Consumer Probe: Irwin Mainway - SNL

[@afrocoolio25]

"Teaches em' about light refraction" such genius. I never caught that before.

[@waynej2608]

And prisms!

[@realretrorelapse]

I would much rather my child get his broken glass from a reputable company than picking up filthy glass bits from off the street where you don't know who's been playing with them!

[@ryanrickerts5982]

I agree. When I was a kid growing up in Northern Idaho, I got my broken glass from throwing rocks through windows in the abandoned logging mill by the lake (now a world famous golf course), and I can tell you the security guards were quite dangerous! If my mom could have afforded to buy some shards from the toy store instead, I would have been a happy kid!

[@phoebanaccinegeste2916]

😂😂

[@LL-fd7xn]

Dan Akroyd is the goat when it comes sleazy characters! Especially love the Blender Skit!

[@hell5309]

He's not just the goat, he's the goat in the moat with a boat! Who's got the crack?

[@enryiggins2878]

Super Bass-O-Magic 76. Classic.

[@Cara-39]

Toys like these provided hours of fun for those of us growing up in the 70s and 80s. Kids of all ages love Bag O' Vipers!

[@juneosborne421]

I actually remember scandal about toy companies stuffing stuffed animals with dangerous things.

[@jonSM99]

I prefer Happy Fun Ball.

[@MichaelVLang]

We had so much fun playing with blasting caps, back then.

[@pronkb000]

@@jonSM99 Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.

[@BixRibene]

Getting the Sulphric Acid refills could be a bit frustrating, but it was always worth the effort.

[@danboyle116]

This is easily one of the best early SNL sketches. Those folks were brilliant.

[@hotwax9376]

It was actually funny back then.

[@jntj3007]

HEAR, HEAR!

[@sexobscura]

It's always been lacklustre, unfunny and sophmoric

[@Valkonnen]

My favorite and I think the most clever sketch was when Ed Asner Played the head of a Nuclear plant, and before leaving for a long vacation , was telling the crew "remember, you can't put too much water in the Nuclear Reactor".

[@donnix1192]

It’s the funniest SNL bit ever, to this day.

[@domtillman630]

We’re just packaging what the kids want ya know 😂

[@ivi13]

We put a label on every bag: Kid be careful Broken Glass!

[@Lumpy63]

Ahhh, the golden and best years of SNL, Dan Ackroyd one of the best still! Loved his E. Buzz Miller character too!!

[@waynej2608]

Wasn't he the cable access host, interviewing strippers from the 'coach and pole'?A local club. OMG that stuff still has me roaring!!

[@bradyguy7701]

According to Aykroyd - Irwin Mainway and E. Buzz Miller are actually cousins. AND Irwin Mainway is also a cousin to Todd O'Connor,a as played by Chris Farley in the SuperFans sketches. (Da....BEARS!). Whether Miller and O'Connor are cousins remains to be seen...depends on their parents and uncles and aunts and who's on which side...

[@aliaslisabeth1031]

This was one of the funniest holiday themed sketches. You should see the Halloween version. My favorite was the "Invisible Pedestrian" costume: A totally black outfit with a mask that restricts vision.

[@13572danube]

That was the same sketch as 'the human torch' which was lighter fluid and a bunch of rags.

[@aliaslisabeth1031]

@@13572danube Yikes!

[@NJGuy1973]

@@13572danube Flame on! Light up the night!

[@joematerascz3725]

"NOT FER BLIND KIDS"!

[@chrismadden1935]

I can't find a link to the Holloween sketch on youtube. That was hilarious

[@greg4055g]

This one is such a classic

[@goirish2816]

Teddy Chainsaw Bear🐻

[@richmotroni]

I have been a proud investor of Mainway Toys for many years. I am currently doing 5 to 10 years for fraud. All thanks to Mainway Toys.

[@christopherboone9802]

😂😂

[@VazzVegas]

One of my all time favourite sketches. Dan Aykroyd plays such a good scumbag.

