'Wasn't That Special' Season 28 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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Episode One: Matt Damon
Christian: Chris Kattan is just a museum piece at this point.
Scot: Lotta lotta problems here from jump street. And the audience seems lost.
NBC Special Report - Dick Cheney (Hammond) rides a Tomahawk missile flying toward Baghdad
Christian: Trying to make "Bush is dumb" jokes without having a cast member who can play him yet.
Scot: Yikes for a cold open after a summer off. This is like 120 seconds long.
Brian Fellow's Safari Planet - porcupine & pot-bellied pig cause anxiety
Christian: Talking animal puppet - next level comedy.
Scot: Sanz giggling for no reason in the very first sketch of the season.
Hannibal Lecter Goes to Michigan State - Hannibal Lecter (Damon) in prequel
Christian: Same formula as Goth Talk - weirdo bullied by regular kids. Will Forte's debut.
Scot: Pretty decent Hopkins/Lector impression - audience has been unimpressed all night long (with good reason).
(Damon)’s government-funded sex robot project has come to naught
Christian: Prescient - sex robots now exist. In fact, you can even dictate your notes on SNL sketches to them. No, wait...
The War on Iraq - new reality series is coming soon to NBC
Christian: Nothing happening here so they throw in a lazy gay joke.
Scot: Time-filler.
Episode Two: Sarah Michelle Gellar
Christian: A few things at work early this season: Ferrell is missed, new cast members just getting their feet under them, and recurring characters (at least in this episode) are gone. The whole show is remaking itself.
Scot: Bad episode. Terrible runner, pointless Aguilera sketch. Kattan has no role.
President Bush (Parnell) and Dick Cheney (Hammond) threaten Saddam Hussein
Christian: Parnell begins his audition as Bush. Why is he wearing a fake nose?
Scot: Why is Cheney even there? - Another 120-second open.
Monologue - Vampires (Kattan, Dratch, Poehler) object to SMG - Jim Downey cameo
Christian: SMG and Freddie Prinze are still married!
Scot: "I knew we should have gone to the Caroline Rhea show." "It tapes in the daytime!"
Dentist (Kattan) flirts with his assistant while Parnell is in chair
Scot: No laughs found.
Trans-American Airlines says they will racially profile
Scot: Amy got her teeth fixed prior to this season.
Saddam (Hammond) uses look-alikes to avoid being killed
Christian: Another Tony Blair gay joke. Fallon breaks at Sanz for no reason.
Scot: Forgot Ferrell took Saddam with him, too.
Making the Christina Aguilera (SMG) video
Christian: The Edwards appearance kills an already terrible sketch.
Scot: You'd have to be a 12-year-old to think any of this is funny.
Bladder control by watching Arliss on HBO because it's not funny.
Christian: My pants remained dry during this sketch.
Scot: The writing freaking sucks so far this year.
Tracy Morgan and Maya Rudolph describe their lovemaking, Morgan gets hung up on her breasts
Christian: Wanted to like this - has all the elements, but it's not great.
Scot: Oh, this is that subway bit brought back.
Merv the Perv (Parnell) attends a sexual harassment seminar
Christian: It's half Bloater Brother, half Ferrell naked model guy.
Scot: Some good music made here with the back-and-forths between SMG and Parnell.
Episode Three: Sen. John McCain
Christian: One sketch away from being a perfect "3" episode. McCain wasn't great, but he was game.
Scot: Wish I could disagree but it's true.
Iraqi election coverage - Parnell anchors with Rudolph, two men vote against Saddam
Christian: Evil guy as regular cool guy.
Scot: Wasn't Hammond playing Saddam just last week? - Parnell, man. He really could have been a TV news anchor.
Hardball - ACLU rep (Dratch), Harry Belafonte (Morgan), McCain as John Ashcroft, Shaquille O'Neal now on terrorist watchlist
Christian: Rough on the ACLU here - remember when the left could make fun of itself?
Scot: The ACLU shots are from a different era, no doubt - Morgan was fun.
