'Wasn't That Special' Season 27 Bonus Materials
As the Wasn’t That Special co-hosts watch each season of Saturday Night Live, they compare notes on each episode, chatting back and forth about both popular and long-forgotten sketches. Some of the topics they discuss make it to the final podcast; others are left on the cutting-room floor.
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Below is the Season Twenty-Seven bonus notes section, with the clips coming next week.
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Episode One: Reese Witherspoon
Scot: A mulligan given, considering the circumstances. But it was rough, there's no doubt.
Christian: No need to use Poehler when you have Reese Witherspoon on board. But yeah, clearly their minds were elsewhere. Slack given. Adam McKay, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Rachel Dratch, and Horatio Sanz were all at Second City around the same time.
9/11 Tribute with Guiliani, Paul Simon, firefighters, first responders
Christian: Peacock doesn't have this online because of the music rights. Appalling.
Scot: One of the greatest moments in show history. Every detail was correct. Magnificent. Poignant. Everlasting.
The Little Mermaid - Shipwrecked man (Ferrell) is put off by Ariel’s (Witherspoon) fish genitalia
Christian: Will flubs a line, doesn't happen often.
Scot: The middle part, with Ariel's sexy songs hums. But couldn't bring it home.
Newborn baby’s nonstop farts & burps distress parents (Ferrell and Witherspoon)
Christian: Morgan is funny and the Kattan/Ferrell aside about coffee actually made me chuckle.
Scot: A giant turd - Morgan's only appearance? Just can't get him on air.
Donatella Versace (Rudolph) & fashionistas sing kids songs
Scot: I've never liked these. Didn't enjoy this one. Could be a long couple years.
Episode Two: Seann William Scott
Scot: Hosts are signing the last bump picture and Seann William Scott says "Thanks for a dream come true." He meant it. He had a fantastic night as guest host.
Christian: Agreed, SWS was much better than I expected.
George W. Bush (Ferrell) warns Osama bin Laden of reprisals to come
Christian: Good case of reading the room. A tough Bush is what people wanted to hear at the time.
Scot: Oh, hey. A Bush direct-to-camera - OK, but this is a good one. A different take on W as he assumes a leadership mantle. Texas tough, slightly dumb.
Law & Order: Parking Violations Unit
Scot: It works. Does the mix seem off to you? Music too high?
Christian: Yeah, music is a bit loud. Hammond plays "DA Adam Schiff?" As in ol' pencil neck?" Shifty Schiff?
Jeffrey’s - more customers insulted
Christian: Sanz overtly trying to destroy the whole sketch. Doesn't mean I didn't chuckle a time or two.
Scot: Fallon breaks the moment Sanz enters the scene - Sanz has the wrong energy.
Jarrett's Room - winners of Freshman Facebook Awards announced
Christian: Wait - Jarrett has a book he calls "Facebook?" The actual Facebook wasn't founded until 2004. Prescient!
Sum 41 - “Fat Lip”
Christian: Didn't one of these guys marry Avril Lavigne?
Ferrell wears patriotic thong to work meeting
Christian: Yeah, it's one joke. But it's fun to see them having fun.
Scot: Sanz breaks, of course - One big visual joke and that's about it - Only Scott and Poehler keep a straight face in this.
Poehler reveals her porn actress career to Scott
Christian: Poehler immediately making her case for Female Cast Member 1.
Scot: Amy arrives. "I'm not a porn star ... yet (crosses fingers)." - Believe this is a trunk piece from UCB.
Episode Three: Drew Barrymore
Christian: Is Gasteyer getting moved out?
Scot: More breaking in this episode than in the first 20 seasons combined - Every week w/o a terrorist or anthrax attack has been great! Ana has been quiet and Morgan, of course, is invisible.
Barrymore talks of fear and anthrax - Tom Green cameo
Christian: Fey also has a story about leaving the building because of the Anthrax scare this week. Says Lorne shamed her into coming back to work.
Scot: I already cut some slack for Episode One's monologue.