[@creoleDJ]

Bag O’ Glass is what had me dying! Imagine nowadays…Bag O’ Syringes! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@djungelskogsn7529]

Dan Aykroyd is a comedic genius who channels his autism and tourettes into an amazing superpower

[@bukowski20]

I met Dan Aykroyd once and told him he was the greatest sketch comic in the history of television. He was somewhat embarrassed, but I meant it. Genius.

[@MrCocksuckme]

stfu

[@dryjazz]

This character certainly is an Americanization of a recurring character in Monty Python's Flying Circus. Hilarity always ensued whenever one of the Pythons would guest or cameo on SNL

[@larryroyovitz7829]

@@dryjazz Yet, he's Canadian.

[@Guidotoons101]

Anne Beatts wrote this.

[@Rayoscope]

Irwin Mainway, maker of Happy Fun Ball, still legal in sixteen states.

[@michaelivy9170]

tears running down my face. always love this

[@danielobrien1]

This is one of the greatest snl skits in its history. I had to come back and watch this gem 😂

[@christineschnitzka823]

So barbie takes a knife every once in a while 🤣🤣🤣

[@BigElectricCat]

Ya know

[@achterberghardwoodfloors1520]

Or Ken gets cut

[@waynej2608]

Johnny Switchblade Adventure Punk! ...'ya know, so Barbie takes a knife, once in awhile. Ken gets cut.' I love the early SNL, I always go on about John Belushi and Gilda Radner. They were great, but if I'm really honest, my favorite was Dan Akroyd. His takes on sleazy pitch/ad men, cable access hosts, Tom Snyder, etc, always had me howling with laughter, the most. Ty for the vid! 😎👍👏👏👏👏👏

[@moncorp1]

I've always thought Belushi was overrated. Outside of his eyebrows he really had nothing. Ackroyd, Chase and Murray we're the true geniuses.

[@matthewmarkiewicz4056]

Bag-O-Glass! Classic! 🤣🤣 And I'd forgotten about the the Bag-O-Vipers and the Bag-O-Sulfuric Acid.🤣🤣🤣

[@michaelgonzalez4269]

Hey kid be careful, broken glass.

[@kristinbilicki1658]

My all time favorite SNL Christmas skit

[@lauramalek3128]

"Bag 'o Glass". One of my mother's favorite references to early SNL days. "Kid...Be careful...BROKEN GLASS". Yeah that warning label oughta help. 😉

[@sdafasdfasdfsda]

How bout this one..Lawn Darts. A gigantic steel dart little Johnny throws up in the air...teaches em how gravity and stuff works, uhhh know what I mean? ......Wait that was a real toy.

[@afrocoolio25]

"The 70s."

[@Chemichael111]

Haha yeah you can’t purchase the true lawn dart sets in many states now.

[@tomitstube]

yep, we had them as kids, then one day they were gone...

[@eyeseer1]

Childhood memories.

[@deanguy66]

They were called Jarts, and I sold a vintage set a few years back to a collector for quite a hefty sum.

[@DWilliam1]

Saw this when it came out. Simply the best. “Doggie Dentist and Johnnie Switchblade”

[@macbethpkyiv]

"The full name is Johnny Switchblade Adventure PUNK" 😆

[@patrickjspoon]

What kid wouldn't be delighted by their Bag O' Sulfuric Acid?

[@NESherv]

I still have fond memories of my Bag O'Asbestos.

[@waynej2608]

My Bag 'O muriatic acid, was never half the laughs.

[@scratch5191]

Exactly! Kid be careful it's a bag of glass. When we were kids, you didn't have anything but your imagination, the element of danger, peer pressure that stemmed from the possibility of being humiliated and coerced into something questionable to avoid public exposure and a lighter you found at the bus stop. Computers are more dangerous lol!

[@Sejsc]

Ha, ha, ha ha, hahahahaha!!! I'm going to get me some tissues now, hahahaha!!!

