“UNDER THE PAPER GOWN” with Amber Ruffin | Episode 4

Amber makes a list of all the questions about women’s health that she’s been too embarrassed to ask over the years. And realizes, maybe her gynecologist is a more credible source than wherever she previously got her information.

Audio Descriptive Text
• Video opens with “Under the Paper Gown with Amber Ruffin”.
• Scene opens on Amber sitting at the kitchen island, writing on a notebook.
• Lacey, Amber’s sister, walks in holding her phone and a menu. She gives a puzzled look at Amber.
• Amber puts down her pen and notebook.
• Amber picks up her pen and notebook again, and begins to read off her list of questions.
• Lacey holds up the menu and phone she’s been holding to order lunch.
• Super comes up with “It’s never too late to ask questions about your gynecologic health.”
• Amber comes back on screen with Lacey standing next to her.
• The last screen shows “Watch the full series at YouTube.com/CDC,” with the logos for the Inside Knowledge campaign, CDC and HHS underneath.

Script

[Lacey] I’m ordering lunch. What do you want?

[Amber] Hold on. I’m busy.

[Lacey] What are you doing?

[Amber] I’m making a list for my next gynecologist appointment.

[Lacey] A list of what?

[Amber] Everything I’ve learned over the years about women’s health. I want to know what’s true and what’s not.

[Lacey] What do you mean?

[Amber] Well, my whole life, I’ve had a lot of questions, but I’ve been too scared to ask them. So I’ve
had to settle for information I got from romance novels, the popular girls’ lunch table, those quizzes in the backs of magazines, and that staticky channel we weren’t allowed to watch growing up.

[Lacey] When did you sit at the popular girls’ lunch table?

[Amber] I passed by it a few times. Anyway, everything’s all jumbled in my head and I gotta do the right thing and ask the doctor.

[Lacey] That’s so grown up of you!

[Amber] Here’s what I have so far...Is it true you can get pregnant from slow dancing less than an arm’s length apart?

[Lacey] That’s not true.

[Amber] Ok. Is it true that some women actually have 3 sets of labia?

[Lacey] That’s not true.

[Amber] Ok, I gotta get that looked at. Is it true that my period purposely shows up when I’m wearing white pants to spite me?

[Lacey] That might be true. Ya know, I’m really proud of you for being proactive about your health.

[Amber] I know, right!? The gynecologist used to make me uncomfortable, but now I’m learning and growing!

[Lacey] Great. So…pizza?

[Amber] No. A woman’s magazine told me I’m much more compatible with chicken nuggets.

[Lacey] (Sighs)

[Amber] It’s never too late to ask questions about your gynecologic health. But it might be too late for those white pants.

[Lacey] It’s definitely too late. 

[Amber] Yeah, I’m-a throw ‘em out.