The Luv-ahs - Roger & Virginia entice Dave (Fallon) to be (Barrymore)’s lover - in hot tub
Christian: Finally, they get it right. A sketch that actually deserves all the breaking.
Scot: Fallon breaks - well, pretty much everyone does.
Willy Wonka Collector's Edition - DVD of Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory has outtakes & cast commentary
Christian: I think Dean Edwards got to speak five words?
Scot: Lotta bad ideas in here.
Action Talk Show with Klaus VonBraunMan
Christian: Good God. I assume this was written during the week when the writers were battling anthrax sickness.
Scot: Oh, no. - The Ishtar of planned recurring sketches.
WUUB Prime Time Theater -while airing King Kong, TV station replaces World Trade Center finale
Christian: Yeah, there was something here, but this wasn't it. Perfect example of when breaking doesn't work - when the sketch is a total dog and iit doesn't deserve it.
Scot: Hammond and Barrymore break - Good concept, awful execution.
Whole Latte Love - Ferrell heckles ex-girlfriend (Barrymore) & her new lover (Rudolph) as they play music
Christian: I mean, good for them for wanting to make fun of feminists?
Scot: A total dead end on every level.
Episode Four: John Goodman
Christian: Forget what I said about Gasteyer. She's back! Just getting my priors on Seth Meyers out there - I am not fond of his work.
Scot: Extremely light Ferrell episode. I'm guessing Dan Aykroyd is here b/c Goodman's voice is shot.
Meyers and Brian Williams; John Ashcroft (Hammond) with vague warnings about terrorism
Scot: Kattan as Anthony Fauci gets big applause.
She's the Girl with no Gaydar - (Dratch) can't figure out who's gay
Christian: I liked it! Good premise with some solid lines.
CBS Evening Anthrax Update
Christian: "Angrier than a rained-on rooster." "Stronger than an acre of garlic." Some good writing here.
Scot: This is a good impression! - Pulling in the older anchors was a solid choice - Start-to-finish a great piece.
America Undercover - trashy white couple (Kattan) & (Poehler) in domestic dispute
Christian: I liked it. Pretty funny take on COPS. Poehler showing why she is still famous. Written by Tina Fey.
Scot: White Trash is a long-time comedy blind spot for the show.
Episode Five: Gwyneth Paltrow
Christian: Perfectly average, but a disappointment based on Paltrow's last episode. Edwards and Richards barely getting any screen time, but based on what we have seen so far, it's justified.
Scot: A good (bad), ol' fashioned, almost completely recurring character episode. And only one Ryan Adams song.
George W. Bush dispels some myths about Muslims
Christian: Thought this one was a step down. Nothing really going in here and a lot of filler.
Scot: Bush direct-to-camera - Good enough!
Paltrow & overshadowed childhood friend Maya Rudolph sing “Flashdance”
Christian: So cute!
Scot: Going by feel a bit. This feels light and breezy and fun.
Gemini’s Twin & newest member (Paltrow) are patriots
Christian: Gasteyer singing rule in effect. I would rather see Paltrow on the ski slopes than in this.
Dysfunctional Family Dinner - Pohler plays daughter, Paltrow is friend
Christian: Peacock version seems like it's dress version - Poehler is wearing a different shirt. Paltrow turns to yell at the audience, whereas in the live version she is more turned towards the table. (Because the other way was creepy.)
Scot: Nowhere near as good as the original. The clanging of silverware seems much much louder.
Mango - Mango & high school sweetie (Paltrow) chat; Meyers as Hugh Grant - Matt Damon cameo
Christian: Mango appearance #14 (including in a monologue.) That's 13 too many.
Scot: At least, as he flirts, they acknowledge we know Mango is married with a family. Though he is going on a date with Matt Damon, so …
Fiesta Politica - Donald Rumsfeld (Hammond) is out of place at Telemundo show
Christian: Actually enjoyed this one. It's mostly effort, but the Sanz cutaways were good.
Scot: Not recurring! - Morgan is playing nothing but female/effeminate roles on the show - never found a groove.
