Grumpy Old Man 1 - Saturday Night Live

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A grumpy old man appears to comment on modern culture and complain in general. Aired 01/13/90
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[@balerjohnson3099]

Loved grumpy old man and Dana back in the day . Now in my 50s I feel like grumpy old man sometimes but try to keep it in check..Love ya Dana

[@BuzzWreck61]

Back in THE day? Didn’t you mean to say “back in MY day”?

[@jake8077]

Get off my lawn

[@BHENSELMEIER]

I’m right there with you age and all😂

[@MattTee1975]

Great how it's starts out with the audience not really into it, but turns into a classic by the end

[@trust5977]

I love how he tied it together at the end. Brilliant.

[@collegeman1988]

The older I get, the more I sound like grumpy old man than I would ever care to admit, but secretly I like it!

[@dustinmartin653]

But he’s right and so are we.

[@jps0117]

No, you love it.

[@AdamFoster-rx8my]

Oh how we loved it.

[@chrisf8855]

I know some say it was Phil Hartman, Chris Farley, Eddie Murphy, etc but I truly believe that Dana Carvey is the greatest cast member of all time.

[@davidokin124]

He’s definitely a contender. I would like to add Will Ferrell to your list. His G.W. Bush. “One word. “Strategery”

[@chrisf8855]

@@davidokin124 No offense but Will Ferrell can't hold a candle to Dana Carvey or Phil Hartman. Sometimes Will Ferrell came off as trying too hard to be funny which results in not being funny. I never once saw that with Carvey, Hartman, or Eddie Murphy.

[@paintitmatteblack7281]

I agree, I remember watching this skit when it aired when I was eight years old, it was brilliant then and 32 years later it’s still holds it’s own cause Dana has always been comic genius.

[@sratus]

​@@paintitmatteblack7281 I think about 8 years old is the level for this skit. Hartman is miles & miles above Carvey.

[@petermgruhn]

What's a clip that shows his greatness?

[@charlesgreen8703]

“And that’s the way it was…and we liked it….we loved it”

[@SquigSoup]

a paraphrase of "just a bunch of idiots flying out of car windows in our flaming pajamas" has been rattling in my brain for decades

[@XV250]

I remember watching this live BITD and laughing my ass off. Now I'm not laughing cuz I'm the Grumpy Old Man and it's all true.

[@HansDelbruck53]

He was a very grumpy old man. And "WE LIKED IT"!

[@kentjg32]

Written by Bob Odenkirk. I read that in a book called And Here’s the Kicker.

[@KeithCarey33]

Talented writer for great acting comics.

[@kentjg32]

@@KeithCarey33 He's my favorite comedy writer. Amazing career.

[@allenu]

I can totally imagine him reading it out.

[@AdenHoyle]

Thank you for that tidbit. 👍

[@chickenringNYC]

Notice how he delivered this scene flawlessly.

[@f308gtb1977]

Dana has skills.

[@sratus]

Agree, a real shame none of it was funny

[@ChrisKewl]

And to this day I still say Flibbity-Floo.

[@TheJohnny928]

"FLIBBIDY-FLUU"😂😂😂

[@GrumProfessor66]

I still play "Chew the bark off the tree" to this day

[@cdub3945]

😂😂😂

[@stillhere1425]

I think SNL is always funny to the generation at which it is directed, people the age of the writers and performers, because I have never heard anyone NOT say “SNL used to actually be funny in the 70s/80s/90s/2000s/when I was in high school…”

[@jonathanfoutz8931]

It was great in other decades. It’s kind of terrible now, though. They might go bankrupt.

[@alberts1985]

Have you seen the current cast 🤦‍♂️

[@mockfish]

Lorne Michaels said that people always say that the best SNL years were during their high school days. That's pretty true now that I am aware of it.

[@flyacow]

I love this character more and more. This is how generation X fields all the time trust me.

[@joewalsh496]

As a Gen Xer born in 1970. I never felt that way.

[@AbandonedMines11]

I think the Grumpy Old Man would be the perfect spouse for the Church Lady. Who agrees?

[@robertblakey1812]

He makes many and valid points.

[@JaxenRossisback]

Grumpy Old Man would have a field day with today‘s culture!

[@chickenringNYC]

One of Bob Odenkirk's lesser known but hilarious characters!

[@melroze]

Grumpy old man would definitely hate the 2020's

[@michellepost5232]

The Grumpy Old Man skit was hilarious. Dennis Miller is cute. I watched SNL new, from 1975 to 1990.

