Most Unforgettable SNL Moments?

[derby378]

Okay, folks, if you’re watching E!'s "101 Most Unforgettable SNL Moments," some of you might feel cheated by E! for combining a series of skits into one "moment," overlooking the musical acts, or glossing over SNL's more infamous or embarrassing moments. This is the thread where you can help set things right!

Maybe your most unforgettable moment from Saturday Night Live is the ad for the Royal Deluxe II, where a rabbi demonstrated the car’s handling by performing a circumcision in the back seat. Or maybe it’s the performance by Sinead O'Connor where she tore up a picture of Pope John Paul II. Or perhaps it’s John Belushi's "cheeburger cheeburger cheeburger" restaurant skit. Or Lorne Michaels asking Rudy Giuliani "Can we be funny?" in the first show after 9/11. Or Molly Shannon as "Mary Catherine Gallagher" getting a little too frisky with Jeff Goldblum. Or Charles Rocket's parting words at the end of a show that got Jean Doumanian fired. Or Fear's no-holds-barred chaos fest during the Dick Ebersol regime. Do you get the idea yet?

I wanna hear yours. Maybe I can compile them and publish a list of DU's 50 unforgettable SNL moments just for fun. So get typing, already!

[TX-RAT]

1. Remember summer camp, for the bees.

He was buzzing off

[derby378]

4. "If you weren't, why is there honey all over your sheet?"

That's a good one!

[derby378]

2. My nomination - Norm McDonald's WEEKEND UPDATE...

...where his throat seized up and he muttered "What the fuck was that?" not realizing his mic picked it up. Then he looks at the audience, grins in embarrassment, and declares, "My farewell performance!"

[HEyHEY]

17. Nobody is funnier than Norm - NO ONE

[mrbassman03]

3. Will Ferrell playing Neil Diamond with John Goodman...

"This song is about my intense hatred of foreigners"...

[Lisa]

41. how about Goodman as Linda Tripp in a phone booth ...

... with passersby cursing and hurling refuse at her as she tries to carry on a conversation?

[Salviati]

5. "That's good bass!"

I swear, in my mind's eye, there was no cut between the bass-o-matic pulping the bass, and Dan Akroyd taking a drink. Alas, upon reviewing it, there is a cut, but it's still a classic...

[HEyHEY]

6. "Oh they LOVE their Mothers! It's mother this and mother that oh my irish

Mother!"

I love Belushi's rant

[LisaM]

7. The one right before the 2000 election

where they showed Bush (Will Ferrell) sitting in the Oval Office with bombs and planes all over DC while he has a stupid grin on his face. They won't show it now.

Also, one where Phil Hartman played Susan Lucci's husband and she was having some luggage problem and they were at a customer service desk. They gave some long explanation of what happened and he stood there with a really dumb look on his face and then said, "So. What are you saying?"

Also, the Delicious Dish episodes with Alec Baldwin.

And the Sweeney Sisters!

[MisterP]

21. "Oh no, the big titty buildin's on fahr agin!"

[matcom]

8. Colon-Blow

[Merrick]

9. Chris Farley going apeshit after his coffee was switched with Folgers

crystals.
That, and when his pants fell down. and when he played santa as matt foley. or when his flying cables got stuck on the weekend update set preventing him from getting airborne and prompting him to say, "I have a little bit of a weight problem".

[Dookus]

10. hrmm...

Cawfee Tawk with Roseanne Barr, Madonna and a TRULY surprise walk-on by Barbra Streisand.

Garrett Morris doing "news for the hearing impaired" by SCREAMING whatever Chevy Chase just said.

But my most personal favorite was in '79, I think. David Bowie was the musical guest. My mother had been "worried" for years that I was so into Bowie. But he had spent years doing "Thin White Duke" and always wore suits, so I called my Mom and told her to watch SNL that night to see what Bowie was like now (or then). Son of a bitch comes out in a dress. 30 seconds my later my phone is ringing and Mom's swearing like a trucker with Tourette's.

[Tom Kitten]

11. Samurai Night Fever

Or Samurai Butcher, Samurai Baker, Samurai Stockbroker, anything Samurai!]

[captainjack]

12. throw in ferrel's

and molly shannon's perf as the middle school teachers. there was some funny chit going on there!

[Tom Kitten]

13. also Massive Headwound Harry

the skit where the dog starts licking and then pulling at David Spade's massive headwound...

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

50. That was Dana Carvey, not David Spade.

Funny skit too.

I liked the schmidt's gay commercial set to the tune of some Van Halen song (beautiful girl?).
Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer with Phil Hartman was funny. I also liked the episode of Wayne's World where Wayne dreams he is playing Truth or Dare with Madonna.

[WindRavenX]

14. Janet Reno's dance party!!!

C'mon, that was hillarious!

