Season 7Episode 11February 6, 1982Weekend Update

Saturday Night News

Also known as: SNL Newsbreak

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Doyle-Murray has a lengthy photo montage at the beginning of the segment about Bush getting a rock thrown at his limo and a line of succession influenced by free association. It was largely a waste of time but it had a few funny suggestions like "Sandy" from Little Orphan Annie and Elizabeth Taylor being the wild card. They would do a lot more of these lengthy and unfunny montages as the season goes on. The Raheem Abdul Mohammed (Eddie Murphy) commentary started off as a rewrite of the "no blacks in the movies" commentary from the season premiere; in fact, he actually screws up and says "Those were great movies!" again before correcting himself. It got funnier once he asserted that Gary Coleman wasn't black but "a little short Jewish man named Stu" and that NBC really meant "No Blacks and Coloureds". The book review started the final Gross/Doyle-Murray co-anchor stretch in motion by having Mary Gross takes her glasses off and Doyle-Murray fall in love with her (a la the "Beautiful All Along" trope). It wasn't particularly funny, aside from the exaggerated passionate kissing between the two.

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