Lifetime - the Gillian Woodward Story - McCain as husband of cosmetics CEO who is stalking her
Christian: The angle on this is confusing. Is it making light of sexual assault? Is it saying creepy husbands should be prosecuted? Or just making fun of Lifetime movies in which the scary stuff a guy does isn't that scary?
Scot: So, I think the angle is Lifetime airs so many of these movies, they're running out of ideas/stories that actually have merit.
Meet the Press - Hammond as Tim Russert - keeps pressing McCain on whether he's running for president. What if President Bush forgets to run?
Scot: A MTP and Hardball in the same show? - "What if he forgets to run?" - It's done well, no doubt, but just one real laugh from me.
Weekend Update - Fey monologue on North Korea vs. Iraq - Fey on onion technology - Forte as Tim Calhoun - Kid Rock and Pamela Anderson are registered at the CDC
Christian: Forte already showing how he has a different gear than Edwards, Meyers, and Richards.
Scot: The Liza/pills joke is very Norm-esque - Tim Calhoun is a supremely confident character choice.
Episode Four: Eric McCormack
Christian: Big night for Dratch - Sanz is fading away, Meyers and Kattan aren't in much, Richards just has bit parts, and Edwards is nonexistent. No Armisen this episode? The show feels like it belongs to the ladies.
Scot: Armisen has had a couple of killer moments of absolutely nothing else - Additional sketch by Al Franken? The cold open or the campaign ads?
Hammond as Rudy Giuliani endorsing congressional candidates - endorses candidate with two sex changes, one named Heinrich Himmler
Christian: Prescient: They have him just say sounds so they can create a speech in AI, essentially.
Scot: Parnell looks a lot like Sam Waterston here - Hammond has improved his Rudy - Enjoyed the escalation bit by bit here.
The Bachelor - “Amber,” Poehler’s one legged character, is a contestant.
Christian: Rudolph's stupid contestant is pretty good. Isn't Amber's catchphrase - "Jealous?" one of Lovitz' old ones?
Scot: She is always horny but ... she hates intercourse (we learned last season) - Actually, all three of the female characters are pretty well designed.
Couple (Dratch and McCormack) are bad at password
Christian: Great Dratch feature.
Scot: Will already is stealing "Jeff Richards roles" - There's a Murray sketch from a few years ago like this? (S24E14 Yahtzee players)
CNN - American Morning with Paula Zahn (Fey) - falls in love with guest co-anchor (McCormack), reporters are horrified
Christian: Fey is better in sketches than I remembered, but that shouldn't be a surprise given how good she is on 30 Rock.
Jay-Z and Lenny Kravitz - "Guns N Roses"
Christian: Unclear what guitar part Kravitz is actually playing - it's a backing track of a Cake song.
Scot: "Arco Arena" from Cake's best album.
McCormack uses bullhorn in court to throw off witnesses.
Christian: Extra point for the "where the hell did this come from?" factor.
Scot: Forte already showing a "only he could do that" quality.
Z105 Morning Crew - McCormack is on air with Fallon before his election
Christian: Contrast piece that doesn't really work.
Scot: I, uh, kinda liked it. But McCormack was unnecessary. It would have been better as a one-man piece. Sorta like the Ian McKellan thing from S27.
Jay-Z and Beyonce - "03 Bonnie and Clyde"
Christian: Again, there is no part of this song Kravitz is playing.
Episode Five: Nia Vardalos
Christian: Is Dratch...the star of the show now? Vardalos falls into the Lisa Kudrow bucket - a former improv actor who should have been better.
Scot: Sketches have the strangest timing, like they're waiting for Will to show up and be funny - Amy was ...not present.
Parnell as Bush direct to camera discussing midterms, can't get number of seats right
Christian: Parnell as Bush not going on his career highlight reel.
Monologue - Nia and Fey talk about being Greek, Tina's whole "family" shows up
Scot: Kattan: random mustache guy. That's why he's stayed another season.
CBS News Election 2002 Coverage - Hammond as Rather - Meyers reports from high school student council race
Christian: Credit where it's due, Meyers is good here. "Tough week for sluts." Being a nerd used to mean something specific, now everyone claims they're one.
