Saturday Night Live (1975)
TV Show
First aired
"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 straight-faced sales voice, a terrible product and no let-up in speed. Aykroyd's patter is so fast that the gross-out joke arrives before you see it coming.
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