19, 19, 1985: TiVo decided to grab the first episode of the 1985-86 SNL season today. It's amazing to think that Dennis Miller, Damon Wayans, Robert Downey Jr. and Joan Cusack have now been around us for twenty-plus years. Penn & Teller too, who did a stunt on the show involving Teller's underwater breath-holding abilities. (Later this season, if I remember right, they do an entire segment upside down, with the camera upside-down as well, and it's really cool.)
But some of the references, wow -- Libya as our main enemy, with the PLO deemed a terrorist organization based in Baghdad; Dennis Miller noting that the Supreme Court had just agreed to hear a case dealing with Georgia's sodomy laws; an airline called "TWA"; and host Madonna, still in her Material Girl phase, talking about her recent marriage to Sean Penn.
A few weeks after this show aired, I celebrated my bar mitzvah. Man, I feel old.
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