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Wake Up And Smile: "SNL" Still Making News (Even The Middling, Right-wingy Bits)

Posted by Bryan Christian

Who broke up with Hef? What heinous crime has a pink Power Ranger been accused of? And what's the only good part about this now infamous SNL sketch? Click on through to find out, plus Sons of Anarchy -- and Lost and Desperate Housewives spoilers!

 -- NBC took down the unfunny, vaguely insulting bailout sketch from last Saturday -- and then reposted it a couple hours later. Apparently it's because of a fake C-Span crawl advocating the murder of a couple of fatcats. Listen, that's neither here nor there. What's important is, if you didn't see it, just so's you know: the only good part of this sketch is when Fred Armisen, as Barney Frank, finally says something, because just seeing him standing off in the corner with crazy hair, crazy eyes, and crazy monobrow, you just KNOW he's gonna kill. And then, well, he doesn't quite.

-- Our favorite of the Girls Next Door has always been Holly. Is that wrong? She's demanding, yes, but she goes shopping, guys... in tiny shorts. Well, poor Hef. Sounds like he and Holly are no longer a thing. Leaving him with only two other things to cavort with.

-- Quick: name the most dangerous former Pink Power Ranger. If you said Amy Jo Johnson, that folksingy whinybaby that nearly ruined Felicity's freshman year, you'd be wrong. Turns out Skyler Deleon, who also donned the pink helmet (yeah, that sounds kinky) killed a retired couple for their yacht. Damn, Felicity, turns out you got off easy.

-- Wisteria Lane's gonna have a fire some time this year, and not everyone's gonna make it out. Except we're pretty much guessing that they're only gonna get rid of the new people, because God knows Eva Longoria ain't goin' out looking the way she do these days.

-- Oh, also: there are apparently some Lost spoilers here, but we'd never know, because damned if we're gonna spoil anything if we don't have to.

-- And finally, not everyone feels the way we do about Sons of Anarchy apparently, as it's been renewed for a second season by the FX network. Oh, man, are we really gonna be second guessing our putting an end to recaps of that show for, like, years?


Comments

angela said:

Amy Jo Johnson? But isn't nearly impossible to ruin a mediocre show like Felicity?

October 9, 2008 1:01 AM

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Bryan Christian has worked as a writer for Epicurious, GenArt and ID magazine; a web producer for WWD and Condé Nast; and a cameraman for his friends. He's married and lives in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn.

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