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Scare Tactics

Mad TV 2003 Season 9 Episode 13

SKETCH-O-VISION

A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.

The setup

A parody of the Sci-Fi Channel prank show tricks the already gun-shy best friend from a gay dating show into believing her dinner has become a terror emergency.

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Community rating

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The funny people

Meet the cast. 6

Highly quotable.

Yeah, but it is Diet Coke. And I don't have diabetes.

Mmm, big ziti!

The premise

Here’s the bit.

A Shannen Doherty impression introduces a Scare Tactics episode whose target is Andra, the tearful best friend from the reality dating show Boy Meets Boy, who is dining with the show's leading man James. Convinced everyone is tricking her again, Andra badgers the waiter over her soda and spirals as hazmat-suited authorities announce a terror scare and a possible gas leak at the restaurant. As the other diners collapse around her, her paranoia turns to full panic until the staged crisis is finally revealed.