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BetterHelp Ad: Prank Call Sketches
from 164 - Life In The Big City · #164
10 min
SponsorBetterHelp
A long BetterHelp ad built around fake abusive/absurd therapy call sketches with characters named Marlene, Frank, Kirsten/Kat, and Carl, escalating into dark jokes about pegging, garbage disposals, and a predator seeking advice.
- Tim's disclaimer about BetterHelp: no problem if people want to masturbate on the line.
- Bit concept: a combative therapist who accuses every patient of being a Nazi, no matter what they call about.
- Prank call #1 to BetterHelp—Tim calls in complaining about anxiety, gets insulted by 'Marlene' who only calls him fat.
- Tim wraps the first sketch, reassuring that feeling shitty goes away if you call BetterHelp.
- Prank call #2—caller about a breakup gets vague non-advice from Frank, who then mentions DNA and suggests getting a horse.
- Prank call #3—caller with sexual confusion gets a BetterHelp counselor named Kirsten who suggests his wife use a strap-on.
- Caller escalates into increasingly extreme fetish details—garbage disposal and sideways positioning—which Kirsten affirms enthusiastically.
- Prank call #4—Carl, an excommunicated deacon caught with a young girl, calls BetterHelp seeking help with violent thoughts.
- The BetterHelp counselor in the final sketch asks Carl for filmed evidence, audio, and photographs of the alleged abuse.
- Sketch ends with the counselor propositioning Carl: 'scratch your back, you scratch mine,' before asking for the girl's address.
- Final call-out to BetterHelp with disclaimer that 'it's not that bad.'