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* [[Broken Base]]: Dick Ebersol's era. Some regard it as the high point of the show after the original cast; others think of it as a bastardized version of the original concept, designed to pimp Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo (and later, Martin Short, Billy Crystal, and Christopher Guest) at the expense of everyone else. [[Take a Third Option|And there are those who say that it may not be as great as Lorne Michaels' original cast, but it is worlds better than what Jean Doumanian turned out in her short stint as executive producer]].

* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: For every [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]] on this show, there are at least a couple of [[Hilarious in Hindsight]] moments that make the sketch funnier years after the sketch aired. Some examples:

*** To be more specific, twin-blade razors were becoming the standard, so the mock commercial was about tri-blade razors, implying that they would be a stupid idea. Nowadays we have ''quad''-blade razors...

** A sketch on the Season 23 episode hosted by John Goodman (with musical guest Paula Cole) had a sketch where airline passengers are attacked by cobras. This sketch first aired in 1998, a scant eight years before the movie ''[[Snakes on a Plane]]'' hit the theaters.

** On the Season 30 episode hosted by Tom Brady, there's a sketch that takes place backstage where Payton Manning (Seth Meyers) asks Brady why he was chosen to host over Manning. The real Manning would host in Season 32.

** In a Season 29 episode hosted by Ben Affleck, he touted "Bennifer" T-shirts during the monologue, explaining that he had unfortunately ordered 50,000 of them prior to his breakup with Jennifer Lopez, and went on to offer several other [[Portmanteau Couple Name]] combos such as "Benyonce", "Mary-Kate and Ashfleck", and (in the unlikely event that [[Ho Yay|Matt finally came around]]), "Ben-Gay". Only a couple years later, Affleck would get hitched to Jennifer Garner, making those "Bennifer" shirts pretty valuable again.

* [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks]]: The near-constant changing of writers and cast members is one of the most common reasons why fans have a love/hate relationship with the show. [[Seasonal Rot]] is the other.

 

* [[Crowning Moment of Funny]]: Dana Carvey returned as a guest-host and did another Church Lady skit, which includes the Church Lady attempting to have Snooki exorcised, and then feeling herself fall prey to the allure of [[Justin Bieber]].

{{quote|'''Church Lady''': I want some of that sweet Bieber!}}

** Some of [[Seth Meyers]]' jokes on Weekend Update are often met with the audience groaning over how tasteless the joke is. In fact, a lot of past Weekend Update anchors have had this happen to them (particularly Brad Hall, Dennis Miller, [[Norm MacDonald]], and Colin Quinn)

* [[Ear Worm]]: ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEAYcR8w_tE The Ambiguously Gay Duo! The Ambiguously Gay Duo!]''

** Inverted in the monologue as Tatum (the stripper) remembers all of his customers (an allegedly religious woman named Denise, a married woman named Bridget [whom Tatum remembers as "Flithy Bridget" because of all the filthy things she would ask for], a man named Leslie [who ends up dying when Tatum uses his stripper moves to refresh his memory], and Leslie's doctor, Dr. Matthews), much to their chagrin.

** The episode hosted by Alec Baldwin and his wife at the time Kim Basinger on February 12, 1994 will forever be remembered as the episode that had the "Canteen Boy Gets Molested" sketch (and the episode after that, hosted by Martin Lawrence, will be remembered for Martin's raunchy monologue about women's hygiene [which was so tasteless, it nearly got everyone on the show fired and is often cut in reruns and replaced with title cards explaining the gist of the monologue and why it can't be shown on TV anymore]).

** Having a cast member of one race play someone famous from another race is nothing new to the show. [[Jimmy Fallon]] (the same one who became notorious for cracking up on-camera) once played Chris Rock in a Season 25 sketch, which is more of an unfortunate implication than Fred Armisen playing Obama.