'Wasn't That Special' Season Fifteen Bonus Materials

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Episode One: Bruce Willis 

Scot: Mike Myers still featured - what's a guy gotta do? - Dave Wilson is back!

Christian: Soft start to the season punctuated by a great Neil Young set. Almost no Lovitz or Victoria. Jan and Nora stand off to the side of the stage during goodnights.

Scot: There's a Johnny O'Connor sketch removed from re-runs - No Nealon either? (So weird super-talented people just disappear for stretches but now there's a need for a 22-person cast)

George Bush (Dana) back from vacation - "wouldn't be prudent at this juncture." Shows off bag of crack bought in the White House. Third prong for fighting drugs is a "secret prong." Says his sons are killers.

Christian: He's smoking now. Getting better every time.

Scot: The more hesitating nature of Bush's delivery is something new - prescient "bag of crack bought right here at the White House" - "secret prong" - "Bar's lived a full life. Ready to die."

Sprockets - Dana as Jimmy Stewart - reads Stewart's poems, "I feel emotionally obliterated."

Christian: More skewering the ironic love of low culture as if it is high culture. "Jimmy Stewart, you are a running sore, running from yourself, but your scab heals us all" made me laugh harder than anything in the past five seasons. "That poem pulls down my pants and taunts me."

Scot: Ok, this worked better, I admit. The clash of Stewart and Dieter.

The Anal Retentive Carpenter - vacuums as he cuts a board, etc.

Christian: Meh. These are basically the same jokes over and over.

Scot: "I never use my awl, but I need it there to keep the syntax correct." - Throwing out the wood is a complete replication of the food disposal. No surprises.

Wayne's World - first "extreme closeup" - coolest guy in school, Rick (Willis) is guest, unveils the word everyone will be using this year. (Sphincter.) Prank call on Wayne's mom (Nora) who keeps saying "sphincter." They call Jan a slut.

Christian: Pretty middling stuff.

Scot: Wayne & Garth now on same couch - Garth voice pretty much dialed in now - First “Schwing!” though not used in a sexual sense - "What a quisling!"

Bruce Willis - The Man and His Music

Christian: At least he's willing to make fun of his singing "career"

Scot: Here's the original spot - Passable, I thought. Some lyrics were pretty good.

Episode Two: Rick Moranis

Christian: Another dud. Carvey is in one sketch other than Hans and Franz, and he's just an extra. More Carvey erasure.

Scot: Everything feels off. A weird comedown from last season's consistent greatness. Is it too much to ask for a moderately amusing episode hosted by an SCTV alum? - Carvey and Victoria MIA again. Jack Handey is now "creative consultant" with Al Franken.

Moranis as Jackie Mason - first Giuliani mention?

Christian: It's good, but did people in 1989 even know who Jackie Mason was?

Scot: Caddyshack 2 had just come out in '88 - Wait, why is Jackie Mason giving a press conference?

Zsa Zsa Gabor in prison, Leona Helmsley (Nora) stands up for her. "The Big Bitch Bulldyke Bustout of 1989" - they tunnel out of prison and run into Jim Bakker. Join Tammy Faye on a cross-country trip where they rob a convenience store.

Christian: I mean, I guess it's good sketch for the women? Jan's Tammy Faye is good and it's topical.

Scot: Funniest thing in this sketch is Lovitz's order at the convenience store.

VJ, Dunn and Hooks treat Moranis like a little baby at the bar until he chokes.

Christian: Another feature for the women, even if it doesn't pass the Bechdel test.

Episode Three: Kathleen Turner

Monologue - Turner speaks with Victoria's voice.

Christian: Well timed and rehearsed!

Scot: Fun, a good idea!

Plug Away with Harvey Fierstein: Carvey comes on as Travolta - Kathleen Turner tries to seduce him as a challenge, Fierstein then hits on Lee Iacocca

Christian: Toooooooo...looooong.

Scot: OMG, this is 10+ minutes. - Turns out Lovitz isn't perfect after all.

"Egg Man" - Hartman as an egg that Turner has to talk to - her son is a Motley Crue fan, finds the egg and smashes it

Christian: Beastie Boys had a song called "Egg Man" on Paul's Boutique, which came out that same year. Coincidence?

