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Old Fashioned Guy: Fire is Magic

The State 1994 Season 1

SKETCH-O-VISION

A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.

The setup

A pale-suited traditionalist juggling apples beside a lake explains that his old-fashioned views include a deep, sincere fear of fire.

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Thomas Lennon

Old Fashioned Guy

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Highly quotable.

Call me old-fashioned, but I think that fire is magic and it scares me a lot

The premise

Here’s the bit.

Under the wooden title card of the recurring Old Fashioned Guy segments, a gentle gentleman in a pale suit and yellow bow tie stands beside a quiet lake, tossing and catching apples as he talks to the camera. He opens with the familiar apology for being behind the times, then follows it with a belief so primitive that the whole piece plays as a quick, deadpan joke about nostalgia gone feral. It is over in about fifteen seconds.