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** The end of the Season 20 (1994-95 season) episode hosted by Bob Newhart was revealed to be this, mimicking the [[All Just a Dream]] ending to ''[[Newhart]]''.
* [[The Announcer]]: Don Pardo, still holding the job well into his 90s.
* [[The Artifact]]: "Live from New York, It's Saturday Night!" comes from the fact that the show ''was'' actually called ''NBC's Saturday Night'' and not ''Saturday Night Live'' during its first season, because of that aforementioned short lived Howard Cosell show on [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]].
* [[Awesome McCoolname]]: feature player Taran Killam (pronounced Tear n' Kill em'). His first name is also a [[Bilingual Bonus]], as it's Sanskrit for "heaven".
** Charles Rocket also counts. He may have been on a lousy cast, but he did have a cool name (other names he went by outside of ''SNL'' include: Charlie Hamburger, Charlie Rocket, Charlie Kennedy, and his real name, Charles Claverie).
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** Then there are the many sketches where Fred Armisen plays a character who ends up getting beaten by a woman (the Annuale commercial from season 33 had him getting kicked in the groin and punched in the face by Amy Poehler, Kristen Wiig punched Fred during the mosh pit riot on the "Death Metal ''[[Golden Girls]]'' Theme" ''SNL'' Digital Short, and the "Flags of the World" Digital Short had Nasim Pedrad hit Fred in the head with a "[[Menstrual Menace|Girlfriend on the Rag]] Flag").
* [[Accidental Athlete]]: "Waikiki Hockey" from the Wayne Gretzky/Fine Young Cannibals episode of season 14.
* [[Acting Unnatural]]: One of the challenges in the digital short [https://web.archive.org/web/20121224080209/http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/snl-digital-short-extreme-challenge/787261/ Extreme Challenge].
* [[Adam Westing]]: Any celebrity portrayed on ''Celebrity Jeopardy!'' is a moron. [[Tom Hanks]] played...[[Funny Moments|himself -- as a moron]].
* [[Affectionate Parody]]: "I'm ON A BOAT!"
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* [[Comically Small Bribe]]: In one early episode, Lorne Michaels came on to offer [[The Beatles (band)|The Beatles]] a check for $3,000 to reunite on the show. Lennon and McCartney, who both happened to be in New York that night and saw the bit on TV, nearly went down to the studio for a surprise visit.
** Later sketches featured both McCartney and Harrison, when appearing as solo acts, trying to claim part of the money.
* [[Con Crew]]: ''SNL'' did a series of sketches (later repackaged as a [[Super Bowl Special|Superbowl ad]]) starring "[[MacGruber]]," a crappy ''[[MacGyver]]'' knockoff who was too busy singing the praises of his corporate sponsor Pepsi to defuse the assorted time bombs he was presented with.
* [[Cuckoolander Commentator]]: Harry Carey
* [[Cue Card Pause]]: Prevalent in the "[[Jimmy Fallon]] cracking up" era. Not so much now, unless you count the many times that a newbie host has trouble with his or her lines.
* [[Cut Himself Shaving]]: The "Tiger Woods Press Conference" sketch on the Blake Lively/Rihanna episode where every time Woods (Kenan Thompson) apologized for his affairs, something he said or something that happened (like his cell phone ringing or saying that [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|he can "get rid of this old thing and get a new model"]] ([[Don't Explain the Joke|referring to his damaged car, not his wife]]) would get him beaten by his wife, Elin (Blake Lively) and he would explain away the injuries as an accident (Woods even uses the old excuse that he "fell down the stairs").
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* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Jason Sudeikis as The Devil on "Weekend Update." Even though he's the embodiment of all that's wicked and corrupt in the world, The Devil does not support priests who molest children or the decision to have the Westboro Baptist Church protest at military funerals and use their religion to discriminate against homosexuals. And now, thanks to Penn State's molestation scandal involving Jerry Sandusky, The Devil has quit his job as the Lord of the Underworld and went back to his old job as Time-Warner Cable's customer service rep.
