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** There was also the sketch where [[Justin Timberlake]] played his own Irish ancestor, talking about how some day, one of his descendants will be a big star.

{{quote|'''Timberlake''': I'd like to think that, at first, he'd date a [[Britney Spears|popular female singer]]. Publically, they'll claim to be virgins, but privately... he hit it.}}

* [[Dawson Casting]]: Many sketches in which the cast members play teens or even children. Obviously unavoidable, but it has become prevalent in more recent seasons where most of the cast members currently hired were born after ''SNL'' premiered in 1975 (starting with Kenan Thompson).

** One of Amy Poehler's recurring characters was Kaitlin, who is supposed to be ten years old ([[Not Allowed to Grow Up|and remained that age for several years]]).

** ''[[Mad TV]]'' fans might be surprised to discover that Jeff Richards and Taran Killam (two feature players who only spent one year on ''MADtv'' before leaving) were/are on this show. Jeff Richards was on ''[[Mad TV]]'' from 2000-01 before crossing over to ''SNL'', where he stayed from 2001 to the early half of 2004. Taran Killam also appeared on ''MADtv'' in 2001 (becoming the youngest cast member on that show at age 19) and was let go a year later. Nine years after appearing on ''MADtv'', he became one of four new feature players for ''SNL''.

*** Killam had started in sketch comedy even before that, appearing as Spalding in the [[The Amanda Show]] sketch ''Moody's Point''.

** Maraka, the ''[[Dora the Explorer]]'' parody on the episode hosted by Peyton Manning, voiced [[Doug|Judy Funnie]].

** [[Stephen Colbert]] ([[The Colbert Report|yes]], [[The Daily Show|that one]]) wrote for the show and did voicework for ''The [[Ambiguously Gay]] Duo'' (and appeared as Brain-io on the live-action version of ''The Ambiguously Gay Duo'').

** One 'missing episode' that was actually produced was Chevy Chase/Jr. Walker and the All-Stars, which aired in April 1981. Originally intended to start the revised second half of season 6 (after Jean Doumanian was replaced by Dick Ebersol, and a number of her cast members were fired), a writer's strike cut the season short. This episode has gone unseen in its original form since 1981 - its lone Comedy Central airing was heavily re-edited, and contained material from other season 6 episodes in place of a few original sketches.

** For reasons unknown, the season 27 episode hosted by Alec Baldwin with musical guest P.O.D. only aired once. Some of the sketches from that episode were seen, however, on the ''SNL'' clip show episode, "The Best of Alec Baldwin."

** The 12 episodes produced by Jean Doumanian during the 1980-81 season has been barred from syndication in America due to how poorly it was received by... just about everyone (though Comedy Central ''did'' air the Bill Murray/Delbert McClinton episode as part of a "Best of Eddie Murphy" marathon, NBC aired a full 90-minute version of the episode hosted by [[Jamie Lee Curtis]] with musical guest James Brown and Ellen Shipley as part of their "NBC All Night" rerun block, and Canada's Comedy Network has aired all 12 episodes uncut — including one where Charles Rocket drops an F-bomb during the goodnights, which led to everyone in Doumanian's cast to be fired save Murphy and Joe Piscopo). Universal claims to have stopped production on ''SNL'' season [[DV Ds]] because of music licensing issues (which, of course, is the true reason why all seasons after five haven't been put on DVD), but most fans have assumed it's because of the backlash and poor sales that would have happened had the 1980-1981 season been released. If you have a [[Bile Fascination]] as to how bad Season 6 really is, [[Keep Circulating the Tapes|then your best bet is to find a video collector who has this season]] or check out some video streaming or torrent sites.

** Bootleg DVD's of this season are now fairly easy to find online; and its availability in this format has allowed many fans to discover the season for the first time. The general consensus seems to be that, yes, season six was bad, but it did have some bright spots that kept it from being entirely unwatchable (particularly when Eddie Murphy was incorporated into the show and, of course, the musical guest performance—one of which included [[Prince]] before he became famous for his albums ''1999'' and ''[[Purple Rain]]'').

** Julia Sweeney's adrogynous Pat character was actually based on a woman Julia saw who looked so much like a man that Sweeney questioned her gender.

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