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Ishboo the Foreign Exchange Student Goes to School

All That 1995 Season 1 Episode 6

SKETCH-O-VISION

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The setup

A foreign exchange student with unsettling customs arrives in a French class, and his teacher bends over backwards to make him feel at home until the demands pile up.

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The funny people

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Highly quotable.

In my foreign land we believe that yellow is bad.

The premise

Here’s the bit.

Miss Fingerly introduces her class to a special visitor, the exchange student Ishboo, and urges everyone to do things his way. Ishboo greets the room with oversized emotion, then objects to the color of the students' textbooks and insists that anything yellow be disposed of. His next rules arrive faster and stranger, from refusing to eat at an odd hour to the lunchtime etiquette he expects, while the teacher keeps apologizing and accommodating him. The class watches the cultural-sensitivity lesson spiral as Ishboo's customs take over the room.

A little extra

Notes from the archive.

This sketch comes from the sixth episode of All That's first season, hosted by Malcolm-Jamal Warner with musical guest Brandy. Kenan Thompson's Ishboo was a recurring character, and Lori Beth Denberg played the teacher Miss Fingerly in the school sketches.