went with the wind
Im going to guess that the 'went with the wind' skit was the most elaborate and most expensive they ever did on that show, I just saw it on youtube and they put alot work into building it.
shareI just noticed something in that skit: in the beginning during the party scene, there is a black man amongst the aristocrats. I found it kind of ironic that they had a black man with the upper class while white Vicki Lawrence played a slave.
"There will be blood. Oh, yes, there WILL be blood."-Jigsaw; "Saw II"
"Went With the Wind!" was the second time Ms. Burnett spoofed the overlong 1939 film. Exactly nine years to the day before, on Nov. 13, 1967, there was an embryonic parody of the same film, apparently to tie in with one of its periodic theatrical re-releases that were done whenever MGM needed money. Carol played the same role in both versions, except in 1967 her character was named "Scarlett O'Fever." (Ha-ha.) Hard as it may be to envision anyone but Harvey Korman as "Ratt Butler," considering how he nailed down Gable's mannerisms and delivery, the show's producers nine years before evidently thought differently as guest star Richard Chamberlain played the Gable role in the earlier spoof. The name of his rival for her affections in the 1967 parody was named "Ashley Famous" - a reference to a Hollywood talent agency that, in the years in-between spoofs, due to a series of mergers, acquisitions and consolidations, would become International Creative Management. Don't know who played Ashley in that earlier version, but I'm betting it was Lyle Waggoner. And of course in that first takeoff Scarlett wouldn't have worn the dress with the curtain rod that brought the house down at CBS Television City Studio 33 in 1976. And certainly that later spoof that was deservedly ranked among the most iconic moments of television, would have been better written and much funnier per video field (two of which make a whole frame) than that first attempt at spoofing this movie.
This was equally true of "Mildred Fierce," the most famous one we know (with Vicki as her daughter and Harvey as "Monty Slick") aired exactly one week after "Went With the Wind!" Ms. Burnett had previously played the character in an early 1970 sketch that otherwise bore no relation to the 1945 film; guests Mel Torme and Soupy Sales appeared in that earlier sketch (and Lyle was a love interest), and the writing, it is felt from those who saw a B&W kinescope (though the original color videotape still exists), was not as good as the 1976 parody.