thebrainfollower wrote:
Forgot about those trailers. Yes they're really funny, but again Lee had very little to do with them really. Thanks for the SNL history lesson, I admit other than seeing the odd episode now and then I'm not really familiar with it until the early 90's.

And yes I was subconsciously comparing Price's Muppet Show. But then as a kid of the early 80's I adore that program. Price's is one of the highlights of the experimental first season. The only thing they missed was having Dr. Bunsen Honeydew join forces with the evil Dr. Goldfoot!
Yeah, it's too bad Lee wasn't involved in the trailer spoofs, but still, they're a lot of fun.  When Anthony Perkins hosted the show in the first season, he participated in a similar gag reel of fake horror trailers.  He even poked fun at his most famous character in writer Michael O'Donoghue's (SNL's master of dark and twisted humor) sketch, The Norman Bates School of Motel Management:

http://snltranscripts.jt.org/75/75pbatesmotel.phtml

In addition, Perkins sang and danced to "Hello Dolly," with Jane Curtin; appeared with the Muppets Jim Henson created specifically for SNL; and genuinely seemed to be having a good time.  Heck, right from his opening monologue, Perkins spoofed his "creepy" image, searching for his pair of "good luck panties" and eating a "fly."  This is an episode worth checking out.

I was an 80s kid too, and I never missed THE MUPPET SHOW.  The Vincent Price and Alice Cooper shows were two of my favorites.


  

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