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  1. 1Saturday Night Live (1975)Saturday Night Live (1975) 8.0/10 on IMDbFirst aired Oct 11, 1975"Jaws II" (Land Shark), November 8, 1975 Chevy Chase plays the Land Shark, a predator who works apartment doors with fake deliveries until somebody opens up, in a first-season parody of Jaws hosted by Candice Bergen. The joke is mostly the muffled voice behind the door and its escalating excuses,…0
  2. 2Saturday Night Live (1975)Saturday Night Live (1975) 8.0/10 on IMDbFirst aired Oct 11, 1975"Samurai Hotel," December 13, 1975 John Belushi plays Samurai Futaba, the sword-swinging samurai stuck in an ordinary job, here working a hotel front desk opposite host Richard Pryor as a bellhop and Chevy Chase as a customer. Belushi's grunted, half-invented Japanese and the real danger of that…0
  3. 3Saturday Night Live (1975)Saturday Night Live (1975) 8.0/10 on IMDbFirst aired Oct 11, 1975"Super Bass-O-Matic '76," April 17, 1976 Dan Aykroyd's fast-talking pitchman sells a blender that turns a whole fish into a drink, and Laraine Newman's consumer gulps it down with delight. It aired in the episode hosted by Ron Nessen, and it set the template for the show's fake commercials: a…0
  4. 4Saturday Night Live (1975)Saturday Night Live (1975) 8.0/10 on IMDbFirst aired Oct 11, 1975"The Coneheads At Home," January 15, 1977 Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin and Laraine Newman play Beldar, Prymaat and Connie Conehead, a family of aliens with towering heads who describe everyday suburban life in stiff, overly formal language. That deadpan vocabulary is the whole joke, and it carried the…0
  5. 5Saturday Night Live (1975)Saturday Night Live (1975) 8.0/10 on IMDbFirst aired Oct 11, 1975"Two Wild & Crazy Guys," September 24, 1977 Host Steve Martin and Dan Aykroyd play Georg and Yortuk Festrunk, brothers from Czechoslovakia in tight plaid pants and loud open shirts who are certain they are irresistible to American women. Martin hosted eight times between 1976 and 1980, and his…0
  6. 6Saturday Night Live (1975)Saturday Night Live (1975) 8.0/10 on IMDbFirst aired Oct 11, 1975"The Olympia Cafe," January 28, 1978 John Belushi's Pete runs a Greek diner counter where every order turns into "cheeseburger, cheeseburger" and every soda request into "no Coke, Pepsi," with Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray working the grill beside him. The joke grows purely by repetition until the…0
  7. 7Saturday Night Live (1975)Saturday Night Live (1975) 8.0/10 on IMDbFirst aired Oct 11, 1975"Nerds & The Nurse," February 24, 1979 Gilda Radner's Lisa Loopner and Bill Murray's Todd DiLaMuca are the snorting, noogie-trading teenage nerds who are secretly devoted to each other, with Jane Curtin as Lisa's mother, Enid. Radner's laugh and the affection under Murray's teasing make these…0
  8. 8Saturday Night Live (1975)Saturday Night Live (1975) 8.0/10 on IMDbFirst aired Oct 11, 1975"Mister Robinson's Neighborhood," February 21, 1981 Eddie Murphy turns the gentle children's show into a tour of a rough neighborhood, with Mr. Robinson cheerfully explaining scams, landlords and eviction to the kids at home. It aired during Murphy's first season, in the episode hosted by Charlene…0
  9. 9Saturday Night Live (1975)Saturday Night Live (1975) 8.0/10 on IMDbFirst aired Oct 11, 1975"Church Chat," October 11, 1986 Dana Carvey's Church Lady interviews her guests with pursed lips and mounting suspicion, finding Satan behind everything they say, and the pauses before "Isn't that special?" are where Carvey's timing shines. In this installment host Sigourney Weaver turns up as…0
  10. 10Saturday Night Live (1975)Saturday Night Live (1975) 8.0/10 on IMDbFirst aired Oct 11, 1975"Pumping Up With Hans & Franz," October 17, 1987 Dana Carvey and Kevin Nealon play Hans and Franz, Austrian bodybuilders in padded sweatsuits who promise to "pump you up" and sneer at viewers' flabby arms, an affectionate send-up of Arnold Schwarzenegger. This one aired in the season premiere…0