'Wasn't That Special' Season Sixteen 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 Sixteen bonus notes section, with the clips coming next week.
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Episode One: Kyle MacLachlan
Scot: Franken, Handey, Smigel now "co-producers" - the kind of episode largely missing from S15. Solid throughout with no missteps.
Bad Idea Jeans
Christian: Spade isn't in the cast anymore, but gets a line.
Scot: Odenkirk gets a line - this is a personal favorite.
Sprockets - Dieter & MacLachlan watch Germany’s Most Disturbing Home Videos
Christian: Chuckle-worthy throughout, but runs out of steam.
Scot: Confession: I laughed in places here
Twin Peaks - Dale Cooper ignores clues pointing to Leo
Christian: I only started watching Twin Peaks last week, so I am only vaguely familiar with why this is funny. Chris Farley's debut, accompanied by Conan O'Brien.
Scot: Very funny - You won't hear from the log lady "there’s only two women left on Saturday Night Live and we already used them both up.”
Sinead O'Connor - “Three Babies”
Christian: The vocals in this are incredible - she sings in about four different styles in this one song. Things got a little dusty in here.
All Things Scottish - Stuart Rankin’s son doesn’t want pop’s All Things Scottish store
Christian: Heed! Pants! Now!
Frank Sinatra (Phil) gives George Michael (Dana) advice about fame
Scot: The rare Dana/Phil sketch - Same corner from Fernando's Hideaway - Phil's first Frank - "You've got talent. Not like that guy who plays Mork. That's a sweat act."
2 Live Crew Party - White party goers have ideas for Luther Campbell
Christian: Leo Yoshimura in the background wearing a flag bandana made me laugh out loud.
Scot: Chris Rock debut.
Episode Two: Susan Lucci
Scot: Lucci on hosting SNL
Victor Kiam (Phil) introduces Classic Bitch & Lezbo electric shavers
Scot: High-energy Phil performance - I recall the controversy.
Christian: Glad we are entering the Scot Bertram era of sentience.
Monologue - Lucci says her life is like a soap opera, show us flashback with Emmys everywhere
Scot: I like the concept, poking fun at Lucci's lack of awards - "Are these the two Emmys you won for the very special Benson?"
Christian: Yep, way better than the average monologue.
Live with Regis and Kathy Lee
Christian: Dana's Regis is like his Bush - eventually, it just becomes a caricature.
Scot: Dana's Regis impression is dead-on. Close your eyes and listen.
All My Luggage - at the airport, Lucci gets bad news about her baggage
Christian: Wow, the crowd loses their shit over this one. Why?
Scot: I mean, its a fine idea, good execution, but the crowd is just off-the-rails in its response for some reason.
The Sound of Music - M.C. Hammer’s (Rock) version of The Sound of Music is Broadway-bound
Christian: Rock has played two rappers and a football player so far?
Scot: I'm sure Rock does dumber bits while on SNL, but this has to be near the dumbest.
Episode Three: George Steinbrenner
Christian: The show is now burning a lot of extra time with G.E. Smith interludes.
Scot: They were able to get around Steinbrenner's limitations as an actor for a while, but it caught up with them.
In a dream, Steinbrenner manages the Yankees & plays every position on the field
Scot: ERA of 0.06. How did he lose 3 games? - In 2024, there would be multiple thinkpieces titled "How Dare SNL Platform An Out-of-Control Monster like George Steinbrenner.")
Attack of the Colossal Killer Lincoln - legend has it that big Lincoln will destroy D.C. if budget impasse occurs
Christian: Despite all the special effects and scene changes, it's just okay.
Scot: Phil playing this a bit like Frankenstein - This is insane and goofy and well-executed and must have taken a ton of coordination.
Ultra Slim Fast - Amin, Huseinn, Pol Pot, Steinbrenner lose weight. Steinbrenner breaks sketch, wants to know why he's with dictators
Scot: “Most people don’t know Jerry Reinsdorf. They know Pol Pol.” - A lot of good throw-away type lines in here. Franken wrote it, safe to say.
What Was I Thinking? -Shelley Long (Jan), Walter Mondale (Dana), Steinbrenner. Host is Phil.
Christian: Remember when elections were about things like taxes and the role of government?
Scot: So low key, so laid back, so understated. Steinbrenner apparently demanded the breasts be made smaller and smaller. The writing is so, so, so much better this year with basically the same crew.
