Ep 159: Mrs. Buttersbee

Improvised Star Trek

USS Sisyphus

Improv, Comedy

4.9 • 573 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2017

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Words can kill! But what else can they do? ...When the Sisyphus transports one of the Federation's top-ranked poets, a rivalry may spell bad things for the crew. Meanwhile, Rip Stipley finds himself in a different kind of prison...

This episode was improvised on October 2, 2016 from a suggestion by Eddie Krakhmalnikov via Facebook.

Edited by Eric Scull

Starring:

Rayna Caskey as Mrs. Buttersbee
Eli Mandell as Rip Stipley, Lt. Jeremy Swanson, Cockney Bartender
Nick Wagner as Lt. Ch'arles Lorem
Christopher Rathjen as Cdr. Corbomite Hayes
Mary Cait Walthall as Dr. Zarlene Zonalzon, En. Operator, Computer
Matt Young as Captain Julius V. Baxter, Lt. Greg, Cockney Rough, Audience Member

Sponsored by Cards Against Humanity via the Chicago Podcast Co-Op.

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0:00.0	This episode of Improvised Star Trek was sponsored by Cards Against Humanity, a member of the Chicago podcast co-op.
0:09.0	They asked us not to read an ad.
0:11.0	Enjoy the show.
0:12.0	Oh, hello, Captain.
0:16.0	Hello, I'm sorry.
0:18.0	Mrs. Buttersby.
0:19.0	Mrs. Buttersby, of course.
0:20.0	I'm sorry. Thank you for shuttling me. Buttersby, of course. I'm sorry. Thank you for shuttling me.
0:21.6	Thank you for picking me up. I really appreciate it. Yeah, well, it was my pleasure to do so. You're such an important member of our Federation family, and I wanted to personally pilot this shuttle over here, you know, and pick you up and take you back to the ship with me. with me. This, of course, our chief medical officer,
0:38.2	Zarlene Zonelson.
0:39.2	Hello.
0:40.0	Hi.
0:40.7	You seem to be in every... you know, and pick you up and take you back to the ship with me. This, of course, is our chief medical officer,
0:38.2	Zarlene Zonelson. Hello. Hi. You seem to be in excellent health for a person your age. Oh. Your seeming age. I don't know how old you species are. You're so cute. Thank you. So cute. Okay. Good. Oh, my gosh. I'm going to write a poem about this whole ship.
0:54.7	Oh, great.
0:55.5	I will, and I'll send it out to the stars, and the poet laureate will just, will just die, you know? Oh, you're trying to kill the Poet Laureate? Mm-hmm, with the right poem. The secession of Poet Laureate's the only way that happens in the Federation. Did you know that? I didn't know that. Yeah, the new poet laureate kills the previous poet. With a poem so good that that poet just dies on the spot? Yeah, yeah. Wow. So that's amazing. I've read a lot of your poems, and some of them made me feel like under the weather, but I've
1:28.1	never died from one. But I'm sure you can do it. You're definitely on your way up still.
1:32.8	Well, I don't want you to die now.
1:35.1	Thank you very much.
1:37.0	Always a danger when bringing a new being onto a ship is, you know, might just try to kill
1:41.3	the captain. Sometimes it happens. And it really keeps a doctor on her toes. Yeah. Commander Hayes, did you hear we're going to have Mrs. Buttersby aboard the ship? Not only did I not hear of it, I don't know who that is. Oh, my gosh. She's like the third-ranked poet in the Federation. She's like number three poet. Wait, Mrs. Butter'sby. Mrs. Buttersby. Do you not follow poetry? I do because I'm a very
2:05.9	cultured person. Yeah. I love Mrs. Butter... Yeah. No, I love... Man, she's charted in like
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