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

51. I agree.. that was too funny!!!

[terrya]

15. Sir Ian McKellan was the guest host.

Well, first of all, that whole show was great (loved Sir Ian as Yves Saint Laurent in the Donatella Versace recurring skit with Maya Rudolph as Donatella. :-))

But the unforgettable moment in that show for me was Weekend Update...and Sir Ian as Dame Maggie Smith...at one point kissing, full mouth, Jimmy Fallon. It was just...so cool. :-)

[ronnykmarshall]

16. Dan Akroid as Julia Child

[kayell]

36. Best skit ever!

[Shanty Oilish]

56. That's the one

One of the biggest laughs I ever got from watching tv.

[MrBenchley]

18. Pussy Whip, the dessert topping for cats...

"And now Garrett Morris, the headmaster of the Manhattan Academy, will repeat our top story for the hard of hearing..."

Phil Hartman as a totally in-charge Ronald Reagan plotting all the twists and turns of Iran/Contra behind closed doors.

[Toby109]

19. Richard Pryor's opening monologue

in '75(?)and his word association skit with Chevy Chase. Dead honkey indeed.

[miss_kitty]

20. something form the first year-in fact it was the first thing i saw

John Belushi doing "H & L Brock-we lie and cheat for you", and "should you ever be audited, we will send one of our representatives to the IRS with you to personally threaten their agent!"-I haven't seen it since

other moments-Phil Hartman's 'Smart Reagan, Dumb Reagan', 'Frankenstein, Tarzan and Tonto'-any of those skits

And Dan Akroyd's Nixon praying with Kissenger

[a_random_joel]

22. Male synchronized swimming...

There are far too many others...

[SideshowScott]

23. OMG too many heres a list.....

-- Steve Martin and Dan Ankroyd's " two wild and crazy guys"
-- The ENTIRE Jim Carrey Ep
-- Jim Belushi as the godfather and Samuri anything
-- Cowbell! I need more Cowbell!! Nuff said
-- Hartmans Dumb Reagan/Smart Reagan
-- Hammond as Clinton " Suck it! "
-- Carvey as Perot with Heartman in the car " Where are we going??"
-- The 92' Debates Carvy as Bush seeing Clinton as a dope smoking hippy
-- The 00' Debates " Lockbox"
-- The breakthru of Eddie Murphy..From " Im Gumby Dammit!" to Mr Robertsons nighborhood
-- Joe Piscipo sports to " Im from Jersey!"
-- The one season of the dream team of Crystal, Short, Hall, Guest, Shearer produced to great stuff..too bad it was not ment to be
-- " Jane you ingorant slut"
-- Walken as " the Continetal"
-- Steve Martins Penis cream
-- Farrell as Bush
-- Bill Murrys Lounge singer " nothing but star wars! "
-- Shwetty balls and Shwetty Wieners.." My god I cant get the whole thing in my mouth! " " Yes the Shwetty wieners are pretty big"
-- Heartman as Clinton in McDonalds
-- Gilda Radner anything she did was funny
-- Colin Quinn as the Lion
-- Tina Feys frist season on weekend update
-- Eddie Murphy going undercover as a white man
-- Downer Debbie
-- Chase as Ford
-- Al Franken as Pat Robertson and Paul Simon ( the late senetor )
-- The Richard Pryor episode
-- Paul Shaffer saying F--K
-- King tut
-- Cheeseburger Cheesebuger Cheeseburger No coke Pepsi!
-- The year of Al Franken
And many more..the show has produced some of the greatest comedy of the last century..its on a down time but i hope it bounces back it always seems to do that

[MikeG]

24. The "Raging Queen" skit.

[barackmyworld]

25. Bush's Bin Laden speech!

I tend to forget the earlier ones, though I have been watching for almost 10 years...

Good evening, America. I'd like to address my remarks tonight to Mr. Osama bin Laden. Buddy, you screwed up big time. Guess what, Amigo. I'm coming to get you. I'm not alone, either. The American people are right behind me. You see, you made a big mistake. If you had any brains, you would have challenged me to a game of Scrabble. Or maybe a Beard-Off. You might have won that because I don't have a beard. And when I do, it comes in patchy. But no, you messed up. Because if there's one thing I'm good at, it's punishing evil-doers. You don't believe me, there's over 200 guys in Texas you can ask. Well... you can't ask them right now, but you'll have a chance real soon. And I'm sorry I wasn't there to see your face when you went to the Kabul ATM to get some Quick-Cash. I bet it said "Insufficient Funds". That's right - we froze your assets. It probably ate your card, too. Make no mistake: we're coming for you, bin Laden. I'm gonna make you my own personal "Where's Waldo". And unlike those frustrating Waldo books, I'm gonna find you. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but maybe tomorrow. There might be special operatives outside your cave right now, who knows? Just remember, I'll see you real soon. Because you violated rule Numero Uno: You messed with Texas. That's right. Don't mess with Texas.

[dietdpfan]

26. Hilarious!

Thanks for posting that. I needed a good laugh.

[Mizmoon]

27. Father Guido Sarducci - You have to pay for you a sins

Paraphrase:

"Murder will cost-a like $100,000; masturbation, maybe 25 cents. But it adds up ... atwenty-five, atwenty-five, atwenty-five, atwenty-five .."

