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Grow-a-Guy

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The setup

A man who can't name another friend grows one from a mail-order kit, only for his skeptical lake-house crowd to start picking the new guy apart.

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

Around a lake-house campfire, Clint badgers his awkward friend Trevor about having no one else to hang out with, and Trevor lamely claims a funny friend named Chad who goes to another school. In a bedroom flashback Trevor follows the instructions on a Grow-a-Guy kit, mixing the contents into a jar of water until a full-grown man ends up on the floor beside him, and the two spend a day rehearsing small talk, high-fives and a few stock movie jokes. Chad then joins the circle and nods along to the movie talk, and when he cheerfully asks what hashtags are, Clint, who is also guarding his family's marshmallows, demands to know whether he is a Grow-a-Guy. Chad admits it, Clint gloats, the group threatens to throw him out, and he blows himself up in the fire pit; the rest of the circle then turns out to have secrets of their own, leaving Trevor alone by the embers.

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Say it with us

Highly quotable.

Chad, are you a grow-a-guy?

Yes! I knew it! I win! No other friends!

ScriptEnglish · 34 turns

Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.

  1. 00:05

    That wasn't Not even the worst. The worst was when he was walking around with toilet paper hanging out of the back of his pants all day.

  2. 00:10

    Clint

    check Check out Trevor. So quiet.

  3. 00:20

    Trevor

    Clint. I talked, I talked like a minute ago.

  4. 00:23

    Clint

    Bro, can I ask? Like, are we your only friends?

  5. 00:29

    What are you talking about?

  6. 00:32

    Trevor

    Clint, don't.

  7. 00:33

    Clint

    No, no, I'm genuinely asking. I'm helping the guy.

  8. 00:35

    Clint

    Do you have any other friends besides us?

  9. 00:39

    Trevor

    Fine, Chad. I've got a, um, friend named Chad who goes to another school. You wouldn't know. He's funny as crap.

  10. 00:47

    You should bring him up here next weekend.

  11. 00:51

    Trevor

    I will. Yeah, if you want. If you...

  12. 00:54

    Trevor

    Ready? You might be a footer.

  13. 01:19

    Chad

    Oh, hello there.

  14. 01:29

    Trevor

    No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. This is to go right together. Ready? Wikipedia. These are tweets. This is all Guardians of the Galaxy. Popular movie.

  15. 01:41

    It's got a hand. Right hand. Oh, my God. No. Yes, Yes, that's it. That's it. Maybe stick it in there a little bit. Just stick it in there a little bit. Yeah.

  16. 01:59

    Clint

    Okay, everybody shut up for a second. I've got a gig. All right, just close your eyes. Okay, you're gonna thank me. Now, picture Mr. Dewey having sex. Oh!

  17. 02:12

    What do you guys think, like, his dating situation is for real? Genuinely, I'd rather picture him having sex than on a date. You're so right, Trevor.

  18. 02:23

    Clint

    So, Chad, I see you can drink my beer. Can you talk, too?

  19. 02:27

    Trevor

    Clint.

  20. 02:28

    Clint

    What? I'm genuinely asking.

  21. 02:32

    Chad

    Uh, am... Groot.

  22. 02:37

    Trevor

    He's playing. Guardians.

  23. 02:40

    Chad

    Yes. I can talk.

  24. 02:44

    Chad

    Hey, what are hashtags?

  25. 02:45

    say that again Say that again?

  26. 02:51

    Chad

    Well, no, like, I get that they're to flag a searchable term in your tweet, but wouldn't it work just the same if you, you know, didn't put the number symbol there?

  27. 03:00

    What?

  28. 03:02

    Chad

    I'm seriously asking.

  29. 03:03

    Trevor

    Chad, drop it. It's nothing.

  30. 03:05

    Clint

    Can I ask you something, bro? Are you a grow-a-guy? Because I'm not super thrilled about the idea of a grow-a-guy eating my family's marshmallows at our nice-ass lake house. So I guess I'm curious. Chad? Chad, are you a grow-a-guy?

  31. 03:24

    Chad

    Yes, I am that.

  32. 03:25

    Clint

    Yes! I knew it! I win! No other friends! Fuck! God, you don't even work. I'm throwing you out.

  33. 03:35

    Chad

    Actually, You don't have to do that. We self-destruct.

  34. 03:40

    Like, how do you... I mean... mean, he kind of did have a point about the hashtags, right? Are you a grow guy, too? Guess he was a girl guy. Guess he was a grow guy. Yeah, me too. Pooey! Guess it's just me and the lady.

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