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(audience applauds) - Good evening, theater nerds.
Welcome to "Play It By Ear,"
the musical improv show.
I'm your host, Mano Agapion.
Please, why don't you go ahead and join me
in welcoming today's cast.
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We've got Zach Reino!
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(chuckling) Oh, Jess McKenna!
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And Rashawn Scott!
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Oh, yeah!
What's up?
- Today we're learning about pattern.
- That's right. - Stripe, solid,
stripe. - Stripe.
- Can you wear patterns on top of other patterns?
- It's called power clashing.
- (laughs) It's time to hustle, folks,
'cause in tonight's show, the founders of a company
must pitch their idea to investors,
and navigate the cutthroat world of startups.
(Jess and Zach chuckle)
Can they beat the clock to make their dreams a reality?
Let's find out, in "Elevator Pitch."
(Jess chuckles)
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- Do you guys have the easels?
- I packed four different sizes, four different kinds.
What about, should we coordinate on arrival time?
Should we all take one car?
- I am not still 100% certain what the product is
that we are pitching today. - What do you mean?
- What do you mean, Duncan? - It's right there
in black and white.
Look, it's right there. - Okay, it's just that it says
Internet Two.
- Well, this is what we've been going over for weeks.
I'm happy that you felt
like you could really be honest with us in this last moment.
- I felt like, if any time was the time to be like,
"I don't know what the product is," it's now.
- [Jess] Here's the thing about startups, though.
None of 'em have any of it figured out!
- No! - You don't have to know.
- No! - You just need broad strokes.
You need big ideas that get people in the door.
- And flashy ideas, and ways to say it that sounds
- Right! like you know what it is.
- And before we get to that idea,
I wanna make sure that this song
includes a viable financial plan.
- (laughing) Oh my gosh!
- Okay. - That has to include
at least one mathematic equation.
- [Jess] You!
- I know I'm a guest, - Get fucked,
man. - but come on.
(upbeat music begins) (Rashawn laughing)
- Especially when we're talking to investors, Duncan.
- Right. - It's like,
their money is gonna be the water on our seed.
- Rachel, you're so right.
♪ You start with just an idea ♪
♪ Some out-of-the-box kind of thinking ♪
Sure.
♪ And then you stop before you have too many details ♪
♪ Don't let your stomach go sinking ♪
♪ We'd be like, this is the box ♪
♪ And here's where your ideas are, I fear ♪
♪ But our idea isn't in this box ♪
♪ 'Cause our idea's over here ♪
♪ You gotta think out of the box to get it ♪
♪ That makes people go, wow, incisive ♪
♪ Don't really give away all your good ideas at the front ♪
♪ Keep 'em waitin', salivatin' ♪
♪ And that's why we'll have years of development ♪
♪ And then we'll sell another startup ♪
♪ We're only interested in those first few steps ♪
♪ We're only here to start ♪
♪ Only here to start ♪
♪ Up ♪
♪ We're only here to start ♪
♪ Up ♪
♪ Because here is the thing about numbers ♪
♪ Which we all know to be true ♪
♪ One, two, three, four ♪
♪ In an equation, one and one ♪
♪ And you add them together, and that's two ♪
♪ If we just need to get the startup money ♪
♪ Then we'll buy a building and computers ♪
♪ To make it seem like a place ♪
♪ Where a lot of things are happening ♪
♪ And that will build mystique ♪
- Right. ♪ All we need to do ♪
♪ Is go in there with cool suits, and make them laugh ♪
♪ And then, later on, we'll get a bunch of nerds ♪
♪ To figure out the math ♪
♪ All we need to do is start ♪
♪ Up ♪
♪ All we need to do is start ♪
♪ Up ♪
♪ And later comes the details ♪
♪ And maybe it's corrupt ♪
♪ But all we do is start ♪
♪ All we do is start ♪
♪ Up ♪
- Let's go talk to Mark Cuban right now.
- (laughs) I feel happy,
even though we did flick each other off.
- I went down a career path
where I was basically assured I would not have to do math.
And then you made me do math.
- Yeah, that's fair.
- It's not personal. I love you very much.
- No, love you, love you, love you.
