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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: No Host/Rod Stewart
Christian: I liked this one a lot more than you did. Maybe it's just PTSD from S6.
Scot: No cold open, right to credits - No Live From New York - Don Pardo removed at Michael O'Donoghue's request (would not be gone long). Marilyn Miller is back! So is Rosie Schuster. Terry Southern is on-staff.
Little Richard Simmons Show - goes into crowd to get them involved, sings "Good Golly/Tuuti Fruuti" songs
Christian: Immediately, a different tone than S6 - just wind Eddie up and let him go. Crowd loves it.
Scot: Murphy front and center
Nuns at the Beach - Gross keeps a picture of Robert Redford under her pillow, thinks it's God. Got her degree from a correspondence nun school. God tells Duke to give Gross her pudding.
Christian: The bad sketches are so much better this year. Duke is actually good - the SCTV training is obvious.
Scot: The premise is the sketch.
Prose and Cons - Best authors come from prisons - taped segment - Eddie poem about killing landlord
Christian: This is perfection. I believe there actually was a movement to make inmates into poets, and this mocks how stupid that is - like Tom Wolfe's "Radical Chic." And "Kill My Landlord" actually became a catchprase in the early 80s.
Michael Davis juggles a machete, an axe, a cleaver - enormous amount of lead-up to juggling
Scot: Crowd is laughing just a little too much/too loud all night. Wouldn't shock me if Ebersol seeded the audience a bit.
Christian: The axe story is an old one told by historical collectors about Abraham Lincoln's axe - it sold for millions of dollars, even though since Lincoln's time the head had been replaced three times and the handle twice.
SNL NewsBreak w/ BDMurray & Mary Gross - C. Everett Koop will take office no matter what "term begins at nomination, not confirmation" - cutaway to Piscopo as Snyder speaking Spanish - Raheem Abdul Muhammad on movies; why no blacks in movies?
Scot: First take: Boy, Mary Gross seems wildly miscast here - Eddie's commentary is fine, I wasn't blown away & he broke twice - not an encouraging start.
Christian: Pretty good! The jokes have now improved to "average" and Eddie was good. His breaking is endearing.
Kazurinsky & Duke in bed - creepy one-night stand - Kaz is weird and annoying, Duke's dad dies - Kaz wants to help.
Scot: Has a really hard time finding its legs, bouncing all over in feel and tone.
Christian: I think being with a one-night stand when something traumatic happens is a good premise, and it's cringey enough to keep me watching. Not great, but perfectly average.
AND THERE'S A PART TWO - at the funeral for Dad - Gross and Rosato are here, Rosato wants Dad's shirt & shoes - Rod shows up.
Christian: WHY DO I LIKE THIS SO MUCH? I legit LOL'ed at the horror of it all. And didn't realize this was a part two.
Scot: Rosato throws off a Belushi-esque vibe - Boy, I just don't think this is playing like they wanted it to.
Episode Two: Susan Saint James
Scot: Still very rough here, but avoids the worst excesses of S6.
McDonald & Wife - joke is all words have "Mc" on front - solving crimes in bed
Scot: Worst sketch of the Ebersol era thus far.
Buh-Weet Sings
Scot: It's just a commercial, not a sketch, which probably prevents it from getting to a grade of 5.
Christian: It's a 5. An all-timer, on the top five list of sketches of Eddie's career.
Bizarro World - Clearly an O'Donoghue thing - Falwell wants more sex & violence, ugliest girl contests, be cruel to animals week
Scot: I think it's all a big set up to get to the Reagan part, which is quite good.
Christian: A noble failure. Also, a bit prescient - appointing someone to the Department of Education that wants to get rid of it? Republicans have been running on this for 40 years. Did Betsy DeVos ever take that position?
Honeymoon - Rosato finds out St. James is a virgin - he freaks out about the situation
Scot: Rosato is going to drive me nuts, isn't he? -this has to be Miller's sketch.
Andy Warhol on Make-Up
Christian: Yeah, this one was a little confusing.
Scot: These are going to be terrible every time out.
Alan Alda sensitivity training book - "Nowadays women put out for wimps. Alan Alda can help make you one"
Scot: How many bar scenes do we have tonight? - The pacing is completely off in this one.
Christian: I like the randomness, but...just one joke.
Episode Three: George Kennedy
Christian: Just because Kennedy was game doesn't mean he was necessarily good.