Nealon and Turner on a date - compliment each other by saying how average each other is

Christian: A fine reflection on lowering expectations to find a mate.

Scot: Starts slow but builds momentum then wastes it on a ho-hum ending.

Deborah Norville (Turner) visits Jane Pauley (Hooks), Lovitz as Gene Shalit - tries to steal Pauley's job

Christian: Just "meh" with a pop of fun with Lovitz.

Scot: That extra looks *nothing* like Bryant Gumbel - The following Thursday, Pauley announced she was leaving Today.

Myers is Lank Thompson, Very Handsome Man - Conan O'Brien is a graduate of his very handsome man seminar

Scot: This feels like a Steve Martin bit.

Episode Four: James Woods

Christian: Lovitz all but invisible, Carvey and Myers still doing bit parts. Something had to be going on behind the scenes.

Scot: Carvey had just finished filming Opportunity Knocks (a great film). Was that making things weird? - Decent start here, limping to the finish.

The Tonight Show- Johnny Carson (Dana) interviews Victoria & Nancy Reagan (Jan)

Christian: Victoria got her start on television as a Carson guest, so it makes sense they would have her play herself.

Scot: Dana's Carson is a work in progress but Phil's Ed is fully formed.

Dracula '89

Scot: Good decision to allow the audience to figure out exactly what Dracula is doing - Same flying bat as the Lovitz Dracula mechanic sketch - Not a huge laugher but the kind of sketch that has been missing recently.

Primetime Live - Donaldson (Kevin) & Sawyer (Jan) banter awkwardly, then show "live" coverage of nothing happening, interview Dana as Kirk Cameron as Donaldson grills him

Christian: More Nealon one-note stuff; proving the show is live over and over and over.

Scot: Prescient! The next year Growing Pains does introduce a new kid to spice things up - I do like Sam proving its "live" - Drags a bit.

Falling In Love  - Schiller (Victoria and Jon sing)

Christian: Sure.

Scot: Thankfully, they've not yet had to use this as a tribute piece.

Club owner (Phil) suggests changes to Woods' inane ventriloquist act

Christian: If you think this sketch is good, then YOU'RE THE DUMMY.

Scot: Did Nealon write this?

Three Dudes Holistic Automotive gives a New Age approach to car care

Christian: The anti-Johnny Canal. A 10-to-1 sketch that bombs.

Episode Five: Chris Evert

Christian: THIS is more like it. Evert was a good host! Maybe the best athlete host we have seen yet?

Scot: Hey, um, does the Church Lady still exist? - Is it new that's there's a four-person "Update Staff" credit?

Monologue - comparisons between SNL and tennis (both peaked in the late 70s.) Evert then trashes green room.

Christian: They've used the "at least if your joke bombs you won't have people laughing at you" joke in the monologue, before, right?

Colon-Blow cereal commercial

Scot: This is in the team picture for single greatest commercial in show history. Also nearly killed Phil during the "mountain of cereal" parts.

George Bush (Dana) reporting from Berlin. Takes full credit for wall being torn down.

Christian: All impression - few jokes. But a fun impression nonetheless.

Scot: "We gotta do something about the wall falling. Anyone got any actual jokes? No? Nobody. OK."

Chris Evert starts career as real estate agent, Martina Navratilova (Dunn) hired at the same agency, they begin competing to sell houses. Evert then starts a tomato fan, Martina shows up. Fashion design, music composition. Evert writes her autobiography, Martina writes a bio about Evert and it outsells it. Evert ends up throwing her off a mountain.

Christian: Great escalation.

Scot: Peak Nora. Right? Never better.

Lyle the effeminate Heterosexual - even his family thinks he is gay - gets a call from his son's art teacher

Christian: This sort of FEELS offensive, but really isn't? Big laughs when Carvey reacts to being called gay.

Scot: It's not offensive. It's basically camp, right? Then placed in a different situation. Very sharp.

Episode Six: Woody Harrelson

Christian: Feels like we are just treading water. Plenty of decent stuff but nothing spectacular with Carvey MIA.

