Ok but can we appreciate how spot on the acting was in the part right when Dorothy wakes up before the munchkins come in. It was exactly like the movie. They nailed it.
Not so fun fact: Sarah reports that she was drugged and sexually assaulted while filming. And that she was molested and sexually harassed by executives and even the actors who played the lolly pop guild dwarves… yikes
As someone who has watched The Wizard of Oz multiple times a year when my children were little, I feel that the movements and inflections of these actors are so carefully studied and duplicated that they just deserve whatever success they can get. It's amazing to watch it copied so well.
Remember Rick Polito's description of the movie back in 1998 for TCM: “Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first person she meets and then teams up with three strangers to kill again.”
No one caught that in one of the opening scenes of the original movie, someone indeed killed themselves.. I think it was the producer’s son or maybe the janitor or some shit, but it actually happened. They hinted at it in the skit and in reviewing the comments, NO ONE HAS FUCKING NOTICED.. I’m surely not the biggest fan of the movie, but come on!!
This was such a genius sketch. From the “munchkins” getting upset to the joke about one of them hanging themselves. Awesome sketch. Deserved to be in the first half of the show.
@~Vashti7~ It is a rumor, though--the shadow is from a bird in the background flapping it's wings. They put birds in the background to make the scene feel more like a forest.
@~Vashti7~ Right, because no-one at MGM would notice something like a suicide taking place during filming, or they'd find a corpse hanging from a tree and not bother to do a re-shoot, and nobody involved in the editing of the film would see it and no-one watching the film in theaters or on television broadcasts would notice it for at least half a century - until the internet was invented. Yes, there's no disproved urban myth going on here.
"Doctor thanks for coming to see Dorothy." "She seems fine." I love how she banged her head so hard that she passed out for hours and he's like "well she looks okay to me. Now about that dream...."
@@wobu5361 it was released in and filmed in Sepia in 1939. Subsequent releases had it in black and white simply because color TV wouldn't be available for a long time. It was changed back to it's original Sepia tone (digitally) in the late 80's early 90's.
@@meowmeowballs - when I wrote that, I was told she left snl and when I didn't see her in the season opener, I figured it was true and she left snl. As far as I know, she will be there all year, hopefully for a few more years. It's not the highest paid gig on tv, but she is one of the highest paid of all time. $25k per episode, same as Kenan on and Jost. It's a great job and they are encouraged to do other projects in their down time
Loved this so much! My grandmother's first cousin was one of the Flying Monkeys in The Wizard of Oz, and so I've always been fascinated by the film as a result. It's so cool to see the memory of his work, and the work of the other actors who played Munchkins, remembered in this sketch.
major? no hate but his character of "Galinda's catty friend with two lines and whose name you don't know unless you look it up on IMDB" is way down the list in importance and screen time... side character at best
The movie was excellent and Bowen was fine but he did not play a major character. The movie added some snobby friends for Galinda at Shiz and he was one of them.
The Wizard of Oz is one of my favorite movies and this sketch literally made me laugh so hard that I cried and wiped my contacts out of my eyes! Everyone KILLED IT!
1:10 It's not very often Aidy Bryant steals the scene, but the facial expression she does is absolutely SPOT ON the vacant-yet-happy expression I associate with matronly women in Golden Age cinema.
4:19 If you don't understand the reference here, it's related to an old rumor that in the scene she's describing, supposedly one of the munchkin actor's hung themselves on set, and it was caught on film. There's no basis in fact for this, and the most likely theory is that a stage hand was just caught behind the set when filming began and just got caught in the scene when they shouldn't have been. Alternatively it was simply some props and backgrounds moving around when they shouldn't, but regardless, nobody died in the scene in question.
Those funny looking scary Baby Dolls were Hilarious!!! 😂😂😂 I started laughing when I seen Him walking over on His KNEES with that Curled Up Mustache and Hair..
I only came across SNL sketches earlier this year (I'm in the UK) I have loved binge watching many, MANY of these, but mainly older ones ....the recent ones not so much. But this one is back to the early 00's SNL quality, very funny. Love it!
The funniest part about this is how determined and straight to the point he is with his line of questioning. It's as if he already knew that she had dreamed he was a munchkin.
“I’m a bad guesser, just ask my wife! She asked me to guess what she learned in her exercise class, and I said ‘Acceptance?’ -- Worst couple’s balloon ride, ever.” --Kenan Thompson
hahaha oh man I just realized how much of my humor was shaped by old SNL that I used to watch as a kid. I laughed so much at this skit because of the way Will Ferrell yelled those things.
