Billy Gardell, Pittsburgh actor and comic, donned his swashbuckling hat and leather bag to recreate a scene from “Raiders of the Lost Ark” in a kitchen.
CBS shared the 1-minute, 32-second clip Saturday to promote its airing of the 1981 action-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg which starred Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones.
Gardell channels the archaeologist Jones as he gingerly steps on the safe tiles in a kitchen and then deftly swipes a roll of toilet paper from a Lazy Susan, which stands in for the golden idol on an altar in an ancient temple in the film.
Dr. Jones, we presume? Nope, it's #BobHeartsAbishola's @BillyGardell amazingly reenacting the first scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark. We're all pretty excited to see Indiana Jones tomorrow night on #CBSMovieNight at 8/7c on CBS and @CBSAllAccess. Way to earn that T.P., Billy! pic.twitter.com/znyCvqE1bW
— CBS (@CBS) May 2, 2020
He then runs down the stairs in a house as a bouncing green ball comes rumbling after him (a boulder in the movie).
The clip ends with Gardell running outside the house with the toilet paper in hand yelling, “Start the truck! Start the truck!.” It was a plane in the movie.
CBS is airing “Raiders of the Lost Ark” on Sunday night as part of a series of films from the Paramount Pictures library that will be shown Sundays in May. The other films are “Forrest Gump,” “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,” “Mission: Impossible” and “Titanic.”
Gardell, who grew up in Swissvale, stars in the CBS sitcom series “Bob Hearts Abishola.”
