Summer 2004
Hipsters and Squares
Part 4: Who's the MAN?
I don't know if Roosevelt Franklin and Same Sound Brown were friends, but they definitely had a similar vibe. In this sketch, Same Sound Brown visits Roosevelt's classroom to teach Farley how to read. As always, the hipster character is the smart one...
Voice cast: Northern Calloway (Same Sound Brown),
Jerry Nelson (Farley).
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Farley |
Same Sound Brown, could you help me with something?
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SSB |
Farley, my man, I'll do what I can.
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Farley |
I'm trying to read this word, but I'm not having very much luck.
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(Jazzy hi-hat music starts.)
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SSB |
Now, listen up, Farley, here's all you need for the down-home basics of learning to read. You start at the front, and you move to the rear, you say each sound out loud and clear. You go: Mmm-Aaa-Nnn. You go: Mmm-Aaa-Nnn. Then you run the sounds together and you smooth 'em out and that's what readin' is all about!
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SBB |
You go: Mmm-Aaa-Nnn, yeah! You go: Mmm-Aaa-Nnn. Yeah! You go: Mmm-Aaa-Nnn, you go: Mmm-Aaa-Nnn, You go: Mmm-Aaa, Mmm-Aaa, Mmm-Aannn, Man, Man, Man! MAN! Yeah!
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SSB |
Okay, I'm done. Now you try one.
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Farley |
I start at the front and I move to the rear, and I say each sound out loud and clear. I go: Fff-Uuu-Nnn. I go: Fff-Uuu-Nnn. Then I run the sounds together and I smooth 'em out, And that's what reading's all about! I go: Fff-Uuu-Nnn, I go: Fff-Uuu-Nnn. I go: Fff-Uuu-Nnn, I go: Fff-Uuu-Nnn, I go Fff-Uunn, fun, fun, fun, FUN! I did it! It's FUN!
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SSB |
Stick with me and I'll take you far, cause Same Sound Brown gonna make you a star!
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Farley |
Out of sight!
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SSB |
I could read all night!
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(Farley and Same Sound Brown give each other five. As naturally they would.)
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Thanks to Scott Hanson
for the pictures!