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The Viking Raid

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The setup

Fresh from sacking the monastery at Lindisfarne, a fearsome Viking stuns his blood-soaked raiding party by confessing that he feels left out.

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The premise

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In 793 A.D., a Viking war band celebrates its bloody raid on the monastery at Lindisfarne until Ivar admits he has been feeling excluded: the group has become cliquey, nobody invited him to join in a kill, and nobody passed to him during their football game. His comrades bristle, and a suggestion to skin their bound monk and sail home is countered by the captive himself, who points out that it won't fix what is wrong with the group. When jealousy comes up, the warriors confess they kept their distance only because they worship Ivar, recalling teenage hero worship of him and his famous pose. Bolstered, Ivar takes off his helmet to unveil an elaborately braided new hairstyle, and his relieved raiders shower it with praise.

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I feel like the group is getting kind of cliquey.

When I was a teenager, I had a rune of you on my bedroom wall.

Hey, the only clique we want to be in is yours.

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Aired in the 1,000th episode of Saturday Night Live.

ScriptEnglish · 34 turns

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

  1. 00:06

    God. God save me

  2. 00:09

    Oh! Yeah! Ha ha ha ha!

  3. 00:12

    The gods have smiled on us Where is your God Christian mine or in Asgard You've won a great battle beyond bloodbath I'm proud to call you my arrow as am I and I am proud to lead you all tonight. We fade

  4. 00:36

    Yeah!

  5. 00:38

    Ivar

    I'm going to eat tonight. I'm gonna eat in the boat

  6. 00:40

    are you okay Ivar

  7. 00:44

    Ivar

    it's feeling a little left out

  8. 00:48

    seriously

  9. 00:50

    Ivar

    yeah I feel like the group is getting kind of clicky and I'm just alone

  10. 00:58

    cool that's great fine we had no idea what did we do to make you feel like

  11. 01:05

    Ivar

    that little stuff like Ragnar during the raid I saw you you and Snorri cutting a guy in half, and I was like standing right next to you, like ready with my sword, and no one ever even thought of like, hey, at some point maybe do you wanna join us?

  12. 01:24

    I'm shorty, man.

  13. 01:30

    Ivar

    And then like, this is maybe kind of stupid, but when we were playing football, nobody passed it to me. Maybe I'm overreacting, but I feel like this weird tension in the group.

  14. 01:43

    Well, now it's so terrible. I don't even wanna finish showing this goat head on this monk.

  15. 01:47

    Ivar

    No, this is why I didn't bring it up. I didn't want to bum everyone out.

  16. 01:51

    You should be happy right now. It'll be hard to be happy when you realize you've been acting like a first-class a-hole. Ain't that no penis stop? I'm over it. Come on, let's just skin this Christian rodent alive, make a hat out of his skin, sail home, and forget about the whole thing, okay?

  17. 02:08

    Monk

    Ah. No. Skinning me? Make a hat out of me? It's not gonna solve what's going on with the group.

  18. 02:15

    Sven the Rapist

    This Christian is right first time for everything

  19. 02:20

    That's very funny spin the rapist, but I think maybe some of what you're feeling He's jealousy.

  20. 02:28

    Oh jealousy

  21. 02:31

    of you We worship you man Any coldness you felt wasn't because we didn't like you But because we were afraid you would like us

  22. 02:45

    Are you kidding me? You guys are the best. Tied to me telling my wife my hero thinks I'm the best. Then she's like, yeah, okay, liar.

  23. 02:56

    Ivar

    Oh, shut up. I'm so not your hero.

  24. 03:00

    You're everyone's hero.

  25. 03:02

    Viking

    When I was a teenager, I had a rune of you on my bedroom wall.

  26. 03:06

    Uh, same. Doing that cool pose.

  27. 03:10

    Ivar

    What cool pose do you mean? This cool pose?

  28. 03:14

    Oh, yeah! Legend, bro, legend.

  29. 03:17

    Ivar

    Oh, so embarrassing. Is my face red?

  30. 03:20

    Yes, you're covered in blood. Hey, the only clique we want to be in is yours.

  31. 03:27

    Ivar

    You know what, now that I feel more confident, I'm ready to show you all my new hairstyle. I'll show you all my new hair style.

  32. 03:39

    Oh.

  33. 03:40

    Ivar

    I'm pretty cool, huh? Anything?

  34. 03:44

    Stop being afraid! Oh, I love it! It looks great! I love it! good to see you now. It's so good. Super cool. Yeah, yeah. We love it!

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