We’re rolling through every episode of Key and Peele on Pop Thruster. Here we go with “Y’all Ready For This?” Season 5 Episode 1. Follow along on the journey!
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Countdown to Kickoff
“Play this game like it’s the last game of your lives.” – Ducklings
It’s really fun when a K&P sketch feels like it’s going to have a natural endpoint, but then keeps going, morphing into something newer, stranger, and funnier than its initial premise. The Rhinos are amping themselves up before taking the field for The Big Game, with Ducklings (Peele) and Jammie-Jammie (Key) trading cliches (Let’s leave it all on the field today!) to help rev the team up. And then suddenly/somehow it’s something different completely: we’re at the end of a tense thriller, Jammie-Jammie with a samurai sword in the bowels of the stadium as the clock ticks down… and it’s just great.
Key & Peele On the Road: Part Twelve
“There was a 45-minute silence, and then that’s the first question?”
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 farting euphemisms, drunk dudes on trains, male feminists, and going to the bathroom on the road.
Luther, Obama’s Anger Translator #12
“I pretended to like you for seven years.” – Luther
In this twelfth outing of President Obama (Peele) and his anger translator, Luther (Key), we get the twist of having the pair run into Hillary Clinton (Kate Burton, who I know best as Vice President Sally Langston on Scandal) and her anger translator, Savannah (Stephanie Weir). I wasn’t finding this iteration of the sketch particularly funny, and then just got flat out bummed out when Obama says, “I got a feeling that come 2016, you and Bill will be back in the White House.”
Weirdos On a Plane
“We gon’ be eatin’ like Diane Keaton.” – Peele
There’s so much to love about this one: K&P are in cahoots – with perhaps the most insane facial hair and wig games that the show has ever produced, which is saying something – on an airplane as guest star Malcolm Barrett does amazing work as the straight man utterly baffled by these two super weirdos on a plane. We also get god tier messing around with language: terrorists become terries for example, and by the time Key says, “We gon’ draxx him up,” we’re all just along for the ride.
Ho is Disrespectful, Yo
“‘Cause it’s ‘Yo Ho!’ but we don’t say ‘ho’, ‘cause ho is disrespectful, yo.” – Chorus
One part pirate musical with a strikingly feminist sensibility, two parts hilarious, and all kinds of amazing. Also: look out for the guest stars here, including Will Sasso and Rebecca Romijn as the Pirate Captain.
Color Aware Cop
“Anyway, the last seven came out of nowhere.” – Key
Key is a white cop who happens to run into people with guns everywhere. Well, all the people just happen to be Black, but…
Some stats and info about Key & Peele, “Y’all Ready For This?”
TV SHOW – Key and Peele
SEASON/EPISODE – Season 5, Episode 1
AIRED ON – July 8th, 2015
NETWORK/STREAMING SERVICE – Comedy Central/Hulu
GENRE – Comedy, Sketch Comedy
CREATED BY – Keegan-Michael Key, Jordan Peele