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Two A-Holes Buying a Christmas Tree
The setup
The premise
Here’s the bit.
A Christmas-tree seller tries to help a couple who barely listen to his questions and keep interrupting with unrelated demands. Their shifting ideas about the size of the tree lead to an impossible order and an attempt to buy a street lamp. When the exhausted seller walks away, the pair take their demands to a nearby hot-dog stand.
The funny people
Meet the cast. 4
Say it with us
Highly quotable.
Dude, we don't sell 50-foot trees.
I just sell hot dogs.
Script
Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.
- 00:01
Speaker 1
And now, two a-holes buying a Christmas tree.
- 00:06
Tree Salesman
There you go. Thank you very much. Hello there. You two need any help?
- 00:14
Male A-Hole
Yeah, we want to get a tree. What kind you got?
- 00:16
Tree Salesman
I got lots of different kinds, my man. What kind you looking for?
- 00:18
Male A-Hole
What kind of tree you want, babe?
- 00:20
Female A-Hole
I don't care.
- 00:20
Male A-Hole
We don't care.
- 00:21
Tree Salesman
Okay, well, we got Douglas firs. They're very popular.
- 00:24
Male A-Hole
What do you think, babe?
- 00:25
Female A-Hole
About what?
- 00:26
Male A-Hole
The tree.
- 00:26
Female A-Hole
The what?
- 00:27
Male A-Hole
The tree.
- 00:29
Female A-Hole
Do you guys have hot chocolate?
- 00:30
Male A-Hole
You guys got hot chocolate?
- 00:32
Tree Salesman
Uh, no.
- 00:33
Male A-Hole
They don't, babe.
- 00:36
Female A-Hole
Shouldn't you be telling us about the trees?
- 00:37
Male A-Hole
Yeah, what other trees you got?
- 00:39
Tree Salesman
Uh, you ever heard of scotch pines?
- 00:41
Male A-Hole
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know those. I know about those. You know about those, babe? You know scotch pine?
- 00:50
Male A-Hole
you heard You heard about those, right, babe?
- 01:01
Male A-Hole
Scotch pines?
- 01:03
Female A-Hole
Yeah.
- 01:04
Male A-Hole
Yeah, we know those.
- 01:04
Tree Salesman
Okay, would you like one?
- 01:06
Male A-Hole
I want to get one, babe.
- 01:07
Female A-Hole
Where's your bathroom?
- 01:08
Male A-Hole
You guys got a bathroom?
- 01:09
Tree Salesman
No, no, we don't. There's one across the street at the Starbucks.
- 01:11
Male A-Hole
All right, you want to go over there, babe?
- 01:13
Female A-Hole
I want a big tree.
- 01:14
Male A-Hole
You guys got big trees?
- 01:15
Tree Salesman
Yeah, we got trees up to 12 feet.
- 01:16
Male A-Hole
All right, how big a tree you want, babe?
- 01:19
Female A-Hole
Less big.
- 01:20
Male A-Hole
I want something like that.
- 01:20
Tree Salesman
Okay, well, that's not very big.
- 01:22
Female A-Hole
It's bigger than that.
- 01:23
Tree Salesman
Okay, so you want a two-foot Christmas tree?
- 01:26
Female A-Hole
What street are we on?
- 01:27
Male A-Hole
Yeah, where are we?
- 01:28
Tree Salesman
Look, why don't you guys just look around, grab me when you find something you like, okay?
- 01:33
Female A-Hole
I know what I want.
- 01:34
Male A-Hole
Hey, dude, we got it. What do you want, babe?
- 01:36
Female A-Hole
I changed my mind. I do want a big tree.
- 01:38
Tree Salesman
Fine, how big? Seven, nine, 11 feet, what?
- 01:41
Female A-Hole
50.
- 01:43
Tree Salesman
You want a 50-foot tree?
- 01:45
Male A-Hole
Yeah, we'll take a 50-foot tree.
- 01:46
Tree Salesman
Dude, we don't sell 50-foot trees.
- 01:48
Male A-Hole
All right, they're out of them, babe. Huh? When are you getting more, huh? Tuesday?
- 01:51
Tree Salesman
No.
- 01:52
Male A-Hole
Probably Thursday, right?
- 01:52
Tree Salesman
No, never. We don't sell 50-foot trees. Look, it's closing time. I'm tired. You're obviously doing... You don't know what you want. Why don't you just come back when you make up your mind, okay?
- 02:02
Female A-Hole
I want that one.
- 02:04
Tree Salesman
Which one?
- 02:04
Male A-Hole
Which one, babe?
- 02:05
Female A-Hole
That one.
- 02:07
Tree Salesman
That's a street lamp.
- 02:11
Female A-Hole
I know. I wanna...
- 02:13
Male A-Hole
Yeah, we'll take it. How much?
- 02:13
Tree Salesman
Get out of here. Get the hell out of here!
- 02:16
Male A-Hole
All right, we gotta get out of here, babe.
- 02:18
Female A-Hole
Can I use your computer? I need to check my email.
- 02:19
Male A-Hole
You guys got internet?
- 02:20
Tree Salesman
Leave!
- 02:22
Female A-Hole
Make me a smoothie.
- 02:23
Tree Salesman
Fine. You know what? I'll leave.
- 02:26
Female A-Hole
You look like a rabbit.
- 02:28
Male A-Hole
Yeah.
- 02:30
Male A-Hole
You hungry, babe?
- 02:31
Female A-Hole
Yeah.
- 02:31
Male A-Hole
All right.
- 02:33
Male A-Hole
Hey.
- 02:33
Hot Dog Vendor
Hey.
- 02:34
Male A-Hole
Two dogs.
- 02:36
Hot Dog Vendor
$4. Anything else?
- 02:37
Male A-Hole
Anything else, babe?
- 02:38
Female A-Hole
50-foot Christmas tree.
- 02:39
Male A-Hole
50-foot tree.
- 02:41
Hot Dog Vendor
I just sell hot dogs.
- 02:44
Male A-Hole
You look like a rabbi.
- 03:13
Speaker 2
watching.
The rabbit hole continues
One more couldn’t hurt.
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