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A man is hopelessly behind in the conversation while having coffee with his friends. Aired 01/11/92
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[@mccallosone4903]

its crazy how you havent seen or thought of a sketch for 31 years and it comes back to you so fast, but i cant remember what i had for breakfast

[@jimjam3429]

I’ve been searching for this for a while, such an underrated era of SNL

[@miami8089]

I loved this sketch when it first came out. I thought it was hilarious. Genius writing and acting by Rob Morrow.

[@jakru9909]

I watched this as a kid and ha e always yelled "clam chowder" when ever someone was completely out of the loop

[@RayTeerlink]

Yes! I did too!

[@jpvieira3203]

I still do, as in literally this morning :-)

[@PhylastDK]

Me too! And I have yet to run into anyone that knew what I was talking about!

[@R0ME13]

I do that still to this day!! 🤣

[@GnarlyRaePepsi]

Yes, finally someone that would get it when I said that

[@RiosChavez-qz2yr]

Me and my brother still Quote “ clam chowder!”

[@CitizenKang]

I always say "Clam Chowdah!" because of this sketch.

[@James-if3kc]

Me too!

[@kaguth]

I say it because of the Simpsons "It's Chow DAH"!

[@jeffbrekelbaum88]

I say ‘they probably show them the French connection’ all the time and no one ever understands why. I’m so glad I got this see this sketch again for the first time in decades! It’s funny how little things like that make a silly impact on you…

[@James-if3kc]

I still say that too, lol.

[@GnarlyRaePepsi]

I say “Clam CHOWDAH!” and everyone thinks I’m quoting The Simpsons episode with Mayor Quimby’s nephew. And I say “Nah, it’s that SNL skit with the Time Machine in the bathroom and the guy that is behind in the conversation” and by the time I get to Time Machine people are talking to/about someone/something else and I just wanna crawl under a rock and expire.

[@James-if3kc]

BY that time, they're already talking about Prince's new album.@@GnarlyRaePepsi

[@matthewgelfer4955]

This is such a subtle concept for a sketch. It makes me laugh so hard, though. Also thumbs up for Siohban Fallon!

[@Drew791]

OMG I have been looking for the sketch for over 20 years. All I remember when it aired as a rerun in the early days of Comedy Central was “CLAM CHOWDA!!” And it being so out of place! This is an itch that I finally got to scratch!

[@James-if3kc]

Congrats!

[@user-cu3nw5pm4p]

*walks deeply in his thoughts* sees condom machine - noo sees time machine - hell yeah and now in the good mood attends condom machine as well

[@willienixon6847]

This sketch comes to me every other month

[@PaladinLarec]

Someone said Clam Chowder and I instantly remembered this from my youth and had to search youtube for it. God, I'm nuts.

[@R0ME13]

You're in good company 🤣

[@earlleroybonaviewthe3rd112]

I've been searching for this for a long time!

[@James-if3kc]

To this day I still say "Clam CHOWDAH" randomly.

[@cwb1400]

Me too 😂

[@James-if3kc]

@@cwb1400 LOL!!!

[@Drew791]

3:48 LOL! Yikes if only they knew. And Prince is not one of the musicians you would even say “that guy” about. He was an extremely unique talent.

[@RichV20]

He was starting to hit a fallow period in the early 90s after a never ending string of hits over the past decade. It wasn't the only prince joke coming out of the 90s calling Prince a has been. Calling him "old man" was just being facetious.

[@superstarreviews9937]

What fxvk are you talking about, prince is still around?!!! THAT GUY?!! and calling him the old man?! 2 years before this,the dude won the grammy for best motion picture song with, party man from the Batman soundtrack! And was nominated for album of the year! And video of the year!!! And the very year this aired,he was nominated for song of the year!! Between Batman and the airing of this sketch,he had 2 triple platinum albums! 😆 The dude was winning award,into the 2000s! Not to mention the greatest Superbowl half time show of all time!!! Only Michael Jacksons rivaled it!!! These people are idiots!

