SNL s1e5 11/14/1975 Predictive Programming
Only a couple of things for the show tonight, first, ABBA is on the show, which is the most corporately created band at the time. But so is Loudon Wainwright, who sings about anti-establishment mentality and is kind of a downer. You see, it’s two diametrically opposed bands singing off against each other on this episode of SNL. But that’s one of those hermetic principles put to practice, that: “Opposites are the same, one is only one extreme or the other but they are both two sides of the same coin,” essentially that’s what it’s saying. Anyway, this feels more like their still trying to recruit people to the cause/an audience, something they definitely succeed at eventually but for now, the Illuminati isn’t sure what types of people will be watching the show, but eventually, it draws in the 18–35 crowd, the new voters' age.
The next sketch I wanted to talk about was one where a director is being very abusive to the woman he’s directing and then the man punches him when the director moves onto him. This is a very narcissistic sketch in that the man doesn’t care at all about the woman and outside of the woman’s reactions, everyone acts like this is totally normal. Also, the director in the sketch is made up to look suspiciously like Stanley Kubrick, which is just odd to me but might be hinting at his horrible treatment of Shelly Duvall during the making of the Shining 5 years after this.
And finally, the speech with the woman fireman. Who is just there to explain how firefighters are the toughest and bravest people. She doesn’t even bring attention to the fact that she’s a woman. Something that the people in the last episode couldn’t help but shout, practically. It’s not funny and seems maybe like a recruitment ad for being a firefighter more than anything else. The oddest thing about it is that she’s a woman being that they had a message of how women should stay at home and look pretty in the last episode, but here a woman firefighter is talking about how tough she is and doesn’t even mention the fact that she’s a woman as well. It goes along with that opposite thinking and hypocritical messages that the Illuminati is practically known for.
