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Space Thanksgiving

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The setup

Earth astronauts share Thanksgiving with alien hosts, then discover that their corn-like dinner can talk and feel pain.

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The premise

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A crew of Earth astronauts celebrates Thanksgiving with Ruler Tay and his daughter Tatricia on an alien planet. The hosts serve kern, a purple counterpart to corn with a talking human face. When it cries out as the visitors eat it, the captain questions whether their feast is harming a living being. Linda keeps eating while the others struggle to understand the aliens’ explanation. The captain resolves to protect the kern, but changes course after learning how good it tastes and invites everyone to eat.

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I want to try to communicate with it.

Let's all eat!

A little extra

Notes from the archive.

An early dropped prop sets off cast laughter. The final Pete Davidson shot had a chromakey background error in the live broadcast that was corrected for reruns.

ScriptEnglish · 47 turns

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

  1. 00:00

    Cecily Strong

    Will the aliens be joining us for our Thanksgiving feast?

  2. 00:02

    Captain

    Oh, you mean the clerks?

  3. 00:04

    Yeah.

  4. 00:04

    Captain

    Good. I look forward to sampling some of the produce here on Argos 9.

  5. 00:09

    Linda

    I love exotic foods.

  6. 00:12

    Captain

    Oh, look. It's the clerks.

  7. 00:16

    Captain

    Greetings.

  8. 00:17

    Ruler Tay

    Greetings, people from Earth. I am Ruler Tay. That's short for Taint.

  9. 00:23

    Tatricia

    Father, should I offer them the kern?

  10. 00:26

    Ruler Tay

    Yes, Patricia. Offer them the kern.

  11. 00:28

    Beck Bennett

    Kern? What is kern?

  12. 00:30

    Linda

    It looks like our corn, but it's purple.

  13. 00:32

    Ruler Tay

    Yes, our kern is much like your corn. It has lots of tiny, delicious kernels on it.

  14. 00:36

    Captain

    Oh, you mean kernels.

  15. 00:38

    Ruler Tay

    No, your corn has kernels, but our kern has kernels.

  16. 00:42

    Cecily Strong

    What a small, fascinating universe.

  17. 00:45

    Ruler Tay

    It is customary for visitors to partake of our kern.

  18. 00:48

    Tatricia

    It's for good fortune.

  19. 00:49

    Captain

    I guess this is the famous Klerg hospitality we've heard so much about. I can't wait to enjoy the tasty kernels of kern.

  20. 00:59

    Kern (sentient alien food creature)

    No! Don't eat me! This hurts me!

  21. 01:04

    Captain

    Is this kern talking? Is it alive right now?

  22. 01:07

    Ruler Tay

    No, these are just kern sounds. The sounds kern makes.

  23. 01:11

    Linda

    It's delicious, y'all.

  24. 01:14

    Kern (sentient alien food creature)

    Ow, the pain, lady! Please stop eating me!

  25. 01:18

    Captain

    Linda, stop eating the kern.

  26. 01:20

    Linda

    Just one more bite.

  27. 01:23

    Kern (sentient alien food creature)

    This hurts like hell! Stop!

  28. 01:26

    Captain

    Linda, please. It may be conscious.

  29. 01:29

    Linda

    Sorry. It reminds me of Earth picnics and eating corn on a cob.

  30. 01:33

    Ruler Tay

    You mean kern on the curb.

  31. 01:36

    Captain

    I want to try to communicate with it.

  32. 01:38

    Ruler Tay

    Why? It has no errs to her.

  33. 01:41

    Captain

    Please, let me try. Hello? Can you hear me? Are you okay?

  34. 01:49

    Kern (sentient alien food creature)

    Help us. The clerks are trying to destroy our race. We can't run from them before we don't have the lurgs.

  35. 01:56

    Okay? Lurgs!

  36. 01:59

    Captain

    Excuse us, Tay. I need to speak to my crew. The Kern said it has no lurgs to run from the clerks.

  37. 02:06

    Beck Bennett

    The Tate told us it's customary to eat the kernels from the Kern.

  38. 02:10

    Cecily Strong

    But, actually, we're helping the clerks wipe out the kern. What do we do?

  39. 02:15

    Captain

    Follow my lead. I have a plan. Ruler tag.

  40. 02:17

    Ruler Tay

    More kern, Captain.

  41. 02:18

    Oh, hell, yes. Who cares about some kern? Let's enjoy this Thanksgiving.

  42. 02:24

    Ruler Tay

    Oh, well, tomorrow, I will show you around the planet.

  43. 02:27

    Linda

    Captain, this kern is crazy delicious. It's

  44. 02:32

    Kern (sentient alien food creature)

    Hey, bitch, I said stop. Bitch, I said stop.

  45. 02:40

    That's good. They're good? They're good. It's a good kern. It's

  46. 02:48

    Captain

    Let's all eat!

  47. 02:49

    a good kern. It's a good kern. right?

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