Scot: Of note, there was just a midterm and the show didn't do anything on it leading up to the election - Great idea,pretty well executed - “That boy is cooler than Sister Mary Margaret’s nipples on a cool winter’s morning.”
Dratch gets a waxing
Christian: "You've got Robin Williams' forearms in your panties." A good lady-centric bit.
Scot: Vardalos is really good here.
Turkish TV show with Sanz - Vardalos is Turkish actress guest
Christian: They try hard to muscle this into something, but it is not.
The Falconer
Christian: Getting some of the great weirdness that left when Ferrell quit.
Dropping the LB's with Missy Elliott
Christian: God no.
Scot: Um. Is Dean Edwards still alive?
Community Accents with Vasquez Gomez Vasquez
Christian: This pudding is themeless. He's just an idiot who says "you're the best in the biz" over and over?
Scot: Oh, here's Dean. - Totally dumb start-to-finish.
Episode Six: Brittany Murphy
Christian: A total clunker damaged by whatever substance Murphy was on. She appeared to be out of her mind. When Murphy died in 2009, SNL pulled a clip of the show from that year making fun of her.
Adam Sandler performs "The Hannukah Song" with the Drei-Delles, Rob Schneider walks on
Scot: This is circa Anger Management.
The Leather Man
Christian: This? Recurring? Christ. A bad sketch made worse by Fallon's inability to keep his shit together.
Scot: Fallon and Sanz breaking for no reason at all - At least Tom Davis extended his AFTRA/SAG health insurance with this one - A total failure of writing, acting, pacing.
Gay scandal in British Parliament - Paul Burrell press conference (Meyers and Dratch)
Christian: Dratch is funnier than Meyers by standing there and saying nothing.
Scot: Mandatory gay-joke-filled sketch.
Scott Joplin, time traveler - loves women's tennis, has Ana Kournikova, Venus and Serena Williams (Morgan and Edwards) on the show
Scot: Just a whisper of an idea, not really developed.
Astronaut Jones with Nelly and Garrett Morris
Scot: "Dean. Yeah. You'd be perfect here. But we're using Nelly. And inviting back Garret Morris. No, sorry. Can't add a fourth person."
The Girl with No Gaydar - Murphy is a lesbian
Scot: A recurring sketch buried this late can't be good news.
Episode Seven: Robert DeNiro
Christian: Season so far is weak on the high-end sketches, but strong through the middle.
Scot: DeNiro was terrible. Blowing lines, staring down cue cards, mostly playing New York tough guys.
Tom Ridge (Hammond) changes threat level to Magenta - DeNiro is Homeland Security spokesman, lists dirty names
Christian: Juvenile? Yes! Funny! Yes!
Scot: Maya's Q&A is a perfect accelerant.
Jefferson (DeNiro) and Sally Hemings (Rudolph) - Jefferson only dates "black chicks."
Christian: "What time do you get off work?" "Never."
Scot: “Have you ever thought about being a singer?” “It’s really not an option for me.”
DeNiro plays old Peter Pan
Christian: Effective contrast. Richards gets strangled by DeNiro, had to be a career highlight.
Scot: DeNiro flubbing lines left and right.
DeNiro as mall Santa - Rudolph is his sassy elf.
Christian: The kid breaks, taking sketch lessons from Jimmy Fallon.
Radioactive Bear
Christian: Love the new commitment to silliness. The perfect 10-to-1.
Scot: Feels like Walken would have made this sparkle playing DeNiro's role.
Episode Eight: Al Gore
"Additional sketches by Kristin Gore."
Scot: Strong show compared to the rest of the season output. Parnell, Poehler pretty quiet.
Al and Tipper Gore make out in front of Jimmy and Lorne
Christian: Three years later Gore was caught pressuring a masseuse for sexual favors - he and Tipper later divorced.
Scot: I love the extras that populate the hallway in these things (Lincoln is here!)
Fiesta Politica with Rudolph as Rebecca - Al Gore guests and bores her - Armisen as Poco-Loco
Christian: Making Al Gore talk to the dog bumps this a grade.
