The following is a list of recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced between October 2, 2004, and May 21, 2005, the thirtieth season of SNL.
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This series of very short films by longtime SNL writer T. Sean Shannon was about a town abandoned by humans after a meteor strike but then quickly repopulated by bears, who had rapidly evolved due to some strange chemical property of the meteor. City life continued as normal, only with bears in the place of humans. The introduction to each film, explaining the origins of Bear City, used a pre-recorded narration by Fred Willard.
A Rachel Dratch and Fred Armisen sketch. Debuted November 13, 2004.
A Fred Armisen, Maya Rudolph and Chris Parnell sketch. Debuted January 15, 2005.
This sketch featured regular cast member Fred Armisen as Henry Quincy Lundford and Paul Giamatti (later replaced by Steve Carell) as the hosts of a 70s-era, Smothers Brothers-esque variety show. It featured Amy Poehler as Dorothy Winckler, an actress who herself was playing a character named Granny, whose catchphrase was "Aw, nuts!", accompanied by a zoom to her face; Maya Rudolph as a female-empowerment singer who sang about being pregnant and not needing a man; Kenan Thompson as a Barry White-esque, "King of the Sob Songs" singer, whose song was "Amanda"; and a skit set to 1920s-style upright piano music that featured two flappers, Charlie Chaplin, and a man cranking an old Model-T Ford. Debuted January 22, 2005.
A Fred Armisen, Chris Parnell, Maya Rudolph and Kenan Thompson sketch. Debuted February 12, 2005.