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Saturday Night Live Season 32 Episode 3

John C. Reilly/My Chemical Romance

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AIRED: 10/21/06

Live from New York, it's... Will Forte! Sketches include "Fox News Special Report," "Colonial Williamsburg," "Doug Frangelo," "Korean Central Television," "Two A-Holes at a Trainer," "Mexican Restaurant," "House of Carters," "Harpoon Man" (film), "A McMillan Family Moment" (three parts), and "Operation Bearshark." My Chemical Romance performed "Welcome to the Black Parade" and "Cancer."moreless

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Let's give it up for Sean C. Reilly!

5.5

By whoaitsconner, May 18, 2008

Welcome to the 2nd stop at Conner's SNL Summer Review Tour 2008! If you missed out on the first one, the premiere was Jaime Pressley/Corinne Bailey Rae. I'm not going in any order, that's just the way I did it.

As I said in that review, the beginning of SNL's 32nd season was both awkward, yet revealing. This episode's host was John C. Reilly and musical guest, My Chemical Romance!

NBC Special Report w/ Brit Hume: Brit Hume interviews George W. Bush on the war in Iraq, and Bush doesn't know what Brit is talking about at all. He just nods his head, throughout the whole thing. Yet again, another sketch saying "Bush is dumb".

Monologue: Who didn't see this coming John C. Reilly's Taledega Nights co-star, Will Ferrell shows up as James Lipton, making a self-congratulatory speech about John C. Reilly. They end up singing a song. Of all the Lipton sketches I've seen, it was really never my cup of tea, and this one fits in with the rest.

The Colonial Times: A man who is too much in his character, treats black people who work there like slaves, while he treats people who play Native Americans like slaves. The manager has to talk to him, but the man can't seem to come out of character. A wooden sketch, if you ask me.

Swimming Lessons: When a trainer tries to teach a man who to swim, he buckles bodies up and it gets a little too hands on. Of course, the only allusion this revolves around is "we're trying to look gay for five minutes.

A Message from Kim Jong Il: KJI tries to address us, but also tries to look like some A list celebrity with her own show. It was okay on some levels.

Two A-Holes with a Trainer: The famous characters return. This time they annoy a trainer to death. This was just like any other A-Hole sketch, silly and funny.

Weekend Update: Jokes were funny. I'm so glad this was the only time Kenan ever did Flavor Flav. I also enjoyed the weed play Seth and Amy did.

Mexican Restaurant: When 4 girls are out, one of them is a complete wreck after her breakup with a guy. I thought the facial expressions were priceless, while John was great in this sketch.

House of the Carters: E! brings us the lives of Aaron and Nick Carter, and them living together. I thought this was hilarious! Just so stupid, yet funny.

SNL Digital Short: Harpoon Man: As Harpoon Man goes through the city, the announcer starts saying false statements and just embarrasses him. The song was catchy, while the sketch was funny.

McMillan Family Moment: As a father tries to teach his son how to eat Oreos, his son gives him attitude, and just wants to eat it like everyone else does. I thought this random bit payed off.

The Bear/Shark Project: A sketch about nothing, shows two people dancing about how the Bear/Shark project, which is a project between a shark and a bear, fails. Jason tells us how it could stand for Iraq. I thought this had its moments, but the sketch in and of itself was too much to handle.

McMillan Family Moment (II): As the same father adopts a "Big Brother Program" brother, he just crams in a bunch of Oreos. I thought this was also funny.

McMillan Family Moment (III): The father reverts back to his father and tries to remind him of the Oreo way to eat. But, the father doesn't listen, causing the son to loose it again. Once again, a great random bit.

Overall, post-Update seemed better than before Update. That's rare. The cast was still awkwardly transitioning to be normal again, and it started working out.

My next stop in Conner's SNL Summer Review Tour 2008, brings us to Hugh Laurie/Beck. I know, once again, it seems like we're going in order, but don't worry, I'll mix and mesh it up. It should be up later this week. Like, Wednesday to Friday.moreless
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The may know the proper way to eat an Oreo but they don't seem to remember how to write a good show...

5.5

By JenJen130, Dec 28, 2006

It’s been a long time since this episode aired so I won’t say much to introduce it, except to say that John C. Reilly was the host and My Chemical Romance the musical guest. Cold Open: Brit Hume (DH) interviews President Bush (WF) mainly on the war on Iraq. The sketch was rather flat with Bush just agreeing to every negative aspect that Hume brought up. Wasn’t funny back in October, although watching now, I really do miss Forte’s Dubya.

Monologue: Reilly is surprised that asked him to host, but James Lipton (Will Ferrell-who was a pleasure to see) thinks that’s nonsense. Lipton goes on to list movie upon movie that John wasn’t in, and confusing his character in Chicago with Roxie Hart (rather than her husband). They go on to do a duet of “Nowadays”. This was one of the better monologues of the season.

