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Pre-Taped Call-in Show

Mr. Show with Bob and David 1997 Season 3 Episode 10

SKETCH-O-VISION

A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.

The setup

A TV advice host who tapes every episode a week early can't get a single caller onto the right topic.

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Community rating

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

Ken hosts a call-in advice show that is recorded a week before it airs, so while taping an episode about the elderly he instructs viewers to phone in about next week's subject, cooking. Each caller is out of step with the schedule: one wants help with a disobedient dog, another is confused about why everyone is discussing racism, and a man worried about his grandmother's noisy cat insists on talking about the episode he is watching. Ken's explanations of which show aired when grow angrier and more convoluted until he wheels out television sets playing earlier tapes, the screens nesting inside one another back to the series premiere, Crime in the Streets, where a hopeful Ken wishes someone had actually called.

The funny people

Meet the cast. 1

David Cross

Ken

Say it with us

Highly quotable.

Good evening and welcome to the pre-taped call-in show, where we tape all our shows a week in advance.

If you wanted to talk about pet care, you should have called two weeks ago when our show on racism was airing.

Everything I'm saying happened last week.

Behind the scenes

The people who made it.

A little extra

Notes from the archive.

The sketch ends on a station bumper for "The Convoluted Network," which hands off to the episode's next sketch, The Return of the Curse of the Creature's Ghost.

ScriptEnglish · 29 turns

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

00:00
Ken
Rock lyrics. Do they influence our kids? Our topic in two weeks. But tonight, The Elderly.
00:08
Ken
Good evening and welcome to the pre-taped call-in show where we tape all our shows a week in advance. I'm your host, Ken Doral, and let's try it again. It's really not that hard. Okay?
00:24
Ken
Our topic, once again, is The Elderly. Okay? We're taping it now, and it airs next week. Okay? So, if you're watching me talk about The Elderly, don't call to talk about it. It's too late. Instead, call about cooking, which is next week's topic. Okay?
00:49
Ken
If you wanted to talk about The Elderly, You should have called last week when our pet care show was airing, but we were taping the elderly show.
01:02
Ken
Okay, so here we go. Hello.
01:07
Speaker 1
Hi, Ken. Great show.
01:09
Ken
Thank you. What can I do for you?
01:11
Speaker 1
My dog has a disobedience problem.
01:14
Ken
Okay, okay. There you go. Okay, that's boo-boo number one. Hopefully that'll be our last.
01:23
Ken
Okay, uh, look, if you wanted to talk about pet care you should have called two weeks ago when our show on racism was airing.
01:31
Ken
Okay, I'm doing a show about the elderly right now, which of course to you people watching means call in about cooking. Okay, we'll see if we... Hello.
01:44
Speaker 2
Yeah, hi, uh, what's going on? I mean, you're doing a show about pet care, but everybody's talking about racism.
01:50
Ken
No, no, okay, no, no, no. No, I'm not doing a show about pet care. I'm doing a show about the elderly.
01:59
Ken
The people calling about racism are watching the show that aired when we were taping the pet show, which is airing now, okay?
02:07
Ken
If they wanted to talk about racism, they should have called three weeks ago when our crime in the street show aired, okay?
02:14
Ken
It's just, let's think before we, all right, okay. Here we go. Hello?
02:30
Speaker 3
Yes, I'd like to talk about my grandma.
02:33
Ken
Oh, all right, yeah. Okay, good.
02:37
Speaker 3
Okay, well, she has this cat that's keeping her up at night, and...
02:42
Ken
Well, sir, sir, can I just say that difficulty with sleeping is a common problem with the elderly of today.
02:50
Speaker 3
Yeah, yeah, but I really think the cat is more the problem. I mean, the cat's rambunctious or nervous.
02:55
Ken
No, no, no, sir, obviously your elderly grandmother mother is the problem because that's what this week's show is about
03:01
Speaker 3
yeah but i'm watching the show right now
03:04
Ken
idiots it's simple look at this this is what's airing right now the pet care show
03:09
Ken
listen to me for the last time crime on the streets happened last week everything i'm saying happened last week.
03:26
Ken
Look, here!
03:27
Ken
And that concludes our first show, Crime in the Streets. I can't help but think it would have gone a little better had somebody actually called in, but I guess that's because you won't see me until next week.
03:41
Ken
Oh well, as soon as we get the kinks worked out here, I'm sure it's going to be a great, great show.
03:50
Thank you for watching The Convoluted Network, and now the second half of the premiere of of The Return of the Curse of the Creature's Ghost, already in progress.