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I really hope THIS isnt the sketch he guest wrote, but I think it is, as Tom is also credited as a guest writer in the following seasons Brittany Murphy episode, which just so happens to contain another Leather Man sketch. on WIFs final show, all cast members but TRM have fond memories of him, Kinda meaningful in retrospect that Ana is the first person who speaks in this Will Ferrell tribute, considering she would end up leaving with Will, but neither SNL nor Ana herself knew it at the time. Its getting just sad seeing him still on the show trotting out the same old played-out shtick that feels out of place this season. A very long overall Update tonight, but a strong one. As usual in Fun With Real Audio, a lot of pretty funny little actions happening all throughout this in rapid succession. Wow, TWO lead roles for Dean tonight? Im already onboard for this sketch. I absolutely love Neil Diamonds line about someone he once met who looks like a black version of Richard Mulligan. I love the Robert Blake-related soundbyte of gunshot sounds followed by audio of a man saying in a jokingly menacing voice You little rascal! Ian is absolutely incredible here with his constant campy character transformations and onscreen quick changes. ? I also love how, immediately after that line, this episode of Astronaut Jones ends, and you then realize that the opening title sequence was humorously longer than the episode itself was. Please enter valid email address to continue. Parnell is absolutely hilarious doing a spoof of Halle Berrys then-recent emotional Oscars acceptance speech. Rachels long, disturbing spiel about how cooking cabbage makes her feel like a woman is very funny.

A big laugh from the viewer letter complaining about how they had the TV on mute and Chris Matthews loud voice still woke up their kid.

For an athlete, Jonny Moseley wasnt a terrible host, but he added little to the show. HOW THIS EPISODE STACKS UP AGAINST THE PRECEDING ONE (Jon Stewart) Now thats out of the way, a brief introduction. Something about the combo of Seths whiny facial expressions and that wig hes wearing make him strongly resemble Ben Stiller at certain points of this sketch. The addition of Tina, Amy, Kirsten, and Anas characters is really adding to the adolescent atmosphere that these Wake Up Wakefield sketches always go for. This is the SECOND sketch tonight in which Jimmy and Kirsten make out with each other. Very funny visual of Jeff being impaled with a ski pole. STARS: ***, MONOLOGUE

A good laugh from Jacks character unexpectedly requesting Jimmy to bring him a slutty girl instead of a virgin. No comment on Dean. So This Is How Walter White & Jesse Pinkman Return? Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Darrells Gore calling Alec out on his empty threat to move out of the country if George W. Bush got elected president is fairly funny. I certainly hope tonights installment is better than the underwhelming one from earlier this season. Regarding the latter, this feels like a character more suitable for someone like Will, who could easily wring laughs out of a role like this in his sleep. A Prequel? When NBC would rerun this episode a few months later, the ending of this sketch would still get cut off prematurely (though it lasts a little longer than it does in the live airing), but that may be because right before the goodnights, that rerun inserts a tribute to former SNL director Dave Wilson, who had recently passed away. Jeff knocks it out of the park once again with another fantastic and spot-on celebrity impression. STARS: ***, JONNYS JOURNEY technical problems vex anchors (WIF) & (ANG) during morning news program, Ana has been getting a lot of airtime tonight, which is very refreshing, considering how underutilized and clearly-on-her-way-out shes been in a lot of this seasons episodes. Wow. I like the silliness of Jonny using pizza to get Horatio and Seths fighting Saudi Arabian characters to unite. As I got older, Ive developed a huge appreciation for SNLs semi-dramatic slice-of-life sketches, and I now find myself far more game and curious to revisit these Tracy/Maya pieces, especially since these pieces are in an SNL era where semi-dramatic slice-of-life sketches were a thing of the far, far past.

Good understated frustration from Maya and Kattans actor characters, who are trying to keep the scene going despite the background antics. Im still laughing somewhat, but Im already seeing early signs of me getting burned out on this character. Its also the last show for Will Ferrell and Ana Gasteyer. Seth: 14 years in a bear suit FINALLY paid off! Okay, the audience is getting a little more into this, especially in response to Jeff-as-OReillys idiotic statement about Space Mountain. Jimmys character, when feeling somebody underwater touching him in a certain area: Whos hand is on my cul-de-sac right now? Dave Matthews (JIF) & Bjork (host); Alex Trebek cameo. Mercifully, Kattans commentary is finally over. I like Anas overdramatic delivery when revealing the winner. Odd how theyre having her deliver it with the about-to-depart Will, though, not to mention how Will only gets to deliver it in Spanish here. anything that irks George W. Bush (WIF) earns membership in Axis Of Evil, Tonights episode was actually originally scheduled to be one of the episodes this season that Will misses so he can film the movie Old School, but he ended up having to alter his movie-filming schedule this week due to Darrells absence.

Even though Parnell suddenly breaking out into another Update rap no longer has that great element of surprise that his first Update rap did, his rap tonight is still a pure blast to watch. And even Kattans ONE attempt at something new lately (that Hollywood character on Weekend Update) ended up being honestly one of the worst things Ive EVER seen SNL air. Okay, I do like Lorne and Senator Moynihan both saying Bear got boobies! when seeing the Anatominals on the TV monitor. A twist on the traditional, played-out Ow my back endings of these Luvahs sketches, but this twist still didnt work for me. Yet another reliable Alec Baldwin episode. A second appearance from Kirsten in tonights Update, this time as herself? STARS: ****, LAST CALL WITH CARSON DALY Kinda odd seeing them right after a Bloater Brothers sketch, considering I recall some online SNL fans back in this era comparing both pairs of characters (oh, is THAT why people cant stand the Bloater Brothers?).

