List of SNL TV Funhouse

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# Air date Description Screen shot
1 September 28, 1996 Ambiguously Gay Duo - It Takes Two to Tango
2 October 05, 1996 Fun with Real Audio - Ross Perot & Larry King Ramble
3 October 19, 1996 Fun with Real Audio - Clinton and Dole
4 November 02, 1996 Ambiguously Gay Duo - Queen of Terror
5 November 11, 1996 Fun with Real Audio - OJ Trial
6 November 23, 1996 Michael Jackson 1
7 December 14, 1996 Ambiguously Gay Duo - Don We Now or Never
8 January 11, 1997 The X-Presidents - North Korea
9 January 18, 1997 Wheaty, the Wheaten Terrier
10 February 08, 1997 Fun with Real Audio - State of the Union
11 February 22, 1997 Fun with Real Audio - Tom Snyder stalks Dolly Parton
12 April 12, 1997 The X-Presidents - Brazilian Environmental Summit
13 April 19, 1997 Ambiguously Gay Duo - Safety Tips
14 May 17, 1997 Fun with Real Audio - Sally Jesse Raphael
15 September 27, 1997 Fun with Real Audio - Casablanca Outtakes
16 November 08, 1997 Fun with Real Audio - Clinton Press Conference
17 November 15, 1997 Ambiguously Gay Duo - Blow Hot, Blow Cold
18 December 13, 1997 Fun with Real Audio - Jesus tries to fix everything that's wrong with today's commercialized Christmas
19 January 10, 1998 George Clooney in The Sexiest Car Alive - Clooney fights off paparazzi in a parody of Speed Racer
20 February 07, 1998 The X-Presidents - X first ladies
21 February 14, 1998 Ah Lin the Skater Man (Chinese speed-skater gets help from Ben Johnson)
22 February 28, 1998 Fun with Real Audio - Interviewing David Brenner
23 March 14, 1998 Conspiracy Theory Rock (shown once; pulled for defaming GE [NBC's parent company] and alluding to Don Ohlmeyer as the reason why Norm MacDonald was fired)
24 April 04, 1998 Titey (Disney's cheerful spin on "Titanic")
25 May 09, 1998 Ambiguously Gay Duo - A Hard One to Swallow
26 September 26, 1998 Fun with Real Audio - Presidential Address Outtakes
27 October 17, 1998 Fun with Real Audio -- Howard Stern interrupts an SNL sketch to berate its presumably low quality and how Lorne Michaels is keeping the show on the air to make money from it; Lorne teams up with Stern to create "Saturday Howard Night Live Stern" after shooting him
28 October 24, 1998 Heteroy (a Biblical superhero turns homosexual men straight)
29 November 21, 1998 Ambiguously Gay Duo - Ace and Gary's Fan Club
30 December 12, 1998 Lost Cartoon Flashback - Globetrotters X-Mas
31 February 06, 1999 X-Presidents - Constitution
32 February 13, 1999 Fun with Real Audio - The Poetry of Jewel
33 March 20, 1999 Fun with Real Audio Oscar Highlights
34 May 08, 1999 Ambiguously Gay Duo - AmbiguoBoys
35 May 15, 1999 Unsold Cartoon Pilot Shack -- The Ginsburg Gang
36 September 26, 1999 Fun with Real Audio - 25th Anniversary Special - Lorne Michaels (Lorne relishes being in control of the SNL franchise)
37 October 23, 1999 Fun with Real Audio - House Judiciary Committee
38 December 04, 1999 Millennium Fun with Real Audio - Friends Apocalypse
39 December 11, 1999 Fun with Real Audio - 1999: The Year in Journalism
40 February 19, 2000 The All New Adventures of Mr. T - A Doll's House
41 April 15, 2000 Fun with Real Audio - Up Close with Gepetto
42 May 06, 2000 The Life of a Catch Phrase (Lorne answers viewer mail and shows how Jon Lovitz's "Yeah, that's the ticket" catchphrase became popular and fell out of favor)
43 May 13, 2000 Ambiguously Gay Duo - Trouble Coming Twice
44 May 20, 2000 Fun with Some Real Audio - Madonna
45 October 14, 2000 The X-Presidents - Independents (The X-Presidents team up to prevent third-party candidates Ralph Nader and Pat Buchanan from affecting the presidential election)
46 November 04, 2000 The All New Adventures of Mr. T - Actors Strike
47 November 18, 2000 Fun with Real Audio - Sex and the Country (The NBC rerun of this episode replaces this TV Funhouse cartoon with the cartoon from the previous episode hosted by Charlize Theron. The 60-minute syndicated version of this episode, however, keeps the cartoon from the original episode)
48 January 20, 2001 The X-Presidents - Clinton Joins The Group
49 February 10, 2001 Ray of Light - Ray Lewis raps and sings through many Disney films including running away on a limo whenever a Disney character gets killed. Loosely based on Lewis' alleged murder case.
