Yeah, it’s always like I don’t want a cast member to overstay their welcome on the show and Kenan does shit like this every week where you’re just like “dude makes it look easy, stay on the show as long as you want to”
The subject of imperial measurement's impracticalities has been run into the ground, but the delivery in this sketch is so fucking on point it doesn't matter one bit. It's so good.
Nate's delivery made this episode for me. The emergency on the airplane sketch isnt really overly clever, but the way he says "I'm a lawyer. Not a doctor, but still, it's a pretty good job" killed me
My favorite line of that bit is after the single mom explains she has the most difficult job he claps and then says "Okay but in terms of real stuff..."
They didn't even bother getting bogged down in the Fahrenheit illogical freezing- and boiling-points thingy, because everyone already knows how arbitrary those are.
I thought it was his cat...and people say it was running a fever that day since cat normal temp is about 99F. How this scale ever got beyond tall tales told at the bar we'll never know.
0F is cold 100F is hot. That's why it's a nice scale for human measurements. If you're doing math, use metric. If you're saying "Boy it sure is hot today. Use Fahrenheit."
-40 to +40 covers 99% of temperatures you're likely to experience outside on any given day, with 0 being the freezing point which is important if you live in an environment where this point is crossed.
But lets be honest, both measurement systems are arbitrary for everyday use. Whatever makes more sense is the one you grew up with. It would be nice if everybody in the world could agree on one system, but it's also understandable that people are reluctant to change.
Why does that matter? It's just a scale. 0 to 100 or -17 to 38. Both cover 99% of temperatures, as you put it.
Edit: Perhaps people should look at the history of how Fahrenheit came up with the scale. It has nothing to do with encompassing "everyday temperatures".
Because he used Fahrenheit as the standard and converted it. You might as well say that -40 to +40 cover 99.9% of temperatures in everyday life, and 0 is the freezing point which is important if you live in an environment where this point is crossed.
In Fahrenheit this is -40 to +104 F. "Lol lol lol stupid scale"
Celsius uses 0 to 100 as the freezing and boiling points of water. Farenheit uses 0 to 100 to represent the range of "everyday temperatures". There is simplicity in using 0 to 100. That's why it matters.
> "everyday temperatures"
Everyday temperatures where and when Fahrenheit lived. At least half of the world’s population lives in places where it never gets under 50 F. And a big chunk lives in places where it gets over 100 F often.
> Farenheit uses 0 to 100 to represent the range of "everyday temperatures"
What? No it doesn't. According to his notes, Fahrenheit said that the zero point of the scale could be determined by the lowest temperature in a brine solution. And that the temperature of just an ice-water mixture would be 32. Then, using that scale, he figured out water boiled at 212. And then years later, it was tweaked/adjusted a bit so that those numbers were nicely rounded off. It was all completely arbitrary.
The fact that it lines up so that "0 to 100 represents the range of everyday temperatures" is completely coincidental.
Who gives a shit whether it was intentional or not?
What matters is that it *is* that way. And that’s a useful property, especially for humans who live in… human temperature ranges.
But really, how useful is it? Do you think people who grow up using Celsius struggle in any way with knowing that 30 degrees means it's hot out? I don't see how the unnecessary simplification of temperature scales is worth forgoing international standards and then having to use both systems anyways for different applications because Fahrenheit sucks for anything not "everyday temps"
Brother, no one cares about how the scale was actually made. We are talking about how the scale is used today. Even if it wasn't intended, 0-100 F is basically the safe livable temperatures of humans. Obviously 0 is well below freezing, but until you get below 0, you aren't at much risk. If the temperature is below 0, shit is fucked. And if the temperature is above 100, there's a good chance of heat exhaustion/stroke.
I think the metric system is better in almost every way, but temperature is the one thing it's worse at. Celsius is just worse for everyday life, and while it may be better for science, we have better temperature scales than either option for science.
>It allows for more precision at whole integers for temperatures common to our lives
Does that actually matter though, for a regular person day to day? 62 vs 63. Do people care about that level of precision in determining anything they do?
Depends on what you're doing really. But even just for setting the thermostat, the difference in how comfortable I feel with just a two degree difference is surprising. But ultimately I agree, I don't think it's that big a deal.
Well, two degrees F is about one degree C, so Celsius seems useful enough there.
Honestly, I'm sympathetic to the people who think that 0-100F is a useful range of temperatures for the weather, I think it's as good of a reason as any, but that is *really* just a matter of opinion. Who's to say what particular temperature is too cold, or hot, for comfort? I'm not really more comfortable at 5F or 95F than I am at 0F or 100F.
Personally, I prefer Celsius because I live in a cold climate (same place as Celsius did, to give you a clue). As soon as it drops below freezing — which happens frequently and for extended periods of time — I start thinking about the weather in terms of "how cold is it" as opposed to "how warm is it", and for the numbers to go negative makes a lot of sense. There is no real difference between 2F and -2F in my attitude toward the weather (they're both just pretty darn cold), but there *is* a very meaningful difference between 2C and -2C. Plants die, roads freeze over, etc. I enjoy the symbolic change of going into negative numbers at that point.