Something about his voice kinda reminds me of an Adam Sandler character, for some reason. I absolutely love this whole segment with an overly eager Jon Stewart being brought in from the bench to fill in for Jimmy as an Update anchor. Unfortunately, Maya would later go on to use those exact same dance moves (particularly the one where she slowly leans back in a staccato manner) in various other sketches over the next few seasons, with very diminishing returns in each passing sketch, which kinda makes it feel a little less special when you look back at the original instance of those dance moves in this MTV Spring Break sketch, but those moves still hold up as very funny and charming here. He did an accurate impression, at least, but, like a lot of things Chris does at this later stage of his SNL tenure, it came off too much to me like something that Chris had already done on the show. Very funny cutaway to stock footage of Halle Berrys then-husband Eric Benet in the audience when Parnell thanks my partner Jason. When addressing the gay rumors about David Gest (and Ill just ignore the frustrating fact that this is YET ANOTHER sketch this season in which Kattan is either playing a gay guy or a guy accused of being gay), I admit to getting a lot of big laughs from Tony Bennetts various euphemisms for Gests desire to have a partner with a penis. Tracy, to Rachel, regarding Jon: You dont care about no Daily Show! STARS: ****, CUSTOMS I wonder which writer is behind this and the subsequent semi-dramatic Tracy/Maya sketches. A huge part of the fun atmosphere of this episode can be attributed to Ian McKellen, who was an absolutely fantastic host, and, ever since I saw this episode back when it originally aired, has always been somewhere in the top 5 of my hypothetical list of hosts who surprised me by how funny they turned out to be. However, unlike the Josh Hartnett episode, Will hasnt been removed from the opening montage in tonights episode, nor will he be in the next episode. Right as Tracy steps to the front of the stage during the song and begins a straight-to-camera monologue about peace, the screen abruptly crossfades to an SNL bumper photo of The Rock while audio of Tracys peace monologue is still heard, which is an obvious sign that the show is running long and this sketch is about to get cut off prematurely. Funny bit with Jack playing back an audio tape that he secretly recorded of the mayor, only for it to turn out to be a tape of the conversation that Jack literally just had with his stoner friends when setting up his playing of the tape. I knew his commentary from earlier tonight ended awfully abruptly. a slight step down. Not gonna happen? Interesting how that line takes place in what ends up being the final regular Culps installment. The various pre-taped scenes of the celebration for 4th place winners is worth a mere chuckle or two. STARS: *** (the pre-Parnell portion of the sketch wouldve only gotten a mere **, but Parnells whole bit bumped this sketch up a full star), MTV SPRING BREAK

STARS: ***, ON THE SUBWAY Seems to be quite a lot of unexplained breaking throughout tonights episode. STARS: ****, JARRETS ROOM STARS: *****, BOTOX Some pretty funny ad-libs from Jimmy when the audience fails to applaud at the beginning of his I Have An Opinion side segment. STARS: ****, KOTEX CLASSIC Whichever affiliate that the copy Im watching of this episode was recorded from (I dont know where, as its not my personal copy) is clearly not the same affiliate I watched this episode on when it originally aired back when I lived in Illinois, as the Chicago affiliate I watched cut to commercial very shortly after the bumper photo of The Rock prematurely showed up during Tracys peace monologue. Updates over ALREADY?

Hilarious initial visual of The Rock as a casually-acting Bigfoot. STARS: ***, MONOLOGUE

The little gestures and actions that The Rock is adding in as Bigfoot throughout this sketch are hilarious, especially him randomly rubbing his own ape nipple at one point. Yum! HOW THIS EPISODE STACKS UP AGAINST THE PRECEDING ONE (Ian McKellen) musical guest performs Party Hard, ALL ABOARD THE FREEDOM TRAIN: THE DUETS OF NEIL DIAMOND AND BIGFOOT Megan & Sheldon at (host)s slumber party, A very nice change of pace, having tonights Wake Up Wakefield be set at a slumber party. A decent spoof of the Arthur Andersen/Enron scandal. This ends up being the only segment all night that Will doesnt appear in (not counting Mobys musical performances). orbiting host solves problems while performing signature Dinner Roll move, A creative and fun concept and theme song sequence. SNL was going to do a DeMarco Brothers sketch the following season with musical guest Avril Lavigne (in the Jeff Gordon episode), and the sketch even survived dress rehearsal cuts and was going to go on the air somewhere around the 10-to-1 slot, but it ended up getting cut at the last minute because Lavigne reportedly claimed to be having throat problems after her second musical performance (I remember some online SNL fans at the time had a theory that Lavigne faked her alleged throat problems as an excuse to get out of a lame sketch). Not sure what else they couldve done with it, but the finished product of this cold opening felt only half-cooked. TOMORROW With this being the second time in these last three episodes Ive covered that Kattan made only one appearance all night, in a sketch buried towards the end of the show to boot, youd think Kattan would take this as a hint that his time on SNL is clearly beyond up and he would leave SNL at the end of this season, but nope. The random joke with the two contestants being named, respectively, Jill Kenson and Ken Jillson, makes me think that James Anderson mightve written this sketch, as hes known for throwing in random odd, gimmicky character names like that in his sketches, especially in his game show sketches.

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Overall, nothing particularly memorable here, but I found this to be an interesting, entertaining, and well-performed experimental piece.

In retrospect, though, it feels like yet another sign of her being on her way out while the Fey/Poehler/Dratch/Rudolph group of female cast members gradually starts to take charge.

A laugh from Jonnys characters wise advice being him reciting the famous up-up-down-down etc. code thats used to get unlimited men in the Nintendo game Contra.

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