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HILLARY FOR PRESIDENT
media disclosure of their wealth bugs Bill (DAH) & Hillary (AMP) Clinton
— Some pretty funny lines from the Clintons regarding their taxes.
— A very good laugh from Amy’s Hillary Clinton saying, immediately after her announcement that she’s stepping aside for the Obama campaign, “Psych! That’s never gonna happen”, then going on to brag about exactly how long she intends to drag out her campaign.
STARS: ***½
MONOLOGUE
host has audience members ask him questions that he wrote
— Feels like it’s been too long since I’ve last reviewed a Christopher Walken-hosted episode. Sadly, this ends up being the FINAL Christopher Walken-hosted episode I’ll ever get to review, unless he comes back to host sometime in the current SNL era before I complete this SNL project of mine.
— Already a good Walken-y oddball comment early on from Christopher claiming this is his 100th time hosting, because he counts reruns.
— Interesting how Christopher announces he wants to do something different for his monologue. This is the one and only time out of all of his hosting stints that he refrains from doing a song-and-dance number for his monologue. As much as I always enjoy that type of monologue whenever he does it (which is more than I can say for most of the other hosts who have done it), it’s refreshing to have a change tonight, especially since the two preceding monologues (Amy Adams, Jonah Hill) were both song-and-dance monologues. I wonder if there’s ever been a time in SNL history where they’ve had three or more consecutive episodes with a song-and-dance monologue.
— Such a great Walken-y concept with him having written the questions he takes from the audience. A perfect twist to the usual questions-from-the-audience format.
— It feels pretty funny seeing an onscreen Jim Downey appearance so soon after that somewhat-raunchy Digital Short he co-starred in with Jonah Hill in the preceding episode. I can just picture some of the more casual SNL fans saying “Hey, it’s Andy’s dad!” when they saw Downey in this monologue.
— I love how Christopher is starting to admonish the audience members for their “bad” questions, despite the fact that he’s the one who wrote them.
— A hilarious answer from Christopher on what his favorite color is: burnt umber.
— Christopher claiming how easy it is to read off of cards during his complaints about John Lutz’s perceived difficulty in reading off of his index card is a great subtle self-deprecating dig at Christopher’s own penchant for always staring at the cue cards on SNL.
STARS: ****½
ANNUALE
— Rerun from 2/23/08. A bit odd how they’re repeating this tonight, given the fact that it co-stars the host from the episode it originally aired in – Tina Fey.
— Tonight’s audience is even more lively during this repeated commercial than the audience was during the original airing of this commercial. Even Casey’s intentionally cheesy little “That’s all I have time for” line got a huge laugh from tonight’s audience.
GREASE REHEARSAL
teacher (host) nonsensically bowdlerizes high school production of Grease
— I love Christopher’s reaction to the dirty “chicks will cream” lyric in “Greased Lightning”.
— Very funny how Christopher keeps saying “No, shut up” whenever a student suggests an alternate lyric.
— Christopher’s ways of saying “That’s dirty” are increasingly hilarious.
— I’m noticing Christopher’s timing is very slow and delayed during certain portions of this sketch, even moreso than it usually is. I wonder if it’s because of how much older he is in this episode. However, in true Walken fashion, he still makes his particularly slower, more delayed timing work.
— Funny and memorable how Christopher picks Gene Rayburn as a dirty lyric substitution.
— Charming to see Christopher joining the guys in their song-and-dance at the end of this sketch, especially since we never got to see him do a song-and-dance in tonight’s monologue.
STARS: ****½
ERIC’S GOODBYE
on his last day, (JAS) learns workplace acquaintance (host) is a stalker
— Looks like we’re in for a typical great “Walken plays a creepy lunatic” sketch. Always an absolute treat.
— Such a great Walken-y line, with him lovingly describing Jason as “a moist towelette at the end of a delicious plate of ribs.”
— More and more, I’m seeing that Christopher’s timing is definitely slower tonight. Not a real complaint from me, though.
— I love the loud and infectious laugh (“hahh-HAAAAHH!”) I’m hearing from one guy in the audience all throughout this sketch.
— Christopher is slaying me with his increasingly unsettling devotions to Jason.
— Great ending with Christopher deeply contemplating whether he should let Jason go or chase him into a park, choke him to death, and make love to his corpse for the rest his (Christopher’s) life. This is made even better by the great little touch with soft music playing in the background during this deep contemplation of Christopher’s.