You can go anywhere you want with this next scene.
I just want to make sure
that one character in this next scene
has a confounding obsession.
(Rashawn grunting)
- So, yeah, this is my hacker pad.
If y'all wanna be, like, coders and stuff,
we all, like, sleep in two-hour shifts.
- What is the sort of social vibes,
of like, are we like, hackers
who are like, every man for himself, lone wolf,
or are we hackers like, "Let's go get dim sum
and ramen together"? - Do you go
to discotheque together? - Oh, to be honest,
I've been hoping for some discotheque vibes,
but a lot of the previous roommates I've had
come through my hacker house,
they haven't wanted to be friends.
They've been more lone wolves.
Are you two more like-
- In terms of, like, my priorities of what I love to do,
like, up here is hacking. - Yes, okay.
- And then here is discotheque.
- Oh! (Mano laughs)
- We be wolf pack party.
- Okay, oh, ow!
- Come on, wolf. - Oh, no, no, no.
I mean, like, ow, ow, ow!
(chuckling) I don't know, I just-
- In each of us, there are two wolves.
A wolf that shouts like you, timid and small.
- Ow. - And another wolf,
who you have kept locked away.
- Where is your wolf sound?
- I guess I- - From here.
- From here?
♪ Here's where the wolf lives ♪
♪ Ow, ow, ow ♪
♪ With its little teeth ♪
♪ And when you let out the wolf ♪
♪ It will make a sound ♪
♪ That the world will not believe ♪
♪ Let your howl out to the world ♪
♪ Let them see your girl growls ♪
(Jess growls) ♪ Let them know ♪
♪ You are an animal ♪
♪ You're not scared, at all ♪
♪ If I ow, ow, ow, ow ♪
♪ Then I ow, ow, ow, ow ♪
♪ And I ow, ow, ow, ow ♪
♪ Ow-ooh ♪
♪ Just one more time ♪
♪ If you ow, ow, ow, ow ♪
♪ And I ow, ow, ow, ow ♪
♪ If you ow, ow, ow, ow ♪ ♪ If I ow, ow, ow, ow ♪
♪ Ow-ooh ♪
♪ I never had this kind of encouragement ♪
♪ I never had this kind of support ♪
♪ I never knew fellow coders ♪
♪ Could be even more ♪
♪ And I've certainly never had two of them ♪
♪ Who work so perfect as one ♪
♪ Oh, this could be so exciting ♪
♪ It could be life-affirming and fun ♪
♪ Won't you try to ow, ow, ow, ow ♪
♪ Ow, ow, ow, ow ♪
♪ If I let it ow, ow, ow, ow ♪
♪ Ow-ooh ♪
♪ If I let it ow, ow, ow, ow ♪
- More claws, though. ♪ If I let it ♪
♪ Ow, ow, ow, ow ♪
♪ If I let it, ow, ow, ow, ow ♪
♪ Ow-ooh ♪
♪ And the most important thing ♪
♪ We can't stress this enough ♪
♪ You've got to have wolfy teeth ♪
♪ We're like, both obsessed with wolfy teeth ♪
♪ Really show the teeth ♪
♪ If they can't see the teeth ♪
♪ They will not believe ♪
♪ The teeth ♪ ♪ Oh yeah, when you applied ♪
♪ You said, we love hacking ♪ ♪ We love teeth ♪
♪ We're best friends from Germany ♪
- Yeah. - That's right.
♪ And we are also, on the side ♪
♪ Obsessed with dentistry ♪
♪ That's dentistry ♪
♪ When we ow, ow, ow, ow ♪
♪ Ow, ow, ow, ow ♪
(Mano laughs)
♪ Ow, ow, ow, ow ♪
♪ Ow-ooh ♪
♪ If we let it, ow, ow, ow, ow ♪
♪ Ow-ooh ♪
♪ Ow ♪
♪ Ooh ♪
Yes!
- Yeah, you guys can live here.
(Mano laughs)
They were obsessed with dentistry.
- With dentistry.
- Yeah, I wasn't sure if it was dentistry
or the discotheque.
- Well, that was not confounding,
'cause everyone should be obsessed
with the discotheque. - Oh my God.
