Ooh, I almost forgot about “America’s Most Wanted Former Child Actors” with Michael J. Fox as Danny Bonaduce and Chris Farley as the fat girl from Facts of Life.
I want to get a bumper sticker that says “Enough Cowbell Already!”
or maybe “Again With the Cowbell”
My favorite skit is a pretty obscure one.
It featured Phil Hartman and at the very beginning he’s sitting in a Masterpiece Theater-type library setting and assails the filth on TV. He then says something like if you’re offended by beastiality and vomiting, this sketch will be okay for you. Then it cuts away to Chris Farley and Rob Schneider dressed like a couple of Deliverance hillbillys and Farley says, “Well, let’s go have us some sex with some pigs.” And Rob Schneider says, “I’m not feeling so good,” and both of them end up throwing up all over each other. The funny part is that you can actually see the throw up coming out of their hands a second before they put them up to their mouths.
It then cuts back to Hartman, who has a disgusted look on his face and apologizes saying that there was a mistake.
What can I say? I’m a sucker for juvenile gross out humor.
OK, these aren’t really my all-time favorites, but they were good and I’m enjoying reading everyone else’s sketch reminiscences, so a couple more:
The Sarcastic Clapping Family, where everything anyone says, no matter how innocuous, is met with a slow, sarcastic clap from at least one other family member. (I’m pretty sure this was a one-off and wasn’t a recurring bit.)
The opening skit one time was…Jason Bateman, maybe? Or Kirk Cameron? Anyway, one of those guys, as an Olympic figure-skater who just totally, completely sucked. He kept falling down and sliding across the ice, at one point slamming into the wall of the ice rink. The best part was the announcers’ reactions: “Oh! Oh… that’s not good. Well, he can still recover from that… OHHH! Probably not now, no.”
Oh, and of course Joe Pesci trying on pinky rings in a mirror.
I have to go with the “fake” TV commercial for Oops I Crapped My Pants. Video here.
“Imagine this pitcher of iced tea is really a gallon of your feces.”
Was “The Sinatra Group” a one-time sketch?
This was sort of a recurring thing, believe it or not. Or at least they did it twice: the same group recited “Little Drummer Boy” on another episode. (It’s Kevin Nealon as Tarzan.)
Totally forgot about this one.
I loved this sketch and whenever I clap that way I always start it with “Very good…”
For commercials, this one is tops. Only outshone by the Robot Attack Insurance commercial with Sam Waterston(sp?)
“Oops I Crapped My Pants” is definitely a favorite. I love how it perfectly captures the “hale and hearty and good-looking senior citizen” thing used in countless commercials. They’re playing tennis. They’re enjoying a walk at a beautiful home. They have adoring grandchildren. There’s a spark of new romance between them. They’re not letting the problems of aging slow them down. It’s just spot-on.
Oh, I don’t know how I could have forgotten the commercial for “Seasonale”, the birth-control pill that lets you have only one period per year. I love the way it so accurately mimics real feminine-product commercials, such as the woman looking through a shelf that holds 11 white shoes…and one pink one.
“Go to the store, buy yourself a hat, and then hold the **** onto it.”
That was Jason Priestley.
D**k in a box was so funny I woke my wife up and made her watch it on the DVR when it happened.
I like the old commercial spoofs too…
Petchow Rat Poison is one of my favorites.
Chippendale’s takes it.
However, I’m kind of thinking a close second is the game show “Who wants to be the one to lose to Bush in 92” or whatever it was called. A 6 way debate, in which the winner would not be in the 92 Presidential race (Bush was seen to be unassailable, back then.)
Keifer Sutherland played, uh, I can’t remember, but his best line was “I served in the Senate with JFK, and JFK was a personal friend of mine, and I want you to know, I AM NO JFK!”
Honorable mention:
Kirk’s Greatest Kirk’s
Tales of Ribaldry
The two guys, Tom Hanks and Jon Lovetz who were so desperate that they tried to pick up on octogenarian women.
I was going to post this. The brilliance is that Stu only needed a modicum of acting ability to sell it, and Joe Montana, the world-saving QB, is fantastic. His blank expression during the thinking part was perfect. Absolutely cracked my shit up for years. Thanks for linking the transcript!
Season one, episode fourteen:
Desi Arnaz reciting Jabberwockey
One of the funniest things I have ever seen. I can’t seem to find a clip, though
They did it a few times. Once, they were all part of a soap opera revolving around Frankenstein’s bread making company, and the attempts by his suave, well-spoken twin brother (Pierce Brosnan, I think) to take it over by impresonating Frank.
Mel Gibson was Frankenstein’s brother… he looked like Gomez Addams which was an interesting choice.
I knew it was either Brosnan or Gibson.
Mel Gibson, Dream Gynecologist was a pretty funny one back in the early 90’s right around the time Mel was on all the “Sexiest Man” lists.
Also, Heaven’s Database has always been one of my favorite “one-off” sketches.
Speaking of Mel, “Tales of Ribaldry” was pretty good, too.
Wake Up and Smile, about a vapid morning show that descends into Lord of the Flies when the teleprompter breaks is a personal favourite.
“The weatherman is dead!”