STARS: ****½
LASER CATS! 3D
LOM & Chris Dodd [real] watch feline sci-fi trilogy end
— Ah, our annual Laser Cats short.
— Chris Dodd becomes the latest of MANY cameos from presidential candidates during this 2008 presidential race.
— I like the absurdity of Andy and Bill whipping out a TV and VCR at a restaurant, of all places.
— Ooh, a “3-D” Laser Cats.
— Great fake-out with this short making us think Andy and Bill are gruesomely going to “off” two very real cats, via a handgun and a hammer, before they suddenly get interrupted.
— Fun scene with Bill almost getting sucked into space through the open hatch.
— Hilarious brief cutaway to a deadpan Lorne and Chris Dodd watching the Laser Cats movie while wearing 3-D glasses.
— Strong twist with Andy using his healed, now-bionic eye to shoot open the lock on the cage that’s holding various Laser Cats.
— Hmm, for once, a Laser Cats Digital Short doesn’t end with Lorne telling Andy and Bill “Get out”. I was mistaken when I said in my previous Laser Cats reviews that that’s how all Laser Cats shorts end.
STARS: ****
SURPRISE
Sue (KRW) can’t contain her excitement over prospect of a surprise party
— This character of Kristen’s makes her debut.
— This inaugural Surprise Sue sketch was a HUGE hit among viewers back when it originally aired. It got a lot of online buzz and so much acclaim from so many SNL fans, who basically considered this sketch an instant, modern-day classic. (I even saw someone at the time compare the instant popularity of this sketch to that of the very first Matt Foley sketch.) I, on the other hand, had a VERY mixed, rather lukewarm reaction to this sketch at the time…and that’s BEFORE I was aware it would become a tiring and unnecessary recurring sketch.
— Christopher’s typical delivery is making some of his subtly-odd lines even funnier and creepier.
— Two minutes into this sketch, and I’m caring even LESS for it than I did when it originally aired.
— Ah, Kristen finally got me. I got a pretty good laugh just now from her Sue character going through the trouble of smashing a bottle over her head just to keep herself from compulsively telling Casey they’re holding a surprise party for her.
— Meh at Sue jumping through the window. Not even her doing it twice could get a laugh from me. There’s too much of an increasing desperation in the writing of Sue’s wild actions that just isn’t doing it for me.
— Overall, yeah, despite one or two parts that I really liked, I’m gonna have to call this sketch severely overrated. I guess I can see why people love it, but it’s not for me.
STARS: **
MUSICAL PERFORMANCE
musical guest performs “Nine In The Afternoon”
WEEKEND UPDATE
pregnant man Thomas Beatie (ANS) invites SEM & AMP to his baby shower
— Wow, until now, I had completely forgotten about that pregnant guy (Thomas Beatie) who’s Andy’s playing.
— Most of Andy’s commentary is pretty meh. This is usually the type of thing that he’s good at making work, but I’m finding this commentary only mildly funny at best.
— I do like Seth ad-libbing by calling Andy out on how he’s overdoing it by constantly turning back and forth to show off his pregnant belly in a profile angle. These past two seasons, I’ve sometimes been noticing a very friendly little rivalry of sorts going on between Andy and Seth.
— Something even funnier about Amy’s harsh-but-great crack at Madonna is the fact that, when this episode originally aired, this Weekend Update was followed by a commercial break that immediately started with a commercial promoting an album or concert (I forget which) of Madonna’s.
— I like Seth milking his staring-down of the camera after his final joke.
— A surprisingly pretty short Update overall.
STARS: ***
WALKEN FAMILY REUNION
at the Walken family reunion, host greets kin with similar vocal patterns
— The beginning of what would be go on to be an occasional tradition for SNL, doing a family reunion sketch featuring the host’s relatives being either exactly like him or his movie/TV characters.
— Almost right out of the gate, we start this sketch off well with Bill doing a spot-on Walken imitation as the first Walken relative seen in the sketch.
— Amy’s whole Walken-voiced rant about ghosts and “spooky behaviors” is memorable, and steals the whole sketch.
— Fun how we’re gradually seeing pretty much the whole cast do Walken impressions, either one-by-one or in groups.
— Oh, god. Fred as a gay Walken?
