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As the Stomach Turns
SKETCH-O-VISION
A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.
The setup
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The premise
Here’s the bit.
In this early installment of the show's soap-opera spoof, Marian and her friend Laura return from a funeral and rate it like a party, while Marian turns down further invitations because she is booked for several funerals a day. Her unmarried daughter drops by long enough to hand over a baby, and Laura laments being alone until a widower passing through town turns out to be a mortician. Laura claims him for marriage on the spot, and a highly accomplished new arrival named Julia announces she is integrating Canoga Falls, prompting Marian's well-meaning but condescending welcome. When the mortician strains himself lifting Julia's suitcase and collapses, the episode closes on a handsome stranger and the announcer's string of melodramatic cliffhanger questions.
The funny people
Meet the cast. 6
Say it with us
Highly quotable.
Yesterday, the eulogy fell flat, the food was bad, and there was no place to dance.
Well, if there's one thing we need in Canoga Falls, it's another mortician.
Oh, just think, the first all-widow integrated bowling team in America.
Behind the scenes
The people who made it.
Dave Powers
Director
A little extra
Notes from the archive.
The third installment of the recurring "As the Stomach Turns" soap-opera parody. Wikipedia credits show writers Kenny Solms and Gail Parent with creating the series.
The rabbit hole continues
One more couldn’t hurt.
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