Lmao seeing Bowen yang in all of these skits when he’s in the official wicked movie is so funny
It’s cool
Foreshadowing
Bowen is the best! Love him!
I love when Kate McKinnon does voices from 1930s & 40s movies.
Her and kristen wig. So funny
"You know how to whistle, don't you? Just put your lips together and blow" that one killed me lmao
Me too lol so funny 🤣
Love this
@@horgecondaliza6644 Kristen Wig 30s-40s voice is so much better
"What were we wearing?" "What?" " WHAT WERE WE WEARING!!!!?" Best line
🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
-pionts to demonic looking baby dolls-
I would've cracked up
😂😂😂😂
"Lay off me, I'm starving!"
was what I was thinking at that moment :D
Ok but can we appreciate how spot on the acting was in the part right when Dorothy wakes up before the munchkins come in. It was exactly like the movie. They nailed it.
Not so fun fact: Sarah reports that she was drugged and sexually assaulted while filming. And that she was molested and sexually harassed by executives and even the actors who played the lolly pop guild dwarves… yikes
Kate McKinnon is overrated
@@jaxcaulfield7071I bet you have really cool opinions 😂
@@VeritasMCMXCII of course i do hahaha smiley face etc
Even on his knees, Will Ferrell is taller than everyone else...
True!
Excactly what i thought too!
That's why he was the mayor lmao
Haha
That's why he's mayor.
Will Ferrell “WHAT WERE WE WEARING!”
I had to pause the video after that line.
@@PunchUp01 SAME
“I wish that tornado killed you”! I was dying! I love Will Ferrell
I wouldn't be able to do it without laughing.
😂😂😂😂😂
Chloe’s munchkin voice is so good. She needs more screen time.
"I'm maaad as hell". Fith time around, I'm still losing it!
Zack Berger She’ll become the next Kate McKinnon when she leaves.
Yeah only been used 2 or 3 times this season I think
She’ll get more. It’s only her first season so the writers are just learning her skills and weaknesses
She’s been great this season
Reese De’WHAT will always be funny, no matter how many times I see him
He's really an underrated recurring character
Not funny and first time seeing it
Why? I do not know
I haven't seen him before.
🎶De’WHAT’s up with that🎶
As someone who has watched The Wizard of Oz multiple times a year when my children were little, I feel that the movements and inflections of these actors are so carefully studied and duplicated that they just deserve whatever success they can get. It's amazing to watch it copied so well.
"Were the lollipops bigger than your head? Yes." Oh my god this show is hilarious.
"no, you danced on the grave of the lady I killed"
Damn, it's a lot darker than I remember. 😅
Yeah, there's a dark side to the Wizard of Oz...
...a dark side of the Moon.
Lots of family films, children's cartoons, and old Hollywood movies are.
I was surprised they didnt call her a murderer or psychopath after that
Ding Dong the witch is dead.
Remember Rick Polito's description of the movie back in 1998 for TCM: “Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first person she meets and then teams up with three strangers to kill again.”
“I wish the tornado had killed you!” LOL
I actually laughed at that part.
Will always go in...he only stays calm for alil
Auntie Em: (shocked) Doctor!!
No one caught that in one of the opening scenes of the original movie, someone indeed killed themselves..
I think it was the producer’s son or maybe the janitor or some shit, but it actually happened.
They hinted at it in the skit and in reviewing the comments, NO ONE HAS FUCKING NOTICED..
I’m surely not the biggest fan of the movie, but come on!!
This party genuinely made me laugh out loud on public transportation
"Listen, it's more dignified than it sounds."
Yes. That is a line from the video we all watched.
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"WHAT were we WEARING?!" Gets me every time 😂
This was such a genius sketch. From the “munchkins” getting upset to the joke about one of them hanging themselves. Awesome sketch. Deserved to be in the first half of the show.
Ok. That was hilarious. Especially Auntie Em pleasantly smiling in background during whole interrogation.
This was the real ending but after some negative audience feedback, they changed it.
Damn focus groups.
Didn't know that.
@@JackMensahBonsu he's joking
@@rhecht9 actually I really want this ending especially the part with the one legged slave.
@@JackMensahBonsu yeah it would be funny af
Will Ferrell still seems tall even on his knees lol
He’s always been taller than the other elves
A midget amongst dwarves
Kate McKinnon’s voice is lovely doing Judy’s accent!!! Really loving her in all the roles she embodies. Really lovely!