If you're ready,
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- I would like this next scene
to take place entirely inside of an elevator.
- Well.
What, oh, hold? - Well.
- Hold the door? - Hold please.
- Yeah. - Sorry, sorry.
- Sorry. - Yeah, come on in.
Sorry.
- What pitches are we hearing today?
- We're gonna be hearing from a cereal company.
- All right, it's not a day in the office
if I'm not dealing with the fiber lobby.
- I know, I- - Sorry, this is my floor.
- Oh my goodness. So sorry, sorry.
But I'd also- - What's on the 14th floor?
- Well, that's the-
- There's a directory for every floor in this building
except the 14th floor.
- That's interesting.
- We go to the penthouse at the top floor.
- I've never been to any other floor except the penthouse.
- Me neither, why would I? - Sorry, going up?
- Yes.
- Come on in.
- I wanna make sure that whatever song comes next
has as many key changes as possible.
- Very strong arms. - Thank you.
- Wait, you are that baseball player!
- Yeah. (chuckles) Yep.
- Pitch McGovern.
- I took my son to one of your games. You hit a home run.
Good job. - Great, great stuff.
Not a pitcher, just named Pitch McGovern.
- Nope, nope, left field.
- I don't mean to be rude,
you're a famous baseball player and all, but.
- You're going up?
- To the penthouse? - Going up.
- What floor?
- 21st.
- (whistles) Okay.
- Whoa. (chuckles) - That's good.
- Big building.
- A lot of floors in this one.
♪ Is it like, hard ♪
♪ Baseball, I mean ♪
(Mano laughs)
♪ Is it, you know, hard to play baseball ♪
♪ When I watch it on the screen ♪
♪ It seems pretty hard ♪
♪ You know, baseball, the sports ♪
♪ I mean, people play, of course ♪
♪ It just seems pretty hard ♪
♪ I was wondering ♪
♪ Do you ever get lonely ♪
♪ Out in left field by yourself ♪
♪ I know, the fans are all around ♪
♪ And they make a lot of sound ♪
♪ But I would feel lonely ♪
♪ On the ground, all alone ♪
♪ So tell me, what's it like ♪
♪ To be a baseball player ♪
♪ I really gotta know ♪
♪ So I can tell my son, Kevin, when I get home ♪
♪ What's it like ♪
♪ Well, it's nice for you to ask ♪
♪ It's nice if you wanna know ♪
♪ But I don't think it's hard ♪
♪ Or lonely, just so ♪
♪ Actually, I find it ♪
♪ To be so fun ♪
♪ How many people get to get paid ♪
♪ To play a game out in the sun ♪
♪ But what about, ball ♪
♪ Are you scared of the ball ♪
♪ When they throw it right down at you ♪
♪ Don't you freak out at all ♪
♪ That's a good question to ask ♪
♪ Does the ball come very fast ♪
♪ Are you allergic to bats ♪
♪ Are you tired of hot dogs and sunflower seeds ♪
♪ I'm not very scared ♪
♪ And I have no allergies ♪
- That's good. - Okay.
♪ No, to me ♪
♪ Baseball, I say, yes please ♪
♪ What about bugs ♪
- Bugs?
♪ Isn't the field full of bugs ♪
♪ When the bugs in the grass ♪
♪ Aren't you like, I know you're here, but I ♪
♪ Just can't see you, bugs ♪ ♪ Another great question ♪
♪ Boss man ♪
♪ There's gotta be ♪ ♪ Are there bugs on the field ♪
♪ There's gotta be ♪ ♪ We gotta know ♪
♪ Bugs ♪ ♪ If the bugs, bugs ♪
♪ Where are the bugs ♪
♪ And also the ♪ ♪ So is it hard ♪
♪ Or is it lonely ♪
♪ Is my scared or allergies ♪
♪ Do I have bugs ♪
♪ Well, yes there are bugs, you see ♪
- I knew it.
