Yeah, lame list. Another that was conspicuously absent (at least in MHO) was the Landshark.
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I"m usually indifferent to list shows, but to omit Jackie Rogers Jr. $100,000 Jackpot Wad from the all time SNL moments is a crime.
Truly one of the best game show skits SNL has ever done.
*A huge piece of roasted chicken!
Did not see the original, but I became a fan after reruns, Belushi does the chocking with the chicken bit so well, that I always wondered if it was just acting, he really looked like if he was choking!
Man, what an annoying site. And we thought our hamsters were geriatric.
My top 20 would have had…
“White Like Me”
Belushi as James T. Kirk and/or The Incredible Hulk
Elvis Costello performing “Radio Radio” when he wasn’t supposed to
What about Will Farrell as a member of Blue Oyster Cult…Don’t Fear the Reaper…and Christopher Walken demanding more cow bell? I positively wet myself whenever I see it.
The funniest skit that didn’t even show up - Chevy Chase/Richard Pryor word association. Wayne’s World or any more modern ones better than that? No freakin’ way.
Guys, read the list before you gripe about your fave not being represented.
Sat on Cookie: It was already noted in this thread that the cowbell sketch was #5.
rowrrbazzle: “Dead Honkey” (the Chevy Chase/Richard Pryor sketch) was #37.
My pet peeve (one among many): “Brian Fellows’ Safari Planet” didn’t deserve to be on the list. What a waste of air time. Same goes for “Woodrow woos Britney Spears.” IMO of course.
I’ve always been a fan of the SNL episodes between the years of 1988 and 1994 (roughly). It seems like those were very heavily represented, which is cool for me, but not so great for everything else. I’m surprised “The Partridge Family vs. The Brady Bunch” made it to #10–I thought I was the only one who enjoyed that sketch. The miniseries as a whole was “meh” for me because I hate seeing B-list actors [poorly] mimic catchphrases.
Where was Wake up and Smile, dammit?
“The weatherman is dead!”
And Eonwe, Land Shark was #74.
I could at least sit through the retrospectives (some were actually kind of interesting) and the fact that there wasn’t much of the sketches themselves. What annoyed me more was the replacement of music E! couldn’t get clearance for (especially “What is Love”). But what annoyed me even more, because they could actually HELP this, was the sheer frequency of commercials. Arrrrrgh!
Not a skit, but there should be a “Most Memorable Moment” honorable mention for the night that Dan Ackroyd gave a monologue and was so on that he blinked and the crowd rolled in the aisles.
I agree. An Etch-a-Sketch loads faster than that one.
I dunno; it’s a pretty good tutorial on how NOT to design a web site.
I think these are missing, but I’m reviewing the list on the fly, here, so I apologize:
The prison poetry thing…with Eddie Murphy closing with “C…I…L…L…my landlord.”
Okay, Steve Martin and Gilda Radner dance is at 82, but the version that stuck with me had Martin’s intro, when he nearly choked up because Gilda Radner had just died. That intro was a moment that was needed, even though it wasn’t the first time the sketch ran.
Phil Hartman as Peter Graves in Discover…any of them, but I especially love the one about different metals. Jon Lovitz plays the professor, and after Graves irradiates the lab by accident and asks about the next item on display, the prof closes with “It’s sodium, it’s just sodium, oh, what difference does it make, we’re dead men!”
Todd and Lisa Lupner.
Robin Williams and Victoria Jackson showing the birthing video to the other expectant couple.
The TV appearances by Harry Anderson and Joel Hodgson (as comedians). I really would like to see Joel’s “Mystery Date” thing again…“is he a dream? Ooh? Or is he a dud? Ewww.” And the comedian who juggles…his name’s escaping me.
Lovitz as Dukakis during a debate…“I can’t believe I’m losing to this guy.”
Buck Henry as the weird, pervy babysitting uncle. Makes Canteen Boy look tame by comparison.
Mr. Mike.
Eddie Murphy as the reggae musician doing “Kill The White People.”
That twisted commercial for the two Manson girls who were making potholders out of their own hair.
Richard Pryor and Garret Morris doing their version of The Exorcist.
Christopher Walken as “The Continental.” It’s where “The Ladies’ Man” came from, just a decade-plus prior. It was done a few times, IIRC.
The one Adam Sandler/Chris Farley thing where Adam wants to do some assisted-living stuff for older people, and Farley (maybe as Matt Foley, Motivational Speaker, I can’t recall) keeps yelling stuff like “Jesus Jumpin’-up Christ! Let the boy wash yer grandmother!” (This from me, the guy who can’t stand Sandler…and I’d take Cajun Man over Opera Man any day, thanks.)
And yeah, the commercials should have been separate. I mean, where’s Colon Blow? Compulsion by Calvin Kleen? The one with the beer that oozes out of the bottle to the tune of “Anticipation?” Jane Curtain and the kids eating rocks? Li’l Chocolate Donuts?
Where did all this stuff go? I’d put most of it over anything from the past five seasons…but that’s me, I grew up on it.
This sounds like “The Herlihy Boy,” an odd little bit they threw in towards the end of the show a few times.
For classic funny, what about Julia Childs’ blood spewing all over while she tries to stop her bleeding (“another good reason to save the liver!”)?
And for ‘memorable’ in the sense of changing a cultural perception, how about Chevy Chase as Gerald Ford stumbling around the Oval Office? (I mean, this skit convinced America that a scholarship athelete at a top competing school was a klutz!)
and for sheer cultural infiltration, remember, “It’s a floor wax, and a dessert topping!”
Not that I’ve watched it much in the past decade (Darn kids these days don’t know what humour is)
One of my favorite moments of all time was Billy Crystal and Christopher Guest as two old Negro League ballplayes in a sort of documentary that was both funny and honoring of the Negro Leagues.
Rooster and The Kingfish.
“And then there was smelt night. . .”
What about when Sinead O’Connor ripped up the picture of the Pope? That is not an unforgetable moment?
What?! No gay communist gun club?
I think they’re saving that for SNL’s 101 Most Shocking Moments.
I was hoping to see Beauty and the Beast with Lovitz, Hartman, Hooks, and Demi Moore. “Tonight’s Episode: THE DOUBLE DATE”!
Apparently, Phil Hartman got an erection during the skit as a result of Jan Hooks sitting on his lap.
And “Celebrity Jeopardy” should have been ranked much higher.