Normally, I don’t much care for the SNL Cold Opens but this week’s had a really great freeze frame bit for everyone who loves non-sequiturs. The stills are from Warming Glow.
For the full list of them, just continue reading…
- There are currently no bills before the House that would require a woman to have a transvaginal ultrasound before buying sunglasses.
- The Taliban is not producing a cereal called “Honey Bunches of Goats.”
- Kirk Cameron is not the voice of Siri.
- Miss America is not third in the order of succession for the Presidency, nor is Miss Teen USA fourth.
- Airplanes do not fly by flapping their wings.
- Patricia Heaton did not win a Nobel Prize for her work on “Everybody Loves Raymond.”
- Hail consists of frozen water; it is not “made of sins.”
- President Barack Obama does not plan to take the “forwarding” option away from email.
- Disney World is not planning to add Rush Limbaugh to their Hall of Presidents.
- Nowhere in the Bible does it mention Garth Brooks or Chris Gaines.
- Turtles do not have “tiny TVs and sofa beds” inside their shells.
- Pete Rose did not receive a lifetime ban from the Hallmark Hall of Fame.
- “National Treasure” is not a documentary even though it feels very real.
- Wisconsin is an American state and not “just a bit.”
- Mormons breathe air.
- Horses do not have “teeth so sharp you wouldn’t even believe it.”
- Children raised by same-sex couples are not statistically more likely to let the American flag touch the ground.
- “Psych” is a popular detective show on the USA Network, not a super-secret NASA Mind Experiment.
- It takes more than five to six months of medical school to become a surgeon.
- Sour Patch Kids are a snack food and therefore physically incapable of pulling a knife on someone.
- Congress has not declared a “War on Jean Shorts.”
- It is unlikely that Fareed Zakaria is Willem Defoe in character.
- Babies tend to like hugs.
- It is not illegal to discard a Christmas tree.
- John Wilkes Boothe was not wearing a hooded sweatshirt when he shot President Lincoln, nor were the Lincolns attending a staging of “The Vagina Monologues.”
- There is no federal program called “Cash for Bees.”
- You do not need a spaceship to get to China.
- The Watergate is a hotel in Washington D.C., not a portal to an undersea kingdom.
- Yellow and blue make green, not “blellow.”
- The new World Trade Center does not transform into a karate robot.
- Seeing-eye dogs are neither able to nor allowed to drive.
- It is likely that immigrants do not feed on the blood of our cattle at night while we are all sleeping.
- Baseball is a land sport.
- It is widely accepted that ears are used for hearing.