♪ Is the seventh inning stretch ♪
♪ Just a stretch at this point ♪
♪ Are you just tired ♪
♪ From running around the bases all day ♪
♪ How do you ♪
♪ Keep your uniform white ♪ ♪ And what about birds ♪
♪ Can birds just show up ♪ ♪ Do you just love some bleach ♪
♪ At any time ♪ ♪ Does your ♪
♪ Cleaner make ♪ ♪ They're allowed ♪
♪ A lot of money ♪ ♪ No one comes, and like ♪
♪ Chases the birds away ♪ ♪ We just gotta know, come on ♪
♪ And also the birds ♪ ♪ We're almost to your floor ♪
♪ Tell us ♪ ♪ Birds and also ♪
♪ My uniform ♪ ♪ The ball and birds ♪
♪ Lonely and also the bugs ♪
♪ And allergies ♪ ♪ And bugs ♪
♪ Well, I ♪ ♪ What about baseball ♪
♪ Never ♪ ♪ Baseball ♪
♪ Heard so many questions ♪
♪ About baseball ♪
- That's me. - All right.
(Mano and audience applauding)
Ah, the fiber lobby.
(Mano and Rashawn laugh)
- That's incredible. What was the scariest note for you?
- I think I had one mid-verse,
that, like, - Yeah.
- that's just not gonna sound right.
- Scott's a real stinker.
- I wonder where we go next.
- I have an idea.
- Okay. - Okay, let's go.
- Thank you so much for bringing me out to the discotheque,
and I really feel like it's been really fun
and liberating for me.
Listen, you know I told you I was doing some hours
for that new startup, Internet Two?
- Yah. - Well,
I don't think they have a product at all.
- That is not good.
- Well, in a way, isn't that a wonderful opportunity
for you to code whatever it is
that you want to code? - Yes.
What is your dream to code? - Code whatever?
- If they don't know what Internet Two is,
then perhaps Internet Two is a blank canvas
upon which you can paint your heart's desires.
- Oh, Klaus, so good.
- Thank you, Ralph.
- All this talk about the discotheque
makes me wonder if we can force you
to do a very Eurovisiony-inspired song.
- Well, it's good that you come to the discotheque
to clear your mind, so that this blank canvas
can be decorated with the best idea you could ever code.
- Because truly, a blank canvas
is full of flashing lights and colors,
because through all of the clutter is nothing.
And through all of the nothing is everything.
Do you see what we're saying?
- I think so.
- Nothing is everything. - Everything.
- Nothing is everything. - Nothing is everything.
♪ Ooh ♪
♪ Feel the pink, pink, pink of the spotlight ♪
♪ Hear the beat, beat, beat of the horn ♪
♪ Hear the piano go toot, toot-toot, toot-toot ♪
♪ On the morning you die ♪
♪ Which is also when you are born ♪
♪ The vibrations move through my body ♪
♪ I feel my blood getting warm ♪
♪ I feel at home on the dance floor ♪
♪ The stars elate ♪
♪ And I feel I have shorn a skin ♪
♪ I feel like you're saying nothing ♪
♪ And that makes it sound like everything ♪
♪ When you s-s-s-s-say nothing ♪
♪ At all ♪
♪ I feel like we're saying nothing ♪
♪ And that makes it feel like everything ♪
♪ When we're s-s-s-s-saying nothing ♪
♪ At all ♪
♪ That's right, hear the boom, boom, boom of the subway ♪
- Right!
♪ As the turtle opens up for love ♪
Uh-huh.
♪ And 100 trash cans, one by one ♪
♪ Are graced by God above ♪
♪ Picking every blade of glass ♪
♪ And naming it one of my future children ♪
- (laughing) Yes.
