Talk:Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches (listed alphabetically)

message: For anyone who is interested, there is currently an AfD going on over Gay Hitler. Jacqui ★ 15:39, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: AfD on an article linked to on this page

message: I brought this up on the Gay Hitler page, but if anybody has any suggestions for categories that can include a number of these characters or sketches, please suggest them.  I was originally planning on writing a stub for each of them in due time, but I think it would be smarter to categorize, and have larger articles.  Possible categories:
*Characters Appearing on Weekend Update
:Emily Litella
:Roseanne Roseannadanna
:Point/Counterpoint
:Father Guido Sarducci
:Chico Esquela
:Big Vic Ricker
:Dr. Jack Badofsky
:Siobhan Cahill
:Patti Lynn Hunnsacker
:Dwight MacNamara
:Worthington Clotman
:Wayne Huevos
:Lew Goldman
:Buddy Young, Jr.
:Nathan Thurm
:Babette
:Mr. Subliminal
:A Grumpy Old Man
:Annoying Man
:Hollywood Minute
:Queen Shenequa
:Jan Brady
:Cajun Man
:Buster Jenkins
:Opera Man
:Hank Fielding
:Bennett Brauer
:The British Fops
:Joe Blow
:Gary MacDonald
:Lenny The Lion
:Cinder Calhoun
:Dominican Lou
:Gunner Olsen
:Jacob Silj
:Jasper Hahn
:Comedienne Jeannie Darcy
:Gay Hitler
:Drunk Girl
:Fericito
:Tim Calhoun
:Billy Smith
:Jorge Rodriguez
Tommy Flanagan, The Pathological Liar appeared on Update, but I wouldn't call him an Update character.  He made 18 appearances, so maybe he just warrants his own page.
Other suggestions?
: The Lawrence Welk sketches with Armisen, and Wiig playing "Doonees."  Recurring, and very popular. o0drogue0o 00:54, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Categories for Characters

message: Either the name of this page should be changed or some of these should be dropped. Some are single appearance sketches and (while often pretty good ones) don't realy deserve mention any more than any otehr joke/routine on a comedy show, and are not "recurring". I mean, that Barry Gibb talk show was pretty funny, but I believe it was only done once. -R. fiend 03:47, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Quite right.  Dan Ackroyd's Super Bass-o-Matic was a single sketch, not a recurring one, and John Belushi's H & L Brock recurred within a single episode but never made another appearance.  There are several others.  This page needs weeding out. 12.22.250.4 18:48, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recurring? 

message: I was wondering if anyone would object if I added a statement to limit the scope of this list (and related lists) to sketches that have appeared a minimum of three times. It's a little hard for me to explain my reasoning, and obviously a sketch that appears twice meets the dictionary definition of "recurring", but I think a sketch that appears a second time isn't quite yet in the spirit of what people think of as "recurring sketches". By the third time, there's an established pattern, it's part of the repertory, people are able to anticipate it ("I wonder if they'll do a Goth Talk tonight") and think of it as a running thing instead of just something that was brought back once.
(This suggestion should not be construed in any way as a response to the recent addition of the J-pop sketch or the creation of the 2011-2012 list page; I was thinking about this as I was working on the recent overhaul of the sketch pages. But if this change were made, the J-pop sketch wouldn't currently be eligible here. I'd probably redirect the 2011-2012 list to Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches (listed chronologically)‎ until J-pop or another sketch debuting this season did get a third appearance; I certainly expect that the 2011-2012 list would still be needed later.) Theoldsparkle (talk) 19:30, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Defining "recurring" as 3-time minimum 

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replies: text: The result was: page moved. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 18:46, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
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