Hippo in the City

A cheerful song follows a hippopotamus around New York, from the waterfront to busy streets and a park. Its outing ends abruptly when two police officers shoot it. The music then turns mournful over an underwater view of the dead animal, lingering on a trumpet solo before the closing bumper.

Trevor Moore credited Darren Trumeter with pitching the sketch. In the troupe’s retrospective, they recalled arguing with IFC over how long to hold on the dead hippo and its trumpet solo.