[@00lilyvonshtupp]

LOLOLOL

[@Evocati-Augusti]

I'm grateful..no matter what my mom said, at 5 years old to 14, I stayed up with my dad to watch it every week, then I became the school's reenactment of all the skits, so I had to practice the voices, and remember the scripts(no lie my friend that works on Practical Jokers from grade 6-8th would dress in a suit with a briefcase to school and i would dress like Buckwheat)...which the theatre teacher when I hit 9th grade caught wind, I would spend 4 years living almost in the Auditorium, and my Theatre teacher soon drove me to school, and I had all the keys...they made a deal with him at the end of 10th grade, keep him inside you're walls and we will give him Cs on everything...this was the 80s..and everyone jocks/ preps, which we were a tiny rich school was all jock preps,new if they wanted to try something, they had a safe place to go, and someone who would keep their mouths shut...my dad wanted me in the USAF, and i did, I long time,but I sent in a lot of skits and one of the most conserversal was the one i did,and the way the showed it was my skit,was by putting my address on the prescription bottle..i think its banned...

[@strongbad8315]

I definitely played with Dangerous Toys. I still survived with all 10 fingers and 9 toes. 😉

[@Monkey_Spunk]

And Ten Boots!

[@edwardkaulakis9579]

I was interested in exothermic prompt chemistry .... kaBOOM!!!

[@ericspero996]

Lawn Darts and BB guns alone would likely kill thousands of today's youth if they could get their hands on them.

[@howardreed5399]

I killed my twin with a yard dart

[@codyeveryday5432]

I'm so early Dan Aykroyd still has a full head of hair

[@rudyg.7359]

He definitely predicted the toy phone choking hazard.Score one for Irwin Mainway.

[@waynej2608]

Hey, he's got the consumer at heart, ya know.

[@michaelgandara5319]

Johnny Switch Blade Adventure Punk is a modified Fonzie Doll.

[@jaxsquier]

No, The Hell You Say.

[@kshinokevin]

(H)Eyyy (or "Ay") ! if the kids get hurt by the blade, there won't be some Happy Days, when they find themselves, either at a hospital or at a school's nurse office... featuring Candice Bergen (the "Murphy Brown" sitcom); the daughter of Edgar Bergen (a ventriloquist for characters, like Charlie McCarthy)...

[@ihavefallenandicantreachmy2113]

Did you sit, on it?

[@wnerko7484]

ayyyyy

[@bradyguy7701]

@@kshinokevin Lots of extraneous info there that we all know.....why??? LOL

[@tomitstube]

this is 43 years ago... feel old yet? the beautiful host is candice bergen. thought i'd mention that since she isn't even in the credits.

[@benni1023fm]

I want a do-over. Beginning 43 years ago.

[@waynej2608]

A fine actress, and gorgeous!

[@ihavefallenandicantreachmy2113]

43 years, ago, people were polite/kind,respectful, enough, for to "Capitalize", someones Damn Name, therefore, yes; i do feel old, in that respect. (Edit) Also; thank you, for asking

[@tomitstube]

@@ihavefallenandicantreachmy2113 okay boomer.

[@scottpollack1007]

tomitstube Yes, Candice..........the Radical, Liberal, Left-Wing Democrat who makes my blood boil! A really nice lady?

[@bobmarsh3446]

A classic one is when he had the New Jersey school lunch contract “ ravioli stuffed with chalk”

[@ericgarringer6911]

Comes with a plastic helmet & a real m1 rifle lmfao God this never gets old

[@SrChalice]

What the hell am I going to do with a bag of broken glass? 😂😭🤣 I've always loved this sketch.

[@TM-ro7lh]

This reminds me of everyone’s dad growing up in Chicago

[@THX-kw2jh]

Candice Bergen was Incredibly Beautiful, Love Her. First SNL Generation Was My Favorite (1974-1980), NBC Almost Cancelled SNL in 1980. By That Year SNL Was on Syndication All Over the US.

[@finddeniro]

...and smart act too..

[@THX-kw2jh]

@@finddeniro Yes, Smart Beauty

[@bradyguy7701]

Actually 75-79...Chase, Aykroyd, and Belushi were all gone before the 5th season. And SNL was NOT being syndicated as early as 1980. Edited RERUNS were being shown on NBC...NOT syndicated... The first syndicated episodes were likely NIck at Nite in the mid-to-late 80s...

[@nunayadamnbusiness]

This is always a favorite of mine. i quote it all the time.

