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Weekend Update: Adam Sandler Pre-Records Thanksgiving Dinner
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The premise
Here’s the bit.
Kevin Nealon hands over to Adam Sandler, who explains that his schedule will keep him away from the family Thanksgiving this year. His solution is to have his father record the segment so a TV set can take his usual seat at the table and play him back during dinner. Sandler pulls up a tray of turkey and fixings and starts performing his half of the conversation: praising his mother's bird, politely refusing more food and growing irritated when she keeps offering it. A remark from his unseen father reopens a decade-old grievance, and the one-sided argument escalates until Sandler is brandishing his cutlery, daring his dad to come at him, flipping the tray off the desk and breaking down in tears. Nealon suggests it might be time to stop the tape and wishes viewers a happy holiday as Sandler gets in one last screamed outburst.
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Highly quotable.
Dad, that was ten years ago! I said I was sorry, and the only one who still brings it up is you!
The tables are turning, man. I ain't afraid of you no more.
Stop treating me like a two-year-old!
A little extra
Notes from the archive.
This aired on the Saturday before Thanksgiving 1991, four weeks after Sandler's first Weekend Update holiday advice segment of the season, his Halloween costume ideas.
Script
Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.
- 00:00
Kevin Nealon
Well, Thanksgiving is next Thursday and now here to talk about it is Weekend Update's Adam Sandler. Adam?
- 00:05
Adam Sandler
THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANKS, KEVIN.
- 00:11
Adam Sandler
WELL, Thanksgiving dinner has always been a big deal in my house. And every year I try to make it home to celebrate with the family. But this year, due to my busy schedule, I can't make it. So right now, I'm going to ask my dad to put a cassette in the VCR and record this. Then he can put the TV in my usual place at the dinner table and play it back at Thanksgiving to recreate the illusion that I'm dining with the family.
- 00:35
Adam Sandler
Okay. Get ready, Dad. Okay. Press record now.
- 00:46
Adam Sandler
This is good. This is good, Ma. It's really good. This is, it's not a butterball. I couldn't tell. It's really juicy. Oh, self basting. That's great.
- 01:09
Adam Sandler
Oh, no thanks. No thanks. I don't want any more. No, seriously. it's great but no more really I got no more room mom put the turkey down It's I just put it down.
- 01:21
Adam Sandler
Damn it, will you give it a rest? What, Dad? I didn't do anything. I just didn't want anymore. Oh, yeah, I'm deliberately trying to hurt Mom, right. Oh, there he goes again.
- 01:32
Adam Sandler
Dad, that was 10 years ago! I said I was sorry, and the only one who still brings it up is you! Oh, okay, Dad, you know everything.
- 01:39
Adam Sandler
What? Yeah? Well, come on over here, old man! I You want some of this? Bring it on! I'd love it! Yeah! Right! You better sit down!
- 01:51
Adam Sandler
Tables are ain't afraid of you no more. Mr.
- 01:56
Adam Sandler
Stop touching me! Nobody touch me! You guys just don't understand! No! No! No! No!
- 02:04
Adam Sandler
Stop treating me like a two-year-old!
- 02:07
Kevin Nealon
Oh, Mr. Sandler, maybe you should press the stop on the VCR now. Have a happy Thanksgiving.
- 02:11
Adam Sandler
I'm queer!
- 02:12
Kevin Nealon ?
Adam
- 02:18
Kevin Nealon
Ladies and gentlemen, Adam Sandler.
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