“Colonial Williamsburg”: A worker at a historical reenactment villager (Reilly) takes his job too seriously in terms of his treatment of other races and is fired by the manager (JS) as a result. It was somewhat funny but an appearance by Kenan near the end ruined the sketch (a recurring theme these days)

“Doug Frangelo”: An Olympic hopeful with no swimming experience (WF) meets with a legendary coach (Reilly) who obviously has no idea what he’s doing. Various hijinks ensue while the two are strapped together for “land training”. I remember thinking it was funnier when it first aired but a pointless ending and humor that comes off rather sophomoric aren’t great for second viewings. “Korean Central Television”: Kim Jong Il (AP) makes an announcement to the Korean people regarding the UN sanctions and the cutbacks the country will have to make as a result. I enjoy Amy’s impression but the sketch screamed filler (which it shouldn’t this early in the show). “Two A-Holes Work Out With a Trainer”: I always enjoy the A-Holes (JS, KW) and while they’ve had better outings, this was still pretty funny as they succeeded in flustering a trainer (Reilly) with their aspirations to physically own horses and cartoon impressions. Musical Performance: I was only vaguely familiar with My Chemical Romance before their appearance but I enjoyed “Welcome to the Black Parade”. Weekend Update: With this broadcast, Amy and Seth finally began to turn out good editions of WU. Amy had some great jokes, not to mention that hilarious goodbye letter to Seth. The one bad part was the unnecessary political commentary by Flava Flav (a horrible impression by Kenan) “Mexican Restaurant”: I can’t believe I thought this was funny the first time it aired. Jennifer (Reilly) drowns her sorrows in Mexican food as her girlfriends (AP, MR, KW) look on in empathetic horror. Her boyfriend Robert (FA dressed strangely like Dr. Evil) shows up and weakens an already painful sketch

“House of Carters”: As an admitted Backstreet Boys and Aaron Carter fan (I was young and naïve, alright?) I found this sketch pretty funny. I hate reality TV and have caught a few minutes of this show here and there and the content of the sketch was spot on as Jason and Andy portrayed the spoiled pop star brothers. Digital Short “Harpoon Man”: A “Shaft” inspired music video about the life of a whaler (Reilly), told through the voice of a Killer Whale (AS). Not a bad digital short but not one of my favorites either.

“McMillan Family Moment”: A spoof on those Oreo commercials, with a father (Reilly) going into way too much detail as he tries to teach his son (AS) the family method of eating an Oreo, and then blowing up when his son could care less. Admirable concept but the laughs just weren’t there. “Operation Bearshark”: Jason’s epilogue saved this very loosely put together sketch about a group of scientists who were forced to cut short a project to create a bearshark species due to the various injuries the animal caused. I still don’t understand how it turned into a musical and am pretty sure I don’t want to.

“McMillan Family Moment”: Same exact sketch as before except with the son being replaced by a kid (KT) from the Big Brother program.

Musical Performance: MCR performs a nice ballad titled “Cancer” although the song itself should have been longer than it was. “McMillan Family Moment”: One last time, this time with Grandpa (JS) as the victim of the dad’s rage. I remember being a lot more impressed by this broadcast when it first aired, probably because I was so disappointed after the Pressley/Rae episode. It definitely did not make for a good repeat viewing. Next up: Hugh Laurie/Beckmoreless
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hilarious!

9.0

By stitchfan85, Dec 22, 2006

i've never thought that john c. reilly was funny before this, but he is extremely versatile! his monologue was especially good, mostly because of surprise guest will ferrell's appearance as james lipton. classic! i first saw this episode on itunes, so not all the sketches were available. some of my favorite sketches were the olympic swimmer one and the racist colonial williamsburg employee. other than that, the sketches were decent, but not memorable.moreless
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Youve been smokin dream dust my friend.

6.5

By Darth-Revan45, Oct 26, 2006

First off I am going to say this is my first review on a so called "broken toe". But one main complaint, how could Nick and Arron have a PSP yet the McMillans have to get the crappy oversized old XBOX... Isnt it $299 bucks for the poor people one, if 30 Rock has one why cant SNL HUH! .Now onto it.

COLD OPENING: This was painfull, it was just Brit asking Dubya questions and him aggreeing... nice job writers good job earning your sallary.

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MONOLOGUE: Ferrell returns with his dead on James Lipton and inserts his energy back in and does a hillarious Monolouge.

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“Colonial Williamsburg”: The overenthusistic employee gets overely racial with his ****** colleauges and the Racist Craker is gonna get jumped in the parking lot. I enjoyed this one a little bit

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“Doug Frangelo”: John really got ****** on with this show... we got to see him doing some sodomising to Forte in one of the most homoeroticly stupid things I have seen. As Stu put it "This type of sketch tends to have a love-it-or-hate-it appeal; on one hand, it’s various double entendres aim for the fourteen-year-old comedy geek inside all of us, whereas it can also be perceived as being sophomoric, disturbing, and as a whole a colossal waste of time.", I personaly lean towards the first one but the speedo's detract a few points

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“Korean Central Television”: Even though Amy has an incredible Kim Jong Il this is just painfull seing the wackjob lumbering about spouting insane retarded one liners and the "Looney Toons" thing was just annoying... But props to Amy for her "masterfull" impersonation of that insane ******.