[@VolkXue]

if you listen the audience was silent for the first minute and a half or so and Dana Carvey just trooped through it without changing. Fine job

[@padfoot6615]

In my day we had see through colored apple computers, and ms frizzle, Zoboomafoo, and PBS. And all the ants on a log we can eat

[@tedsterrett7204]

That's real comedy! Thanks SNL, Dana Carvey a true comedy genius!

[@brandonswan9247]

Lol this is his dog character in secret life of pets

[@JeffreyWilliams-dr7qe]

Staticcly Gobbly Gop? Underrated for Sure!

[@thelodestone]

saw a round table with a bunch Weekend Update hosts and Dennis Miller talked about how Carvey was the best update guest. Miller thought Old Man was weak shit and Carvey was like "watch me destroy."

[@christianorr1059]

“Flibbidy-Floo!”

[@neilgoldring6494]

Dana Carvey was outa control 🥰

[@DangerRaccoon]

These top comments are so ironic! You are all being grumpy old person! And missing the WHOLE POINT OF THE SKIT!

[@stilichobias]

Not the intent of the GOM, but he was right.

[@LC-ht7sg]

One of the best, if not the best. Also, Hartman, Murphy, Farley, Hader, and a few others. Martin Short was on it for just a year, but he killed.

[@smacdonald2012]

Best ERA OF SNL!!!!

[@jaredhardaway]

In my day, we didn't have all these fancy Artificial Intelligence doo-dads. In my day, we had real-live human beings that walked the real Earth talking in real voices doing real things. Our intelligence was real and it was limited and it sucked. And we liked it! And there weren't all these robots doin everything for ya. In my day, we had working arms and legs, and we had to do everything ourselves. We'd work and work and work until our limbs fell off, or we were replaced by artificially intelligent machines and we liked it! HALLLLLEEEEELUJAH! Just waitin around to be replaced by some artificially intelligent machine and sit in my recliner and rot!

[@jaxsun72]

My fondest childhood memories of my family were the hours we all spent playing "chew the bark off the tree".

[@funtzman]

Same, I was 14 and vividly remember watching this and LMAO at the bark of the tree bit.

[@aaronmccall3849]

In my day SNL was actually funny.

[@broncobilly4029]

and that's the way it was, and we liked it that way. ha

[@MajorGeneralDiscomfort]

It got steadily worse until Pete Davidson, Colin Jost, Che Guevara, et al joined then it became pure garbage.

[@BigBlackRod]

Even Dennis Miller. He's about as funny as a pulmonary embolism now...

[@andrewisjesus]

Irony

[@dominikschaller]

Spoken like a grumpy old man.

[@Spyke-lz2hl]

“SNL used to be funny” even though it’s been funny the whole time. It’s such a popular phrase that people say even if they’ve never watched an episode.

[@robertveith6383]

Of course "Saturday Night Live" has *not* been funny the "whole time." Only a delusional and/or dishonest person would state such a thing.

[@VolkXue]

@@robertveith6383 the people that say SNL used to be funny are the people that turned into the grumpy old man.

[@elainae360]

Hilarious!!

[@elainae360]

Still!!!

[@sumi808]

old man and george bush are the best from this season

[@LordFuzzy32]

This is so me now

[@todddowning5820]

I loved this when it originally aired. Now... this IS me 😮

[@thomasthomas2418]

Flibeldeeflue!

[@hookahb8299]

Dana Carvey is still one of the funniest guys ever..

[@davidsthubbins176]

In my day, we didn’t have these fancy KZbin videos. If we wanted to watch an SNL sketch, we had to wait until 11:30 on Saturday night. And that’s the way we liked it!

[@kaspar_1982]

i'm my day you skated around the playground after school laughing with your friends without a cell phone or a care in the world and we liked it!!!! on the weekend our stay at home moms kicked us out of the house after breakfast and we had to play with the other kids in the parks and yards all day and we liked it!!! you had to look into other kids faces with their beady little eyes and speak to them right in front of you and play nice and comprimizzzzzz dag nabit!!! you walked to school with safety and learned to read a book and write your lousy name and got a good job because you were educated, married and bought a house and had kids while you were in your 20s and we liked it!!!! and you were a boy or a girl and that's the way it was!!!!

[@OutdoorEnthusist]

I think Grumpy Old Man must be a Historian.

