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Walken Family Reunion
The setup
The premise
Here’s the bit.
At a restaurant reunion, Christopher is greeted by a clan of relatives who all share his stiff hair and halting delivery. He is welcomed with big hugs, shown the cousins' children, offers puzzling advice to a sullen teenager and a doll-clutching girl, and learns that one relative has recently come out and is thriving. A Nigerian exchange student who has adopted the family's speech patterns adds to the strangeness, and the gathering winds down with a pun about not driving home.
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Say it with us
Highly quotable.
Do your homework, eat your Wheaties. Everything will be copacetic.
The Walkens are a tolerant tribe.
Driving? No, I'm walking.
A little extra
Notes from the archive.
Part of the April 5, 2008 episode (S33E9) hosted by Christopher Walken; the SNL Archives list the full season cast as the Walken relatives.
Script
Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors.
- 00:06
Here's your drink, and enjoy the reunion.
- 00:08
Thank you.
- 00:10
Christopher.
- 00:11
Christopher, I can't believe you made it.
- 00:16
Is
- 00:20
Is
- 00:21
that you?
- 00:22
Stanley, how's Bayou?
- 00:23
Long time no see, big hug.
- 00:25
Big hug.
- 00:26
Big hug.
- 00:27
Wow!
- 00:30
Wow!
- 00:32
When's the last time I saw you, Stanley?
- 00:35
It's my brother John's wedding 15 years ago.
- 00:40
that wedding was so nuts i recall we stole the ice sculpture i wonder what happened to it i don't
- 00:49
know it probably melted makes sense speak of the devil that's john hey christopher wow
- 01:00
Wow.
- 01:02
John, is that you, or do my eyes deceive me?
- 01:07
It's really me.
- 01:09
You remember my kids, Maxine and Scott?
- 01:13
Look how big you guys are getting.
- 01:16
Maxine, what's your doll's name?
- 01:19
My doll's name is Jenny.
- 01:23
She's a good doll,
- 01:25
but she doesn't like ghosts, and neither do I.
- 01:29
Hi. Ghosts scare me, and I'm pretty sure one is living under my bed.
- 01:36
I promise you, darling, there's no ghosts around here, so you're safe.
- 01:41
That's good, because I hate ghosts.
- 01:45
They're spooky, and I don't respond well to spooky behavior.
- 01:50
Of course. Me too. I'm with you.
- 01:54
you 110%. How are you Scott? I'm not good. Everyone at my school is a phony. I want to
- 02:03
be skateboarding and listening to my iPod, not at some ridiculous family reunion. Scott,
- 02:11
behave yourself. It's okay. Scott, I appreciate your situation. For a walk in adolescence
- 02:19
is a difficult time.
- 02:21
You feel like you're the only
- 02:23
normal person in a school
- 02:25
full of nut jobs.
- 02:27
Am I right?
- 02:29
Wow. It's like you're looking
- 02:31
right into my noggin.
- 02:35
Maybe this joke will
- 02:37
cheer you up.
- 02:39
What's the difference between
- 02:40
this place and an elephant
- 02:43
fart? What?
- 02:45
This place is a bar
- 02:47
room. An elephant
- 02:49
A dolphin fart is a baroom.
- 02:51
do your
- 02:54
Do your homework, eat your Wheaties.
- 02:58
Everything will be copacetic.
- 03:00
Is that... is that Nathan?
- 03:03
Kids, go get a drink.
- 03:05
Christopher, you should know,
- 03:07
Nathan recently came out of the closet.
- 03:09
He's a completely different person now.
- 03:13
Very flamboyant.
- 03:14
Who would have thought such a thing?
- 03:16
Nathan,
- 03:17
mean, Nathan.
- 03:20
how you doing?
- 03:22
I'm good.
- 03:24
As you may have heard, I recently came out of the closet.
- 03:28
I heard.
- 03:30
I can see you're very flamboyant now.
- 03:35
It's true.
- 03:36
I always felt like I had to pretend
- 03:39
in order to fit into the family.
- 03:41
But now...
- 03:44
that I'm finally myself,
- 03:45
I'm getting along with them better than ever the walkins are a tolerant tribe
- 03:53
two snaps on that girlfriend I'm gonna go refill my cosmo you go guy you go
- 04:05
Wow
- 04:09
Wow.
- 04:10
if it isn't mr. Hollywood coming home to gracious with this presence Wow
- 04:17
wow richard please don't be hard on christopher don't worry i know he's just joshing me and martha
- 04:28
by the way we finally saw the deer hunter that movie was hilarious hilarious
- 04:37
thank you it was good for me too oh lucky come over here
- 04:44
Christopher,
- 04:47
Christopher,
- 04:48
this is Oleki.
- 04:49
He's our foreign exchange student
- 04:51
from Nigeria who's been living with us.
- 04:54
When Oleki moved in,
- 04:55
he didn't speak any English.
- 04:59
It's amazing.
- 05:01
Two months with him,
- 05:02
and now I talk just like a normal
- 05:04
American teenage boy.
- 05:06
Oh, I was right.
- 05:09
There is no greater thrill on Earth
- 05:12
than meeting a walking
- 05:13
for the first time let's all go over to the bar and get a drink everything in
- 05:19
moderation you're driving driving no I'm walking
- 05:52
for watching!
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