Steinbrenner insists on paying for fancy meals- it makes the others look bad
Christian: Bad, but not offensively so.
Scot: Damn. There goes the episode's grade average. But this was such a bad idea. Steinbrenner is wooden and just mean and there are no laughs at all.
Steinbrenner, in his boxers, hits on female reporter (Jan) complaining about a sexist ballplayer
Christian: Oh man, you'll never see something like this again.
Scot: "You're getting nowhere. I might as well put my pants back on." - Mere inches better than the last sketch.
Episode Four: Patrick Swayze
Scot: Many memorable moments here, but would fall just short of a true stone cold "classic" in my book.
Christian: A very good episode resting on a classic sketch.
Dirty Square Dancing- at a hoe-down, Phil calls dirty suggestions
Scot: Short and sweet but there's just something about Phil calling those lyrics out that makes me laugh hard.
Ghost - Ghost Sam sees all the disgusting stuff Molly does
Scot: Good job by Victoria to sell all this stuff - I remember this one well - Again, evidence of better writing this year. It's just a fantastic concept.
Latino crooners Swayze and Dana one-up each other on album
Christian: So dumb but so funny.
Scot: Slow build to get to the fake penis falling out of his pants joke. "It fell out in Leeee-ma." Which was very funny.
Chippendales - Come on, you know how this one goes.
Christian: On the Mt. Rushmore of SNL sketches. As good as it is, it's hard to watch without a bit of sadness knowing how it all ends.
Scot: Hello, America. It's Chris Farley - The judges treating the competition so seriously is key to making it all work, until they, regretfully, admit the obvious - The audience expects the twist in which Farley wins. It's funny when the realistic thing happens and then they dryly explain why. Rock and Odenkirk hate this b/c of how it set Farley up. Smigel defends it here. Team Smigel.
The Tonight Show - guests are Susan Dey (Jan) & Arsenio Hall (Rock)
Christian: According to the books, this is the sketch that made Johnny really start to contemplate retirement, saying something like "when they're making fun of you, it's time to go."
Scot: Is it wrong to say Rob Lowe's Arsenio is better? - Phil steals all the laughs here.
Episode Five: Jimmy Smits
Christian: In Spade's book, he said Schneider was his best friend, until they had a huge falling out. Never really says what it was though.
Scot: New guys were seemingly everywhere tonight. Rock has been very very good. Carvey was ... Ching Chang, in the final sketch, and ... the Spanish sketch and Bush.
After midterm, George Bush talks falling polls, emphasizes that Mario Cuomo has a foreign-sounding name
Christian: Feels like a step up for these. Predicts his future electoral loss.
Scot: Putting Bush in infrared goggles makes this one.
NBC News reporters emphasize Spanish pronunciations; Bob Costas cameo
Christian: Costas was only 38 here. Also, this sketch made me extremely hungry.
Scot: This is always good for a laugh. I think the Costas cameo and the NFL talk is the peak of the sketch.
Simon - while in the tub, Simon (Myers) shows his drawings
Christian: I am old enough to remember the original Simon cartoon, so I have a fondness for these.
Scot: Debut of this one - Kinda cute but no real laughs. A character play for Myers.
Smits is frustrated by ditzy Julia Sweeney’s short attention span & bad stories
Christian: America asks: "Doesn't SNL already have a Victoria Jackson?" Just betting this is a bit Sweeney brought with her from the Groundlings.
Scot: I've already tuned out of whatever this is (the concluding joke isn't bad, actually.)
The Dark Side - Nat X (Rock) discusses race with Smits & Gerry Cooney (Nealon)
Christian: Some of these in the future will be pretty bad, but this is a good start.
Scot: No black cast member for six years? And then here this comes! - "A man so black, he goes to funerals naked." - This was better than I remembered. A pretty good start.
Doormen (Rob) & (Nealon) discuss building tenants behind their backs
Christian: Willie and Frankie meet the Hanks/Lovitz losers.
Scot: An echo of the Guest/Crystal two-man sketches from years ago.
Family lives in a mobile home in NYC
Christian: It's a bad sketch, but it's funny when VJ smokes Smits in the nuts with the vacuum and Farley scales down a rope. Another data point in the "SNL's best athletes" competition.
Scot: Why is Ching Change here? - This could have been funnier - Tom Davis wrote.