Mr. Robinson's Neighborhood - wife walked out, so glad the bitch is gone - Landlord stops by w/ eviction notice - land of make believe to visit the President
Christian: Eddie gets political.
Kennedy sings "53 at Studio 54"
Scot: OK, I like this one. Kennedy is game.
Christian: Oh man, no (also, I am against Kennedy being 3 years older than me).
Velvet Jones debut - school of technology - "I Wanna Be a Ho" “Be somebody. Be a ho!”
Scot: Eddie is putting out killer, legendary moments every week this year.
Christian: Eddie got complaints from the NAACP on this one. (But not Buckwheat for some reason.)
Hired Hand - Rosato has many scars, Ms. Duke has some interest, apparently - sexual tension - lots of raping and pillaging discussed
Scot: They try a lot of stuff in this one. Some hi/low comedy, some musical stingers, a semblance of a plot, a twist at the end, problems with props (water). In the end, though, it just doesn't come together as it should.
Christian: Completely anchorless - I really like Duke though.
Episode Four: Donald Pleasence
Scot: Infamous show. Ebersol was out w/ St. James all week, so MO'D was in charge. Very dark, bloody sketches planned all night. Had to "Fade To Black!" on the band FEAR. Random: It just seems like the cast is hardly being used this season. Maybe one spotlight piece each episode. But when do you see these guys/gals?
Christine Ebersole song - country/western, "Last Night I Killed My Husband"
Scot: "Goodbye Earl," but what if she regretted it? - It's actually, no joke, a very well-written tune and doesn't overstay its welcome.
Christian: "I'm so miserable without him it's like having him around"
Pumpkin film by Elbert Budin - carving, but pumpkin bleeds and has internal organs
Christian: Gross (and not of the Mary variety).
Eddie as Guardian Angel shows you how jewelry can simulate snot to avoid robbery in Harlem
Christian: Weird how Murphy’s persona turned into him being such a cool guy - his early stuff is so goofy.
FEAR (the band) - Cut off as third song starts and mosh pit gets violent. Significant damage to studio.
Christian: LOVED the Fear bits. It's okay to scare the shit out of America every now and then.
Scot: Fade to black!!! and into Prose and Cons rerun.
Episode Five: Lauren Hutton
Whisper bubble bath and detergent commercial - Hutton in bathtub
Christian: Writer's room: "How do we get Lauren Hutton in a tub?”
Scot: Floor wax + dessert topping? No, bubble bath and detergent for dishes.
Rick James "Give It To Me Baby"
Christian: Remember the famous Chappelle's Show sketch about Eddie and Charlie Murphy hanging out with Rick James? Could this have been the night?
Harlequin Romances for men - man hiding in female camp
Scot: Pretty worthless
Christian: Wait, I thought this was pretty average? Interesting take from women who read romance novels - what if the tables were turned. Author has "written more novels than she's read."
William Burroughs reads a hospital scene from Naked Lunch
Scot: Ebersol, unsurprisingly, found Burroughs boring and dreadful, and ordered that his time slot be cut from six to three and a half minutes. The writers conspired to let his performance stand as it was. - Would I prefer to watch this instead of almost any S6 sketch? Yes. Does it make it good and worthwhile? Eh ... no.
Christian: I read Naked Lunch, and it is pure gibberish - although this has to be the highlight of any author's life
Bitter People - another talk show set-up - Gross with Pat Cooper (Piscopo)
Scot: You know, I kinda liked this thing and could see it working better in the future if they bring it back - Suzanne Summers next time on the cast of Three's Company.
Christian: What? This is terrible!
Profile of literary dog Maurice Blaget
Christian: Filler.
Scot: Not doing a darn thing for me.
Episode Six: Bernadette Peters
"Johnny Keep Your Gun Clean" - Betty Boop (Peters) warns against sex diseases - music piece
Christian: "Don't come home from France with the enemy in your pants"
Scot: I wonder who is writing all these songs this year?
I Married a Monkey returns, this time in bed - Kaz hands monkey a bottle of "drugs" which she eats immediately - monkey "child" knocks painting off wall
Christian: Kazurinsky's ad libs and ability to hold himself together are amazing.
Scot: "Can I scratch that for you?" - Monkey wearing negligee is pretty funny - "We gotta get some Ritalin" as the child bouces off the walls.