“She asked me to guess what she learned in her exercise class and I said ’acceptance?’”
Evey Aspaas worst thing to say in a couples hot air balloon
Keenan always looks like he’s going to burst out laughing when he talks
But he rarely does crack
Wrong black guy, there.
He’s not in this sketch
@@dodgingdurangos924 No, he's in the beginning playing reese de'what. Lemme guess, you see "racism" everywhere, right?
Horatio Huskisson he’s not even in this dude
WHAT were we WEARING
Lol I couldn't stop laughing at will ferral
🤣😆
That was so damn funny!!!🤩🤩🤩
Hes so damn hilarious!😂😂😂💀💀💀💀
Me either!
@Steve Shortridge thank you!
“And I think I saw one of you had hanged yourself” 😂😂😂 I cant believe SNL put that famous (and disproved) Wizard of Oz rumor in this sketch
@~Vashti7~ It is a rumor, though--the shadow is from a bird in the background flapping it's wings. They put birds in the background to make the scene feel more like a forest.
@~Vashti7~ Right, because no-one at MGM would notice something like a suicide taking place during filming, or they'd find a corpse hanging from a tree and not bother to do a re-shoot, and nobody involved in the editing of the film would see it and no-one watching the film in theaters or on television broadcasts would notice it for at least half a century - until the internet was invented.
Yes, there's no disproved urban myth going on here.
~Vashti7~ it’s fake
@~Vashti7~ www.snopes.com/fact-check/hanging-munchkin/
It was filmed in a studio where they had live animals. It was a bird.
"Doctor thanks for coming to see Dorothy."
"She seems fine."
I love how she banged her head so hard that she passed out for hours and he's like "well she looks okay to me. Now about that dream...."
it *was* the Midwest in the 1930s, I wouldn’t have been surprised XD
@@rosebyanyname For real! I'm sure concussion protocols and concerns about severe brain damage were pretty much non-existent back then 😂
The doctor comes in.."Was I in your dream?". .. oh Lord ... Lol
I like how she just accepted it was a dream and tried to move on when she realized how offensive it was.
awkward much? Lol they were so tight with her 🤣
She should've doubled down. Enough of hurt PC BS. Pretending you're not what you are is the real fantastic dream.
@@skipads5141 what a silly response
@@skipads5141 snowflake
Offensive? 😂😂
Such a missed opportunity to let melissa do her Judy garland impression smh
so true.
@@anadonut.kalemyvibe5872 Same.
I know. They have to force Kate in everything. They may as well name the show after her
@@turdferguson8928 cuz she's awesome
Thanks Melissa
This skit is one of the funniest SNL sketches I’ve seen in a while. Hilarious.
I KEEP WATCHING IT!!!
Give me some of your drugs.
If you haven't already, you should check out the "alternate ending" they did for Casablanca. In my opinion, it's even funnier than this one. ☺
Funniest non-political sketch in a long time on SNL. Well before Will Ferrell's time on SNL.
@@mariannecontrino6297 The mad tv one was hilarious!!! She said, "you telling me I couldve been left"?!!!!!! She was trying to kill the good witch
Kate McKinnon's old school acting is so perfectly hilarious
''you were all heroes in your own SMALL way''.....genius
Not for the character in that moment.
"your house is a dump btw" LOL!!!! Freaking hilarious skit all the way through.
"Your house is a dump by the way" 😂😂💀💀💀 maaaan this sketch had me in TEARS!! "I'm mad as hell" 💀
Kate and Aidy made the Cinema Classic sketches their own. Kenan served up the ball, they went with it and made proper comedy gold!
The second “what were we wearing?!?!” Just kills me every time.
I love these skits just for how Reese De'What pronounces his name.
They even got the sepia tone color of the movie right
I was just thinking that Sepia looks gorgeous, and they even have the fake dust and finger prints on the film
John Clarke yes, they used sepia. That’s how they did that.
Fuck me people are stupid.
John Clarke except the movie was in b&w and then in color. sepia is the color of very old photos.
But they got the aspect ratio wrong.
@@wobu5361 it was released in and filmed in Sepia in 1939. Subsequent releases had it in black and white simply because color TV wouldn't be available for a long time. It was changed back to it's original Sepia tone (digitally) in the late 80's early 90's.