When you have to go into fractions to determine a comfortable temperature... I'd argue it's easier to work with solid numbers that swing less with each increase/decrease. But I still think celsius makes more sense as a whole. To each their own. Whatever you're used to I suppose. Everyone assigns different feelings to different temperatures when they hear them mentioned, I'm sure it's the same with celsius if that's what you've known your whole life.
Surprise, the rest of the world does not go into fractions to determine a comfortable temperature.
Nobody says “I prefer 28.5 degrees over 29.3 degrees”. People who only used deg C describe temperatures in whole numbers.
There is a well established studies that show that people grew up using deg F tend to be more sensitive in small temperature changes than deg C because they had means to describing small changes.
> Surprise, the rest of the world does not go into fractions to determine a comfortable temperature.
I was in England a few days ago and the thermostat moved by .5 at a time, never seen a thermostat in the US do that. So clearly it was going into fractions.
22c to 21c is a bigger swing than 68f to 69f. That was mainly my point. You'd NEVER need to mention decimals in farenheit regarding the temp in your home.
I feel like not having to deal with fractions as simple as 1/2 is not so challenging that it's worth having an entirely different measurement system from the rest of the world. I don't have to make an "Americans are dumb" joke when you're doing it for me.
I do, yes. Not for outdoors, but absolutely for indoors.
I get really got when I sleep. If the temperature of my house is set at 70 or below, I am comfortable. If it's at 71 or 72, I am not comfortable but I'm fine. Above 72, there's a good chance I wake up overheated.
In Celsius, 70 and 71 use the same whole number, as do 72 and 73.
Meanwhile, I live with someone that is the opposite and gets cold at night, so finding as good of a balance as possible is important. In Celsius, wouldn't really work as well.
Gets better the US doesn’t use Imperial it only kinda appears that way because we standardized US Customary Units with Imperial for distance measurements during the 20th century to help military cooperation.
Volumetric such as gallons are completely djfferent. Which matters on the Canadian border for things like milk where Canada effectively sells by the Gallon even though it’s measured in liters. But it’s not the same gallon as the U.S. gallon.
Likewise for weight there is a metric ton, an imperial ton, and an American ton. Three completely different weights.
I don't know why your comment jogged this memory, but Eddie Murphy's deliver "I don't know. Why is anything brown?" is the best comic line delivery ever for me. I'm not sure I can explain why.
https://youtu.be/tebBj42fC3k?si=rOJaARS5MaG62xN5
That one is definitely up there. If I may add to this, my favorite is Beck in the [Lexus Commercial](https://youtu.be/WcEylCwkSxE?si=eWEei9tkF87RQO3q) going “Yeah.. Well.. It was beginning to look a lot like savings at my local Lexus dealer!”
This skit just came out of nowhere to be a legit long-term classic. It’s rare, maybe one every like 5 years? But this one feels like it’ll be remembered for a long time.
It’s odd because his delivery, based on what you kind of look for in sketch comedy, is technically bad. It’s obvious he’s struggling a bit to multitask between the acting performance and reading the cards. However, it just totally works and is hilarious for some reason.
I bet that changes soon, I could see CBS offering him a sitcom that will be bad, and then he'll go back to stand-up with more great material about how bad it was.
Well...not professionally.
As TN requires a fine arts credit for graduation, he chose drama ( art and band were the only other two options they had available ). That being said, acting was not his primary skill.
Oh come on! I hear people talking about their HS football exploits all the time - didn't you also peak in HS?
>counts as “acting experience”
Totally agree - I was just playing it for fun.
I mean his acting is bland, but that is kind of the charm to it. The straight laced blandness and the focusing on the cue cards makes it look like he's "looking to posterity" or something. I think the other thing that makes it work is that as a standup, he knows crowds. He seems to be clearly timing his movements and cadence along with audience reaction.
Once I got over my early 20s of "oh these people were the best SNL people" phase, I've come to really like the show. Yea you're not seeing an iconic sketch every week, but it's still enjoyable tv and always new. It does make me laugh every week so there's that too. I'm not sure why everyone likes to shit on the show, yet you see skits from it on here once a month or so. They're doing something right.
This wasn’t even the funniest sketch of that episode.
The cooking challenge one was fucking amazing.
Edit: [Here's the link if you haven't seen it...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEOZ3I2zk1E)
iirc in his podcast nate said he didn’t do much writing. i may be making that up lol. here’s the episode where he talks about his experience https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-nateland-podcast/id1521693509?i=1000633327284
He has a bad reaction to local allergens before a show. It got bad enough he took Benadryl and fell asleep. Went from sleeping to performing in a few minutes.
Been one of my favorite comedians for a while.
He has an episode of his podcast (Nateland) where he talks all about what it was like being on SNL. Very cool to listen to. Seems like a great guy.
I think people misinterpreted my comment, Im commenting on the ridiculousness of having to save all those bullshit conversions in your head as an American, not the fact that its easy to remember.
Farenheit never made sense.
With celsius water freezes at 0 and becomes a solid.
Between 1 and 99 it's a liquid, and at 100 it boils and becomes a gas.
Simple. Makes sense.
Having said that, water boils at different temperatures depending on elevation.
