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From: rjung@castor.usc.edu (Robert Jung)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Hope you saw the Macintosh Sketch on 2/20/88 SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE
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Date: 24 Feb 88 06:30:10 GMT
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Summary: It figures...

In article <2954@fluke.COM> moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer) writes:
>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.

  Just verifies what I've known all along: Mac owners know BEANS about
computers (grin).

						--R.J.
						B-)

(Really, $1500 for a 9" b&w screen and 512K? Scam!)


(Sorry, generally I'd keep computer-bashing out of the other newsgroups,
but the Mac skit was too *good* to pass up!)

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