[@marsblue2238]

This is... amazing! :0

[@ekLuca]

Northern Exposureee! :D

[@57highland]

I mix up Northern Exposure with Due South and Picket Fences. They were all from the same time period.

[@ekLuca]

@@57highland Interesting, i find them all totally different, but i do think its similar to Twin Peaks, Northern Exposure came out 3 months after it and it copied a lot of the visual and music aspects of the series.

[@57highland]

@@ekLuca I think they all coincided time-wise (i.e., aired in the same seasons) or nearly so. And yes, I saw the first few episodes of Twin Peaks but didn't stay with it. I remember the big murder mystery, though.

[@no1philosopher]

This is like when people don't read existing comments before Replying

[@boneappletea3858]

Just a burger? A burger. Ok.

[@sandrafaith]

I have never identified with an SNL character more than Rob Morrow's character here... - the ol' "wit of the staircase"

[@superstarreviews9937]

The guys Rob morrow...I don't know why but all these years, I thought I remembered being Edward Norton!

[@alexperaza9475]

This is baffling, I hadn't seen this skit since it aired and over the years I somehow started remembering it with Edward Norton instead of Rob Morrow. Now I feel like I'm in an alternate universe where Rob Morrow starred in this skit and not Edward Norton.

[@vanrose9857]

Alex Peraza: I also saw this when it first aired. I remembered Morrow because I was familiar with “Northern Exposure” as well at the time. Looks like I ended up on the opposite side of the Mandela on this one.

[@userman44]

Mandela Effect.

[@userman44]

But seriously, this sketch is from 1992, and nobody heard of Ed Norton before 1996. So he wouldn't have been on SNL in '92.

[@jpvieira3203]

That's funny (and my time machine is not working cause here I am commenting a year late) but until just now I always had it in my head as Paul Rudd.

[@marycurrin911]

I had remembered it as Adam Sandler!

[@Chris_2cents]

Happy Birthday to Rob Morrow.9-21-62.NY

[@James-if3kc]

He has the same birthday as Cheryl Hines!

[@MaximumCarne]

Yeesh

[@genephillips4809]

Is that.... it James Deen?!

[@sandrafaith]

Too bad I don't have a time machine to go back 5 years... anyway, the guy on the left is Rob Morrow, guy on the right is Michael Myers; otherwise, next time be more specific, lol

[@edwing3638]

Numb3rs

[@vickiross1025]

My favorite.

[@MaximumCarne]

Why did he say Arkansas so fast? Weird glitch for this sketch.

[@boneappletea3858]

Can't believe no one laughed at him going back for the condom but then I saw the audience was high above and behind them likely not seeing it or watching it reversed in a mirror.

[@raheemhamilton8624]

Whatever happend to Beth Cahill ????

[@ryanferrier9964]

she was beautiful

[@James-if3kc]

I couldn't remember her name! I kept wanting to say Melanie Hutsell, but I knew it wasn't her.

[@TheCalm25]

I think it's great that SNL puts a description in the video to kill the new viewer's experience. Great choice. Oh, and not putting the actor's names in the description is absolutely stellar. No new viewers would want to know their shitty names. SNL is the best.

[@petemcintire4339]

The description includes "having coffee with his friends" - however they are actually drinking beer.

[@RichV20]

I didnt know what the skit would be about. And had to read the comments section to know who the actor was. I don't even know who the blonde was. Either couldve been that weeks host. I thought it was Andrew Shue.

[@RogersCadenhead]

@@RichV20 Rob Morrow was the host, so it couldn't be the woman at the table.

[@jimvortakana7316]

who's the woman?

[@vanrose9857]

Jim Vortakana: That’d be Beth Cahill. The 1991-1992 season was her only one.

[@raheemhamilton8624]

@@vanrose9857 whatever happened to her??