History Series / KeyAndPeele

** Zigzagged in "Apologies" where Key and Peele play two black men in a bar. While there, a couple of white patrons are so inebriated that they approach the duo and start apologizing to them for various things. [[spoiler:At the end, when the bartender admits that black people makes him really uncomfortable, the men thanks the bartender for his honesty.]]

--> '''Latrell:''' Ooohh! I wasn't being persecuted, [[HeelRealization I was just being an asshole!]]

* BrokenAesop: Creator/MrT doesn't actually teach kids anything about making good life choices, just to not bother him about his own rather strange ones.

** The hosts themselves: ''Keegan-Michael'' Key and ''Jordan'' Peele.

** 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 TheVoiceOfTheLegion 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]].

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* 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.

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: In "Bald Brotherhood Gang," an inmate played by Key thinks a neo-Nazi skinhead gang is in fact a gang of bald guys whom he's eager to join, and when they start beating him up because he's Black, he thinks they're simply hazing him.

*** Doubly funny in that the restaurant not only has these things in the kitchen, but the waitress pleasantly asks them if they want gravy with that.

** 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.
*** Doubly funny in that the restaurant not only has these things in the kitchen, but the waitress pleasantly asks them if they want hot sauce with that.

* 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).
-->'''Doug''': Special discounts for college students.

* CreepyGymCoach: Sensei Doug Duggart is a non-pedophile martial arts version. 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).
-->'''Doug''': Special discounts for college students.

** [[invoked]][[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''.

* 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 desatured.

** 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]]'', ''[[TheFaceless Firstname Lastname]]'','' Creator/BenedictCumberbatch, [[RepetitiveName Jammie Jammie-Jammie]]'', [[CallBack A.A. Ron Balakay]]...

* 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, but its parents hurriedly pull it away.
* TeenyWeenie: In one sketch where a teenaged 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.

** Creator/BoBurnham in "A Capella".

* TeenyWeenie: In one sketch where a teenaged 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.
* 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.
** 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.

* ShootHimHeHasAWallet: The "[[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/6rkam6/key-and-peele-he-s-got-a-gun He's Got a Gun]]" sketch.

** The "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.]]