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Two Martians Land in Suburbia

The Carol Burnett Show
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The setup

Two Martians disguise themselves as a suburban couple to investigate television, but ordinary human habits keep giving them trouble.

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

A Martian couple arrives in a rented suburban house to investigate a possible Earth weapon: television. Their human disguises leave them baffled by mirrors, ears and elbows, and a visit from next-door neighbor Garry Moore turns greetings, sitting and smoking into awkward lessons in imitation. Once Moore explains the television set, their urgent reconnaissance gives way to the familiar difficulty of turning it off.

The funny people

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Say it with us

Highly quotable.

This planet just gives me the creeps.

Nothing but earplugs.

A little extra

Notes from the archive.

The official upload uses the streaming edition’s episode number 24. Original broadcast listings place the Garry Moore and Durward Kirby episode on February 26, 1968, as season 1, episode 23.

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