Hidden Photo - Candid Camera-type show with Allen Funt (Piscopo) - sadistic pranks - heating a fork and serving with cheesecake - replacing "Help the Blind" sign with "Vicious Dog, stay away" and replacing dog with pig - telling kids they're being put up for adoption
Scot: This is the kind of meat-and-potatoes, basic blocking and tackling of a show like SNL that S6 was utterly incapable of executing. Five stars.
Christian: It's good, but...an all-time classic?
Sketch in the dark after "power failure" - sexual references (rods, melons, jugs, calling for Dick), censor walks in to shut things down
Christian: Basically a Three's Company episode, except the audience is Mr. Furley misunderstanding things.
Scot: Playing with shadows, predicting Austin Powers in multiple ways - Ack! They couldn't stick the landing.
42nd Street - an innocent starlet (Peters) gets her chance in a sleazy club
Christian: Let us never speak of this sketch again - AMAZING "feed the bear" didn't become a national catchphrase.
Nick the Knock (Piscopo) listens to a fairy’s (Gross) poem, then eats her spine - just totally bizarre
Christian: I develop a crush on Mary Gross any time she dresses up as someone hot.
Scot: Feels like a twist on a MO'D least-loved bedtime story. - I don't mind being edgy and taking chances, but this is not even very interesting.
Episode Seven: Tim Curry
Scot: Pretty fun, complete show. Fewer sketches probably needed help. Curry was really fantastic.
Christian: Dissent. Felt like this one sagged.
An actual monologue from Curry - Tim tells Eddie he's talented and shouldn't be doing chores for others - "Call me Massah Tim" - tells Eddie never to appear black in public - puts white shoe polish on his face
Christian: A precursor to his "white like me" sketch coming up soon.
Scot: Eddie suggests "Richard V. Winthrop" as his name, very close to Aykroyd in Trading Places.
"Mick Jagger” (Curry) hosts variety special - Mandrell Sisters sing "Miss You" - Duke as Sheri Lewis with Lamb Chop - Buck Wheat guests - Rosato as Rip Taylor - And , of course, Frank Sinatra sings "Under My Thumb" is his style, Jagger sings Sinatra
Christian: I'm confused - what part of this was good?
Frank stays with his Italian father after a fight with his wife - return of father-son duo from the season 6 finale
Christian: Oh God no - it's even worse the second time.
Scot: Slice-of-life sketch - Man, 11-12 minutes of the accent and arguing and Italian-ness is just an awful lot. I'm sorry, to me this is a total failure to entertain and/or keep my attention.
Meat Loaf "Bat Out of Hell"
Christian: Telling my kids this was Jack Black.
"If Reagan Had Survived the Assassination" CBS News special - Piscopo as Rather - Air Traffic Controllers reference - "Reagan would have been appalled by Bush's strike-busting tactics"
Christian: Clever way of calling Reagan a hypocrite, even though there's no real attempt at jokes.
Scot: A giant set-up for what has to be a very short sketch - Pointing out Reagan has flipped on a number of past positions/promises - Assigning action to a fictional Pres Bush who succeeded him.
Episode Eight: Bill Murray
Christian: The women (Duke, Gross) have all but disappeared, with Ebersole being the primary female in sketches - rarely is there a female sketch focus.
Scot: Definitely expected more from a Murray episode.
Designer Fairy Tale - Elves make clothes for Ralph Lauren (Murray)
Christian: "It's the North Pole you feel inside yourself." GET IT?
Scot: It's fine. Not going to remember it by the time I get to E20.
Murray talks with Father Guido Sarducci about his psychic predictive powers
Christian: Says Prince Charles would marry a 45 year-old divorcee; in 2005, Charles married Camilla Parker Bowles, a 58-year old divorcee - calling this for prescience!
At Home with the Psychos - family near nuclear reactor
Christian: Was this written by Alex Jones?
Scot: Strange MO'D sketch, but I liked this one; NBC censors had a number of issues with the blowhole model - I think it works because Murray is strong enough to be the center of all the weirdness.
Episode Nine: Robert Conrad
Scot: The first non-MO'D show is not promising. A lot of weak segments here. The upper-range sketches have disappeared in recent weeks.
Wild Wild Wild West - James West (Conrad) visits Velvet Jones’ brothel to find a drunk Grant (Kaz)
Christian: "Well, we've got Eddie in the Velvet costume, might as well" - "I don't like to think of it as 'white slavery,' I like to think of it as 'affirmative action'" - what does Abraham Lincoln have to do with the Wild Wild West?
