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Old Folks Home
SKETCH-O-VISION
A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.
The setup
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The premise
Here’s the bit.
Trevor Moore sings a story song about being dragged to a nursing home to see his dying grandmother, grimacing at the sleeping residents and the hallway smells, then stumbling on her prescription pills. His enthusiastic chorus invites friends to join him there, and the verses introduce a few residents and the offbeat routines of the new crowd. The song then swerves into a sincere-sounding moral about elderly people deserving visitors before the chorus returns, with Trevor performing to camera in front of a flashing disco backdrop and acting out scenes among the residents.
The funny people
Meet the cast. 1
Behind the scenes
The people who made it.
Sam Brown
Writer
Zach Cregger
Writer
Darren Trumeter
Writer
Timmy Williams
Writer
Trevor Moore
Director
Zach Cregger
Director
Script
Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.
- 00:09
Grandson
I was playing Xbox with a couple of friends when my mom called and said grandma's dying again. I told her that sucks and to say I said hi. Mom yelled at me and told me that I had to drop by and fell off to the nursing home. We drove in my car. There were sleeping dudes in wheelchairs all over the yard.
- 00:26
Grandson
And inside the halls were scary and creepily lit. It smelled like someone took a dump and then rotisserie'd it. Then I found Granny's room and I went inside. Good to see you, she said. You too, I lied. Then she started talking about the stuff she ate this week. I stuck my friends with her and went to take a leak.
- 00:41
Grandson
Peed all I could pee till I could pee no more. So bored, I opened up one of her cabinet drawers. Oh, my God, I shouted as I burst back in. Graham's got a prescription of OxyContin.
- 00:52
Grandson
Let's go to the old folks' home. We can get doped up and then all get stoned. Let's go to the old folks' home. Might have been there more if only I'd known. We can get doped up and then all get stoned. Let's go to the old folks. Who might have been here more if only I'd known.
- 01:13
Grandson
Old man Bernie likes to talk about the Korean War, and if he used all of his perka, then he just gets more. And Miss Edna doesn't care for the blacks a lot, but she's got glaucoma, so she gets good pot.
- 01:24
Grandson
Gladys here only has diabetes, so the best you're gonna find is Tylenol 3s. But Carl is my man, he's got like AIDS in his brain, and I swear to God that you can even get cocaine. So we rip a couple lines, put on some records, bitch about kids and talk about the weather. Steve craps his pants, we all leave the room. We pass out, take naps, some nurses bring food. Day after day as time goes on, by some people don't make it, we get sad and cry.
- 01:50
Grandson
But new people move in and we all make friends with new stories, points of view and prescription. I guess the point is that the elderly are people too, and you never know how long they're gonna be with you. But they're sweet and they're lonely and they still need friends. Be a good kid and go and visit them.
- 02:06
Grandson
Let's go to the old folks' home. We can get doped up and then all get stoned. Let's go to the old folks' home. We can get doped up and then all get stoned.
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