Emergency Pitch Meeting

Needing one more sketch before the show goes on, Matt runs a frantic brainstorm in a cluttered writers' room. Whitney proposes staging a live birth, Mallory keeps slipping polio into her premises, and Jason, determined to make something about birds, acts out a wordless owl-and-penguin routine that ends with a feather laid on the floor. Matt rejects each pitch against a whiteboard list of topics deemed too sensitive, and a draw from the idea jar only produces another off-limits combination. At last Jason proposes that this scene could be the opening sketch, and the writers realize they are already in it.

The sketch opened the ninth episode of Studio C's first season. The writers' whiteboard of topics deemed too sensitive for jokes lists disease, Heath Ledger, racism, terrorism, dogs with disabilities and Michael Jackson.