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From: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer)
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Subject: Hope you saw the Macintosh Sketch on 2/20/88 SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE
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Date: 23 Feb 88 21:24:24 GMT
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Did anyone else see the Macintosh sketch on last Saturday's SATURDAY NIGHT
LIVE?  It featured Tom Hanks, the guest host, as a guy who's panicked on his
Mac and is calling a mythical agency called Apple Support Group :-) for
information.  It's a bit of a takeoff on the "ground control talking the
novice pilot down" cliche from old Airplane movies, but it works very well,
and Hanks is hilarious as the guy who is jumping at ANYTHING.

It explicitly mentions Mac and Apple (besides having Macs all over the set),
though they take liberties with the Mac's startup processing.  Apple isn't
slapped at all, either -- they could almost use this as one of their video
snippets for the new Apple Support group.

                    "What are you so damn
                     cheerful about?  The
                     stock market crashed!"
                                           "I'm a software engineer.  I
                                            TRAFFIC in human misery."

                                        Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer
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