Who Can Recall Skits or Episodes?
There was a string puppet figure who started out reading off of cue cards, a woman was holding the cards for him, then they 'cut' and he was suddenly foul-mouthed and very crude. This was regarded as Friday's version-takeoff of Mr. Bill on SNL.
Later, the puppet apparently uttered a very foul word in one skit and a few eps later, the cast, led by Blankfield, came out and apologized.
I do recall Blankfield as the drugged-out druggist and Michael Richards came in as some new wave looking David Bowie creature to get some medication.
Actually a funny bit as Blankfield looked at one customer's prescription, 'hey, these are fun!'
The three women played mother, daughter and grandmother and they each became physically violent with one another. Chartoff was the daughter.
This had an actual blooper from it, as one of the women's 'punch' made contact and I would see it later, probably on Dick Clark's Bloopers, and we see it in slow-mo and the woman's face moves from the fist.
I thought this skit was funny as then the husband-father-son in law enters and hides behind his briefcase and tells all the women to stay away from him, just leave him alone!
A very early skit was Chartoff as a baby girl, Richards as her father and she is putting a tooth under her pillow for the tooth fairy.
The skit then goes into 'is there a tooth fairy? is there an Easter bunny?' and suddenly went 'are you really my mommy and daddy?'
From there, it was all revealed to be nothing but a skit, and they were actors, and actually, dear little girl, you are really a grown woman who is parading around in little girls clothes.
Chartoff would even break the fourth wall, but still in the little girl character.
I do remember they did a recurring 3 stooges skit with Larry David as Larry, Bruce Mahler as Moe and the third guy, Roarke, as Curly.
Brandis Kemp must have been about the most untalented of the lot. She somehow got the role of Rona Barrett (wow! Does anyone remember her?) and the guy doing Tom Snyder (probably Mahler) was funnier.
I remember one with Larry David as a totally dorky figure and he knocks at a couple's door and asks to have sex with the wife.
The couple are flabbergasted, until their next-door neighbor, Chartoff enters, wearing her robe and says the guy is absolutely fantastic.
Maybe cheap laughs, but the joke has obviously stuck with me.
But I guess a big fave that I hated never went anywhere was The Hollywood Cube, where 54 contestants were put into a giant Rubik's cube and two panelists had to turn the cube to win the game.
The actual band, KISS, was on the show, so they were in one square-section.
The announcer ran thru some quick names, and I just recall how little they looked like the celebrities (same problem at SNL actually, even today).
Rose Marie (parodied) was there and I remember the intense concentration she displayed listening to the question again after making some corny remark.
The cube was spun and someone was thrown out, I think it was Phyllis Diller (parodied). That's who it was!
Lucille Ball was depicted as well, tho she didn't do anything.
Then we get two Fridays regulars, Mahler and Blankfield, I think, in a square that was now sideways, trying to hold on and answer the question.
I always liked this skit.