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@AsucaHayashi posted...

tbh i never got the continental breakfast sketch(maybe too american for me?) and since it was also my first sketch with k&p which had millions of views then i thought it must be good but it almost turned me off from watching their other sketches altogether.

If you aren't american, I don't know if it's as common elsewhere: But most moderate to low end hotels here have a free breakfast which they call a "free continental breakfast". Continental implying "mainland European". Hotels use it to imply it's somewhat classy and european exotic breakfast despite them being clearly cheap and lazy.

The joke of this sketch is that what appears to be classy gentleman is fully convinced by this marketing strategy and enjoys the joys of the european countries as he moves through his "luxurious" continental breakfast. You can tell he believes this to be a luxurious european contintental breakfast by him constantly referencing various countries and opening with the phrase "All the europine countries lay before me, where should I fly to first?"

As the skit progresses we see not only that his enamored nature of the "exotic european foods" is totally unwarranted, but also that this man is somewhat of a dullard as eats a banana with the skin on, and says things like "ah the Danish... Clearly from Brussels" When clearly Danishes originated in Denmark.

It's a simple premise, but the sincerity of enthusiastic stupidity over something so unremarkable as a continental breakfast is what makes it hilarious. That plus Jordan Peele is an amazing actor and sells the hell out of it.

My favorite line "I'll have what I'm having" is of course a reference to the movie "When Harry Met Sally" where a man and a woman are friends and when the man effectively says "no woman has ever faked an orgasm with me, I would have been able to tell the difference" the woman proceeds to in an restaurant fake an orgasm in front of him. A nearby woman tells her waitress "I'll have what she's having" implying that any food so good to bring a woman to climax must be pretty damn good.

Here Peele repurposes the line to communicate he is absolutely in love if not extasy enjoying these pedestrian foods, it is made more hilarious because by altering the line he has now said something absurd, because he is of course by definition "having what he's having".

It's such a great sketch. Simple premise, explored to perfection.

The button on the end of the skit is fine too, I could take it or leave it, but you gotta end the sketch somehow, and this is as decent as a way as any.

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