We’re rolling through every episode of Key and Peele on Pop Thruster. Here we go with “Scariest Movie Ever,” Season 4 Episode 6. Follow along on the journey!
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The Doorway Dance
“There is a seat in this house with your name on it, girl.” – Key
A pleasant interaction/debate of the I just stopped by to say hello!-versus-I insist that you come inside for a visit! kind smash cuts to a bitingly funny horror-comedy twist.
Key & Peele On the Road: Part Six
“Leave that kid, stab that baby!” – Key
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 horror movie experiences, the appeal of vampires versus werewolves, and the Make A Wish organization.
Scariest Movie Ever
“How you gonna scare a couple of adults with a puddle?” – Peele
An excellent parody of two dudes leaving the horror movie talking about how stupid the flick was but actually being super freaked out and unnerved by it.
Hall of Mirrors
“The games are just beginning, Detective.” – Peele
You can feel Jordan Peele’s skills as a future A List movie director refining themselves in this one, which expertly parodies the climactic scene in which a cop chases down a crazed serial killer. Except what if the crazed serial killer isn’t nearly as good at setting up his Hall of Mirrors trap as he had hoped?
The Not So Good Stuff
“But there’s gotta be a good part?” – Kumail Nanjiani
Key and a few buddies (one played by Kumail Nanjiani of Silicon Valley and lots of other things fame) break away from the party to smoke some weed, whereupon they stumble into a really creepy Peele. Our guy offers the boys “some of that god drug” before rattling off a bunch of other “street names” such as Cutty Cutty, Long Island Brain Slice, and Funt. The comedy stems from the fellas getting weirded out by Peele and that they hold zero interest in the trip he’s laying in front of them.
The Morgue
“It’s definitely not him.” – Peele
This one is so… let’s say out there, and filled with so many multiple misdirects that I’ll just say it starts out with a blind man (Peele) identifying a body at a morgue. And I’m just gonna go ahead and leave it there.
Make A Wish
“I wish to drown a man… in the bathtub.” – Liam
Peele excels at playing creepy characters, and here he’s a super evil vibed little boy named Liam in a cancer treatment ward or some such, with Dr. Gupta (Key) and Marion Glass (Lauren Lapkus) from the Make A Wish foundation learning that you should be careful when telling someone they can wish for anything they want.
The Heart Transplant
“This is an instance of Obamacare literally saving a life.” – Surgeon
Man, this one is a bit of a gut punch – and it’s all the more effective for it – from the perspective of the early days of Trump 2.0. In short: after a successful heart transplant, a surgeon (Key) tells his patient that his life was saved thanks to Obamacare, which causes the dude to cut off his nose to spite his face. Except replace “cut off his nose” with “rips out his own heart.”
Some stats and info about Key & Peele, “Scariest Movie Ever”
TV SHOW – Key and Peele
SEASON/EPISODE – Season 4, Episode 6
AIRED ON – October 29th, 2014
NETWORK/STREAMING SERVICE – Comedy Central/Hulu
GENRE – Comedy, Sketch Comedy
CREATED BY – Keegan-Michael Key, Jordan Peele