This was from episode 8 of season 2 of the sketch comedy series The Whitest Kids U’ Know. Note that this was from way back in 2008 but sadly it is still relevant.
It’s amazing to watch older programs and see what we recognized them. There is an improv show that began in the UK and moved to the US with a new host, then replaced the host again. Each episode consists of different tasks where the team of three plus one rotating fourth take turns improvising in front of a studio audience--for example, one regular task is to make up a song about (topic) in (specific music style) and another is a host of a party welcoming different characters, and at the end, the host has to guess what each character was.
Another regular task is for the improv comedians to watch an old black-and-white movie and do voice-overs for each of the characters. In an episode from 2020 that recently aired in a string of reruns, the group took a movie with a scientist in a lab talking to visitors, and turned it into a day spa with people requesting facials, etc. In the movie, the characters are talking when suddenly a man in a Nazi uniform breaks into the room, grabs one of the visitors, and drags them away. Remember, this is 2020.
The show’s audience was shocked and the host stopped the movie. One of the improv actors quipped, “That got dark fast” and the host spluttered out, “That took a left turn”. Another improv actor said, “That took a FAR RIGHT turn,” another actor muttered “Trump,” and the audience agreed.
What that told me was that even in 2020, under Trump, even the studio audience and the people whose job it is to be silly for 30 minutes a week recognized the Trump was going full Nazi, and that people were rightfully shocked about random people being kidnapped by Nazis.
Holmssays
Why not just say Whose Line Is It Anyway? Sheesh.
Katydidsays
@Holmes; because not everyone has seen the show. Sheesh.
sonofrojblakesays
If only the fact they’re reading this meant that they are therefore litetally in the act of operating a machine that can instantly tell them more than any person could possibly need to know about it, should they be curious. Sheesh.
beholdersays
@2 Holmes and @4 sonofrojblake are right.
Holmes has more powers of perception than I do, because I used to watch WLIIA all the time and I couldn’t pick it out of @1 Katydid’s trademark-free description if I had a gun pointed at my head.
Katydidsays
Wow, that’s certainly very pissy of all of you. I described a tv show enough to set the context of my point. Some non-USA people might not have access to the show so the title doesn’t matter, and some people won’t care about it enough to go searching for the title, because the point of the post was that information was out there years ago.
But sure, you can be as pedant as you want if that’s how you get your self-esteem, I guess. Sheesh.
It’s amazing to watch older programs and see what we recognized them. There is an improv show that began in the UK and moved to the US with a new host, then replaced the host again. Each episode consists of different tasks where the team of three plus one rotating fourth take turns improvising in front of a studio audience--for example, one regular task is to make up a song about (topic) in (specific music style) and another is a host of a party welcoming different characters, and at the end, the host has to guess what each character was.
Another regular task is for the improv comedians to watch an old black-and-white movie and do voice-overs for each of the characters. In an episode from 2020 that recently aired in a string of reruns, the group took a movie with a scientist in a lab talking to visitors, and turned it into a day spa with people requesting facials, etc. In the movie, the characters are talking when suddenly a man in a Nazi uniform breaks into the room, grabs one of the visitors, and drags them away. Remember, this is 2020.
The show’s audience was shocked and the host stopped the movie. One of the improv actors quipped, “That got dark fast” and the host spluttered out, “That took a left turn”. Another improv actor said, “That took a FAR RIGHT turn,” another actor muttered “Trump,” and the audience agreed.
What that told me was that even in 2020, under Trump, even the studio audience and the people whose job it is to be silly for 30 minutes a week recognized the Trump was going full Nazi, and that people were rightfully shocked about random people being kidnapped by Nazis.
Why not just say Whose Line Is It Anyway? Sheesh.
@Holmes; because not everyone has seen the show. Sheesh.
If only the fact they’re reading this meant that they are therefore litetally in the act of operating a machine that can instantly tell them more than any person could possibly need to know about it, should they be curious. Sheesh.
@2 Holmes and @4 sonofrojblake are right.
Holmes has more powers of perception than I do, because I used to watch WLIIA all the time and I couldn’t pick it out of @1 Katydid’s trademark-free description if I had a gun pointed at my head.
Wow, that’s certainly very pissy of all of you. I described a tv show enough to set the context of my point. Some non-USA people might not have access to the show so the title doesn’t matter, and some people won’t care about it enough to go searching for the title, because the point of the post was that information was out there years ago.
But sure, you can be as pedant as you want if that’s how you get your self-esteem, I guess. Sheesh.