— Wow, Fred’s Walken impression is just plain AWFUL. He just sounds like a nasally-congested New Yorker. And the weak just-came-out-of-the-closet gay conceit of his character just makes his Walken impression even worse. Leave it to Fred to be the one sour note of this otherwise enjoyable sketch. I hate to say it, but while doing these episode reviews, I’ve been noticing lately that Fred’s definitely not as strong in these past two seasons (32 and 33) as I used to think. For many years, I used to divide Fred’s long SNL tenure into two separate, simple eras: the mostly strong Fred Armisen years (seasons 28-34) and the mostly bad Fred Armisen years (seasons 35-38). Doing these reviews lately, however, has made me realize that Fred’s tenure can actually be divided into THREE separate, slightly more complicated eras: the mostly strong Fred Armisen years (seasons 28-31), the very hit-and-miss, “Something unfortunate is looming ahead” Fred Armisen years (seasons 32-34), and the unfortunate, mostly bad Fred Armisen years (seasons 35-38).
— Unlike Fred, Kenan’s iffy attempt at a Walken at least has a charming “So bad, it’s good” quality, especially since nobody in their right mind would’ve expected Kenan to nail a Walken impression anyway.
— I see SNL is once again letting Casey Wilson know her status as a newbie, as she’s the ONLY cast member (not including the Update-only Seth, of course) who’s excluded from this sketch. Even Will, despite not appearing as a Walken-sounding family member, at least played the waiter at the very beginning of this, presumably because he doesn’t know how to do a Walken impression, and didn’t feel comfortable attempting one. (Leslie Jones would later have this same role in the Carrey Family Reunion sketch, presumably for the same reason. I have yet to see the Sandler Family Reunion sketch, given the fact that it aired during the period of my still-ongoing hiatus from watching new episodes, and thus, I don’t know who in the cast played the Will Forte/Leslie Jones role as the waiter in that version.)
— Overall, a fun sketch, but not as strong as I had remembered it. I also feel it kinda pales in comparison to the later Carrey Family Reunion sketch. (We’ll see how I’ll feel about the Sandler Family Reunion sketch when we reach it. I’ve heard many positive things about it, though.)
STARS: ***½
INDOOR GARDENING TIPS FROM A MAN WHO’S VERY SCARED OF PLANTS
floraphobic (host) puts himself at ease by adding googly eyes to plants
— An absolutely PERFECT oddball concept for Christopher.
— The aforementioned audience member with the loud and infectious “hahh-HAAAAHH!” laugh from the Eric’s Goodbye sketch earlier tonight has been heard at some other points of tonight’s episode, especially at the beginning of this sketch.
— Christopher’s delivery of “If enough of these ferns lodge themselves down your throat…psssh…you’d CHOKE” had me practically rolling on the floor.
— I absolutely love Christopher’s yell of “OPE!” or “DAAH!” whenever he’s initially startled by a plant he comes across.
— Christopher’s execution of this whole sketch in general so top-notch.
— Christopher’s ending line: “The great Winston Churchill once said the eyes…are the windows…to your FACE.”
STARS: *****
TOP CHEF
(host) can’t cope with time constraints & limited ingredients
— Another spoof of a Bravo reality show I’ve never watched, but this spoof is much easier for me to follow than that Project Runway-related sketch from two episodes prior.
— The increasingly ridiculous ingredients that the contestants are given to make their meal are funny.
— A fairly promising premise with Christopher being a bewildered Top Chef contestant who doesn’t understand the show and questions everything he witnesses.
— Hmm, this sketch isn’t turning out as funny as I expected, despite some occasional laughs from Christopher.
— I couldn’t decipher Christopher’s final line, when he was told to pack up his knives and leave. Did he say “Who knew from knives”? What does that even mean in this context?
STARS: **
MUSICAL PERFORMANCE
musical guest performs “I Write Sins Not Tragedies”
LARRY KING LIVE
Jimmy Carter (DAH) admits nobody reads his books
— Meh, Fred’s Larry King…
— Darrell’s Jimmy Carter impression is always pretty funny.
— That’s it? The sketch is over? I kept waiting and waiting for this sketch to start taking off, yet it ended before it ever took off. The laughs were extremely mild at best.