Scot: This is a little too much Velvet Jones, probably - Still capable of a stinker. Too long, too confusing, nowhere near funny enough.
Velvet Jones & Paulie Herman (Piscopo’s “Jersey Guy”) declare themselves overexposed.
Christian: At least they are self-aware.
Scot: "You won't see me again. Tonight I die from overexposure." - Eddie later would beg to have Buck Wheat killed off, too.
Battle of the Week - game show pits Las Vegas showgirls vs. volunteer army
Christian: Huh? What is the point of this? Soldiers are stupid?
Scot: Trying to show the all-volunteer Army is incompetent and uneducated - The idea makes sense, the execution just didn't work as it should.
The Nixon Mansion - Tony plays Nixon (very poorly), Conrad as Liddy - tells story about FDR (Kaz) bugging the oval office
Scot: Presenting a sketch inside a sketch seems difficult to pull off, and it is - Eddie plays buck-toothed Japanese ambassador.
Christian: Dreadful - the worst of the first five seasons has returned. In Murphy's standup, he has a bit about how Asians are the last minority group you can make fun of. And he takes his own word for it!
Christine as "sister" Nancy Sue Ebersole sings off-key & plays violin - funny crawl over performance.
Christian: Ebersole's father was the president of a Milwaukee steel company - she won two Tony awards! Sketches that are "won't it be funny if someone does something really poorly" are easier to write than "let's show someone being funny."
Scot: Christine was from Winnetka. Did not know that. "Next week: Ernie Piscopo plays the accordion."
Episode Ten: John Madden
Johnny Carson School of Acting - accusing Carson of stealing bits from others, taking too many vacations
Christian: Extra point for its savagery.
Lou Grant Show - Tony as Asner, Joe as Knight, Mary as MTM - begging Asner to come back to show
Christian: Are we grading these based on how funny they are in 2023, or how funny they would have been in 1982? Because this is a dud now.
Uncle Tom Show - Snyder hosts kids show - Capt. Kangaroo stops by, bitter about cancelation - Buckwheat album of kids songs
Christian: "Let's take a middling bit from the first five seasons, copy it completely, only not as good." "Sounds great!"
Scot: Tom Snyder takes up a lot of space in the minds of SNL writers
Andy Kaufman as Elvis, then clucks like chicken, brings two women backstage, asks them to wrestle, breaks character to tell us it's based on a false story
Christian: Oh no, what a terrible return.
Scot: This didn't really work at any stage of the bit.
Pudge and Solomon - Joe and Eddie in a bar as elderly friends
Christian: A slice of life piece that is actually funny and sweet.
Scot: Eddie talking about his late wife is making this sketch.
Episode Eleven: James Coburn
Scot: Coburn was a nice fit.
I Married a Monkey - while at Disney, Madge fools around with Coburn, Kaz walks in
Scot: The monkey/human sex thing is just a little too in-your-face here - Tim ad libs "Don’t touch him in my presence."
Jesus in Blue Jeans - Jerry Falwell’s (BDM) Christianized rock classics - "Born Again to Be Wild" "Jesus Is a Punk Rocker" "Why Don't We Get Drunk and Pray"
Christian: I have seen enough at this point. Brian Doyle Murray is the worst cast member of this season. Just entirely without presence or charm.
Unique Perspectives - Kaz and Tony have built shelters for WWIII - women won't have anyplace to hide except with them
Scot: Fallout shelters as a way for awkward guys to pick up chicks - "It's not like they've got a lot of choices."
Christine sings “Don’t Let It Show” to protest degrading roles for SNL women - Ebersol's voice off-screen telling her to sing
Christian: Ironically, the biggest lapse in judgment from the writers is letting Ebersole sing all these songs.
Scot: There were real fights behind scenes featuring Christine & Tony about the way things were going - I don't know what to do with this because it's serious as a heart attack. No jokes present.
Episode Twelve: Bruce Dern
Ski Date - Dern accidentally agrees to take neighbor’s high-maintenance dog Fluffy on a ski trip - missing two legs & tail.
Christian: Weird the name of the girl he wants to bang is "Laura," same name as his then-15 year old daughter.
Songwriters have trouble selling their work - songs like "Milwaukee Honeymoon," The Lindbergh Baby Polka, and Don't Slap My Heart With Your Eyes
Christian: Piscopo is a really good piano player.