♪ Looking underneath my eyeball ♪
♪ And seeing my mother ♪
- [Jess] Right! ♪ But don't skip this part ♪
♪ Pick the glass ♪
♪ Name the children ♪
♪ Pick yourself a glass ♪ ♪ Pick the glass ♪
♪ And name the children ♪
♪ Freddy ♪
♪ Again, another children ♪
♪ Charles ♪
♪ That's two, what about more children ♪
♪ Abigail ♪
♪ That's the children ♪
♪ Timothy ♪
♪ And that's the children ♪
♪ Mano ♪
♪ That's the children ♪
♪ Yes, again, again and again ♪
♪ Because you feel like we're saying nothing ♪
♪ And that makes it ♪
♪ Feel like everything ♪ ♪ Sound like everything ♪
♪ When you're s-s-s-s-saying nothing ♪
♪ At all ♪
♪ Feel like we're saying nothing ♪
♪ Feel like you're saying nothing ♪
♪ But that sounds like everything ♪
♪ When we're s-s-s-s-saying nothing ♪
♪ At all ♪
♪ I've got it ♪
♪ I know where I must go ♪
♪ Oh, just one more dance ♪
♪ And then we g-g-g-g-go home ♪
♪ And then we'll da-da-da-da-da all night ♪
♪ And we'll b-b-b-b-burn the midnight oil ♪
♪ So we d-d-d-d-do it together ♪
♪ It won't feel like t-t-t-t-t-t-toil ♪
♪ Oh ♪
♪ Ooh, nothing ♪
♪ Nothing ♪
♪ And that's why it feels like everything ♪
♪ Nothing feels like everything ♪
♪ When we're s-s-s-s-saying nothing ♪
♪ At all ♪
♪ Nothing, everything, children, glass ♪
♪ Nothing, everything, children ♪
♪ Glass ♪
(audience and Mano applaud) - Oh my God!
- Yeah. - Danke schoen.
(Jess laughs)
Thank you for indulging my trash taste in music.
- I've never known
that that's actually my favorite genre of music.
- (laughs) Wait, what was the last thing? It was-
- Nothing, everything.
- [Cast] Children, glass.
- That's also merch.
- Nothing and everything, and children
- [Cast] and glass.
- Well, let's go somewhere else.
I'll probably give you a song prompt for this next scene.
- Okay. - All we gotta do,
go in there, smile, Internet Two.
Those coders have got it figured out.
- Yeah, I'm sure they put together
a great presentation for us.
It's gonna be no problem.
- So, I brought some sparklers, 'cause I think we need
- Yes. - some spectacle
as well as numbers.
- That's right. - Yeah.
- This building is kind of weird.
I guess, to get up to the penthouse,
we do have to pass the 14th floor.
- Shouldn't be any problem.
- Pass the 14th floor? - Yeah, I don't know.
It just said, like, when I did our check-in for our badges,
it just said, "Yeah, absolutely, your meeting's at 11:15,
but you do have to pass the 14th floor."
- We probably just go to the 14th floor,
check in, and then go
wherever we're supposed to go - Yeah, maybe it's
- for the meeting. - a second check-in, yeah.
- Yeah, let's just do it. - But you know when you
get in the elevator, you gotta go up the stairs
to get to the next level. - Yeah, yeah, yeah,
that's probably it. - Okay, 14.
- Ooh, and I don't know when this song is coming,
but when it does, I would like it to incorporate
a Gilbert and Sullivan-inspired patter.
(bright piano music begins)
- Oh.
Oh, here we are.
Okay. - Oh yeah, it is a,
seem to be a room full of sign-in sheets.
Oh, just follow the directions here.
♪ Now, did you sign in, did you sign in ♪
♪ Did you sign in on the line ♪
♪ You put your first name last ♪
♪ Then your middle sublime ♪
♪ But then you put your last name before your first ♪
♪ And if you don't do that then, then you are cursed ♪
♪ You'll be cursed, then you'll go back to the floor 13 ♪
♪ If you don't fall in line, and just do say what I mean ♪
♪ So it's first name, middle name, the word, sublime ♪
♪ And then your last name on the second line ♪
♪ Okay, first name, middle name, word, sublime ♪
♪ And then my last name goes on the second line ♪
♪ And now I did this great ♪
♪ I did it for the team, which is great ♪
♪ Now we do not have to go down to 13 ♪
♪ It says now you go up to the 15th floor ♪
♪ Which, I guess, is the end ♪
♪ Or we check in more on the 15th floor ♪
♪ Although that would be strange ♪
♪ Did the sign-in process just quickly change ♪
♪ Here's floor 15, there's another sheet ♪
♪ It looks identical to the first one that we meet ♪
♪ And so, somebody else can take the second form ♪
♪ 'Cause I'm getting tired and my head feels warm ♪
♪ That would be so rude and cold ♪
♪ If every single cubicle on every single floor ♪
♪ Was just more and more and more ♪
♪ And that the 14 is the 15, and they all look the same ♪
♪ And this is just a little trick to put you in your brain ♪
♪ Okay, now, this floor's supposed to be the 16th floor ♪
♪ But it looks just exactly like the 13th floor ♪
♪ Which is the floor that we definitely happened to before ♪
♪ So let's just take the stairs ♪
♪ Oh, it feels like they're ♪
♪ Making it just confusing like a hobby ♪
♪ I wish they would've said this all back in the lobby ♪
♪ But here we are on the stairs, only there's one step ♪
♪ But, ooh, now, each with a step I regret ♪
♪ Because, oh, whoa, this is about ♪
♪ We gotta go up to that penthouse ♪
♪ And then, on this building there are 23 floors ♪
♪ And the penthouse is that 24th floor ♪
♪ So maybe what you're saying ♪
♪ Is the stairs we should do later ♪
♪ And for now, we just go back inside the other elevator ♪
♪ Yes, that is the situation ♪
♪ That is the sitch ♪
♪ Taking the elevator ♪
♪ Is my pitch ♪
(Mano laughs)
I just hope we don't get cursed.
