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Ed Glosser, Trivial Psychic

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The setup

A tanning-booth accident gives office worker Ed Glosser the power to see the future, but only its most pointless details.

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

Christopher Walken plays Ed Glosser, an office worker whose tanning booth malfunctioned during a power outage and left him with psychic powers of extremely limited value. A solemn TV-drama-style introduction presents him as a reluctant hero with a burden to bear, but every time Ed touches a coworker he slips into an intense trance and gravely foretells something utterly minor: footprints on a freshly waxed floor, a coffee left behind in a taxi, an ice-cream headache, one stubborn pistachio. His colleagues find the visions useless and creepy, a new hire from accounting cannot see the problem, and when a delivery man brings his lunch, Ed's last vision is a warning about traffic on a ride home he has to beg for.

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Highly quotable.

Forfeiting a darker base, he instead gains the mildly impressive ability to foretell insignificant events of the immediate future.

Look, you don't get it, do you? You're wasting coffee.

Ed, I don't want you to take this the wrong way, but you're giving everybody the creeps.

A little extra

Notes from the archive.

Adam Sandler's coworker asks Ed to predict the Toronto–Atlanta World Series; the Blue Jays clinched that series in Game 6 on October 24, 1992, the same night this episode aired.

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