Episode Six: Dennis Hopper
Nikey Turkey - the inflatable bird is perfect for large holiday gatherings
Scot: Another showcase for Rock - strangely specific critique: Nike didn't have a pump, did they? Wasn't it just Reebok?
Christian: Correct; only Reebok had the pump. Nike had the Air Max bubbles in the soles.
Inflatable Doll Party - (host) & his friends treat inflatable dolls as if they were real women
Scot: Why isn't Ralph Nader at this party? - The ultimate manifestation of the writers not knowing what to do with the women (just replace them).
Christian: We will definitely have to discuss your take on this. Yes, the women got barely any roles - but this is more a mockery of men than anything else.
Retirement Party - co-workers mock Julia and Paul Simon after learning of sex
Christian: The copy machine makes an appearance - soon to become a star of the show.
Scot: OK, the background stuff is pretty funny. The end here is off, though.
What Animal Were You Raised By? - Hopper recalls his apes, flamingo, dung beetle parents
Christian: I liked it - had to be a Jack Handey.
Scot: The ending predicts Jim Everett's attack on Jim Rome a few years later (prescient) - I could see some people hating this, but once you submit to the premise, it works.
Stan Duffy's Gambling to Win - Stan Duffy (Nealon) fails to heed his own advice
Christian: Did not like this - boring and tedious. You knew where it was going the second it started.
Scot: A parody of a TV thing of the time -
This avoids The Nealon Syndrome nicely and instead locks into a "Robot Repair"-type rhythm. Not a bad sketch to emulate.
Sudden Pressure - Schillervision- 1950s-style TV program
Christian: Are these supposed to make me yearn for the terrible Albert Brooks films?
Scot: Man bra fake ad (wonder if Larry David was watching?) - Schiller has at least one winner coming soon.
Episode Seven: John Goodman
Christian: Might be as strong a start as we've had to a season.
Scot: Victoria and Julia are too similar in the roles they can play - Adam Sandler added as a writer.
Church Lady & mother (Goodman) gang up on Saddam Hussein (Phil)
Scot: Final Church Lady, if you can believe it.
Christian: RIP, Enid Strict.
People in Goodman's store are referred to by their annoying trait
Christian: A single joke beaten to death. BUT - swapping in Sweeney for Dunn is already elevating the cast.
Scot: The only joke is revealed super-early and it's downhill from there.
Faith No More - “Epic”
Christian: In high school, my friends and I used to cruise around listening to this album cranked, like "Bohemian Rhapsody" in Wayne's World.
The McLaughlin Group
Christian: I have this atop Carvey's characters, better than Church Lady, GHWB and Hans and Franz - just a tour de force.
Scot: "You can't leave. All the doors are locked from the inside!"
Wayne's World After Hours - NC-17 film review & Justify My Love video - Goodman comes to shut things down
Scot: First WW of the season - prescient "Beavis & Butt-head" would not debut until 1993, but W&G are doing the same thing here.
“It’s Pat” debut
Christian: I am pro-Pat. And, of course, I have a bias for firsts.
Scot: It's a fine first effort in the 10-to-1 slot.
Episode Eight: Tom Hanks
Scot: Hanks is the greatest host in show history? This is another all-timer. Scores will be close to S14E1
Paul Simon, Steve Martin, Elliott Gould welcome Hanks to 5-timers club - Lovitz as waiter (Hey, work is work) - Ralph Nader tries to get in
Christian: They don't even let Conan use his real name. Disrespect! I remember Gould hosting, maybe twice.
Scot: More Joe Versus the Volcano slander - "Oh, please. Call me Mr. Steve Martin." - No Buck or Bergen - (I miss Lovitz).
Game Beaters - Mr. Short-Term Memory is a contestant; Tony Randall cameo
Christian: The best Mr. STM of the group. Incredibly acted by Hanks. Is this the best recurring host character yet, or is it Steve Martin's Festrunk brother?
Scot: Phil is especially good playing off Hanks in these Mr. STM sketches - One of the absolute best recurring sketches, always high-quality.
Global Warming Christmas Special - hosted by Carl Sagan (Myers), Hanks as Dean Martin, Victoria as Sally Struthers, Dana as McCartney
Christian: Jesus, Phil really is in everything. (Including sometimes as Jesus.)
