# SNL references Elizabeth Taylor

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-references-elizabeth-taylor/976479>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** talk-variety-show\
**Created:** [December 13, 2022, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-references-elizabeth-taylor/976479 "2022-12-13T19:56:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bootb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@Bootb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bootb)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-references-elizabeth-taylor/976479/1 "2022-12-13T19:56:43Z")

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I thought this was pretty interesting. I wonder how many people got the reference.

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/v90q_kPxrMU/maxresdefault.jpg "Father of the Bride - SNL") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v90q_kPxrMU)

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**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-references-elizabeth-taylor/976479/2 "2022-12-13T21:09:35Z")

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Well, I got it, but then I was alive for all 8 weddings (only just barely for the first one). Just think, if Mike Todd hadn’t died so young, we could have been spared so much.

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**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-references-elizabeth-taylor/976479/3 "2022-12-13T23:21:48Z")

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I was alive for all eight weddings, as well, but without specificially referring to her as Annie Hilton Wilding Todd Fisher Burton Burton Warner Fortensky, I certainly didn’t get the Liz Taylor reference. I mean, Lana Turner was also married eight times (for that matter, so were Larry King and Mickey Rooney, and Zsa Zsa Gabor was married nine times.)

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**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-references-elizabeth-taylor/976479/4 "2022-12-13T23:42:40Z")

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> [@Kent\_Clark](#):
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> I certainly didn’t get the Liz Taylor reference. I mean, Lana Turner was also married eight times (for that matter, so were Larry King and Mickey Rooney, and Zsa Zsa Gabor was married nine times.)

Well, sure; but, how many of them were, as it were, in Father Of The Bride?