Scot: Middling effort again. Carvey is invisible again (just Hans and the horse sketch??). Very little Jan.

Five Easy Pieces ’89- Jack Nicholson (Phil) collects his Batman royalties

Scot: Where's First CityWide Change Bank when you need them?? - It was fine, better if you're a giant Five Easy Pieces fan, I assume.

Who's Dumber? -Victoria and Woody playing selves compete to be stupidest person in America

Christian: We need to keep track of how many "game show contestants are dumb" sketches they do.

Scot: This has a bit of "Snap Decision" chaos and charm.

Attitudes - maker of food miniatures Paul Tinso (host) displays his work

Christian: Shades of Amy Poehler and Maya Rudolph's future "Bronx Beat," which is actually funny.

Scot: A waste of time.

Hans & Franz - Roseanne Barr (VIJ) undergoes liposuction - We are here to suck .. you out.

Christian: It really does look like Victoria is the only female cast member who has any fun on the show.

Scot: Everything's coming up Victoria tonight! Her Roseanne is even better than last year.

Getting Acquainted - adult education students make dumb assumptions about each other

Christian: Another "Woody Harrelson is dumb" sketch?

Scot: Feels like a Nealon.

Sprockets - dark East German filmmaker (host) has rapidly Westernized

Christian: "Here Child, Finish Your Nothing" - this is SO FUNNY! These are chock full of so many good lines.

Thanksgiving Good, Fire Bad - Frankenstein doesn’t want to kill the turkey

Christian: Even the animal puppetry can't make it good.

Scot: First one of these that really feels like a letdown.

Episode Seven: John Goodman

Christian: You can see in the goodnights how much the cast loved Goodman. It's no wonder they would being him back again and again. Was Jan totally shut out this week?

Scot: Pleasant, fun episode. Good vibes here.

Committee questions George Bailey (Dana) about his failed savings & loan

Christian: Fun fact: I have never seen "It's a Wonderful Life."

Scot: Great premise, decent execution.

Wayne's World - movie reviews; re-enactments for Aurora’s Most Wanted

Christian: Why pull out the board and do all the same jokes for a second time?

Scot: The board recap of the reviews just slowed things down - "ahomosayswhat" - getting closer and closer …

Cooking with the Anal Retentive Chef - Cajun chef’s (Goodman) cooking style is hampered by anal-retentive Gene

Christian: "She had a face that would make a train take a dirt road." Goodman adds a lot here.

Scot: The tension here helps to redeem something that was getting stale.

Toonces - Toonces goes for help when Martians (Franken & Davis) land on Earth

Christian: Laughed harder than maybe any sketch in the past five seasons. I  literally cried when he pulled out the white-out at the typewriter.

Scot: I like these, don't get me wrong.

Episode Eight: Robert Wagner

Christian: A big Jan episode - she's the lead in four sketches. Might explain her absence the week before.

George Bush (Carvey) talks about Malta conference & avoids waking Dan Quayle

Christian: Pretty boilerplate.

Scot: Carvey did OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS before this season, and it seems he honed his impression for the film, then carried it over to this year

Matt Stevers, Male Nurse - Stevers (host) suffers workplace gender discrimination

Christian: Some great Jan physical comedy. Comedy comes from gender role reversal and the fact that few men were nurses in 1989.

Scot: Actually, the good stuff here comes from the unexpected jokes. The beating, Phil's note on going psycho, Wagner's "It happens" - Really good sketch.

Attack of the Masturbating Zombies

Christian: Is there any question Conan wrote this, given "The Masturbating Bear" on his show years later? (Although Smigel was his head writer)

Scot: Disappointing b/c the pieces were there to be even better. Phil's character was not quite used correctly.

Sloppy Eater - in a restaurant, Jan discovers that handsome Wagner is a very sloppy eater

Scot: There's no real reason for me to laugh so hard, but I can't deny that I did.

In the Middle - Jon & Dana use Wagner's political analysis to do battle

Scot: One of a couple things this episode just kind of half-written.

Swivel Chair Mystery Theater

Christian: Good effort, but not much here.

