It's okay with me.

"Lieutenant Uhura… wears female duty uniform with red 10 colored tunic that has a support services insignia and lieutenant's stripes, black panty hose and boots. She wears gold hoop earrings and a distinctive bouffant hair style. Also, she has big tits."

A little Bryan Cranston in there, too, I'd say.

And here's the "mood rock" ad in question…

Buck's "Talk Back" phone-in sketch is one of my favorites, too, but I'd question whether it was inspired by the end of The Groove Tube's news sketch (one of the few things in that movie that's actually funny forty years later). I think Chevy (who, of course, was in The Groove Tube, as he was one of the members of the…

Of course, everyone knows the definitive version of this song is the one on the Tom Scharpling-curated Ram tribute CD that was a WFMU pledge drive premium a few years ago. No horns, but when you have Zachary Brimstead, Esq., brass is superfluous.

Having that SNL script/scrapbook is so illuminating, not least for showing the kind of (mostly silly) censorship problems the show had to contend with.  Two big ones in this sketch: Standards & Practices insisted on changing "Christ-killer" to "Jewboy" - which dulls the satirical point a touch, but, honestly,…

It looks like a lot of the editing problems have been fixed.  For what it's worth.

Dr. Frankenstein = Howard Shore.  Igor = Paul Shaffer.

Actually, the idea was to have them show up and not let them play, citing some arcane Musician's Union statute, according to Lorne.

Pedantic aside: the "Final Days" sketch wasn't written on marijuana (and it would hardly be noteworthy if that were the case), but on LSD.  Lorne was apparently none too pleased that Tom Davis copped to that with the authors of the first SNL history, but Davis wanted to share a drug-related anecdote with them that didn…

Basil!

Yeah - Ford apparently had only the vaguest idea of what was going on - just one more appointment to be marched to that day - but his eyes lit up when he saw Lorne Michaels, who he recognized from the White House Correspondents' Dinner a few months before; "Chevy, how are you?" he said.  Then he seemed to have some…

"Working Week" is a great opening salvo, plus he gets off (so to speak) the best euphemism for masturbation I've ever heard in the very first line.  Which is some kind of accomplishment, I think.

Not to be snot-nosedly pedantic (but what the hell, it's fun), but Clover, his backing band on My Aim Is True, did not become Huey Lewis' News.  Two of its members - keyboardist Sean Hopper and Lewis himself, the band's harmonica player/vocalist - formed the News, with other, non-Clover personnel.  And Lewis didn't…

Mopping, yes.  Great line, that.

Nice snark, but dammit, I'll defend Made to Be Broken up and down the fucking block.  Great album, and proof that Dave Pirner had some real talent before "Runaway Train" and Typhoid Winona destroyed him.

Money is the one that features Martin Amis as himself (in a supporting role) - coincidentally or not, his best novel by some measure. (Also another Amis work that's been adapted for one screen or another, in this case a BBC miniseries with Nick Frost in the lead role, apparently so bad it's been almost completely…

(edit) Ach, never mind.

Douglas Adams co-wrote the doctor sketch in the last episode and, as Craig says below or above or wherever it is relative to where this comment lands, the "Marilyn Monroe" sketch off the Holy Grail album.  Innes contributed the "George III" song and "Where Does A Dream Begin?"  (the disinterested woman he's singing to…