Jarrett's Room - Phish comes by
Christian: This doesn't work because nobody likes white college stoners. Wayne's World worked because there was an innocence - no direct drug references. The end of this bit became a bit on the Tonight Show with bands playing tiny instruments.
Scot: They can't even make a Phish drop-in work with this concept.
Glen Wonka, Willy's accountant - Gore concerned Willy giving factory to an 8-year old
Christian: "We're Oompa Loompa Doopity Screwed."
Scot: This is really nice and tight. Good roles for everyone! Knew when to get out.
TV Funhouse - Charlie Brown kids wave their arms around and make things better
Christian: Voices by Kate Flannery, soon to be of The Office, and Brad Pitt as Brad Pitt.
Rudolph and Morgan are drunk couple in a bar singing a Christmas drinking song
Christian: Is it funny? No. But I find it endearing.
Scot: The bar setting reminds me these two are a modern (less good) Pudge & Solomon.
Episode Nine: Jeff Gordon
Christian: This season has been plagued by bad hosts (two politicians), and this is the worst so far. Hammond is invisible.
Scot: Abysmal. Was there a secret plot to embarrass Jeff Gordon by placing all these turd sketches on his show? - Where did Forte go? Amy seems proud of her Clash shirt at the end (first show since Joe Strummer died - December 22, 2002).
Sanz as Kim Jong Il direct to camera - threatens Bush, says how crazy he is
Christian: (Gives it decent grade).
Scot: C'mon, this is total garbage. Nothing approaching a joke.
Christian: I watched again, and you're right - I wasn't really paying attention the first time. Bumping it down.
Brian Fellow's Safari Planet - Gordon has snake, Sanz has sheep - his mom falls in love with the snake
Christian: It's a formula now, but hanging on.
Scot: Not much left to do here.
Pilot vs. carpet salesman at school show and tell
Christian: Beats the same joke to death.
Scot: Well .... Amy's good!
Fallon and Sanz are aquarium repairmen, say "over here" a lot
Christian: Fallon and Sanz are a comedy duo minus the comedy. They're doing the exact Frankie and Willie voices.
Scot: Bottom of the barrel.
Charlie Rose (Richards) interviews Don Rumsfeld (Hammond)
Christian: Richards' impression is excellent, but this just dies with the audience.
Scot: Professionalism of the impressions is about all the saves it from a "1."
Terrye Funk hour - Parnell has a basement TV show
Christian: American Carnage.
Scot: Borrowing the wrestler's name for this?
Episode Ten: Ray Liotta
Christian: Writing this week was appalling. Pretty much a week off for Rudolph. Second terrible episode in a row, first two of 2003.
Scot: It's real bad, but I didn't hate it quite as much as you.
Press conference with Donald Rumsfeld (Hammond), sings "These Boots are Made for Walkin'"
Christian: Worst cold open in a long time.
Scot: WRITE JOKES, YOU HACKS. Song from 1966.
Liotta sings "Getting to Know You," punches Fallon
Christian: First two bits of the show: Songs 2, jokes 0. What the hell is happening?
Scot: A 1951 song. It doesn't work. - They just did a whole episode with DeNiro playing a NY tough guy and here we are again.
Hannibal (Hammond) forces Liotta to eat his own brain
Christian: Now I'm just angry at this episode.
The Hangman
Christian: I might do what the hangman asks just to not have to watch this episode.
Scot: Amy + Rachel + Forte is just enough to get this to even.
Top O' the Morning - Fallon and Meyers, Liotta plays Golden Tee
Christian: Sure, get all these turds out of the way in this episode.
Scot: Death is not an option: this or the soccer hooligans show?
Buddy Mills (Kattan) Las Vegas variety show - Liotta is guest
Scot: Total time filler.
Episode Eleven: Matthew McConaughey
Christian: Another abomination. Still 0-for-2003. Was so looking forward to McConaughey.
Scot: This is S20-level dreadful. I hated this far more than the last episode. Big picture: Who gets blamed? "Head Writers" or "Writing Supervisors?"
UN members debate where to go to lunch
Christian: Kattan doing a Chinese guy in front of three other Asians is ballsy. Hammond as Colin Powell? Hmmm.