Scot: Crowd dead silent for this whole thing

Episode Nine: Andie MacDowell

Christian: It is actually shocking how closely bunched every episode (except Evert and Goodman) is, grade-wise. They are all in the 2.5-2.6 range. Amazingly average.

Scot: Joe Posnanski once got in trouble for alluding to the fact that MacDowell is a bad actress. He wouldn't have taken any flack if this episode were cited as evidence.

Church Chat!!!!! - Nadia Comaneci (Jan), Leona Helmsley (Nora), MacDowell

Christian: I enjoyed "love slinky" and "man mustard," but her recounting her sexual experience was pretty lame. Did we need crowd work?

Scot: Pretty average edition, I'd say.

The Night Hanukkah Harry Saved Christmas

Scot: Lovitz, unsurprisingly, nails this start-to-finish.

Hal Jerome tribute - writer with extremely literal songs describing his life - Phil, Andie, Jan, Jon sing

Christian: I totally tuned out of this one minute in.

Scot: This has Nealon syndrome. There no development of the joke whatsoever. Decent idea, but you gotta do something different.

Episode Ten: Ed O’Neill

Christian: Right on schedule, a 2.68. Light on Nealon this week. This is just about the time Franken and Davis called it quits as a duo - Franken was trying to get Davis to quit doing so many drugs.

Scot: Looking back, a lot of these things are limping home in the last 30 min or so. Don't blame Ed, who was really, really good. No Victoria.

Bush visits Noriega in prison, remembers good times

Christian: These are all basically "play the hits" at this point.

Scot: Tom Davis getting a decent amount of airtime this season.

Bizilady commercial

Christian: Enjoyed the vocals, but...what's the joke here? Didn't they do a fake leg shaver ad like two seasons ago? Baby Kirsten Dunst makes her return.

Scot: Liked the over-the-top vocals from the singer here.

I Got What You Need - a shopkeeper (host) recommends store items as he would his penis

Christian: 30 seconds in, you know what every joke for the rest of the sketch is going to be. Nealon strikes again.

Scot: Is Phil playing Garth's dad here? - Again, a decent idea here but it just doesn' go anywhere, doesn't take flight.

Wayne's World - driving instructor (Ed) watches boozin’ & cruisin’ skit

Christian: O'Neill's monologue and the drunk driving reenactment are both highlights.

Scot: This must have gone well, since O'Neill was cast in the film, playing approx. the same character.

Dennis Woo's Real Estate Fortunes the Easy Way

Christian: This is a parody of the Tom Vu get rich quick videos: (and the real video is funnier than the Myers version).

Episode Eleven: Christopher Walken

Scot: The Nora Dunn experience can't end soon enough.

Tonight Show- guests are Andrew Dice Clay (Lovitz) & Mikhail Gorbachev (Hartman)

Christian: Lovitz barely attempts a Dice impression; Ed McMahon has to be on a speaker so Hartman can play Gorbachev.

Eternity - mysterious drama permeates perfume-inspired game show

Christian: How is everything Walken says in this not a gif?

Scot: Boy, I did not like this. I think the game show format did not fit the jokes they were trying to land.

The Dumper - surrogate dumper (host) employed by (VIJ)’s boyfriend ends relationship

Christian: Unexpectedly good - Walken's rote recital of expected lines is so on-point. "This is the hardest thing I have ever had to hire someone to do for me."

Scot: Some very nice moments.

The Continental debut

Christian: A stone-cold classic. Just a shame I can only give this a 5. Inspired by Renzo Cesana's "Continental" TV series from the 50s.

Scot: The piano accelerating with every escape is key - And give the cameraman and award. It doesn't work unless some of those movements are just right.

Attitudes - a talk with sports event proselytizer Rainbow Head (Walken)

Christian: God dammit. This episode could have been an all-timer. Walken breaking almost makes it watchable.

Scot: There can't be too many more of these.

Lease With an Option to Kill - Max Zorin’s (Walken’s) headquarters isn’t ready

Christian: This probably killed on the written page, but it kind of dies in practice. We now have added the Dr. Evil prototype to the Austin Powers puzzle.

