Saturday Night Live — S04E03 — Frank Zappa

1978 · 67 MIN · IMDB 6.9 · DIR. Dave Wilson, Walter Williams, James Signorelli

Saturday Night Live — S04E03 — Frank Zappa poster

Overview

Sketches include "Fred Silverman," "Coneheads," "Domestic Prison," "Night on Freak Mountain," "Woman to Woman," "The Al Franken and Tom Davis Show," "Mr. Bill"

Dialogue Timeline — 1,870 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:01 GOOD EVENING, I'M FRED SILVERMAN. LAST JUNE, WHEN I BECAME
00:04:08 TONIGHT, WE'D LIKE TO DO A SONG ABOUT AN IMPORTANT SOCIAL PROBLEM... DISCO.
00:08:41 TRANSPARENT WEATHER PANELS! MEBS! MEBS!
00:10:37 NO, THAT SHOULD BE OUT THERE. IT SHOULDN'T BE IN THERE. OH, YEAH.
00:13:51 HE KNOWS MORE LIES THAN F. LEE BAILEY. UM, WHICH ONE DO YOU WANT...
00:15:48 MONTH FOR EACH PRISONER WE TAKE OFF THEIR HANDS. WE PUT IN TWO MORE, AND THAT'S
00:17:45 DRY CLEANERS. SO, UH, HOW HAVE YOU BEEN? OH, I'VE BEEN HERE.
00:19:27 CLEAN... JUST CLEANED THAT. AND THAT IS OUR BEST CHINA. THAT WAS A WEDDING GIFT.
00:22:02 ANNOUNCED THAT THE TIRES WILL BE MELTED DOWN AND RECYCLED INTO STEEL-BELTED RADIAL CONDOMS.
00:24:16 WITH PETS... SO MANY TERRIBLE ACCIDENTS. I REMEMBER I CAME IN ONE TIME
00:26:28 JAPAN AND GERMANY WILL RESTORE THE DOLLAR TO ITS 1946 LEVEL, AND THE UNITED STATES WILL
00:28:49 BUTTON AROUND THE CONCLAVE.
00:31:10 OBVIOUSLY REGRETTED YOUR BIRTH AND REFUSED TO SUCKLE YOU, THEREBY ACCOUNTING FOR YOUR
00:35:07 ♪ DO WHAT YOU WANT TO, DO WHAT YOU WILL ♪ ♪ JUST DON'T MESS UP YOUR
00:37:51 NO, TAKE IT. I DON'T DO DRUGS. KEEP IT.
00:40:33 CAME UP HERE TO XANADU. ALL RIGHT. THEN WHAT'S THE BEST WAY TO GO
00:42:51 THE MDA I DID AN HOUR AGO IS KICKING IN, MAN. IT'S REALLY CLEAN.
00:45:00 BOZ SCAGGS BLOW-DRY THING. IT WILL BE INCREDIBLE. WE CAN RAP IN THE CHOPPER.
00:47:50 FEEL THERE'S A WHOLE WEALTH OF EXPERIENCE AND CAREERS THAT YOU'RE MISSING BY TOTAL
00:49:45 HUSBAND ON YOUR LITTLE TRIP." WELL, I HAD NO IDEA. SO WE WENT, AND WE GOT IN THE
00:52:27 AND HOW AM I GONNA SLASH TAXES? BY MAKING THE FAT CATS PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE.
00:55:32 THE HOMOSEXUAL IS A PERFECT TARGET FOR COMMUNIST BLACKMAIL THREATS, AND THERE'S NO ROOM FOR
01:03:02 SAY, MR. BILL, YOU'D BETTER CLEAN UP BEFORE THE INTERIOR DECORATOR GETS HERE.
01:05:58 DON PARDO SAYING GOOD NIGHT.

Cast & Characters

John Belushi Self - Various Characters Laraine Newman Self - Various Characters Gilda Radner Self - Various Characters Jane Curtin Self - Various Characters Dan Aykroyd Self - Various Characters Garrett Morris Self - Various Characters Bill Murray Self - Various Characters
Walter Williams Mr. Bill Characters (voice) (uncredited)
Frank Zappa Self - Host & Musical Guest
Don Novello Father Guido Sarducci
Al Franken Pete Tagliani
Tom Davis Winfield Adcock
Brian Doyle-Murray Sid Vicious (uncredited)
Anne Beatts Crew Member (uncredited)
Nils Nichols Crew Member (uncredited)
Paul Shaffer Don Kirshner (uncredited)

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,870
Dialogue density27.9 lines / min
First line00:00:01
Final line01:05:58

Production Record

DirectorDave Wilson, Walter Williams, James Signorelli
LanguageEnglish

Factoids

Episode

Saturday Night Live, season 4, episode 3: Frank Zappa.

https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/1667/season/4/episode/3
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