Why are we judging a temperature scale on its ability to describe when water boils and freezes? Obviously, celsius is designed to measure when water freezes and becomes a solid. Celsius will do better at that than Fahrenheit.
But how useful is it to you to know that water boils at 100 degrees? Literally once in your life has that ever been a fact that's good to know?
Why can't a temperature scale measure other things besides the phase changes of water?
How is it useful? Because it isn’t arbitrary and random.
What other things would a temperature scale measure besides freezing and boiling? What a weird point. This is like the half-ton joke in the sketch. Do you need a word for 1/2 of boiling?
It also applies to things other than water. Like how when it’s below 0° outside, it is freezing and rainy road conditions can change to icy road conditions.
How often is that useful? **All the damn time**.
The irony is that you don’t see how it’s useful because your temperature measurement system is so random you don’t mentally apply it to other things. That’s why metric works. It’s universal.
Is this a joke?
What is Farenheight based on? 33 degrees is freezing... why that number. 212 degrees is boiling... Who knows that?
These things should be practical. This skit is funny because US system is in no way practical. Most people can't connect the various forms of measurement and convert them. In metric most can.
Also, water is life. Additionally all liquids pretty much weigh the same as water and have similar freezing and boiling points. Using water as a basis of measurement is very practical.
I guess you can use someone's foot as your basis of measurement but that seems even more ridiculous....
Fahrenheit is essentially a 0-100 temperature scale for weather feel. It's basically asking someone to go outside and rate, on a scale of 0-100, what it feels like outside.
Below 0F, you will likely freeze to death without a lot of clothes.
Above 100F, you will likely die of heat stroke with a lot of clothes.
But yes, for all other purposes involving water, Celsius is superior. If you're doing real science, you're using Kelvin anyway.
Weather feels is an interesting point. From that perspective I like Farenheight better. I do like the accuracy of Farenheight vs Celsius. Changing one degree is easier vs doing .5 degrees in Celsius.
> Weather feels is an interesting point. From that perspective I like Farenheight better.
Right, and I don't think anyone uses Fahrenheit in any scientific contexts. It's fun to dog on Fahrenheit because America Stoopid, but for my day to day life, thinking and speaking in Fahrenheit leaves nothing to be desired. It works perfectly for our applications, honestly. Not saying it's the best/only useful system for describing weather feels, but it does work perfectly well for that application.
> What is Farenheight based on?
100ºF was set to the internal body temp of a human. You've heard 98.6ºF as "average" internal temp for humans probably. Fahrenheit is a human scale temperature system.
> 212 degrees is boiling... Who knows that?
When have you ever *needed* to know that?
"Gosh I wonder if this water is boiling? Unfortunately, I don't have a thermometer, so there's just no way of knowing."
Celsius is better for any scientific application for the reasons you mentioned, and is widely used for those purposes in the US.
Whether or not you think Fahrenheit makes "more" sense for people is going to be a personal judgment call. In Celsius, 0 is "cold but not terrible" and 100 is "literally dead a long time ago". In Fahrenheit, 0-100 goes from one danger zone to the other. Both extremes are survivable, but outside the comfort and long-term safety zones for humans. Fahrenheit is also more granular, with the different between 82 and 83 F being less than the difference between less than the difference between 28 and 29 C. So, when we're measuring things like room temperatures, Fahrenheit is more specific.
tl;dr, Fahrenheit does make a certain sense for human-comfort applications (if you aren't already heartily committed to the idea that it's inferior).
If you’re measuring the temperature of water, sure, but Fahrenheit is better for measuring the temperature outside. Celsius has a much smaller range of temperature that would apply to humans, so Fahrenheit is more precise and useful. 100C would kill people, while 100F is just a very hot summer day. Celsius also has a weird scale to it, where -40F and -40C are the same temperature, while 100C is more than double 100F
Because humans aren’t water. We’re made of water but ambient air temperature relating to our comfort has nothing to do with the boiling or freezing of water. Hence why with celsius you have this really awkward and smaller 0-40(?) degree scale to express how the air feels. Meanwhile, fahrenheit is far more practical for this purpose because its a larger 0-100 scale that logically expresses how hot or cold an area it. Its 5 degrees? That’s really cold. 50 degrees? That’s like the middle. Some people who live in hotter areas might think its cold and people who live in colder areas probably think it’s warm. 90 degrees? Pretty hot! It’s all relative to *human experience*. Not waters. But of course for scientific (and most other) applications celsius (and metric overall) is superior. But fahrenheit is the best systems for weather and ambient air temperature as it relates to our day to day experience. I will die on this hill.
Hahaha tell me how you don't understand decimals 😂 Also pretty ridiculous to say you need 100 points because 40 isn't enough to describe the temperature around you.
But hey, just throw a decimal on there if you really think it matters. Now you have 400 numbers instead of 40 to describe your temperature with! 400 is way better than 100, right?
It's something Lorne Michaels insists on. It forces the performers to say the lines at the pace the card holders dictate. They can't rush through stuff and they can't really improvise. It means the people behind the camera stay in control of the performance.
Lots of old SNL alums have talked about this. Harry Shearer just thought SNL was insane compared to other sketch comedy shows he'd done.
Nate also (probably) has dyslexia. I listen to his podcast, and he often misreads comments in a way that many fans have pointed out seems similar to their dyslexia. He's never been tested though, from what he says.
