Why the valets express their love for these pop culture icons in such misconstrued and exuberant ways, and how they always seem to use pluralization incorrectly, I do not know. As they wait for their next guest to park for, they swap over-enthusiastic analyses of their favorite movies and television shows, reciting Games in Thrones almost in its entirety, inquiring why Gotham’s criminals even bother messing with “The Batmans,” praising the filmographies of Die Hard’s “Bruce Willy” and Taken’s “Liam Neesons,” and even popping up in the 17th century to criticize Shakespeare’s Othello. You know those recurring sketches on Saturday Night Live that start off pretty good until they repeat the formula over and over again and eventually lose all steam completely? I cannot say the same about any recurring sketches in Key & Peele.Ĭase in point, these pop-culture obsessed valets for a fancy hotel played by Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele. You can always rely on Key & Peele for both laughs and thrills and this is my favorite example of both. Clive finds the idea of speaking to a puppet utterly ridiculous, until his conversation with Little Homie takes a dark turn.Īs I said before, Little Homie quickly turns into a surprisingly unnerving experience as it plays out, and the punchline, as easy as it may be to predict in retrospect, is executed brilliantly. What gave it away was how in any Key & Peele sketch that would incorporate elements of horror, it kept up with its serious tone until the punchline came, just like in this surprisingly unnerving sketch.įormer convict Clive “Double Down” Ruggins (Keegan-Michael Key) thinks he is going in for a normal first visit with his parole officer, Daniel Tate (Jordan Peele), until he discovers that Tate still uses a conversational method from his days working for the juvenile corrections system: a puppet named Little Homie. The crazy substitute from the proceeding episodes knew that all along.I always had a feeling that Jordan Peele would make a great horror filmmaker even before the release of his 2017 Academy Award-winning thriller Get Out. I guess the lesson learned, is it doesn’t pay to try to befriend ’em. One thing he will need to have is a new career, thanks to Jimmy, who is now the class hero. Jimmy knows which buttons to push to bring out a side of the man he never knew he had. He is the antithesis of an uncool authority figure…Until Jimmy arrives. Clad in a casual Hawaiian shirt, and rockin’ a long ponytail – the last resort of a man with encroaching baldness, he expects no negative waves. He is out to befriend his students and be their pal. This substitute couldn’t be more unlike his hard-nosed predecessor who suffered no fools, or normal kids, for that matter. In this, the fourth episode – we come full circle. For instance, he just knows that Denise should be pronounced ‘De-Nice’ Shane should be ‘Shaw nee’ and so it continues until he is hopping mad, and going ‘full Luther’ on them! He is certain they’re pretending to pronounce their names in strange ways. He believes that his white, middle class homeroom students are playing games with him as he calls roll. In the original ‘substitute teacher’ video, a street-wise sub from a rougher part of town, will not tolerate nonsense from his new charges. As the title reveals, Key and Peele have made three previous ‘Substitute Teacher’ videos, all of which have been unique and extremely funny.
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