THE BEST NEWS OF THE WEEK
The Amazing Race is coming back to CBS next year! Woo Hoo! I so can�t wait! Of course, if I survive yet another season of the madness known as Saturday Night Live, then more power to me.
SPORTS
Apologies to all San Francisco fans! Well there�s next year!
MY GAME
With the new scoring system, or rather, which each thing being worth more, the scores pretty much rocked, and I�m impressed at how nothing out of the ordinary happened to change the scores.
I�m really tired. I�m just going to the review.
ARNOLD
It came as no surprise that this was going to be the cold opening. I�m surprised that several people chose not to put in a pick for this part of the show. It was either going to be this or Chris Parnell�s Bush. What a shame. An opportunity to multiply your score by 10: Down the drain. Anyway, back to the review of the Cold Opening. While Darrell�s Arnold wasn�t on point, the script for this was pretty funny. It�s nice to see a decent, not-so recurring plot for the opening of the show.
95/100
MONOLOGUE
You knew that Jack Black was going to give his all during the montage. Despite no reference to the set (which BTW isn�t THAT MUCH of a chance like the big change in 1995), he took this monologue and made it his own. Even if Will wasn�t in this, this still would have received a score of
100/100
HUGGIES THONG
This was messed up, but it didn�t suck
83/100
QUEER EYE FOR THE STRAIGHT GAL
Nice parody of this. I can�t remember the last time that they did two different commercials back-to-back.
99/100
WADE
This is where Finesse made his debut. While I can deal without another one of these, I believe that Finesse�s Boogie will surface somewhere again. Jack Black and his dances helped this earn a score of
70/100
COOKING WITH SPECIAL GUEST FRED ARMISEN AS GABE
Once again, Gabe saved a cheesy ass sketch from being total crap. I can�t help but to think that either Fred should have been bumped up with or without Will, or Will should have�been fired.
67/100
SNL TOONS
This was a cross between crap and The X-Presidents. Speaking of the X-Presidents, I can�t wait until 2005 to see that version of the X-Presidents.
80/100
AND NOW HERE�S TONIGHT�S VERY SPECIAL MUSICAL GUEST
John Mayer. All this time, thanks to Jack�s mispronunciation of John Mayer, I thought I was the one that was mispronouncing the name. But if I can recall very, very easily, it is indeed Mayer. Jack�s expression was pretty shocking after messing up. Well, it shocked me, because if I can recall, that doesn�t even compare to some of the other screw-ups on the show.
75/100
SATURDAY NIGHT NEWS
Well, the Rush Limbaugh stuff was expected. It was nice to see Kenan�s Bill Cosby. It wasn�t all that, considering that anyone can do Bill Cosby. They should get Amy to portray Bill; whatever makes the people laugh is legit. One thing that stayed the same from 2000 was the set and the opening montage for Weekend Update. I don�t see them getting a new one until next year. As for a new set, I don�t think that they will either. If they do, they should go for one where the city is behind them. Other than that, everything�s fine.
91/100
CRAP (ALSO KNOWN AS GUITAR CRAP)
WTF
60/100 � Original score plus 60 because it was shoved into a part of the show where most people would have stopped watching
MUSIC
Bummer. He didn�t do the song that I know more than his others. Seriously, if you think about it, there�s no such thing as not performing your break out song. Whatever. He�ll be back next month, without his band.
60/100
RED, RED WINE
This wasn�t that good, sans the part where it became deliberate to nail Seth with the wine. This seemed like crap that was written by someone from the 1994 writing team.
70/100 � Original score times 2 plus 20 so that the overall score isn�t too low
TELE (AND THE REST GOT CUT OUT)
Yawn. Even the people who cut this due to time would probably not tell the truth and say that it�s getting late.
85/100 � Only to be fair
Average = 79.62
It was an okay show. I probably have to watch it again so that I can rate it better than I just did. Anything can get cut the first time, just like my last review. Anyway, it�s football season, so I have an excuse for a lackluster episode.
Here are the results of the SNL PG:
Jack Black: 9
FRA: 2
RAD: 6
JIF: 2
TIF: 3
WLF: 2
DAH: 1
SEM: 3
FIM: 3
CHP: 3
AMP: 5
JER: 3
MAR: 8
HOS: 5
KET: 4
John Mayer: 2
SG: 2
WU: 6
Cold: 1
LFNY: DAH
If you see any errors, LMK as soon as possible! The final results will be posted in a few days along with the extra-extended version of the review. If you want to comment or question the game and my review, feel free to drop a line at my email address.
Thanks, and see you next week, where our host and musical guest will be none other than Justin Timberlake.
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