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Mr. T PSA

Key & Peele
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A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.

The setup

In a grainy retro public service announcement, Mr. T keeps materializing to scold two playground kids for every petty insult except the ones that actually matter.

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

Presented like a faded 1980s after-school message about respect, two children trade insults at a picnic table, on a jungle gym and on the swings. Each time, Mr. T bursts into frame to lecture them on not mocking clothes or names, while shrugging off their schemes involving strangers, drugs and alcohol. When one kid finally jabs at the other's hair, Mr. T leads backup singers in a full song about hurtful haircut jokes, and the lesson collapses into a tearful confession about his own scalp.

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Highly quotable.

I pity the fool that judges another man's clothing.

A person's hair is the artwork that they present to the heavens.

It's not even a haircut. It's a rare form of male pattern baldness.

A little extra

Notes from the archive.

Wikipedia's Key & Peele episode list refers to this sketch as "When Mr. T Won't Leave You Alone"; Comedy Central's clip is titled "Mr. T PSA."

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