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Appalachian Emergency Room: Christmastime
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This installment of Appalachian Emergency Room, a mock hospital-documentary series, follows the holiday rush at a rural clinic. Percy and Netti Bo Dance explain how stringing lights on wheelchairs ended in electrocution, while their druggie son wanders through with a doughnut. Two cousins describe a lawn-dart mishap, a man arrives with a ribbon-wrapped watermelon and an unfortunate story, and a drunken nativity performer tells the doctor how a pageant that nobody attended turned into a contest of a different kind. A stuntman finishes the parade of patients with a hardware-store injury.
The funny people
Meet the cast. 9
Say it with us
Highly quotable.
Yeah, wheelchairs is better than lawn chairs because they got wheels on them.
It's better to give than receive. Well, that's good, because I sure gave it to this watermelon.
I'm your medical ball of clay. Mold me.
Script
Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.
- 00:02
Amy Poehler
And now, another episode of Appalachian Emergency Room, Christmastime. Percy and Netti Bo Dance.
- 00:21
Percy Bo Dance
Well, Since it's Christmas Eve, we were doing like we always do, putting twinkle lights on all the wheelchairs in our backyard.
- 00:29
Netti Bo Dance
Yeah, wheelchairs is better than lawn chairs, because they got wheels on them.
- 00:34
Percy Bo Dance
I was drilling a hole in an electric outlet so I could fit a three-pronger in there, and don't you know I slipped on our baby pool?
- 00:42
Netti Bo Dance
Poole. Yeah, our baby pool always freeze over around Christmas time.
- 00:47
Percy Bo Dance
Turns out it wasn't the baby pool that was froze over, it was the satellite dish we keep down in that baby pool.
- 00:53
Netti Bo Dance
You know, I keep telling our druggie son to take the satellite dish to his house, but he don't have a house. Well, that's none of their business.
- 01:03
Percy Bo Dance
Anyway, long story long, I got electrocuted and I smell like burnt popcorn.
- 01:08
Amy Poehler
Room two.
- 01:12
Druggie Son
Hey, Ma, could you try Rice, Gourmet, Sun Rose, Prescription Pack.
- 01:19
Netti Bo Dance
That's our druggie son. Yeah, he's our druggie son.
- 01:22
Percy Bo Dance
And I tell you what, I'm gonna steal, I'm gonna steal one of them kidney-shaped spit-up dishes so I can put my Christmas nut in it.
- 01:30
Amy Poehler
Otis Otis Peaks and Tiny Nations.
- 01:35
Tiny Nations
All right now, how you doing? Here's this. My cousin and me right here, we was throwing jarts at each other because the ring you throw them into was stuck up on the roof. Yeah, here's this.
- 01:45
Otis Peaks
I was ready to wait for the Jart, that was coming at me, and I wouldn't have outrun it, but I crashed in my ferret condo. I was bidding with my new wife's ex-husband.
- 01:53
Nerod
Now, are you feeling any pain in your hand?
- 01:56
Otis Peaks
No, this here is a prosthetic hand I carved out of some foam rubber.
- 01:59
Nerod
Uh-huh.
- 02:00
Tiny Nations
That's right, but here's this, all right, right up here. This is a real concern right up there. There's a jar.
- 02:05
Tiny Nations
There's a jar up there, right there. There you are, right in this general area over here. That area, right there, right somewhere up there.
- 02:10
Nerod
Yeah, that's room four. Room four, Oh, two, one.
- 02:16
Nerod
Oh Tyler, you got me. Tyler, you got me a gift. Now, that is sweet of you.
- 02:23
Tyler
It was sweet, and then... Hold on. Give me a second while I think this up.
- 02:29
Nerod
You take your time, Tyler. Take your time.
- 02:32
Tyler
Okay, I got it. I was wrestling this watermelon in the snow, and my wife was playing with a mousetrap on the front porch. George. Well, that trap went off and it startled me so much that my belt undid, my pants flew off and then I slipped groin forward onto this here watermelon.
- 02:51
Tyler
You can have it if you can get it off.
- 02:54
Nerod
Now, that's okay, Tyler. You go ahead and keep it. It's better to give than receive.
- 02:58
Tyler
Well, that's good because I sure gave it to this watermelon.
- 03:02
Nerod
It's inappropriate, Tyler. It's an inappropriate thing to say.
- 03:07
Amy Poehler
Sandy Joey Juggerson.
- 03:09
Sandy Joey Juggerson
Okay, everybody, listen Listen up. Here's the timeline as follows. We was doing a professional live nativity scene over by the lake's picnic area, and since no one showed up, the girl who was playing Mary and I found ourselves ingesting a lot of beers. Now I'm not gonna lie to ya, I was and I still am highly intoxicated.
- 03:29
Sandy Joey Juggerson
Now you stay with me. Now what happens when you're doing a live nativity that no one shows up to? Correct. Turns into a farting contest. Test.
- 03:38
Sandy Joey Juggerson
Good news, I won. Bad news, I think I pushed a good deal of my pootie pucker out on the winning rip. I'm your medical ball of clay. Mold me.
- 03:53
Amy Poehler
Rude town.
- 03:54
Sandy Joey Juggerson
Now, can you ensure that nobody steals that baby Jesus off the back of my bike? That there is a cabbage patch collectible.
- 04:02
Nerod
Mr. Johnny Knoxville?
- 04:04
Johnny Knoxville
Hill. Hey, how you doing, man? I got a little situation. I kind of on purpose nailed this two by four to my ABC.
- 04:20
Nerod
What's an ABC?
- 04:21
Johnny Knoxville
My ass ball connection. Anyway, that's two weeks ago and it's really starting to smart.
- 04:27
Nerod
Okay, yeah. You want to go straight down to the ICU.
- 04:29
Johnny Knoxville
Oh, I know where it is.
- 04:30
Nerod
No.
- 04:34
Amy Poehler
We'll be right back with more about watching movies at noon. Christmastime.
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