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Continental Breakfast
SKETCH-O-VISION
A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.
The setup
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The premise
Here’s the bit.
A hotel guest is astonished to learn that breakfast comes with his room. He treats packaged cereal, pastries, yogurt and a plastic utensil as exotic luxuries, turning a simple buffet into an ecstatic culinary tour. After deciding to stay indefinitely, he receives an unsettling revelation from the clerk, and an old photograph places him in the hotel’s past.
The funny people
Meet the cast. 5
Say it with us
Highly quotable.
I love being incontinent.
I'll have what I'm having.
Behind the scenes
The people who made it.
Peter Atencio
Director
A little extra
Notes from the archive.
Room 237, the clerk’s final revelation and the closing period photograph echo The Shining. Director Peter Atencio’s own upload describes the setting as the Hilton Overlook Suites.
Script
Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.
- 00:02
you
- 00:05
Davis
will be in room 237 and you have free Wi-Fi there also from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. every morning there's a free continental breakfast
- 00:14
Conrad
Oh continental breakfast
- 00:20
Davis
yes from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m.
- 00:24
Conrad
so it's continental then
- 00:26
Davis
mm-hmm
- 00:26
Conrad
very good but
- 00:35
Conrad
Garcon haha a one admission for the continental breakfast you
- 00:42
Ricardo
You can just help yourself, sir.
- 00:43
Conrad
Oh, interesting. European style.
- 00:54
Conrad
When in Rome, the forbidden fruit. Oh, well, aren't you a tiny plum? La-di-da. Vapor and everything. everything.
- 01:19
Conrad
And who are you, my little friend? Not a spoon, not a fork, but something in between. A fopoon. What will you think of next, Germany?
- 01:35
Conrad
All the European countries lay before me. Where should I fly to first?
- 01:49
Conrad
The pit of the donut. Mmm, thank you, Turkey.
- 01:56
Conrad
Mm, buckle up. Let's see where we shall go next.
- 02:00
Conrad
Ah, the Danish. Clearly from Brussels. Mm. Mm! Mm! Mm!
- 02:09
Conrad
Hello, Greece. Where the yogurt flows like water.
- 02:13
Conrad
Yes. Like go-gurt, but to stay.
- 02:19
Conrad
Mm. Mm! Mm! So good! Mm!
- 02:25
Conrad
Pulling into Spain. Bake to perfection.
- 02:31
Conrad
And he believes it. It all comes with the room.
- 02:40
Conrad
I love being incontinent. I love being incontinent.
- 02:46
Conrad
I delight to the senses. Isn't it my friend? Isn't it? I'm having what I'm having.
- 03:06
Conrad
So good.
- 03:14
Davis
Oh, good afternoon, sir. How can I help you?
- 03:16
Conrad
Well, Davis, I will be staying indefinitely.
- 03:22
Davis
But sir, don't you know that you've always been here?
- 03:32
Conrad
Really?
- 03:33
Davis
Mm-hmm.
- 03:34
Continental breakfast?
- 03:36
Davis
Right around the corner.
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