Saturday Night Live/John C. Reilly/My Chemical Romance

John C. Reilly/My Chemical Romance
Season 32, Episode 3
Airdate	October 21, 2006
Production Number	1472
Written by	Seth Meyers Andrew Steele Paula Pell (head writers) Doug Abeles James Anderson Alex Baze James Downey Charlie Grandy Steve Higgins Colin Jost Erik Kenward John Lutz Lorne Michaels Matt Murray Marika Sawyer Akiva Schaffer Robert Smigel John Solomon Emily Spivey Jorma Taccone Bryan Tucker
Directed by	Don Roy King
← 32x02 Jaime Pressly/Corinne Bailey Rae	32x04 → Hugh Laurie/Beck
Saturday Night Live — Season Thirty-Two

John C. Reilly/My Chemical Romance is the third episode of the thirty-second season of Saturday Night Live, and the six hundred and tenth episode overall.

Guest Stars: John C. Reilly (Host), My Chemical Romance (Musical Guest)

Special Guest: Will Ferrell (James Lipton)

Episode Breakdown

• Special Report w/ Brit Hume: Brit Hume (Hammond) gives an interview with President George W. Bush (Forte) for FOX News. After making a long list of negative facts about the Iraq war and Bush's shortcomings as a leader, Hume follows up with the question of whether or not the war in Iraq can be won. Bush says yes without explanation, and Hume accepts it without questioning him further and walks off screen.
• John C. Reilly's Monologue: Reilly talks about how he was surprised to get a call to host Saturday Night Live, because although people know his work, they likely don't know his name. He's interrupted by James Lipton (Ferrell), who takes over the monologue by over-enthusiastically describing several movies that Reilly wasn't in, such as Pulp Fiction, and his role as the voice of R2-D2 in The Sound of Music. He does get one right: Reilly was in Chicago, but he wasn't Roxie Hart. Lipton then asks to speak to Roxy, which causes Reilly to sing "Nowadays" with Lipton. Afterwards, a neon sign with "Sean C. Reilly" descends behind the two.
• Colonial Williamsburg: At Colonial Williamsburg, Gary (Reilly) is pulled aside by his boss, Mr. Morrison (Sudeikis), because several of his co-workers have voiced complaints about him. Although they appreciate Gary's enthusiasm for historical accuracy, Morrison is stepping in to curb Gary's blatant racism against the black employees, including Denise (Rudolph)—whom he calls "Mamie"—someone in the corporate office and several Asian tour groups. Morrison tells Gary that he can't tolerate his racist behavior and fires him on the spot, which prompts the town crier (Thompson) to declare that the "racist cracker" is fired and will get jumped in the parking lot.
• Swimming Lesson: Terry James (Forte) comes to a swimming pool and asks another swimmer (Samberg) where swim instructor Doug Frangelo (Reilly) is. Frangelo enters wearing a back brace and a Speedo. Frangelo makes several vaguely sexual remarks and makes James strap himself to his seatbelt, like a skydiving trainee. They practice swimming strokes until James tries to quit and struggles with his trainer. He's eventually subdued and accepts land fundamentals. One year later he jumps in a pool, sinks to the bottom and goes into a coma.
• Kim Jong Il's Address: Kim Jong Il (Poehler) addresses the North Korean people while flanked by two guards (Hader and Armisen). He says that he has good news and bad news: The good news is that they have a nuclear bomb, and the bad news is that the United States have imposed sanctions on them. He makes several bad pop culture references and suggests how families will cut their consumption.
• Two A-Holes - Work Out with a Trainer: The A-Holes (Sudeikis and Wiig) meet with Matt (Reilly), their trainer. They were 55 minutes late for their appointment, but Matt offers to get them started although he's leaving in 30 minutes. He tries to get them to answer some questions, but they're generally non-responsive. He instead asks them to use the treadmill to measure their heart rate, but the woman refuses to run on the treadmill. They then stare at him until he leaves.
• Welcome to the Black Parade: My Chemical Romance song.
• Weekend Update:
  • Flava Flav (Thompson) talks about what he's up to after Flavor of Love's season finale became the highest rated single episode on VH1. He tells Meyers that he's getting into politics, which boils down to him giving all the female members of Congress nicknames.
• She's a Mess: Three friends (Rudolph, Poehler and Wiig) talk about the fun they had at the party the night before, but are interrupted by their fourth friend, Jennifer (Reilly), who starts crying. She talks about getting drunk and calling her ex-boyfriend while she stuffs her face with food from the waiter (Sudeikis). After finishing her food, she starts in on her friends' food and eventually gets up to go to the restroom. Tara and Shelley agree that they should just leave because they're freaked out because they don't think Robert exists. After Jennifer comes back, Robert (Armisen) actually does show up and makes out with her.
• House of Carters: A commercial parody of the E! reality program, House of Carters, featuring Nick Carter (Sudeikis) and Aaron Carter (Samberg) getting into ridiculous arguments before making up quickly afterwards. This happens several times, the last of which happens in front of their "black manager" (Thompson).
• SNL Digital Short - Harpoon Man: The theme song for Harpoon Man (Reilly) plays in a style similar to Shaft. He foils a robbery by throwing a harpoon through a robber's (Hader) chest, but when the lyrics of the song start talking about how he's gay and that everyone has "boned his wife," he starts to hunt down the person singing the song, who turns out to be a whale (Samberg) in NBC Studios.
• McMillan Family Moment: A father (Reilly) tries to teach his teenage son, Jerry (Samberg), how to eat Oreo cookies the McMillan way. When Jerry asks if he can just eat the cookie, his father blows up at him and throws the plate of cookies on the ground.
• The Bear Shark Project: In a secret laboratory, the scientists behind Operation Bearshark are alerted by their leader (Reilly) and a recently maimed scientist named Jerry (Sudeikis) that the project to combine a bear and a shark is being shut down by the government. Dr. Kelsing then sings a Spanish ballad with another scientist named Lydia (Rudolph) about the Bearshark (Forte). In the background Hader and Hammond also appear as scientists.
• McMillan Family Moment 2: Mr. McMillan tries one more time to teach his new Little Brother, Jarvis (Thompson), how to eat an Oreo. But when Jarvis eats the cookie before he finishes explaining, McMillan once again loses it and drops an X-Box on the plate of cookies.
• Cancer: My Chemical Romance song.
• McMillan Family Moment 3: One last time, Mr. McMillan (Reilly) tries to bond with his father (Sudeikis) by going through the Oreo eating directions, but his father tells him that he's doing it wrong, and McMillan yells at him.

Notes

"Live from New York, It's Saturday Night!"

• Will Forte as President George W. Bush.

Music

• Nowadays, performed by John C. Reilly and Will Ferrell: The song that John C. Reilly sings with Will Ferrell is from the musical Chicago, which was first performed on stage in 1975. Although Reilly did appear in the film adaptation, he played Amos Hart. In the film, Roxie Hart was played by Renée Zellweger.

• Welcome to the Black Parade, performed by My Chemical Romance: "Welcome to the Black Parade" is the first single off My Chemical Romance's third album, The Black Parade. The song was first debuted at the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards and appear in the same costumes from the music video for the song in this performance.

• Cancer, performed by My Chemical Romance: "Cancer" is another song off The Black Parade by My Chemical Romance. Although it wasn't released as a single, the band has said that it is a "favorite" of theirs because it is one of the "most emotional" songs they've ever written. The song, like the rest of the album, is about "The Patient," who suffers a potentially terminal disease.

Trivia

The Show

This was the first live episode to feature this season's current logo in the opening title sequence and bumper art.

Quotes

• Flava Flav: I don't like the politicos. I like the politihos.