Scot: Yeah, you're right. Something didn't translate here. I actually was thinking, "It's OK," and then end went "thud" - Handey wrote it.

Episode Twelve: Quincy Jones

Christian: Worst show of the past three years. No real disasters, but everything was flat. No Myers.

Hans and Franz Valentine's Day - sing a bunch of songs with pumping lyrics

Christian: Zero effort put into this one.

Scot: Hey, guys. We already have one Sweeney Sisters and that's already too many.

Toonces - Driving Miss Daisy (Hooks)

Christian: Meh. "What if we combined two things people have heard of?"

Scot: WE'VE FOUND A TOONCES YOU DON'T LIKE.

Bob Waltman Special with Leona Helmsley (Dunn), Marion Barry (Jones), Tammy Faye Bakker (Jan) Reagan (Phil) - sets off tear gas bomb for Reagan

Christian: Another example of SNL's regional bubble - how many people outside of New York knew or cared about Leona Helmsley?

Scot: I thought this one was a bit better, actually.

Jazz Perspectif - Carvey and Lovitz talk show - Jones is guest, Lovitz puts his head on Jones' shoulder to see life from his perspective, eat the plate he ate from, etc. "Can my fingers touch your lips during this anecdote?"

Scot: Dana's performance nearly gets this to passable.

Episode Thirteen: Tom Hanks

Christian: Hanks gives this one a little juice, but again, pretty milquetoast. 

Scot: Feels a bit stronger but a subpar WU drags it down a bit.

Trump and Ivana talk about her prenup agreement - they play three card monte, she loses everything.

Christian: Phil's Trump not the best.

Scot: The Trump is slightly better - Toward the end, when he's flinging insults, it gets even closer.

Wayne's World - Hanks as Barry, Garth's cousin who's a roadie for Aerosmith - the band comes on the show, answers question about communism, sing Wayne's World theme.

Christian: Back when there were bands that everyone had heard of.

Scot: Aw, man. It's all here. This is the template. This is Wayne's World.

Mr. Short-Term Memory - Hanks visits Phil in the hospital for a broken leg.

Christian: Hanks' acting here is one of the best sketch performances we've seen.

Scot: Very, very good, though I think the first one was just a bit better. The key in the humor is how others react and adjust to him, really.

Episode Fourteen: Fred Savage

Scot: Savage was a pretty good host for being all of 13 - Beginning to think we're not recovering from whatever funk has descended upon the show.

Church Chat- Church Lady & niece (Savage) talk with Marla Maples (Jan) & Trump (Phil)

Scot: "I could buy and sell your little dog and pony show" - Savage is perfect - Phil seems to be honing in on Trump by focuses on the anger and insults.

Gun Safety - Phil and Victoria leave gun in easily discovered places by kid (Savage)

Christian: OK, set aside the fact you won't have any sketches about kids playing with loaded guns anymore - I thought the middle section where Savage holds Hartman up and Victoria pulls a gun on him was pretty good. Yes, the third part was unnecessary.

Scot: Started OK, lost steam quickly, epilogue was unecessary - Also, let's be frank, it's awfully hard to watch Phil in this sketch knowing what happens.

Pat Stevens - guests are neglected daughter Missy (Victoria) & Savage

Christian: Fred Savage wearing some Air Jordan 3s, which I did a lot of babysitting to be able to afford.

Scot: Victoria makes me laugh at a Pat Stevens! What can't she do???

Space Shuttle countdown is repeatedly stopped due to launch pad wanderers (Lassie, Hitler with Mona Lisa) - shuttle launch to incinerate Trump and Maples

Christian: Oh man, I loved this. Laughs all the way through.

Scot: Written by Handey.

Episode Fifteen: Rob Lowe

Christian: Lowe said his attorney told him not to do the show, but his dad (also an attorney) told him he should. Clearly his dad was right.

Scot: Nothing memorable. And that a big issue with a lot of these eps -- they just pass by, pleasant enough, nothing offensively bad.

George Bush doesn’t gloat about success; backstage, Lowe worries about reaction to sex tape

Christian: Lowe was only canceled for two years...do people even remember this now? This almost feels like the show needed to address it to get it out of the way so he could take the stage.

