I think last week's (with The Ta-Tas playing over the end credits) and this one were the first ones that didn't feature that same animation of behind the counter at the restaurant.

Her "What do you mean 'get' drunk?" was pretty great as well.

I think you can pretty much substitute Staten Island for "rural hick area" and the joke still works.

Yeah the best joke to me was Mike O'Brien's ridiculous gospel singing, which is I think the direction the whole thing should have gone, just have white people do verbatim stuff from a move like Black Nativity in the whitest way possible, but it seemed like the sketch was trying to do 10 different things and therefore…

Yeah, I really enjoyed it the first time I saw it but as with everything, there are definite diminishing returns with the endless paint-by-numbers repeats. The best thing I will say about the character is that the segment is relatively short, and it's way less obnoxious than Gilly or Secret Word or whatever.

I thought it started out with a funny germ of an idea, that being the guy that David is modeled on would be weird; but they kind of lost the thread and veered into "it's just inherently hilarious that his dick isn't huge" territory after a bit.

The best part of how liberal they were with showing David's apparatus was thinking about how uncomfortable all the parents chaperoning their little One Direction fan-girls in the audience must have been.

The Bill Brasky sketches seem more like conceptual anti-comedy that is supposed to be "appreciated" rather than "laughed-out-loud at."

Yeah it's not a wise move to start off a sketch by ragging on another show for being too long, and then jump into an interminable note-for-note rehash of a done to death bit.

Yeah I felt the same way, I loved the original appearance to an insane degree, but it's not the same when he's reviewing modern-day stuff. The bits about Dickens and The Bible worked, but all the stuff about present-day entertainments kind of broke the character.

Mike Myers did the same thing, I remember him coming back only a year or so after leaving, and all the other cast members didn't recognize him (even though most of them were the same as when he was on the show) and then he sang a song about how it was because he was hosting now.

I totally thought the same thing.

Yeah the same thing happened when Justin Bieber was the musical guest. The entire audience is 12 year old girls who are just waiting for the musical performances and couldn't care less about the sketches.

With advances in modern medical science and a vastly reduced level of cocaine usage on the show, cast members from the past few decades will surely live longer than the original cast as well. Also there seems to be a lot more turnover now than there was in the early years.

I fully support this.

Yeah, I think she's a very funny sketch performer, but her recurring characters are uniformly terrible. She's reliably great in movies and most non-recurring bits though.

I think its mostly due to the decline in the quality of SNL since Tina Fey's departure as head writer. Whether that decline is real or imagined, or how much of it is directly attributable to Seth is debatable, but they did seem to start heavily favoring recurring characters and sketches more in the last couple seasons.

Yeah they played up the "anything can happen!" aspect so much in the advertisements that I had a running bet with my wife that there'd be several intentional mess ups just to satisfy people who tuned in specifically for that reason.

I don't think you need them for pluralizing numbers or acronyms, you can just write BAFTAs or 1970s. The only time you need it for pluralization is if you're pluralizing a single lowercase letter, like "The world 'balloons' has two l's and two o's."

Wouldn't it just be Tonys and Grammys? You only use an apostrophe when you want the word to be possessive.