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kpete

(71,965 posts) Sun Jan 13, 2013, 11:51 AM Jan 2013

SHOW US YOUR GUNS!!!- This is the NRA's dream....from SNL in 1975.

This is the NRA's dream....from SNL in 1975.

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SHOW US YOUR GUNS!!!- This is the NRA's dream....from SNL in 1975. (Original Post) kpete Jan 2013 OP

I see the late Tom Davis in the video - is Al Franken there, too? Cooley Hurd Jan 2013 #1

Saturday Night Live was a new show in 1975 Jenoch Jan 2013 #2

The parody was based on cigarette commercial from a few years before ThoughtCriminal Jan 2013 #3

kick samsingh Jan 2013 #4

Cooley Hurd

(26,877 posts)

1. I see the late Tom Davis in the video - is Al Franken there, too?

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Sun Jan 13, 2013, 11:56 AM

Jan 2013

Jenoch

(7,720 posts)

2. Saturday Night Live was a new show in 1975

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Sun Jan 13, 2013, 12:07 PM

Jan 2013

and this video was a piece of satire based on the term "Saturday Night Special" which was a phrase in common use at the time used to describe inexpensive handguns used in crime. When was the last time anyone remembers that phrase used in the media to describe a handgun?

ThoughtCriminal

(14,047 posts)

3. The parody was based on cigarette commercial from a few years before

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Sun Jan 13, 2013, 12:52 PM

Jan 2013

"Show us your Lark pack".

I remember both. I think this was the first SNL.

samsingh

(17,593 posts)

4. kick

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Sun Jan 13, 2013, 12:59 PM

Jan 2013

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