Episode Six: Billy Bob Thornton
Scot: Really does seem like a case of trying to figure out how to be funny again post 9/11, leaning on recurring characters to pull it off.
Donald Rumsfeld (Hammond) intimidates reporters during a press briefing
Christian: It's not great, but probably was funny at the time.
Scot: Must've liked that impression from last week - Has the ring of the Nealon Q&A in which everyone asks for confidential info - Pacing is bogged down toward the end and likely would have been even better not as a cold open.
First Thanksgiving, featuring gay pilgrim (Thornton)
Christian: Some writer: "What if there was a pilgrim but gay?"
Scot: Take the Gaydar sketch and place it in early America.
Brian Fellow's Safari Planet - a goat & a miniature horse cause confusion
Christian: It appears Tracy Morgan doesn't know the name of the character? "I'm Brian Fellows?"
Scot: Upside seems limited with this premise.
War Party - at a party, the fall of Kandahar inspires an impromptu jazzy dance number
Christian: Would be a cool entry in a time capsule, but..Gasteyer is singing. It's not funny.
Scot: Interesting snapshot of "post 9/11 mentality;" could be hard to relate to these days.
Creed - “My Sacrifice”
Christian: Creed owes Nickelback a huge debt of gratitude for taking the "one band everyone jokes about being the worst" off their backs.
Thornton considers what to do with "fenced-in area" in his yard
Christian: It's weird and different and has good escalation. The perfect 10-to-1.
Episode Seven: Derek Jeter
Christian: I still miss Parnell. Have we been light on Dratch?
Scot: Decent show; more Ferrell = more laughs. As athlete hosts go, Jeter was not bad.
Jeter hits baseballs into the audience
Christian: If he didn't play in New York, Jeter would be Paul Molitor. Their career numbers are identical.
Scot: Third "hit" is actually a grounder.
Yankee Wives - Jeter & other Yankee wives in crowd (Wells and Cone cameo)
Christian: This one is so weird - can't imagine Jeter's teammates loved him making fun of their wives.
Scot: Amy's pretty good here.
Kattan daydreamed about giving Jeter a massage with romantic music
Christian: This is supposed to be escalation, but you should escala-SHUN this sketch, amirite? Is this thing on?
Dissing Your Dog commercial - Ferrell tape shows how to train canines via mockery
Scot: Ferrell finally puts one on the board - the insults all are hilarious.
Derek Jeter's Taco Hole - host promotes his Mexican restaurant with "Kokomo" parody
Christian: Derek Jeter is not a skilled comedian.
Scot: "On March 13, 2001, Freddy Fender was erroneously reported to be dead by Billboard." - Feels like an inferior Stevie Nicks twist.
Jeter's friends are turned off by his home perm
Christian: The answer to "what if they wrote a sketch about a man who got a perm."
Episode Eight: Hugh Jackman
Christian: Find something for Tracy Morgan to do, for the love of God.
Scot: Blech. Unrelated, could be the show with the most Jeff Richards screentime.
Al Gore (Hammond) phone call interrupts George W. Bush’s (Ferrell) war meeting
Christian: Really like the Gore stuff, but it goes on waaaayyyyy too long.
Scot: Hammond plays three roles in this one - It was a bit of a struggle.
Loose Bear commercial
Christian: But wait, I thought women would rather encounter a bear than a man. Prescient!
Robert Goulet’s (Ferrell) All-Holiday Special embraces all seasonal aspects
Scot: Ferrell tells the sheep, "No, I don't speak Spanish" a la Anchorman.
Sears Photographers - artsy photographers (Jackman) & (Meyers) shoot family at Sears portrait studio
Christian: You may be surprised to learn that Gasteyer disapproves of their antics.
Dressing Room - Jagger considers moves while talking to self (Fallon) in mirror
Christian: How did Mike Myers not think of this? Jagger was ancient 23 years ago!
Scot: Finally getting one over the plate.
Superman (Jackman) phones home to Krypton
Scot: Caveat: I don't do superheroes, so you'll have to tell me if there's something obvious I'm missing.