STARS: *½
GOODNIGHTS
IMMEDIATE POST-SHOW THOUGHTS
— An overall solid episode, though the quality dropped off pretty hard with the last two sketches. The first half of this episode had a lot of strong material, and both halves of this episode gave us some terrific Walken-centric oddball sketches as highly anticipated. Speaking of which, Christopher Walken was his usual hilarious, legendary self, even with his timing being noticeably slower than it was in his prior hosting stints (again, I chalk this up to being an age thing). Also, it’s interesting how this episode ditched the two biggest traditions of prior Christopher Walken episodes: a song-and-dance monologue and a Continental sketch. Regarding the latter, I’ve never heard a reason for why SNL refrained from doing it in this episode. Was Christopher tired of doing them, or was he just eager to try lots of new, different things in this episode? If we were only going to get one solo Christopher Walken sketch tonight, I’d definitely take Indoor Gardening Tips From A Man Who’s etc. over another Continental.
MY PERSONAL CHOICE OF “BEST OF” MOMENTS FOR THIS EPISODE, REPRESENTED WITH SCREENCAPS
HOW THIS EPISODE STACKS UP AGAINST THE PRECEDING ONE (Jonah Hill)
a slight step up
My full set of screencaps for this episode is here
TOMORROW
Ashton Kutcher
Trying to remember but I believe Paula Pell wrote the plants sketch.
Don’t want to spoil it for you Stooge but I think the Sandler family reunion is the best of the bunch
Tom Davis originally wrote the Continental sketches and wasn’t there to write a new one.
“Tom Davis originally wrote the Continental sketches and wasn’t there to write a new one.”
IIRC, a commenter on this site (Jurb/Jesse, possibly) once said there was at least one Continental sketch (I think the one from Walken’s season 21 episode) that wasn’t written by Davis.
Yes, Tim Herlihy and Fred Wolf wrote The Continental sketch from season 21 (after seeking Davis’s permission/approval).
The Walken family reunion sketch is more of a dry run–everyone just does a basic Walken impression, whereas in the Carrey and Sandler sketches people play off of the characters those guys did (I think the Carrey one is the funniest but the Sandler one has the best impressions). I agree Amy is hilarious as the child Walken, but Fred’s gay Walken just doesn’t work. I don’t know what he’s trying in the voice at all.
The Top Chef sketch KIND of has the same vibe to it as a few more recent Extreme Baking/Chopped sketches in which one or more contestants are incompetent, but the central joke is that they don’t know what they’re doing. As a Top Chef viewer at the time, I greatly enjoyed this sketch.
The first Sue sketch I found enjoyable yet also very much an unwelcome further harbinger of “one tic Wiig” sketches. She works hard and is enjoyable, though. One of my bigger complaints is why they use this sketch in a Walken episode–this is definitely a sketch you pull out for a host that just needs to be a straight man (not that Walken can’t be a terrific straight man, but you know what I mean).
I’m sad Walken hasn’t hosted anymore. Surely some sort of special guest appearance can be arranged?
Hello Michael. I think that You Probably Felt like the Focus OR Emphasis should be on Christopher Walken And The Sue Sketch calls for the Focus or Emphasis To be on Kristen Wiigg !
While I agree that Sue suffers from diminishing returns, I would give this one 3 1/2 stars for originality and the one with Josh Brolin a 3. The others are meh.
Fun Fact: The same exterior shot of Sweet Waters Steakhouse is used in the Walken & Carrey reunion sketches. Also, to answer your question Stooge, Chris Redd plays the waiter in Sandler family reunion but unlike Will & Leslie, he does a line from Billy Madison.
Overall, this is probably my second favorite Walken episode behind only the one from season 25.
I’m thinking the main thing I remember from this ep is “Surprise” with the debut of Kristen Wiig’s overexcited Sue character. I think I remember her being funny but doing the same character the same way definitely is overdoing it…
The way Bill looks as Walken is enough to crack me up even without having seen the Reunion sketch.
On the Walken Reunion sketch:
Here’s the between-dress-and-air promo for the live episode which shows Casey did appear in the dress version of “Walken Reunion”.
https://youtu.be/H5adPvrxIEA
Here’s Forte talking about the sketch and his bad CW impression:
https://youtu.be/229CQZPBxrc?t=246
…and here’s Seth on Bill Simmon’s BS Report podcast (right after the episode) discussing the sketch (and Casey and Forte’s nil-to-none-part of it…)
https://youtu.be/jzQRM-o9K-A?t=1000
Thanks, @rssk. I wonder what the two cut sketches were.