[@jackbauer4186]

Knowing that Farley openly stole Aykroyd's cadence, vibe and accent from this and put it in 'Da Bears' sketch just takes it to another level.

[@bradyguy7701]

Interesting observation! Did you know that Irwin Mainway and Todd O'Connor are ACTUALLY cousins??? See Aykroyd on the SuperFans sketch in 1998...

[@mrsbluesky8415]

To this day I’ll call things “bag o glass.” Some ppl get it. 😂

[@gangfire5932]

Ahhh Bag of Glass, right up there with my Legos and Whirlybird. Those were the days . . .

[@tuff47]

I was in high school when this was on SNL. Still hilarious today!

[@kurtkensson2059]

I remember when even high school parties would kind of slow down a bit at 11:30 p.m. on Saturdays, right after the local T.V. news. Couldn't miss the opening of the show, and the "Live, from New York, it's Saturday Night!" Then we'd talk about the show on Mondays. Good times, and a _much_ better SNL.

[@KirbSyde-vf4cf]

This is one of the funniest characters on any sketch show anywhere ever!!!! 😆😂⭐❤

[@cameronfox4393]

My dad who was born in 1954, claims that he once bought a baby alligator in the mail and his parents never found out about it because he kept it in the basement

[@thomasdidymus1393]

Teddy Chainsaw Bear🤣😂

[@wnerko7484]

Johnny switchblade adventure punk was my favorite happy days character

[@mkiwi980]

This is my favorite Dan Aykroyd SNL skit of all time.

[@Local_yokels_monsters_myths]

This and Julia Changs bleeding are my favs off D.A!!

[@princessmadison588]

I just love Dan Aykroyd

[@djay6651]

I remember this one from when I was a little kid. Dan was always my favorite of the original cast. Johnny Switchblade Adventure Punk was THE toy to have Christmas '76.

[@anthonym.pacelli1960]

I've been trying to find "tele-psychic" another Dan Ackroyd classic !

[@LEGENDARYPartyonwayne]

One of the best skits ever done!

[@emiliobello2538]

And ones ever not just the SNL Christmas ones

[@Gabster1990]

Thank you for uploading this.

[@robothunter1035]

Man, toys in the olden days were fun.

[@hoibsh21]

OMG !! Classic! I remember when SNL was tasteless and great !!

[@ThunderPants13]

I bet after kids play with Bag o' Sulfuric Acid, the Mr. Skin Grafter toy probably comes in handy. 😁

[@aliaslisabeth1031]

It is kind of like the Monty Python "Whizzo Candy Company" sketch, in that the manufacturer refuses to make products that are safe and conventional.

[@dryjazz]

I JUST mentioned how the Pythons inspired and influenced 1970s humor, leading to great guest host and cameo bits on SNL!

[@alanwakeish]

I see absolutely nothing wrong with his products, the warnings are all clearly labeled. Also, I was a big fan of their build your own Nuke kit. Tons of fun and a half-life of 500 years.

[@powervaporsupply3817]

"...or Ken gets cut."

[@Sam-el2we]

Ken definitely ran away as soon as he saw Johnny Switchblade

[@ricksta121]

NEED those sunglasses!

[@reybarreto7979]

Geez! Candice was stunningly beautiful! Aykroyd got all the funny lines in this skit but my eyes were glued to the beauty sitting next to him.

[@jaleesagreene6800]

I have been looking for this video for months. That being said these toys sound awesome.

[@MiqelDotCom]

43 years later - and this guy is the President!

[@n.twinkie6311]

My all time favorite SNL skit

[@meandyou1914]

When I was in grade school. We would get Free books for RIF. We all wanted to get the books "Truly Tasteless Jokes"

[@simonfrederiksen104]

hey you can have it for 1.98! That's cheap! I dare you to find a cheaper bag of glass anywhere!

[@chrono1671]

One of the best skits. True classic.

[@francisadams-u9l]

In the old days, there were toys on the market that were very dangerous. I want a Johnny Punk Switchblade action figure for Christmas. So what if Barbie takes a cut every now and then.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@maxxsteele9396]

I remember when my parents bought me the Mainway, "Bag O' Dicks"

[@NJGuy1973]

And there's the one where Mainway defends the school lunches he provides.

