From On Patrol #66: Guac-On-Guac Crime
May 5th, 2014
In the history of On Patrol, never has a moment been recalled and scrutinized more than Intern Will’s infamous “Do You Need Help With Your Keyboard?” tale. This is a story that sent shockwaves through everything; when I look back on the show’s entire run, it’s really pre- and post-Keyboard. Will and I had been talking about pretty much nothing for twenty minutes, with me trying to pull something of interest out of him, when in the final moments he dropped this bombshell. The Seinfeld-esque concept of a girl hitting on Will by asking him this is just so bizarre, and Will has this earnestness when trying to unpack what it means – he’s able to talk about it in such a humorous and sincere way. This story made the rounds after we talked about it on air, so much so that a year later the girl who’d propositioned him contacted me saying that she really had been offering Will help with his keyboard. She wasn’t fooling anybody.