Bill has also said that he can’t do Walken. I think he and Amy said (maybe on Ellen’s show) they both struggled but I couldn’t find the exact interview now.
I haven’t seen Walken’s first two episodes all the way through yet, but so far this is my favorite one. I prefer this monologue over the sing-and-dance ones, and to be honest I’m indifferent on The Continental, sadly. The Grease sketch is probably my favorite.
Indoor Gardening Tips is what first comes to mind whenever I think about what sets this era’s writing style apart from others. They had fun with really dumb, quick ideas in this period. I like it better than when the early ‘90s did sketches in a sorta similar vein.
Chris Redd plays the waiter in the Sandler Reunion sketch.
Not to give too much away but there are a few cast members they go a bit light on impressions-wise in that sketch, rather than just the waiter, but it works out.
From TV.com: “Sketches cut after dress rehearsal: A man (Christopher Walken) entertains guests until his primate-human hybrid comes out of hiding; Hillary Clinton (Amy Poehler), Chelsea Clinton (Casey Wilson), Sinbad (Kenan Thompson) and Sheryl Crow (Kristin Wiig) are a bullet-dodging, gun-shooting quartet in 1996 Bosnia; John McCain (Darrell Hammond) gives the price of various items; An oil salesman (Fred Armisen) weeps uncontrollably when we he doesn’t get his way with a perspective buyer (Jason Sudiekis); and during Weekend Update, Will Forte sings about Super-Delegates and blind comic Pep Walters (Fred Armisen) does stand-up about fashion.”
Oh yeah I remember hearing about that Bosnia sketch that week, that it was the original cold opening but NBC didn’t approve of some of the content or something so it got scrapped after dress? I believe it was said to be Casey’s first (only?) LFNY, as I think it was a group one with Amy and Kenan and Kristen (before the group-LFNYs became the norm), could swear I heard the sketch made it’s way online at some point, anyone can verify that? If it had, I hadn’t seen it and can’t seem to find it now anyway.
If I had to rank the seven Walken hosting stints, I’d place this fifth. His Year 18 and Year 25 hosting gigs are stone cold classics, and the other five range from very good to above average. You’re right, this episode really tapers off in the last 20 minutes, but its still a Year 33 high point. Considering Walken keeps a lower profile nowadays, plus considering he’s 75, I doubt he will ever host again.
“Gene Rayburn! Gene, Gene Rayburn!”
@HelloStuart thank you for the cut sketch list. Dodged a few Fred-related bullets there. The only one I would have put in would be the Bosnia piece, which sounds hilarious, and would have been more fun as a cold open than what we got.
Speaking of Fred, I don’t mind his bit in the Walken impression – the idea of a ‘flamboyant’ relative who is actually just like every other Walken is amusing. I think it could have been trimmed a little though. I don’t dislike his Larry King impression either, but if you’re going to do this impression you should either double down on the absurdities of King, the way Norm did, or focus on the absurdity of guests, the way Kevin Nealon did. There’s nothing especially wrong with the sketch in this episode (other than Darrel bearing so little facial resemblance to Jimmy Carter – the voice is spot on though), but it feels too long for something so formless.
Anyway, this is a good episode overall, which occasionally rises to very good (the Grease sketch). It serves as a decent farewell to Christopher Walken, a one-of-a-kind host who managed to float through four very different eras of the show and made his mark each time. Of all the hosts who were on as often as he was he may have the highest success rate as I don’t think any of his ever get near a “bad” level.
There are a few pieces I could have done without (the cold open is a bit too strident; the Top Chef piece feels shaky and oddly reminds me more of Chopped, which wasn’t even on the air yet; the Larry King sketch is a shrug), but the closest to bad for me in this one is probably Andy’s Update piece. Andy is not considered “problematic” by the same fans who generally have a harsh view of some others in his cast (like Fred or Bill), probably due to this not being widely shown. It’s not only cheap, and gross, it’s also completely unfunny. I’m not saying Andy should be seen as “problematic,” whatever that even means these days, just that his being involved in such a mess shows that it’s probably fruitless to paint one cast member or another with too damning of a brush. It’s too bad because otherwise this would have been a very good Update.
