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Running Faggot

The Kids in the Hall 1989 Season 1 Episode 6

SKETCH-O-VISION

A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.

The setup

A mock folk ballad celebrates a buckskin-clad frontier hero who roams the Old West solving problems with plain common sense.

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Community rating

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

Two earnest singers introduce a ballad about a great folk hero, a gay frontiersman in a coonskin cap. He helps a boy whose puppy is hungry by suggesting puppy food, then talks a grim gunfighter out of shooting his way past an army of besiegers by proposing they negotiate instead. When two rednecks corner him, he ducks so their punches land on each other and flees across the globe, racing past famous landmarks as the singers urge him on and bid him farewell.

The funny people

Meet the cast. 7

Highly quotable.

Why not try feeding it puppy food?

Gotta be hitching a ride on the wind.

Have you ever thought of talking to them?

A little extra

Notes from the archive.

KITHfan.org lists the Gunfighter as a recurring Dave Foley character, also seen in "Hired Gun Concession Stand" and "The Gunfighter."

ScriptEnglish · 23 turns

Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.

00:00
Singer
This is a song about a great folk hero. Running free, running free, running faggot. Running faggot, running free, see the faggot, see the running faggot. Running faggot, running free...
00:22
Running Faggot
Howdy, stripling.
00:25
Stripling
Howdy, faggot.
00:27
Running Faggot
Well, what can I do for you?
00:29
Stripling
My puppy's hungry, I don't know what to do.
00:31
Running Faggot
Hmm. Why not try feeding it puppy food?
00:35
Stripling
Good idea, faggot. Why don't you stick around and see the results?
00:38
Running Faggot
Nope. Gotta be hitching a ride on the wind.
00:42
Singer
Running faggot, running free. See the faggot, he fed a puppy. Running faggot, running free.
00:54
Running Faggot
Howdy, stranger.
00:55
Gunfighter
Good to see you, faggot.
00:58
Running Faggot
Well, what seems to be the problem?
01:00
Gunfighter
Well, I'll let you have it straight. We're surrounded on all sides by about 10,000 angry Indians, and it looks like there's only one way out.
01:08
Running Faggot
Have you ever thought of talking to them?
01:11
Singer
He stalked the carnage by getting folks a-talking Instead of just a-squawking, squawking and a-gawking Mocking and a-rocking, running free
01:29
Redneck ?
Yo, Taps!
01:32
Redneck ?
Oh, look what we got here!
01:34
Redneck ?
Got ourselves a pretty little faggot!
01:36
Redneck ?
Guess we'd better beat on him!
01:38
Redneck ?
Guess so!
01:38
Singer
Running faggot, running free, see the faggot, running from the rednecks, running faggot, running free, run you faggot, run you, run you faggot.
01:58
Singer ?
Godspeed through Texas, faggot.
02:01
Singer ?
Vaya con Dios, el faggot.