Scot: I am already laughing at the guest list - the rest had peaks and valleys.
Repeating Guy - Hanks seeks psychiatrist’s (Phil) help regarding double-take reactions
Christian: Errr, no.
Scot: Perfectly simple sketch that is pushed over the top by Hanks' face as he tries to stop himself from saying things 2X.
Episode Nine: Dennis Quaid
George Bush on Desert Storm, listing contributions of other countries - sounds of missiles
Christian: Has Carvey ever broken on the show? How does he do these without laughing?
Scot: Would Bush be better or worse if he ever did anything but direct-to-camera stuff? - the lesson we learned from Vietnam: "Stay out of Vietnam."
Sally Jesse Raphael - narcoleptic hunks Quaid, Phil, Myers
Christian: All premise. This goes nowhere.
Scot: Jan's impression is quite good, but the sketch seems to exist just for her to show it off.
Mustang Calhoun - renegade pilot (Quaid) commits increasingly reckless stunts
Christian: Took a bit to set up, but great when the escalation hits.
Scot: Joining the Columbia Record and Tapes club drew a laugh.
The Specialty Songs of Cal McLane Jr.
Christian: I am pro-any butt related jokes. (Except for the Widettes.)
Scot: Odenkirk wrote - first one's kind of funny, the rest not so much.
Schillervision - 1952 holiday special is full of ads
Christian: I am retroactively filing a restraining order to keep Tom Schiller away from a camera.
Episode Ten: Joe Mantegna
Scot: The first transparent response to In Living Color, IMO. You've got 'I'm Chillin'" and a hot musical guest with zero credibility. There's a choice being made here about popularity vs. artistic merit.
Christian: Mantegna is a great host - who knew?
Officer Miller - Officer Miller (Phil) shares his wisdom with a 14 year-old (Farley)
Christian: Farley is having an okay rookie year, but has yet to become FARLEY.
Scot: Solid Phil sketch, one that shows off what he can do vocally -- Phil has Shearer's vocal talent but a) can act and b) isn't a giant hemorrhoid.
I'm Chillin' - Onski (Rock) & B Fats (Farley) broadcast from the projects
Christian: I found this...unsuccessful. Farley is out of his element and looks lost.
Scot: Rock said (I think) this sketch was basically his attempt at creating a black Wayne’s World - In Living Color had debuted April 15, 1990.
Insane Inventors - Thomas Edison (Dana) & The Wolfman (Mantegna) work together
Christian: Pure silliness, but fun.
Scot: Based on the title, I was expecting something a little different.
Christian: Like Robot Repair?
Episode Eleven: Sting
Christian: David Spade is actually good when doing stand-up-style stuff; not as much in sketches.
Scot: Outstanding first half, then falls apart - Kevin, Jan, Julia, Victoria pretty much absent - More Don Novello stuff somewhere.
Wayne’s World - Best & worst of Gulf War TV coverage
Christian: Brit Hume and Wolf Blitzer, still going strong!
Scot: "Dan Rather ... not!" - "We now take you to our war correspondent Howitzer Explosion Guy"
Hedley & Wyche commercial - British toothpaste
Christian: On the Sting episode - so disrespectful.
Scot: Odenkirk wrote it.
The Sinatra Group
Scot: Crying at this one. Everything works. Multiple levels. Steve & Eydie. Hartman on fire. Put it on the short list of best-ever.
Christian: At the top of the heap as far as all-impersonation bits go, but I do not share your enthusiasm.
Copy Machine/Richmeister debut
Scot: First Schneider spotlight - Huh. That's it, I guess. Not going to have a plot or develop anything?
Christian: Anti-Schneider bias! This is really good - a fresh new recurring character out of the gate. And it's funny when he does it to Sting.
Episode Twelve: Kevin Bacon
Scot: Tim Meadows joins as a featured players, Sandler is announced. Now puts the cast at 16(?) members (4 withs 4 featurings.) Trivia question to which I don't have the answer: what was the last actual sketch Miller appears in?
Richmeister - loses ability to socialize when copier breaks
Scot: Richmeister doesn't actually exist in the context of the sketch. He doesn't interact or respond. - This is a fundamentally flawed premise. I weep for the upcoming installments.
Christian: I am taking you to court for your Richmeister slander. More importantly, why is Hartman wearing a wig?
