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Office Christmas Presents

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The setup

Three executives try to pick holiday gifts for their staff, but every idea they have leads back to the same unsuitable present.

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

Carl, Jerry and their boss Troy sit down for a hurried meeting to decide what the office staff should get for Christmas. Their first and only idea is a box of sex toys, and once they settle on a cheaper miniature version the plan collapses when they remember that a colleague, Ted Fields, is allergic to them. The trio circles back to the same suggestion again and again, repeatedly ordering the unseen Carol to hold their calls, until they decide the simplest fix is to fire Ted. They send for him, and the moment he steps in the door they bellow at him to get out.

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Say it with us

Highly quotable.

This year's office Christmas gifts are miniature dildos.

Ted friggin' Fields, the man who killed Christmas.

There's got to be something we can get people besides dildos.

A little extra

Notes from the archive.

This was the third and last of the Carl and Jerry business-meeting sketches, following "Fart Face" and "Scheduling" earlier in 2008 and 2009.

The rabbit hole continues

One more couldn’t hurt.

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