It’s a good sketch, but considering the potential, I wanted to like the “fatal attraction” sketch more than I did. Jason’s very good, and even though the idea was ropey even by 2008, it’s well-executed, but Walken is reading off the cards so blatantly that the mood is spoilt. A pairing with one of the show’s all-time best hosts and all-time best cast members – what might have been.
The plants sketch is wonderful (I read somewhere that this is Walken’s favorite thing he did on SNL). The Grease sketch is a lot of fun and, along with the plant piece and the monologue, is the best use of Walken’s rhythms.
I have to admit I do enjoy Surprise Sue, but I’m “surprised” to learn this was such a hugely popular debut sketch. Kristen does have tons of energy, which helps, but otherwise there is nothing particularly special going on. I’m 50/50 on this being recurring – I think it can work as long as the appearances aren’t too frequent. Kristen said in an interview that this is one of her favorite characters but is physically exhausting, which is, I guess, why she didn’t return on Kristen’s first hosting stint.
This is probably one of the lower-ebb Laser Cats, but still very enjoyable, even if Lorne shoehorning in a “famous friend” cameo makes my eyes roll back.
Watching this I was trying to remember if Darrell and Walken ever have any good moments together considering Darrell was in 5 of his episodes. I guess there’s the Elian sketch, although that one doesn’t register high in my memory banks.
Promos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apAMxGapbFo
Sue was a hit because anyone who has ever planned a surprise party knows how stressful it is when you have the one friend or relative that you know could ruin it.
The thing with Sue and a lot of Kristen’s characters is they would’ve been remembered a lot more fondly as great one-offs but they had to run just about all of them into the ground to the point where they just got annoying.
Going over the list of cut dress sketches, I have a theory that two of them might’ve have eventually made it to air after being conceptually reworked and rewritten. The Forte Super Delegates song sounds like it could’ve been turned into either his “yea/nay votes” song from Anne Hathaways’ first episode later this calender year or his “BCS” song from the Neil Patrick Harris episode next season. The “human primate hybird” sketch seems like it could’ve been turned into the “human primate hybrid” sketch that eventually aired in the 2012 Jonah Hill episode. I won’t elaborate further on what the Jonah Hill sketch was like but I’ll just say if what I’m thinking is true, thank God it didn’t air in this one. Also, I’m guessing that shot of a bearded Kenan in fatigues and Mr. T like chains bursting through a stack of boxes labeled “TNT” is from the cut Bosnia sketch? If so, it does seem to have been written to be a cold open and that brief glimpse definitely makes me want to see it more.
There are two kinds of great Christopher Walken sketches: the ones that are great before Walken’s involvement, but made better by his unique presence (think Cowbell) or the kind that rely solely on Walken being Walken (think Census). This episode has one of each and kind of pads out the rest.
The Greased Lightning sketch is obviously the former kind of Walken sketch. It would work with anybody, but it works particularly well with Walken acting as the fulcrum. I think it’s pretty emphatically one of the best sketches of the season.
The Plants piece is all Walken. Which is absolutely wonderful. It’s honestly one of, if not the greatest, Weird Walken pieces.
The rest is a hodgepodge with some good stuff that uses Walken and some less interesting stuff that misused him. The family reunion pieces boast high degrees of charm, though they’re not outrageously funny. The Sandler one is easily my favorite, but that episode has a ton of great material.
Does Walken make any guest appearances after this episode? I cannot recall if he had any involvement with the 40th.
Five-Timers Individual Rankings:
8.8 – CW/Arrested Development (18.04)
8.3 – CW/Bonnie Raitt (15.11)
8.0 – CW/Christina Aguilera (25.16)
7.9 – CW/Foo Fighters (28.13)
7.7 – CW/Joan Osborne (21.10)
7.7 – CW/Weezer (26.20)
6.8 – CW/Panic At The Disco (33.09)
I’m gonna be really sad if Christopher Walken’s last SNL appearance is introducing Kanye West’s performance at the 40th Anniversary
I seem to be in the minority, but I think this is still the best of the [insert host] Family Reunion sketches. I like how this one is just a sort of ‘slice of life’ low-key showcase as opposed to the cast just aping established characters to varying degrees of success. Plus the Deer Hunter line is a great joke. Also, neither of the two have Amy’s sublime bit about the doll, one of my favorite moments from her. Fred’s Tony Danza-esque gay Walken doesn’t even bother me.