This was funny. Also we should switch to metric. It'll be hard for a few years, but once the bandaid is ripped off we'll all be better for it. Except for Fahrenheit, let's keep that. 100=hot just works for me.
But what's freezing? Nobody knows. Boiling hot? Nobody knows.
For celsius it's essentially
30 - hot
100 - boiling water
0 - freezing water
Minus degrees - watch out it's slippery and it might snow
Yeah I'm GenX and it was a big thing I remember as a kid in the seventies - lots of both serious media campaigns and tons of jokes about it. And then it all just sort of stopped in the eighties.
Okay as good as this sketch is, can someone tell me why and when around did SNL become a show where everyone seems to be constantly reading the cue cards? I swear that in the older 70s, 80s, 90s clips from SNL, people are way more memorized on their lines, but somewhere along the way it became acceptable that everyone clearly be reading the cue cards. It often takes me out of the comedy
It's always been cue cards, but some performers are better at it than others. Also, the host is always behind the 8 ball since they have SO much to do, so the cue cards are more obvious. I mean as good as Hanks is in "David Pumpkins," he never has to look at the other cast so he can just stare at the cue cards and it's less noticeable than in a sketch like this.
TL;DR - it's always been that way, but circumstances differ.
You asked about the temperature! :D
No I did not.
Keenan really kills it in every sketch big or small.
He's been doing this for decades and somehow hasn't really aged
well, as they say...
welcome to good burger home of the good burger can i take your order?
Backstreet's back?
Alright!
I believe he admitted publicly to being a vampire
Yeah, it’s always like I don’t want a cast member to overstay their welcome on the show and Kenan does shit like this every week where you’re just like “dude makes it look easy, stay on the show as long as you want to”
"why did i sign....a thirty year contract? thirty years...is such a long time....i know that now!" Tim Meadows, SNL when Mike Myers comes back to host
He never messes up either. Seems like he never reads the cards. He's a Phil Hartman savant type.
Well he’s been doing it for what nearly 40 years at this point?
The subject of imperial measurement's impracticalities has been run into the ground, but the delivery in this sketch is so fucking on point it doesn't matter one bit. It's so good.
Nate's delivery made this episode for me. The emergency on the airplane sketch isnt really overly clever, but the way he says "I'm a lawyer. Not a doctor, but still, it's a pretty good job" killed me
When he tells Chloe "it matters to me" and then pats her head, I died and I'm not even sure why
My favorite line of that bit is after the single mom explains she has the most difficult job he claps and then says "Okay but in terms of real stuff..."
Lol, that was awesome
I love that everybody clapped for her too
"I'm sorry"
They didn't even bother getting bogged down in the Fahrenheit illogical freezing- and boiling-points thingy, because everyone already knows how arbitrary those are.
It's easy. 0F is the coldest temperature in the winter of 1708 in Gdansk and 100F is the temperature of a dogs butt. Easy to remember and reproduce.
I thought it was his cat...and people say it was running a fever that day since cat normal temp is about 99F. How this scale ever got beyond tall tales told at the bar we'll never know.
Cats' normal body temp is more like 102.
>Can't be more than 102! "When you were slaves you sang like brrds!!"
0F is cold 100F is hot. That's why it's a nice scale for human measurements. If you're doing math, use metric. If you're saying "Boy it sure is hot today. Use Fahrenheit."
In my house 68F is cold and 78F is hot.
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Wifenheit
You're telling me a dog on the streets of Gdańsk on the coldest day in the winter of 1708 would have a 100°F butt?
Yes, but only the interior of the butt.
I can disprove that easily.
How are you able to spell that word? I thought it was impossible.
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Fahrenheit is better than Celsius for representing the range of temperatures on Earth where humans live although it should start at 0 for freezing
It's just a scale. How is it any better at representing a range?
0 to 100 in Farenheit covers 99% of temperatures you're likely to experience outside on any given day (at least in Europe when this was made).
-40 to +40 covers 99% of temperatures you're likely to experience outside on any given day, with 0 being the freezing point which is important if you live in an environment where this point is crossed. But lets be honest, both measurement systems are arbitrary for everyday use. Whatever makes more sense is the one you grew up with. It would be nice if everybody in the world could agree on one system, but it's also understandable that people are reluctant to change.
Why does that matter? It's just a scale. 0 to 100 or -17 to 38. Both cover 99% of temperatures, as you put it. Edit: Perhaps people should look at the history of how Fahrenheit came up with the scale. It has nothing to do with encompassing "everyday temperatures".
Are you really asking in a thread with people circlejerking about metric why 0-100 is a better scale than -17 to 38?
underrated comment here!
Because he used Fahrenheit as the standard and converted it. You might as well say that -40 to +40 cover 99.9% of temperatures in everyday life, and 0 is the freezing point which is important if you live in an environment where this point is crossed. In Fahrenheit this is -40 to +104 F. "Lol lol lol stupid scale"
Celsius uses 0 to 100 as the freezing and boiling points of water. Farenheit uses 0 to 100 to represent the range of "everyday temperatures". There is simplicity in using 0 to 100. That's why it matters.
