RDA on SNL's "Mc Gruber" skit

[Gertch]

Yes, the next SG-1 one. In fact, it is said to be RDA-heavy.

I see what you did there.

Heh. Actually, I didn't do what you saw there, sorry. I literally only meant that RDA will have a lot of screentime. I get the joke that you thought I made, though.

Sorry. I had to push the joke on you. It was just too good to let go by. Thanks for being a sport about it.

 

[Gertch]

He'll bring a certain gravity to the situation.

Well he was the lead (Pb).

 

[Mr. Adventure]

I wonder just how this came about, seems like a very strange meeting of the minds somehow between SNL and Pepsi.

 

[chrisspringob]

I think we need a link.

http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/macgruber-pepsi-1/981309/

Only viewable at that link if you're in the USA. However, the MacGruber / Pepsi sketches/ads are all available on Youtube, where they can be viewed by anyone. Just search Youtube for "MacGruber Pepsi" or something like that, and you'll find all three ads/sketches/whatever they are.

I'm still a little confused as to what these three things are. They are done in exactly the same style as all the previous MacGruber sketches, and aired as part of SNL last Saturday night, as I understand it. So they would seem to be part of that episode of SNL, but with product placement added in. Yet one of them apparently ran during the Super Bowl, so it's actually a regular TV ad, not a segment from a TV show with product placement?

I'm confused. When that episode of SNL is rerun on E! five years from now, will those MacGruber/Pepsi things air as part of the ep, or are they simply commercials, which are not really part of the episode? Was Will Forte paid extra, beyond his regular SNL salary or not? Are these things a completely new hybrid of "advertising" and "entertainment" that has never been seen on Earth before?

 

[the_wildcard]

I thought they were great. He's put on a couple of pounds (which I noticed in his guest apperances on SG-1 and SG-A) but I think he can still pull the mullet...hahahaa

 

[Kryton]

I'm confused. When that episode of SNL is rerun on E! five years from now, will those MacGruber/Pepsi things air as part of the ep, or are they simply commercials, which are not really part of the episode?

The latter. They were purchased as adjacencies to SNL as a sort of trick to get you to think it was a regular MacGruber segment. The very second they showed or referred to Pepsi it was immediately obvious it was an ad and not part of the program. Lorne Michaels may own the MacGruber premise, but Pepsi licensed it from him for the ad. It won't appear on future repeats of the episode.

 

[chrisspringob]

The very second they showed or referred to Pepsi it was immediately obvious it was an ad and not part of the program.

Well, it's obvious that Pepsi paid for it, but I'm not sure it's obvious that it was just supposed to be a commercial rather than product placement (or something in between). This article refers to it as product placement, as do some others that I saw:

http://www.mediabistro.com/agencysp...l_for_pepsi_placement_in_macgruber_107491.asp

AgencySpy has learned that Pepsi Co. paid SNL $3 million to have the Pepsi brand placed in SNL's MacGruber sketch. According to a high-level source, Pepsi and Arnell Group met with SNL's Lorne Michaels to make the deal happen.

We're told the buy was solely for the product placement, not for media. Furthermore, the MacGruber spot was not originally intended to air during the Super Bowl — and that at the last minute things were shuffled around to fit the ad in.

 

[Nick Ryder]

MacGruber is so fuckin' stupid I don't know who actually thinks that shit is funny. I mean sure it spoof's MacQyver, but c'mon that show is like 20 years old now. I had a kid that I worked with that didn't know what I meant when I said "I guess I'll have to MacQyver something." "HUh? what?"

Fuckin' retards. SNL sucks they should just merge with MadTV so that all the lazy writing dorks can just share the same oxygen. Only good things to come out of MadTV was Frank Caliendo and a couple of girls from that show.

RDA why did you do that? Ashamed of you my friend.

 

[Hyperspace05]

Tell us how you *really* feel, NickRyder!

Personally I think the MacGruber skits are hilarious... All of them over the years.

 

[Kelso]

MacGruber is so fuckin' stupid I don't know who actually thinks that shit is funny. I mean sure it spoof's MacQyver, but c'mon that show is like 20 years old now. I had a kid that I worked with that didn't know what I meant when I said "I guess I'll have to MacQyver something." "HUh? what?"

That's probably because you keep calling it "MacQyver."

 

[Witterquick]

MacGruber is so fuckin' stupid I don't know who actually thinks that shit is funny. I mean sure it spoof's MacQyver, but c'mon that show is like 20 years old now. I had a kid that I worked with that didn't know what I meant when I said "I guess I'll have to MacQyver something." "HUh? what?"

That's probably because you keep calling it "MacQyver."

That has to be it.

 

[Hyperspace05]

Last weekends SNL had three more MacGruber skits - all with RDA.

This time the "theme" was MacGruber angst vs. his dad - MacGuyver.

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

I just don't really understand why the MacGruber sketches are supposed to be funny. I mean, OK, it's spoofing MacGyver but it seems like it's the same joke every time and it wasn't even funny the first time.

 

[Hyperspace05]

Yes, all MacGruber skits end the same way (explosion because he's just messing around instead of defusing the bomb) - and that's a big part of the what is so funny...

Seeing someone fail once - amusing. Seeing someone fail consistently - sometimes very funny. Kind of like a Seinfeld episode. All the episode follow the same pattern. Something great happens to the characters, and they invariably screw it up by being such petty idiots. Rinse and repeat every episode.

Other factors that make me find the skits so funny:
- No matter the setting, they always use the same set (be it a dam control room, or a smuggling boat control room, and ... you get the idea)
- The only thing that distinguishes the setting is a sign at the door - explicitly labeling the room.

But then again all humor is subjective.

(BTW, here is a pretty complete list of the MacGruber skits:
http://www.hilarious.net/the-complete-macgruber-snl-video-collection/ - #1 and #2 are my favorites)

 

[biotech]

It sucks that none of those clips play outside of america.