Christian: It's a reference to the 1970s Christopher Reeve Superman movie. Not much happening.
Versace - model (Jackman) pays a visit to Donatella Versace’s (Rudolph) bathroom
Christian: Getting to the golden age of the sketches where the whole punchline is "he's gay!" "Pickle sniffer!"
Scot: I mean, I hate it. Nothing redeeming.
Christmas Kangaroo - host remembers his father’s (Ferrell) traditional Christmas kangaroo fights
Christian: Did Will forget he was supposed to do an Australian accent? Then he snaps back in on the last line. A good 10-to-1.
Scot: Most gay-related punchlines since Season 20?
Episode Nine: Ellen DeGeneres
Christian: There's a trend with new cast members - they give them a big, breakout episode then they disappear for like three eps afterwards. Happened to Rudolph and now Poehler.
Scot: Hey, I'm crediting Michael Schur with putting WU on an extremely solid path. It's in great shape. Funny, loose, good-tempered. I read somewhere Will pushed for Ellen but she was extremely nervous, which is why he ends up in every sketch. This was a well-balanced show, a couple highlights, just Mango bringing it down.
CBS News Report - Osama bin Laden (Ferrell) tape on negotiations with hijackers - Downey with the voiceover
Christian: Always enjoy regular people discussions among extremists. (See Jon Ronson's book "Them.")
Scot: Good chuckles during the OBL explanation.
Ellen admits she's not gay, has a husband
Christian: She's a professional comic.
Scot: A very good monologue and a solid dig at Anne Heche to boot.
TV Funhouse - “The Narrator That Ruined Christmas” - snowman visits Ground Zero
Christian: The resemblance is incredible. A lot of love went into it. But I think it's more "very good" than "great."
Scot: Parnell guests as Brokaw - Boy, this is pitch-perfect. It's the best TV Funhouse in forever.
No Doubt - “Hey Baby”
Christian: A bad song, poorly performed. I love Gwen Stefani, but I don't know if she's a singularly talented vocalist.
Scot: I hate this song.
Ellen's Mango obsession creates backlash among lesbians
Christian: I actually swore when Mango showed up. STOP THIS NOW.
Scot: Richards with Charlie Rose impression.
Snow Globe - Dick Cheney (Hammond) plays snowglobe which has the Sanz song on it
Christian: Creative way of sneaking this song in. Like it predated "Rickrolling."
Episode Ten: Josh Hartnett
Christian: Ferrell himself is probably worth a half a point per episode, so this one lags. Halfway through the season, it is within one-one hundreth of a point of every other Ferrell season. Almost too consistent to believe.
Buddy's Memorial Service - Bill Clinton talks at dog Buddy’s memorial service
Christian: Political cold open in every episode this season so far. (Counting 9/11)
Scot: Crowd steps on the "Buddy would bark" joke.
Wake Up Wakefield - Hartnett has growth spurt
Scot: I still like this but Hartnett weighs this one down.
Shout Out!! Show - Grandmaster Freddy (Morgan) gives props to everything
Christian: If you asked me how long Pink has been famous, I would have been off by 10 years. Hartnett made a bad sketch even worse, stumbling over lines.
Scot: Crowd is 1000% dead until Pink arrives.
HBO First Look - George Lucas (Hammond) talks about upcoming Star Wars film
Christian: Nope. Nope. Nope.
Scot: Zzzzzzzzzz.
Episode Eleven: Jack Black
Scot: Is the sum more than its parts? Felt like a really solid show. No sure numbers will bear that out?
Pretzel-choking is a cover-up for Cheney hitting Bush
Christian: Cheney wearing a wife beater, as if they feel the need to drive home the domestic abuse parallel. Pretty gross.
Russell Putnam, investigative reporter
Scot: As pot-themed sketches go, this was one of them.
Now That's What Actors Call Singing
Christian: Decent premise, awful execution.
Scot: Bruce Willis and Seagram's reference again!
