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Alien Imposters
SKETCH-O-VISION
A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.
The setup
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The premise
Here’s the bit.
After an alien invasion levels a city, two armed survivors, one in a purple cardigan and one in a blue polo, pick through the rubble screening every stranger they meet for disguised invaders. A cheerful long-haired redneck who invites them to join his community of survivors is shot on sight and revealed as an alien, and so is a suited white man who is far too eager to agree that a Black man could date his daughter. A terrified young blonde woman wins their trust by rattling off her Black best friend and her favorite Black pop culture, and joins them. A Black man in a do-rag gives himself away when a question about the police has him praising the band's third album, and a preppy man with a sweater knotted around his shoulders, who treats his rescuers like valets, gets a bullet in the forehead while their new companion looks on in alarm.
The funny people
Meet the cast. 7
Say it with us
Highly quotable.
What do you think about the police?
Well, I love their third album.
It's a silver Lexus. Just pull it right up front.
Behind the scenes
The people who made it.
A little extra
Notes from the archive.
The sketch's blockbuster look, with long blue lens flares and a city in ruins, was singled out in The A.V. Club's review of the season 4 premiere, the first season in which Key and Peele dropped their live-audience host segments.
Script
Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.
- 00:10
Survivor
You Gotta be Gotta be careful here. This place is crawling with them.
- 00:18
Survivor
What was that?
- 00:19
Survivor
What? Cover me.
- 00:27
Redneck
Guys! Hey, guys! Hey, guys! Oh, thank God. And we started a community of survivors. Y'all come live with us.
- 00:36
How
- 00:49
Survivor
Wait, did you know?
- 00:52
Survivor
Come on. Redneck wants us to move into his community. Us?
- 00:58
Survivor
Let's go.
- 01:05
Scared White Guy
Over here! Oh thank god there are others!
- 01:11
Survivor
Would you let me date your daughter?
- 01:13
Scared White Guy
Of course! And
- 01:20
Emily
Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god! Please don't hurt me! Uh, my best friend's black and I love Jay-Z, and my favorite movie is Think Like a Man.
- 01:32
Survivor
She's good.
- 01:32
Survivor
Come with us.
- 01:33
Survivor
stay close okay
- 01:34
Survivor
what's your name
- 01:35
Emily
emily
- 01:36
Survivor
of course it is
- 01:37
The Police Alien
don't shoot don't shoot
- 01:46
Survivor
what do you think about the police
- 01:50
The Police Alien
i love the third album
- 01:52
have I don't any money i have no money thank
- 02:13
Rich White Guy
Oh my god, oh my god, god you guys showed up i gotta get out of here it's a silver lexus just pull it right up front and don't scuff the paint all right i just had it buffed
- 02:24
Emily
alien Was he an too
- 02:36
Survivor
yep
The rabbit hole continues
One more couldn’t hurt.
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