Charles Barkley "Scared Straight"

[gblowfish]

From this weekend's SNL. Caution at work:

http://www.hulu.com/watch/119798/sat...cared-straight

[Pitt Gorilla]

Originally Posted by Baby Lee

I'm gonna go with 'Mr. FAX has forgotten the bad stuff.' Even, perhaps if Mr. FAX is young enough, 'Mr. FAX has never seen the bad stuff.'

I'd even submit, on a purely hit to miss ratio, the Farley/Sandler heyday had a better on base percentage. Even in the most humdrum of sketches, those two would do something, a glance, a tonal inflection, something where you said 'at least those guys are there.'

I agree. The original SNL cast was great and did groundbreaking stuff, but a good portion of it was still unfunny. The late 80's/early 90's cast was probably the best.

[Baby Lee]

Originally Posted by FAX

Hmmm. Okay, perhaps selective memory is at work in my poor, tired brain thing.

However, can you name one, single SNL skit featuring Ackroyd, Belushi, and Murray that stunk up the joint? Granted, the burger, burger, pepsi, pepsi deal seems a little tiresome, but still humorous.

FAX

No I can't, because I haven't committed them all to memory. Beyond being too young [well, not technically, I was 4-5 when it debuted] to see them all live, we didn't have a TV from when I entered preschool to HS.

But I have seen a few uncut full episodes over the years and recall there was a good deal of filler to be seen. The characters might've given them some spark just on star power, but they'd be watered down variations of their 'classics' or a situation that just laid there, or a reference [political or pop] that had long since passed.

Certainly, the Samurai sketch couldn't have killed all 185 times they trotted it out.

And so you note, the tiresome if humorous cheeseburger cheeseburger sketch . . . is counted amongst the CLASSICS. Wouldn't be surprised if, a few weeks later there was a similar sketch 'Suvlaki. . . suvlaki'

[eazyb81]

Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

heh..in 20 years someone will post on Chiefsplanet:

Man, SNL sucks now.....i remember the glory years of Fred Armisen, Will Forte' Bill Hader, Seth Meyers, Andy Samberg, Jason Sudeikis, Kenan Thompson and Kirsten Wiig

Definitely. People always remember the "glory years" as the time when something was new and exciting to them, and then eventually it got old.

My dad thinks SNL was the best during the Belushi era, I think it was the best during the Myers, Carvey, Farley era, and my little brothers think the current SNL cast is hilarious because it's all they know.