Scot: I bet most don't recall the girl was 16, that's for sure - Honestly felt like Bush-by-numbers. I thought it was a repeat for the first 60 seconds.

Church Chat with Rob Lowe - Church Lady administers paddling

Christian: I found a newspaper clip from before the show aired that said "Rob Lowe is going to face the Church Lady" - just shows that this sketch was obviously going to happen.

Scot: Again, feels underwritten, all things considered.

Mace gets new prison roommate, Lowe

Christian: This is unbelievably awful.

Scot: Let's remember Mace in better times, holding Nealon at gunpoint in an apartment.

Episode Sixteen: Debra Winger

Christian: Cy Young pitched 749 complete games. That feels like Phil's usage rate at this point.

Wayne's World - Oscar Picks; Chick Court finds that Winger is not a slut

Christian: First time a future cast member gets a name check in a sketch? Not the best, but better than a bad sketch?

Scot: Why is Wayne wearing a long-sleeve shirt? - A Tim Meadows shout-out! - Weeeeeeaaaaak.

Urban Toonces - Urban Toonces joins Travolta & Winger

Scot: That's the best Toonces so far.

Christian: Urban Cowboy came out 10 years prior - did people even still remember it? And when you said "best," I think you meant "worst?"

Satan's Album - Mephistopheles defends his album at Senate hearings

Christian: Just passable.

Scot: Oh, Dana's Frank Zappa is fantastic.

Other castmembers upstage Jon's attempt at a romantic dinner with Winger

Christian: Lovitz: "Now I'll just be cast as the car dealer or brother in law the rest of my life." That was optimistic.

Scot: There was an idea here but the pacing was far too slow - Does feel like Jon's big piece as he sees the end around the corner.

Episode Seventeen: Corbin Bernsen

Scot: It was the very good of shows, it was the very bad of shows.

Newly-fired Brent Musberger and Jimmy the Greek on Cable Shopping Network

Christian: Phil wasn't enough to save it for me. And Nealon's Musberger is an affront to impressions.

Scot: Somehow Nealon's Musburger gets worse every time out - Phil/Jimmy bails this out at the end.

TV Lawyers - Bernsen brings out other actors who play lawyers on TV

Christian: "It is the opinion of this court that you are a boob."

Scot: Hartman's classic, classic Andy Griffith impression in here.

Playgirl Models - Dana, Nealon, Bersen getting prepped for penis photoshoot

Christian: "Nice Penis," the sequel.

Scot: Bet Jan loved being in this one.

George F. Will's Sports Machine - Bernsen as Mike Schmidt, Jon as Tommy Lasorda - Donaldson is announcer

Christian: This died with the audience, but I love that it even exists.

Scot: "The exhilarating tension between being and becoming" - It twists at just the right time from high-mindedness to farce.

Episode Eighteen: Alec Baldwin

Christian: This is the cast's fourth year together (fifth for Dunn and Lovitz), and you're starting to see the seams. Like the latter years of the first cast, they do not look like they are having fun.

Scot: I'd have to look, but it seems like there's still enough 4s going around. It's that the bottom has fallen out on the bad stuff. The ability to avoid potholes is missing. Schneider and Spade join with writing credits

George Bush talks about the environment & licks THC/glaucoma drops

Scot: This is my Bush point, essentially: by now, Bush already has ceased being an impression and has become an SNL recurring character. It's great! But it no longer reflects anything but Carvey's intention to get laughs. It's not really satire anymore,

Greenhilly - Baldwin as Mr. Cherrywood kisses everyone

Christian: OK, fine, but it's...just the Ted Danson make-out sketch all over again?

Scot: Nice escalation and forward momentum through the sketch.

The Garbo I Knew - the Garbo Baldwin knew really wanted to be alone

Scot: Hooks doing charades while Baldwin is on the phone took some skill - Rob Schneider debut! - (On Peacock they only have like the last 45 seconds of this - very strange).

Christian: Finally, a Schneider with talent! Jan's physical comedy here is great.

The Nude Talk Show - Lovitz' dream is to host

Christian: Prescient! This year Max unveiled a totally nude dating show, Naked Attraction. I would watch the Brooklyn Swami show.

