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Oliver Phonglehorn
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The nadir of McKinney's SNL career was a sketch where he played a teenage girl babysitter getting a ride home from Chris Elliott as a horny dad who keeps giving her Zima to get her drunk so he can have his way with her. I don't even know what the joke was supposed to be.

I don't think I've seen that since it aired, but I recall at the time my wild theory was that the set was wrong for the sketch. Was it all lit in bluish hues, with way too much stuff on the shelves in the background?

Here's something fun: Read Jay Mohr's account of his "Christopher Walken Skittles commercial" sketch, in which he describes getting huge laughs from an audience that ate up every second of it. Then watch the actual sketch, which is funny enough but goes on way too long and gets a moderate audience response.

I think he was the first person to be a musical guest (as Spinal Tap) and later join the cast. Something like that. It was odd to see one established guy surrounded by youngsters, but he was able to play dads and executives and such more convincingly than any of those youngsters could.

Lorenzo Music (the original voice of Garfield) played Peter Venkman on The Real Ghostbusters at first, but was later replaced by Dave Coulier. And years later, Bill Murray, who played Peter Venkman in the movie, voiced Garfield in movies.

Yeah. Vigo was a worthy villain. He as the Scourge of Carpathia!

Miss Piggy gets mugged in The Muppets Take Manhattan. She borrows Gregory Hines's roller skates, catches him, and gets her stuff back.

The only problem with that scene is that He-Man had already run its course by 1989. It would have been timely if they had the kids chanting "NINJA TURTLES!"

I always have a good time watching Ghostbusters II. It doesn't reach the same heights as the first, but it's still fun to hang out with our pals the Ghostbusters again.

I'm sure it was extremely obnoxious, but I can tell you that as a little kid, I LOVED the Slimer seasons.

Also: Among that special's writers was Bruce Vilanch. That's true.

Have you tried reading it? That might help.

Don't worry. He reads these comments.

Did anyone besides Rosie say "a bevy of Baldwins?"

Yeah, the Playboy Mansion question was just right. The one about Mr. Potato Head was pretty good too. They're definitely taking advantage of the later timeslot, but I'm sure they're getting lots of complaints.

There was already one Donald Trump question, about how he's trying to win an Olympic medal for [blank]ing the most times in 60 seconds. The contestants and most panelists said "lying," but for some reason two of them said "farting."

Yeah, where's Dumb Dora? Also that fictional sleazy, low-rent country they used to talk about.

I mostly agree with this. Rosie and Tituss are great for the show, and somehow putting Tituss on Rosie's left side in the second episode seemed to improve the panel greatly. Adam Goldberg was terrible and Debra Messing's answers were mostly bad, but for the most part the stars have been good at both playing the game

A different episode of Muppets Tonight actually featured Kermit reminiscing about his mid-life crisis, which turned out to be a parody of Bruce Springsteen's "Dancing in the Dark" video.

Everyone knows the best way to watch fireworks is via the video you recorded on your phone during the fireworks show, when you held your phone above your head so it blocked the view of everyone behind you. You're totally going to watch, enjoy and cherish that high-quality video again and again.