# SNL Digital Shorts **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 3, 2012, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-digital-shorts/630306 "2012-08-03T15:24:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2012, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-digital-shorts/630306/1 "2012-08-03T15:24:45Z")
Okay, so it’s a _[digita](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNL_Digital_Short)l_ short. Why the fuck should I care? ---
**Author:** ![steronz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steronz/32/11765_2.png) [@steronz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steronz)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2012, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-digital-shorts/630306/2 "2012-08-03T15:27:38Z")
Most of the digital shorts are un-aired, i.e., they’re online only, or “digital” only, if you pretend that broadcast TV is still analog. Also, they’re a lot dirtier. “Dick in a Box” was bleeped when they aired it. ---
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2012, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-digital-shorts/630306/3 "2012-08-03T15:31:26Z")
> [@steronz](#): > > Most of the digital shorts are un-aired, i.e., they’re online only, or “digital” only, if you pretend that broadcast TV is still analog. Also, they’re a lot dirtier. “Dick in a Box” was bleeped when they aired it. Still don’t care. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2012, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-digital-shorts/630306/4 "2012-08-03T15:35:40Z")
> [@Fiddle\_Peghead](#): > > Still don’t care. Well then, fuck off back to the 70s. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2012, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-digital-shorts/630306/5 "2012-08-03T15:35:52Z")
Your pitting yourself for not caring about some random internet videos? ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2012, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-digital-shorts/630306/6 "2012-08-03T15:36:18Z")
Don’t get your digital shorts in a knot. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2012, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-digital-shorts/630306/7 "2012-08-03T15:44:35Z")
You’re wack. ---
**Author:** ![MegaBee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f0a364/32.png) [@MegaBee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MegaBee)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2012, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-digital-shorts/630306/8 "2012-08-03T15:48:14Z")
> [@Fiddle\_Peghead](#): > > Still don’t care. Did someone tell you that you had to care? ---
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2012, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-digital-shorts/630306/9 "2012-08-03T15:49:50Z")
An electronically transmitted series of images of fixed and/or moving objects together with sound over a wire or through space by apparatus that converted light and sound into electrical waves and reconverted them into visible light rays and audible sound, on Saturday Night Live: [Bobby Coldsman](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKIJDro1-Hg) A Saturday Night Live Sketch: [Bobby Coldsman](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKIJDro1-Hg) Man, that first one was _so_ much better! ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2012, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-digital-shorts/630306/10 "2012-08-03T15:50:02Z")
I was gonna post something, but now I’m not gonna do it, wouldn’t be prudent, thousand points of light… ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2012, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-digital-shorts/630306/11 "2012-08-03T15:59:09Z")
It’s not an SNL digital short. It’s an _SNL Digitial Short_. They’re not trying educate you on the uses of 0’s and 1’s, they’re just giving something a catchy title. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2012, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-digital-shorts/630306/12 "2012-08-03T16:01:37Z")
> [@Fiddle\_Peghead](#): > > Still don’t care. You’re just the person I’m looking for! What is your opinion concerning Jimmy Crack Corn? ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2012, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-digital-shorts/630306/13 "2012-08-03T16:14:09Z")
> [@Fiddle\_Peghead](#): > > Still don’t care. So? Why are you thrusting your opinion out on us, unsolicited? ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2012, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-digital-shorts/630306/14 "2012-08-03T16:14:44Z")
> [@steronz](#): > > Most of the digital shorts are un-aired, i.e., they’re online only, or “digital” only, if you pretend that broadcast TV is still analog. I think, for the most part, that the world would be a better place if every SNL episode was internet-only, and they saved the TV airtime for something funnier and more useful, like maybe a Sham-Wow infomercial. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2012, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-digital-shorts/630306/15 "2012-08-03T19:25:47Z")
> [@ephemera](#): > > you’re wack. WHO SAID WE’RE WACK? YOU TAKE lT BACK! ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2012, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-digital-shorts/630306/16 "2012-08-03T19:42:31Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > You’re just the person I’m looking for! What is your opinion concerning Jimmy Crack Corn? Hahaha. That always makes me think of that part in [Pee Wee’s Big Adventure](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrE17OVVW_E&t=0m40s). ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2012, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-digital-shorts/630306/17 "2012-08-03T19:50:52Z")
I missed the part where it became the internet’s job to explain things to fiddlesticks, here. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2012, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-digital-shorts/630306/18 "2012-08-03T21:40:09Z")
> [@Fiddle\_Peghead](#): > > Okay, so it’s a _[digita](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNL_Digital_Short)l_ short. Why the fuck should I care? Apparently you’re misunderstanding. All titles are a sex act reference. Like a menu at the Bunny Ranch. In this particular situation, it refers to the length of time Lorne Michaels finger fucks you.