We’re rolling through every episode of Key and Peele on Pop Thruster. Here we go with “The End,” Season 5 Episode 11. Follow along on the journey!
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Who You Gonna Call?
“When Armageddon is near, you better get out of here / Looking like a deep impact… I ain’t afraid of no ‘stroid.” – Ray Parker, Jr.
It’s way too much of an oversimplification to say that “some sketches write themselves,” but we can agree that some premises lend themselves to being hilarious right out of the gate. Such is the case here, where we have Ray Parker, Jr. (Peele), “writer and performer of the Academy Award-nominated hit single, ‘Ghostbusters,’ from the major motion picture, Ghostbusters,” who now presents us with “3 Volumes of Never Used Hits” from “other major motion picture theme songs.”
Deez Nuts
“These nuts passed away on your chin.” – Vince
Set in a super dramatic tone, this one is weird, sort of dark, and overall pretty funny (especially if you’re sort of aware of the way that some people – young dudes, more or less back in the day, I’d take it? – will use deez nuts as a joke. In any event, Vince (Peele) literally can’t stop turning everything into a deez nuts thing until tragedy strikes. Bonus I: Jordan Peele’s (kind of) dramatic acting chops are quite strong. Bonus II: look out for Charles Robinson (Mac from the original Night Court!) as Vince’s pops.
Key & Peele On the Road: Part Twenty-Two
“Key & Peele, Dallas, Twilight Zone.” – 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 the first sketch that K&P ever performed, scenarios in which white people have soul, acting tips, and finally getting to the place at the end of the long road. I said…
Love at First Sight?
“I just didn’t picture it happening this way.” – Key
When an attractive woman (K.D. Aubert) passes out on the street near Key, he’s frozen – not so much in fear of what to do, but by her striking beauty.
Negrotown
“Follow me to a place I know, where there ain’t no pain, ain’t no sorrow…” – Wally
When Key gets harassed by a cop for no other reason than he’s Black, everything suddenly changes when a hobo named Wally (Peele) whisks them away to a magical utopia for Black people called Negrotown – which becomes a wide-ranging, cheerful, old school musical number to boot. But was it all just a dream? Well, yes. Yes, it was.
Blooper Reel
“My name’s Wendell, and I too am a sexual.” – Wendell
This isn’t a sketch as much of a montage of outtakes and bloopers from the entire Key & Peele series. It’s funny in of itself while highlighting the astonishing amount of outstanding hilarity and satire the boys produced over five seasons.
Some stats and info about Key & Peele, “The End”
TV SHOW – Key and Peele
SEASON/EPISODE – Season 5, Episode 11
AIRED ON – September 9th, 2015
NETWORK/STREAMING SERVICE – Comedy Central/Hulu
GENRE – Comedy, Sketch Comedy
CREATED BY – Keegan-Michael Key, Jordan Peele