thanks to the linked below thread I can remember part of the show but I can’t remember the damn name of it I can remember more of the character he was sort of state marshall type that was hired by the "vigilante committee " that ran gold rush era San Francisco once California became a state he was an official state marshall …and I remember the theme song at the end … I can’t find a MeTv+ schedule that goes back far enough for me to find it …
The theme song is “I’ve Come To California” but I don’t know it and can’t find a link to it at the moment.
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Do they spend half of every episode discussing which combination of highways they drove on?
I hated that recurring bit from SNL, perhaps because I’m not familiar with the discussion of which roads to take to get some place in Los Angeles.
Even though I had some experience in navigating LA and the region I didn’t like the skit that much either. It’s similar to British comedy about their train schedules, both of them make a single decent joke with room for funny dialect but wear out quickly trying to extend that. Perhaps Brits and Southern Californians both are more entertained than us by this kind of thing.
Like any caricature, I think the folks who most enjoy watching those are folks who love to look down their nose at the skit’s subjects.
As a native Californian I found the SNL accents unfamiliar outside of an ancient Sean Penn performance but the obsession with highway directions and traffic was spot on.
The Brits also got in on the “driving directions” schtick:
I was the age to encounter peak Valley Speak in high school and college, say the entire 1970s.
Those SNL folks are overdoing it of course; caricature is like that. But there really were thousands of young people using a milder form of the same accent as their normal speaking voice.
And how often does it involve a left turn in Albuquerque?
I’m a native Californian, and I hated those skits. If I was watching an episode with one in it, I’d FF through it.
Exactly.