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Ishboo Goes to a Sleepover

All That
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The setup

A foreign exchange student invited to a friend's sleepover turns the whole household upside down with his bizarre customs.

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

Arnie's mother and father wait up as the schoolmate he invited to stay the night finally arrives, and Arnie has to explain that his guest is a very foreign exchange student named Ishboo. Ishboo shows up bearing an odd gift, greets Arnie's parents with a startling display of affection and then makes a string of increasingly unreasonable demands about food, bedtime and who gets the bed. As Arnie tries to keep the peace, the family bends over backward to follow his customs until a late-night drink request and the stroke of a mysterious hour send the evening off the rails.

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Notes from the archive.

This sketch comes from the eighth episode of All That's second season, which aired December 2, 1995 with musical guest Soul for Real. Kenan Thompson's Ishboo, the foreign exchange student with outlandish customs, was a recurring character on the show.

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