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Re:DAMN THEIR EYES
« Reply #30 on: March 09, 2008, 06:53:11 AM »

Was it just me? Am I just too old? Or does the writing on SNL really suck now? The only thing that I found mildly funny was the claymation.

I'm not sure I'd say it sucks, just very(!) inconsistent.  There have been some shows that have had great sketches from the opening segment to the usually-throw-away sketch in the final slot, but then there have been others that have just laid there like an egg the whole time.

As for last night's episode - there were some funny moments, but nothing REALLY funny.  However, I also know that the writers are still "recovering" from the WGA strike, and in a very rare move, they are actually producing four live shows back to back - usually, they only do three in a row.  -Heck, the first show back after the strike seemed to consist mainly of video pieces.

I know some people who have totally written off the show, but I still watch it. I guess it's a tradition for me.  -And I always try to make it to the signature piano intro for the closing music.
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« Reply #31 on: March 09, 2008, 06:54:17 AM »

Was it just me? Am I just too old? Or does the writing on SNL really suck now? The only thing that I found mildly funny was the claymation.

LOL, DR Edi!  I had the same reaction.  Loved Amy's opening number, but everything afterward made me realize I'm no longer in the SNL demographic.
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« Reply #32 on: March 09, 2008, 06:54:38 AM »

PAGE TWO ORIGINAL SNL CAST DANCE!!!!

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« Reply #33 on: March 09, 2008, 06:55:15 AM »

Well, I should finish getting my stuff together here at the hotel.  Until I get to the Chattanooga Airport...

Laters...
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« Reply #34 on: March 09, 2008, 06:56:39 AM »

Travel vibes, DR Jose!  Glad you're not flying through Cincinnati.
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« Reply #35 on: March 09, 2008, 07:04:32 AM »

DR Jose is younger than we are, so...
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Re:DAMN THEIR EYES
« Reply #36 on: March 09, 2008, 07:05:39 AM »

Smooth-travel vibes to Jose!
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« Reply #37 on: March 09, 2008, 07:12:54 AM »

And the word of the day is: GEWGAW!


And The Song Of The Day Is:  BAUBLES,BANGLES AND BEADS
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« Reply #38 on: March 09, 2008, 07:15:36 AM »

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DR BD
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« Reply #39 on: March 09, 2008, 07:16:14 AM »

I don't watch SNL anymore.....if I want to see a group of sort of talented people standing around reading cue cards, I will watch reruns of Will and Grace.

And yes, DR FJL.....I think you asked yesterday if Cara Williams was supposed to be the new Lucille Ball some decades ago.  She certainly was closer than Debra Mess.

My favorite Pete & Gladys episode involved an anniversary gift that had to be purchased at the last minute, banks were closed, and so all of the pennies and coins from the Piggy Bag had to be used.  Gladys was trying to get across the street with the coins cupped in her skirt and kept dropping them while the light changed from red to green.  It took her several tries to make the strip.  And Cara Williams could be funny.

She was, I think, more subtle than Lucy and certainly didn't have Lucy's built!  But she was terrific.  Love her in NEVER STEAL ANYTHING SMALL.
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« Reply #40 on: March 09, 2008, 07:17:48 AM »

And The Song Of The Day Is:  BAUBLES,BANGLES AND BEADS

This fits in perfectly with the dance posted by DRMBARNUM yesterday.  ;D

MAD Tv is where it's at for me.....SNL.....  :P  It also seems to me to be a bunch of people trying to come up with dumb characters to hang a stupid movie on and make the leap to features.  Some of them have done it.
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« Reply #41 on: March 09, 2008, 07:19:35 AM »

TOD:  What was the first time you watched SNL?

For me it was a rerun in the first season.  I had avoided it because it seemed like a stunt to me....Live TV?

I was flipping around the channels, and there were these people dressed in Bee costumes.  I started to laugh, stayed for the rest of the show, and watched it for MANY MANY seasons.....
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« Reply #42 on: March 09, 2008, 07:22:54 AM »

Good morning!

Back to winter temperatures even though it is certainly beautiful otherwise outside. Not a cloud in the sky.
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« Reply #43 on: March 09, 2008, 07:25:20 AM »

I stopped watching SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE regularly once the original cast was gone to bigger (not necessarily better) things. I did love those first five years. Over the years, I'd check in with other casts when there was publicity about one of the hot new faces on the show. But I've never been back in the habit.
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« Reply #44 on: March 09, 2008, 07:26:34 AM »

TV Reminder:

DIRT (on FX)

DEXTER (Season 1 rehashings on CBS).
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« Reply #45 on: March 09, 2008, 07:27:33 AM »

TOD:  What was the first time you watched SNL?
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Not my first viewing, but one of my favorites was very early - before fall 1977 - when Candice Bergen was guest host.  It was near Christmas and they ended the program skating in Rockefeller Center.  It was very sweet, very Christmasy, and very New York.
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« Reply #46 on: March 09, 2008, 07:27:52 AM »

I have to start ANTONIO GAUDI today, and I have no idea what kind of film it is at all. Always fun to explore something old that's absolutely brand new to you.

