Nothing was better than these Not Ready for Primetime Players and the writers!

"That's so funny, I forgot to laugh"-- that line really takes me back in time.

Gilda Radner was an absolute gem.

This was back when many sketches also had heart, instead of just being for laughs. We loved these characters, because they are funny, but also because they are kind, loving and sincere. We can relate with people who aren't cool and a bit clueless, because we've either been uncool and clueless, or we love people who are. Todd is obnoxious, but he has genuine love for Mrs. Lubner and sincerely compliments her and tries to lift her spirits when she is lamenting over her husband, and refrigerator's death. Bill and Gilda always found the heart of a character, something redeeming and beautiful in among the hilarious. Like Roseanne Roseannadanna, her characters were well-fleshed out and always contained heart that made us even more invested in whatever they had to say.

Gilda’s reaction was real when she saw Akroyds crack the first time. Lmao

This was so perfectly accurate. The clothing, the dialogue, the set. I grew up in Versailles, Pennsylvania and I knew people exactly like these characters.

Holy shit! Props to Aykroyd for actually loading up that fridge on a hand truck and getting it out the door without destroying the set.

This is such a throwback. This was my SNL era. Never been as good, though I did like the Farley, Spade, Sandler crew.

Those were the days. Poor Gilda. We all loved her so much.

Jim Carrey totally used Dan Aykroyd's plumber character in this skit as inspiration for his character in The Cable Guy. It's beyond evident. Pure comic genius. Gotta love it.

I loved Gilda. She brought so much happiness into our lives.

GILDA WAS GOLDEN ….⭐️

never be a better troupe than the original years

Pulling the pencil out of his crack was gold.

The best thing about SNL classic recurring sketches was how they developed over time. The Nerds kept adding little nuances: Mrs. Loopner's egg salad, memories of the late Mr. Loopner (God Rest His Soul) who was born without a spine. He also invented the Slinky, but failed to patent it.

I Fell In Love With Gilda In 1975 I Was 8 When She Passed Away I Felt Like I Lost My Best Friend Still Missing Her Today Always Will 💔 The Original SNL Was The Best Year's Love And Miss Thoses Day's ❤

I think this was stunningly funny because everyone had seen butt crack incidents in real life, but no one talked about it, and we never dreamed anyone would make fun of it on TV. I mean when this first aired we nearly fell over laughing. And if you watch Gilda, she nearly falls over laughing. Supposedly Dan did this in rehearsal, but the cast never thought he would actually go through with it on live TV.

I was a teen when these 1970s eps were new. The nerds were funny. I always liked Bill Murray.

Dan Aykroid did the same repairman bit on a episode of the Nanny...classic..

It’s so funny how Mrs. Loopner is charmed by Todd!! Hahahahaha!!

Switch to math and go into long division. Cracks me up every time.

goddam, Bill Murray was so cute

MY MAN GOT THAT GYAT

Several years later Dan Aykroyd did it again in The Nanny 😂🤣

I'm glad they showed this episode because of it, 'plumber's crack' was officially recognized as a disease by the American Medical Association.

I ma 59 years old and lost my father 4 years ago. My father had a serious side to him a mile wide. When this came out we watched it together. I thought he and i were going to pee in our pants we laughed so hard !!!! found memories of a man who knew what he liked. He loved George Carlin too A place for my stuff. Thanks from Texas!!!

Noogie!! Noogie patrol!!

The 2 ghostbusters in the making

The best SNL skit ever.

What a becoming housecoat!!

Miniature marshmellows Tang and eggs salad. MY FAVORITES!

First butt crack in TV history 😂

This still makes me laugh so hard. Holy crap.

My mom showed my this when I was younger I’m so glad I found it again

They had fun with these characters too

Really, loved Gildea Radner skits on SNL especially Rosanna Rosanna Danna and the skit the schoolteacher on Weekend Update

We had a kid in high school that had that problem, one time he was sitting on an upper level in the cafeteria practically mooning half the kids, somebody tossed a potato-tot in it from down below like someone shooting hoops.

Dan's costume and behavior were unscripted and deliberate. Story goes his intent was mooning the audience. Which is why Bill and Gilda are acting so strangely. They honestly didn't think he'd do it.

