SNL moments that blew your mind...

[Archae]

You weren't expecting them, and when you saw them, your jaw hit the floor.

Here's mine:

[marym625]

1. playback disabled on "other websites"

[Archae]

2. Works fine at Youtube.

[marym625]

3. just thought you might like to know.

I can go to YouTube for a great SNL piece.

[bigwillq]

4. Oops I crapped my pants

that commercial had me rolling on the floor the first time I saw it.

Ed note: I am being lazy and did not search for the clip.

[fizzgig]

39. i covered a murder trial with an "oops, i crapped my pants" defense

sheriff's dispatcher married to a deputy has an affair with a city cop and is accused of shooting the cop's wife execution-style in a parking lot. her defense is that she couldn't have possibly shot the woman because she had crapped her pants on the way to the liquor store and was in the bath at the time of the shooting.

yeah, oxygen and court tv were at that trial.

[applegrove]

5. Green Eggs and Ham narrated by the Reverand Jesse Jackson in rememberance of Dr. Seuss

[cemaphonic]

11. Yeah, that was a brilliantly inspired bit

And Jackson's delivery was perfect - it would have been really easy to overdo it, but he nailed it.

[applegrove]

12. AND it was so great for the millions who got such pleasure out

of his books.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

41. omg, i remember that!

I remember gleeful surprise! Loved it!

[Arugula Latte]

6. Sinead O'Connor ripping the picture of the Pope. She got crap, but she was right.

That was before the amazingly widespread and massive amount of child rape committed by priests and other RCC poohbahs was well known.

[Sweet Freedom]

7. The gay beer commercial

With the Van Halen song. (Sorry, I can't remember which song. it's been a long time since I've seen it.)

[mucifer]

8. I can't explain why now. But, when I was a kid the Steve Martin "King Tut"

thing was hilarious.

[rurallib]

9. can I post the Richard Pryor / Chevy Chase job interview

that devolves into some racial slurs?
It sure has stayed with me over 30+ years

[Archae]

16. Oh man, I remember that one.

And the Buck Henry "molester uncle babysitting."

[ailsagirl]

19. That was weird nt

[ProdigalJunkMail]

21. dead honky... that was good stuff... n/t

[cemaphonic]

10. Elvis Costello - Radio Radio

One of the few times SNL really earned the "live" moniker (so of course Costello was banned from the show for a decade).

Couldn't find a direct video link, but it's here

Beastie Boys did a cute callback years later:

[hibbing]

13. What the hell is that thing? Steve Martin and Bill Murray

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[LawDeeDah]

14. Julia Child Chicken Blood Spurt.

can't seem to get it on youtube

[ailsagirl]

18. EXTREMELY gory

Even though I knew it was fake

Argh!!!

[ailsagirl]

35. I found it here...

https://screen.yahoo.com/french-chef-000000398.html

[LawDeeDah]

15. Massive Headwound Harry

[kentauros]

17. When Sun Ra and his Mighty Arkestra were the musical guests.

Even the live audience had the "trout look"

[Tabasco_Dave]

20. John Belushi's parody of Joe Cocker

He nailed it. I also love the big butt family.

[mackerel]

30. omgeeee the big butts! lmao!

[Aristus]

22. The night New York was attacked by giant lobsters.

It was an earlier episode. I remember Jane Curtin being in it.

[TuxedoKat]

23. Troff and Brew Restaurant Skit

At the time, it was so unexpected to my young mind, gross/funny. Might not find it so funny or shocking now though!

[sharp_stick]

24. Christopher Walken on Pranksters

He was a Stiffly Stifferson so I stuck it to him...Zowie!

https://screen.yahoo.com/pranksters-prankster-larry-000000471.html

[Ineeda]

25. So many...

...frog in a blender, Julia Child, the vomitorium, Belushi as Joe Cocker, and the Samurai delicatessen. And though not shocking -- cheeseburger, cheeseburger, no Coke Pepsi was one of my favorites. And how could we forget Roseanne Roseannadanna and the church lady. So silly.

