# Your most memorable SNL moment? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 25, 2006, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-memorable-snl-moment/374092 "2006-09-25T17:32:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2013, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-memorable-snl-moment/374092/161 "2013-06-20T06:38:44Z")
Melissa McCarthy as an acupuncturist Mary Tyler Moore as a TSA screener, interrogating Jon Lovitz Mel Gibson, OB-GYN ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2013, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-memorable-snl-moment/374092/162 "2013-06-20T06:44:53Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > One I never saw but have heard about so many times, I may as well have: A NRFPTP sketch with all the male actors as astronauts in a long tubular spaceship, and the female actors as astronauts in a doughnut-shaped spaceship, and they spaceships get stuck together and they have to rock them back and forth to get them unstuck 😛 Hugh Hefner was the guest host that night (surprise, surprise!). It was back in the winter of 1977–78, in January I think (Janet Quist was the current PMOM, IIRC). ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2013, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-memorable-snl-moment/374092/163 "2013-06-20T06:53:29Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > Andy Kaufman was stunning. > > I clearly remember his very first appearance. He came out on stage with an old-fashioned portable record player, set the needle down, and we heard the [“Mighty Mouse” theme song](http://melaman2.com/cartoons/singles/mp3/m-mouse.mp3) I remember that. I also remember the time he came onstage in a tropical shirt carrying a bongo-congo drum and pulled a woman out of the audience. He then taught her how to play the drum while spouting mumbo-jumbo nonsense the whole time. At first, she was just bewildered, but he managed to get her to play it along with him. He never once said anything intelligible in English or any other language. He got his meanings across entirely by inflections and gestures. My brother and I almost fell out of our chairs laughing! ---
**Author:** ![Renifer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71c47a/32.png) [@Renifer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renifer)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2013, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-memorable-snl-moment/374092/164 "2013-06-20T15:52:52Z")
Adding to the more recent (2000’s) list: Natalie Portman and Jamba Juice sketch Winona Ryder with Mango (Chris Kattan) being arrested for shoplifting. (That whole episode is good; in another sketch Ryder plays Bjork on Jeopardy) And earlier: Cheerleaders Will Ferrell, Ana Gasteyer and Sarah Michelle Gellar in “Family Dinner” One episode Cheri Oteri accidentally lets out a swear during a sketch: at the end, Lorne Michaels has her put money in a swear jar ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2013, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-memorable-snl-moment/374092/165 "2013-06-20T17:25:05Z")
From the NRFPTP era: The Widettes (just the actors doing regular stuff, with pillows stuffed into their pants) 😛 The Loud Family, a takeoff on the PBS series from a few years earlier; they all yelled at each other 😉 That refrigerator repair skit with Lisa Loopner and Todd, and Dan Aykroyd’s very hairy butt crack 😃 More recently, there was a news story about an infertility doctor who was inseminating patients with his own sperm, and was believed to have sired at least 75 children. He looked a little like John Goodman, who was a guest host, and they did a sitcom parody called “My 75 Kids”, with Goodman portraying a kindly father to a herd of children who all had wigs and glasses resembling that of the doctor. Only SNL could have pulled that off. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2013, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-memorable-snl-moment/374092/166 "2013-06-20T17:26:52Z")
Also from their early days: They put out a call for a guest host who was not a public figure, and the winner was a woman in her 80s. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2013, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-memorable-snl-moment/374092/167 "2013-06-20T17:30:42Z")
During the 1988 Presidential campaign, Paul Simon was the host, and at the beginning of the show, Paul Simon the musician and Paul Simon the presidential candidate walked out onstage, and each of them said, “I thought they wanted me!” 🆒 It was actually the musician. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2013, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-memorable-snl-moment/374092/168 "2013-06-20T20:26:09Z")
I always loved the Jeopardy and political debates skits. Chris Farley and his talk show with Paul McCartney. Chris: Do you remember that time when you were with the Beatles? Paul:…Yeah? Chris: That was cool. Schwetty Balls. Kevin Neelon doing the weekend updat. Kevin: And now for the health report. Kevin: I’m feeling fine. Thanks for asking. Hartman doing Clinton. ---
**Author:** ![SykoSkotty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@SykoSkotty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SykoSkotty)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2013, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-memorable-snl-moment/374092/169 "2013-06-20T20:39:58Z")
Too many to mention. I’d have to break it down into favorite moments from each season. ---
**Author:** ![tullsterx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tullsterx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tullsterx)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2013, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-memorable-snl-moment/374092/170 "2013-06-20T20:55:27Z")
> [@Evil\_One](#): > > I always enjoyed Mike Meyers…and “sprockets” was my favorite recurring skit. Dana Carvey was playing Jimmy Stewart as Dieters guest. As I recall, the dialogue went like this: > > Dieter: “Would you like to touch my monkey?” > > Jimmy: “Well sure, I’ll pet the little fella.” > > (monkey bites him) > > Jimmy: "Hey! The little son of a bitch bit me! (whips out switchblade and utters one of my favorite SNL lines of all time) > > “Let’s see what’s in your belly, monkey!” Hell yeah! They never did Sprockets nearly enough. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2013, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-memorable-snl-moment/374092/171 "2013-06-20T22:34:45Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > More recently, there was a news story about an infertility doctor who was inseminating patients with his own sperm, and was believed to have sired at least 75 children. He looked a little like John Goodman, who was a guest host, and they did a sitcom parody called “My 75 Kids”, with Goodman portraying a kindly father to a herd of children who all had wigs and glasses resembling that of the doctor. Only SNL could have pulled that off. What, you never heard of Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In? [Two](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD8iR25kBYI) [examples](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5xtxs221w0). ---
