You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy!
Saying the F-Word on live TV.
It happened during a skit on Saturday Night Live.
Making a mistake on live TV is one thing. A mispronunciation here, a gob of spittle there. I can see some serious giggling reading a story involving the words Lorena and Bobbet.
But The F Word?
Hold the presses. That is a serious offense, even for a live comedic show that shreds boundaries each and ever Saturday night.
She was involved in a skit called Biker Chick Chat.
Three big haired girls saying Friggin this and Friggin that. I mean Friggin in every sentence. Sometimes 2 or 3 Friggins per sentence. It was like listening to a bunch of Jersey girls in the mall talk complaining about the woman who used duct tape to give them a bikini waxl. There were so many Friggins it sounded like frogs fornicating.
The scripted line in the show was suppose to be: “I Freakin love you for that!” Instead she said I F-in love you for that!
It’s not like 1978 where you can drop an F bomb and nobody sees it or recorded it. Not in this new world order baby. Not with the advent of TiVo and DVR’s, and You Tube. You say it now-a-days, and it’s said. Officially documented for people in outer Mongolia to see.
I was walking through the the living room the next day and the kids were backing it up over and over just watching her drop the F bomb and then that sad awkward camera zoom in.
The kids were laughing and I winced. Saturday Night Live is risque enough, and now the F Bomb replayed n slow motion over and over.
Screw You Saturday Night Live.
I’m not the only one who is writing about it. TV writer Ken Tucker had this to say:
12:42 Eastern Time, during a sketch called “Biker Chick Chat,” new cast member Jenny Slate seemed to say the word that got SNL cast member Charles Rocket in trouble in 1981.
The sketch included host Megan Fox and Kristen Wiig as “biker chicks” along with Slate. All of them were peppering their mock-tough-talk with the phrase “frickin’” but Slate appeared to
say, “I f—in’ love you for that” instead.
I appreciate that it was a mistake, an honest mistake. That is live TV and S*** happens on live TV.
I hope she learns from it and I hope it doesn’t happen again, at least when my kids are re-racking the DVR.
And that is Crazy!