Music International - Blacks’s gothic rock opera serves as a Happy Birthday Song alternative
Christian: An exception to the Gasteyer singing rule!
Scot: I had to watch twice because my attention was briefy elsewhere the first time and OMG what did I walk back into?
Episode Twelve: Britney Spears
Scot: Completely generic type of episode. Most things seem slight, short, and very underwritten.
Women's Downhill - Mormons (Aykroyd & Ferrell) talk Mormonism during Olympian’s (Poehler) ski run
Christian: This was supposed to be Britney Spears as the skier, but Lorne pulled her at the last minute and installed Poehler who only had five minutes to prepare.
Kattan enters as Spears - Justin Timberlake [real] learns he slept with wrong Britney
Christian: Hard to watch given the recent news about Spears and Timberlake. Are they the new Tom and Roseanne?
Inside Barbie's Dreamhouse - Skipper (Spears) learns that she’s Barbie’s (Poehler) daughter, not her sister
Christian: There were Star Wars action figures that were their scale, though. They are worth a fortune now.
Jarrett's Room - we meet Gobi's new girlfriend (Spears)
Christian: The best that can be said about these is that they typically involve a music clip, saving future generations from having to see them in reruns.
Scot: Short, mercifully.
HBO First Look - Gemini’s Twin & latest member (Spears) in hip-hop epic film
Christian: Did Britney Spears write this episode?
Scot: Slightly new environment for this, same results.
The Leather Man (Fallon) sells attire to (Spears); Aykroyd cameo
Christian: This is awful. Fun note - Aykroyd is in the Spears movie "Crossroads" that would come out a few weeks after this. If Fallon laughs every time he even sets eyes on Sanz, you can't have them in sketches together.
Scot: Tom Davis wrote - squeaking is funny momentarily.
Episode Thirteen: Jonny Moseley
Christian: Weak episode with a couple of solid nuggets. But given the host, it's pretty much what you'd expect.
Scot: Worse-than-generic type of episode with a totally anonymous host and writing that caters far too much to his limited skills.
Whatever makes George W. Bush (Ferrell) unhappy is part of Axis Of Evil
Christian: A famous one - an exception to the direct-to-cameras.
Scot: Bush direct to camera - Meyers does the intros.
After not medaling at Olympics, host settled for fourth-place ceremonies
Christian: I have not heard the name "Jonny Moseley" since this aired 22 years ago.
Boston Teens at ski lift
Christian: Can't remember if we noted this, but "retarded" wouldn't be used like this anymore.
Scot: Less engaging than usual. But at least Moseley feels at home!
The O'Reilly Factor - Richards impression; has wrong facts
Christian: This feels a lot like watching Fox News these days.
Scot: Pretty good O'Reilly and a good grasp of how the show flowed. But the crowd isn't getting into it at all.
Dismissed - Moseley chooses between two girls (Rudolph and Poehler)
Christian: Poehler's best bit yet. Laughed the whole way through, especially when she is identified as an "aspiring waitress."
Scot: Debut of Poehler's one-legged Amber character.
Super Buzzers - 1970s game show with long intro of panel; real Rip Taylor cameo.
Christian: Gets by on unapologetic stupidity.
Scot: LOL at Fallon's George Gaines impression.
Episode Fourteen: Jon Stewart
Scot: No Ferrell, no problem this week.
Stewart does stand-up about late-night wars, gay rights, sexuality
Christian: Prescient, given the recent controversy over the 10 Commandments in Louisiana schools.
The Cheese Game - George Plimpton [real] pitches fun way to raise gourmets
Christian: Yep, like it when they go highbrow. And Plimpton is good.
Scot: Liked it a lot. Tone/feel straight out of 1978 SNL.
Talkin’ To the Stars with Rachel and Tracey - with Jon Stewart
Christian: Liked, didn't love. You get the feeling that their real behind-the-scenes discussions are funnier.
Scot: Finally allowing Tracy to just play "Tracy" and placing him next to Rachel is a great choice.
Stewart at party with other anchors
Scot: Tina leaving the sketch is fantastic - Pretty much impressions in search of a point.
