Saturday Night Live/Sarah Michelle Gellar/Backstreet Boys

Sarah Michelle Gellar/Backstreet Boys
Season 24, Episode 19
Airdate	May 15, 1999
Production Number	1089
Written by	Robert Smigel Brian Reich (cartoon)
Directed by	Beth McCarthy Miller
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Saturday Night Live — Season Twenty-Four

Sarah Michelle Gellar/Backstreet Boys is the nineteenth episode of the twenty-fourth season of Saturday Night Live. It is the second appearance on the show for both the host and the musical guest.

Guest Stars: Sarah Michelle Gellar (Host), Backstreet Boys (Musical Guest)

Special Guests: Seth Green (Himself), David Boreanaz (Himself)

Cartoon Voices: Molly Shannon (Double A, Sticky), Robert Smigel (William Ginsberg), Ana Gasteyer (Tang), Stephen Colbert (Geraldo Rivera), Brian Reich (Mark Fuhrman), Beth Cahill (Producer)

Episode Breakdown

• The Culps - Reggie's Graduation: Marty Culp (Ferrell) and Bobbi Mohan-Culp (Gasteyer) are introduced by a high school graduate (Fallon) as the musical entertainment. The two had an accident on the way to the party which celebrates Reggie's graduation, but he escapes through the back before they start singing. The two sing a medley consisting of "Cars" by Gary Numan, "Urgent" by Foreigner, "The Rockefeller Skank" and "Praise You" by Fatboy Slim, "Every Morning" by Sugar Ray, "Don't Fear the Reaper" by Blue Öyster Cult and "Duel of the Fates" by John Williams.
• Sarah Michelle Gellar's Monologue: After she mentions it's her second time hosting the show, Gellar's monologue is interrupted by Kattan, who insists she promised him they would hook up if she ever came back to host. He gets shut down by Gellar, so he decides to move on to the "Backstreet Boy with the goatee" and storms off stage. She's interrupted again, this time by Meadows, who's also propositioning her for sex. Shannon manages to get him off stage so he'll stop bothering Gellar, but only long enough for her to step in and pick up where he left off. Again, she's turned town, and Gellar returns to her monologue briefly before Ferrell comes out wearing a smoking jacket and is turned down immediately. The same happens for Fallon, who has the intention of singing her a song even though he wasn't on the show when she last hosted. He and a line full of guys including Sanz, who's eating a box of chocolates he wanted to give Gellar, shuffle off stage when Gellar tells everyone she just wants to host the show without being hit on.
• Tiger Beat's Ultra Super Duper Dreamy Love Show: Four teenage girls—Susie Jessica Dibbins (Gellar), Sarah Margaret Connolly (Oteri), Sissy Germane Daphne (Shannon) and Gladys Stubbs (Gasteyer)—host a talk show filled with mindless shrieking and inappropriate sound effects to structure the show. They introduce Rene Open (Hammond), manager for Seth Green and guest for the episode. They ask a question about what it's like to work with Green, and Open calls in three of his clients: Green, David Boreanaz and Howie Dorough from Backstreet Boys. The three aren't very enthused about being managed by Open, who's extremely hands-on and aggressive.
• The Zimmermans - Summer Cabin: Josh (Kattan) and Laura Zimmerman (Oteri) are renting out their summer cabin to a couple named Jim (Parnell) and Karen Hoffman (Gellar). The Hoffmans are unprepared, however, for when the Zimmermans start to take innocent comments down an inappropriate avenue and are berated when they play along with what they assume is happening. This happens several times with the Hoffmans being seen as the perverts. When Josh has finally had enough of Jim's inappropriateness, he does the same the with Karen. Frustrated, Jim drops his pants, demanding to know if that's what she really wants, and they're thrown out of the cabin.
• Get On the Bag: At a little league baseball game, Mike (Ferrell) is watching his son Brandon with his friend Kathy (Gellar) and a couple of other spectators (Parnell and Meadows). As they talk, Mike starts yelling "Get on the bag!" at his son for fear of him being "picked off." Mike progressively gets angrier, louder and more threatening as time goes on. After drinking a beer, Mike threatens to chain Brandon to a pipe in the crawl space if he doesn't get on the bag. The umpire (Sanz) manages to get him to stop briefly when he threatens to throw him off the field, but Mike starts up once again and wonders out loud what it would take for him to be coach next season.
• TV Funhouse - The Ginsburg Gang: Attorney William Ginsberg (Smigel), lawyer for Monica Lewinsky, and three other kids are in an old house where Sticky (Gasteyer) is attacked by a goblin behind a secret passage. Ginsberg goes to Geraldo (Colbert) in order to ferret out some clues. Geraldo pulls the mask off of the fake Ginsburg to discover he's the goblin and the goblin the kids caught was actually Ginsburg. At a diner afterwards, Ginsburg works out the fee for the kids.
