We’re rolling through every episode of Key and Peele on Pop Thruster. Here we go with “Severed Head Showcase,” Season 5 Episode 4. Follow along on the journey!
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Church Choir Rehearsal
“Not everything is about you, Gina.” – The entire church choir
Charles – a character we never end up meeting – is late for church choir practice, which is really just an excuse for what’s perhaps one of the most wholesome K&P sketches to ever air. This of course doesn’t prevent Key and Peele’s church choir members from getting into it during a song (lift up to the lord!) about who is hitting the right note (you’re going higher than your note!). Bigger laughs follow as the entire choir gets involved.
Key & Peele On the Road: Part Fifteen
“Are you not Danny Glover’s son?” – 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 Swahili for “get me out of here,” gullibility, selling out, and feeling out of place.
Severed Head Showcase
“ARHHHHHH…. Hmm…” – Peele
In this dialog-free sketch, we see Peele vanquish a combatant during some kind of brutal tribal battle. After he chops his opponent’s head off with his sword, his fellow tribesmen howl in triumph. Now that he has a rapt crowd, Peele feels obliged to play to them by using the severed head as a prop in various comedic bits. But as any live performer and stand-up comic well knows, an audience’s attention span can be both short and mercurial.
Bloomfield State Penitentiary
“It doesn’t seem like you understand what your job is.” – Peele
Key is the world’s most gullible prison corrections officer and everything he says and does in this one – including simply saying “oh okay” – is deeply hilarious.
TeachingCenter
“See what she did there? She’s bringing an introvert into the discussion, y’all. That’s a teacher of the year play right there.” — Boyd Maxwell
In this spot-on parody of ESPN’s SportsCenter, Perry Schmidt (Peele) and Boyd Maxwell (Key) cover education as though the nation is obsessed with every aspect of it. It’s both funny on its face – including “breaking news” that a teacher, Ruby Ruhf (who later appears in an tacked on fake BMW ad with tagline, Meet the new Teacher’s Pet) is “taking her talents back to New York City for $80 million guaranteed over six years” – and a fabulous satire designed to make us think about what our true priorities are as a society.
Share An Opinion
“I really feel like you’re an asshole who has nothing interesting to say.” – Key
A very typical conversation about pop culture among co-workers over lunch takes a very atypical turn when Key refuses to accept Peele and crew’s reaction to his hot take on Christopher Nolan’s Batman franchise.
Some stats and info about Key & Peele, “Severed Head Showcase”
TV SHOW – Key and Peele
SEASON/EPISODE – Season 5, Episode 4
AIRED ON – July 29th, 2015
NETWORK/STREAMING SERVICE – Comedy Central/Hulu
GENRE – Comedy, Sketch Comedy
CREATED BY – Keegan-Michael Key, Jordan Peele