We’re rolling through every episode of Key and Peele on Pop Thruster. Here we go with “A Cappella Club,” Season 5 Episode 3. Follow along on the journey!
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1-888-Beards-4-Kids
“What if I told you that all it took was just one beard?” – Peele
This one takes a particularly dark premise – children getting abducted in a war-torn African country – and tries to turn it silly with the notion that charitable donations will protect kids by disguising them with costume beards, canes, and walkers. Upside: we get a particularly sad and forlorn Peele performance.
Key & Peele On the Road: Part Fourteen
“I would be called The Puppeteer. I’d be a super villain.” – 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 having rhythm, what you’re supposed to do on a date, memorable villains, and jumping in full dingle.
A Cappella Club
“You think I’m gonna roll over for some falsetto ass motherf—er?” – Troy
This one reminds me that the essence of great comedy sketches isn’t always just great jokes and comedic performances – it’s in quickly and skillfully setting up conflict from which the comedy can spring from. Here we get Troy (Peele) as the “soulful” member of an otherwise all white a capella school club, but things get real when new member Troy (Key) – with his dazzling falsetto prowess – rolls up. As the ending title card advises us: stop Black on Black violence.
Diner Convo
Meegan (Peele), the world’s most nightmarish girlfriend, and Andre (Key), the affable yet deeply dense boyfriend, are back. In this chapter of what is at this point a trilogy, we get Meegan freaking out about not getting served water fast enough at a diner. I’m not entirely convinced that these characters deserved a sequel, let alone a third chapter.
Operation: Food Truck Infiltration
“Did you say $9 for one – pretty good margins.” – Brother Mustafa
Key and Satya Bhabha (Matthew Patel from the iconic Scott Pilgrim vs. the World) are sleeper cell agents who have fallen into the embrace of Western capitalism by way of raking it in from the “bottomless pit of money” that is their fusion burger food truck operation. Brother Mustafa (Peele) calls the boys out on forgetting their real mission, before going all if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.
Straight Hitting the Bricks
“You know a musician named Drink?” – Walden
Walden (Key) and Otis (Peele) are two older gentlemen enjoying a night out together at a bar, whereupon their evening is interrupted when a younger man (Titus Makin Jr., who played Jackson West on The Rookie) inquires if they’re into Drake. If you’re into K&P doing some old dude riffing, you might enjoy this one, but otherwise it’s pretty meh.
Some stats and info about Key & Peele, “A Cappella Club”
TV SHOW – Key and Peele
SEASON/EPISODE – Season 5, Episode 3
AIRED ON – July 22nd, 2015
NETWORK/STREAMING SERVICE – Comedy Central/Hulu
GENRE – Comedy, Sketch Comedy
CREATED BY – Keegan-Michael Key, Jordan Peele