Scot: Hammond as Powell is terrible - Translations are not inherently funny, write a joke.
Jarrett's room -Wooderson (from Dazed and Confused) visits
Christian: Love seeing Wooderson, but that's enough. Three times in the last six episodes.
Scot: Again???
Gay, drug, whale, pro-life protesters co-opt McConaughey's protest
Christian: Made even better by how topical it was at the time.
Scot: Used this in my class! - Captures the protest culture of the time really really well - "Whale oil? Baby oil? Oil made from babies?" - "Legalize porn! It is. Not the kind I like."
Club Traxx - Rudolph and Armisen host euro dance show - McConaughey is guest
Christian: Disastrous Sprockets knock-off.
Scot: And you know how much I loved Sprockets - Aggressively unfunny.
Second Time Around - McConaughey is shirtless, bongo playing guest on show with Rudolph and her lesbian friend (Dratch)
Christian: Dratch as a lesbian is the new Morgan as a woman.
Scot: Dratch's role was tailor-made for Gasteyer - I'm done with bad accents for tonight, thank you very much.
Episode Twelve: Jennifer Garner
Christian: Appears 2003 went better for Saddam Hussein than SNL. Poehler barely used this episode, and when she is, it's underwhelming.
Scot: FOUR STRAIGHT cold opens with a "1" rating from me. Unprecedented.
Male cast members wish Garner happy Valentine's Day - then she...sings a song?
Christian: No way, they hit on the hot female host?
Fallon gets a surprise at last call at the bar
Christian: Good, then an extra point for the capper.
Scot: Pleasant, effective, well-executed.
Saddam (Sanz) prank calls bin Laden (Fallon)
Christian: You will never guess - they laugh at each other.
Scot: Are they improv-ing part of this? It should not be this difficult to pull off a two-shot with phones.
Devin Steel (Kattan), gay action hero has scene with Garner
Christian: "He's gay!"
Scot: A parade of gay stereotypes - "You smell like corn bread" could be my catchphrase this season.
Fallon and Kattan have a date with twins (Garner and Dratch)
Christian: Pretty good performance by Kattan.
Scot: Kattan and Dratch play well together. Good final line.
Beck, "Lost Cause"
Christian: Goodbye, Winona.
Episode Thirteen: Christopher Walken
Christian: On stage at goodnights: Steve Martin, Jim Carrey, Foo Fighters, Will Ferrell, Christopher Walken. Quite a stage. But a bummer for a Walken episode.
Scot: Pretty average all around. Which is great for this season, poor for a Walken ep.
Pranksters (Meyers) - Walken pranks co-worker by beating him with a crowbar
Christian: Contrast that works.
Scot: Very simple set-up, very simple joke (really), but Walken kicks it up a level. And, honestly, this is the kind of role Seth can pull off.
Raft Captain Elections - Walken, Armisen, Meyers, and Forte - Walken is terrible captain
Christian: I bet this killed at table read.
Scot: The "cocaine high" line was the apex of this one.
Colonel Angus
Christian: Can they really make a whole sketch of this? Yes, yes they can.
Scot: So, clearly this has a "Schweddy balls" feel, but unlike that one there's no build and no release at the end. It's more of a writing exercise than anything else.
The Luv-Ahs - Ferrell returns! Host Rudolph and Walken
Christian: Good to see Will back but this is phoned in.
Foo Fighters, "Times Like These"
Christian: Jim Carrey shows up to play his leg as a guitar.
Scot: Kind of weird to see an unexpected shadowy figure emerge onstage so soon after 9/11.
Buddy Mills (Kattan) Las Vegas variety show - Walken is pantsless guest
Christian: This is endless.
Scot: Was it slightly better than the first one? Yes.
Episode Fourteen: Queen Latifah
Christian: True of this season and the previous few: There is nothing controversial on the show at all. Sacred cows remain safe. It has zero edge, which becomes clearer when Chappelle's Show drops.
Scot: At some point Fey became a net negative on the show because her jokes/delivery has faltered and she adds nothing in sketches. It's a weird dynamic.
