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Songs of Olden Times

The Whitest Kids U'Know 2011 Season 5 Episode 1

SKETCH-O-VISION

A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.

The setup

A glossy infomercial for a compilation CD sells a bearded crooner's cheerful ballads about long-abandoned customs that were, to put it gently, deeply disturbing.

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The funny people

Meet the cast. 1

Trevor Moore

Singer

Say it with us

Highly quotable.

You are my child bride

Banish her to the woods

The premise

Here’s the bit.

Over stock footage of ancient ruins, an announcer pitches Songs of Olden Times, a four-volume set of vintage favorites. A ruffled, bearded singer then performs the highlights with full pop-production polish: a duet with a veiled child about a wildly inappropriate marriage, a bouncy verse in which a woman is banished to the woods for a week, and a melodramatic finale about divine anger and sacrifice. Backing performers sway and clap as burned-in lyric captions and glowing sunset backdrops make the barbaric subject matter feel like easy listening, before a pitch for the collection wraps it up.