Dec '20 *
I think I had seen this skit before, but I just watched some compilations on YouTube and JEEZ it is so funny. For anyone who hasn't seen it, it's supposed to be a soap opera set somewhere in or around Los Angeles, with rich people getting in soap opera situations and giving complex highway driving directions. OK, it sounds like something that an emotionally and psychologically healthy person would want to avoid like The Black Death, but it's incredibly funny. Probably one of the funnier things they have ever done on SNL, in fact.
I think Rosa the maid is kind of hot, just for the record.
I wanted to ask: where do you think they got the accent from? I mean, of course they are imitating Valley Girl speaking to a great extent, but specifically what movies, or what movie characters, would you say they are basing their manner of speaking on? I keep thinking of the Bill and Ted movies, especially, and maybe Encino Man. Kristen Wiig's character makes me think of the Melanie Hutsell character, in the old SNL Delta Delta Delta sketches. The way the characters live makes me think of some of James Spader's scary, shitty, disturbingly rich friends in Less Than Zero... Obviously, we have all seen a shitload of movies set and/or filmed in Los Angeles over the course of our lives, and probably even met a few real people who actually have that accent. But, just tell me any specific movie that comes to mind when you hear and see these characters talking.
Also, before I forget, I just wanted to say that we have all probably had the feeling that having that accent is at least a little DESIRABLE, God forgive us all. Just in the sense that L.A. has always been considered a pretty hip, happening, cool place, compared to practically anywhere else. So, to have just a small southern California accent is probably at least a little desirable. But the beauty of these sketches is that they make it sound absolutely ridiculous, and completely retarded and UNdesirable. I have to respect that. Anyway, here are the sketches. Be ready to laugh pretty freaking hard.
I think Rosa the maid is kind of hot, just for the record.
I wanted to ask: where do you think they got the accent from? I mean, of course they are imitating Valley Girl speaking to a great extent, but specifically what movies, or what movie characters, would you say they are basing their manner of speaking on? I keep thinking of the Bill and Ted movies, especially, and maybe Encino Man. Kristen Wiig's character makes me think of the Melanie Hutsell character, in the old SNL Delta Delta Delta sketches. The way the characters live makes me think of some of James Spader's scary, shitty, disturbingly rich friends in Less Than Zero... Obviously, we have all seen a shitload of movies set and/or filmed in Los Angeles over the course of our lives, and probably even met a few real people who actually have that accent. But, just tell me any specific movie that comes to mind when you hear and see these characters talking.
Also, before I forget, I just wanted to say that we have all probably had the feeling that having that accent is at least a little DESIRABLE, God forgive us all. Just in the sense that L.A. has always been considered a pretty hip, happening, cool place, compared to practically anywhere else. So, to have just a small southern California accent is probably at least a little desirable. But the beauty of these sketches is that they make it sound absolutely ridiculous, and completely retarded and UNdesirable. I have to respect that. Anyway, here are the sketches. Be ready to laugh pretty freaking hard.