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Entire SNL sketch on Momo

isissxn said:
Honestly, I don't think too many people here are going to know what Momo is, lol.
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I had no idea who Momo was either, until I saw a couple of references to it on The Daily Show. (I thought the references there were quite funny.... suggesting it was dating Trump adviser Stephen Miller.)
 
isissxn said:
Best SNL sketches:

More Cowbell
King Tut Song
"What the hell is that?"
Space Pants
Mermaids
Andy Kaufman's Mighty Mouse
Chippendale's Audition
Coneheads at Home
Diner Lobster
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How dare you not include the William Shanter Star Trek Convention skit:

"GET A LIFE".
 
I don't think I've seen that one, oddly. I'm going to look it up now. :)

My viewings have always been kind of scattershot.
 
Checkmite said:
It's part of a by this point well-established pattern, I think. Some image or video is produced that passes for whatever the internetariat lately considers "OMG creepy!" and/or "nightmare fuel!", and if said image or video goes viral, eventually is appropriated into a story about some threatening online "challenge" that will place people in danger. Curiously, South and Central American countries are where many of the "challenge" stories tend to originate.

A more recent and much more hilarious example than Momo is called "Ayuwoki". The whole business actually started with this video about a really, really awfully-constructed animatronic statue that was intended to look like Michael Jackson, but ended up looking like a corpse of Michael Jackson. The video is, aptly, titled "My Ghoul Jackson":



The statue is really just bad; but weird or ugly mask-like faces, again, is what counts for "omg sooo scary" these days among the softer set, so the video was widely shared as "creepy". Someone at some point joked that the video was similar to the video in The Ring: if you watch it, animatronic Michael Jackson will appear in your room at night and whisper "HEEEE-hee-he".

Someone in Mexico saw the joke but didn't get it - or got it, but decided to pretend they didn't, and now there is a viral panic in Mexico involving people sharing an image of the animatronic character, renamed "The Ayuwoki" (derived from "Are you okay?", a lyric from the song Smooth Criminal), claiming that like Momo it is some internet account that is trying to collect users' addresses so the person behind it can come terrorize them. It got bad enough that a government cyber agency in Mexico made an official statement reassuring people that no, The Ayuwoki will not appear in your house at night and go "Hee-hee" at you.
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There was an actual computer... uh "game" created using this meme. A third-person key-collector where you try to avoid being "Hee Hee"-ed by the Ayuwoki.

My favorite purveyor of bad horror games, John Wolfe, played this in one of his "3 game" pack reviews. It was funny to watch.
 
Checkmite said:
I watched a video of the King Tut skit for the first time recently and I was....underwhelmed, considering its popularity.
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Expectations are terrible for entertainment. I'm always disappointed in stuff that I've heard nothing but praise for. I was pleasantly surprised by how entertaining battlefield earth was.

The King Tut song is mildly amusing, the sketch is meh.

On the other hand, Fred Garvin Male Prostitute.......
 
Checkmite said:
I watched a video of the King Tut skit for the first time recently and I was....underwhelmed, considering its popularity.
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I think I understand that :). King Tut holds its great appeal to me because my friends and I would sing the song and bust a gut over it all the time when I was a kid. Some sort of nostalgic grandfather clause applies to it, I think. I have similar feelings about the movie Billy Madison. If I saw either of those for the first time now, I'm not sure they would appeal to me in the same way, or even at all.

Other sketches, however, like More Cowbell, would just be funny to me no matter what.
 
P.J. Denyer said:
More Cowbell is unbeatable!

I also really like David S. Pumpkins, though I'm not entirely sure why.
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Me too, it makes no sense, I can't imagine how it got on the air but, man I liked it.

I've generally found their parody commercials to be consistently good. Colon Blow, Cereal; Swill, the American mineral water dredged from the bottom of lake Erie; the First National Change Bank. All very solid.
 
ahhell said:
Me too, it makes no sense, I can't imagine how it got on the air but, man I liked it.

I've generally found their parody commercials to be consistently good. Colon Blow, Cereal; Swill, the American mineral water dredged from the bottom of lake Erie; the First National Change Bank. All very solid.
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"We're not going to give you two thousand nickles..... unless that meets your particular change needs".

