I remember turning channels and catching Charlie Rocket say the "F" during the goodnights. I mentioned it at school the Monday morning after, I thought maybe the censors were allowing it and that TV had reached a new low. That was early Feb and the show had been unwatchable that whole season.
I think Charlie Rocket said it on purpose because Jean Doumanian had promised him he was going to be the next Chevy Chase and as the season progressed he was passed over by both Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo. Very sad because he was talented, he just couldn't carry the show by himself. To get that close to being a star and then have it yanked away so quickly was a devastating blow.
Rocket's career kind of skimmed along for a lot of years, he was in movies like Dancing with Wolves and It's Pat. He blew his temper again in 2004, during a taping of Law and Order and he knew his career was over. All this led to him killing himself in late Oct, 2005.
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http://putlockers.fm/watch/GWl0kKrd-saturday-night-live-season-6/episode-11.html
https://fmovies.is/film/saturday-night-live-6.oj054/x84pq8
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/SeasonalRot/LiveActionTV
The sixth season (1980-1981) stands out as uniquely awful, and is the season that most fans will agree is a mess in terms of quality. The entire cast and writing staff left in 1980, but the network insisted that the show continue along anyway; new producer Jean Doumanian, who had previously been in charge of booking musical guests, knew nothing about comedy. (On a special about SNL's history in the 1980s, Gilbert Gottfried, a cast member around that time, went on record in saying that Doumanian was so clueless about comedy that she would root for Margaret Dumont in a Marx Brothers film.) As a result, the musical guests were fantastic, but the rest of the show was barely watchable (including Weekend Update, which Lorne Michaels invented as a way for viewers to at least find one funny moment in an episode that they didn't like because of the host or if the writing was a little flat that week). More to the point, Doumanian passed up a lot of potentially talented would-be cast members (Jim Carrey being one of them), misunderstood a lot of obvious punchlines, thought that Vulgar Humor was what made the sketches funny (as opposed to Refuge in Audacity) — which became her downfall when Charles Rocket said "I wanna know who the fuck did it" at the end of the Charlene Tilton episode — and focused more on humorless character pieces (some of which were intentionally not funny, like the one from the Karen Black/Cheap Trick episode in which Gilbert Gottfried played a stroke victim laid up in the hospital while everyone around him — except his true friend, Rachel [Denny Dillon] — mocked him).
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