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You Can't Fight a Guy with a Baby

Key & Peele 2012 Season 2 Episode 9

SKETCH-O-VISION

A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.

The setup

A dad carrying his infant at the playground discovers that a baby makes him untouchable, so he starts the fight he would normally avoid.

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Community rating

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The funny people

Meet the cast. 2

Highly quotable.

Well, you're lucky I'm carrying this baby.

I need a baby. Thank you.

The premise

Here’s the bit.

A pickup-basketball regular in a headband bumps into a man wearing a baby carrier, then backs down the moment he sees the infant. The dad quickly realizes the baby protects him from any punishment, and he turns from apologetic to belligerent, taunting the other man and daring him to swing. The other man's friends watch as the insults pile up, until the dad slaps him and the situation finally tips over. When the other man stops holding back, the dad improvises by grabbing a stranger's baby from a bench, then strapping on more and more babies as a ridiculous shield, leaving his opponent with no way to retaliate.

A little extra

Notes from the archive.

The Season 2 episode that aired on November 21, 2012, "Gangsta Standoff," includes this sketch, in which Key straps a pile of babies to himself as armor.