- Yeah, me too. - Why would we get cursed?
- Well, the lady on 14 said
that if we didn't follow in line, if we didn't do it first,
then we would go on forever with a terrible curse.
- I don't think that we're cursed.
- I don't think. - We're definitely
- [Cast] not cursed.
- That was fantastic. - Very good good job.
- That's almost Gilbert and Sullivan.
- I bought every second of it.
I can't help but wonder
if there's something more to this curse,
and perhaps there's a connection there.
- You've done very good job, my business wolf.
- Thank you.
We're seeing a very exciting pitch for Internet Two today.
- Mm.
- At least we're supposed to.
The people giving the presentation never showed up.
- They may not have gone to the 14th floor.
- It's possible they're in the time curse, yes.
- Mm. - They may never get here.
- (laughs) And that is the curse of any startup, is time.
- The one thing you can't buy more of.
- They think they can buy time, but they can't.
- Only you can buy time.
- Yes, 'cause I am the time-
- The Time Lord.
- The Time Lord Wolf.
(Jess laughing)
- I'm interested to see what the coders have come up with,
since I assume
we'll now be getting the presentation from them,
as the other people are stuck forever
in the time loop curse.
- Mm. - Oh, you're ready for us?
- Yes, come. - Oh, sorry.
- Yes, we are also ready for you. Do not worry.
- Yeah, we're ready for you.
- Be confident. - Yeah.
- Do you have time lords
in your country? - No!
- Time Lord is a very powerful magis
who controls the flow of time.
- Right. - This is taking too long.
- I'm so sorry.
Listen, I was just a coder, working a startup, Internet Two.
But then I discovered there was nothing to Internet Two.
It was nothing. It was a nothing product.
- It was nothing, it was everything.
It was children, it was glass.
- That's right. - Wow.
Is there time in nothing?
- Well, with the help of my friends,
I came up with something a little different.
- All right.
(mysterious music)
♪ More like taking us back ♪
♪ A TBT throwback ♪
♪ More of a product for a busy time ♪
♪ That helps you get back to the starting line ♪
♪ A little reminder of easy things ♪
♪ Of life without complications ♪
♪ A simple app, with good design ♪
♪ And customer integration ♪
♪ A portrait of a child ♪
♪ On a pane of glass ♪
- Like a wolf, yes.
♪ A portrait of a child ♪
♪ On a pane of glass ♪
♪ You just simply upload their photo ♪
♪ Through our easy app ♪
♪ It's a portrait ♪ ♪ It's just a portrait ♪
♪ Of a child ♪
♪ On a pane of glass ♪
♪ So just to clarify ♪
♪ This is an app on my phone ♪
♪ I'll download it now ♪
♪ Oh, I did ♪ - Yes.
