SNL skewers Indiana Jones show at Disney Hollywood Studios

Jeff

Monday, January 20, 2014 1:39 PM
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I can't say I totally get the foreigner with rice thing, but OK...

http://www.hulu.com/watch/585266


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Mike Gallagher

Monday, January 20, 2014 6:47 PM

Now I remember why I stopped watching SNL following the Murphy/Piscopo era.


The amusement park rises bold and stark..kids are huddled on the beach in a mist

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janfrederick

Thursday, January 23, 2014 9:05 PM
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It might have been funnier if the guest was a hard core swamp people type.


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Brian Noble

Thursday, January 23, 2014 11:33 PM

I only made it about 20 seconds before giving up.


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Vater

Thursday, January 23, 2014 11:44 PM
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janfrederick said:

It [would] have been funnier if [it wasn't an SNL bit].

Fixed. :)

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Tommytheduck

Friday, January 24, 2014 3:15 AM
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I'm about the only SNL defender left that I know of. I am a lifelong fan, no matter how bad it gets. But I cannot defend that skit. Pretty sure I fast forwarded through half of it.

Now "The Californians" on the other hand, I would line up for a midnight screening of!

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/the-californians/n13474/

and:

http://screen.yahoo.com/californians-karina-returns-000000291.html

This second clip even has a SFMM reference at around the 3:45 mark. You know, to keep it relevant.

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Natas

Friday, January 24, 2014 3:25 AM

That didn't have any resemblance to the show that I remember watching a few year ago. The show I saw did not have a guest acting as Indiana Jones and was actually pretty neat to see. When making fun of something, shouldn't it at least be a little like the real thing?

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RCMAC

Friday, January 24, 2014 4:23 AM

No.
I was selected to be in the show, and as much as I insisted I was capable of playing Indiana Jones himself, I was relegated to the chorus anyway. Our job was to cry really hard when Indy was in trouble and cheer really loud when he saved the day. I made sure I was in front, and was a total ham. It was fun, and we each got paid a dollar for our work.

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Mike Gallagher

Friday, January 24, 2014 12:21 PM

You got paid?? I got picked for a show..I forget what it was called..at Disney in the mid 90's. I played Edward R. Murrow..or maybe it was Dave Garroway.. at a news desk reporting on the day Disneyland opened. I didn't get a dollar or anything else, and I had to wear a TIE!!!

Might have been called Superstar Theater or some such. I think it was at (then) MGM Studios.


The amusement park rises bold and stark..kids are huddled on the beach in a mist

http://support.gktw.org/site/TR/CoastingForKids/General?px=1248054&...fr_id=1372

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Gemini

Friday, January 24, 2014 1:29 PM
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Last week's episode was hit or miss, but Drake was impressive. He's got a lot of potential to be a regular SNL host.

The funniest part of the skit was reading the reactions on the Disney fan sites nitpicking the details. :)


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Jeff

Friday, January 24, 2014 1:45 PM
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Nothing is funny to those idiots.


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Lord Gonchar

Friday, January 24, 2014 2:17 PM
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Jeff said:

Nothing is funny to those idiots.

Have you read the nine posts above yours?


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Jeff

Friday, January 24, 2014 2:30 PM
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That wasn't the point. They take something fun like theme parks and suck all of the fun out of them.


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Lord Gonchar

Friday, January 24, 2014 2:31 PM
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Yeah, but your timing was as good as any punchline.


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bunky666

Saturday, January 25, 2014 3:11 AM

Mike Gallagher said:
You got paid?? I got picked for a show..I forget what it was called..at Disney in the mid 90's. I played Edward R. Murrow..or maybe it was Dave Garroway.. at a news desk reporting on the day Disneyland opened. I didn't get a dollar or anything else, and I had to wear a TIE!!!

Might have been called Superstar Theater or some such. I think it was at (then) MGM Studios.

You didn't even get an f'n pencil?! ;)


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Natas

Saturday, January 25, 2014 4:17 AM

Hey Gonch, I don't think that I was being overly humorless, I just didn't find the skit funny. The guy that was fake hosting the show was kind of funny in his mannerisms, but I didn't get the point of any of the rest of the skit. In contrast, Krustyland on the Simpsons also pokes fun a Disney but is very funny.

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RCMAC

Saturday, January 25, 2014 5:02 AM

Yes, we got paid, really. It wasn't exactly union scale, but they did say they were required to pay us something. Then after the show while we were all getting out of our fake costumes, my dollar blew outta my pocket and went skittering across the stage. I went after it, of course, and they were all like "Sir? Sir! Please stay out of that area, it's restricted" and then I was all like "um... Sorry, but it's my hard-earned dollar, and I'm goin after it..."

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Lord Gonchar

Saturday, January 25, 2014 5:16 AM
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I wasn't pointing anyone out or even necessarily disagreeing, Natas.

It was just that it was an entire thread of everyone going on about how unfunny the skit was and then Jeff posts, "Nothing is funny to those idiots"

That was funny to me.


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rollergator

Saturday, January 25, 2014 11:57 PM
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So *someone* got some comedic value in the end as a result of the skit...? :-P

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