50 February 24, 2001 Backstreet Boys (Boy band superheroes fail at everything to save the day)
51 March 10, 2001 Find the Black People at the Knick Game (live-action)
52 April 14, 2001 Fun with Real Audio - Bryant Gumbel Interviews Survivor Cast
53 May 19, 2001 The Anatominals Show - (Yogi Bear parody; Lorne Michaels worries about SNL's quality declining and begs The Devil to get out of being executive producer of the show)
54 October 13, 2001 Fun with Real Audio - NBC Fall Retooling Preview (Emeril Lagasse's sitcom is retooled for better ratings)
55 November 10, 2001 Michael Jackson 2 (Michael Jackson tries to prove to his weird entourage that he's not a pedophile anymore)
56 November 10, 2001 The 700 Club (shown on West Coast airings and NBC reruns of this episode to replace the Michael Jackson cartoon)
57 December 15, 2001 The Narrator Who Ruined Christmas (Sam the Snowman from "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" gives up on Christmas due to terrorist attacks and anthrax scares)
58 January 12, 2002 The X-Presidents/Ambiguously Gay Duo - Hunt for Osama
59 March 09, 2002 Fun with Real Audio - Colin Powell on MTV (Mike Judge cameos in this cartoon, providing the voices for Beavis and Butthead)
60 March 16, 2002 Fun with Real Audio - Oscar's Greatest Moments - Björk's swan dress becomes a serious problem
61 April 20, 2002 The Anatominals Show 2 - Lorne Michaels tries to keep U.S. Senators visiting Studio 8-H from watching the latest installment of The Anatominals
62 May 11, 2002 Bambi 2002
63 October 05, 2002 The Smurfette Show (parody of The Anna Nicole Show)
64 October 19, 2002 Ambiguously Gay Duo - The Third Leg of Justice
65 November 16, 2002 The Religetables (VeggieTales parody showing horrifying, violent, and scandalous moments in religion)
66 December 14, 2002 Charlie Brown Christmas (The Peanuts gang discover that they can change reality by waving their arms around)
67 March 08, 2003 The X-Presidents - Iraq 2003 (Tom Kenny from SpongeBob SquarePants cameos, as does Jeff Bergman who is one of the people who voiced Bugs Bunny after the death of Mel Blanc)
68 March 15, 2003 Are You Hot? (Lorenzo Lamas rates cartoon characters on their sex appeal)
69 May 10, 2003 Saddam and Osama (anime-style cartoon about terrorist leaders with special powers)
70 May 17, 2003 Cokee, the Most Expensive Dog in the World (Ben Affleck buys a Robert Duvall-look alike dog for Jennifer Lopez)
71 October 04, 2003 Yankee Super-Heroes
72 December 13, 2003 Fun With Real Audio - George Bush
73 February 21, 2004 Fun with Real Audio - Access Hollywood
74 March 06, 2004 Cartoons and Your Government (Michael Powell shows clips of classic cartoons that have been censored under new FCC regulations) This episode is a parody of the famous Warner Brothers cartoon Duck Amuck where Howard Stern is the mischievous cartoonist at the end, snickering and saying Bugs Bunny's catphrase: "Ain't I a stinker?"