♪ And I can get a portrait of a child ♪
♪ On this glass on my phone ♪
No. ♪ Is it going to be my kid ♪
♪ No, it's not on your phone ♪
♪ This is not the glass ♪
♪ You can hold it in your hand ♪
♪ Okay ♪ ♪ Oh, hold it in my hand ♪
♪ It will be etched in a really fine studio ♪
♪ And then sent to you as you plan ♪
♪ It's just a portrait of a child ♪
♪ On a pane of glass ♪
♪ Nothing, everything, children, glass ♪
♪ Portrait of a child ♪
♪ On a pane of glass ♪
♪ Nothing, everything, children, glass ♪
♪ It's really just that simple ♪
♪ It's as easy as that ♪
♪ It's just a portrait of a child ♪
♪ On a pane of glass ♪
♪ So you upload a photo on the app ♪
♪ And pick the color of your pane of glass ♪
- I chose blue glass.
♪ And then in two to three weeks ♪
♪ You'll get that pane of glass ♪
- I love it because it takes so much time!
♪ You can hang it on your wall ♪
♪ A snapshot of a moment ♪
♪ But put on glass, which, as we know ♪
♪ Can be sharp if you hold it ♪
♪ Okay, but can it be an adult ♪
- Well, I don't know.
I guess on future versions of the app, yeah.
♪ But this one doesn't do adults ♪
Not this one.
♪ And can it be ♪
♪ Like, I don't know, a picture ♪
♪ What makes it a portrait ♪
♪ Oh, well, it should be cropped up close ♪
♪ So it can't be a full body ♪
No. ♪ Of an adult ♪
♪ Currently we can't ♪ ♪ We're getting into semantics ♪
♪ About the cropping of the thing ♪
♪ I mean, I love that it's a portrait of a child ♪
♪ On a pane of glass ♪
♪ Nothing, everything, children, glass ♪
♪ Portrait of a child ♪
♪ On a pane of glass ♪
♪ Nothing, everything, children, glass ♪
♪ From a photo you stored on your phone and put on an app ♪
♪ It's a portrait ♪
♪ Of a child ♪
♪ On a pane of ♪
♪ Glass ♪
- Yes, let out the wolf howl! - Yes, let it out!
- The wolf! - Let it out!
(Jess vocalizing)
(Rashawn howling) (Jess continues vocalizing)
(Jess howls)
- I don't know about you, Mister Time Lord,
but I think we need to buy this immediately.
The future of media
is the portrait of a child on a pane of glass.
I've never been more sure of anything.
- They had a lot of questions,
Klaus and Ralph. - I will buy it.
- What do you think? Oh, what?
- [Zach] See?
- I'll buy it.
- Really, Time Lord? - Yes.
With this pane of glass technology of children,
I will stop time, finally.
- But you're also an angel investor for small businesses.
- Exactly. - Oh, amazing.
- So, take this check.
- It's so big, both its amount and size.
Thank you so much, Time Lord.
If there's anything I can do.
Well, hey, your first portrait of a child
(laughing) on a pane of glass.
- What?
- (laughing) Your first portrait of a child on a...
- What? No, no, no, I know it's an emotional time.
Hold on, let me hold this check. It's so big.
You'll get it. - Your first portrait-
- Get ready to hear this.
You're not going to believe the deal
that you're about to get.
- What, what is it again?
- Your first portrait of a child on a pane of glass is free,
- Wow!
- with promo code, glass.
- That means you can share it with all of your friends.
If any of them use the promo code, glass,
they can have their very own portrait of a child,
one portrait of a child, on a pane of glass.
- Uh-huh, uh-huh. - Not the full body
of an adult. - I'm following,
I'm following, I'm following.
- Yes.
- God damn, that was genius.
- Okay. - Okay.
(Rashawn and Jess laugh)
- Wherever the. (laughs) - What is it?
- [Mano] (laughing) Wherever.
- That's the dumbest thing I've ever come up with.
- Yes it is. - Okay.
- Portrait of a child on a pane of glass.
- Oh, this is perfect. - It's beautiful.
- Okay. - No, it's good, it's good.
Let's go forward in time, and see what's come of our cast.
(discordant percussion music begins)
- (giggling) Whoa. - Oh my God.
- Wow, this company is going so well.
And it's all because of your great ethos of friendship,
and then discotheque, and then coding.
- Yeah, thank you.
It's so amazing that, like, everywhere I walk,
I see someone holding a pane of glass
with a portrait of a child.
