The Dana Carvey Show/The Mountain Dew Dana Carvey Show

The Mountain Dew Dana Carvey Show
Season 1, Episode 3
Airdate	March 26, 1996
Written by	Louis C.K. (supervisor) Steve Carell Robert Carlock Dana Carvey Bill Chott Jon Glaser Charlie Kaufman Heather Morgan Robert Smigel Dino Stamatopoulos Mike Stoyanov
Directed by	John Fortenberry
← 1x02 The Mug Root Beer Dana Carvey Show	1x04 → The Diet Mug Root Beer Dana Carvey Show
The Dana Carvey Show — Season One

The Mountain Dew Dana Carvey Show is the third episode of the first season of The Dana Carvey Show.

Starring: Dana Carvey

Co-Starring: Steve Carell, Bill Chott, Stephen Colbert, Heather Morgan, Peggy Shay, Robert Smigel, James Stephens III

Special Guest Star: Phil Hartman

Announcer: Jim Fagan

Episode Breakdown

• Sore Losers: The farm animals from Babe react angrily when it's announced that Braveheart won the Academy Award for best movie.
• Monologue: Carvey opens up the floor for questions about the program, but when a man jumps to his feet to ask one, it isn't about the show. Instead, he asks if Carvey still rides the subway now that he's rich and famous. Carvey says he does because he enjoys urine. Another audience member asks if he'd like to go up to where the band is and play the drums. He obliges, plays a quick solo before going into the audience and sitting on a woman's lap.
• Larry King Live: Larry King (Hartman) interviews Ross Perot (Carvey) about whether or not he's going to be running for president as the Reform party candidate. Perot insists that he's not running, although he will "if the volunteers want me," despite the fact that he's been running commercials asking for people to vote for him. Whenever King brings up the commercial, Perot gets indignant and shouts at him for making it "all about him." He tells King that he looks like a bullfrog and keeps calling him "Froggy" to get him off the subject, but there's still the matter of an episode of Ellen that mentioned Perot's name 40 times because he spent over a million dollars on advertisement. Perot starts insanely denying everything, even questioning the fact that he's on the show. Perot backs up his declaration by calling into the show and sneaking off while King's back is turned. He pops up again behind King, startling him, to prove the point that "nothing is as it seems."
• The 11:00 News That's Easy to Take: Sunny Stevens (Carvey) anchors the 11:00 news, but only in a pleasant demeanor. He talks about the conflict between China and Taiwan (and superimposes a kitten's head over the Chinese foreign minister) and the Bosnia peace process with video of baby chicks. He throws to Bill Clifford (Colbert) who gives commentary about a student getting robbed at school as his rant gets angrier, he lifts a puppy into frame to distract people. Stevens, now feeding a pony, throws to Cory Bennett (Chott) for sports. Bennett reenacts Dennis Rodman headbutting a coach using kittens and, when the video cuts back to him, he's holding a baby. Finally, with an update on the Menendez Brothers trial verdict is correspondent Bob Ross (Smigel), who is painting the boys into a mountain landscape.
• Mountain Dew Ad: Carvey asks Chott what he thinks a glass of Mountain Dew looks like. Chott keeps giving answers that their advertisers wouldn't be offended by, but when Carvey presses him, he awkwardly says "liquid sunshine," although it seems like they were inferring that it looks suspiciously like urine.
• Nightline: The '96 Vote: Ted Koppel (Carvey) reports on Bob Dole's announcement of his running-mate, a move when analysts say was a calculated attempt to distract people from his age. They broadcast a press conference with Dole introducing Strom Thurmond (Carvey), the oldest senator in American history, as his running mate. Koppel interviews the two via satellite. Koppel keeps asking questions about their politics, but they mostly just keep making their old age very apparent. For instance, Dole claims that Thurmond fought in the War of 1812. After a while, Koppel gets bored and switches the satellite feed to an episode pf The A-Team.
• Academy Awards: Gregory Peck (Colbert) and Susan Sarandon (Morgan) present the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Animated Short Subject, but when they say the name of the first filmmaker, a Pakistani named Saaj Patell (Carell) starts screaming "I win!" from the audience. Peck tells him that he's just a nominee and he sits back down after apologizing. The same thing happens with Ling Oh Park (Carvey) and Mahmoud Wazir (Smigel) from Iraq, so they skip the final person's name, Salem Al-Mamlaka (Chott). when Peck says "And the winner is," all four rush the stage.
• Grandma the Clown: A very old woman dressed as a clown (Shay) tries to entertain a room full of children, even though she clearly can't walk without a walker and doesn't know how to make balloon animals. After asking a little girl to scratch her ankle, the sketch ends. Carvey appears in a bubble to say "whoever wrote that sketch is a flabby loser."
• Best Song - Braveheart: Over the credits, Whoopi Goldberg (Stephens) introduces Bryan Adams (Carvey) and Kermit the Frog, who sing a song from Braveheart.