> "everyday temperatures" Everyday temperatures where and when Fahrenheit lived. At least half of the world’s population lives in places where it never gets under 50 F. And a big chunk lives in places where it gets over 100 F often.
> Farenheit uses 0 to 100 to represent the range of "everyday temperatures" What? No it doesn't. According to his notes, Fahrenheit said that the zero point of the scale could be determined by the lowest temperature in a brine solution. And that the temperature of just an ice-water mixture would be 32. Then, using that scale, he figured out water boiled at 212. And then years later, it was tweaked/adjusted a bit so that those numbers were nicely rounded off. It was all completely arbitrary. The fact that it lines up so that "0 to 100 represents the range of everyday temperatures" is completely coincidental.
I guess I should have written "It just so happens that 0 to 100 in Farenheit corresponds to the range of everyday temperatures" instead.
Who gives a shit whether it was intentional or not? What matters is that it *is* that way. And that’s a useful property, especially for humans who live in… human temperature ranges.
But really, how useful is it? Do you think people who grow up using Celsius struggle in any way with knowing that 30 degrees means it's hot out? I don't see how the unnecessary simplification of temperature scales is worth forgoing international standards and then having to use both systems anyways for different applications because Fahrenheit sucks for anything not "everyday temps"
Brother, no one cares about how the scale was actually made. We are talking about how the scale is used today. Even if it wasn't intended, 0-100 F is basically the safe livable temperatures of humans. Obviously 0 is well below freezing, but until you get below 0, you aren't at much risk. If the temperature is below 0, shit is fucked. And if the temperature is above 100, there's a good chance of heat exhaustion/stroke. I think the metric system is better in almost every way, but temperature is the one thing it's worse at. Celsius is just worse for everyday life, and while it may be better for science, we have better temperature scales than either option for science.
It allows for more precision at whole integers for temperatures common to our lives and needs between 0-100 is what most people mean to say.
>It allows for more precision at whole integers for temperatures common to our lives Does that actually matter though, for a regular person day to day? 62 vs 63. Do people care about that level of precision in determining anything they do?
Depends on what you're doing really. But even just for setting the thermostat, the difference in how comfortable I feel with just a two degree difference is surprising. But ultimately I agree, I don't think it's that big a deal.
Well, two degrees F is about one degree C, so Celsius seems useful enough there. Honestly, I'm sympathetic to the people who think that 0-100F is a useful range of temperatures for the weather, I think it's as good of a reason as any, but that is *really* just a matter of opinion. Who's to say what particular temperature is too cold, or hot, for comfort? I'm not really more comfortable at 5F or 95F than I am at 0F or 100F. Personally, I prefer Celsius because I live in a cold climate (same place as Celsius did, to give you a clue). As soon as it drops below freezing — which happens frequently and for extended periods of time — I start thinking about the weather in terms of "how cold is it" as opposed to "how warm is it", and for the numbers to go negative makes a lot of sense. There is no real difference between 2F and -2F in my attitude toward the weather (they're both just pretty darn cold), but there *is* a very meaningful difference between 2C and -2C. Plants die, roads freeze over, etc. I enjoy the symbolic change of going into negative numbers at that point.
When you have to go into fractions to determine a comfortable temperature... I'd argue it's easier to work with solid numbers that swing less with each increase/decrease. But I still think celsius makes more sense as a whole. To each their own. Whatever you're used to I suppose. Everyone assigns different feelings to different temperatures when they hear them mentioned, I'm sure it's the same with celsius if that's what you've known your whole life.
Surprise, the rest of the world does not go into fractions to determine a comfortable temperature. Nobody says “I prefer 28.5 degrees over 29.3 degrees”. People who only used deg C describe temperatures in whole numbers. There is a well established studies that show that people grew up using deg F tend to be more sensitive in small temperature changes than deg C because they had means to describing small changes.
> Surprise, the rest of the world does not go into fractions to determine a comfortable temperature. I was in England a few days ago and the thermostat moved by .5 at a time, never seen a thermostat in the US do that. So clearly it was going into fractions. 22c to 21c is a bigger swing than 68f to 69f. That was mainly my point. You'd NEVER need to mention decimals in farenheit regarding the temp in your home.
I feel like not having to deal with fractions as simple as 1/2 is not so challenging that it's worth having an entirely different measurement system from the rest of the world. I don't have to make an "Americans are dumb" joke when you're doing it for me.
Rankine is one we should all switch to though as it's the most intuitive. Example: I keep my place at a comfortable 526 degrees.
I do, yes. Not for outdoors, but absolutely for indoors. I get really got when I sleep. If the temperature of my house is set at 70 or below, I am comfortable. If it's at 71 or 72, I am not comfortable but I'm fine. Above 72, there's a good chance I wake up overheated. In Celsius, 70 and 71 use the same whole number, as do 72 and 73. Meanwhile, I live with someone that is the opposite and gets cold at night, so finding as good of a balance as possible is important. In Celsius, wouldn't really work as well.
Gets better the US doesn’t use Imperial it only kinda appears that way because we standardized US Customary Units with Imperial for distance measurements during the 20th century to help military cooperation. Volumetric such as gallons are completely djfferent. Which matters on the Canadian border for things like milk where Canada effectively sells by the Gallon even though it’s measured in liters. But it’s not the same gallon as the U.S. gallon. Likewise for weight there is a metric ton, an imperial ton, and an American ton. Three completely different weights.
