'Wasn't That Special' Season 24 Clips Package
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Here are some of the materials we discuss throughout the Season Twenty-Four episode:
Delicious Dish: Schweddy Balls
Incredible that everyone in this sketch was able to keep their composure all the way through. A great example of slowly building until you release the final joke, which everyone has now remembered for a quarter-century. The best sketch of the season.
SportsCenter
Written by Ray Romano’s writers, another one that has stood the test of time. Sweet Sassy Molassey!
Monica Lewinsky Visits the Ladies Man
After months of the show hammering away at her weight and sexual predilections, the real Monica Lewinsky shows up in two sketches. She’s a great sport.
The Sensitive Drill Sergeant
Ferrell is Ferrelling.
The Joys of Marriage
Will Ferrell and Vince Vaughn would later star together in the movie Old School, but two back-to-back sketches this season plant the seeds of what would become that film. Here’s the first.
Brew Dude
And here is the second, which could be ripped straight from the fraternity party scene in Old School.
The Big Baby Makes the Sale
Just put the camera on Ferrell and let him go.
Oops! I Crapped My Pants!
Just a chance to have old people say “oops, I crapped my pants” over and over and over. But no complaints.
10-10-1776-5-28-1830-242-3-316-68-22
A spoof of the 1990s calling cards that forced you to remember ridiculous numbers in order to save a few pennies on a long-distance call. Sprinkles in some dark humor as contrast.
Mindy and Skye
Gwyneth Paltrow was probably the best and most surprising host of the season.
Dog Show!
Cheri Oteri and Ana Gasteyer already had their recurring bits with Ferrell, now Molly Shannon gets hers.
Brian Fellow’s Safari Planet
Another season in which Tracy Morgan was woefully underused, but in the last sketch of the season, he brings back his trademark character from the show. (He had done Brian Fellow once before, on Weekend Update.)
Alec Baldwin Monologue: Ghost of SNL
The most prescient moment of the season: Brand-new cast member Jimmy Fallon appears as the Ghost of Christmas Future to tell Baldwin that in the year 2011, Fallon would be a big star and return to host himself. In December of 2011, Fallon was a big star and returned to host the show himself. An incredible prediction.
Of course, the biggest news of the season was Monica Lewinsky’s appearance on the show, which took place in the second-to-last episode of the season:
Lewinsky’s appearance did not please some columnists:
But irritating even more people was the release of A Night at the Roxbury, a terrible movie based on the SNL skit:
Nonetheless, newspapers were catching on to the talents of Will Ferrell, now in his fourth season on the show:
And people began noticing Molly Shannon, then in her fifth season on SNL:
One of SNL’s greatest writers, Robert Smigel, was getting more love as he took more of a public role on Conan O’Brien’s talk show:
Others noticed the show was willing to make fun of itself more, even though the TV Funhouse sketch cited here isn’t that great. (The MSNBC sketch is really good.)
