A Typical Pilot Job Interview

Studio C (2017) Season 8, Episode 8
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A Typical Pilot Job Interview
An airline's hiring manager tests a would-be pilot not on flying, but on his mastery of the weary sighs and garbled cabin announcements passengers know too well.
Interview Airline
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Cast

Quotes

I noticed a sigh in there. How long can you sigh?
Let's say you have a 120 mile an hour headwind and your co-pilot is unconscious, and you have dual-engine failure. What do you do?

Synopsis

A candidate sits down for what he assumes is a serious pilot interview, only to learn his flying record is already settled and the real exam is his cabin-announcement voice. The interviewer has him read a welcome message into a microphone, then times how long he can stretch out a pilot's signature sigh. Next come practical scenarios: covering a course correction by blaming turbulence and switching on the seatbelt sign, and breaking into the in-flight movie, which the applicant handles with increasingly mumbled, half-audible speeches that somehow always land a crisp sign-off for the fictional UpHigh Airlines. For the final problem-solving question, a genuine in-flight emergency, his answer is nothing but muffled murmuring and that cheerful sign-off, and he is hired on the spot. A short tag has the pair close the YouTube upload in the same mumbled style.

Notes

Studio C promoted Season 8 Episode 8, an airplane-themed episode that also included "TSA Check" and "Dracula's First Flight", as the show's 100th episode. The sketch was posted to Studio C's YouTube channel on January 2, 2018, about six weeks after the broadcast.

Credits

PersonRoleDescription
Whitney CallWhitney CallWriter
Gabe CasdorphGabe CasdorphDirector

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