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At Home With Monica, Blacula, and Gilligan's Biosphere

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The setup

A homey lifestyle show starring a grunting Monica Seles keeps breaking for ads: a soul-music Dracula remake and a Gilligan's Island spin-off sealed inside a biosphere.

Community rating

4.0 / 10

The premise

Here’s the bit.

The fictional program At Home With Monica follows tennis star Monica Seles through a quiet lunch with a friend, with every small movement around her kitchen, from opening the fridge to pouring a soda, accompanied by her trademark on-court grunt. Its breaks bring a trailer for Bram Stoker's Blacula, a lavish Coppola-style remake of the 1972 blaxploitation film in which the smooth vampire puts on a slow jam to seduce a woman on a chaise and then fights off a stake-carrying intruder, and a promo for Gilligan's Biosphere, where the Skipper and the Professor try to repair the sealed habitat's equipment until Gilligan's bumbling and a raid by spear-waving natives turn the lab into chaos. The lifestyle show returns for one last grunt-filled exchange over a napkin before signing off.

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Say it with us

Highly quotable.

I am Blacula.

Bram Stoker's Blacula. He's a bad bloodsucker.

A little extra

Notes from the archive.

Aired as one continuous block. SNL Archives logs it as five consecutive segments: three installments of At Home With Monica framing the Blacula and Gilligan's Biosphere commercials.

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