[kairos12]

26. Kill Gary Gilmore For Christmas.

[wyldwolf]

27. FIRE BAD! ....FIRE.... BAD!

[wyldwolf]

28. FIRE BAD! ....FIRE.... BAD!

[Initech]

29. Celebrity Jeopardy

"The category was write a number. Let's see what you wrote. French Stewart has written Threeve, a combination of three and five,. Simply stunning. "

"Burt Reynolds has apparently changed his name to Turd Furgeson."

"Sean Connery is in the lead with negative $16,000."

[mackerel]

31. I'm in hysterics remembering

all the skits posted

[ailsagirl]

32. This one didn't blow my mind but it used to convulse me

Belushi & Akroyd's "Cheezberger-cheezberger-cheezberger...no coke-- pepsi"


http://www.veoh.com/watch/v16038377qEdkrym4?h1=John+Belushi+-+The+Olympia+Restaurant


The first few years of SNL were so much funnier than the later programs. IMO

[AgingAmerican]

33. This is the one that blew my mind the most

Probably the most controversial sketch ever done on that show

Here is a Salon article about it

[Paladin]

34. Ry Cooder performing "He'll Have To Go" (1976) (nt)

[cyberswede]

36. When the Pogues were on & Shane McGowan slurred so badly...

that afterward Dennis Miller* said, "You know, I love the Pogues, but I'm a sucker for lyrics."

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xj3l5f_the-pogues-the-body-of-an-american_music

*I think this was before Miller revealed himself as a RW asshat.

[vanlassie]

37. Smarmy Dan Akroyd selling dangerous kid's toys.

[AwakeAtLast]

48. The good ole "Bag of Glass"

[blogslut]

38. Three stand out in my memory.

1) Devo performing Satisfaction changed my attitude about music forever.

2) The sketch where everyone decided they were voting for Reagan because their minds had been taken over by pods from outer space.

3) The cold season opener (season 3 maybe) with Dan, Jane, Gilda and Lorraine singing the NBC song (NBC - Means I love you!) atop the GE Building in Manhattan, ala an old radio show.

[Auggie]

40. Dick in a Box and Schweddy Balls

[laundry_queen]

42. LOL I was scrolling and was almost at the end

when I noticed no one said dick in a box. I was going to put it, but then saw that you did. That was my ROTFL, draw dropping moment. I mean I knew they were going to say something funny in the chorus, but omg, I was not expecting that LOL.

I'm also partial to Chris Farley, er, Matt Foley living in a van down by the river. Choppin' broccoli is also an old favorite. I pretty much missed anything earlier than that, as I was kind of young back then.

[Auggie]

44. SNL became much more risqué in their later years

The two I mentioned never would have made it past NBC censors decades ago. I've been watching on and off since the 1975 debut. Many of the memorable sketches from that era have been mentioned already in this thread, but one more that was insanely clever was the circumcision in the sedan from either 1975 or 1976. But Dick in the Box remains, for me, the most surprising for its respective era.

[csziggy]

43. Paul Simon singing "Still Crazy After All These Years" in a turkey suit

It still cracks me up. Nov. 20, 1976 was the original run of that episode.

https://screen.yahoo.com/paul-simons-monologue-worries-000000430.html?query=SNL+paul+simon

In case the video won't play:
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/paul-simon-wears-a-turkey-suit-on-saturday-night-live/

I loved it the first time around so much that when I saw it on the schedule for repeat I went out and bought my first video recorder - the only Beta unit in stock at the local Sears. Somewhere I still have that tape.

[Rhiannon12866]

45. Mine came to me immediately! When Stuart Smalley met Michael Jordan!

And I found it!

https://screen.yahoo.com/daily-affirmation-michael-jordan-000000862.html

[Archae]

46. I forgot about this one...Andy Kaufman as Elvis.

Does those really bad imitations as "foreign guy," then blows our minds.

[astral]

47. John Belushi bashing in the globe

Playing a newscaster reporting how some satellite piece or something was gonna fall to earth and could land anywhere, and he kept getting madder and madder til he was bashing up a globe with his fist that he held in his lap. I saw stunning real rage their and believed he really was not acting.

[msanthrope]

49. Bil Clinton at the Mickey D's. I know for a fact he thought it hysterical.

https://screen.yahoo.com/clinton-mcdonalds-000000491.html