television history
iāve been trying to explain this sketch to people for years
there is literally no way to explain this sketch itās just a thing you have to see and even then Iām not sure why itās so funny
āDear Sisterā is the rare SNL sketch making fun of a specific pop culture moment that transcended the thing it is a satire of. No one remembers the OC but the sketch is still wonderful regardless.
So Iām sure the lore is in the notes but here it is reconstructing from the rusty leaking trap of my memory: the Canadian show Degrassi used this music cue when the character Drake got shot. The OC used it in the exact same way the following year in an episode when Marissa shoots Trey. They also used different parts of this same song earlier in the episode at Calebās funeral. Actually connecting it to the the running theme of death/endings through the episode.
and SNL finally was just like enough already with the āHide and Seekā
itās the overlapping music cues that kill me
