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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.

* [[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).

* [[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.

* [[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").

* [[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.

* [[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.

** [[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.

* [[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).

* [[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.

* [[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 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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