The BEST episodes written by Eric Appel
#1 - Mudslide Junction
Nick Swardson's Pretend Time - Season 1 - Episode 4
Nick talks about how happy he is to be working with Gay Robot again. Sketches include a cereal parody, a radio personality who has a knack for delivering bad news, and innovative camping equipment.
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#2 - Blah Blah Blah Main Street
Nick Swardson's Pretend Time - Season 1 - Episode 7
Nick discusses his horrible kitten sweater. Featuring sketches about an ill-fated couple's role playing, a family's guest with an uncontrollable need for the bath room, Gay Robot trying to buy plane tickets to an alien probing site, the scenario of Titanic if it was in an underwater planet, a forest ranger's job of breaking up homosexual intimacy, the recovery of a time capsule filled with sexual objects, and a man who wants to work at a cupcake factory with a twist.
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#3 - I Just Got Voodoo'd
Nick Swardson's Pretend Time - Season 1 - Episode 3
Nick talks about the trouble they had casting the Freddy Krueger sketch. Sketches include a parody of Nightmare on Elm Street, a parody of Top Chef, Nick as a ballet dancer, and a parody of a 1940s mummy film.
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#4 - Monday Morning Meltdown
Nick Swardson's Pretend Time - Season 1 - Episode 6
A parody of James Cameron's Avatar set in an office, a TV show, called "Critter Getters", about two men capturing a bear, and an appearance by Superman.
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#5 - Relapse Into Refreshment
Nick Swardson's Pretend Time - Season 1 - Episode 5
Nick discusses his obsession with scatological humor at an early age. Sketches include a TV show about a masturbating sniper, pirates following a treasure map tatooed to one of their scrotums, and a man with unorthodox survival skills (such as bashing out his teeth to make a weapon to fight night creatures and bigfoot, eating rocks, and giving himself oral sex.
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#6 - The Leather Swingset With the Monkey and the Gun
Nick Swardson's Pretend Time - Season 1 - Episode 2
Nick discusses how dirty the show can be. Sketches include inappropriate paramedics, a house haunted by an optically challenged portrait, Gay Robot's creepy neighbor, an ill-fated jungle expedition, and a civil-rights-era fable.
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Nick Swardson's Pretend Time - Season 2 - Episode 1
Nick talks about dive bars; 16 (months) & Pregnant parody, Wheel Chair Cat has to defends one of his nine lives in court; an infomercial for a new ab-workout device using natural male self motivation; playing out an old fantasy during a zombie apocalypse; high school student Dijon’s senior project video “Baby Not From Booty”; Nick talks about charity drive themes that might be more popular and how he’s not a morning person; a new product called “International Waters” and online gaming add-on “The Smack Transporter”.
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#8 - Powdered Doughnuts Make Me Go Nuts
Nick Swardson's Pretend Time - Season 1 - Episode 1
There’s blood, tears, vomit, urine and donkey sperm - lots of donkey sperm. In the premiere of comedian Nick Swardson's sketch-comedy show, a man is upset when his mother leaves all her money to the family cat. Nick dedicates the show to his dead cat. Also: a father who compiles a "bucket list" for his son; and a profile of Lady Gaga's brother, a police officer in New Jersey.
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