# SNLs 101 Most Memorable Moments **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 5, 2004, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snls-101-most-memorable-moments/267632 "2004-10-05T13:55:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![bughunter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@bughunter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bughunter)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2004, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snls-101-most-memorable-moments/267632/41 "2004-10-07T00:54:12Z")
Hm, I didn’t ever see that one… So did Demi sit on Lovitz’s lap? I bet he woulda loved that. I can see him now… “Yeah, and I got a lap ride from… _Demi Moore_… yeah… in a _movie theatre_… yeah… during a showing of _Beauty and The Beast_, yeah… that’s the ticket. Just don’t tell my wife… _Morgan Fairchild_.” ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2004, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snls-101-most-memorable-moments/267632/42 "2004-10-07T01:00:39Z")
I couldn’t deal with that website, but was _Die Squaren Ost Berliner_ listed there? Funniest SNL sketch without a word of English. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2004, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snls-101-most-memorable-moments/267632/43 "2004-10-07T01:11:43Z")
> [@Mr. Miskatonic](#): > > I couldn’t deal with that website, but was _Die Squaren Ost Berliner_ listed there? Funniest SNL sketch without a word of English. I don’t remember that one. Was it better than the Spanish-language _Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer_? ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2004, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snls-101-most-memorable-moments/267632/44 "2004-10-07T01:12:52Z")
How abou the very first scene from the first SNL ever? Wolverines ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2004, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snls-101-most-memorable-moments/267632/45 "2004-10-07T01:22:51Z")
> [@Thudlow Boink](#): > > I don’t remember that one. Was it better than the Spanish-language _Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer_? Probably. Didn’t see UCL and wasn’t fond of that character. _Die Squaren_ was a parody of Hollywood squares only taking place in the then collapsing communist East Berlin. Done entirely in (probably very crude) German (Phil Hartman hosted and seemed rather fluent) it was still very understandable (Victoria Jackson discribes herself: “Ich Bin ein Hommacher!” to which Hartman adds “Ah, un Hausfrau!”. A question is asked of Mike Myers (playing some typcial ‘B’ celebrity) and he replies “Meinen ex-frau”). As the skit continues the various celebrities are defecting to the West (Nora Dunn gets caught with a question hafl way out of her square and answers quickly). They even have a commerical in the middle: Maken das Pimplen Kaput! Hilarious, to me at least. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2004, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snls-101-most-memorable-moments/267632/46 "2004-10-07T02:50:21Z")
I looked quickly through the list, but didn’t see any Emily Litella. Also, how can they leave out “Jane, you ignorant slut!” And my vote for best commercial is still the change bank. _oh, and if I missed it and these were on the list…never mind!_ 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2004, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snls-101-most-memorable-moments/267632/47 "2004-10-07T03:50:55Z")
> [@psychobunny](#): > > I looked quickly through the list, but didn’t see any Emily Litella. Also, how can they leave out “Jane, you ignorant slut!” And my vote for best commercial is still the change bank. > > _oh, and if I missed it and these were on the list…never mind!_ 😃 FWIW, you might not be entirely to blame. I think both were lumped into one big “Weekend Update” entry. ---
**Author:** ![todd33rpm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a5b964/32.png) [@todd33rpm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/todd33rpm)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2004, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snls-101-most-memorable-moments/267632/48 "2004-10-07T09:57:04Z")
**Thudlow Boink** , thank you…it was the Herlihy Boy. Also not forgetting Simon, the boy who does “drawerings.” The pub kickdown of a David Hyde Pierce character by the two football hooligans. A Phil Hartmann character taking acting tips from the actress in _The Crying Game_…where he ends up telling an anecdote at an awards show about his mother’s severed head landing in his lap, but tells it in the smarmy “thank you very much” way, taking all the true emotion out of it. John Belushi’s somewhat manic commentaries on the early _Weekend Update_. Strother Martin in a movie parody, in which Bill Murray gets the crap kicked out of him…Martin’s key line: “What we have here…is a failure to communicate _bi-lingually_.” Tom Waits _on national television_, for cryin’ out loud…they had him, in the first couple years of the show…likewise Leon Redbone, Fear. There was a time when the _SNL_ musical guests were really daring. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2004, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snls-101-most-memorable-moments/267632/49 "2004-10-07T16:58:11Z")
I missed “The Continental” skits and the commercial for “Jewess Jeans,” and I would’ve ranked the “Star Wars Screen Tests” higher. My biggest omission pet peeve: the “Beans” skit, set in a diner where everyone’s having beans. Just one silly fart joke after another… ---
**Author:** ![GLWasteful](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f05b48/32.png) [@GLWasteful](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GLWasteful)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2004, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snls-101-most-memorable-moments/267632/50 "2004-10-07T17:18:05Z")
> [@todd33rpm](#): > > Tom Waits _on national television_, for cryin’ out loud…they had him, in the first couple years of the show…likewise Leon Redbone, Fear. There was a time when the _SNL_ musical guests were really daring. And Randy Newman. Don’t want to forget Randy (the dreamboat) Newman. Lotsa good musical guests back in the day. Nowadays, there’s naught but the flavor _du jour_\*. ---
**Author:** ![jlsmith57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/4bbf92/32.png) [@jlsmith57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jlsmith57)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2004, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snls-101-most-memorable-moments/267632/51 "2004-10-07T22:07:14Z")
I caught some of the episodes and I want to know who those celebrities were that they got comments from? I don’t think they were C list - I think maybe they are E or F list at best. I was very disappointed they didn’t play the whole sketch but only small pieces. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2004, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snls-101-most-memorable-moments/267632/52 "2004-10-08T00:51:25Z")
One of my most memorable moments was when Buck Henry was doing his monologue, and the producers let us watch battle scenes from “Star Wars” because Buck Henry was so boring. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2004, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snls-101-most-memorable-moments/267632/53 "2004-10-08T03:31:23Z")
There was this guy. He came out in contruction outfit, and started singing, and ended up taking his shirt off to reveal a black lacy bra, and said “You won’t see this on tv again\>” or something like that, like it was quite shocking. Nowadays, that is mild. I wonder who he was. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snls-101-most-memorable-moments/267632.md?page=2)