Saturday Night Live (1975)
TV Show
First aired
"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 Tilton, with Gilbert Gottfried as Mr. Speedy. The parody has aged well because its target is poverty and hustle rather than the original host, and Murphy brought it back when he returned to host in 2019.
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