Clinton (Hammond)/Dole(Aykroyd) point/counterpoint on 60 Minutes
Christian: This is terrible. "Bill you ignorant slut" makes no sense in the context of the sketch - it's just the laziest of writing.
Scot: WTF? There's no end. It builds to nothing. No actual interaction, just a pair of boring monologues.
BET: Baby K
Christian: Chappelle's Show debuted a month before this, and THIS is what they come up with to appeal to a black audience? Awful.
Scot: How do you place this first in the show?
Live with Regis (Hammond) and Kelly (Poehler) - Frenchie Davis (Latifah) from American Idol is guest
Christian: Hammond and Poehler make up for an otherwise middling sketch.
Scot: Poehler has to thread a very thin needle between cloying and annoying and amusing and does it well. Good energy.
Who Farted? New on Fox
Christian: Likely took less time to write this than to perform it.
Scot: Fox just getting hammered this season.
Poehler and Latifah fight over a ham at the grocery store - Forte sings for some reason
Christian: Had no way to get out of it, but the Forte bit made me chuckle.
"Everybody needs to cooooool out" is a pretty famous UCB line. I wonder if Amy helped write this one - No, didn't do it for me at all.
Drug store - Sanz and Latifah work the register
Scot: Dumb, dumb, dumb. It wants us to laugh but has no idea how to do it.
Sanz sings an in memoriam to Mr. Rogers
Christian: Very sweet.
Episode Fifteen: Salma Hayek
Christian: Show has completely bottomed out. Bomb after bomb. Funniest thing on this week's show was Christina Aguilera's preposterous song performance.
Scot: And here's one I like a little better than you.
You'll never guess what the monologue is. (Kattan hits on her with his Pat Benatar cover band, Ed Norton cameo.)
Top O' the Mornin' - Snakes in the bar
Christian: These two men would go on to dominate late night TV for a decade.
Scot: Fallon might as well pay Mike Myers royalties for this.
TV Funhouse - Are You Hot?
Christian: This was an actual show.
Scot: Rapid-fire. Couple of good laughs here.
Versace - Picks Oscar dresses for actresses
Christian: When Christina Aguilera is the highlight of your sketch, you are in trouble.
Scot: Rudolph is your Queen. (Editor’s note: This is true.)
Forte mails himself home to catch Hayek and Fallon cheating
Christian: Literally the plot of the Velvet Underground song "The Gift."
Scot: Forte is the only person able to elevate the material this year.
The Art of Seduction - taught by Hayek
Christian: Everyone is good in this. Raises the so-so writing.
Scot: These are the best characterizations of the entire season.
King Kong - Fallon and Sanz talk about how big the monkey's penis is
Christian: Abysmal.
Scot: Mildly distasteful? But really, it's not that terrible. I think the way they manage the visual of the penis is kinda funny.
Episode Sixteen: Bernie Mac
Christian: Finally, a plausible episode, made so mainly by Bernie Mac.
Scot: How could so many writers come up with so few good ideas? Not nearly enough to fill an episode.
Boston teens at baseball game, Bernie Mac sells beer
Christian: Mac is mismatched in this.
Scot: I'm calling it. We've exhausted this.
Mac and Poehler are old barflys complaining that you can't smoke in bars
Christian: Poehler is amazing in this.
Scot: A little repetitive toward the end and probably didn't even need Fallon, but good.
Second Time Around - Glenda welcomes ex-husband (Mac)
Christian: It would not surprise me if this sketch was not written at all.
Scot: Total nothingburger. Awful character.
Episode Seventeen: Ray Romano
Christian: Romano can't match his first performance and the show just dies.
Scot: Romano's writers did contribute.
Monologue: Romano criticizes political correctness, talks porn in hotels
Christian: Romano's first three jokes are about people writing letters to complain, ordering porn on his hotel TV, and saving money on photographs. Nobody born after this show aired knows what he's talking about.
What's the Rush? Talk show for abstinents.
Christian: One joke, and it's not even a good one.
Scot: Amy's worth a point here.
Zwan, "Lyric"
Christian: It's federal law that Billy Corgan always has to have a female bass player.