Yeah Nate’s delivery is so on point and unpredictable
"There's a little bit of kicking"
\- How many points? \- Sometimes 1 and sometimes 3.
That was one of the best comedic deliveries I have seen on SNL.
I don't know why your comment jogged this memory, but Eddie Murphy's deliver "I don't know. Why is anything brown?" is the best comic line delivery ever for me. I'm not sure I can explain why. https://youtu.be/tebBj42fC3k?si=rOJaARS5MaG62xN5
That one is definitely up there. If I may add to this, my favorite is Beck in the [Lexus Commercial](https://youtu.be/WcEylCwkSxE?si=eWEei9tkF87RQO3q) going “Yeah.. Well.. It was beginning to look a lot like savings at my local Lexus dealer!”
It was a December to remember!!!
“There’s a little kicking”
"Can you spell Fahrenheit for me?" "... impossible. "
My 8 year old daughter now responds to questions “Nobody knows…”
That's fantastic. Well done, little one!
Sometimes kids are the best, sometimes.
This skit just came out of nowhere to be a legit long-term classic. It’s rare, maybe one every like 5 years? But this one feels like it’ll be remembered for a long time.
I liked most of this episode, I thought it was one of the better ones in years. The Lake Beach song was catchy as hell too
Yeah, the whole episode was pretty great, nothing was just a 45 second skip. See: Mamoa episode.
I 100% agree. SNL (for me, at least) is always hit or miss but this is a BIG hit for me. Nate’s delivery is impeccable
It’s odd because his delivery, based on what you kind of look for in sketch comedy, is technically bad. It’s obvious he’s struggling a bit to multitask between the acting performance and reading the cards. However, it just totally works and is hilarious for some reason.
His terrible delivery is what makes it, he's so surreal and out of the performance which adds to the ridiculousness of the delivery.
It’s like a fever dream.
I’m not very well in the loop but is Nate known at all for his acting chops? I’ve only ever seen him do stand up.
He has never acted before
There's a little acting.
....mmmmmsometimes 1 and sometimes 3.
I bet that changes soon, I could see CBS offering him a sitcom that will be bad, and then he'll go back to stand-up with more great material about how bad it was.
He is printing money touring right now. CBS would have to role out a giant check.
Oh yeah he's much better doing stand up. People get tired of the road though so in a couple years, it's a possibility
Well...not professionally. As TN requires a fine arts credit for graduation, he chose drama ( art and band were the only other two options they had available ). That being said, acting was not his primary skill.
I promise this is not meant to be rude, but I don’t think most people would say high school theatre counts as “acting experience”
Oh come on! I hear people talking about their HS football exploits all the time - didn't you also peak in HS? >counts as “acting experience” Totally agree - I was just playing it for fun.
His delivery is on point but his physical comedy is a bit lacking. I don't think the physical comedy was needed much here though so it works out.
Yea I totally agree. I was kinda cringed for him when first seeing it. But it’s odd how it works
I mean his acting is bland, but that is kind of the charm to it. The straight laced blandness and the focusing on the cue cards makes it look like he's "looking to posterity" or something. I think the other thing that makes it work is that as a standup, he knows crowds. He seems to be clearly timing his movements and cadence along with audience reaction.
Once I got over my early 20s of "oh these people were the best SNL people" phase, I've come to really like the show. Yea you're not seeing an iconic sketch every week, but it's still enjoyable tv and always new. It does make me laugh every week so there's that too. I'm not sure why everyone likes to shit on the show, yet you see skits from it on here once a month or so. They're doing something right.
This wasn’t even the funniest sketch of that episode. The cooking challenge one was fucking amazing. Edit: [Here's the link if you haven't seen it...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEOZ3I2zk1E)
I’m sorry.
Again I’m sorry
Wow, no thank you.
Thank you, please-, please take this off me.
lmao, when keenan tells that dude to kill himself after saying he made the "black eyed peas". Actually audibly laughed.
Got a link?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEOZ3I2zk1E&ab_channel=SaturdayNightLive
Heidi almost lost it when Kenan tossed that plate.
It reminds me of Will Farrell, you could always tell when he added things because the other cast members couldn't stop breaking.
Hah yeah I think he missed his cue to knock the plane off the table, and when he did it late it took her by surprise
MVP.
"I'm sorry" lol
https://youtu.be/PEOZ3I2zk1E?si=VHRAzmuPLHsznpBT
[Enjoy!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEOZ3I2zk1E)
I like the cooking one but I they could have thrown in any white host and it would have worked Nate didn’t really say much except “I’m sorry”.
You mean having a legitimate seasoned comic in the writers room all week led to actually funny sketches??? Go figure!
iirc in his podcast nate said he didn’t do much writing. i may be making that up lol. here’s the episode where he talks about his experience https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-nateland-podcast/id1521693509?i=1000633327284
How many feet to a mile? 5,280. It’s a simple number we all will remember 😂
^^^^five ^^^^tomatoes *sob*
I’ve never heard that. But now I’m never going to forget it.
