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Bad Twist Ending Theater

The Ben Stiller Show
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The setup

Two cocky college buddies gloat over the extinct exhibits at a natural history museum, never suspecting who might be collecting specimens next.

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

Fresh from an Ultimate Frisbee win over Dartmouth, two college pals spend an evening at the Museum of Natural History celebrating everything humanity has outlasted. They jeer at a dinosaur skeleton, taunt the god of an ancient stone calendar and mock a stuffed grizzly bear, high-fiving each conquest as proof that Homo sapiens rule the world. Then the lights shift and the pair find themselves trapped behind glass as a labelled exhibit in an alien museum, where green-skinned visitors chuckle at the funny little creatures. A ghoulish host signs off the episode and previews next week's tale, in which a man wakes from a nightmare about being carried off by monsters only to find dead leaves in his bed.

The funny people

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Say it with us

Highly quotable.

Homo sapiens are number one!

You don't have a culture anymore.

Tune in next week for the dream that really happened.

A little extra

Notes from the archive.

The sketch closes with a mock preview of next week's installment, "The Dream That Really Happened", in which a man wakes from a nightmare about being taken into the woods by monsters and finds leaves in his bed.

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