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Saturday Night Live 2021 Season 47 Episode 10

SKETCH-O-VISION

A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.

The setup

Working a double on New Year's Eve at a Texas steakhouse, four kitchen workers gripe about their manager's baffling verbal tic until she catches them and the shift turns into an unlikely group therapy session.

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Highly quotable.

Ain't no one in Texarkana spending New Year's Eve at Longhorn Steakhouse.

This is Longhorn Steakhouse. People expect to be dazzled.

I will have you transferred to the Texarkana Longhorn Steakhouse in Arkansas.

The premise

Here’s the bit.

Before the dinner rush, line workers prepping salads complain about their manager Ms. Armoire, who tacks a mystery sound onto the end of everything she says. She overhears them, scolds each one and threatens to transfer a worker to the Texarkana restaurant in Arkansas. Each employee answers with a rambling, escalating speech about how the boss runs their lives, repeating the same stock phrases until the argument nearly turns into a fight. The kitchen then softens into a surprisingly tender group huddle and a cheerful New Year's sign-off.

ScriptEnglish · 22 turns

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

00:00
Grady
Man, I cannot believe I'm working a double tonight. Ain't no one in Texarkana spending New Year's Eve at Longhorn Steakhouse. I know it sucks, but at the end of the day, it's going to be worth it.
00:13
Ms. Armoire
Jenna, Grady, what y'all doing back here, ler?
00:16
Jenna
We're just prepping the salads, Ms. Armoire.
00:19
Ms. Armoire
Why y'all prepping salads when I found two empty A1s in the dining room, ler? Steakhouse people expect to be... dazzled, ler.
00:31
Jenna
Ooh, Oh, I can't stand Ms. Armoire. You know, you ever notice how she says ler after everything? Like, what the hell is ler?
00:40
Grady
I don't know, but at the end of the day, she is the boss.
00:45
Rene
Yeah, y'all talking about ler?
00:48
Jenna
Oh, yeah. You know what? I don't know what you're talking about, Rene.
00:51
Rene
Ah, now, now, I heard you talking about how Ms. Armoire always said ler. Psh, I ain't never heard ler in my life.
00:59
Grady
Guys, guys, guys, come on now. I just want to get through the shift so I can get up early and take my girl's kids to the trampoline place tomorrow, at the end of the day
01:07
Ms. Armoire
Rene, where is your apron? It is New Year's Eve, my ass is on the line, ler.
01:14
Rene
Hey, Miss Armoire, what, ler, me. ler, what is ler?
01:24
Ms. Armoire
Rene, I can never understand you Now get your back, ler, to work, ler Or you'll be in big trouble, Jenna and, uh, oh,
01:37
Jenna
Why she gots... Why she gots to single me out? Huh? I could just... Oh! No.
01:43
Grady
chill, Jenna, chill, you know she ain't worth it, at the end of the day, at the end of the day, you can't let her get to you, cause, at the end of the day, that's what she wants, at the end of the day, at the end of the day, miss Armoire, she was on me about something, boy, I just had to walk away, at the end of the day,
01:57
Floyd
y'all talking about ler, last week, she got on me, about how I wasn't sweeping the parking lot, at the end of the night, at the end of the night, I don't sweep the parking lot, she said, yes, you do, like, at the end of the day, I don't know what I'm going to do, at the end of the night, at the end of the day, I know what I do da-da-da-da-da-day, da-da-day, I do what I do da-da-da-da-da-day, da-da-da-da-day
02:22
Ms. Armoire
Floyd, I couldn't have said it any better than today Ooh, Jenna, I have hit my limit with you If you don't get to workin', you will be done at the Texarkana Longhorn Steakhouse in Texas And I will have you transferred to the Texarkana Longhorn Steakhouse in Arkansas
02:37
Jenna
Y'all ain't This Armoire, you done done it now. You ain't even let go. I'll kick your ass, ler.
02:46
Rene
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Look, look, look, look. Hey, look, look, look. Anybody got their own goin' on, goin' on Grady gotta go trampoline place tomorrow, Floyd gotta sweep in the night, and Miss Armoire say ler, at the end of the day I ain't the reddest mud bug at the boil, but we a family, and like my mama say, the people will do what people will do at the end of the day, and if that don't make sense to you, peace!
03:20
Ms. Armoire
Dan, I know I ride you hard, but it's just because I see so much of myself in you, ler.
03:25
Rene
Well, at the end of the day, Miss Armoire, I hate you, because I love you.
03:32
Ms. Armoire
Happy New Year's from Longhorn Steakhouse, peace and ler.