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Deep Thoughts: Thanksgiving Advice
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The setup
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The premise
Here’s the bit.
Over gentle music and sun-dappled leaves, the script title card for Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey fades in, and then a single thought scrolls up the screen as Handey calmly reads it aloud. His tip is for the dinner guest who can't face the stuffing, the cranberry sauce or anything else on the plate: go through the motions of eating, but quietly pile the food in your lap and squeeze it into one soggy lump. Later, when the men head outside to smoke cigars, fake a hacking cough, drop the lump on the ground and compliment the strength of the cigars, so the meal looks like something the smoke made you bring up.
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Just pretend you're eating it, but instead put it into your lap and form it into a big mushy ball.
Boy, these are good cigars.
Behind the scenes
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A little extra
Notes from the archive.
Phil Hartman's voice introduces the segment and Handey reads the thought, but neither appears on screen. Despite the holiday theme, it aired in March 1992, one of three Deep Thoughts in that night's episode.
Script
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- 00:02
and now deep thoughts by jack handy
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Narrator
if If you're at a thanksgiving dinner but you don't like the stuffing or the cranberry sauce or anything else just pretend you're eating it but instead put it into your lap and form it into a big mushy ball then later when you're out back having cigars with the boys, let out a big cough and throw the ball to the ground. Then say, boy, these are good cigars.
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