Saturday Night Live Transcripts
Season 37: Episode 3
11c: Ben Stiller / Foster the People
Tinyballs
Head Coach (Brad Pitt)…..Taran Killam
Coach #2…..Fred Armisen
Manager (Jonah Hill)…..Bobby Moynihan
Dealer…..Ben Stiller
Player #1…..Jay Pharoah
Player #2…..Paul Brittain
[ open on MPAA card ]
[ dissolve to movie trailer — baseball coach in business meeting ]
Head Coach: You have rich teams… and poor teams. Then there’s fifty feet of crap. And then there’s us.
[ intercut with footage of ballplayers striking out on the field ]
Head Coach: We’ve got to think differently!
Coach #2: differently, how?
[ cut to Coach meeting with Manager in an alley ]
Manager: Your goal shouldn’t be to buy better players. It should be to make better players.
Head Coach: But how?
Manager: with this guy.
[ reveal Dealer ]
Dealer: Hey.
Announcer: [ over SUPER ] From the malers of “Moneyball”.
Dealer: What if I told you you don’t need talent or money… and you could still win?
Head Coach: With what? Heart?
Dealer: No. [ he holds up a syringe ] With steroids.
[ the coach mulls it over ]
[ SUPER: “Based On A True Story” ]
[ cut to Coach addressing his new players ]
Head Coach: Gentlemen… we’re going to give you talent.
Player #1: How you gonna do that?
Dealer: We’re gonna inject in your ass.
[ cut to Dealer applying cream to the player’s skin ]
Dealer: This is called The Cream.
Player #1: What does it do?
Dealer: It makes home runs. And it makes your nuts the size of raisins.
Player #1: Wait, what?
Dealer: Don’t worry about it.
[ cut to muscled Player #2 hitting a home run ]
Player #2: I can hit!
[ dissolve to Dealer giving the thumbs-up ]
[ dissolve to Coach #2 yelling at Head Coach ]
Coach #2: People don’t like what you’re doing! You’re threatening the game! Also, some of the players are growing tits.
[ dissolve to Player #1 examining his tits ]
[ dissolve to Dealer and Player #2 high-fiving ]
[ dissolve to Head Coach leaning against net, smiling ]
[ dissolve to Head Coach having breakfast with his daughter ]
Daughter: I’m so proud of you! How are you doing it, Daddy?
Head Coach: We’re cheating, Honey. We’re cheating.
[ his daughter smiles ]
Announcer: [ over SUPER ] When the odds are against you…
[ dissolve to Player #1 eating his baseball ]
Announcer: [ over SUPER ] …Change the odds.
[ dissolve to team applauding their victory ]
Head Coach: Nobody believed in us! But we did it OUR way! Yeah!
[ the team cheers wildly, then begin to destroy locker equipment in an uncontrollable rage ]
[ dissolve to title slide ]
Announcer: “Tinyballs”.
[ dissolve to Player #1 looking at himself beneath towel in the shower ]
Player #1: What’s happening to me?
Dealer: You’re winning.
[ fade ]