Then, later today, SUPERMAN RETURNS.
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« Reply #47 on: March 09, 2008, 07:31:17 AM »

I think DR MATTH said it best.....it is no longer a habit.  For years I wouldn't MISS the show because we would all talk about it in groups during the week.  

I was a bit confused by TORCHWOOD last night, too.  I like the sci fi stories, but I guess I like it best when it concentrates on the characters and their personal interactions.
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« Reply #48 on: March 09, 2008, 07:38:18 AM »

I'm up, I'm up.  Early.  I really do not like that they did this early daylight savings time - my VCR doesn't update automatically, and if I do it by hand, then it will update when it's supposed to and I'll have to undo it, and it's just so pointless and stupid and whatever they think their brilliance is in doing this, there will be a study in five years that says how pointless it was.
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« Reply #49 on: March 09, 2008, 07:38:31 AM »

Not my first viewing, but one of my favorites was very early - before fall 1977 - when Candice Bergen was guest host.  It was near Christmas and they ended the program skating in Rockefeller Center.  It was very sweet, very Christmasy, and very New York.

LOL.....I remember Jane Curtin or Gilda Radner in a sketch with Candice on this show....and the ad lib was:  You are beautiful, but you sure are dumb.....  And Candice nearly fell off the sofa...   ;D
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« Reply #50 on: March 09, 2008, 07:39:16 AM »

I'm up, I'm up.  Early.  I really do not like that they did this early daylight savings time - my VCR doesn't update automatically, and if I do it by hand, then it will update when it's supposed to and I'll have to undo it, and it's just so pointless and stupid and whatever they think their brilliance is in doing this, there will be a study in five years that says how pointless it was.


One study already showed that instead of saving money, it costs consumers several million dollars....    8)

http://tech.yahoo.com/blog/null/83073
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« Reply #51 on: March 09, 2008, 07:42:21 AM »

I was a very loyal fan until around the time Will Ferrell left. I watched it from the beginning, because I was a fan of Lemmings and The National Lampoon Radio Hour.

I find MadTV much funnier now and much more creative. The recurring characters you mentioned on SNL aren't that funny (to me) in the first place, and the joke of the person encountering and dealing with them gets old fast, and there's often no payoff, the skit just ends.
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« Reply #52 on: March 09, 2008, 07:43:20 AM »

I was a bit confused by TORCHWOOD last night, too.  I like the sci fi stories, but I guess I like it best when it concentrates on the characters and their personal interactions.

I got irritated by the Owen's dead but he's alive but not really but he's a monster, and the the team was also chasing around this smoke demon, too, and the Weevils were out in force (who knew there were so many of them in Cardiff). Just seemed a jumble. Held my attention fine, but I felt I was constantly being jerked in different directions without quite getting my bearings to where I was originally.
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« Reply #53 on: March 09, 2008, 07:44:56 AM »

The most irritating reset I have to accomplish when we do DST is resetting the information on my answering machine. It is a ROYAL PAIN getting the date and time stamp on that thing every time we change times.
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« Reply #54 on: March 09, 2008, 07:50:19 AM »

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« Reply #55 on: March 09, 2008, 07:53:10 AM »

What was everybody's Telephone Exchange Name when you were growing up?

I was LYceum 7 and then VErnon 1.
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« Reply #56 on: March 09, 2008, 07:53:51 AM »

It was kind of fun to give your telephone number as:

L-Y 7 - 4398.......
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« Reply #57 on: March 09, 2008, 07:56:45 AM »

My exchanges (and actual telephone numbers) were in all the Kritzer books.  First TExas, which was changed to UPton, then VErmont, when we moved.  My father's restaurant was DUnkirk, the Santa Monica exchange was EXbrook, many of my friends in high school were WEbster, and Hollywood was, of course, HOllywood.
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« Reply #58 on: March 09, 2008, 08:01:19 AM »

DUnkirk and EXbrook are lovely exchange names.
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« Reply #59 on: March 09, 2008, 08:04:19 AM »

First phone exchange (until I was ten years old) was ULster 9.  

As a child, I didn't understand why my folks found it amusing when people would hear it as ULcer.
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