Wednesday, February 16, 2011

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SNL Digital Short- Dear Sister

This is one of my all time favorite SNL skits. Doesn't get much better than Andy Samber, Bill Hader, and Shia Lebouf getting shot. The skit is mocking an episode of "The OC" that aired the week before this SNL episode. In the episode, Mischa Barton walks in on her boyfriend (I think?) and her friend in a brawl. The one is on the verge of asphyxiating the other when Mischa finds a gun on the ground and decides to shoot her friend that is strangling her boyfriend. This isn't the first time there was a gun involved in the show, either. In season one, a character got shot and later in the season there was a hostage situation. For a show that's supposed to be about going to high school in California, that's a bit ridiculous. That doesn't mean it's not a highly entertaining show, because it is, but the premises of several episodes are ridiculous. SNL does a great job making fun of the absurdity that the show's writers have come up with. In the skit Bill Hader writes a letter to his sister, that says "by the time you read this, i will be dead". He then goes on to spell out exactly how he thinks it will happen. His friend will shoot him, he will shoot his friend, another friend will walk in and they will both shoot him, then his sister will walk in and got shot by all of them, finally two cops will walk in, read the letter, and shoot eachother. Sure enough all of this happens, and as you listen to the same Imogen Heap song that was played in the OC, you can't help but laugh, and think- that's brilliant.

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