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Jaq's Thanksgiving Monologue

Mad TV1998Season 4Episode 9
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The setup

Jaq the UBS Guy wanders onto the Thanksgiving-decorated MADtv stage to explain what the holiday means to him and gets tangled up in its name.

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

In one of the Thanksgiving episode's interludes, Jaq the UBS Guy strolls out in his brown courier uniform onto a stage dressed with paper turkeys, explaining that the show invited him to share what the holiday means to him. He likes the idea at first, then finds it strange, because surely the day means the same thing to everyone: eating with your family and feeling grateful. Turning the word over, he decides the name must come from thanking someone for a gift, then worries that it has the order backwards, since the giving comes before the thanks, and that a properly ordered name would need a second round of thanks on the end, which makes it far too long. Giving up on the puzzle, he cheerfully settles on the fact that there will be pie and ambles back offstage.

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Highly quotable.

I thought, cool. Then I thought, weird.

It's kind of a long name for a holiday.

Behind the scenes

The people who made it.

A little extra

Notes from the archive.

Part of the November 21, 1998 Thanksgiving episode's runner in which several regular characters, including the Larkins, Lida and Melina, Ms. Swan and Sally Kowalski, each tell the audience what the holiday means to them.

ScriptEnglish · 16 turns

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

  1. 00:04

    Jaq

    Hey, I'm Jack.

  2. 00:06

    Jaq

    Mad TV asked me to come out here and talk to you about what Thanksgiving means to me.

  3. 00:09

    Jaq

    I thought, cool.

  4. 00:11

    Jaq

    Then I thought, weird.

  5. 00:12

    Jaq

    I mean, doesn't Thanksgiving mean the same thing to everybody?

  6. 00:15

    Jaq

    I mean, it's like, you know, Thanksgiving.

  7. 00:17

    Jaq

    You know, you like, eat with your family and you're like all thankful.

  8. 00:20

    Jaq

    I mean, the way you are when somebody gives you something.

  9. 00:22

    Jaq

    Whoa, wait a minute. Like, thanks and then giving. See?

  10. 00:25

    Jaq

    Guess that's where they got the name.

  11. 00:26

    Jaq

    I mean, only thing is, you don't say thanks before somebody gives you something.

  12. 00:29

    Jaq

    It's not like, thanks and then giving.

  13. 00:31

    Jaq

    you know it's like giving and then thanks yeah although I guess even if it

  14. 00:36

    Jaq

    was thanks and then giving I mean you still just say thanks afterwards be like

  15. 00:39

    Jaq

    thanks giving thanks it's kind of a long name for a holiday either way it's cool

  16. 00:44

    Jaq

    there's always pie

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