![]() The youngest member of the academy at the time, Eric wasn't socially developed enough to train with the other students who were older than him. So his teachers (and later mentors), the husband-and-wife comedy duo of Jacob and Elaine McMillian, kept him in a small room away from the other students. His early curriculum consisted of having to watch a steady diet of Saturday Night Live and SCTV tapes. The long tape-viewing sessions engrained two theories into Eric's head that would last to this very day. The first theory being that late-night sketch comedy shows make him laugh, and the second being that sketches that serve simply as one-note character-based vehicles kind of make him nautious.
Graduating this year from
The Winchester Preparatory Sketch Academy on his 22nd birthday, Eric's
mentors (the McMillians) handed him his two most prized possessions:
An apple sauce birthday cake with Eric's top 25 catch phrases written in
blue icing, and his Winchester Preparatory Sketch Academy diploma.
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