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Vera the Psychic Lady

Mad TV 2002 Season 8 Episode 21

SKETCH-O-VISION

A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.

The setup

Chain-smoking stage psychic Vera Mangus returns to read the MADtv studio audience, delivering messages from a grandmother who is still alive and a spirit guide nobody would want.

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Community rating

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

Introduced to the studio audience, gray-haired psychic Vera Mangus (Stephnie Weir) takes the stage with her cigarette and ashtray and goes straight to work. She presses one man about a mysterious pig-farming connection, then asks whether he is a police officer, then decides he works with his hands; when he turns out to be a health inspector, she mocks his job and moves on. She next tells a young woman that her grandmother's spirit is reaching out, and when the woman points out that her grandmother is alive and well, Vera insists she knew that all along and that the message is simply to stop worrying. Vera then announces that the woman's spirit guide has arrived, patiently explains what a spirit guide is, and reveals that hers has taken the form of prop comic Carrot Top. She closes with a piece of coffee-chain wisdom about life and waves goodbye.

The funny people

Meet the cast. 1

Stephnie Weir

Vera Mangus

Psychic

Say it with us

Highly quotable.

You do that with your feet?

Honey, your grandmother is coming through.

Lives are like Starbucks. There's always another one around the corner.

Behind the scenes

The people who made it.

Bruce Leddy
Director

ScriptEnglish · 12 turns

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

00:03
Speaker 1
Ladies and gentlemen, Vera, the Psychic Lady.
00:10
Vera Mangus
Significance in pig farmer. Simon, I feel so strong. Do you have a pig?
00:18
Speaker 2 ?
No. I have a pig.
00:19
Vera Mangus
No, you don't. No, I don't think so. Are you a cop?
00:24
Speaker 2 ?
No, but some people think I am.
00:26
Vera Mangus ?
Some people do. Yes, they certainly do. I see you're an artist or a carpenter. You work with your hands. Hey, sweetie.
00:40
Speaker 2
I'm a health inspector.
00:42
Vera Mangus
A health inspector. You inspect things?
00:44
Speaker 2 ?
Uh-huh.
00:45
Vera Mangus
You do that with your feet? Blessings to you. I've got to move on because I'm feeling something strong. This young lady back here, honey, your grandmother is coming through. She's coming through to me.
01:05
Speaker 3
My grandmother is alive.
01:08
Vera Mangus
Yes, I know that. i'm very aware of that and she's coming through to me to tell you she's gonna be alive for a long time so quit worrying about it you get so caught up in worrying about your grandmother's dying she's not even sick honey i'm really something strong here honey don't be startled your spirit guide is here Now, everybody has a spirit guide, okay? And that's someone that looks over you and guides you, hence the guide part of it. And a spirit guide can take any form. It could be a bird or an Indian or something. Your spirit guide has taken the form of Carrot Top. with this I'll leave you with message lives are like starbucks there's always another one around the corner thank you Bye bye!