Kate McKinnon is simply a genius comedienne. Her spot on delivery and dry humor are a special blend of hilarity and slapstick that is rare.
Kate will be missed on SNL. She has done so many different characters over the years.
WAIT IS SHE LEAVING😟
@@meowmeowballs - when I wrote that, I was told she left snl and when I didn't see her in the season opener, I figured it was true and she left snl. As far as I know, she will be there all year, hopefully for a few more years.
It's not the highest paid gig on tv, but she is one of the highest paid of all time. $25k per episode, same as Kenan on and Jost.
It's a great job and they are encouraged to do other projects in their down time
Well now she is gone 😕
@@danii888 - are you sure? I know Pete Davidson is gone.
@@joblessbum7 Yup. Kate, Kyle, Pete, and Aidy.
Loved this so much! My grandmother's first cousin was one of the Flying Monkeys in The Wizard of Oz, and so I've always been fascinated by the film as a result. It's so cool to see the memory of his work, and the work of the other actors who played Munchkins, remembered in this sketch.
You were the first cousin, twice removed, to your grandmother's first cousin, so you get to claim him too!
Bowen went from playing a munchkin in snl to playing a major character in the Wicked musical
major? no hate but his character of "Galinda's catty friend with two lines and whose name you don't know unless you look it up on IMDB" is way down the list in importance and screen time... side character at best
The movie was excellent and Bowen was fine but he did not play a major character. The movie added some snobby friends for Galinda at Shiz and he was one of them.
Will Ferrell is a national treasure
No he's not
The cast members now litterally stare at cue cards the whole time, will doesn't .
Hes a baby eater
and kate mckinnon..i thought she made this skit work
So many IRL celebrity guests appearing on this episode.......I wish John C Reilly would have showed up for a part.
"What were we wearing!" the aggressiveness in his voice had lmaoo 😂😂😂
🤣🤣 for no apparent reason tho 🤣🤣
Can we talk about how GOOD an impression of Judy Garland Kate did? Wow!
? She wore a wig, laid there, and talked. WOW! So amazing! And her singing and dancing.... oh right, she did none of that.
The Wizard of Oz is one of my favorite movies and this sketch literally made me laugh so hard that I cried and wiped my contacts out of my eyes! Everyone KILLED IT!
1:10 It's not very often Aidy Bryant steals the scene, but the facial expression she does is absolutely SPOT ON the vacant-yet-happy expression I associate with matronly women in Golden Age cinema.
lost it when ferrell walked in...
Walked in? He was moving on his knees.
Me too 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Sam C 😂😂😂
lol same. This is my 4th time watching this and it just always gets better when Dr. Pickens walks in and the rest of the guys just leave
I laugh everytime
Doing the shoulders when mad, totally floored me! Lol
The whole thing has me crying
OMG, Kate's Judy Garland inflection is SOOooo spot-on, just uncanny.
“And what about meee? Was I there??” Will did a great job introducing the comedic element to the scene.
The musical score in the background just amplifies the whole thing!! 😭😭😭😭😭😭
I love these cinema classics sketches
The music in the back ground 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Tits or gtfo
That bassoon music when they pan over to the dolls...just about killed me! 😂😂
I will never get tired of the way kenan shouts De’WHAT! 😆😂
Is no one talking about that hat slip in the back at 2:17 😂😂
I am always amazed at how SNL manages to replicate old movies and commercials..and they produce them so quickly, too!
I was expecting this to be one of those shoddy end of night pieces but this was hilarious. Guess you can’t go wrong with Will Ferrell.
One of the funniest, most creative SNL skits I’ve seen in a long time! Brilliant!
4:19 If you don't understand the reference here, it's related to an old rumor that in the scene she's describing, supposedly one of the munchkin actor's hung themselves on set, and it was caught on film. There's no basis in fact for this, and the most likely theory is that a stage hand was just caught behind the set when filming began and just got caught in the scene when they shouldn't have been. Alternatively it was simply some props and backgrounds moving around when they shouldn't, but regardless, nobody died in the scene in question.
When he yells What we’re we wearing?!?! Had me lol so hard!
Bowen Yang manifesting he will be in a Wizard of Oz movie.
probably one of the best snl episodes in a long time. every skit was funny. now if only they could bring back good music guests.
Those funny looking scary Baby Dolls were Hilarious!!! 😂😂😂 I started laughing when I seen Him walking over on His KNEES with that Curled Up Mustache and Hair..
