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ShopTV Christmas
The setup
The premise
Here’s the bit.
Rhett and Lindy welcome Dean Delaney to their holiday shopping broadcast after previewing a patriotic nativity set. His foil-wrapped chocolate Santa looks harmless until he unwraps it, leaving the hosts struggling to explain away its phallic shape. Dean cheerfully demonstrates the chocolate while crude callers, intrusive close-ups and a pair of bonus candy clusters undermine the sales pitch. When Rhett finally agrees to taste it, the control room makes the moment even more embarrassing.
The funny people
Meet the cast. 4
Say it with us
Highly quotable.
That's just chocolatiering 101.
I don't love that close-up, Odell.
Behind the scenes
The people who made it.

Mikey Day
Writer

Streeter Seidell
Writer
A little extra
Notes from the archive.
SNL Archives identifies Andrew Dismukes, Punkie Johnson and Kenan Thompson as the off-screen callers. The screaming sound-effect gag also appeared in the earlier Shop TV installment hosted by Jerrod Carmichael.
Script
Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.
- 00:02
I know you. I know you.
- 00:05
Rhett
Season's greetings, home shoppers.
- 00:07
Lindy
Hey, y'all.
- 00:08
Rhett
Ray and Lindy here live.
- 00:10
Rhett
Wait, mistletoe check.
- 00:12
Lindy
Whoo-hoo!
- 00:13
Rhett
There isn't any.
- 00:14
Lindy
Oh, you wish.
- 00:15
Rhett
She wishes.
- 00:16
Lindy
I'm silly today.
- 00:18
Rhett
All right, it's 5 o'clock, and that means it's time for some holiday squeal deals.
- 00:24
Aah!
- 00:26
Rhett
Odell, what is that sound effect?
- 00:28
Lindy
We asked for something light and festive, Odell.
- 00:31
Rhett
Oh, that's horrible, Odell.
- 00:33
Oh, my God.
- 00:34
Lindy
Well, we got pa-la-la-la-lots of holiday items for y'all today.
- 00:37
Rhett
Now, later on, the crafty Christian himself, Tim Tucker Neebs, selling his patriotic nativity set.
- 00:46
Lindy
Wow. Oh, that is gorgeous.
- 00:49
Tim Tucker Neeb
Yes, yes, lots of patriotic colors and baby Jesus is swaddled tastefully in the American flag.
- 00:56
Lindy
Wow. Oh, that's clever. You know, that sends a sweet message.
- 01:00
Rhett
Yes, it does.
- 01:01
Rhett
Now, speaking of sweet, our first seller today is the owner of Delaney Chocolates, Mr. Dean Delaney.
- 01:09
Lindy
Now, this here is a real-life chocolatier, folks.
- 01:13
Dean Delaney
Yes, ma'am. I'm often called the Willy Wonka of Central Indiana.
- 01:17
Wow!
- 01:19
Lindy
No, I never liked that Willy Wonka movie. We kept all those oomper-loompers locked in there. I did not like it.
- 01:24
Rhett
Right? Mean.
- 01:25
Rhett
Now, what are you selling today, Dean?
- 01:27
Dean Delaney
Okay, well, it's Delaney's Chocolate Holiday Favorite, our deluxe chocolate Santa.
- 01:34
Lindy
Ooh, that's all chocolate?
- 01:35
Lindy
No. Oh, okay, I'm a chocoholic, and my mouth is watering right now, y'all.
- 01:40
Rhett
Yeah. Now, this yummy guy is just $25.99.
- 01:45
Lindy
No, that's it.
- 01:46
Rhett
Yeah, phone lines are already going nuts. You're a hit, Dean. Caller, you're on shop TV.
- 01:53
Speaker 1
My nephew would love that. What kind of chocolate is it?
- 01:56
Dean Delaney
Okay, it's flavored milk chocolate made with 100% cocoa butter. And you can just look at how shiny and beautiful that this chocolate is.
- 02:06
Lindy
Ooh, neat. Oh, child.
- 02:08
up.
- 02:10
Speaker 1
Oh, hey, what? How whoa why does it look like that
- 02:16
Dean Delaney
well does it look like what?
- 02:18
Speaker 1
Like a big peanut.
- 02:19
Rhett
Hang up, Modell. Hang up.
- 02:22
Dean Delaney
Was he okay? He sounded a little rattled.
- 02:25
Rhett
Yeah. You know what it is, Dean? I just think this little ridge and indent here here around the top makes it look a little icky, that's it.