75 March 13, 2004 The Making of The Passion of the Dumpty (parody of The Passion of the Christ behind-the-scenes movie special is interrupted by doctored political ads for George W. Bush)
76 May 08, 2004 Pothead Theater (live-action/animated short where real stoners request cartoons)
77 October 09, 2004 The X-Presidents - Election Meddling
78 October 30, 2004 Fun with Real Audio - John McCain (John McCain freaks out while trying to praise George W. Bush during a speech)
79 November 20, 2004 The Homocranial Mind Mixer (George W. Bush creates a machine that swaps the minds of homosexual celebrities, making them heterosexual)
80 December 18, 2004 Blue Christmas (Santa skips the states that re-elected George W. Bush and hangs out with liberal celebrities like Margaret Cho, Al Franken, and Moby)
81 April 09, 2005 Michael Jackson 3 (a scientist gives Michael Jackson glasses that makes his sham girlfriend Tara Reid look like Emmanuel Lewis from Webster)
82 April 16, 2005 Sexual Harassment and You (a live-action educational film showing how handsome men don't get in trouble for sexual harassment in the workplace)
83 May 14, 2005 Shazzang (a parody of the forgotten Hanna-Barbera cartoon called "Shazzan" where children summon a giant, all-powerful genie to easily defeat their enemies, but Shazzang starts to go overboard and sadistically tortures the villains)
84 May 21, 2005 Divertor (a superhero helps the President divert attention away from political crises by creating celebrity scandals for people to worry about.)
85 October 01, 2005 Fun with Real Audio - John Roberts
86 December 10, 2005 Celebrity Mugshot Poker (a stop-motion film where famous mugshots play poker, presented by Celebrity Poker Showdown hosts Dave Foley and Phil Gordon)
87 December 17, 2005 Christmastime for the Jews (a black and white stop-motion musical film, sung by Darlene Love, and animated in the style of Rankin-Bass "Animagic", showing Jewish people having their own brand of fun on Christmas Eve)
88 January 14, 2006 Darwin (Hanna-Barbera-esque cartoon sponsored by a religious network; the 700 Club part where Pat Robertson preaches to children was shown as the cold opening in this episode to replace a "Hardball" sketch that didn't do well in dress rehearsal)
89 March 04, 2006 Belated Black History Moment -- Dennis Haysbert shows three failed cartoon series featuring black characters: Token Power, The Hoke and Daisy Show and "Ladysmith Black Mambazo in Outer Space".
90 April 15, 2006 Journey to the Disney Vault (children discover the dark side of the Disney empire, including Walt Disney's cryogenically frozen head, Vivien Leigh's frozen head (Walt wanted to marry her in the future), and "the original" version of Song of the South that "he only played at parties".)
91 May 20, 2006 Fun with Real Audio - Presidential Out-takes (features various famous moments in George W. Bush's Presidency and everyone from people to animals to levees spitting out food and water in reaction to the ridiculous claims).
92 October 28, 2006 Republican Attack Ads - George W. Bush unveils new Republican Attack Ads, the first one has Ted Kennedy in a Dracula costume saying he wants to Cut and Run he then proceeds to tongue kiss Osama Bin Laden. Barack Obama then appears as the Count from Sesame Street counting "One Gay Marriage, etc." The second ad, features Hillary Clinton popping out of a Pregnant Woman's stomach and offering trick or treaters abortion pills and condoms.
93 November 11, 2006 Kobayashi - An anime-styled parody of Dragon Ball Z featuring the Hot Dog eating champion Takeru Kobayashi.
94 December 9, 2006 Diddy Kiddies - Rapper Sean Combs asks some children to find out what he really does for a living.
95 January 20, 2007 Fun With Real Audio & Stuff - Frontline: 2007 Year in Review - Media trends of 2007 include "Chipmunkification" and farting in a shallow pool.
96 March 25, 2007 Maraka - A parody of Dora the Explorer.
NBC special Air date Description Screen shot
1 April 29, 2006 NBC aired a "Best Of" special for TV Funhouse. The special lasted a full-length 90-minute SNL episode and was hosted by The Ambiguously Gay Duo, with a cameo by Jimmy Fallon.