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Darlene McBride's Thanksgiving Album
SKETCH-O-VISION
A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.
The setup
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The premise
Here’s the bit.
In a mail-order commercial for Liberty Records, flag-draped country singer Darlene McBride explains what she is thankful for and offers a holiday collection celebrating the settlers who drove Native Americans off their land. Between snippets of upbeat tracks, an announcer rattles off a list of song titles built on crude stereotypes, and Darlene pauses to share her own sincere, wildly ignorant asides about history. The joke is the gap between her wholesome Americana presentation and the bigotry baked into every song, which escalates until a final sitar-backed number lets her insult yet another group.
The funny people
Meet the cast. 1
Say it with us
Highly quotable.
Arrows against bullets, what were they thinking?
Talk about wasting your natural resources, huh?
Behind the scenes
The people who made it.
Bruce Leddy
Director
A little extra
Notes from the archive.
Nicole Sullivan's Darlene McBride album commercials recurred across several Mad TV seasons; this Thanksgiving edition aired in the episode broadcast the weekend before Thanksgiving 2000.
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