- 02:34
Dean Delaney
Oh, well, you need the ridge. The ridge gives dimension to Santa's hat when it's in the foil. That's just chocolatiering 101.
- 02:42
Lindy
And you know, I'm sure it is, I'm sure it is. Now, you said it's flavored milk chocolate?
- 02:47
Dean Delaney
Oh, yes, ma'am, hazelnut. Would you like to take a sniff?
- 02:50
Lindy
Oh, um, I don't know.
- 02:52
Dean Delaney
Oh, no, go ahead, give it a sniff.
- 02:54
Lindy
OK, yeah, I sniffed it. I smelled it, yum. I'll just put it down now.
- 02:59
Rhett
Well, Dean, it certainly looks delicious.
- 03:02
Dean Delaney
Ah, well, yep. And we hand temper our chocolate, which gives it this smooth shine here.
- 03:08
Oh. Oh.
- 03:09
Rhett
I don't... I don't... I don't love that close-up, Odell.
- 03:15
Lindy
Yeah, maybe widen out, Odell.
- 03:17
Rhett
Yeah, let's maybe...
- 03:19
Lindy
Don't have to stroke it so much.
- 03:21
Rhett
Uh, let's take a call, or hi there, you're on Shop TV.
- 03:26
Speaker 2
Oh, hi, uh, if they... Bye, Bri!
- 03:28
Oh, hang up, hang up, hang up, hang up.
- 03:30
Lindy
Shame on yeah.
- 03:31
Rhett
Hang up, hang up.
- 03:32
Dean Delaney
well no it definitely doesn't vibrate Santa here is solid chocolate and it's as solid as a rock but it tastes a whole lot better than one sometimes I just want to gobble it down
- 03:45
do
- 03:54
Lindy
Odell, Odell, Odell I'm wondering we have another one of those Santa's around that's in the foil okay we don't okay okay
- 04:01
Rhett
now again $25.99 if you order in the next hour Dean's gonna throw in a couple of bonus goodies for free
- 04:09
Dean Delaney
that's right It's a very sweet deal.
- 04:12
Rhett
Oh, that little joke there, Dean.
- 04:14
Dean Delaney
Oh, I got to chuck a lot of them.
- 04:17
Rhett
Oh, he did it again.
- 04:18
Lindy
Now tell folks about these bonus goodies.
- 04:20
Dean Delaney
Okay, well, I'm throwing in two of our famous Delaney Chocolates Crispy Clusters.
- 04:26
Rhett
All right. I'm just gonna oop. Sorry, Dean. Just want to get those out of there.
- 04:34
Lindy
Sorry about that, Dean.
- 04:35
Rhett
Okay, so what a deal that we got here. Caller, do you agree?
- 04:39
Speaker 3
Oh, most definitely. but I'm just dying to know how they taste.
- 04:42
Ooh.
- 04:42
Dean Delaney
Oh, well, de-lish. But, uh, I am biased. I'll ask our chocoholic here.
- 04:47
Lindy
Oh. Oh, again, um, better not. Um, I'm stuffed from lunch, and I'm a mother, so...
- 04:54
Dean Delaney
Okey-dokey. All yours, then, Rhett.
- 04:57
Rhett
Okay, fun, fun, fun. All right. Just trying to work out how to come at this without becoming a meme. All right. I'll just, uh, take a little bite here. Well, don't blur it, Odell. Makes you look like I'm doing something naughty.
- 05:16
Dean Delaney
Come on, now. All right. Come on. Don't feel guilty. It's the holidays. All right.
- 05:22
Dean Delaney
Yeah, you don't have to eat the whole thing. Just the tip.
- 05:25
Rhett
Okay, Dean. Okay, little nibble here. All right, there we go. Okay.
- 05:32
Dean Delaney
Yeah, that's it.
- 05:34
No! No! no, no, no, no, no, no. Shame on you! Shame! Shame! It's a shame.
- 05:40
Lindy
Free Now Dean's offering shipping. How soon can folks get their hands on one of these yummy Santas?
- 05:49
Dean Delaney
Well, see, I handle all the packages myself, so it should come pretty quick.
- 05:54
Lindy
OK. After the no, no, no, stick around because after break, we got more holiday squeal deals.'all.
- 06:02
Lindy
Odell! Change the damn sound effect, Odell!
- 06:06
Rhett
Change that!
- 06:08
Change that!
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