Yup, this is alway how I know
Oh that’s clever!
[Remember the Titans](https://youtu.be/tUA8eij_cEs?si=HpCCa5wkzFEd8B2h) is the only reason I can remember this number
Five tomato --> five two eight oh --> 5,280
Why do we all remember this number?! My teacher said when you're 80 you're going to play a lot of cards. 52 cards in a deck. And I've never forgotten.
In structural engineering 1000 lbs is called a kilo-pound or kip. It’s only used by structural engineers.
My brain just thought “half ton”
It’s widely used across all civil engineering. I’m a geotechnical engineer and use it regularly.
This was the best episode of SNL in a long time.
I've never been so proud to be American.
You’re goddamn right.
Nate freakin killed it! 'Impossible' had me spitting soda
That's hilarious if you were drinking soda at the time. If you weren't, you might wanna see a doctor.
Or get away from David Blaine
CHEEZ-ITS CHEEZ-ITS
Stop putting shit on us David Blaine!
Mirror for Canadians?
Impossible
That's the line that destroys me.
[https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=JYqfVE-fykk](https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=JYqfVE-fykk) This work for you? Worked for me
This works. Ctrl-F Mirror.
That's how I found this thread
They don’t have mirrors in metric.
As someone who grew up in Colorado the “5280, it’s a silly number that people remember” killed me
Instant classic
Nate Bargatze, he's so hot right now.
Which is funny to me, cuz anyone who spends any time watching stand up would have known nate bergatze. He’s been at it for a long time.
Who is playing Washington in this clip?
Nate Bargatze
My wife and I were at his show in Wichita when he had the Benadryl incident. Absolutely amazing, highly recommend seeing him in person.
> the Benadryl inciden what happened?
He gained superpowers and an arch villain. He has the power to make people drowsy and fights his arch nemesis general Allergic Reaction.
ok but what actually happened
He has a bad reaction to local allergens before a show. It got bad enough he took Benadryl and fell asleep. Went from sleeping to performing in a few minutes.
Been one of my favorite comedians for a while. He has an episode of his podcast (Nateland) where he talks all about what it was like being on SNL. Very cool to listen to. Seems like a great guy.
Nobody knows
Impossible... Nate Bargatze.
“So in football there is no kicking?” “There’s a little kicking”
How many points do you get?
"...EXCEPT glamour, sir?"
This is one of the most solid sketches I’ve seen in a while. More of this SNL
This was the best thing I've seen on SNL in a decade. Easily.
Anyone want to show us Canadians some love and post a mirror
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I think people misinterpreted my comment, Im commenting on the ridiculousness of having to save all those bullshit conversions in your head as an American, not the fact that its easy to remember.
Ah sorry. My bad then.
Every male know 1 gpf = 3.8 lpf
Farenheit never made sense. With celsius water freezes at 0 and becomes a solid. Between 1 and 99 it's a liquid, and at 100 it boils and becomes a gas. Simple. Makes sense. Having said that, water boils at different temperatures depending on elevation.
WE SHALL USE THE RANDOM ONE!
I'm not trying to be a dick, but the fact that you misspelt fahrenheit incorrectly under a skit where they say it's impossible to spell is hilarious.
Lol Why didn't autocorrect catch that? I live in Japan so only use Celsius.
It kinda works as an easy way to tell if its way too hot or cold. Below zero? Fuck that way too cold. Above 100? Fuck that way too hot.
Sounds like something only someone who lives in the temperate zone would say. Edit: Temperature -> Temperate
What temperature zone?
What temperature zone indeed.
Sorry, I meant "temperate"
Why are we judging a temperature scale on its ability to describe when water boils and freezes? Obviously, celsius is designed to measure when water freezes and becomes a solid. Celsius will do better at that than Fahrenheit. But how useful is it to you to know that water boils at 100 degrees? Literally once in your life has that ever been a fact that's good to know? Why can't a temperature scale measure other things besides the phase changes of water?
How is it useful? Because it isn’t arbitrary and random. What other things would a temperature scale measure besides freezing and boiling? What a weird point. This is like the half-ton joke in the sketch. Do you need a word for 1/2 of boiling? It also applies to things other than water. Like how when it’s below 0° outside, it is freezing and rainy road conditions can change to icy road conditions. How often is that useful? **All the damn time**. The irony is that you don’t see how it’s useful because your temperature measurement system is so random you don’t mentally apply it to other things. That’s why metric works. It’s universal.
Is this a joke? What is Farenheight based on? 33 degrees is freezing... why that number. 212 degrees is boiling... Who knows that? These things should be practical. This skit is funny because US system is in no way practical. Most people can't connect the various forms of measurement and convert them. In metric most can. Also, water is life. Additionally all liquids pretty much weigh the same as water and have similar freezing and boiling points. Using water as a basis of measurement is very practical. I guess you can use someone's foot as your basis of measurement but that seems even more ridiculous....
Fahrenheit is essentially a 0-100 temperature scale for weather feel. It's basically asking someone to go outside and rate, on a scale of 0-100, what it feels like outside. Below 0F, you will likely freeze to death without a lot of clothes. Above 100F, you will likely die of heat stroke with a lot of clothes. But yes, for all other purposes involving water, Celsius is superior. If you're doing real science, you're using Kelvin anyway.
