Lazy Sunday

In this SNL Digital Short, Andy Samberg wakes up late on a Sunday and phones Chris Parnell, and the two set off across Manhattan to catch an afternoon showing of The Chronicles of Narnia. Delivered with the aggressive bravado of hardcore rappers, their verses boast about thoroughly tame errands: stocking up on Magnolia Bakery cupcakes, arguing over which online map gives the best route to the Upper West Side, and stopping at a deli so they can smuggle cheaper candy and soda into the theater in a backpack. After paying an unimpressed store clerk and buying their tickets with ten-dollar bills, they settle into their seats, show off their skill at the pre-show movie trivia and warn the audience to stay quiet before the film begins.

The short was written in a single night and shot around Manhattan with a borrowed camera two days before it aired, with the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Chelsea standing in for the multiplex. Bootleg copies spread quickly on the then five-month-old YouTube, and it is widely credited as the first television clip to go viral there; the site's traffic reportedly rose 83 percent the week it was uploaded.