Dark Side with Nat X - Nat X’s guests are Colin Powell (Meadows) & Vanilla Ice (Bacon) - Top 5 list of reasons black guys don’t play hockey
Christian: Very much enjoyed Dancing Colin Powell.
Scot: "A of people call my next guest the Elvis of rap because they like they way he sings and dances. I call Vanilla Ice 'Elvis' because I wish he were dead."
Soundstage - Bacon only contributes handclaps in lopsided folk duo
Christian: Ugh, this had promise, but it's too long and they don't do anything unique after the joke is burned.
Scot: Bacon actually is a pretty decent musician IRL - Did Paul Simon secretly submit this sketch?
Episode Thirteen: Roseanne Barr
Scot: It's almost unfair what they're doing. Losing Lovitz and trying to introduce new cast members while launching characters that will appear again and again, all while getting great writing and generally kicking butt. It's pretty crazy when you think about it.
Christian: I was just thinking that with Farley, Rock, Spade, Schneider, Sweeney, Sandler, Meadows (and even Myers) they have almost doubled the size of the cast while actually improving the show. It's like the Packers drafting quarterbacks. Also, despite his reputation and other than Chippendale's, Farley hardly took the show by storm.
Monologue - Roseanne says she is officially overexposed
Christian: She thought she had a tough year in 1990, huh? Who's going to go back in time and tell her?
Scot: Can't watch this without hearing Victoria.
Misery II - Dana's biggest fan (Roseanne) saves him and makes him keep Church Lady alive
Christian: This one is over and above. It's, like, three sketches in one and every one is funny. It's a Church Lady sketch, a movie parody, and a meta commentary on recurring characters.
Scot: There's a Buckwheat-esque meta commentary happening here - Roseanne is really good - Lovitz cameos again.
Deee-Lite - “World Clique”
Christian: They don't play "Groove is in the Heart?" Good Lord.
Happy Fun Ball commercial
Christian: Prescient - it was much later that drug companies started having to spend half the commercial explaining the dangerous side-effects.
Scot: Jack Handey, people. - How was this buried so late? - Directed by Schiller!
Iraqi Pete returns to taunt audience; TV Guide “cheers” SNL for him
Christian: Essentially doing Kaufman, but winking in a way he never did. If I defend Iraqi Pete, does it make me the Iraqi Pete of the podcast?
Comedy Killers - stand-up comics on a game show about audience turn-offs
Christian: Is Jan doing Roseanne Roseannadanna?
Scot: Roseanne references her anthem performance - That's actually the best part of this, I think - There's too much exposition in places - Al Franken/James Downey wrote it.
Victoria's Secrets - VIJ tells all about her dumb blonde image
Christian: I thought it was sort of good?
Scot: That didn't work. Was it a Conan idea, considering future Late Night bits?
Episode Fourteen: Alec Baldwin
The McLaughlin Group, Part II
Scot: Not as good as the debut, which is a high bar - Felt like more "WRONG"s and fewer quick, witty responses.
Christian: Yeah, it has to be more like a Pixies song - loud/quiet/loud. The WRONGS need time to breathe.
The Sinead O'Connor Awards - attack on material awards and success - Dana as McCartney - Most Empty Song award - Baldwin as Bono - Meadows as Tracy Chapman.
Christian: This is awful. There is absolutely nothing here.
Scot: The Phil Collins award is just slightly odd because he had just released ...But Seriously, which was his attempt at actually saying something. - Hit rate on these long award show things is low. This ended up OK in the end.
Julia is flustered by face-to-face confession with handsome priest (Baldwin)
Christian: Sweeney can be sweet and gross at the same time.
Scot: Sweeney and Christine Zander wrote - A very cute and effective piece for Julia - Boy, I ended up really liking this one.
The Godfather Part IV - in the future
Christian: Long and desperately unfunny.
Scot: A leftover from a few weeks ago with Mantenga? - Soooo slow. Just dragging.
Episode Fifteen: Michael J. Fox
Christian: Handed this show over to the new guys, and the result was underwhelming. Even Phil seemed invisible, despite being in a couple sketches.
Scot: Dog of an episode, at least comparatively. Wonder if Miller was sick. He was off in WU and I don't think I see him up for goodnights.
America's Most Wanted - former child actors
Christian: The joke is supposed to be that we recognize the names of these people? Drew Barrymore is one of the most imitateable actresses in Hollywood and Jan doesn't even try. Extra point just for how Michael J. Fox looks at Spade while he is imitating him.
