Twenty-five years ago today, Lucy Lawless hosted "Saturday Night Live." This one sketch she did burned itself into my brain. I wrote about it once. It's still, maybe stupidly, one of the things I am most proud of. Happy birthday, "Stevie Nicks' Fajita Roundup." www.theringer.com/music/2020/5... - ThreadSky

yourmandevine.bsky.social • 501 days ago

Twenty-five years ago today, Lucy Lawless hosted "Saturday Night Live." This one sketch she did burned itself into my brain.

I wrote about it once. It's still, maybe stupidly, one of the things I am most proud of.

Happy birthday, "Stevie Nicks' Fajita Roundup." https://www.theringer.com/music/2020/5/26/21269642/the-story-of-how-saturday-night-lives-stevie-nicks-fajita-roundup-sketch-got-made

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cequirk.bsky.social•501 days ago

This is amazing.

corrinvalentine.bsky.social•501 days ago

THANK YOU FOR THIS it has been my all-time favorite sketch since it first aired and I used to describe it to people and they’d be like “wtf are you talking about”. It’s seriously one of the absolute funniest things from this era of SNL

colonel.bsky.social•500 days ago

Dan, I have to correct one thing. There is no way that was 25 years ago, it can't be more than five.

It just can't.

Please.

yourmandevine.bsky.social•500 days ago

Hahahaha

bencollins.bsky.social•501 days ago

Reading this (very good) article made me realize how weird it is there isn't a campy Xena reboot in the works somewhere. If we can't get Aubrey Plaza to get jacked for six months to play a disaffected, sexually ambiguous warrior princess we should really just pack it up as a country.

wafflecut.bsky.social•501 days ago

Please don’t put the image of a ripped Aubrey Plaza in my head, I have work I need to get done today

bencollins.bsky.social•501 days ago

I understand and formally apologize.

hazelazureus.bsky.social•500 days ago

I retract his apology, twice as formally.

tomeaston.bsky.social•501 days ago

Counterpoint: I would like to hear more about ripped Aubrey Plaza.

valouriousknight.bsky.social•501 days ago

Especially if we get Jenna Ortega to play her sidekick?

tomeaston.bsky.social•501 days ago

*gulps*

wastelandrover.bsky.social•501 days ago

You know how Emily Blunt was a nice British actress for a few years and then she did "Edge of Tomorrow" and people realized that good actresses can do action movies?

Yeah, we need that with Aubrey Plaza now.

drpottel.bsky.social•501 days ago

klm.bsky.social•501 days ago

also they put Emily Blunt in Edge of Tomorrow and none of us have ever stopped lusting after her shoulders arms and back. Audrey should see the appeal

klm.bsky.social•501 days ago

Aubry! Damn autocorrect

slashgraphics.com•501 days ago

Yes.
There was that Hulk show with Tatiana Maslany.

crookedknight.bsky.social•501 days ago

They had Javier Grillo-Marxuach developing one for a while but it fell through because we can't have nice things.

ericafails.bsky.social•501 days ago

I don't know how you get campier than actual Xena tbh

bencollins.bsky.social•501 days ago

American ingenuity.

ericafails.bsky.social•501 days ago

You'll risk getting into camp as insincere affect

mykola.bsky.social•501 days ago

It would be a grimdark xena reboot that pivoted to frivolity and camp slowly over the course of season 2.

Get Aubrey Plaza as Xena, yes, and maybe Jess Bush as her sidekick?

Lakeith Stanfield as a haunted Hercules with a thousand yard stare?

And dude from umbrella academy as villainous Dionysus.

wscotgrey.bsky.social•501 days ago

That sounds like the Witcher.

jeninmotion.bsky.social•501 days ago

The lesbian vampire episode truly cannot be rebooted.

exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social•501 days ago

You resurrected an ancient memory… 😂

smullins3000.bsky.social•501 days ago

This... this... this is really quite something. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ4kW0xDREQ

sepinwall.bsky.social•501 days ago

95sports.bsky.social•501 days ago

There was a show in that same syndication block from the same producers called “Cleopatra 2525” and I can’t get over how the lead’s look in that show is exactly the same as Shin Hati in AHSOKA.

rizzyfig.bsky.social•501 days ago

I just rewatched the series a couple months back and it was just as amazingly campy as I remember! They were supposed to reboot it in a more realistic style, as far as outfits went ala Game of Thrones but it fell through I think. I’d give anything to see Lucy come back!

crkdgt.bsky.social•501 days ago

Aubrey Plaza as Xena is perfect casting.

tom.medsky.social•501 days ago

This is an awesome idea. AppleTV, are you paying attention?

yourmandevine.bsky.social•501 days ago

Man, from your lips to ... Zeus' ears, I guess?

threnody.bsky.social•501 days ago

the hercules actor who occasionally guests would need to be able to serve kevin sorbo + kevin sorbo’s surreal incompetence & quackery and i think i nominate patrick warburton?

every time he shows up, xena can slip into arrested development cadence and go “him?”

mburchett.bsky.social•501 days ago

I remember when you released this. For the longest time I swore I was the only person that remembered that sketch.

yourmandevine.bsky.social•501 days ago

this is why I wrote it!

mburchett.bsky.social•500 days ago

Circling back, we need to know who ended up with the neon sign.

triggerloop.bsky.social•501 days ago

Dan- this was so great. The last bit made it exceptional

yourmandevine.bsky.social•501 days ago

Thank you so much!

hammancheez.bsky.social•501 days ago

this is absolutely a joy to read

yourmandevine.bsky.social•501 days ago

Thank you so much!

lawmurraythenu.bsky.social•500 days ago

Bookmarked 🔖

gohexyourself.bsky.social•501 days ago

This is definitely the laugh I needed today, thank you

wesflinn.bsky.social•501 days ago

An object lesson in committing to the bit.

jeninmotion.bsky.social•501 days ago

Stevie Nicks' Fajita Roundup is a legend and a classic in joke among my friends. And now I have to go watch it.

adownie.bsky.social•501 days ago

OMG, I had totally forgotten about this one!

bosullivan00.bsky.social•501 days ago

I immediately thought "it's gotta be the Stevie Nicks Fajita thing"

brianhawk.bsky.social•501 days ago

legendary!

chrisker.bsky.social•501 days ago

Nice to see this again. She was so good. That was one of those times I felt like we all missed out on the different career trajectory someone should’ve had. Was just thinking the same about Lucy Liu yesterday.

notjohnchenoweth.bsky.social•501 days ago

GodDAMN was this sketch an absolute banger. I even designed a t-shirt based on it, though that digital file is long gone.

buckweaver.bsky.social•501 days ago

One of the best meals of my life was in Sedona (Elote Cafe). But there’s a part of me that will always wish I could have a meal at Stevie’s place instead.

bitchofrome.bsky.social•293 days ago

And Lucy is forever confused why it's funny.

srferrar.bsky.social•501 days ago

OMG! This sketch is LEGENDARY in my household (like, if you order a burrito you are 100% getting sung at). So excited to meet someone else who recognizes its genius (and to read your piece)!

srferrar.bsky.social•501 days ago

Okay—loved the piece, emailed it to my husband, and received the response, “I had copied this link to send to you!”

yourmandevine.bsky.social•501 days ago

Well, that is just delightful, and thank you very much.

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