<< Giving the show the benefit of the doubt I watched a couple more episodes [of Fridays], only to get a similar reaction. I guess their motto was "when in need, rely on the weed". Interestingly, David, this is PRECISELY the complaint my father-in-law voiced whilst working as an art director on the very first season of SNL !! Needless to say, he switched series soon afterwards. Pot may indeed not rule, of course, but where would some of our fave mid-Sixties sounds be without it?? ;-) Gary "who actually sat thru his first full viewing of SNL in a decade last Saturday, in order to catch Young Neil: I thought the first couple'a minutes of that spelling bee skit was kinda funny, but then it.... it..... sorry, I lost my train of thought...." Pig