The Kitchen Boys
The Kitchen Boys is a recurring sketch on the sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live, it features two workers in an unnamed Italian restaurant, they are Marco and Carlo, portrayed by Dana Carvey and Adam Sandler respectively. It is presumed that both Marco and Carlo are recent immigrants from Italy.
The Characters
Carlo is Marco's apprentice in every restaurant post their in, Marco always tries to teach Carlo to do anything in the restaurant and but Carlo always messes things up and eventually gets them demoted to a stupider job, until they wind up in the crummiest job of all in any restaurant, being the Pepper Boys. When Carlo screws up hard Marco oftenly slaps and headbutts him for him to stop whatever mess he's doing.
The Episodes
The Chefs
At first Marco and Carlo work as chefs for their restaurant, Marco tries to teach Carlo how to cook a bowl of Calzone but Marco spills it on the soup causing it to be served to a man alergic to pastas and causing him to vomit. When this happens their boss demotes them to waiters.
The Waiters
Marco tells Carlo to be polite and compliment the costumers when attending to them, which makes a nervous Carlo to say "I love you!" to a nearby fat man making him run off. An angry Marco tells Carlo to be polite but not that much so Carlo starts kissing a nearby woman, Marco them slams his fists on Carlo and knocks him down where their boss enters and emotes them to valet parkers.
The Valet Parkers
Marco tells Carlo to catch the keys when he passes them at him, Carlo who gets too nervous accidentally drops the keys in a sewer. The customer tells him to help them reach it back so Carlo pushes the man down the sewer. Then Marco tells Carl to drive the car slowly but Carlo goes to fast and a clip (of another episode) is shown having Carlo crash the car in the middle of a road against a speeding truck. Then Carlo returns and the man who fell in the sewer comes with their boss and gets Carlo and Marco demoted to pepper boys.
The Pepper Boys
Marco shows Carlo how to grind pepper and a woman kisses Marco because he's good at grinding pepper, then Carlo offers a man pepper but forgets to give it to him, he then gets told he forgot something and goes kiss the man. Marco then grinds the pepper for the man exceedingly well (earning himself a $200 tip). Carlo then grinds pepper in a man's chocolate mouse. This is also the only sketch where Marco does not attack Carlo, rather he says that he believes in him and simply admonishes him that "the man with the chocolate mousse, he does not want the pepper", and tells him to grind pepper for a couple eating chicken. Finally for the first time ever Carlo grinds the pepper well and manages to for the first time ever get a job right. Then their boss arrives and tells them he bought an electric pepper grinder for each table and that he doesn't need them any more and fires them. Marco says to Carlo that they will not be defeated and will work together to serve their own food. This leads Carlo and Marco to open their own restaurant.
Carlo and Marco's Restaurant
No episode is made AbOUT their restaurant but after at the end of The Pepper Boys sketch a caption is shown saying their restaurant was called "Fresh-A-Pepper" and where every dish in it contained pepper, which became a success. Then Carlo died in 1993 out of "pepper lung" and Marco is still alive today and lives in a nursing home with walls made of oregano because they were out of pepper.
Catchphrases
- Marco: No, no Carlo, you make de idiot thing!
- Carlo: But I'm nervous Senior Marco.
- Marco: Carlo the (whichever object is the key object to their job in that episode) is your friend, do not be afraid of the (the previously named object).