Scot: Victoria as The Brooklyn Swami is very funny - the rest of it is semi-interesting - needed one fewer act.

Middle-Aged Man -  Ed Miles (Myers) helps out with problems

Christian: I am suing SNL for stealing my autobiography for this sketch.

Scot: "I think you've forgotten what it was like." "Maybe. But I know how escrow works." - This is getting close the current line of Progressive commercials (preventing you from becoming your parents) - Myers is great. I laughed.

Episode Nineteen: Andrew Dice Clay

Christian: And here we go. One of the most famous episodes in show history. At goodnights, Pardo notes he said "Nora" during the introductions but that she wasn't there.

Scot: What was Dana in tonight? (checking) He was an extra in the Cool Mite sketch. That's it.

"The Pat Stevens Show will not be seen tonight" - immediate shot at Nora - Dice contemplates suicide, Lovitz (devil) talks him out of it. It's a Wonderful Life - Lovitz shows him what happened to the show (Frank Zappa - Carvey - hosts) Sinead O'Connor's speakers fall on Nora Dunn

Christian: It is amazing that they would take such a direct shot at a cast member (Dunn) - it's like the old days when they would tell Chevy how much they hated him.

Scot: Everyone was so pissed at Nora. And the crowd laughs and whoops at her death!!! - Literal LOL at Zappa's 70-minute censorship rant.

People chant to protest Dice's monologue. "Sit down and shut up, snapperheads." "We love you Dice!" "How can't you?" His actual jokes? Not great.

Scot: "Hey, give me your wallet!" "Whoa, is that how you ask for something?" is funnier than any Kinison joke on the show.

Dice Employment Agency - Tries to talk Nealon into dealing drugs and other street crimes, wants Victoria to be a hooker - Myers roughs him up, Victoria takes the job - TV guide follow-up, Carvey does his characters as Hitler

Christian: The Cheers and Jeers follow-up is very Python-esque.

Scot: Half pretty great (Nealon), half not (Victoria), then a nice coda.

"Dad, What's Sex?" - After school special with ADC explaining sex to Myers. Show was on a seven-second delay, some of his terms in this are bleeped. Why is Planned Parenthood giving the response to his talk?

Christian: The Peacock version is not bleeped. Words they censored were "dong" and "poontang" (although one slips in at the end.)

Scot: So, delay systems eventually run out of runway, so to speak. How did that not happen here? - "We do appreciate the word 'boinger' was used correctly."

Another Nealon on the radio talking over the songs he's playing. Talks over Victoria.

Christian: You’re the radio guy, have at it.

Scot: Nealon Syndrome squared. The same joke over and over in essentially the same exact sketch. Terrible.

Cool Mite - tiny hoodlum.

Christian: All premise, no jokes, dog refuses to cooperate.

Scot: Isn't "Tiny Elvis" in our future? - The kind of stupid, expected thing they had avoided all night.

Episode Twenty: Candice Bergen

George Bush (Dana) announces new taxes, breaking campaign pledge

Christian: This issue alone is why Bush lost in 1992 - SNL was on it.

Scot: Of course, after I make the previous comment, here is one that is reacting to news - this is higher-end stuff, used it in my class last year.

Toonces - jealous Toonces abducts & impersonates another cat that can drive

Christian: OK, I think we get it.

Message to Single Women in Their Thirties & Early Forties: Lower Your Standards - Lovitz and Girl Watchers character

Christian: Prescient: This is a big argument with online dating; like 90% of women are going after 10% of the men on the apps; so men are asking women to lower their standards.

The Tonight Show - guests are Jay Leno (Nealon) & a 92 year-old woman (Jan)

Christian: Great performance by Jan, but yeah, people not being funny is not funny.

Scot: I won't stand for JVTV slander! - Jan's makeup is amazing but this is almost intentionally boring.

Once Upon a Time - Myers is slow Ned, his sheep turds cheer up unhappy queen

Christian: The writers seem to have packed it in early.

Scot: Everyone is in here - Schneider, Davis, Conan, Spade. Problem is nobody is funny.