Christian: OK, but they introduce Tina as "Tina" when she walks in. Why wouldn't Brokaw think she was Tina? This is all kind of loose and aimless. The last couple minutes are terrible.
Jazzvisions - spoons player (Stewart) talks with Morgan and plays
Christian: It's so stupid it's good. I snorted when he said he had a sexy song called "Spoon Tang."
Scot: The goofiness is enough to allow it to slide by.
We Were Soldiers That Knew What Women Want - an odd Mel Gibson (Stewart) film
Christian: More women playing Asians.
Scot: Stewart is a terrible Mel Gibson.
Episode Fifteen: Sir Ian McKellen
Scot: McKellen gives off a real Patrick Stewart vibe. Throwing himself into some of these sketches. Ferrell absence more pronounced here.
Homeland Security - colors of Tom Ridge’s (Hammond) terrorism alert scale are confusingly neutral
Christian: Total lack of creativity in the cold opens now.
Scot: Ridge direct-to-camera - These opens need a jolt.
McKellan sees the SNL troupe as a worthy extension of theater tradition
Christian: Has it all - self-deprecation, politics, and personal stuff. A good monologue.
Scot: He seems fun, excited to be there!
Kotex Classic commercial
Christian: Story about this in Fey's book. Uses it as an example of how male and female writers are different.
Scot: Paula Pell wrote.
Delicious Dish - Lynn & Margaret Jo learn of (McKellen)’s Irish dishes’ ties to dead relatives
Christian: Thought this was dead after Molly left, but Dratch really holds it down.
The Ferey Mühtar Talk Show
Christian: It's a total disaster but you can't look away.
Scot: This is barely being held together, but McKellen is really good and it's hard not to laugh along.
Life and Times of Charles Dickens - McKellen one-man show about Charles Dickens
Christian: Not very funny, but technically superb.
Scot: Second week in a row with a sketch that could have been done on SNL in 1978. I like it.
Kevin and Richie's Comic Book Zone - Dr. Who impersonator (McKellen)
Christian: Wait, Sanz is playing a character who giggles a lot? Impossible!
Scot: Ah, it's all a bit much.
Episode Sixteen: Cameron Diaz
Christian: Ferrell is back in theory, but not in practice. And the show is really sagging now.
Scot: Weekend Update is now the unofficial end of the show. Look at the past few weeks -- after is just two songs, a bad sketch, a My Big Thick Novel, and goodnights. Bad flow.
MTV Spring Break - Diaz & Rudolph & Morgan all want to hear “That Don’t Impress Me Much”
Christian: The whole thing is to set up the "black guy likes Shania Twain" joke.
Scot: Feels like the show has given up entirely on network TV/movies, focusing on the 12-17 demo of MTV.
Celine Dion on CBS - after a brief retirement, Celine Dion (Gasteyer) returns
Christian: Do I even need to say it?
Miss Peeps - Mr. Peepers joined by female Peepers (Diaz)
Christian: Six years of the same sketch, over and over.
Scot: Got no time for this tired, tired act.
MTV4 - shy Japanese girl group Crash Papaya performs boisterously on MTV4
Christian: Don't know if you have ever seen the band Otoboke Beaver, but it is EXACTLY this. (The drummer is incredible.)
Episode Seventeen: The Rock
Brian Fellow's Safari Planet - parrot spurs fears of identity theft
Christian: There's a reason everyone knows this character - because these are good!
Scot: They finally got there. It's the best one yet by a healthy margin.
The Scorpion Prince - Scorpion King (host) doesn’t want to take whiny son (Seth Meyers) into battle
Christian: Imagine it had to be tiring for everyone to tolerate Fallon.
Scot: Fallon breaks the moment he enters the scene - compared to Rock who flubs "tomb," stays in character, and saves the sketch - this reminds me a lot of the Ben Stiller sketch where he's an adult at home
America Undercover - trashy white couple wreaks havoc in an emergency room
Christian: I think Poehler is outstanding in these.
