Sister Mary Elephant - Synopsis

Synopsis

The title character is an exceedingly prissy, nun substitute teacher (voiced by Cheech Marin) teaching in a parochial school ("Our Lady of 115th Street") classroom of exceedingly irreverent, noisy teenage boys (voiced by Cheech and Tommy Chong through overdubbing). She attempts to teach the class, but the boys totally ignore her. She then tries to get the students' attention by speaking increasingly loudly, to no avail, and then finally screams, "SHUDD-UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUP!" at the top of her lungs, in startling contrast to her usually placid manner; dead silence ensues. She follows this with a once again prissy "Thank you". This becomes a running joke throughout the skit.

Sister Mary Elephant announces that she is the substitute for their regular teacher, Sister Rosetta Stone, who has sent her love and the artwork she is making: fingerpaintings and dustcloths, indicating that she has likely been institutionalized. After introducing herself, the class erupts in laughter upon hearing the substitute's name, prompting a repetition of the above routine. Sister Mary Elephant then asks a student to give her his knife. He complies, but not quite the way she had in mind (we hear it come flying and stick in the wall with a twang). She responds with another prissy "Thank you". She continues to try to teach the class, during which the boys continue talking, necessitating further repetitions of the screaming bit.

Sister Mary Elephant tells the class that they will read their previously assigned essays on "How I Spent My Summer Vacation". She chooses one boy (Chong), who stands up and reads in a monotone voice how on the first day he woke up, went downtown to look for a job, then hung out in front of the drugstore. He repeatedly describes this same daily routine verbatim for each day of his vacation as well. Sister Mary tries to get the student to stop reading, but he ignores her and continues, finally noting that on the fourth day he got a job keeping people from hanging out in front of the drugstore. Sister Mary beseeches the boy to "SHUT UP!" before he can continue any further.

Sister Mary Elephant then reads from a book of excessively flowery poetry. The class responds with their usual razzing but fall silent except for scattered snoring after a few verses. Once again she goes into her "Class...claaaass...CLAAAAAAASS...", but this time it's, "WAKE UUUUUUUPPPPPPP!" The sketch ends here with Chong declaring "I gotta go to the can, Man."