The Mild One - Zen-inspired biker gang imparting wisom on restaurant patrons - people overreacting to "danger"
Christian: "It's clear you have a husband...but do you have a MAN?" “Sketch that could be a movie” award contender.
Scot: "How'd you get to be a biker? I studied the great philosophers." - Low-key, unfolding plot. I liked the control Dern had on this one.
Episode Thirteen: Elizabeth Ashley
Christian: No idea who Elizabeth Ashley is. But a brief comeback for the women - the result of Ebersole's song?
Cold Open - Dan Rather (Piscopo) tries to loosen up & ends up emulating Walter Cronkite
Scot: Transition from Rather to Cronkite voice was impressive.
Women’s party conversation mirrors one they had twenty years before. Sketch runs twice, with each line having different context when they are older.
Scot: Great showcase for the women - Audience did not appreciate as much as they should have - very creative writing.
Christian: Great showcase for the women - Audience did not appreciate as much as they should have - very creative writing.
Rueben (Eddie) takes a hostage in order to audition in front of Joseph Papp - Patti (Duke) has done the same thing
Christian: Inspired!
Episode Fourteen: Robert Urich
Christian: Urich wasn't up to it.
Scot: One of the weakest eps on the season; Urich was bad, writing was not sharp.
Buh Weet and the Dupeemes - Motown medley
Christian: I would rather watch this than anything on Season 6, but yes...maybe rest Buckwheat for a bit.
Scot: Eddie's a genius, but this is a one-note, one-joke character that you can't develop in any way.
In studio with Paul Harvey - his pauses get him in trouble
Scot: So, Piscopo. It's weird. On many of his impressions, he has the cadence down, but not the voice itself. Here he has Harvey's vocal mannerisms, but he just doesn't sound that much like him.
Christian: You said everything I was going to say, so I will just add that Harvey was a big right winger and they treat him with respect.
Low Class Italian Theatre - Tony plays Stallone, basically
Christian: Bad, but not apocalyptically so. I actually laughed at Piscopo.
Scot: Really didn't care for this. Bad Italian Theatre without Leonard Pinth-Garnell.
Golden Age School of Obedience - Eddie beating elderly with rolled-up newspaper
Christian: The precursor for Ben Stiller's character in Happy Gilmore?
Episode Fifteen: Blythe Danner
Scot: This episode was close to breaking out. Celibacy, Geraldo, Poets, Gumby all probably were just one push away from 4s. Best of season?
Christian: Something happened with Ebersole after that song. I will die on this hill.
The New Celibacy - couple hasn't had sex in more than a year, find out neither actually wanted to stop, rush through dinner
Scot: A good, good sketch, but I thought the second half, post-realization was not as strong as it could have been.
20/20 - Geraldo Rivera (Piscopo) badgers baby delivery during hospital expose
Scot: I like Geraldo finding malfeasance everywhere he looks at the hospital.
The Uncle Tom Show with Gumby (debut), who has written a book - denies allegations of sleeping around
Christian: Credit for being the first, but it won't be the best - "G-U-M-B-Y - never have five letters weighed so much."
Scot: Gumby doesn't quite have the angry edge he would in the future.
Episode Sixteen: Daniel J. Travanti
Christian: The "J" is to differentiate himself from all the other Daniel Travantis?
Restaurant kitchen, Tony & host getting set to cook lobster; Eddie asks the audience to call to determine Larry the Lobster’s fate - speeds through the save number, slows down through kill number
Scot: Is there literally any other animal you could do this with? Cows? Even fish?
The Whiners debut - out to eat on their anniversary - something is wrong with everything
Christian: Good once, not sure how many more of these I can take.
Scot: Why would I want to listen to my kids for an entire sketch? - Pretty sure this recurs later and I can't imagine it gets any better.
Agent who reps impersonators - no calls for a Tim Kaz lookalike - Rosato tells Ethel Merman impersonator (Ebersole) "Everyone does Merman!" - Tony takes Christine into the crowd, cameramen, Ebersol do Merman
Christian: "Ebersole can do Merman." "Write it up."
Scot: Just me or are there a lot of problems this year finding an end to a sketch?
Episode Seventeen: Johnny Cash
Scot: Bad episode. Disjointed. Lots of music. Cast hardly got a chance to work. And an awful Newsbreak.
The Honeyrooners - Andy Rooney as Cramden - Eddie plays Norton with a dead-on impression
Scot: How far can you take one Andy Rooney impression?