** On the Season 27 episode hosted by Jack Black, there was a sketch where a knight set out to rescue his lady love from a monster who had demanded that a virgin be sacrificed to him once a year. However, it turns out he's fed up with the virgin's lack of skills. When the knight asks if that's why he released a previous victim, the monster angrily declares that it's because {{spoiler|she was 13 years old and, even though he's a monster, he's not into banging a girl who's not legal}}.
* [[Everyone Is Bi]] / [[Parental Incest]] / [[Brother-Sister Incest]]: The Vogelcheck family (a mother, father, and two brothers) who kiss each other (and their distant relatives) all the time and are ''way'' too close, even by family standards. See [https://web.archive.org/web/20130923192332/http://snltranscripts.jt.org/09/09pkiss.phtml this sketch] for an example.
* [[Everything Explodes Ending]]: [[MacGruber]].
* [[Evil Twin]]: Jay Leno (before he went on to host ''[[The Tonight Show]]'' in the 1990s) hosted a Season 11 (1985-86) episode where, in one sketch, he played his own evil twin.
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* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: The whole point of the "Jingleheimer Junction" sketch from Season 24, in which the four members of the "Junction Gang" {{spoiler|each have a letter on their sweater correlating to their name: only the letters end up being F-U-C-K.}}
** To count the many times ''SNL'''s humor has successfully (and unsuccessfully) gotten past the radar would need a wiki all its own.
* [[Gosh Dang It to Heck]]: A handful of ''SNL'' sketches use Unusual Euphemisms or toned-down substitutes for obscene words as parodies of the [[Cluster F-Bomb]] trope, as seen in such sketches as [https://web.archive.org/web/20130923192206/http://snltranscripts.jt.org/09/09abiker.phtml "Biker Chick Chat"] from season 35 (despite Jenny Slate accidentally saying the actual "F" word in one line), season five's [https://web.archive.org/web/20130923190324/http://snltranscripts.jt.org/79/79nfloggin.phtml "The Flogging Musicians"] sketch on the 100th episode (which didn't have a host, but had a lot of celebrity cameos), and [https://web.archive.org/web/20130923192606/http://snltranscripts.jt.org/10/10lforget.phtml this recent sketch] from the Gwyneth Paltrow/Cee Lo Green episode (in which Cee Lo Green's single "Fuck You!" has to be changed to something less obscene so it can air on live TV).
* [[Hands Go Down]]: From an early 1990s sketch, a classroom full of not-so-bright students.
{{quote|'''Teacher:''' How many people here have seen ''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark]]''?
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* [[Kill the Poor]]: Referenced in the "[http://bcmoney-mobiletv.com/view/371/Will%20Ferrell:%20Wake%20up%20and%20SMILE/ Wake Up & Smile]" sketch. It was about the cheerful hosts of a morning news show who start having breakdowns on-air when the teleprompter breaks. Trying to improvise, Will Ferrell's character says that someone should get a bunch of guns to "sweep out those ghettos". Cut to commercial.
* [[Kitschy Local Commercial]]: A staple in recent years, often relegated towards the end of the episode.
* [[Large Ham Title]]: Conan O'Brien stars in the sketch "[http://www.livevideo.com/video/34737CF23AA14C4CA7EE8072FD02D8DB/snl-clip-of-moleculo.aspx Moleculo, the Molecular Man]{{Dead link}}" as a Clark Kent/Superman expy. The others figure out pretty quickly that Brett Baker is really Moleculo, since whenever Moleculo's name comes up he's compelled to say "The Molecular Man!" afterwards. He moves to Mexico where the same thing happens because he still has to yell "El hombre de los moleculos!"
* [[Left Fielder]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu46A69a1TE "OVER THE WEEKEND, YOU STUPID BITCH!"] Complete with [[Chris Farley]] ''daring'' his co-stars to start [[Corpsing]].
* [[Loads and Loads of Characters|Loads And Loads of Recurring Characters]]: Some well-remembered. Others, either long-forgotten or not that well-known.
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* [[Mercy Kill]]: In a sketch making fun of Gov. Rick Perry's blanking during a debate, Mitt Romney comes over and tries to shoot Perry through the head in a [[Homage]] / [[Parody]] of ''[[Of Mice and Men]]''. [[Hard Head|The bullet bounces off.]]
