Conspiracy Theory Rock: The SNL cartoon that may or may not have been banned

[boingboing]

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/07/03/conspiracy-theory-rock-the-snl-cartoon-that-may-or-may-not-have-been-banned.html

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[Mel_J]

Contributed by Ruben Bolling

[smulder]

@boingboing

it was simply excised from reruns in favor of a second performance by The Backstreet Boys because the cartoon “wasn’t funny.”

[anon58741709]

@boingboing

because the cartoon “wasn’t funny distressingly accurate.”

[GratuitousFish]

@boingboing

On March 14, 1988, Saturday Night Live aired a cartoon as part of Robert Smigel’s TV Funhouse series

Is that date correct? This would have been something like six before the OJ murders and almost a decade before Backstreet Boys were a thing.

[smulder]

… it’s possible that somebody is mixing them up with New Kids on the Block again

[werdnagreb]

I’m not laughing out loud from that skit, but it is an expertly done parody and satire.

[jaded]

If this doesn’t look like a fully animated Tom The Dancing Bug comic, I don’t know what else could!

And now I want the Schoolhouse Rock singers behind every Ruben Bolling comic ever.

[noahdjango]

surely a typo for 98. the tv funhouse skits and I believe Smigel himself weren’t on the show until the mid 90s, to my memory.

[Rockatansky]

Yeah, 89 predates all that stuff.

[jhbadger]

Well, it isn’t, but if not being funny was a criterion for deletion, almost all SNL skits not performed by Phil Hartman would be similarly be deleted in reruns.