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Airline Security

The Carol Burnett Show 1973 Season 7 Episode 9

SKETCH-O-VISION

A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.

The setup

A filmmaker’s boarding pass becomes an ordeal when an airline attendant takes security checks into his own hands.

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

With his flight about to leave, a filmmaker needs a boarding pass from the attendant at Speedo Airlines. The clerk stretches every routine question into a delay, then becomes suspicious of the traveler’s locked briefcase. His efforts to inspect it turn increasingly destructive, leaving the passenger’s possessions and precious documentary footage buried in a shaving-cream disaster.

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