We’re rolling through every episode of Key and Peele on Pop Thruster. Here we go with “Airplane Showdown,” Season 5 Episode 2. Follow along on the journey!
Also: check out ALL 351 Key & Peele Sketches Ranked (In Painstakingly Funny Detail)!
Joey Blunts in the Morning
“Why y’all always clowning on Meatball?” – Meatball
A great parody of a ridiculously over-the-top “morning zoo”-style radio show quickly turns on its head when we see what the crew is up to during the commercial break. Example: Meatball (Peele) busts out his ship in a bottle project. A really short, really funny sketch that I wish could have gone on longer.
Key & Peele On the Road: Part Thirteen
“I’ll meet you at the toilet – bring me an Advil and a ginger ale.” – Peele
K&P are back on the road out west, chitchatting away about all manner of things as an interstitial between sketches during the fourth and fifth seasons. Topics include hot stewardesses, sexists and extracurriculars, double dates, and the rituals of religion.
Airplane Showdown
“That’s not a word, that’s a tongue trick.” – Mark
Peele’s airline employee character is back (we find out his name is Mark), this time as a flight attendant who gets into a bizarre standoff with Key, who would very much like to go to the bathroom after the seat belt sign has turned on. While it’s funny, I struggle with this one a bit because the violent level of turbulence that this airplane experiences is actually super not funny.
Money Trick
(Wacky old timey sound effect)
This delightfully strange sketch with a decidedly old timey look and feel includes zero dialog. Key is a kindly elder gent who clearly enjoys making little kids smile with his friendly ways and cute (old timey) where’d that quarter come from behind your ear? trick. But what if the little boy had real money pouring out of his ear, and we’re talking serious cash here…
Two Old Boys
“You can’t deny the local customs!” – Gerald
Sometimes, a great sketch involves nothing more than K&P sitting and talking, aided of course by brilliant costumes, hair, makeup, and sets. Here we have the fellas (who might both be named Gerald?) as 19th Century British aristocrats, older gentlemen regaling their tales of adventures among the “less civilized” peoples of the world… which always seems to have involved some bizarre sexual “rituals” that they “grudgingly” became embroiled in.
Menstruation Orientation
“Be nice to your bitches when they bleeding.” – Shaboots Michaels and T-Ray Tombstone (in unison)
Shaboots Michaels (Key) and T-Ray Tombstone (Peele) are back (see also: “Cunnilingus Class”), two pimpish-ly dressed hustlers-meets-TED Talk style speakers. This time around they’re here to make sure all the men out there are “sensitive to that s—” when it comes to the ladies having their time of the month. While I enjoy these characters well enough, I was cool with graduating after the first round with these two.
No Spoilers
“We got cheesecake.” – Peele
Wherein two couples (Regina Hall and Danielle Hall guest star as the significant others of K&P) have dinner and find the potential topics they can discuss increasingly limited by the possibility of spoiling an outcome of one kind or another. This one is more cute than funny, but does speak nicely to our perpetually online, voraciously content on demand culture.
Prayer Circle Miracle
“Just want to clarify… everything?” — Peele
This short and silly one plays around with the notion of what is a religious miracle versus what might be a supernatural haunting. In essence, things get real when God descends on a prayer group and demands that they sell their earthly possessions and “begin in service to the poor.”
Some stats and info about Key & Peele, “Airplane Showdown”
TV SHOW – Key and Peele
SEASON/EPISODE – Season 5, Episode 2
AIRED ON – July 15th, 2015
NETWORK/STREAMING SERVICE – Comedy Central/Hulu
GENRE – Comedy, Sketch Comedy
CREATED BY – Keegan-Michael Key, Jordan Peele