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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsSNL moments that blew your mind...
You weren't expecting them, and when you saw them, your jaw hit the floor.
Here's mine:
marym625
(17,997 posts)Archae
(46,312 posts)marym625
(17,997 posts)I can go to YouTube for a great SNL piece.
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)that commercial had me rolling on the floor the first time I saw it.
Ed note: I am being lazy and did not search for the clip.
fizzgig
(24,146 posts)sheriff's dispatcher married to a deputy has an affair with a city cop and is accused of shooting the cop's wife execution-style in a parking lot. her defense is that she couldn't have possibly shot the woman because she had crapped her pants on the way to the liquor store and was in the bath at the time of the shooting.
yeah, oxygen and court tv were at that trial.
applegrove
(118,589 posts)cemaphonic
(4,138 posts)And Jackson's delivery was perfect - it would have been really easy to overdo it, but he nailed it.
applegrove
(118,589 posts)of his books.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)I remember gleeful surprise! Loved it!
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)That was before the amazingly widespread and massive amount of child rape committed by priests and other RCC poohbahs was well known.
Sweet Freedom
(3,995 posts)With the Van Halen song. (Sorry, I can't remember which song. it's been a long time since I've seen it.)
mucifer
(23,522 posts)thing was hilarious.
rurallib
(62,406 posts)that devolves into some racial slurs?
It sure has stayed with me over 30+ years
Archae
(46,312 posts)And the Buck Henry "molester uncle babysitting."
ailsagirl
(22,893 posts)ProdigalJunkMail
(12,017 posts)cemaphonic
(4,138 posts)One of the few times SNL really earned the "live" moniker (so of course Costello was banned from the show for a decade).
Couldn't find a direct video link, but it's here
Beastie Boys did a cute callback years later:
hibbing
(10,095 posts)[link:
|LawDeeDah
(1,596 posts)can't seem to get it on youtube
ailsagirl
(22,893 posts)Even though I knew it was fake
Argh!!!
ailsagirl
(22,893 posts)LawDeeDah
(1,596 posts)kentauros
(29,414 posts)Even the live audience had the "trout look"
Tabasco_Dave
(1,259 posts)He nailed it. I also love the big butt family.
mackerel
(4,412 posts)Aristus
(66,309 posts)It was an earlier episode. I remember Jane Curtin being in it.
TuxedoKat
(3,818 posts)At the time, it was so unexpected to my young mind, gross/funny. Might not find it so funny or shocking now though!
sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)He was a Stiffly Stifferson so I stuck it to him...Zowie!
https://screen.yahoo.com/pranksters-prankster-larry-000000471.html
Ineeda
(3,626 posts)...frog in a blender, Julia Child, the vomitorium, Belushi as Joe Cocker, and the Samurai delicatessen. And though not shocking -- cheeseburger, cheeseburger, no Coke Pepsi was one of my favorites. And how could we forget Roseanne Roseannadanna and the church lady. So silly.
kairos12
(12,850 posts)wyldwolf
(43,867 posts)wyldwolf
(43,867 posts)Initech
(100,059 posts)"The category was write a number. Let's see what you wrote. French Stewart has written Threeve, a combination of three and five,. Simply stunning. "
"Burt Reynolds has apparently changed his name to Turd Furgeson."
"Sean Connery is in the lead with negative $16,000."
mackerel
(4,412 posts)all the skits posted
ailsagirl
(22,893 posts)Belushi & Akroyd's "Cheezberger-cheezberger-cheezberger...no coke-- pepsi"
http://www.veoh.com/watch/v16038377qEdkrym4?h1=John+Belushi+-+The+Olympia+Restaurant
The first few years of SNL were so much funnier than the later programs. IMO
AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)Paladin
(28,246 posts)cyberswede
(26,117 posts)that afterward Dennis Miller* said, "You know, I love the Pogues, but I'm a sucker for lyrics."
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xj3l5f_the-pogues-the-body-of-an-american_music
*I think this was before Miller revealed himself as a RW asshat.
vanlassie
(5,668 posts)AwakeAtLast
(14,124 posts)blogslut
(37,997 posts)1) Devo performing Satisfaction changed my attitude about music forever.
2) The sketch where everyone decided they were voting for Reagan because their minds had been taken over by pods from outer space.
3) The cold season opener (season 3 maybe) with Dan, Jane, Gilda and Lorraine singing the NBC song (NBC - Means I love you!) atop the GE Building in Manhattan, ala an old radio show.
Auggie
(31,156 posts)laundry_queen
(8,646 posts)when I noticed no one said dick in a box. I was going to put it, but then saw that you did. That was my ROTFL, draw dropping moment. I mean I knew they were going to say something funny in the chorus, but omg, I was not expecting that LOL.
I'm also partial to Chris Farley, er, Matt Foley living in a van down by the river. Choppin' broccoli is also an old favorite. I pretty much missed anything earlier than that, as I was kind of young back then.
Auggie
(31,156 posts)The two I mentioned never would have made it past NBC censors decades ago. I've been watching on and off since the 1975 debut. Many of the memorable sketches from that era have been mentioned already in this thread, but one more that was insanely clever was the circumcision in the sedan from either 1975 or 1976. But Dick in the Box remains, for me, the most surprising for its respective era.
csziggy
(34,135 posts)It still cracks me up. Nov. 20, 1976 was the original run of that episode.
https://screen.yahoo.com/paul-simons-monologue-worries-000000430.html?query=SNL+paul+simon
In case the video won't play:
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/paul-simon-wears-a-turkey-suit-on-saturday-night-live/
I loved it the first time around so much that when I saw it on the schedule for repeat I went out and bought my first video recorder - the only Beta unit in stock at the local Sears. Somewhere I still have that tape.
Rhiannon12866
(205,074 posts)Archae
(46,312 posts)Does those really bad imitations as "foreign guy," then blows our minds.
astral
(2,531 posts)Playing a newscaster reporting how some satellite piece or something was gonna fall to earth and could land anywhere, and he kept getting madder and madder til he was bashing up a globe with his fist that he held in his lap. I saw stunning real rage their and believed he really was not acting.