[Lisa]

28. Al Gore (as himself) and Chris Parnell (as Lieberman) ...

... in that hot tub, in "The Bachelor" spoof.



Oh, and the toy manufacturer trying to claim the "bag of glass" was safe for kids.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

29. And Al Gore as Trent Lott...

"I wasn't saying that blacks should be segregated, just that white people and black people shouldn't mix together."

Kind of a paraphrase, but you get the drift.

BTW, Al Gore loves MST3K...MKJ

[Champ]

30. "We need more cowbell!" - Christopher Walken

[kodi]

31. dueling brandos

belushi and peter boyle.

[yardwork]

32. Some memorably bad musical guests from 1978-79 or so....

The Rolling Stones singing and playing, all in their own choice of key and tempo....

Elvis Costello deciding to do a different song at the last minute which screwed up all the camera angles and lighting and they practically threw him off the show right then and there...

Rickie Lee Jones high as a kite wandering off stage in the middle of a song....

Plus one of my favorites -

Eddie Murphey as Buckwheat singing "Wookin Pa Nub" and other hits....

[kayell]

33. Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead

Most unforgetable partly because he was still dead every saturday night for months.

uh oh, I just dated myself, didn't I?

[maveric]

34. During the 1976 primaries. Bill Murray as Ted Kennedy.

Comes onto the stage with other members as candidates(Dan Akyroyd as Carter), with seaweed draped over him, nervously asking "Where's Joan, Where's Joan",* ala Chappaquidick.

* Joan was Ted's wife at that time.

[Mz Pip]

35. John Belushi

Samurai Deli.

MzPip
:dem:

[peekaloo]

37. remember Samurai Stock Broker, where he actually sliced Buck

Henry's forehead?

[Lisa]

40. speaking of near misses -- the "Poppy and Dubya" sketch ...

Dubya is annoyingly clacking those antlers together as a lure, and his dad finally gets annoyed and smacks him -- Dana Carvey and Will Ferrell momentarily slip out of character, after one of them gets jabbed with an antler for real!

[AlCzervik]

38. Find the Pope in the Pizza contest

Jane you ignorant slut, Fred Garvin male prostitute, Dan Akroyd as the toy company exec...bag o glass. Kill my landlord. Little chocolate donuts.

[peekaloo]

39. "Show Us Your Guns".....ordinary citizens showing off their firearms.

The only person without a gun was the cop on the street!

Parody of Sears Die Hard batteries where they hooked up a group of old folks' pacemakers and had them stay up all night out in a field.

[gmoney]

42. Bill Murray as Cool Hand Luke at Language Camp

Strother Martin: "What we have hear is a failure to communicate bilingually."

French poodles as tracking dogs...

[JimmyJazz]

43. My favorite had to be when Gore and Bush shared the oval office after

the 2000 election! Second to that was anything Father Guido Sarducci did (but that doesn't really count because that was when I was a stoned slacker).

[Kat45]

44. Buck Henry as the pedophile uncle babysitting the girls

They would NEVER put on a skit like that now!

[peekaloo]

45. Uncle Roy!

god that was sick and funny.

[Kat45]

46. When Andy Kaufman was first on: no one knew what to make of him

He'd keep saying "thank you very much" in that accent he used. Then he ended up doing a killer Elvis impersonation.

[Kat45]

47. Frank Zappa hosting, and in sketch "Night on Freak Mountain"

All these spaced out druggies, Zappa kept telling them he didn't do drugs, which of course nobody believed (although it really was true).

I also enjoyed the 'killer Christmas trees' sketch, which he was also in. In a film I worked on in college, I made a parody of that sketch with 'the killer pot plants.' Two of my fellow stoners dressed up as the pot plants and "killed" two of the most straight-laced kids around (both of whom I 'conned' into being in the sketch). LOL

Oh, and we can't forget the 'land shark.' "Candy-Gram"

[miss_kitty]

48. Eddie Murphy As Prison Poet, Tyrone Green

"Kill My Landlord"
Dark and lonely is the savage night
Kill my landlord, kill my landlord
Watchdog barking-- do he bite?
Kill my landlord, kill my landlord
Open he window, break he neck
Then his house I start to wreck
Got no reason-- what the heck!
Kill my landlord, kill my landlord
C-I-L-L my landlord.

[Arkana]

49. "...when you're living in a VAN by the side of the RIVER!"

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

52. Mr. Robinson's neighborhood skits w/ Eddie Murphy

The ghetto version of Mr. Rogers... I loved those!

[EstimatedProphet]

53. Jesse Jackson reading Green Eggs and Ham

Now that was a classic!

[Lisa]

54. Gilda Radner as the kid finding scary bedroom intruders ...

All comfortingly explained away (not!) by her exasperated dad (Martin Sheen).

[demgoon]

55. ball

Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball

[Love Bug]

57. Coneheads, Landshark

and that take off they did of the Beverly Hillbillies as a group of Arabs--Gilda in a veil as Granny!

"I was out in the desert just shooting at some Jews,
when up from the ground came a bubbling crude..."