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“Two A-Holes Work Out With a Trainer”: I enjoyed the a-holes [really what is so bad about the word "SNL" Writers] in their annoying antics at the Gym aggravating anyone arround them and proving that a-holes should be shot.

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MUSICAL PERFORMANCE: “Welcome to the Black Parade”

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WEEKEND UPDATE: Wonder why they are constanly havign bad characters on WU... to hard to write little Monolouge News Jokes that the Latenight shows do every night guys. Flava Flav just annoyed me. But Amy's letter to Seth was great and the WU jokes were okay.

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“Mexican Restaurant”: 5 minutes of John in drag whinning... please kill me the foot hurts bad enough already.

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“House of Carters”: The singing dumbasses prve that the Carters are just complete idiots. [the fact that a PSP can be played while off still makes me laugh... yes I sent that in to the notes for the episode]. The singing was terrible but the Carters do suck anyways. I liked this little insult to the brothers Carter.

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FILM: “Harpoon Man” impales people while Andy does a hillarious talk/song about him. My favorite of the night.

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“McMillan Family Moment”: Please dont hurt the Oeros O.C.D. daddy! This dad is insanely obsessed with eating Oreos.

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“Operation Bearshark”: A good sketch about the Bearshark and poorly done fakely ripped off appendages making Phil Hartmans arms being ripped off in the all drug olympics lok like "Star Wars". And the song at the end and the joke about people being stupid was great.

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“McMillan Family Moment”: Well this dad is really obsessed trying to pass this tradition on to another kid, and every oreo smashed by the 20 pound Classic XBOX [beleive me I had one of them] is an Oreo I cant eat :'(.

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MUSICAL PERFORMANCE: “Cancer.”

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“McMillan Family Moment”: Stu put's it best "As it turns out, even Grandpa (JS) thinks Pop’s a douche bag." I concur completely.

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Not Funny, just not funny

5.6

By furiousfunk, Oct 22, 2006

For the 3rd time in a row this season they have started with a boring long unfunny opening bit. Every skit was too long, lacked humor and was boring. John C Reilly did OK as a performer and his monologue was kind of funny with Will Ferrell making a cameo. Reilly did a good job in each skit, the problem was that the skits were not funny so he couldn't make anyone laugh. Weekend Update is a total disaster now with Seth Meyers ruining the entire segment. Seth did finally say something funny and delivered it properly(in a humorous/non-smarmy way. They need to replace Seth immediately, 3 weeks and he's gotten one laugh, get him out before it's too late. The best bit of the night was the "Harpooner" skit, it was funny at first but lagged off at the end due to poor writing. It seems that Tina Fey was the only thing keeping SNL on the air because the writing has totally fell apart since she left. It is also time to retire the "Two A-Holes" skits because they are long boring and predictable even though both actors do a fine job in the roles. Their talents should be put towards something else, maybe some ORIGINAL writing instead of rehashed unfunny boring dreck.moreless
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- In the "House of Carters" sketch, Nick and Aaron are using a PSP that's not even turned on.
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- Amy Poehler: Rapper Fabulous was shot, early Tuesday, after leaving a Manhattan restaurant. His condition was upgraded from criticalous to stableous.
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- Seth Meyers: If recent polls are correct and Democrats win back control of the House and Senate, President Bush's administration will be transformed into an early lame duck. Worse, Cheney will then shoot it.
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- Amy Poehler: After 21 years and sales of nearly 7 million cars, Ford has announced that it will no longer make the Taurus, forcing many thirtysomethings to find a new way to show the world they've given up on their dreams.
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- Sketches cut in the 60 minute version: Flavor Flav segment on Weekend Update, "Mexican Restaurant," "Operation Bearshark," "Korean Central Television," "McMillan Family Moments" (3 parts), and My Chemical Romance performance of "Cancer."
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- Sketches cut after dress rehearsal include: a Support Group cold opening, where Madonna (Amy Poehler), John Mark Karr (Bill Hader), Paris Hilton (Maya Rudolph), Donald Rumsfeld (Darrell Hammond), and a stingray (Andy Samberg) are united to talk about their problems; "E-Zdate.com"; a sketch about a football coach (John C. Reilly) visiting one of his players (Andy Samberg) in the hospital; "Sale-Mart"; and a sketch about a spokesman (John C. Reilly) who hawks hot dog wrapper hats.
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- According to an interview with several cast members that was published the week after this broadcast, "Operation Bearshark" was much longer in dress rehearsal, and awkwardly edited for time, hence the audience's tepid and confused reaction.
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