• Shame Attack: Tara McMannis (Gellar) and Jason Hursman (Fallon) host a game show on MTV called Shame Attack! about broken up couples who attempt to win cash and prizes by telling everyone embarrassing stories about their ex. They bring out contestants JuJu (Shannon) and Little Pete (Kattan) to play the game. They start off by telling secrets to earn time in the "money toilet." Pete wins the first round and starts off the "Shame Yourself" round by freestyle rapping about his sexual inadequacy. JuJu, on the other hand sings "The Hardest Thing" while naked from the waist down in the "ugly box." She's "dumped on by the poop chute" and instantly wins the game.
• I Want It That Way: Backstreet Boys song.
• Weekend Update:
  • Amy Fisher (Oteri), recently released from prison, talks about how good it feels to be out of prison. She outlines her plans for starting a fashion boutique, but Quinn keeps shooting her down while she makes crazed nervous ticks. Fisher then attempts to put the moves on Quinn and threatens his girlfriend enough that Quinn sees it fit to drag her off stage.
  • The first Star Wars prequel is reviewed by Billy Dee Williams (Meadows), who admits the film is not very good. However, he says this because it became clear as time went on that he was not in the movie as Lando Calrissian. To demonstrate how much better the film would have been had he been in it, he drinks a Colt 45 and delivers a crude, poorly written monologue about trying to have sex with a woman. Quinn tries to reason with Williams by saying his character couldn't have been in the prequel movie, but Williams can't grasp the concept of a "prequel" film.
• Dusty's Love: In a cheesy B-movie, Janet (Gellar) meets with her father (Parnell) in Dusty's stable so he can apologize, again, for blinding her with a flare gun. He leaves, and Janet's boyfriend, an alien named Yardjacks 14 (Sanz) appears from the back of the stable. Paul Williams (Ferrell) performs a cheesy score while the two share a tender montage that ends with them having sex (although this is censored for television). Janet's father comes in to find Yardjacks 14 with his daughter. He rescues her from the alien, and they flee together to call the National Guard. Depressed, Yardjacks 14 decides to eat the horse, and Channel 55 apologizes for showing the movie.
• Kids' Choice Awards Press Conference: Following the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards, Rosie O'Donnell (Sanz) ends the show, and several award winners, such as Jesse Camp (Fallon), Britney Spears (Gellar) and Eminem (Parnell), attend a press conference where they field questions from kids in the audience. Camp insists he has the intellect of an eight-year old, Spears tells them a normal day for her involves more breast enhancement surgery, and Eminem dodges a question about whether or not he's black.
• Holding Your Own Boobs Magazine: Following a recent trend of magazine covers with nearly naked women on it, a half-naked Gellar advertises "Holding Your Own Boobs Magazine," a magazine dedicated to the art of holding one's own boobs. After a short pitch, Ferrell comes out, also half-naked, to say the magazine also has men in it.
• All I Have to Give: Backstreet Boys song.
• Brian Fellow's Safari Planet - Capuchin Monkey & Box Turtle: Brian Fellow (Morgan) brings out two guests, the first being Jeff Richmond (Parnell) and his capuchin monkey named Buster from Cleveland. Fellow makes several obvious, often incorrect, observations, and eventually Richmond realizes Fellow doesn't have the credentials he claims to have. The second guest is Karen Nathanton (Gellar) and a box turtle, but Fellows explains if the turtle escapes and bites him, he's going to kill it.

Notes

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

• Will Ferrell and Ana Gasteyer as Marty Culp and Bobbi Mohan-Culp.

Music

• I Want It That Way, performed by Backstreet Boys: The first number one single off the Backstreet Boys' 1999 sophomore album Millennium. The song became their biggest hit and signature song, and it is largely responsible for the boy band craze of the late 90s and early 2000s. Their surprisingly successful live a cappella renditions of the song also fueled many of their supporters' claims they had been unfairly maligned as an over-produced marketing ploy with no musical skills.

• All I Have to Give, performed by Backstreet Boys: The third single off the boy band's 1997 self-titled US debut album, it was also their last hit prior to "I Want It That Way." In the UK and elsewhere in the world, it appeared on their second album, Backstreet's Back.