# Father Guido Sarducci and other little remembered SNL characters. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 17, 2010, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409 "2010-04-17T00:10:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2010, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/41 "2010-04-17T14:05:51Z")
Let’s not forget Alfalfa’s Greatest Hits - “Wookin pa nub” is clearly a classic. ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2010, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/42 "2010-04-17T14:42:16Z")
> [@jasg](#): > > Let’s not forget Alfalfa’s Greatest Hits - “Wookin pa nub” is clearly a classic. Not Alfalfa, but Buckwheat. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2010, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/43 "2010-04-17T14:56:00Z")
> [@tarragon918](#): > > _Leonard Pith-Garnell_ Pinth. ---
**Author:** ![davey77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90ced4/32.png) [@davey77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davey77)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2010, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/44 "2010-04-17T15:10:48Z")
> [@tsukaesugi](#): > > Tippy Turtle > > It was a short animated series about an abusive alcoholic turtle. From the Eddie Murphy / Joe Piscopo era IIRC. Hey there, Tippy Turtle walikin’ down the street Whatcha think you’re gonna do? "Well, I think I’m gonna bother everybody I meet. Then I’ll probly go home and get drunk." Also, I remember a Mike Myers character named Lank Thompson. He was a handsome man and he counseled others on how to be handsome. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2010, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/45 "2010-04-17T15:14:19Z")
Landshark. My sister and I still torment each other behind the bathroom door! ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2010, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/46 "2010-04-17T15:57:49Z")
One of our local weathermen reminds me of [Ed Grimley](http://images0.chictopia.com/photos/neneee/10519675783/5595902270/5595902270.jpg). I mentioned this to my wife (born 78’) and she had no idea who I was talking about. “You know. Ed Grimley? Martin Short? I must say you know.” ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2010, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/47 "2010-04-17T16:14:15Z")
> [@AWB](#): > > Not Alfalfa, but Buckwheat. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2010, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/48 "2010-04-17T16:30:07Z")
I can’t remember the character’s name but it was Buck Henry as a radio talk-show host who nobody called. He started out with something innocuous like “Government bonds – good or bad? Let’s hear it from you, America.” After several minutes of vamping while the phone didn’t ring, was something I don’t remember, then more desperate, “I think we would be better off under a communist government – what do you think about that?” Finally, just before they came to take him away was “Puppies! I love dead puppies! In fact, I want government bonds to pay communists to come to your house and kill your puppy!” ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2010, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/49 "2010-04-17T16:43:18Z")
Joe Piscopo used to do this hilariously incoherent TV sports reporter bit on Weekend Update and was so good, he got to do it on NBC’s regular Sunday NFL pregame show with Bryant Gumbel a couple of times. Gawd, it was funny. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2010, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/50 "2010-04-17T17:17:08Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > I can’t remember the character’s name but it was Buck Henry as a radio talk-show host who nobody called. > [@](#): > > …I LIKE dead puppies! Frankly, I’m totally in favor of using federally supported municipal bonds to pay for forced busing of Soviet Communists to come into your homes to kill your puppies! According to [this transcript](http://snltranscripts.jt.org/75/75utalkback.phtml), his name was Frank Noland. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2010, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/51 "2010-04-17T18:04:53Z")
Starting with the very first show, the Bee costume skits. The Blues Brothers, which spread well outside of SNL: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1ehMrK3itM&feature=PlayList&p=A177D015EFE90B1F&playnext\_from=PL&playnext=1&index=7](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1ehMrK3itM&feature=PlayList&p=A177D015EFE90B1F&playnext_from=PL&playnext=1&index=7) And then the was the transition between the Bee costume skits and the Blues Brothers: [http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7tpit\_the-blues-brothers-king-bee\_music](http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7tpit_the-blues-brothers-king-bee_music) ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2010, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/52 "2010-04-17T18:09:12Z")
Willie & Frankie (Billy Crystal, Christopher Guest) - Two guys talk about how they keep doing things that hurt themselves. ---
**Author:** ![Fred\_Garvin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c67d28/32.png) [@Fred\_Garvin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fred_Garvin)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2010, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/53 "2010-04-17T18:20:30Z")
> [@Fiveroptic](#): > > “Fred Garvin, Male Prostitute” Sounds familiar ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2010, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/54 "2010-04-17T18:26:58Z")
I don’t know how “little remembered” the Coneheads are, but I remember them, although they were best in small doses and I skipped the movie. Todd and Lisa, the uber-nerds. “Vote for Todd, he’s, like, a god!” My favorite skit of the Samurai was [the Delicatessen.](http://www.hulu.com/watch/4262/saturday-night-live-samurai-delicatessen) Loved the parts when John slices the tomato with the sword and when something goes wrong, as it did always once in these skits, he trues to commit seppuku. I think the Snake-Handling O’Sheas and the Widettes and the Nuclear Family were one-shots, but they were great. I also loved Leonard Pinth-Garnell, and my favorite was “Bad Musical” with the stirring story of the inventor of the microscope, “Leeuwenhoek!” ---
**Author:** ![Eugene\_of\_Sandwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c37758/32.png) [@Eugene\_of\_Sandwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eugene_of_Sandwich)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2010, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/55 "2010-04-17T18:34:35Z")
Fey 17th century guys were the Fops. I got them, too. Tarzan, Tonto & Frankenstein, I believe it was, just cracked me up on general principle. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2010, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/56 "2010-04-17T18:53:49Z")
> [@Eugene\_of\_Sandwich](#): > > Fey 17th century guys were the Fops. I got them, too. > > Tarzan, Tonto & Frankenstein, I believe it was, just cracked me up on general principle. YES! We are cut from similar comedy cloth. TT&F were positively inspired! Cracked me up every time. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2010, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/57 "2010-04-17T19:42:37Z")
> [@Nobody](#): > > Willie & Frankie (Billy Crystal, Christopher Guest) - Two guys talk about how they keep doing things that hurt themselves. I HATE when that happens! Totally forgot about those guys. This reminds me of Steve Martin and Bill Murray’s [what the hell IS it?](http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=50236871) Only I don’t think those characters had names nor were they re-occurring. ---
**Author:** ![Prelude\_to\_Fascination](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Prelude\_to\_Fascination](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prelude_to_Fascination)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2010, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/58 "2010-04-17T19:49:57Z")
Not a character in the sense of Candy Slice, et al, but a regular feature I remember was “And now, here’s this week’s film by Gary Weiss.” The one in particular I remember opened at a garbage dump, maybe on Staten Island, with a song that started, “Mr. Johnson tells the waiter/I’ll have steak and baked potater/ [something lost and forgotten] and leaves the skin…” then it goes on to tell (I think) about how his leftovers end up in the dump. I don’t think anyone’s mentioned “Cheeburger! Cheeburger! No Pepsi! Coke!” yet. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2010, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/59 "2010-04-17T20:56:44Z")
> [@Prelude\_to\_Fascination](#): > > I don’t think anyone’s mentioned “Cheeburger! Cheeburger! No Pepsi! Coke!” yet. Probably because that’s a very well-remembered sketch with well-remembered characters. (Although that hasn’t stopped a lot of mentions in this thread.) ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2010, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/60 "2010-04-17T23:03:47Z")
What’s this! What’s all this! Two pages about SNL and nobody’s mentioned Emily Litella! What’s wrong with you people? Why I oughta… \*! Oh. _Never mind._ 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409.md?page=4)