* [[Mid-Atlantic Accent]]: Jon Lovitz' character "Master Thespian" spoke in a particularly [[Large Ham|hammy]] version of this.
* [[Mondegreen]]: Invoked and [[Played for Laughs]] in a parody of VH-1's "Don't Forget The Lyrics," in which a contestant (played by season 36 episode host Jesse Eisenberg) mangles popular song lyrics (see [https://web.archive.org/web/20130923192613/http://snltranscripts.jt.org/10/10mlyrics.phtml this transcript]).
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Played straight (and lampshaded a few times) with Victoria Jackson's appearances on the mid-1980s Weekend Update with Dennis Miller, where she did headstands, bent over backwards, or danced on the Weekend Update desk in high heels, pantyhose, and a skirt. Parodied with Kristen Wiig's Shana character who, despite being a drop-dead gorgeous redhead with a cooing baby-voice, has a lot of...unfortunate internal bodily issues.
* [[Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant]]: Bill Hader's Stefon, a [[Camp Gay]] culture correspondent who recommends vacations and nights out at the strangest underground clubs filled with freaks and weirdos. [[Take My Word for It|The descriptions have to be heard to be believed]].
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** [[Daniel Radcliffe]] appeared as Harry Potter in a Hogwarts sketch that showed Harry Potter as a washed-up wizard who still lives at Hogwarts while all the other characters have moved on with their lives.
** Will Ferrel's final episode had Alex Trebek and Janet Reno breaking into the final sketches of his impressions of them.
* [[Parody Commercial]]: Multiple sketches fit. Including but not necessarily limited too.
** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVXN85TJabg This Macy's ad]
** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcEylCwkSxE This car ad]
** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uc7slln9qNU This compilation (tech)]
** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjgSBJdtrcc This compilation (household)]
** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGYDWO5Fhtg This compilation (health)]
* [[Peking Duck Christmas]]: The TV Funhouse sketch/song "Christmastime for the Jews".
* [[Perfume Commercial]]: Spoofs include Hey You ("The perfume for one night stands") and Compulsion by Calvin Kleen (a cleaning product presented in the style of the commercials for Calvin Klein's Obsession perfume).
* [[Poor Man's Porn]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130923192426/http://snltranscripts.jt.org/09/09sshake.phtml The Shake Weight Commercial DVD] and the [[Les Yay]]-filled [https://web.archive.org/web/20111124233825/http://www.hulu.com/watch/4192/saturday-night-live-snl-digital-short-body-fuzion Body Fuzion] Digital Short.
* [[The Power of Acting]]: Master Thespian aspires to this, but his mentor (episode host John Lithgow) surely has it.
* [[Precision F-Strike]]: Charles Rocket's "I wanna know who the fuck did it," during the Charlene Tilton/Todd Rundgren and Prince episode from Season 6 and Jenny Slate's "You know what? You stood up for yourself and I fuckin' love you for that!" on the Season 35 premiere hosted by Megan Fox. Note that both of these instances are accidental, caused a lot of controversy for the show, and led to the cast members who uttered the lines to be fired and forgotten.
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* [[We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties]]: Parodied on the banned TV Funhouse cartoon "Mediaopoly"; late in the song, after exposing many dark secrets about General Electric, a "technical difficulties" title card appears, implying GE censored the sketch. However, it's actually part of the sketch, since the chorus keeps singing afterwards. The singers even lampshade the fact that [[We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties]] is used as a cheap way to censor out anything that the sponsors or network may find controversial.
* [[When I Was Your Age]]: Dana Carvey's "Grumpy Old Man" segments on Weekend Update.
* [[Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?]]: Parodied in [https://web.archive.org/web/20160817170010/http://tvpot.daum.net/clip/ClipView.do?clipid=23661812&q=peter+pan this] ''[[Peter Pan]]'' skit.
* [[Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs?]]: Mr. Sluggo.
* [[Wild Card Excuse]]: The Coneheads handwave their weirdness by claiming to be from France.
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