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Celery Man

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The setup

Paul Rudd orders a retro office computer to generate ever stranger dancing versions of himself.

Community rating

8.0 / 10

The premise

Here’s the bit.

Seated at a workstation floating in a bright blue void, Paul Rudd begins his day by asking a calm computer voice to run the Cinco Identity Generator 2.5. It loads Celery Man, a silver-suited dancing copy of Rudd, which he boosts with a nonsense enhancement setting before adding Oyster, a bandana-wearing punk version, and requesting a printout of him smiling. When the computer offers an unfinished beta sequence, Rudd meets Tayne, a hat-and-sunglasses dancer who wins him over at once, and he asks for a string of made-up moves before pressing for a version that is not safe for work. Even an emergency call from his wife cannot pull him away from his screens of multiplying Taynes.

The funny people

Meet the cast. 4

Say it with us

Highly quotable.

Computer, load up Celery Man, please.

Could you kick up the, uh, 4d3d3d3?

Now Tayne I can get into.

Behind the scenes

The people who made it.

A little extra

Notes from the archive.

Listed in episode guides as the "Paul’s Computer" segment of the series finale "Man Milk." Fan uploads in 2012 and 2013 turned the sketch into a widely shared internet meme.

ScriptEnglish · 27 turns

Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.

  1. 00:09

    Speaker 1

    Good morning, Paul. What will your first sequence of the day be?

  2. 00:13

    Paul Rudd

    Computer, load up Celery Man, please.

  3. 00:15

    Speaker 1

    Yes, Paul.

  4. 00:29

    Paul Rudd

    Could you kick up the, uh, 43D3D3?

  5. 00:33

    Speaker 1

    43D3D3 engaged.

  6. 00:34

    Paul Rudd

    Add sequence. Oyster. Uh, give me a printout of Oyster smiling. Okay. Computer?

  7. 00:46

    Speaker 1

    Yes?

  8. 00:47

    Paul Rudd

    Do we have any, uh, new sequences?

  9. 00:49

    Speaker 1

    I have a beta sequence I've been working on. Would you like to see it?

  10. 00:53

    Paul Rudd

    All right.

  11. 00:54

    Speaker 1

    Okay.

  12. 00:56

    Tayne

    Hey Paul, I'm Tane, your latest dancer. I can't wait to entertain you.

  13. 00:59

    Paul Rudd

    Now, Tane I can get into.

  14. 01:08

    Paul Rudd

    Could I see a hat wobble?

  15. 01:10

    Speaker 1

    Yes.

  16. 01:10

    Paul Rudd

    And a Flargen spell?

  17. 01:12

    Speaker 1

    Yes.

  18. 01:14

    Paul Rudd

    Is there any way to generate a nude Tane?

  19. 01:16

    Speaker 1

    Not computing, please repeat.

  20. 01:19

    Paul Rudd

    Nude Tane.

  21. 01:20

    Speaker 1

    This is not suitable for work. Are you sure?

  22. 01:23

    Paul Rudd

    Mm-hmm.

  23. 01:23

    Speaker 1

    Okay.

  24. 01:24

    I'm okay.

  25. 01:30

    Speaker 1

    Excuse me, Paul. Your wife is on the phone. It's an emergency.

  26. 01:34

    Paul Rudd

    I'll get it later. We have important work to do.

  27. 01:38

    Thanks for watching!

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