Tommy Chong? I think you meant Dennis Hopper.

Tommy Chong? I think you meant Dennis Hopper.

Hockey seems to come up way more often on 30 Rock than just about any other American show. Dennis's Islanders fandom is one of my favourite running gags.

All I Can Say Is
They made the Don Cherry caricature French. That's… odd.

or The Rose.

Tracy hosting SNL
I'll be watching the East Coast feed, because I fear the tape-delay may be hacked apart by the Federal Bunch of Sticklers.

French Movie
I could be wrong, be the movie Don was watching smacks of Resnais, but I don't think it's Hiroshima mon amour, and it's obviously not Night and Fog. Last Year at Marienbad would be just about perfect, time-wise (Wikipedia says its USA release was in March 1962), but my memory of that movie is hazy, and I…

Just to Say Something Different…
MAYBE, Dermott is actually the son of a time-traveling Hank. Not the current Hank, but an older, less virginal Hank from a couple of years from now, who goes back to the early '90s to fix a time paradox that caused The Faint to never form, for some reason, and while there impregnates…

Could've had something to do with Foster being all of 17 years old at the time, and Hall having exactly zero movie acting credits. Or, both of them being the better part of a decade away from taking on the roles that inspired your not-at-all-unimaginative suggestion.