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Hooters Waitress

Saturday Night Live 2023 Season 49 Episode 13

SKETCH-O-VISION

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The setup

A new Hooters server hauls in a fortune in tips on her first shift, leaving her underpaid co-workers baffled and bitter.

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

At the end of a Hooters shift, waitresses Sarah and Kathy compare their modest tip totals until new server Tina, who is plainly bad at the job, casually reveals she made $36,000. Their co-worker Dennis, the lone man in the uniform, reports yet another day of pennies and insults. Tina demonstrates her "great service" on a table of besotted men, who forgive her spills and cheer when she pours beer straight into a customer's mouth, even though it ends his long sobriety. When Sarah and Dennis try the same approach, the men want nothing to do with them. Stung by her co-workers' resentment, Tina offers to quit, until the chain's costumed owl mascot, Hooter B. Owl, swoops in to beg her to stay before excusing himself for a friend's funeral.

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Highly quotable.

All I got in tips was 12 cents and this note that said, "You ruined my day."

I worked at an airport, no planes took off. I was a crossing guard, thousands died.

You are my Harry Potter and this is your Hogwarts.

A little extra

Notes from the archive.

Chloe Fineman said on the Fly on the Wall podcast that she pitched the Hooters tip-counting premise to Sydney Sweeney, who then asked her to write it. The sketch drew criticism for its jokes about Sweeney's body; Bowen Yang later said on the same podcast that Sweeney had encouraged those jokes.

ScriptEnglish · 52 turns

Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.

00:02
Sarah
Okay, let's see what I made in tips today. 40, 41, 42 bucks, not bad.
00:10
Kathy
Damn, I made 39, so close.
00:13
Sarah
Well, it looks like I'm the tip queen tonight.
00:16
Sarah
How about you, new girl?
00:17
Tina
Oh, let me see.
00:19
Kathy
Yeah, how much tips did you make?
00:21
Tina
Uh, 31, 32, uh, $36,000.
00:27
Kathy
Jesus.
00:28
Tina
What? Is that low?
00:30
Sarah
I wouldn't say low.
00:33
Kathy
Yeah, that's pretty good, Tina.
00:35
Dennis
Well, another bad day for Dennis. All I got in tips was 12 cents and this note that said, you ruined my day.
00:45
Sarah
Well, that's the job, you know. It's up and it's down sometimes.
00:49
Dennis
Yeah, table six stiffed me.
00:50
Tina
Yeah, that's gonna happen.
00:52
Customer
I'm so sorry. I had to run to the bank. Here's your tip, new girl. Damn, she farmed.
00:59
Sarah
Okay, that is insane. I serve that guy last week when I brought the check he padded his pockets and said sorry. I just got laid off
01:07
Dennis
Yeah, well when I served him he said are there any ladies who worked here?
01:13
Tina
Okay, guys raz the new girl, but honestly, I think it's just about great service watch
01:19
I'm gonna go deal with tip late
01:22
Tina
Hi boys who wants a refill
01:27
Customer
us we do
01:30
Tina
coming right up sorry Oh my gosh! I am such a klutz! I am so sorry!
01:37
Customer
it's okay anything you do is okay
01:39
Tina
oh uh it looks like there's a little beer left in the pitcher who wants some you
01:45
Customer
ah what the heck sure
01:48
Tina
awesome
01:52
Customer
i've been sober for 22 years and that's over now
01:58
Customer
hey uh can we buy you a car or something
02:03
Tina
you guys are hilarious
02:05
There he is.
02:07
Tina
See? Was that so hard?
02:10
Sarah
Okay, you spilled all over them and made one guy relapse. They just like you. Watch.
02:18
Sarah
Hey, guys. I just wanted to offer you a free round.
02:22
Customer
I'ma stop you right there. I don't wanna see you. I don't wanna know you. I want other girl.
02:32
Dennis
Man, I'll take that.
02:33
Sarah
It Great. So, yeah, it was a little different for me.
02:39
Kathy
Yeah, exactly.
02:39
Dennis
exactly watch this hello my guy you
02:44
Sarah
know but you're making us feel bad and you're taking all our tips
02:51
Kathy
yeah maybe Hooters isn't the right place for you
02:54
Tina
oh you know I always thought that this place was the one place I'd feel at home I've tried to work at other jobs and I can't I worked at an airport no planes took took off. I was a crossing guard. Thousands died. But if you don't think I belong at Hooters, I'll go.
03:18
Hooter B. Owl
Wait,
03:19
Sarah
god, Hooter's mascot,
03:23
Hooter B. Owl
that's me. And I came to say you can't leave. You are my Harry Potter and this is your Hogwarts. So please stay.
03:35
Tina
If you really want me to.
03:37
Hooter B. Owl
Okay. Thank you.
03:40
Sarah
And And what about us?
03:42
Hooter B. Owl
I don't care. Now I must go. I have a funeral to attend. My friend Flaco flew into a building. I'm very sad. So if someone could show me their breasts.
03:56
Dennis
I'll do it.
03:57
Hooter B. Owl
I'll just leave.
04:00
Goodbye, Hooter B.O.