Sketch List
| Number | Overview |
|---|---|
| 2 (March 1972) | The Painter is at a marina where, after rejecting two dock poles, he chooses someone's sail to paint his 2, then quickly flees in a rowboat from the sailboat's irate owner. |
| 3 (February 1972) | The Painter meets a woman (played by Stockard Channing) who is enjoying a picnic lunch alone at a park. The Painter paints the number on slices of bread using condiments — mayonnaise, mustard, and ketchup — but the woman grabs each slice to assemble a large Dagwood sandwich before he could admire his work. The woman finally devours the sandwich; time-lapse filming techniques were used to create the comic effect. |
| 4 (February 1972) | Walking down the street, The Painter encounters a woman in rain gear carrying an open umbrella, asking where the rain is. While she is not looking, the Painter goes about his work. Just as the woman inspects the umbrella to see what The Painter had done, both are doused with a sudden deluge of water. |
| 5 (January 1972) | At the zoo, The Painter walks into a cage that appears to be empty. Thinking nobody is around, he finds a yellow ball and begins his work. Just as he is finishing, the cage's inhabitant, a gorilla, interrupts The Painter's work. The Painter nervously hands the brush to the gorilla, who finishes the 5. The two give each other a high five as the skit ends. |
| 6 (February 1972) | The Painter walks into a bakery, where a baker is trying to finish icing a birthday cake. The baker leaves the area briefly, giving The Painter enough time to grab one of the icing tools to draw the number 6. When the baker returns and sees what has been done to the cake, he cuts a slice of cake and offers it to The Painter in an apparent gesture of thanks. Before The Painter can take a bite, the baker shoves the cake in his antagonist's face (as a sign of disapproval) ... then takes the slice he cut and eats it. |
| 7 (February 1972) | The Painter tries to paint a 7 on the elevator door of a department store, but winds up painting the number on a shopping bag and purse carried by some customers. The third customer he encounters is a football player in full uniform whose jersey has a 7 on it. |
| 8 (January 1972) | The Painter pops up from under the water of a backyard swimming pool, where Mac, the owner, is trying to enjoy a relaxing afternoon while reading the newspaper headline of the Painter's previous antics in the #6 film. The Painter decides that the man's bald head is the perfect place to paint his 8. When the man realizes what The Painter did, he goes after his antagonist to demand an explanation; the chase scene uses fast-motion photography to create the comic effect. However, for the first and only time in the series, The Painter manages to get away, taking the man's inflatable raft before escaping, while a humiliated Mac falls in the pool and drowns. |
| 9 (February 1972) | The Painter decides to paint his 9 on the street, but after doing so, a street cleaner truck (led by Mac, thought to have died in the previous film) comes by and its water jet wrecks his beautiful creation. |
| 10 (February 1972) | The Painter decides to paint his 10 on the seat of a bar stool in the room he's in. As he shows it off, the janitor comes in and gestures for him to put the stool down. The man sits on the stool and eats a banana, unaware that the wet paint has transferred onto his coveralls. |
| 11 (February 1972) | In the final film (although materials list the final film about the number 2), the Painter comes into the waiting room of a doctor's office and immediately decides that the window of the door leading into the office would be a perfect place to paint the number 11. After waiting patiently for other patients to go into the patient rooms, The Painter goes about his work. As The Painter views his work, the janitor (Mac) comes in and washes the 11 from the window. The Painter returns to the waiting room, dejected over his work being washed off; just then, the annoyed nurse (Channing) yanks The Painter out of the waiting room, presumably to meet his final fate. |
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