The Story of Everest

Explorer Thomas comes home to his elderly parents after conquering Mount Everest, but every attempt to describe the climb ends with him toppling into his mother's carefully arranged thimble collection. When his brother Richard arrives, the family only wants to hear about the falls, and their patience runs out as the accidents pile up until Thomas is left to clean up alone. Richard then brings news that a studio will film the tale, and the finished silent picture portrays Thomas purely as a bumbling fool.

Jay Johnston based the premise on a real incident from his own life, and on the episode's DVD commentary he says he made the oversized fake hands his character wears at the end of the sketch.