Gilda can't stop laughing. Remember, this was live on NBC on sat night at 11:30. When comedy was great

Aykroyd looked and sounded exactly like jim carey cable guy.

“Black and Blue are going to be the big colors this year my dear”.

Why don’t you go play in traffic. 🤣 Those we’re the days.

The anatomical pencil holder!!!!!!

Omg Dan akroyd

THANKS!!MOM! for naming me lisa, just so that people at school could call me lisa loonpner

"Ray has gone bye-bye Gilda, what have you got left?"

I remember watching this with a buddy and we almost choked on the pizza we were eating.

When I hit my 50s and gained 20lbs, crouch sagging pants became my thing too.

No wise cracks!!!!! 😂😂😂😂

...wonder if Jim Carey used Akroyd's refrigerator repairman as inspiration for his cable guy...talks a little like him...similar mannerisms...

I'm cracking up😅.

man i miss those days...under developed nations....everybody stayed home to watch.snl....and right after that sctv

Bill was so cute oh my god

I can’t stop laughing 😆. I wish SNL was this good now a days.

I have season 4 on DVD so I have watched this several times, but I am just now figuring out that Todd is singing the theme from Grease, which had just come out a month or two before this aired.

How come I don't see them looking at the cue cards every second like today's SNL?

Chess is THE word lol

Am laughing my arse off, because here in Stratford, Connecticut, there used to be a laundromat called "Norge Village", and haven't heard that brand name since the early 1960's... 😀 Didn't realize they manufactured refrigerators, too... 🤔 Only on "Saturday Night Live"... 🌙

The good ole days 😊

TYVM for the best 7 minutes of my day! Take a crack at this...it's quite funny!

Oh god it’s soooo good

I started watching SNL in grade school an would throw a fit too watch it with my older brothers and sisters 78 I was in 3rd grade an loved this skit and remember being so tired getting up for church the next morning an being a hit in Sunday school reenacting what I'd seen.too bad it has become a bunch of talentless hacks that wouldn't know comedy if Belushi hit them over the head with it.

Dan Aykroyds facials expressions at the end. You see exactly where Jim Carrey got some of his from. Wow. Lol no wise cracks lol.

I always thought Dan Aykroid was cute when I was in my teens, and these eps were new. Jane Curtain was my fave of the female cast on the original SNL. I always watched her show Kate and Allie, when new.

How many wish this was a real family?

Great comedy!

Bill Murray Gilda Wagner Jane Curtain 😂😂😂😂😂😂

So this is basically where the Frostbusters cameo from Aykroyd in that one episode of the Nanny came from.

When I want a laugh I watch the old SNL episodes or Carol Burnett show. I find nothing done today that funny.