Scot: The pure manic energy of these does nothing for me.
Episode Eighteen: Alec Baldwin
Christian: First over-3 rated episode in a while.
Scot: Baldwin is really really good at this. Writing rises to meet him on this ep.
Blake Murder - Fox News Channel anchors are thrilled at prospect of Robert Blake trial
Christian: Love that Hammond knows exactly when to pause for people to laugh. He knows his Geraldo Rivera is good.
Scot: Parnell seems underused since his return.
White Men Black Women - successful white men are dumping their wives for elderly black women
Christian: On the edge, but they committed to it and it works.
Scot: Morgan as a woman - really tight and well-written - love the angle - Fallon is good here.
The Cardinals - Pope John Paul II (host) summons The Cardinals for a chastening
Christian: It's the X-Presidents but for the church? And Pope John Paul II is Italian now?
Scot: That was abrupt!
The Luv-ahs - Roger’s college roommate (Baldwin) attends surprise party thrown by Virginia
Scot: I really enjoyed this one.
Christian: You liked THIS more than Hot Tub? I don't even know you anymore. (It would have been funnier if Leo Yoshimura was the only guest who stayed.)
The Tony Bennett (Baldwin) Show - Liza Minnelli (Rudolph) & David Gest (Kattan)
Christian: This season would be 1/3 shorter without the HE'S ACTUALLY GAY sketches.
Scot: Pell wrote - solid - "I once made love to a woman's foot for seven hours. Then the nurse came in and said, 'Mr. Bennett… she’s gone.'"
Episode Nineteen: Kirsten Dunst
Last Call with Carson Daly - Dunst sings & plays piano with Alanis/Alicia Keys type sound
Christian: Did not feel this at all. Also, Fallon's shots are Carson Daly are just dumb and mean.
Background Actors - extras (Ferrell, Poehler, Dunst) steal attention from serious scene
Christian: So silly that it works.
Trial of Anna Kournikova (Dunst) vs. Penthouse turns into Laugh-In episode
Scot: I'm a sucker for stuff like this.
DeMarco Brothers - Kyle & Sean & cousin (Dunst) audition to tour with Eminem
Christian: These are so lazy - they just pluck five things from a musical guest's history and work it in.
Scot: Parnell warning of the gangster Eminem saves this from the bottom rung.
Episode Twenty: Winona Ryder
Scot: Starting with E17, something clicks? Not all-time stuff, but really solid shows in four straight weeks. Absolute new appreciation for Ferrell, what he meant, what he did, how he did it. True SNL legend.
Christian: I didn't see the late-season surge you did. Still don't know what my top 10 will look like, but I can safely say that nobody from here on is better than Ferrell was. (Unless I am surprised.)
Fidel Castro (Ferrell) recaps embarrassments of Jimmy Carter’s (Hammond) tenure
Christian: The Spanish was impressive, but this was pretty flat.
Scot: I assume the CSPAN things are always Jim Downey.
Uncle Mike and Uncle Danny - bride’s (Ryder) two dads (Ferrell and Parnell) sing at her wedding reception
Christian: Again, they just thought "gay" was enough of a joke.
Scot: A sketch with no ending.
Bearologist - bear researcher (Ferrell) is double-crossed by Ryder in a plot to kill his wife (Gasteyer)
Christian: Peacock version is different, but good nonetheless (dress probably?)
Scot: 100% thought Ryder was Fey when this started.
Girl Next Door - one-legged Amber & other contestants compete to be a Playboy centerfold
Christian: "Why don't you shut up, two shoes."
Scot: I like Amber more here than in the debut. Some good lines inside of this one.
The Luv-ahs - Roger & Virginia meet Dave again in hot tub
Christian: Yes, yes. I have finally been defeated. This one is trash.
Scot: Ugh. This just turns into a mess. Groaning and eating and talking over each other.
Mango - while out with host & musical guest, Mango is arrested for shoplifting
Scot: Crowd is dead dead dead for the first two minutes. And for the rest of it. - Last one, I think.