Second runner up: The mineral water made from Lake Erie. “Everything you always wanted in a mineral water. And more.”
First runner up: Jim Carrey as the lifeguard at the hot tub.
Winner: The entire show when Ron Howard hosted. Especially the skit “Opie’s Back”, in which we learn that Floyd the Barber is not only gay, but black.
This is one of my favorite skits. Gilda Radner is dressed in a French type French Foreign Legion cap, along with one or two other cast members. One of them may have been a guest star.They have taken the cover off of a casket and someone not sure who, said something to the effect of, La Hammer la Mallet, La knock knock knock. Some else repeats La Hammer la Mallet, La knock knock knock, as a question.
The person who said the above sentence first, said yes, La Hammer la Mallet, La knock knock knock, as a question.
As they are trying to stake the vampire, the vampire rises from the casket, and bites all of them.
I guess you had to be there.
(Seriously…reviving a 7 year old zombie for that?)
Since this zombie is up and walking, I’ll bring up (raise from the dead?) two SNL skits that I find wonderfully ironic (perhaps more correctly predictive.)
The first was one of the pseudo commercials that they would run after the opening intro skit (do they still do that? It’s been years since I’ve watched.) It was from the seventies when double bladed razor blades were new (the Trac II?) It was about a multi-bladed razor and the catch line was “Cuz you’ll believe anything.” This was in the first couple of years of SNL.
The other was from several years later with Father Guido Sarducci when he introduced his “new invention” the Mister Tea. For you that didn’t buy the program, the Mister Coffee home coffee brewing machine was a new introduction onto the market. Before that one needed a percolator. It was some years, maybe decades later when the Mister Tea was finally delivered to your local store. If I recall correctly Arnold Palmer was the spokesperson for it.
Stefon’s Wedding, which had a payoff that was years in the making.
Jingleheimer Junction
or
The Royal Deluxe II
So as not to color my opinion, not having yet read the thread, I will simply post my favorite clips from my hard drive via Youtube and elsewhere.
Locker Room Motivation with Will Forte and Peyton Manning
Dick in a Box / Motherlover
Pepsi Syndrome
Racist Word Association
Behind the Music with Will Ferrell as Neil Diamond
“I was told there would be no math”
Steve Martin’s Christmas Wish
Steve Martin - King Tut
Now off to see how I did…
7 years in the making and no one has mentioned Deep Thoughts by Jack Handy???
Guest host Rick Moranis, if anyone still cares.
(I can’t believe I remembered that sketch without looking that fact up. But then, if someone put it in this thread, there’s a chance that it is that memorable.
The very first episode that cold October night, lo those many years ago, when my brother and I were channel surfing and stumbled upon Belushi and O’Donoghue in “Wolverines.”
“What is this?!” we asked each other. (The show had had no previous promotion, so far as I recall.)
We laughed ourselves silly that night; it was the first enjoyable moment I’d had since I lost the girl I should have married the month before.
Paul Simon in a turkey suit.
"Well, I didn’t want to be Mr. Alienation. . . "
You had to see it.
A vote for zombie Candygram…
Upon review of the archives found at http://snltranscripts.jt.org/ I found this gem: The Last Voyage of the Starship Enterprise
I don’t care what anyone says, but one of the best skits of recent years were the Art Dealers played by Fred Armisen and Maya Rudolph. I don’t even care that ever skit was basically the same, nobody being able to tell the difference between Nuni and Nuni, and sitting in weird chairs. That was freaking hilarious! You see, I believe that when a skit or joke is done so well to practically perfection, it doesn’t need anything different. The Art Dealers skits don’t tweaks or changes or differences. They could run that a dozen times in every season and I would still laugh my ass off!
The other one I really enjoyed, which I’m shocked people didn’t, was Kristen Wiig as the overly excited woman who can’t keep a secret. The things she does like hitting herself with a hammer or jumping out a window are completely ridiculous and funny. Her physical comedy sells every one of those skits 100%! That is the #1 skit I will miss with Wiig being off SNL
In no particular order:
Adrian and Barney
A “Not Ready For Prime Time Players” sketch called “Uvula”
An early 1990s piece with Kristie Alley and some SNL actors at an Italian restaurant, and among other things, Victoria Jackson has simulated sex with a waiter
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 
Bass-o-Matic
Jodie Foster doing “Puberty Helper”; it was a bag worn over the body with a smiley face on it; it was one of the earliest episodes
When Nirvana was on, Krist Novoselic threw his bass in the air, and “caught” it with his face
There was one sketch set in a NY subway, and gibberish was coming out of the speakers - and it turned out the actors were actually talking this way (this also happens on a Spongebob episode)
etc.
ETA 9. One night when the Rolling Stones were musical guests, “Weekend Update” featured an interview with Keith Richards, who was played by Mick Jagger
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.
I’ll need a link to your blog please. You are now my anti-Ebert.
For 20,000 leagues I’ve watched that show.
My Dad still swears to this day that Gilda was a real rocker for that sketch.
Matt Foley (IIRC the table was not supposed to collapse, and you can also see David Spade almost lose it)
Also, the Patrick Swayze/Chris Farley Chippendale’s dance off.
Knew both were classic watching them live.