Didnt Episode 1 Season 1 end with a happy baseball game, too?

Ritter is probably hovering at the snack table, waiting for Katims to say, "You're up!"

Next thing you know, Sarah & Ruby will have Movie Club Night with ice cream and buffalo wings.

A relapse wouldnt be too far-fetched.

Jeezus…what hospital would plant their building next to a fucking CEMETERY?

Unfortunately, next week's episode trailer hints this will be an on-going concern…

Needed to be said A LONG TIME AGO.

I'm here, don't worry!

Top thing I wanna point out was the great direction of this episode. The camera panning around the characterss in the waiting room, and panning back and forth between Julia and Camille…the long pauses to allow Bonnie Bedelia to shield and unmask her deep emotions…the exciting crosscutting of Crosby on his bike…

I think it was just fine in the timing.

This has been a long-standing SNL tradition, more than anyone remembers. They all have cue cards, and I read once that Lorne Michaels likes it that way.

I dont like Lexine's sound or style, but he delivered a fine performance as a frontman, without pretension. And damn, he was hitting notes that few male singers could pull off with such bravado.

Every time I have seen Steve Martin open the show with a monologue, it was material (with slight variations) that he already had performed on a record or TV special.

That first song had some balls. Not that I would ever invest my further time with Maroon 5 ever adain.

I kept hearing Penelope Von Sheweeten (or whatever her name was) from Wreck It Ralph all night. Maybe she has the same syndrome that I ascribed to Christina Ricci…she ages backwards.

"Is that your phone?"
"No."

The beats for the cold opener, which no one has mentioned (and rightly so), were as fresh and funny as a Jay Leno monologue.

It really should have ended right there,

I first thought the heavenly panel were all dead comedians, and Steve Jobs was George Carlin. Missing like a severed thumb in that sketch—-Robin Williams. Apparently no one had the talent or balls to do a good Robin.

And the Michael Jeter Sandwich joke was a winner for me, too.