SNL car heist skit

I don't watch TV much, but came across this and it's too good to not share. 
 

Hilarious.   "You want me to drive with two feet"?   

Lol. That was great. 

Datsun310Guy said:

Hilarious.   "You want me to drive with two feet"?   

That was the best line!

I left the windows down on the V at a car show and was asked if I was worried about it being stolen.  I laughed and pointed out the extra pedal in the middle and the avg age of the crowd.

That's a good one! Had me chuckling

Frederick Flintstein!

Along similar lines.  I was watching some of that Kevin Hart Muscle car show (rather bad show BTW), and they went to a driving school to learn performance driving.  EVERY one of them (5 I think) drove the track with one hand on the wheel, using the heal of their hand!!  I can't imagine the instructors there told them to do that.

So, just have a car without power steering, and most people will have no idea how to turn the wheel!

This was really funny, but I kept being "pulled out of the moment" by the way the failure mode of not knowing how to drive stick was depicted. 

And the car going from wheelspin to stalling while already rolling forward. 

As I told my son, "it's far easier to do a ham-fisted rev it, dump the clutch and light up the tires start than a smooth, gentle start w/o stalling."

flat4_5spd said:

This was really funny, but I kept being "pulled out of the moment" by the way the failure mode of not knowing how to drive stick was depicted. 

And the car going from wheelspin to stalling while already rolling forward. 

As I told my son, "it's far easier to do a ham-fisted rev it, dump the clutch and light up the tires start than a smooth, gentle start w/o stalling."

I agree.  I couldn't help but feel that the writers had perhaps a wee bit of knowledge about manual transmissions, but had never actually driven one themselves.

Back in the day if somebody was letting me drive their manual I would speak up. 
 

"what's that extra brake pedal on the floor for"?   

It probably was more of an effects issue.  I suspect the owner of the Lambo had little interest in allowing someone to clutch stall their car and the effects guy had no good idea how to portray it, likely because they had no idea what that represented.  The effects show are what might be call "basic" at least.

The sound they used also made no sense at all.  Was that supposed to be gear grinding?

Not sure "millennials can't drive a stick" has enough meat on it to be a whole sketch.

Also, the canned laughter...

Yeah that made me chuckle.

In reply to Jesse Ransom and Will:

I mean, most are over 25 years old so qualified for antique tags in Virginia at least. I'm mid 30s and only about half my friend's (actual millennials) know how to drive a manual. I'd guess only probably 30% could just drive one right now on a whim.

Of the 6 car we have, only only 2 are newer than the co-ops on my team this semester and 4 of 6 are manual. Of the past 5 years we've had like 30 students and only 2 have been able to drive manual (gen z). I've taught 2 others who wanted to learn.

I didn't think SNL could do funny anymore. That was pretty good. 

DrBoost said:

I didn't think SNL could do funny anymore. That was pretty good. 

They still have their moments. The thing about SNL is that it was never as funny as you remember it being in the old days. For every classic sketch, there are a bunch that are either forgettable or just bad. It's always been that way, though the hit rate might have been a bit higher in the 70s heyday. But the point is that you remember the good ones and forget the bad ones, so it always seems better in your memory.

Tom_Spangler (Forum Supporter) said:

DrBoost said:

I didn't think SNL could do funny anymore. That was pretty good. 

They still have their moments. The thing about SNL is that it was never as funny as you remember it being in the old days. For every classic sketch, there are a bunch that are either forgettable or just bad. It's always been that way, though the hit rate might have been a bit higher in the 70s heyday. But the point is that you remember the good ones and forget the bad ones, so it always seems better in your memory.

Agree it was always hit or miss, with the misses outnumbering the hits by a substantial margin.  Every once in a while, they'd be hilarious.

Tom_Spangler (Forum Supporter) said:

DrBoost said:

I didn't think SNL could do funny anymore. That was pretty good. 

They still have their moments. The thing about SNL is that it was never as funny as you remember it being in the old days. For every classic sketch, there are a bunch that are either forgettable or just bad. It's always been that way, though the hit rate might have been a bit higher in the 70s heyday. But the point is that you remember the good ones and forget the bad ones, so it always seems better in your memory.

Note that the show is 90 minutes long and the reruns are 30 minutes.

I just watched again, that is really dang funny

I agree there were hits and misses, but I think the miss-to-hit ratio is way worse now than it was. 
I would watch an episode and come away thinking it was a good episode. Now, I can't even sit through an entire 90 minutes. Could be me being 25 years older, but I don't think so.