Buddy Mills, again
Christian: Kattan wrapping up his career the only way he knows how, by doing the same sketch over and over. I do like Romano's "hold, hold, release" bit.
Scot: Hammond as CNN anchor Aaron Brown filling time, scroll discusses SNL cast members, Kattan on last sketch
Christian: The writer's block in the writer's room is near lethal at this point.
Scot: Impression is decent. And the meta concept had promise. Just didn't deliver.
Access Hollywood - Romano hosts, brings back "Sweet Sassy Molassey"
Christian: Ruining a classic sketch.
Scot: Collapse. And a complete misunderstanding of what made the first one great. Wonder if Ray's writers did this?
Club Traxx - Iraqi pop star (Romano) sings
Christian: Arrest whoever decided to make this recurring.
Scot: Unbearable.
Episode Eighteen: Ashton Kutcher
Scot: Forte and Armisen on Weekend Update is like this fuzzy picture of what could be.
Bush (Parnell) gives speech on aircraft carrier
Christian: This was Bush's "Mission Accomplished" speech, but the show didn't know to make fun of it so soon after it occurred.
Scot: Hoooooly moly. Six minutes of just never-ending prose. No jokes. Nothing to say.
Count Chocula Silver commercial
Christian: Health scare is a good turn.
Scot: A fine premise. But not very funny past that.
Dateline NBC with Madonna (Poehler)
Christian: A joke would be nice.
Scot: A bad Lauer, a sub-par Madonna, and no jokes.
The Falconer meets the Muskrateer - compete in Olympics
Christian: Hits my soft spot for animal puppetry.
Scot: How about an extra point for breaking out early from any kind of pattern for the sketch?
Politics Today - Armisen hosts show of high school dropouts
Christian: Twitter: The Talk Show. Also, Armisen is Between Two Ferns.
Scot: Decent idea but it just doesn't work.
Doo wop group "50's Ent" plays in prison, Forte is guard
Christian: Big screw up in the middle ruins an already bad sketch.
Scot: Whole lotta nothing, but not on an embarrassing level.
Episode Nineteen: Adrien Brody
Scot: Brody is the male Ann Risley. Anti-comedy. Every choice made is the wrong one. - My view of him might be coloring the ratings, but I didn't like much here.
American Idol - there are lots of commercials
Christian: Doubt anyone watching today remembers any of these impressions.
Scot: Never forget Clay Aiken ran unsuccessfully for Congress twice - Maya is someone specific, I'm sure, but I don't know who it is.
Kattan brings Dratch home from date, has giant picture of himself on wall, Brody is manservant
Christian: Never builds to anything, but it's fine. Back when just saying the name of an online dating site was a joke unto itself.
Scot: Kinda prescient use of "Don't Stop Believing" here (I don't remember it being huge yet?)- Very similar to a long ago sketch with Corbin Bernsen.
Live with Regis and Kelly - Brody had to cut own arm off to survive
Christian: Poehler drags these up.
Scot: Not up enough!
Sean Paul, "Get Busy"
Christian: This intro got Brody banned from the show, depending on who you believe.
Poehler buys glasses from snooty gay salesmen
Christian: It's Jeffrey's but with eyewear. And it's actually worse.
Coming up with gay porn movie names, can't think of name for "The Pianist"
Christian: Started slow, but the Pianist twist was good.
Episode Twenty: Dan Aykroyd
Christian: Decent episode to close the season, which fell off a cliff after episode 8 and never recovered.
Scot: Aykroyd was strong. But a barely adequate episode overall. Goodbye Kattan, Edwards, Morgan.
Aykroyd and Jim Belushi do Blues Brothers
Christian: Absolutely no reason for the Blues Brothers to exist without John Belushi.
Scot: They both look ridiculous, but at least they're having fun.
Buddy Mills, Aykroyd is guest
Christian: Four times in the last 10 episodes. Every beat is exactly the same every time.
Scot: Kattan's dad was the voice of Tailor Smurf - This one is real bad.
Doggie restaurant
Christian: Well done - feels like a season 1-4 sketch.
Scot: Remember "The Rusty Bone" from S14? Good times.