[@applefortynine8207]

Not sure why the SNL Grumpy Old Man aka The Garth popped into my head (2 decades and a half, ago) today. Still funny after all this time. Guess I’ll buy a car now.

[@TheJohnny928]

i could watch this ALL day 😂😂😂 Where's Dennis Miller 😍2022

[@ElectricIguana]

Lex and Will sent us here.

[@authoremilyjosephine]

LOL, he'd love the 2000s...

[@johnsheetz6639]

That's exactly how old I thought my parents were back when I was 8 years old

[@TheJohnny928]

"Gobdlaby GooP" (did i spell that right?)

[@albiman68]

Dana Carvey is in my all-star cast.... along with Hartman and others....

[@dreamepiphany9093]

Now a days everybody is coronavirus.

[@Commando303X]

God, this is fucking perfect.

[@thetrumpnewsnetwork7503]

In my day SNL was so funny we'd stay at home to watch it instead of going out and getting high school girls and college coeds pregnant which caused a critical drop in births in the United States and later across the globe in syndication and we liked it.

[@handle-schmandle]

There are a few nostalgia channels on YT that show obsolete gadgets etc. The people in their comments sections sound just like this character. Only they’re not joking.

[@PocketMarmo04]

Flibbety Floo.

[@johannschultz3743]

“Because we were idiots, and that’s the way it was”

[@dsl32]

I am in my mid 40s and I what he is saying.

[@12345678911675]

He is the male version of my grandma. Just wanna smack the negativity out of them.

[@dreamepiphany9093]

Now Denise Miller is the grumpy old "man".

[@jerryhunter2222]

I love Dana Carvey, John boy and Billy stole this character for their radio show. They stole a great character.

[@albundy6008]

"Today, everybody's spoiled rotten!" Man, ain't that the truth!!

[@RageBaby587]

Back in the day when Dennis Miller could still keep a straight face.

[@omegamale7880]

He's grumpy but he still has his hair.

[@ikecarr5989]

How Conan O'Brian fans see Jay Leno ,and his fan base.

[@mikefournier2601]

Great

[@makeadifference4all]

The funniest thing is he looks like a grumpy old woman but sounds like a grumpy old man.

[@Borntolose1976]

That's how I sound now.

[@grudgerun]

MAGA role model

[@Afmedic85]

Fibbity floo...lmao I remember Chef saying thats what black people said after white people started saying "I'm in da house" Trey Parker and Matt Stone probably got inspiration from this

[@carolynperow6397]

sounds like my uncle

[@user-ty2uz4gb7v]

DC is now 66

[@LB__1]

Flibittyflu.

[@LorMartin]

Dana does grumpy old man better than Biden!

[@MrJoshinJosh]

🤔Hmmm. I wonder if Grumpy Old Man’s never seen wife is named Sweet Old Lady who is the complete total opposite of GOM who probably would’ve been played by a less comical and less talented female SNL Cast Member?

[@Sumdonkus]

29

[@chelseawhite7117]

How wild to see Boomers go from mocking this to becoming it

[@davidconway6874]

That's how we GenXers act now. smdh

[@rickjames8916]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@seanwillman6373]

I don’t like it!

[@Office_De_Receiver_Complaints]

Joe Biden!

[@caj1119]

He's funny but he had nothing on Annoying Man. Not even remotely close as to who was funnier.

[@hiwind58]

LGB

[@petermgruhn]

Yup. I continue to be happy I didn't spend time watching SNL.

[@dreamepiphany9093]

Fk safety

[@123pb]

He was Trump supporter.

[@leiawarriormaiden]

actually he was Biden: what threw u off u asshat was the fact that he was actually speaking coherently for once -- and without his ever-present 'handler' wife Jill to keep him from making a total jackfuck of himself too! go figure

[@Novastar6]

​@@leiawarriormaiden Biden coherent or not still doesn't make Trump any less of a fucking idiot.

[@smw4628]

This is a typical Trump voter. lol

[@Hellseeker1]

Sorry Danny that sucked

[@scottg4520]

Boomers

[@clarkowens1083]

Joe Biden look-alike but SNL is too far left to use it today.

[@foobarmaximus3506]

Back when Dennis Miller could actually be funny. That was a long, long time ago. And this was Dana's only funny bit.

[@drmitofit2673]

Okay, Boomer!

[@ShaneHalen]

Can anyone tell me why Dennis Miller was famous?