I'd like to talk about the sketches featuring Earl the barber (Daniel Butler). Each time Ernest goes in for a trim, he requests the look of a "Wall Street tycoon", but each and every time, Earl gets it wrong and shapes his hair into something that rhymes with "tycoon". I would've loved to see sort of a "resolution" sketch in which Ernest finally gets the hair cut he wants. I imagie the scenario would go something like this:
Ernest: Make me look like, uh, like a Wall Street tycoon.
Earl: Uh huh, Wall Street tycoon. [readies the scissors; Ernest stops him]
Ernest: Hold on a minute, Earl. What do I come in here for all the time?
Earl: A hair cut.
Ernest:Yeah, obviously a hair cut, but what kind of a hair cut?
[Earl shrugs] Whatever you want.
Ernest: Yeah, and each and every time I come in, I ask you to make me look like a Wall Street tycoon, and each and every time, you get it wrong.
Earl: I don't get anything wrong, Ernest.
Ernest: Earl, do you even know what a Wall Street tycoon IS? Or what they look like?
[Earl points to a photo of Donald Trump hanging on the wall] That?
Ernest: Exact-a-mundo. That's what I want my hair to look like. A Wall Street tycoon. That's all. A Wall Street tycoon. I do not want to look like a wedding in June, I don't want to look like a big raccoon, I do not want to look like a quarter past noon, I don't want to look like a full moon, I do not want to look like a big buffoon. Earl, I want YOU to make ME look like a WALL...STREET...TYCOON. Say it with me.
Ernest & Earl: Wall Street tycoon.
Ernest: You got it now?
[Earl nods] Uh-huh.
Ernest: You sure?
Earl: Uh-huh.
Ernest: Alright then.
[Earl starts cutting. when he finishes, Ernest is completely bald. Earl shows him a mirror]
Ernest: AAAAH! Earl! I said Wall Street tycoon! What am I gonna do with...
Earl: Hold on, Ernie baby, I'm not finished yet. [He picks up long strands of cut hair and places them on Ernest's head, resembling a combover]. Voila! Wall Street tycoon.
[Ernest looks in the mirror and smiles] It could work.
END
Now that I think about it, this sketch would be right at home on Sesame Street... classic Sesame Street, not the toddler fodder it is now. I can just see Grover as the barber and Mr. Johnson telling him a specific cut, only for Grover to get it wrong. lol
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