafaka]] from the University of Hawaii, whose name and alma mater imply he's at least partially Native Hawaiian, and Benedict Cumberbatch from Oxford University, who's Black British rather than African American. |
| 519 | * TokenWhite: [[spoiler:Always the OddNameOut at the end of the various East-West Bowl sketches.]] |
| 520 | * TooKinkyToTorture: Tyrell, who wants to win Fronthand Backhand. |
| 521 | * TooSmartForStrangers: One of the StockAesops that the kids in the Mr. T video try to set him up for, only for him to miss it completely because he's trying to teach children not to make fun of his name. |
| 522 | * {{Troll}}: One opening bit has Key and Peele bringing up "one of our writers, James, he's a white guy, and sometimes we put the N-word in the script 20 times just to mess with him." |
| 523 | * TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: |
| 524 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMQ2qGmJOVM This sketch]] about Key uncovering Peele's audio journal, which sounds like some angsty social commentary with a heaping helping of ''weird-ass shit''. |
| 525 | ** "Dicknanigans", in which men in zentais [[GroinAttack pummel each others' balls]] while words like "SOCIETY", "CONSUMERISM", and "LOVE" flash on-screen, ending with the declaration that love can conquer all. The audience is enthralled. |
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| 527 | |
| 528 | [[folder:U-W]] |
| 529 | * UncleTomfoolery: Before becoming a civil rights crusader and a beloved community figure, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh7xwI_0huM Otis Carmichael made a Hollywood film career out of playing racist stereotypes]].[[note]]The sketch also serves as an AffectionateParody of the era's black comedians and performers -- noting that, while they ''did'' pave the way for mainstream acceptance of actors of color and were revolutionary in their field, the roles they played were often very offensive nonetheless.[[/note]] |
| 530 | * UnfortunateNames: The popular "football names" video parodies increasingly complex African American names. |
| 531 | * UnusuallyUninterestingSight: |
| 532 | ** Creator/FreddieWong's appearance in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_1781107781&feature=iv&src_vid=IHQr0HCIN2w&v=bxHEZU0AFcQ "Roommate Meeting"]]. |
| 533 | ** "Bling Benzy vs. Da Struggle:" The single mother not only fails to react to Bling groping and jiggling her breasts, she doesn't seem to notice someone snatching her baby from her arms. |
| 534 | * VulgarHumor: ''Desperately'' lacking, according to Vandaveon and Mike -- ''not a single sketch'' has ever had enough penis jokes to satisfy them. |
| 535 | * WagTheDirector: [[invoked]] Parodied in the "Family Matters" sketch, where it turns out that the reason why the show had increasingly bizarre and Urkel-centric plotlines was because Jaleel White was an evil psychic who kills anyone who goes against what he wants. |
| 536 | * WeAreExperiencingTechnicalDifficulties: When Lightning assaults Flash at the televised [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK98jx7gw7w aerobics competition]], the broadcast is cut off with a "technical difficulties" message. |
| 537 | * WeirdnessMagnet: Levi has somehow come into possession of a variety of fantastical creatures and items, from [[WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}} a rat that can prepare food]] (granted not without nibbling and crapping on it as it goes) to literal lightning in a bottle. He [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight doesn't seem to realize]] how out-of-the-ordinary any of these things are to encounter in real life. |
| 538 | * TheWhitestBlackGuy: Since both leads are biracial, this winds up being a central element in several sketches: |
| 539 | ** In the "Dating a Biracial Man" sketch, Key plays a biracial man whose (white) date expects him to be able to use his white persona[[note]]Which she defines as polite and friendly.[[/note]] and black persona[[note]]Which she defines as an {{Angry Black Man|Stereotype}}.[[/note]] on cue depending on the situation. The sketch ends with him being very confused in terms of which persona he should use. He doesn't, however, [[IHaveBoobsYouMustObey ever question her right to demand this of him]]. |
| 540 | ** In the "Soul Food" sketch, the duo has returned to the neighborhood in which they grew up and is ordering lunch at a soul food restaurant. They are drawn into a game of one-upmanship to see who can make the "blackest" lunch order, culminating in their eating such "[[ForeignQueasine soul food]]" as possum spines, stork ankles, an old cellar door, and [[ImAHumanitarian a human foot]]. Neither will admit to disliking the fare for fear of losing their street cred. |
| 541 | ** One of the West Coast players introduces himself as "Benedict Cumberbatch - Oxford University" in a high-brow British accent. |
| 542 | * WhoNamesTheirKidDude: The East/West Bowl skits are loaded with examples, including one player named T.J. A.J. R.J. Backslashinfourth V (that is, "T.J. A.J. R.J. Backslashinfourth ''the fifth''"). Four generations decided to name their kid T.J. A.J. R.J. |
| 543 | * WholesomeCrossdresser: Peele will commonly play a woman in some sketches, though Key has dressed as a woman too. |
| 544 | * WordSaladLyrics: The lead singers of It's Happenin'! continue to make up lyrics about trains and outer space. The rest of the band just goes with it. |
| 545 | * WouldntHurtAChild: Exploited by a character in the "Fighting a Dad" sketch. After finding out that a guy he bumped into won't fight him because he's carrying a baby, he takes other babies and wears them as armor. |
| 546 | * WriteWhatYouKnow: [[invoked]] Parodied in the "Stan Lee's Superhero Pitch" sketch, where Lee creates a bunch of characters based on the trials and experiences he faces as an old man. When the writers at Marvel tell him that his ideas are unusable, he comes up with a new idea: a team of people cursed to be forever unemployable due to biting the hand that fed them, which is met with thunderous applause. |
| 547 | * WritingAboutYourCrime: The sketch "Rap Album Confessions" has a rapper being interrogated by a cop about committing murder and [[ImplausibleDeniability denying he did it despite writing an entire song that talks about how he committed the murder]]. |
| 548 | [[/folder]] |
| 549 | |
| 550 | [[folder:X-Z]] |
| 551 | * YouJustToldMe: In "Rap Album Confessions", Gun Rack denies murdering Darnell Simmons when his mixtape states otherwise. |
| 552 | * YourMom: In the "Yo' Mama Has Health Problems" sketch, a kid, played by Peele, won't stop making these jokes when the Indian doctor, played by Key, is trying to tell the former that his mother's medical condition is terrible. After the doctor rebukes him, the kid sincerely apologizes, admitting he was using humor to deal with the pain. At the end, the doctor himself makes this joke, giving an "Oh snap" after seeing the boy's shock. |
| 553 | * ZombieApocalypse: Subverted in that the zombies [[spoiler:turn out to be racist and leave all the black people alone.]] |
| 554 | [[/folder]] |
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