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Instant Personality

Mad TV 1995 Season 1 Episode 12

SKETCH-O-VISION

A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.

The setup

A fake ad shows a dead party revived by a bottle of blue liquid that gives everyone who drinks it a loud, exaggerated personality, followed by a rapid-fire list of side effects.

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

At a stiff, miserable gathering that has just come from a funeral, a hostess in a teal dress pulls out Instant Personality, a blue syrup she promises will make every guest charming. Her husband pours drinks for the room, and within seconds the crowd turns into a whirl of cartoonish party personas: a hammy French exclamation, a Jerry Lewis impression, a Mexican-accented shout, a would-be surfer and a hoedown-loving cowboy, all dancing, hugging and climbing on the furniture. A chipper narrator then races through a legal disclaimer of side effects that escalate from shaking and vomiting to disintegrating bones and non-intercourse pregnancy, before the product shot closes the spot.

The funny people

Meet the cast. 1

Debra Wilson

Party Host

Say it with us

Highly quotable.

I think we discovered the cure for insomnia.

Just a couple of drops in everyone's drink and voila! Everyone's got a bubbly, sassy, fun personality.

The instantaneous disintegration of bones, teeth movement, the loosening of internal organs, or non-intercourse pregnancy.

ScriptEnglish · 16 turns

Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.

00:04
Speaker 2
Just got back from your grandfather's funeral, huh?
00:06
Speaker 3
Yeah.
00:07
Speaker 2
Your grandpa was a nice guy.
00:09
Speaker 3
Thanks.
00:10
Speaker 2
God knows what that undertaker did to make his complexion so gray.
00:14
Party Host
Honey, our party's a disaster.
00:16
Speaker 1
You're telling me. I think we discovered the cure for insomnia. What in the dickens?
00:21
Party Host
Honey, this will make everyone charming. It's new and improved Instant Personality. Why, just a couple of drops in everyone's drink and voila! Everyone's got a bubbly, sassy, fun personality.
00:31
Speaker 1
Come on, hon, start pouring the Instant Personality.
00:35
Speaker 1
A toast to our good friends. Bottoms up.
00:43
Speaker 5
Sacre bleu! I love the Jerry Lewis. Thank you, Instant Personality.
00:49
Speaker 6
Ay caramba, watch out, because senorita personality is here.
00:54
Speaker 7
Hey, who wants to play Surfer Boy? Nothing like sex between two straight guys, huh?
00:59
Speaker 1
Come on, hon, let's join the hoedown. Well, you know I love a cowpoke.
01:03
Speaker 4
So. So make your next party an Instant Personality party. The makers of Instant Personality are not legally responsible for any of the following affections, smelling, swallowing, or ingesting of Instant Personality. Inexplicable shaking of the extremities, clinical depression, uncontrollable projectile vomiting, instant-orbit obesity, the instantaneous disintegration of bones, teeth movement, the loosening of internal organs, or non-intercourse pregnancy.
01:29
Speaker 4
Try Instant Personality at your next party. You're gonna love it.