'Wasn't That Special' Season Fifteen Clips Package

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Here are some of the materials we discuss throughout the Season Fifteen episode:

Wayne’s World: Aerosmith

After several middling Wayne’s World installments, this is where it finally reached its full potential. It’s all here.

George Bush: The White House Drug Problem

Again, it took Dana Carvey a few times to lock into the George Bush character, but once he did, it was magic.

Rocket Launch

A Jack Handey-written sketch that is secretly one of the best of the season. Perfectly silly.

Colon Blow Cereal

One of the show’s greatest commercial parodies. Phil Hartman nearly injured himself filming this from the top of the cereal boxes,

Anal Retentive Chef: Cajun Style

The Anal Retentive Chef bits got a little stale after the first couple, but John Goodman injected some life during his hosting gig.

Girl Watchers on a Senior Cruise

Annoying Man

Jon Lovitz’ signature recurring character on his final season.

Mr. Short-Term Memory Visits the Hospital

When people say Hanks is the greatest-ever SNL host, this is what they are talking about.

Grumpy Old Man

In the late 1980s, we watched Dana Carvey on SNL and we liked it.

Brenda the Waitress

One of Jan Hooks’ greatest performances - the way she careens back and forth between personas in this one is perfection.

In 1989, a number of newspapers ran the following “SNL test” in honor of the show’s 15th Anniversary. If you are a regular Wasn’t That Special listener, you should nail every question!

Dana Carvey was the breakout star of the late-1980’s casts, but Phil Hartman started getting some respect, as well:

And as the show improved, it lifted the reputations of even the lesser-famous cast members, including Kevin Nealon:

The Tampa Times-Tribune did not appreciate the Hans and Franz sketch in which the duo gives Roseanne Barr (played by Victoria Jackson) liposuction:

Finally, this week’s SNL yearbook photo:

Bill Hader, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1996