Christian Slater/Smashing Pumpkins

Episode aired Oct 31, 1993
TV-PG
1h 30m

IMDb RATING

6.6/10

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Christian Slater in Saturday Night Live (1975)

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Coffee Talk opens the show. Christian Slater goes trick or treating during his monologue. Matt Foley, Sassy's Sassiest Boys and "You put your weed in there" all return. Queen Shenequa makes ... Read allCoffee Talk opens the show. Christian Slater goes trick or treating during his monologue. Matt Foley, Sassy's Sassiest Boys and "You put your weed in there" all return. Queen Shenequa makes her last appearance on Weekend Update while Adam Sandler provides more Halloween costume i... Read allCoffee Talk opens the show. Christian Slater goes trick or treating during his monologue. Matt Foley, Sassy's Sassiest Boys and "You put your weed in there" all return. Queen Shenequa makes her last appearance on Weekend Update while Adam Sandler provides more Halloween costume ideas. the one-off sketches are Teen Band, The Vallencourt Boys, Headline Store and Trent M... Read all

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IMDb RATING

6.6/10

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A behind the scenes photograph shot during dress rehearsal shows Christian Slater playing Jesus Christ in a sketch, visiting a house wife played by Julia Sweeney. This sketch would eventually appear in Sally Field/Tony! Toni! Tone! (1993), with Phil Hartman playing Jesus and Sally Field the house wife. In his 2009 autobiography "39 Years of Short-Term Memory Loss", Tom Davis recounts Christian Slater really championed the sketch, but that following dress rehearsal, Victoria Jackson said she couldn't play the housewife because of her religious beliefs. Davis claims he submitted the sketch to Sally Field the following week, however, in actuality, more than a month had past between this show and the one hosted by Sally Field, and Victoria Jackson had left the show two years earlier. So, it might have been Sweeney who objected to playing the part instead, or it is possible they may have tried the sketch out out when Slater first hosted in season 17, at which time Victoria Jackson was still in the cast.

Quotes
Weekend Update Anchor: A new paperback book released this week compiled 1001 pick-up lines used in bars. The two lines used most frequently were "What's your sign", which is one of my favorites, and "Don't I know you from somewhere?". The two lines that very rarerly worked were "Gee, you have really small breasts" and "Aren't you my cousin?".

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Edited into Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman (1998)

Soundtracks
Call Me
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Written by Tony Hatch (uncredited)
(instrumental) (used as intro to Coffee Talk)

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Featured review

6/10

Overall a pretty mediocre episode.

Season 19 is when they definitely started slipping in quality. I still don't love Coffee Talk. Still think its a bad way to open any episode. Nice hearing Sarah Silvermans voice though. Monologue was fun. I like it when they let the host roam around and show us the sets. Chris Farley chewing the scenery again. He really had his routine down solid by this point. Shame he couldn't stay clean and sober for very long. Though, like his idol Belushi before him, he never had a problem poking fun at himself. Sassy boys just was not terribly funny. D'arcy Wretzky actually looks pretty cool with her pixie cut and her little outfit. This is definitely the glory days of Smashing Pumpkins. Kevin Nealon gets a little worse each season, though occasionally comes up with a good zinger. Picking on the Olsen twins wasn't cool when they were toddlers, but knowing what comes later on I guess its good foreshadowing. Adams pickle routine may have been funny in 1993 but today it just feels weak and desperate. Stoner rockers should have been funny but it kinda lacked good jokes. Same thing with stoner salesman. Those actors must have all been regular smokers. Not one of them is coughing or hacking during the sketch.