I think commercials are easier to nail because they have to fit a fairly short format. The joke doesn't get too old in 60 seconds, and no one is forcing the writers to try to stretch it out for 4-and-a-half minutes.

"Quarry. Better tasting 'cause it's mined."
 
BowlOfRed said:
"We're not going to give you two thousand nickles..... unless that meets your particular change needs".

I think commercials are easier to nail because they have to fit a fairly short format. The joke doesn't get too old in 60 seconds, and no one is forcing the writers to try to stretch it out for 4-and-a-half minutes.

"Quarry. Better tasting 'cause it's mined."
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LongFuzzy said:
Shimmer: Its a non-dairy floor wax, its a dessert topping.
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Myriad said:
"Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball."
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I have watched way to much SNL, I chuckled at all of those.
 
isissxn said:
Best SNL sketches:

More Cowbell
King Tut Song
"What the hell is that?"
Space Pants
Mermaids
Andy Kaufman's Mighty Mouse
Chippendale's Audition
Coneheads at Home
Diner Lobster
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Must be a generation thing. Only one of those (What the Hell is That) would make my Top 10.

Belushi Samurai (the first) J.B.
Bassamatic D.A.
The first Irwin Mainway skit with Candace Bergen D.A.
Nick the Lounge Singer at the Ski Resort B.M.
Gareth Morris' closer for Weekend Update "News for the hard of hearing" G.M.
Chevy Chase's impossible-to-find but here's the transcript* apology for appearing to belittle President Ford.
Mr. Robinson's Neighborhood (first one) E.M.
First Lisa and Todd sketch (G.R., B.M., J.C.)
Any single Emily Litella episode, particularly the one where she calls Curtin a bitch. G.R.
10th place goes to any number of characters, sometimes annoying because they over-did EVERYTHING once they found a schtick that worked. I'm Gumby, Dammit (E.M.), Katherine Hepburn's cousin (M.S.), Stuart Smalley (A.F.) and a dozen more. (Notably missing from this is any character by Sandler or Ferrell.)

The transcript.... I've included a classic Emily Litella bit because it was the story before the "apology". It's the apology that I think is THE classic.

Chevy Chase: “Weekend Update” recognizes its obligation to present responsible opposing viewpoints to our editorials. Here to reply to a recent editorial, is Miss Emily Litella.

Emily Litella: What’s all this FUSS I hear… about saving Soviet jewelry? Now… what makes Soviet jewelry so special? Will it be worth more in a few years? Why… prices what they are today… ALL jewelry will be worth more! now, if I recall correctly, Mrs. Kruschev didn’t wear very much jewelry… and her husband, the Premier, didn’t even wear a watch! Not the mickey mouse watch, anyway. Why, they wouldn’t even let him into Disney Land! And now he’s DEAD!! Well, I’m infuriated! Save Soviet jewelry?! Where are we going to put it? I say keep it over THERE, with all their ballet dancers! Let them keep their own jewelry AND their own ballet dancers! As a matter of fact, why don’t get the ballet dancers to save the jewelry?! Americans have more important things to save! And electricity! And what about our fuel? Now, THAT’S important! Not jewelry!

Chevy Chase: Miss Litella. Miss Litella.

Emily Litella: What?!

Chevy Chase: It’s Jewry. Jewry. Not jewelry.

Emily Litella: It’s what?

Chevy Chase: Soviet Jewry. The editorial was about Jewry, not jewelry.

Emily Litella: Oh! Well, that’s very important.

Chevy Chase: Yes.

Emily Litella: [ she smiles ] Never mind!

Chevy Chase: In reviewing “Weekend Update” for the past twelve editions, we find we may have been unreasonably unfair to President Gerald R. Ford. Beginning tonight, “Weekend Update” declares a moratorium on stories which might be interpreted as accusing the President of stupidity and clumsiness. In the future, we shall treat the Office of the President with the respect it deserves, and eliminate ALL questionable references to our Chief Executive.

This morning, an unidentified man fell out of a second story window of the White House and landed headfirst in the Rose Garden. Whoever it was somersaulted to a waiting helicopter, bumped his head on the rotor blade, and was carried into the craft by Secret Service agents, then took off for Andrews Air Force Base for the first leg of a trip to Veil, Colorado.
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