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Mechanical Bull

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The setup

A bar's bull operator ignores the rules for two very drunk riders, and their runaway mechanical bull carries them across America, over the ocean and back through time.

Community rating

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

At a cowboy bar during a bachelorette party, tipsy friends Kayla and Delulah sneak onto the mechanical bull. The bar's emcee refuses to let them ride because they are far too drunk, but operator Andre weighs the rules against his own amusement and switches the bull on anyway, launching it out of the building. A guitar-strumming balladeer narrates the runaway trip in song as the pair bounce past American landmarks, from Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon to a Las Vegas concert and Niagara Falls, then head out to sea, where a Navy crew mistakes them for a smuggling boat and opens fire. Accelerating to light speed, the bull carries them back in time to recruit Galileo and on into a fifth-dimensional void, before the whole company, including the now-unemployed Andre, joins the final chorus.

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Highly quotable.

Let's get this donkey moving, y'all.

And the twist? I have four margaritas.

I call this Andre's dilemma. Dilemma solved. I will do it.

A little extra

Notes from the archive.

Nikki Glaser's longest stretch of screen time in her hosting debut came in this sketch, at 3 minutes 21 seconds, according to Late Nighter's screen-time report. SNL Archives credits Mikey Day as the voice of the bull, and Day and Tommy Brennan as the voices of the naval officers who fire on the riders.

ScriptEnglish · 37 turns

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

  1. 00:02

    Host

    All right, all right, all right, let's hear it one more time for Alexis!

  2. 00:10

    Alexis

    Oh my God, that was so crazy!

  3. 00:14

    Bride

    What's crazy is that I'm getting married in two weeks!

  4. 00:18

    Girl

    I I wish it was to me. Whoops, I said that out loud. I'll be leaving now.

  5. 00:25

    Bride

    So OK, bye.

  6. 00:27

    Bride

    You guys, this is so much fun. Wait, where are Kayla and Delula?

  7. 00:32

    Alexis

    Oh, my God. One bull!

  8. 00:34

    Kayla

    Hi girlies!

  9. 00:36

    Delulah

    Yeehaw y'all!

  10. 00:38

    Host

    Uh, ladies, at a time, please. And you're frankly much too drunk.

  11. 00:42

    Kayla

    No, we're not. I only had a martini with a twist. And the twist? I have four margaritas. Let's get this donkey moving, y'all.

  12. 00:52

    Host

    It is not a donkey. Andre, do not start that bull.

  13. 00:57

    Andre

    on Hmm. the one hand I know I'm not supposed to do this but on the other hand I would like to see two buxom babes being bucked around on a barcode I call this Andre's dilemma dilemma solved I will do it

  14. 01:16

    Host

    oh Andre, what setting did you put it on?

  15. 01:26

    Andre

    my dear goodness me I am afraid in my titillated state I accidentally said it to Bon Voyage

  16. 01:33

    so

  17. 01:38

    Singer

    So just like that. just like that they started their quest to blotto bimbos headed west Riding across the USA with all the sights to see Cops on the highway couldn't decide if the situation was a DUI Just two drunk bitches On a runaway mechanical boat

  18. 02:01

    Kayla

    I'm a hot cream. Let's open our house for So

  19. 02:04

    Delulah

    Good idea.

  20. 02:05

    Ah! Ah!

  21. 02:08

    Delulah

    Oh, it's all bees!

  22. 02:10

    Kayla

    And a bird!

  23. 02:13

    Singer

    You they saw the old faithful geyser squirt Then swallowed some Grand Canyon dirt Then saw Usher at the Sphere and got hit by a bunch of flying panties Ate cheese in Wisconsin which they thought was delish Then went to Niagara and got slapped by a fish with a bird and a bees and a big block of cheese just two dumb bitches on a runaway mechanical boat

  24. 02:37

    Delulah

    a not done! We went to college!

  25. 02:40

    Kayla

    Yeah! I went uti wait sorry i have a uti

  26. 02:47

    Singer

    so the next thing you know they were crossing the ocean and the navy picked up some suspicious motion and their palantir software identified them as hostile

  27. 02:56

    this is u.s southern command And you are clear to fire on narco bogeys. Hi! Roger that. Launching Hellfire missiles.

  28. 03:07

    Singer

    With the military and the bird and the bees and a big block of cheese, just two old traveling bitches. And a bull going the speed of light.

  29. 03:17

    Kayla

    Whoa, it's on the screen two minutes ago.

  30. 03:23

    Uh-oh, things are getting weird.

  31. 03:29

    Singer

    So he went back in time to Italy and met Galileo, Galilee, and told them that the earth revolves around the sun.

  32. 03:37

    Kayla

    You're coming with us, big fella.

  33. 03:40

    Singer

    Then they traveled back farther to a liminal space and communicated with a fifth-dimensional race. Then Sarah Sherman got hit by another fish in a bucket of water.

  34. 03:49

    A

  35. 03:52

    Singer

    With Galileo Galilei and military and a bird and a bees and a big block of cheeses to work the traveling bitches. And

  36. 04:03

    Andre

    And the man who lost his job, Andre. Andre.

  37. 04:08

    Andrei!

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