- And they're not small.
- No! - They're like
two-by-three panes of glass. - Yeah!
I could never have done it without you two.
- Oh. - No.
- You know, and it's just so amazing
to watch all these people
savor these little moments, you know?
But if I'm ready to savor any moment, it's this moment.
Five o'clock, it's quitting time for us.
- Oh, that's right.
Let's go outside, and just sort of take in the world,
and maybe hit a bar
on the way back home. - Oh.
Great.
- (groans) What year is it?
- What?
- Wait a minute. I remember you.
You're the coder that I hired, 100 years ago.
- Whoa! - Whoa!
- I had two other companions. They turned to dust.
- [Jess] Oh, no!
- Because of the curse, you see?
- Oh, no! - But you made it out alive.
- I did. But at what cost?
I had to learn what life was really about,
and I had to have art that inspired me.
And you know what? I saw that art.
And strangely enough, it was a portrait of a child
on a pane of glass. - Pane of glass.
- Yes. - Here's one for you there.
- What? It's so big. - Yes.
- It's, wow.
I didn't have enough respect for what you two did before.
I wish I'd learned that earlier.
But now that I know it, I can turn to dust happily.
- Whoa, he's turned to dust!
Ah, the pane of glass! Oh.
Oh, good thing I caught this pane of glass
which is a picture of the three of us as children?
- Whoa! - What?
- Whoa! - It's so accurate.
- How could that have happened?
We didn't even know each other 'til we were in our mid-20s.
- Maybe something about time is not what we thought it was.
- Yeah, maybe something about time
is not what we thought it was.
But you know what is?
- What? - A discotheque.
♪ A discotheque is forever ♪
♪ Where friends can find good friends ♪
♪ And nothing will keep us ♪
♪ From opening our hearts ♪
♪ And so I think that going to a discotheque ♪
♪ Is a good thing to do at the end ♪
♪ And it's a very, very good place ♪
♪ For the next chapter to start ♪
♪ It's time to start ♪
♪ Up ♪
♪ Start ♪
♪ Up ♪
♪ It's time to start the party ♪
♪ It's time to start the moves ♪
♪ It's time to darken your shoulders ♪
♪ Your elbows, your knees, so loose ♪
♪ It's time to get your body moving ♪
♪ The blood is pumping ♪
♪ The beat is up, and friendship's jumping ♪
♪ It only took time, and glass, and you ♪
♪ You ♪
♪ It's time to start ♪
♪ Up ♪
♪ We got to start ♪
♪ Up ♪
♪ And who knows, through wolves and times ♪
♪ Were we children together ♪
♪ A bunch of small wolf pups, who knows ♪
♪ Let's start ♪
♪ Up ♪
♪ Wolves, children, glass, everything ♪
♪ Wolves, children ♪ ♪ Nothing, everything ♪
♪ Glass, everything ♪ ♪ Children, glass ♪
♪ Wolves, children ♪ ♪ Baseball, bugs ♪
♪ Glass, 14th floor ♪ ♪ Run, code ♪
♪ Time loop, building ♪ ♪ Time, tick ♪
♪ Coding, friendship ♪ ♪ Turning to dust ♪
♪ Mano, also ♪ ♪ Where did they go ♪
♪ You, watching ♪ ♪ They turned into dust ♪
♪ Time, the band, let's go ♪ ♪ And they learned, you ♪
♪ It's time to start ♪
♪ Up ♪
- Yes, bravo, bravissimo!
(cast howling) (audience applauding)
Who knew that curses, Eurovision, and business
belonged in the same musical. (laughs)
Give it up one more time for our incredible performers.
We've got Jess McKenna, Rashawn Scott,
and Zach Reino!
And, of course, our incredible band,
Brett Morris, Gary Grantham, and Scott Passarella!
That's curtains for us here at "Play It By Ear."
Once again, I'm Mano Agapion.
And remember, if you're ever unprepared,
just wing it, bitch.
Buh-bye!
♪ Start up ♪
- Just wanted it to go one more.
♪ Start up ♪
(cast vocalizing) (upbeat music)
(cast continues vocalizing) (upbeat music continues)