Wednesday, March 6, 2024

348: "Motorboating Bebe Neuwirth" - Wild Palms (1993)

Do you like Twin Peaks?  Then you'll be utterly confused by Wild Palms almost as confused as SNL alum James Belushi who apparently didn't understand the script so just showed up on set and read his lines.  Can't blame you, Jim.  This is an indecipherable piece of nonsense.  So the story is that ABC wanted to have another weird show to replace Twin Peaks after they ruined that show with studio meddling.  They came up with this miniseries about a guy who is looking for the lost kid of his ex-lover and also has nightmares about rhinos and Robert Loggia squealing like a pig.  There's also virtual reality where a shitty sitcom can beam to your couch.  It's produced by Oliver Stone (who makes a cameo), it takes place in the future (watch for subtle hints because they do nothing with the fact that it's in the future), and it's a big old mess.  While I doubt we'll watch any other episodes to see how this story pans out, we watched the 90 minute pilot which is available on YouTube and try to make sense of it.  Stay tuned for next week to answer the ultimate question, will Ben get a boner from Mary Gross?  Enjoy!

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Wednesday, February 28, 2024

347: "Scarred-Up Burnt Sex" - Pay It Forward (2000)

You want Oscars?  Get two-time Academy Award winner Kevin Spacey on the phone.  Sweeten the deal with Academy Award winner Helen Hunt.  Throw in Academy Award nominee Haley Joel Osment.  But you really looking for Oscar gold?  Then you need Jon Bon Jovi and, more importantly, SNL alum Jay Mohr.  We watched Pay It Forward from 2000, a movie that is a failure on multiple levels.  Little Haley Joel Osment tries to change the world with kindness.  His mother's a drunk, his teacher has burns all over him, his best friend is a hobo junkie that looks like Jesus.  Jay Mohr is on the hunt for a big scoop.  Then most of the movie is devoted to trying to get Kevin Spacey and Helen Hunt to bone burn victim style.  Stay for the last 3 minutes if you want to see a kid get stabbed for no thematic reason.  Enjoy!

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Tuesday, February 20, 2024

346: "More Bruce Vilanch References" - Mango Part Two - An SNL Recurring Character Study

And we're back with yet another installment of our award winning segment ...And We're Back! where we take a deep dive into an SNL recurring character and watch all their appearances.  Last time we gathered we watched the first 10 appearances of Mango and surprisingly couldn't stay away so we're back for one more slice of that sweet, sweet Mango pie.  In this episode we watch the final 6 appearances of everyone's favorite male stripper and get some diminishing results.  Somewhere along the way, we lost sight of Mango.  Gone are everything we loved about the character and he eventually morphs into a stereotype.  But it took much longer than anyone expected as we get to number 13 before any sort of Mango malaise kicks in.  Enjoy!

Sketches Include
Mango - Season 25, Episode 13 hosted by Ben Affleck
Mango - Season 26, Episode 11 hosted by Jennifer Lopez
Mango - Season 26, Episode 20 hosted by Christopher Walken
Mango - Season 27, Episode 5 hosted by Gwyneth Paltrow
Mango - Season 27, Episode 9 hosted by Ellen DeGeneres
Mango - Season 27, Episode 20 hosted by Winona Ryder

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Tuesday, January 30, 2024

345: "Fumble-rooni" - Necessary Roughness (1991)

We're digging into the Rob Schneider bucket once again this week as we watched Necessary Roughness from 1991 featuring the Robmeister calling plays for a football team full of underdogs.  Let me ask you a question.  If I said I found a movie that features Scott Bakula, Kathy Ireland, Larry Miller, Robert Loggia, Sinbad, Senator Fred Thompson and of course Hector Elizondo would you think that it would be the greatest movie ever?  So did we, but we found ourselves another thoroughly mediocre sports comedy.  Enjoy!

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Wednesday, January 24, 2024

344: "A Disturbing Crush On Elizabeth Holmes" - Good Burger 2 (2023)

We're finally here.  A podcast years in the making  We're finally going back for another taste of Ed's special sauce with Good Burger 2 starring Kel Mitchell and Kenan Thompson and featuring a cavalcade of SNL cameos like Leslie Jones, Pete Davidson, Ego Nwodim, Molly Kearney, Michael Longfellow, Andy Samberg, Mikey Day, Bowen Yang, and Maya Rudolph.  We also get some cameos from All That alumni as well as some old lady who thinks she's got something on Abe Vigoda and apparently Sinbad (somewhere, I didn't see him).  Who wanted this, we do not know, but we got it.  Enjoy!

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Tuesday, January 16, 2024

343: "Fountains Of Racist Jizz" - Mango Part One - An SNL Recurring Character Study

And we're back with another installment of our award winning segment ...And We're Back! where we take a deep dive into an SNL recurring character and watch all their appearances.  We're also back to doing episodes of Saturday Night Jive after a hiatus that is all Garry Marshall's fault.  This week we're talking Mango played by the inimitable Chris Kattan.  This character has more layers than we anticipated.  Since there are so many SNL appearances from Mango we decided to push ourselves to the limit and see how many we can watch before we tap out.  Surprisingly, we wanted to keep going but that would have resulted in a 4 hour podcast so consider this part 1 of the Mango saga.  We also track down the whereabouts of Chris Gaines and Greg from Dharma & Greg.  Enjoy!

Sketches Include
Mango - Season 23, Episode 14 hosted by Garth Brooks
Mango - Season 23, Episode 20 hosted by David Duchovny
Mango & Kiwi - Season 24, Episode 5 hosted by David Spade
Mango - Season 24, Episode 18 hosted by Cuba Gooding, Jr.
Mango - Season 25, Episode 4 hosted by Dylan McDermott
Garth Brooks Monologue - Season 25, Episode 5 hosted by Garth Brooks
Dressing Room - Season 25, Episode 5 hosted by Garth Brooks
Mango - Season 25, Episode 8 hosted by Danny DeVito

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Saturday, September 16, 2023

342: "Don't Worry Fat Kids" - Joe's Apartment (1996)

It's Ben's pick this week on Saturday Night Jive and since he's not bound by the rules of picking movies that relate to SNL we watched the Don Ho classic Joe's Apartment from 1996.  A beautiful love story about a kid in the big city fighting against corporate greed and trying to make his way in a world that doesn't understand him.  Also there's animated roaches that annoy and ruin every scene with their sped up voices.  This movie stars Jerry O'Connell, Robert Vaughn, and the amazing thespians Don Ho and Pepa.  MTV's first foray into feature films is a big old mess.  It's also not that interesting to talk about so we spend the majority of the podcast talking about George driving his wife to an emergency room through a tornado and playing a new game based on the website Common Sense Media.  Enjoy!

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