The supposed unholy trinity of bad Saturday Night Live seasons:
*1980-1981 - The first season without Lorne Michaels and the remaining original/classic cast members. The only season that Jean Doumanian executive produced:
http://snltranscripts.jt.org/80/1980.phtml
*1985-86 - The first season that Lorne Michaels came back after the Dick Ebersol produced years ended. Just about everybody sans Jon Lovitz, Dennis Miller and Nora Dunn were gone after this season:
http://snltranscripts.jt.org/85/1985.phtml
*1994-95
http://snltranscripts.jt.org/94/1994.phtml
Chocolate Moose
10-25-2009, 03:09 PM
i can't chose an exact year. since 2000 it's been pretty bad.
70s show watcher
10-31-2009, 06:28 AM
season 19 1993/94 was almost total garbage i know people say season 20 was worse but as bad as it was season 19 was far far worse
McGillicuddy
11-01-2009, 12:21 PM
season 19 1993/94 was almost total garbage i know people say season 20 was worse but as bad as it was season 19 was far far worse
Probably the years post the departure of Dana Carvey, Phil Hartmann, Chris Farley, David Spade and Adam Sandler (a few others) That era was the best in SNL history!
70s show watcher
11-01-2009, 06:40 PM
Probably the years post the departure of Dana Carvey, Phil Hartmann, Chris Farley, David Spade and Adam Sandler (a few others) That era was the best in SNL history!1993/94 was the first full year without dana but the rear real reason for the decline in writing qulaity was that after season 18 92/93 they lost not only dana and chris rock but most of the carvey era writers as well and the new writers were the type of people wwho thought they knew everything about every thing and wouldnt let any of the snl veterans who were still there help them so the show suffered on account of there stubbiorness and ego
kissprof
11-11-2009, 10:05 PM
1980-81 is awful. Just terrible. The worst season in the shows history. No question.
1985-86 was very uncomfortable, because you had a bunch of people who just didn't gel.
1994-95 is fine, except people were getting very lazy. That group probably stayed one year too long. I thought the shows were pretty much the same as the years before, except the recurring characters were stale.
1981-82 also had its share of suck, but following 80-81 was pretty easy to do.
Here's an argument that found on Saturday-Night-Live.com concerning the 2004-05 season:
2004-05: What Happened? (http://saturday-night-live.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=2186&start=0)