I thought this skit was going to be ridiculous, but it was one of the best. Will Ferrell is a gift to have on your show.
Correct on BOTH counts.
always love the way Keenan says "De'What!!"
I only came across SNL sketches earlier this year (I'm in the UK) I have loved binge watching many, MANY of these, but mainly older ones ....the recent ones not so much. But this one is back to the early 00's SNL quality, very funny. Love it!
Kenan really hit that De’WHAT hard 😂😂😂
as he do every Cinema Classics sketch lol
That's part of it. He does it every time they do this sketch. It's a "thing."
Finally a funny sketch!!!
“It’s more dignified than it sounds”
Hahahaha
Kenan is a gem....he is keeping SNL alive along with Cecily, Kate, and Aidy.
Idk.. he just seems like the same person nobody what he does lol. No character acting ability at all. But I loved him on good burger and all that
i will always laugh when keenan says "reese de'WHAT"
My alternative ending is where the “Wizard of Oz” tells Dorothy that she took the wrong road, that she should’ve took the reddish road instead.
You monster!!!
"You know, I'd love to move off the dream stuff..."
I love how at one point she morphed into Elizabeth Warren for a minute
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I like how the referenced the controversy behind the “hanging munchkin” in the movie.
👍doubt many got that... which incidentally is an Urban Myth like '3 Men and A Baby' ghost..
You mean the myth. Yes, that was a pretty funny reference.
In the credits they were called "the dancing midgets"
"So we're on the same level as an airborne chimp?"
Once they land maybe
This is a SERIOUSLY underrated comment-
“You know what i learned in exercise class?”
“Acceptance?”
Worst couples balloon ride ever.
Hilarious!
One of my favorite SNL sketches ever!
I think SNL just loves to give Kenan funny names for him to say, and I gotta say, I thoroughly approve.
I love her voice breaking nervously at 1:45 and then twiddling her fingers at the 2:50 interrogation lmao
2:37 "Manchkinland" LOL!!! 🤣🤣🤣
"Lets get out of here, your house is a dump by the way!" Im dying,
🤣😂
One of the funniest sketches I've ever seen. So funny
Ah yeah? Which part?
I love how they included the creepy urban legend.
Don't know how many times I've watched it now But I've laugh every time WILL and the others come in
The funniest part about this is how determined and straight to the point he is with his line of questioning. It's as if he already knew that she had dreamed he was a munchkin.
If you look close, the munchkin next to Will damn near bursts out laughing when he says, 'WHAT WERE WE WEARING!!'
“No you danced on a grave of a lady I killed” 😂😂😂
it's so heartwarming to see that will ferrel finally got to be an elf
Call him elf one more time!
“I’m a bad guesser, just ask my wife! She asked me to guess what she learned in her exercise class, and I said ‘Acceptance?’ -- Worst couple’s balloon ride, ever.” --Kenan Thompson
Loved the reference to the rumour of a Munchkin in the forest haha brilliant sketch
Kenan always gives me Will Ferrell vibes whenever he hosts game shows or hosts stuff like this. He’s become such a standout leader on SNL ❤️
I bet Kate McKinnon could do a great Joel Osteen impression.
I would love to see that! I can picture it already!😂😂😂😂😁💗
That needs to happen. Osteen doesn't get mocked nearly as much as he deserves.
I'd watch the hell outta that.
@@PhillyFrank1 😂
I love Kate McKinnon. This was too funny. I was laughing so hard and nearly choked to death while laughing. No lie. 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂
Glad you're still with us
@@wanderingseth 🤣
This felt like one of those cut-away skits from Family Guy, but brought to life with real actors. Freakin' hilarious!
I like the enthusiasm those five dudes have for knowing if they were or were not in Dorothy's dream 😅
hahaha oh man I just realized how much of my humor was shaped by old SNL that I used to watch as a kid. I laughed so much at this skit because of the way Will Ferrell yelled those things.
@3:23 Chloe has an uncanny ability to keep her head still. Dang. Robotic.
Yeah, so where's breakfast by the way? 😂
There were bits and pieces where she really sounded like Judy Garland ... and then there were other parts where she sounded like Elizabeth Warren.
I mean, both are from the southern midwest? Warren's from Oklahoma and Dorothy was from Kansas.
Kennan delivers as usual.
I like it how he cracks up a little bit when he says his character's last name: De'Whaaat!!
I love how the two at the window join in on the angry little shoulder dance.