Saturday Night Live, S21 and start of S22 — late '95 to late '96.

Question 11:
Do you like me?
[ ] Yes
[ ] No
[ ] Maybe

Only in the sense that he ruins what was supposed to be a nice family picnic.

It's the same basic sketch, but that line is from a later episode when they revisit the sketch and escalate it.

It's like her face was designed specifically for editorial cartoons.

I think that's how Michael Shannon will look in about ten years if he quits show business and lives in a van down by the river.

Saturday Night Live, first half of season 21 (1995-6): AKA the season of death

I'm pretty sure a "Memphis country club circa 1967" wouldn't have admitted Jews, as the Geller siblings were. And while Jewish actors have been reasonably well-represented on television for a while, Courtney Cox's character in particular was free of any negative stereotypical characteristics that many Americans still…

I remember watching Madison Street when Mr Cooper died. All his puppets were sad.

Lockhart has made no progress whatsoever. He's there to make the audience feel smart and the other characters look measured, when in fact the audience is watching revenge porn and the other characters are a few ticks below 'sociopath' on any psychological scale you'd care to name.

Steven Seagal's was the worst ever, in part because he's an actor. With sports stars you have reduced expectations. The anal probing sketch was criticized at the time for being frat-boy-ish — cultural commentators hated Chris Farley, and instead pined for the days of Dana Carvey's "Church Lady" which they considered…

Saturday Night Live, season 20 (e1-14 of 20)

This was the first film I remember seeing in a cinema. The only things that stay with me are the disurbing puppetry of the reindeers and how Dudley Moore seemed more like an over-tanned character from The Love Boat than a film actor.

Look at this Ben Stiller on my lawn, getting off.

This is the role Eric McCormack's career has been limping towards.

Has pop music always been overproduced, mannered, and sophorific? It has, right?

A Scandanavian-style minimum security prison. With a petting zoo.

I enjoyed 'I Wanna Marry Harry' as unalloyed schadenfreude. Most reality shows cover their existential despair with a figleaf, but IWMH was comprehensively exploitative and mocking.

I get that someone could mishear 'firing' as 'filing', but what the hell do you think a hyphenated object called 'all-cylinders' looks like?

Season 19 of SNL (plus the first few epsiodes of S20):