Scot: Set-up is fine, but little follow-through.
Not Gettin' Any
Christian: Gross. I almost had to give it a rating of "?" like you gave Uncle Roy.
Scot: All the new featured players get together for ... an awful sketch.
Nealon and Dana on elevator with Fox "Back In Time"
Christian: Did not care for this. We just saw this with Sting?
Scot: There's a little preview of The Chris Farley Show here - I'd be lying if I said I didn't sing "Back In Time" just like this b/c of this sketch.
Episode Sixteen: Jeremy Irons
Christian: Remember all that credit we gave the show just a few episodes ago for merging the two casts? Not so much anymore.
Scot: Didn't think Irons was very good as host but material also seemed tired. Carvey (I think?) just in cold open and Cowboy Song? Also, here’s Odenkirk on Jeremy Irons.
Surprise Birthday Party - Sherlock Holmes (Irons) spoils the fun at his own surprise party
Christian: Someone in the writers' room thought, "I bet it would be hard to throw a surprise party for Sherlock Holmes." And a decent sketch came from it!
Scot: Well-written and executed, neat concept. I'm just not sure this is going to stick with me in any real way.
Accent - Bar guests love Iron’s English accent
Scot: I have no idea why Farley was in this sketch.
Christian: I guess you can always call in Farley if you need to close down a sketch. The cast Mariano Rivera.
Wayne's World Oscar picks
Christian: They were wrong: Dances With Wolves did, in fact, win Best Picture.
Scot: Feels perfunctory. "Hey, Mike. Didn't you do a WW Oscar thing last year? Want to do one again?"
Hannibal Lecter (Irons) psychoanalyzes rageaholic cellmate Mace
Christian: As bad as the Rob Lowe one. Not a single laugh.
Scot: Phil looks more like Lecter than Irons, no?
Episode Seventeen: Catherine O’Hara
Christian: Grieving for all the years we missed out on Catherine O'Hara potentially being on the SNL cast. All Michael O'Donoghue's fault.
Sprockets - actress’ (host) films involve rusty metal box & caribou
Christian: "Compelling yet tedious."
Scot: Vic Tayback reference!
Frank Gannon PI PI - Politically Incorrect Private Investigator. (Nealon) investigates murder of a black professor
Christian: "Politically incorrect" or...just racist?
Scot: Feels like this could have been excellent if given a little more time to marinate. It's not fully cooked - Hey, Carole King!
In Conclusion Theater - last act of play doesn’t make sense
Christian: Enjoyed the silliness, but never really came together for me.
Scot: Hey, Randy Quaid! - What a way to draw together a bunch of ridiculous non sequiturs - Enjoyed the randomness and unpredictability of this Handey.
Daily Affirmation with Stuart Smalley - the Kurds should forgive George Bush & Saddam Hussein
Christian: Getting better.
Scot: I liked this mix of Stuart and actual current events, which I'm sure Franken also was a fan of.
Here Goes the Bride - O'Hara shows up to funeral in wedding dress
Scot: This might be the saddest thing ever performed on SNL. There's nothing funny at all. Regret, shame, sadness. Grief. Anger. Powerful stuff. The way she throws the ring on the coffin. Catherine never says a word. Watch the flowers shaking. Look at the closing shot of O'Hara. This is art. I'm talking myself into a 5. Reserve the right to change it.
Christian: Agree with all that. It is really good, especially given O'Hara's performance.
Episode Eighteen: Steven Seagal
Christian: This was actually on its way to being a decent show, then we got the full Seagal. It's like the show caught comedy chlamydia. Happy 18th birthday to me! (In 1991.) I am now a man!
Scot: Yes, Seagal was just terrible. No it's probably not an all-time awful show because the cast and writers wouldn't allow it. Non-Seagal material holds strong, for the most part.
Segal sings “Kung Fu Fighting” & plays guitar
Scot: Look at Rock's face. He knows. He knows.
Tenelli : One Man Army: Richmeister gets on the bad side of demoted renegade cop Nico
Scot: What is this transition? Are we supposed to believe Rich works at a police station? That's not been established. - Hot garbage.
Christian: I am choosing to pretend the first half of this didn't happen. But the Richmeister part made me chuckle.
