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Space Thanksgiving
The setup
The premise
Here’s the bit.
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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Say it with us
Highly quotable.
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.
Script
Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.
- 00:00
Cecily Strong
Will the aliens be joining us for our Thanksgiving feast?
- 00:02
Captain
Oh, you mean the clerks?
- 00:04
Yeah.
- 00:04
Captain
Good. I look forward to sampling some of the produce here on Argos 9.
- 00:09
Linda
I love exotic foods.
- 00:12
Captain
Oh, look. It's the clerks.
- 00:16
Captain
Greetings.
- 00:17
Ruler Tay
Greetings, people from Earth. I am Ruler Tay. That's short for Taint.
- 00:23
Tatricia
Father, should I offer them the kern?
- 00:26
Ruler Tay
Yes, Patricia. Offer them the kern.
- 00:28
Beck Bennett
Kern? What is kern?
- 00:30
Linda
It looks like our corn, but it's purple.
- 00:32
Ruler Tay
Yes, our kern is much like your corn. It has lots of tiny, delicious kernels on it.
- 00:36
Captain
Oh, you mean kernels.
- 00:38
Ruler Tay
No, your corn has kernels, but our kern has kernels.
- 00:42
Cecily Strong
What a small, fascinating universe.
- 00:45
Ruler Tay
It is customary for visitors to partake of our kern.
- 00:48
Tatricia
It's for good fortune.
- 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.
- 00:59
Kern (sentient alien food creature)
No! Don't eat me! This hurts me!
- 01:04
Captain
Is this kern talking? Is it alive right now?
- 01:07
Ruler Tay
No, these are just kern sounds. The sounds kern makes.
- 01:11
Linda
It's delicious, y'all.
- 01:14
Kern (sentient alien food creature)
Ow, the pain, lady! Please stop eating me!
- 01:18
Captain
Linda, stop eating the kern.
- 01:20
Linda
Just one more bite.
- 01:23
Kern (sentient alien food creature)
This hurts like hell! Stop!
- 01:26
Captain
Linda, please. It may be conscious.
- 01:29
Linda
Sorry. It reminds me of Earth picnics and eating corn on a cob.
- 01:33
Ruler Tay
You mean kern on the curb.
- 01:36
Captain
I want to try to communicate with it.
- 01:38
Ruler Tay
Why? It has no errs to her.
- 01:41
Captain
Please, let me try. Hello? Can you hear me? Are you okay?
- 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.
- 01:56
Okay? Lurgs!
- 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.
- 02:06
Beck Bennett
The Tate told us it's customary to eat the kernels from the Kern.
- 02:10
Cecily Strong
But, actually, we're helping the clerks wipe out the kern. What do we do?
- 02:15
Captain
Follow my lead. I have a plan. Ruler tag.
- 02:17
Ruler Tay
More kern, Captain.
- 02:18
Oh, hell, yes. Who cares about some kern? Let's enjoy this Thanksgiving.
- 02:24
Ruler Tay
Oh, well, tomorrow, I will show you around the planet.
- 02:27
Linda
Captain, this kern is crazy delicious. It's
- 02:32
Kern (sentient alien food creature)
Hey, bitch, I said stop. Bitch, I said stop.
- 02:40
That's good. They're good? They're good. It's a good kern. It's
- 02:48
Captain
Let's all eat!
- 02:49
a good kern. It's a good kern. right?
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