New Jersey's Star-Ledger TV critic Alan Sepinwall recently sat down with the new Saturday Night Live: The Complete First Season DVD set and wonders if we're all a little *too* nostalgic. In the lengthy, well-written piece he says:
"The power of memory always adds a nice spit-shine to the pleasures of our younger years, but that polish doesn't hold up when confronted with the reality. It's not a coincidence that almost everyone's favorite SNL era was the one they grew up on. For me, that was the Phil Hartman/Dana Carvey/Jon Lovitz period of the late '80s. I can quote entire episodes verbatim, notably the one where Tom Hanks joined the Five-Timers Club of hosts and appeared on a game show with Tony Randall as Mr. Short-Term Memory. But a recent Best of Lovitz special dismayed me with how unfunny I found it all; was it just that I knew all the jokes so well already, or was pathological liar Tommy Flanagan a thinner concept than I realized at the time?"
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