Yes children, there really was a seriously funny, late-night, live-audience comedy show that opened in 1975, and kept getting better and better for about 25 years. During the first season, on most nights, two out of three sketches were pretty weak. We used to make an ad-hoc party out of it, gathering at one place or another to watch it in a group. 'Restless leg syndrome' was not uncommon. But just when we'd start thinking: "Maybe it's time to bail...', they'd hit a home-run. When Chevy Chase' hubris over his success the first season got the best of him, he departed, and a new guy named Bill Murray showed up. He and Gilda, Dan Aykroyd, Garret Morris, Laraine Newman, Jane Curtin and John Belushi not only saved the show, they put it in secure orbit over planet Earth. The comedy writing, and the guest-hosts got better too. No famous person was off-limits for comedic purposes, no revered Hollywood star, politician, president, not even Jesus Christ. On the other hand, the writers for SNL weren't really interested in politics, it was all about finding those comedic grains of truth their audience had overlooked, but recognized spontaneously in the hands of the extremely talented SNL cast. Most SNL fans have a list of sketches they believe qualify as 'Best of Category'. For me, when it comes to politicians, here are two of my best ever: 1. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/m7-kY86Zt8XJmmQ.html Aired in 1992, starring one of SNL's all-time greats: Phil Hartman...(RIP). 2. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eL6UgbyJsrfTqWw.html This is one of (less than 5) really funny political parodies I've seen since Lorne Michaels' self-canonization(*), and the oracles of social-justice took over SNL at the turn of the century. And it proves an interesting point about sketch-comedy: even if most of the gags in the sketch are marginal at best, the one: out-of-the-park grand-slam, is all the audience will remember. (*) Apropos Lorne Michaels, if there were a 'Mount Rushmore' for television comedy series producer-creators, I believe he'd well-deserve being included. For now, Lorne will have to make due with his "2004 Mark Twain Prize for Comedy", a prestigious honor which has been given to the giants of comedy, such as: Whoopi Goldberg, Ellen DeGeneres, Tina Fey, Dave Chappell, and Bill Cosby. And believe it or not, many of the recipients know each other! Oh yeah, Steve Martin got it in 2005, and I'll never forget how funny his acceptance speech was. You can see it here: Steve Martin's Mark Twain Award Acceptance Speechkzfaq.info/get/bejne/esiYerJ1nc23eaM.html Note: Although the above clip was pretty funny, the original, un-redacted version was even funnier. As Steve was wrapping up his thanks to the Kennedy Center and and the audience, he waxed a little philosophical, remembering the great man, Mark Twain: "I wrote down a quote I thought particularly appropriate for this event...", reached into his pocket, pulled out a little note, and read aloud: "Whatever you do, don't name an award after me!" My sentiments exactly. I've tried from time to time to find out who gave the Kennedy Center permission to use Samuel Clemens pen-name for their annual exercise in self-congratulation, but so far, no luck. Fortunately, I managed to download the un-edited version of Steve Martin's acceptance speech that night, before the PC-thought-police at KZfaq managed to purge Martin's blasphemous comment from their archives. One of these days I'll post it back up there, just to see how long it takes them to take it down again. Bottom-line, FBO members of the X-Y-Z-? generations: This country spent most of its history doing rotten and sometimes atrocious things to millions of people. But slowly, beginning with a guy named Abraham Lincoln, two named Roosevelt, a Truman, and an Eisenhower, this country, by force of arms, and a generation of Americans willing to put their own lives at risk bearing them, managed to carve out a future for mankind, where the blessings of peace and liberty are enjoyed by most, and still within reach of all. After 70+ years of peace and prosperity -- unprecedented in our recorded history and paid for with the lives of that aptly-named 'Greatest Generation' -- all of that is teetering on a political precipice, put there by an angry mob of self-serving vigilantes, who have arrogated to themselves, the final word on who may, or may not, hold public office in this country. And if you're wondering why SNL isn't funny anymore, its because hatred and ridicule isn't funny now, and never has been.

My grandad used to say ‘Go play dogems on the freeway’.

Classic SNL is the best.

I would love to use this in a new series I'm thinking of making

What fun they must have had!!!!

These were the best, sure miss the era

Classic humor

Lol. Keep hearing (in my melon) with Bill, "Meatballs and Woody the Rabbit."

The Norge!

One the great Classics 😂

Chess is the word is the word that you heard! Love it love and miss this show! Noogie noogies

Them ol' Norges are hard to come by....

Love the sticker on the fridge

This is so gem 💎 😂😂😂

I haven't seen anyone comment on it but what is that thing Bill Murray is holding that plays music?

I was a teen when this came out. It was a big thing to stay up and the show got quoted WAY too much. There was just less media. Yeah, I know, OK boomer.

I'm genuinely disappointed in myself for being so attracted to Dan Aykroyd. Good lord did he have legit dumper though.

Was Todd the son of Iris Delamuca, the big, brazen and tough woman played by Jane Curtin in a couple of skits?

LMAO! Make SNL great again!

this is the ancient equivalent of hey ya by Outkast...one simply can't be depressed whilst listening/watching this...if you are somehow able to blot out the whole Gilda thing

Why is Mrs. Loopner always wearing a house robe?

Ok. PHILADELPHIA USA

We had a yellow Norge!..

Ray and Peter-

Dan Aykroyd is acting exactly like Jim Carrey is acting exactly like Dan Aykroyd.

😂lol

Wow, they used to have really good comedy skits on Saturday Night Live? Why don't they have them anymore?

PLEASE bring good writers back!!

Refrigerator Repair Nan. Love it.

Teehee 😹

Who did it better: SNL or All That?