Gulf War soldier (Tim) receives a personal All-Star Celebrity Tribute, Bush appears, many impressions, Tony Orlando song with very specific details
Christian: Three major bits in this and they all work.
Scot: The cut-ins to the generic Bush message are hilarious. Heston reading the letter also excellent "one big wank-a-thon." - This is really well done.
The Dark Side with Nat X - Nat X interviews Andrew Dice Clay (Segal) - 5 reasons cops beat Rodney King
Christian: These are much better than I remembered. Seagal is awful, but...that is sort of funny?
Scot: Gotta say, I did not expect Chris Rock and Nat X to be as good as its been nor to be one of the higher points of a classic bad show.
Musicians for Free Range Chickens - musical guest & others do benefit recording for free-range chickens
Christian: It's a sweat act. But I appreciate the effort.
Scot: First Kasem in a while! - First of a number of these celeb-filled songs.
Daddy's Girl - Segal tries to intimidate Farley, his daughter's date
Christian: Yikes
Scot: Originally meant for Hopper show - Man, the work Hooks and Schneider do to save this from a 1 rating.
Greenpeace photographer Brace Steele (Segal) stumbles upon Exxon conspiracy
Christian: Faces of Comedy Death.
Scot: No, no, no, no, no. Couldn't we have more Michael Bolton.
Episode Nineteen: Delta Burke
Christian: Hard to remember an episode that took a nosedive like this one.
Scot: I'm embarassed for everyone. "What if we did an episode where we simply forget to write jokes into the sketches? It'll be great! No one will expect it!" Julia has not been doing much. Nor has Farley. Cast is just too big for any moments for them. Dana only has Bush and Garth tonight.
Wayne's World - Top Ten babes - a dream sequence with Madonna
Christian: Everything is here - killer cameo, good jokes, fun callback. Could be the best WW?
Weight Watchers Meeting - Stuart Smalley attends
Scot: Total deadsville. But at least it lasts forever. Nearly 8 minutes.
Christian: Gave it a couple minutes then took your word for it.
Hollywood Minute - Lost Ocean’s Eleven clip has Sammy Davis, Jr. (Tim) & Frank Sinatra in a bathtub
Christian: How did Sinatra not have Phil murdered for this?
Scot: Extra point for the way Phil looks at Meadows' ass.
Coffee Talk with Paul Baldwin - ex-girlfriend (host) on java & baseball
Christian: Paul Baldwin transitioning into Linda Richman on screen right before our eyes?
Scot: The Canadian finds NYC accents funny, I guess. - Did I miss a joke? Did anything happen?
Shouting Mothers - Moms interrupt conversation to yell at their kids
Christian: Holy crap, it's Will Ferrell's "get off the shed" bit, four years before. It was the sketch that broke him on the show. The commitment to yelling makes all the difference.
Scot: This actually is a funny premise that my wife and I joke about all the time. This was one of the worst ways to try to execute it. (Also would come back with Oteri later.)
Episode Twenty: George Wendt
Christian: This is just a hunch, but Myers and Hartman are rarely on screen together. Did they have beef? Canadian jealousy?
Scot: I guess Jan's departure was not as certain - MILLER FINALLY GOT A WRITING CREDIT (Wonder if it were for the cold open?) - A decent way to end the season.
Monologue: Wendt manhandles a lookalike of Queen Elizabeth
Christian: Eric Idle also did a Queen of England bit, right?
Scot: Naked Gun was 1988. Didn't they kind of already do this?
Mr. No-Depth-Perception - two-dimensional guy (Nealon) throws a dinner party
Christian: An attempt at having an in-house "Mr. Short-Term Memory?"
Scot: It's funny but I can't imagine trying to do this again. Exhausted your possibilities.
The Carsenio Show - Johnny updates his program - Wendt tries to talk him back from ledge
Christian: This is absolutely brutal (in ridiculing Carson, not in quality.)
Scot: Ah ha! The secret here turns out to be not just emulating Carson's show but to taking Carson and placing him in another environment - "That is the straight stuff, oh funkmaster."
It's Pat - barber’s small talk can't reveal the gender of Pat
Christian: Julia Sweeney responds to Pat critics.
Scot: The brushing is a fun touch - tip angle was telegraphed.
The Sunrise Show - Kids song singer becomes an adult-themed artist
Scot: A take-off on Raffi - Goodbye, Jan.