**Author:** ![AllShookDown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d9b06d/32.png) [@AllShookDown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AllShookDown)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2013, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-memorable-snl-moment/374092/172 "2013-07-09T11:26:10Z")
Back in 1988 Paul Simon was hosting and Edie Brickell & New Bohemians were the musical guest. At the end of the show when the whole cast gathers on stage it was so obvious that Paul Simon was totally enamoured of Edie B. From the looks of it I don’t think they’d met before that night. I wasn’t surprised when they married. ---
**Author:** ![pancakes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2013, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-memorable-snl-moment/374092/173 "2013-07-09T15:07:23Z")
> [@2lazy2pee](#): > > Also, “The Love Boat: The Next Generation” with the Enterprise-D as an interstellar cruise ship. Patrick Stewart as Capt. Picard. Chris Farley as a larger-than-life Will Riker. Phil Hartman as Worf. "The weak and the cowardly have no place in shuffleboard. I want to see this, badly. When is SNL going to digitally capitalize on their goldmine repository? ---
**Author:** ![danielwilson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@danielwilson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danielwilson)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2013, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-memorable-snl-moment/374092/174 "2013-07-10T14:18:19Z")
Most memorable SNL moment :Mr Short Term Memory, with Tom Hanks James Brown’s Celebrity Hot Tub Deep Thoughts The Pathological Liar Steve Martin and Gilda Rainer Dance Will Ferrell’s Patriotic Thong Song ---
**Author:** ![ministryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2013, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-memorable-snl-moment/374092/175 "2013-07-10T16:01:38Z")
Richard Pryor - Word Association Shatner - “Get a Life” A skit that I cannot find with Chris Farley, Ellen Cleghorne (IIRC) and another cast member calling out names for summer camp. Said names ranged from stereotypical minority names to downright wrong. ---
**Author:** ![ministryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2013, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-memorable-snl-moment/374092/176 "2013-07-10T16:03:12Z")
> [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](#): > > What, you never heard of Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In? > > [Two](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD8iR25kBYI) [examples](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5xtxs221w0). There is a movie coming out starring Vince Vaughn as the father of 500+ kids… ---
**Author:** ![installLSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2013, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-memorable-snl-moment/374092/177 "2013-07-11T05:01:00Z")
Does anyone remember a black and white short from the 70s about cast member’s first loves’ which featured the Shirelles song “Soldier Boy” (“you’re my first love…”)? It was more sweet then comic, but I cannot remember what the short was called. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2013, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-memorable-snl-moment/374092/178 "2013-07-11T05:46:48Z")
> [@MissSwitac](#): > > Gilda Radner portraying drug addled punk rock singer Candy Slice, who resembled Patti Smith, singing her ode to Mick Jagger: > > “Gimme Mick, gimme Mick. > Baby’s hair, bulgin’ eyes, lips so thick > Are you woman, are you man > I’m your biggest funked-up fan > So rock me and roll me 'til I’m sick.” > > Actually, everything that Gilda did. > [@The\_Second\_Stone](#): > > My Dad still swears to this day that Gilda was a real rocker for that sketch. To be fair, she practically was a real rocker for that sketch. [Cite](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMF7JrPHT74). (Check out the drummer, eh) ETA: This is from the film _Gilda Live_, but it’s the same sketch that they did on SNL. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2013, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-memorable-snl-moment/374092/179 "2013-07-11T05:59:34Z")
> [@AllShookDown](#): > > Back in 1988 Paul Simon was hosting and Edie Brickell & New Bohemians were the musical guest. At the end of the show when the whole cast gathers on stage it was so obvious that Paul Simon was totally enamoured of Edie B. From the looks of it I don’t think they’d met before that night. I wasn’t surprised when they married. They had not met, or even seen each other before that night. [ > [@](#): > > Brickell was performing on NBC’s Saturday Night Live on Saturday November 5, 1988 when she noticed Simon standing in front of the cameraman. “Even though I’d performed the song hundreds of times in clubs, he made me forget how the song went when I looked at him,” she said with a smile. “We can show the kids the tape and say, ‘Look, that’s when we first laid eyes on each other.’” ]([Edie Brickell - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edie_Brickell#Personal_life)) ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2013, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-memorable-snl-moment/374092/180 "2013-07-11T07:38:16Z")
I always thought Al Franken as the one-man mobile uplink during the first Gulf War was really funny. They went to him for a report on Weekend Update and he was in Iraq with a satellite dish on his head. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-memorable-snl-moment/374092.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-memorable-snl-moment/374092.md?page=10)