![]() ![]() What it's about: Gay man (Steve Guttenberg) repeatedly tricks the blind guy (Jon Lovitz) he's trying to bed by disguising his voice. ![]() Vance seems to channel her frustration in this short musical interlude, where she bitterly sings of all the cliched roles black women usually take in film and television.īlind Man (Steve Guttenberg / The Pretenders, ) Why it's worth checking out: Before landing SNL, the classically-trained Vance had gained notice for her off-Broadway revue "Danitra Vance and the Mell-o White Boys" but aside from a few sketches where she imported characters from her show, the SNL framework didn't really have much room for a black lesbian performer. What it's about: Danitra Vance sings about the typecasting she faces as a black actress to the tune of "I Write The Songs". I Play The Maids (Oprah Winfrey / Joe Jackson, ) I would have loved to see how that year's cast would have handled the script. Why it's worth checking out: The aliens acting superior about their network of dirt roads, stagecoaches and muskets are funny, but this also has an interesting backstory: Jim Downey had originally written this sketch the previous season, which then-producer Dick Ebersol passed on. What it's about: Big-talking alien invaders (Jay Leno and Robert Downey Jr) turn out to be from a far less advanced civilization than Earth's. Target Earth (Jay Leno / The Neville Brothers, ) Why it's worth checking out: The altered trivia answers are hilarious (particularly Nora Dunn's character randomly being the person who broke Babe Ruth's home run record), as well as the implications that changing history is less of an annoyance than running up the power bill. What it's about: Bobby's (Anthony Michael Hall) school science project alters the answers of the trivia game his parents are playing. Time Machine Trivia Game (Teri Garr / The Dream Academy, The Cult, ) Why it's worth checking out: Probably the best use of Pee-Wee Herman in the entire show he hosted I love how the fate of a business displaying giant plastic models of fighting dinosaurs is treated as serious enough business for them to take the time to drain cases of Coke bottle-by-bottle or Pee-Wee to use his connections to two shady figures in Chicago (played by Damon Wayans and Anthony Michael Hall). What it's about: Pee-Wee Herman tries to save his friends' (Randy Quaid and Joan Cusack) business by looking for a bottle of Coke with a mouse in it. Why it's worth checking out: This sketch was written by John Swartzwelder, who wrote for the show in 1985-86 before writing the largest number of The Simpsons' episodes, and it's pretty much the kind of sketch you'd expect him to write: absurdist and packed with gags like a cat that only eats winning lottery tickets and the mother (Nora Dunn) having her eye fall out.ĭinosaur Town (Pee-Wee Herman / Queen Ida, ) What it's about: Bob (Chevy Chase) recommends "put some butter on that" as a solution to injuries incurred by his family's continued spell of specifically targeted bad luck. Those Unlucky Andersons (Chevy Chase / Sheila E., ) ![]()
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