Everyday French with Pierre Escargot

Billed by an announcer as a semi-educational moment, the segment finds Pierre Escargot in a yellow rain slicker, matching hat and blue swim fins, scrubbing away in a bubble bath in front of a painted Paris window. Between bursts of washing, he rattles off three phrases in rapid, made-up French, each paired with an on-screen English translation that has nothing to do with polite conversation: complaints about a stranger making off with his spicy peppers, an apology about a secondhand tissue, and news that his toilet is stocked with tomatoes. He then goes back to scrubbing himself with a sponge.

At the 2016 All That reunion, Kenan Thompson said Pierre began as a Spanish-speaking character until a network note had it changed to French, and that he chose to speak fake French rather than learn the real language because it played funnier.