08 May 2007

So bad, yet so good

I couldn't find a clip of this on YouTube so I'll explain this Saturday Night Live sketch. I haven't heard or seen this in more than 15 years. Even so, the song will pop into my head and linger as an Ohrwurm.

Garrett Morris plays a guy before the parole board. He's wearing the grey and white striped uniform and hat. He is a model prisoner. He vows that he's reformed, will be a model citizen, can re-enter society, etc. The parole board is very pleased. They are about to grant him parole and he tells them he'd like to sing a song. He launches into this:

I'm gonna get me a shot gun and kill all the whiteys I see
I'm gonna get me a shot gun and kill all the whiteys I see

[can't remember this bit] ... whitey he won't bother me

I'm gonna get me a shot gun and kill all the whiteys I see

I'm gonna find me a chick in a navy blue sweater
I'm gonna find me a chick in a navy blue sweater


At this point in the song he is hauled off by the prison guards.

2 comments:

Eclectchick said...

Concerned that this is the kind of thing that lodges in your conscious as an earworm.

Maybe it's time for a sanity day from work?

Kidding!

Anonymous said...

Damn - I was gonna look it up on youtube. I recall the story being that he was set free after the cops caught the real killer (or whatever). So he was bitter over the false imprisonment.

I could be wrong tho - like you said, it was a decade+ ago.