This Is The Most Quotable Line From 'SNL' So Far This Season, According To Reddit
We’re about a third of the way into Season 51 of Saturday Night Live. In that time, we’ve already gotten some impressive cold opens, a few memorable sketches, and even a controversial host monologue. And while there’s still plenty of the season left, enough time has passed to develop rankings of our favorite sketches and most unheralded performers.
We at Cracked aren’t the only nerds preoccupied with ranking and categorizing SNL performances. On the r/LiveFromNewYork subreddit, one user polled the group some of the most quotable lines from Season 51 so far.
The original poster gave their own personal ranking, which topped out with “Great, then I just farted.”
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That number one line is from the now-infamous Ashley Padilla fart joke sketch. Immediately after the sketch aired, there was criticism about the sheer volume of fart punchlines in the sketch. But Padilla stood firm and said that those fart jokes have a deeper meaning. Shortly after it aired she defended her fart-joke humor in an interview with Evan Ross Katz.
“We live in a culture that constantly needs and wants to be perceived as ‘put together,’” Padilla said. “We post our best shots on Instagram. We don’t use the guy we’re dating’s bathroom before we’ve been dating for quite some time, as if we are somehow tricking him into thinking we’ve never shit in our lives.”
“We are constantly in control of our image,” Padilla continued. “Constantly in control of how others look at us. So how funny is it, that you can do your makeup, curl your hair, be the hottest bitch in the fucking world and then a horn sound, with the stench of feces, can come out of your butt within the matter of one second and ruin the entire thing. That is what I find funny.”
Other contenders for the best line, according to the Reddit thread, mostly sounded for the “Bob Army” sketch starring Glenn Powell from Episode 6. One thing all lines mentioned had in common? None of them occurred at dinner tables. Hopefully, that's the feedback SNL takes to heart most.