Sketch comedy routine about ordering a head, choking on popcorn
February 28, 2019 7:19 AM Subscribe
I watched a lot of sketch comedy shows in the 90s and a friend and I were trying to remember a sketch and what show it was on. The premise was that someone had ordered a head in the mail and it arrived in the mail in a box and was alive, but just a head.
The person who ordered it thought it was cool, like sea monkeys or something. At some point they decide the head is hungry and offer it some popcorn, which the head eats by grabbing pieces with its tongue. But then the head starts to choke, and the people panic because what do you do if just a head is choking? Anyway, I'm pretty sure it was on Exit 57, though my friend thinks it was The State. Either way, I can't find anything on the internet about the existence of this sketch. Help?
The person who ordered it thought it was cool, like sea monkeys or something. At some point they decide the head is hungry and offer it some popcorn, which the head eats by grabbing pieces with its tongue. But then the head starts to choke, and the people panic because what do you do if just a head is choking? Anyway, I'm pretty sure it was on Exit 57, though my friend thinks it was The State. Either way, I can't find anything on the internet about the existence of this sketch. Help?
As the New York Times rather stodgily put it:
And perhaps the best the series has to offer so far is "Head of the Month," in which a young man (Mr. McKinney) accepts a mail-order delivery of a severed head. The head (it is Mr. Gfroerer's) turns out to be alive, and Mr. McKinney and his roommate (Paul Greenberg) end up learning to treat it like a pet, feeding it popcorn to keep it from biting them. Pleasing for its very weirdness, the sketch also has a genuinely satirical flavor, its target being the kind of self-involved young person whose voracious consumerism needs continuous palliating.
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 7:28 AM on February 28, 2019 [2 favorites]
And perhaps the best the series has to offer so far is "Head of the Month," in which a young man (Mr. McKinney) accepts a mail-order delivery of a severed head. The head (it is Mr. Gfroerer's) turns out to be alive, and Mr. McKinney and his roommate (Paul Greenberg) end up learning to treat it like a pet, feeding it popcorn to keep it from biting them. Pleasing for its very weirdness, the sketch also has a genuinely satirical flavor, its target being the kind of self-involved young person whose voracious consumerism needs continuous palliating.
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 7:28 AM on February 28, 2019 [2 favorites]
Response by poster: Holy crap, The Vacant Lot!! I never ever would have remembered that. Thank you so much, so many memories! (The sketch totally holds up!)
posted by LKWorking at 7:32 AM on February 28, 2019
posted by LKWorking at 7:32 AM on February 28, 2019
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posted by mandolin conspiracy at 7:23 AM on February 28, 2019 [2 favorites]