AT4W: Marvel Team up 74

Memorable quotes from episode 192:

Linkara: "Spider-man and the cast of Saturday Night Live… what?"
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Linkara: "So let's dig into Marvel Team-Up #74 and" *close up on Linkara* "LIVE FROM NEW YORK, IT'S SATURDAY NIGHT!" *the Saturday Night Live intro plays for about 10 seconds before Linkara pushes the clip away* "Yeah, that bit is over. This is recorded, it's Minnesota, and it's Monday afternoon."
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Linkara: "We open on a rainstorm in New York, where a samurai like figure is silhouetted in the sky. Hey, a Spider-man story that doesn't open with him swinging around, what new spore of madness is this?"
Narrator: "It was the best of days, it was the worst of days…"
Linkara (as narrator): "It was the best rehashing of the opening lines of A Tale of Two Cities, it was the worst rehashing of the opening lines of A Tale of Two Cities."
Narrator: "After a year of waiting, the tickets had finally arrived—"
Linkara (as narrator): "Unfortunately, they were for the show that premiered a year ago, thus it was kind of pointless that they arrived."
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Linkara: "The two are interrupted when a man shoves them aside, proclaiming he's in a hurry. However, Peter's Spider-sense goes nuts near the guy, and he thinks the voice is familiar. He wants to go investigate, but since this is before Mary Jane found out he was Spider-man, he also doesn't want to separate from her. They are distracted briefly though when they spot the late, great Gilda Radner down a hallway. Just to comment on the art by the way, is it just me or is Gilda Radner drawn in this panel like she's troll face. She hears noises coming from John Belushi's dressing room and goes to investigate, where we see other members of the cast gathered around him."
Gilda Radner: "What's going on, Laraine?"
Laraine Newman: "Not much, Mr. Nimble-Fingers here [John Belushi] was trying on a ring, and now it's stuck."
Linkara (as Green Lantern Ring): "JOHN BELUSHI, YOU HAVE THE ABILITY TO OVERCOME GREAT FEAR. WELCOME TO THE GREEN LANTERN COPRS!"
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Linkara: "Anyway, Peter and MJ arrive in their balcony seats. In an amusing little nod, human versions of Statler and Waldorf from The Muppet Show are in the audience too; unfortunately, they're not as funny as the Muppet versions."
Comic Waldorf: "Will you two kindly sit down! Statler and I came here to see the show!"
Comic Statler: "That's tellin' em, Waldorf, you old coot!"
Waldorf: "What'd you think of that?"
Statler: "I liked it!"
Waldorf: *shocked* "Ohh! You…? Uh!" *hits his head on the balcony railing* "You liked that?!?!"
Statler: "No, I just wanted to see what you'd do if I said I did."
Linkara: "Little trivia note about this: Bob Hall, the penciler for the comic, never watched The Muppet Show, and this was in the days before the internet or the larger market of shows on tape, so he didn't know what Statler and Waldorf looked like. They had to be described to him and to avoid getting them exactly wrong, they were drawn mostly from the back. Mind you, he still kind of screwed up Statler, who is also supposed to be bald and doesn't have a mustache, but whatever."
Waldorf: "Oh, that puppet looks so alive!"
Statler: "Well, that's more than I can say for you!" *laughs*
Linkara: "Actually, one more note about this: the first two seasons [mostly Season 1 and one episode of Season 2] of Saturday Night Live actually did have Muppet sketches on the show, which were apparently not unpopular with viewers, but the writers absolutely hate doing them. Then head writer Michael O'Donoghue apparently had a lynched Big Bird hanging in his office, how pleasant. Anyway, Stan Lee."
Stan Lee: "Hiya, true believers! I can't tell you how pleased I am to be hosting 'Saturday Night'. For those of you who've been living in Siberia the last yew years…"
Linkara: "So, exiled communists?"
Stan Lee: "…I'm the guy who runs Marvel Comics. Now, a lot of people think that's really neat."
Linkara (as Stan Lee): "I just long for the day when" *getting depressed* "I can finally stop saying the same catchphrases over and over and over again! OH GOD, WHY WON'T MARVEL JUST LET ME STOP?!?!" *sobs* "Excelsior!..."
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Linkara: "In the booth, the goon grabs the guy who was thinking a second ago, and Peter's spider-sense goes off again. He excuses himself from Mary Jane. Anyway, despite the show breaking for commercial, Stan Lee is still on stage under a light as if he's still giving the opening monologue. After Peter almost drops his shoe on him while changing into his costume, we cut to the control room, where the goons have taken full control and are forcing Lorne Michaels to run the board by himself."
Goon: "Stay cool, Mr. Michaels an' stay alive."