![]() The surprise success of SNL alum Mike Myers’ Austin Powers in 1997 allowed him to make a movie based on a very weird character he’d developed on TV: Dieter, the artsy, all-black-wearing German who hosted a talk show called Sprockets (along with his pet monkey, Klaus). NBC forced SNL to focus on the show, and cut out the movies. ![]() It was set to be made in 1995, until SNL was nearly cancelled after the show’s ratings sank and other SNL movies tanked in theaters. In it, a businessman (to be played by Martin Short) buys the Chicago Bears’ Soldier Field and turns it into a luxury stadium for the rich, shutting out the team’s working-class fans, like the Superfans. SNL writer Robert Smigel played one of the group (along with Chris Farley, Mike Myers, and guest host George Wendt) and wrote a bizarre screenplay based on the sketch. The “Superfans” are perhaps better known as “Da Bears guys,” a bunch of beer-swilling Chicago sports fans with Chicago accents. The movie fell apart when Last Action Hero, a similarly fourth-wall-busting movie starring Schwarzenegger as himself, bombed at the box office. Oh, and Schwarzenegger was supposed to co-star as himself. One of the show’s most popular recurring bits in the late 1980s was “Hans and Franz,” the Eastern European bodybuilders portrayed by Dana Carvey and Kevin Nealon who wanted to “pump you up.” In 1993, production was underway for a movie about Hans and Franz traveling to Hollywood to be movie stars like their idol, bodybuilder turned movie star Arnold Schwarzenegger. But now, hear this: “Live, from New York, it’s Saturday.For every Wayne’s World, there was another movie based on a Saturday Night Live sketch that never got made at all. You’ve given us something to hear now, and something to think about later.Īrnold: Ya. Listen to me now, and beleive me later: it doesn’t matter how much you pump up those muscles, as long as you reach the full pumptential. But don’t be downing yourself too much now. You know, you could very easily flick us with your ltitlest finger, and send us flying across the room until we landed in our own baby poop.Īrnold: I know. And not even the grown-up kind, the little baby losers. And believe me- What’s the matter?įranz: It’s no use, Arnold. You huys are lucky you don’t have a campfire here in the background. Oh, come on, you make me sick! And look at those legs, they look like little skinny sticks! And those buttocks. Like this That’s the way to do it! Look at you guys, how pitiful losers you are! You know something? I hate the way you guys talk! What’s the matter with you? I mean, I sent you over here from Austria, to become real hard-core terminators, and look what you are – little termites! I wanted you to become real running men but you are girly-men. Hans: Hey, Arnold, look at this! įranz: Ya! Lok at this! Īrnold: Oh, you guys make me sick. Hans: Oh, Arnold, I can’t believe how properly pumped up you really are!įranz: Ya! You are the embodiment of perfect pumpitude!Īrnold: No, no, no. Hans: I don’t believe this! Oh no, I can’t believe it! Schwarzenegger took the SNL parody in good stride and made several appearances with Hans and Franz, including a season 17 visit to open episode 7. The sketch made its debut in the first episode of Season 13. Nealon was watching an interview with Arnold Schwarzenegger on Showtime and invited Carvey, with whom he was on a comedy tour, over to watch. The idea for the original Hans and Franz SNL sketch was spawned in 1987 in a Des Moines hotel room.
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