Great Start. Loved the opening monologue.
“I’m sure we’ll see you in September”
8th Time for Hanks, how far behind Steve Martin is he, I forget.
Jim
Kind of a limp episode. But I liked the sketch with Kenan Thompson as Colin Powell. Why it got buried so deep (while the interminable “MAAAAA! MAAAAAAA! MAAAAAAAA! MAAAAAAAAAA!” sketch aired reasonably early), I’ll never know.
Interesting choice by the Chili Peppers to go with “Give It Away” instead of playing a second song off their forthcoming album. Not that it’s necessarily a bad thing; I remember how jazzed I was when Paul Westerberg did the show and dusted off a classic Replacements tune instead of a second song off his solo debut.
Was anyone else wondering if Hanks would reprise the recurring sketch that he originally did with Jon Lovitz featuring the two losers who can’t pick up women?
I hate to sound like a broken record, but that was an awful show. The Wheel of Fortune skit was painful. Most of the other skits were just completely forgettable. I did like the yoga one a bit, and the digital short wasn’t bad. Other than that… Yech.
After a good start, it went Blah for the rest of the night. I did like the Colin Powell as Fred Sanford skit though. The Baby sitter sketch was weak, waiting in line was just annoying, Wheel looked like a bad imitation of their own great Jeopardy Skits. It didn’t work from the logic stand point either. Wheel has always been an intelligence optional show.
Jim
I completely lost it during the “MAAAA!” sketch because it reminded me soooo much of my last trip to Disney World. That was my mother, down to the “Get out of the parade!” part. 
The Colin Powell as Fred Sanford skit was a great idea. Once you got the joke, though, not a single actual line was funny in itself.
And that was true of the Weekend Update as well. Half the spot was spent by Tina and Amy staring at the audience waiting for them to get over their stunned silence at the total lameness of the previous “joke.”
The new RHCP song was fine, though. It makes me feel even older than usual to realize the RHCP represents an era of true melodic music in rock that has long since passed. :smack:
I recorded it because of them and Hanks, the first time in a while I’ve done so. Haven’t missed much, have I?
Did anybody else’s DVR cut off at 12:05 instead of 1:05? Mine did, even though it clearly says 11:35 to 1:05. I was really looking forward to this, and it cut off right after the annoying Wheel of Fortune skit!
Maybe it quit out of self preservation.
If so it proves the DVR is smarter than I am. I watched to the bitter end. :smack:
Where I live, SNL runs from 10:30 to midnight. Where does it start at 35 minutes after the hour?
Pacific Northwest.
St. Louis