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Tattoo Parlor

The Whitest Kids U'KnowWKUK
SKETCH-O-VISION
A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.

The setup

A tipsy man in a loosened tie talks a weary tattoo artist into inking an ever-growing pile of ideas, none of which he seems to have thought through.

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Highly quotable.

You've given this tattoo zero thought.

I wanted this tattoo for 16 years.

The premise

Here’s the bit.

A drunk businessman stumbles into a tattoo parlor, first checking that it is not a porn shop, and insists on getting inked right now. The artist refuses to work on someone this wasted, but the customer pushes on with a design that keeps piling up: a video-game villain in sunglasses shredding a double-neck guitar while surfing, with cursive lettering, a pot leaf and a cross added as he talks. When the artist calls out that he is inventing it on the spot, the customer claims he has wanted it for years, then swaps in a birthday greeting for a friend, and the artist finally gives in and leads him to the back room.

The rabbit hole continues

One more couldn’t hurt.

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