Episode Eighteen: Robert Culp
Scot: Three duds in a row. Larry at least livened up E16.
Culp working in locker room, Cosby (Eddie) walks in, Kaz as Billie Jean King "Hold my balls as I go to th restroom" - Cosby gives him pudding and Coke - Culp actually is undercover "These days he'll sell anything!"
Christian: Culp and Cosby starred in "I, Spy" together in the 60s.
Scot: Piscopo does a pretty terrible McEnroe - Eddie's Cosby voice is very close to the drunk voice he uses at the strip joint in Bev Hills Cop.
Middle Age of Aquarius - Mary Travers (Christine) introduces updated ’60s hits with new lyrics - 60s songs aren't relevant anymore
Christian: Legit laughed about four times.
Scot: (I Can't Eat No) Carbohydrates, Light My Cigar, With a Little Help From My Accoutant - Most of these are lame.
In Christine's uterus, a sperm (Kaz) tries to pick up an egg (Gross) - Kaz says big rubber trampoline was blocking the way - Tony also enters the picture as a new sperm "You're a slut!"
Christian: Thought this was a clever premise, and it had a beginning, middle, and end. Well done.
Happy’s Mayonnaise Palace commercial - Eddie is the proprietor - drinks mayo drink
Christian: It's a satire of the famous Carvell ice cream store commercials that ran on the east coast at the time.
Scot: I hate mayonnaise so, so, so much - no meat or veggie filler - Eddie's performance is enough to sell it as a 3 for me.
Sunken Submarine - look at the crew of a submarine stranded on the ocean floor - dressing like women, have a human "dog" on leash, ensign-kissing contest
Scot: One of the biggest epic fails in show history so far. Yes, I forced myself to watch it all. Crowd is dead for 12 minutes.
Episode Nineteen: Danny DeVito
The Whiners - DeVito is stuck next to Doug & Wendy Whiner on an airplane - be careful with china, too cold, need blanket and headphones
Christian: Actually not as bad as I thought second time around.
Scot: Decent sight joke with Whiners looking at DeVito's short legs - The Whiners aren't funny, but the reactions to them can be humorous.
Executive Stress Test - DeVito has to pass an unannounced stress test to get promoted - wife calls and is having "affair" - Eddie pops in as his "drug dealer"- secretary says he have her herpes - DeVito grans knife to attack boss
Christian: Good, but still missing something.
Scot: Sketch that could be a movie? - Yet another one where I don't think the ending is as good as it could be.
Scot: Newsbreak is just a humorless set-up for characters that might be better suited for actual sketches.
Episode Twenty: Olivia Newton John
Ebony & Ivory - Sinatra and Stevie Wonder - Sinatra says Ebony & Ivory too hard for people to understand
Christian: They are both very talented.
Scot: "When I think of Ebony, I think of a magazine most people don't buy." - Eddie singing Stevie is dead-on - fantastic new lyrics, good chemistry.
I Married a Monkey - Madge doesn’t want to give up her new life as a nun
Christian: Should we have an MVM award? Most valuable monkey?
Scot: Monkeys just seem to know what to do in these things. And Kaz is perfect. The plot options are limited.
Hitler In Heaven - Hitler pretends to be Mother Theresa
Christian: As soon as I saw Hitler doing Mother Theresa, I thought "This is a Python sketch." Then Graham Chapman of Python shows up to say it! Joins Idle and Palin as Python members making SNL appearances.
Scot: Second Twilight Zone out of the season.
SNL Newsbreak - more Falklands - Mary interviewing Akira Yoshimura as "Arnold Schwarzenegger" - G. Chapman on ban of commerical for film, he and BDM wearing Lingerie - Kaz looks at books - ONJ with a straight partisan screed against James Watt - Piscopo sports on endorsements - Eddie talks sex on prom night.
Scot: Six guest commentaries!!! A theory: As the season goes on, it appears Newsbreak is longer and fewer sketches are needed for the show. I wonder if Newsbreak was a sacrificial lamb. A way to get to proper show length without killing the writers. By this point, it's mostly just Tischler, Blaustein, & Sheffield writing the show.
Sports Organ Classics - bring ballpark excitement home with this songbook
Christian: Haven't we already had a sketch about sports organ music in a place outside the ballpark?
Scot: It's decent idea but not much done with it. Tony Rosato’s last role.
Scot: Kazurinsky wearing a White Sox shirt during goodnights - Eddie's doing a movie this summer with Nick Nolte!