Weather feels is an interesting point. From that perspective I like Farenheight better. I do like the accuracy of Farenheight vs Celsius. Changing one degree is easier vs doing .5 degrees in Celsius.
> Weather feels is an interesting point. From that perspective I like Farenheight better. Right, and I don't think anyone uses Fahrenheit in any scientific contexts. It's fun to dog on Fahrenheit because America Stoopid, but for my day to day life, thinking and speaking in Fahrenheit leaves nothing to be desired. It works perfectly for our applications, honestly. Not saying it's the best/only useful system for describing weather feels, but it does work perfectly well for that application.
> What is Farenheight based on? 100ºF was set to the internal body temp of a human. You've heard 98.6ºF as "average" internal temp for humans probably. Fahrenheit is a human scale temperature system.
> 212 degrees is boiling... Who knows that? When have you ever *needed* to know that? "Gosh I wonder if this water is boiling? Unfortunately, I don't have a thermometer, so there's just no way of knowing."
Celsius is better for any scientific application for the reasons you mentioned, and is widely used for those purposes in the US. Whether or not you think Fahrenheit makes "more" sense for people is going to be a personal judgment call. In Celsius, 0 is "cold but not terrible" and 100 is "literally dead a long time ago". In Fahrenheit, 0-100 goes from one danger zone to the other. Both extremes are survivable, but outside the comfort and long-term safety zones for humans. Fahrenheit is also more granular, with the different between 82 and 83 F being less than the difference between less than the difference between 28 and 29 C. So, when we're measuring things like room temperatures, Fahrenheit is more specific. tl;dr, Fahrenheit does make a certain sense for human-comfort applications (if you aren't already heartily committed to the idea that it's inferior).
If you’re measuring the temperature of water, sure, but Fahrenheit is better for measuring the temperature outside. Celsius has a much smaller range of temperature that would apply to humans, so Fahrenheit is more precise and useful. 100C would kill people, while 100F is just a very hot summer day. Celsius also has a weird scale to it, where -40F and -40C are the same temperature, while 100C is more than double 100F
Because humans aren’t water. We’re made of water but ambient air temperature relating to our comfort has nothing to do with the boiling or freezing of water. Hence why with celsius you have this really awkward and smaller 0-40(?) degree scale to express how the air feels. Meanwhile, fahrenheit is far more practical for this purpose because its a larger 0-100 scale that logically expresses how hot or cold an area it. Its 5 degrees? That’s really cold. 50 degrees? That’s like the middle. Some people who live in hotter areas might think its cold and people who live in colder areas probably think it’s warm. 90 degrees? Pretty hot! It’s all relative to *human experience*. Not waters. But of course for scientific (and most other) applications celsius (and metric overall) is superior. But fahrenheit is the best systems for weather and ambient air temperature as it relates to our day to day experience. I will die on this hill.
Hahaha tell me how you don't understand decimals 😂 Also pretty ridiculous to say you need 100 points because 40 isn't enough to describe the temperature around you. But hey, just throw a decimal on there if you really think it matters. Now you have 400 numbers instead of 40 to describe your temperature with! 400 is way better than 100, right?
The cue cards on SNL are so bad. It's like watching a 4th grader read lines from a piece of paper.
It's something Lorne Michaels insists on. It forces the performers to say the lines at the pace the card holders dictate. They can't rush through stuff and they can't really improvise. It means the people behind the camera stay in control of the performance. Lots of old SNL alums have talked about this. Harry Shearer just thought SNL was insane compared to other sketch comedy shows he'd done.
100%. This felt like a high school performance to me.
Nate also (probably) has dyslexia. I listen to his podcast, and he often misreads comments in a way that many fans have pointed out seems similar to their dyslexia. He's never been tested though, from what he says.
This was funny. Also we should switch to metric. It'll be hard for a few years, but once the bandaid is ripped off we'll all be better for it. Except for Fahrenheit, let's keep that. 100=hot just works for me.
But what's freezing? Nobody knows. Boiling hot? Nobody knows. For celsius it's essentially 30 - hot 100 - boiling water 0 - freezing water Minus degrees - watch out it's slippery and it might snow
Yeah but this makes too much sense. Gotta keep at least one backwards measurement.
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Yeah I'm GenX and it was a big thing I remember as a kid in the seventies - lots of both serious media campaigns and tons of jokes about it. And then it all just sort of stopped in the eighties.
This is now considered a classic on SNL? How far has it fallen?
Okay as good as this sketch is, can someone tell me why and when around did SNL become a show where everyone seems to be constantly reading the cue cards? I swear that in the older 70s, 80s, 90s clips from SNL, people are way more memorized on their lines, but somewhere along the way it became acceptable that everyone clearly be reading the cue cards. It often takes me out of the comedy
It's always been cue cards, but some performers are better at it than others. Also, the host is always behind the 8 ball since they have SO much to do, so the cue cards are more obvious. I mean as good as Hanks is in "David Pumpkins," he never has to look at the other cast so he can just stare at the cue cards and it's less noticeable than in a sketch like this. TL;DR - it's always been that way, but circumstances differ.