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Tennis Players

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The setup

A tennis player insists he is ending his doubles partnership over technique, but his replacement partner has a suspicious advantage.

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

After Richard loses an arm in an accident, Douglas ends their longtime tennis partnership while insisting the problem is a difference in playing philosophy. His new partner Skip arrives with three arms, making the excuse difficult to defend. Richard counters with Toby, a seven-armed player returning from a decade at an Alaskan cannery. The increasingly hostile exchange ends with two extravagantly equipped doubles teams heading to opposite sides of the court.

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A little extra

Notes from the archive.

The episode listing also calls this sketch Tennis Partners.

The rabbit hole continues

One more couldn’t hurt.

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