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Podcast: Wasn't That Special: 50 Years of SNL Podcast
Episode: Season Twenty (1994-95): The Cast Splinters, the Show Bottoms Out, and Sandler and Farley Get Thrown Into the Bear Pit
Description: Remember Saturday Night Live in the early 1990s? Chris Farley! Adam Sandler! David Spade! How could it miss?Well, Season 20 is how it could miss.Beset by competing personal agendas, terrible press, and a plagiarism scandal, the show was ripped apart in 1994 and 1995, with all the behind-the-scenes drama affecting what was on the screen. New cast member Janeane Garofalo, effectively hired as a replacement for the departing Julia Sweeney, immediately (and not without cause) began complaining to the media about treatment of women and gays, objecting to the crude humor she was seeing...