[@robfuzz]

I love the Fonzie doll switchblade!!!

[@toscodav]

Back in the days when they didn't force the Studio audience to laugh like they have to now for live shows.

[@jarretgrathwol4790]

"Kid look out broken glasssssss." LOL

[@prometheus5700]

I used to take the end off the arrows and sharpen them in a pencil sharpener. It all went downhill from there.

[@tusharrajput6192]

Toys were us..😂

[@ronthompson95]

I would never have leaned about light refraction and prisms nor would I have ever gained interest in learning about Northern Lights had it not been for the bag of glass my parents gave me back in the day.

[@ghanasoul]

The ONLY reason this skit works is Danny. He created a shady type of guy. The look, the voice, the attitude. A VERY underrated performer on this show.

[@BigElectricCat]

Ya know

[@bertmustin]

Still one of the funniest skits in SNL history.

[@dennistorrence4778]

I'm gonna ask Santa for a Teddy Chainsaw Bear this season

[@anthonykhoury9292]

Me too

[@larryhinze2330]

Candice was SMOKIN' HOT.

[@danielshookjr3592]

Johnny switchblade lol 😂 Teddy Chainsaw bear 😂

[@jerrycargill5062]

A joke in 1976, and 48 years later this is literally every major American corporation's public relations department.

[@jameshallwachs6317]

SNL hasn't been this funny in a thousand, thousand generations... LEGENDARY.

[@jsmcguireIII]

I still use my Bass-o-matic. Gray fishy protein shakes YUM

[@mrspicolli]

I want the consumer probe with Halloween costumes. That’s the best 1

[@SIRSANDMAN0]

who wouldn't want a back of knifes for christmas?

[@starwarsrebel2006]

December 1976. Dan Ackroyd was only 24 years old.

[@bradyguy7701]

Umm....okay. Except that this is 1978. So......??

[@starwarsrebel2006]

@@bradyguy7701 Nope. This aired on December 11, 1976.

[@bradyguy7701]

@@starwarsrebel2006 Oops. Yeah...my bad! I was toggling between two conversations about Aykroyd...one about Irwin Mainway...and one about "Jane, you ignorant slut...". Sorry.

[@dannakiel2650]

Shout out to Candice Bergen for being the Awesome and Ah-mazing Straight Woman in this sketch!!!🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

[@AGregory128]

"Ya know?" 😂😂😂

[@jsv438]

Wow! These were some of my FAVORITE toys to play with when I was a kid! ~JSV

[@randymillhouse791]

General Tranh's Secret Police Confession Kit. 🤣

[@Yzaias15]

Dang the "Bag O' -" line of products is bigger than i though "Bag O' Sulphuric Acid" 😂😂

[@hotwax9376]

"This is certainly a very sad situation. One of the precious joys of Christmas warped by a ruthless profiteer like yourself." Part of what makes this so funny is that it isn't far from reality.

[@dryjazz]

The more you study / do entertainment, the more you realize that humor is based on truth. Sick humor mostly pushes our buttons by being outrageous

[@starwarsrebel2006]

@@dryjazz And it's often the case that the funniest comedians are the most depressed, unhappy people around. Robin Williams. Could anyone have ever imagined he was in so much pain?

[@JoyOfCreativeService]

Randomly thought of this after about 8 years while watching YuB play Sister Location. Probably because of the phone guy, and the whole phone bit, and the fact that he says "Hello, hello," like Scott. Childhood classic.

[@harveyd3175]

love how he keeps going to his tie..... gotta be a nod to Rodney...

[@davestelling]

Forgot the ever popular "Bathtub Toaster."

[@tommyhill199]

Love his pinky ring.

[@chrischichester3573]

The absolute fall-down funniest total psychopath played by the greatest SNL cast member.

[@ezg2000]

One of the best skits ever!

[@dmurphy1578]

2024. This is still a top 10 skit.

[@williamm374]

Hey, I loved my Johnny Switchblade. Millennials are such wimps.