The trailers for Land of the Lost make me laugh, every time.

Admittedly, NOT a big Will Ferrell fan.

Okay, this isn't going to be as special as I thought.

Ghoulish, even.

Hard to believe that both Amy and Seth can blow the President at the same time.

HEY! Harry Carey!

I had low expectations for this episode, and it hasn't even met that.

Sigh.

Elisabeth Moss reminds me that Jon Hamm officially had the 2nd best episode of SNL this season.

Will Forte Absolute original. Really brings some great ideas to the show, but sadly, they keep milking the teat of his worst stuff (MacGruber is real, real haggard). But he's been responsible for my biggest SNL laughs during his time on the show. The rock band sketch with Scarlett Johansson a few years back, the guy that only sings about beer jars and Model T's. Great stuff. Need to use him more and allow him to develop some new material/characters.

Bill Hader A worthy heir to Hammond. Can do incredible impressions, as well as unique ones (Vincent Price). Just has one of those faces that make you ready to laugh almost immediately. Usually brings up the quality a notch on every sketch he's in.

Darrell Hammond Was great in the Farrell/Oteri era, but is past his time here. Needs to leave. Brought great things to the show, but has worn out his welcome.

Seth Myers His brother was infinitely funnier when he was with MadTV. I never liked Myers at all. In contrast to Hader, Myers has a face that makes me want to administer a James Caan,Godfather I, trash can involved, monster beating. But I will say this. He's done a decent job on Update and seems to be best suited there rather than as a sketch performer. I just think Update was far funnier with Amy there to help him along. But I'm OK with him continuing on Update.

Andy Samberg WIthout his "shorts," I'd be calling for this guy's immediate firing. But those shorts are usually fantastic, every time. He brings basically nothing to the show in the sketches, but his digital shorts have been one of the few crowning achievements of this era of the show, producing pretty much the only moments that are worth going back to.

Jason Sudeikis Good, solid sketch guy. Pretty funny, can handle a lot of different roles, reliable, great straight man. Probably will never be a "best of Jason Sudeikis" DVD in the future, but he's a solid presence on the show.

Kenan Thompson Absolutely ABYSMAL. Brings nothing but crickets to every sketch he's in. Mind boggling that this guy is still on the show. TIVO was invented for this pantload.

Kristen Wiig Obviously brings the most to the table of any of the cast members. Can basically do it all. One of the most original performers to hit the show in a long time. A bit overused, though. Makes a really interesting foil for Forte's stuff.

Abby Elliot The ONLY new member worth keeping. Adorable, for one thing. And, the first person I've ever seen impersonate Angelina. And she does it incredibly well. But, she needs to show that she can do more than that. I really don't know what her potential is, but I loved her dad, so hopefully that gene has carried over. Would love to see her role increase.

Bobby Moynihan Again, a "scratch your head" hiring. Guy brings NOTHING to the show whatsoever. Every character he's ever done has simply been grating, annoying, and bowel-movement inducing. I truly despise this guy on the show. My absolute least favorite SNL cast member. Belongs on the "Charlie Rocket" era of the show. Would've been terrible there, too.

Michaela Watkins Like Moynihan, horrible. Neither of these two should be back. Why bother? They're barely used as it is. She has one character, the "Bitch, please" abomination. The lack of funny in that character could power a small moon ... or a space station. Again, she reminds me of those horrible, horrible C-grade members of the late 80s era casts.

Casey Wilson Tries way too hard, has never produced anything more than a muffled chuckle in her two years on the show, and maybe only one of those. She has nothing. No characters, nothing interesting to add ... buh-bye.

And that's it. A decent foundation to build on, but need to cut away a lot of the new and spoiled meat, realize where their strengths lie and write a sketch where Abby Elliot shows her ass. Only then can the show return to the glory days of yesteryore.

But, point taken.

Now, I'll go wipe the egg off my face. You go wipe off the man-juice.

Michaela Watkins has already done a decent handful of impressions and all of them were pretty solid. I think there's a place for her here. She's definitely not on the bottom tier with Moynihan, Kenan, and Carey Wilson.

And I think WU has been better without Poehler. I feel like the audience really "liked" Amy, but the audience laughter to her Update jokes did not corroborate with this. My impression has been that Amy actually killed momentum that Seth had with his jokes and once she was gone, Seth could just go and go and go.

I think Seth is suited only for weekend update and his Anderson Cooper impression, but I think he's been underrated as the Head Writer on SNL. He's largely responsible for the quality of SNL coming way back up after its transitional lull from Tina Fey to him.

I'm done with bitch please though. SNL needs to lose the obsession with repetitive catch phrases. It's cheap and tired.

Best hidden throwback joke ever...

KEEP: Armisen, Forte, Hader, Myers, Wiig, and Elliot.

DUMP: Hammond (been there forever), Sudeikis (couldn't even do a decent Biden), Thompson (SEEMS like he's been there forever), Moynihan (who?) and Wilson (again, who?)

ON PROBATION: Samberg (redeemed by "Mother Lover") and Watkins (if only because "Bitch Pleeze" reminds me of every whiner on this site).

Also, QUIT ADDING EXTRANEOUS CAST MEMBERS.

As for Forte's "Beer jar" sketches, yeah, I find them hilarious. They are so insane that it boggles my mind that someone would write that AND get others to go along with the ideas. I mean, come on...a balding, mulleted Forte singing about the Easter Bunny being massacred with the lines, "the hopper has become the hopped upon!" and then literally screaming until it looks like he's going to pass out? That is comedy gold to me.

But I prefer the charcters that don't use vocal tricks, but rely on character and the dialogue itself. My favorites are the baloon lady and her Nancy Palosi.