Saturday Night Live (TV Series)

Sigourney Weaver/Buster Poindexter (1986)

Sigourney Weaver: Self - Host, Various, Zuul, Ripley

Quotes 

• Ripley : ["Aliens" sketch, the humans are trapped]  OK. Whatever it is, it's coming down that elevator. So, when the doors open; open fire and don't stop until it's dead! Here it comes!

  [elevator doors open, soldiers start shooting] 

  Marine : Oh, my God!

  [ET falls out of the elevator] 

  Marine : Man, we're really screwed now! We killed ET, man! What are we going to do!

  Ripley : OK, OK. We got to think of a story. Uh, hand me that gun. OK. ET came in, he was drunk and waving this pistol -

  [puts gun in ET's hand] 

  Ripley : - and then he started shooting and we had to kill him in self defense.

• Tommy Flanagan : [explaining a picture of himself in the paper]  You see... the fact is that, uh... is eh... that's my double! Yeah! I'm a... I'm a spy! Yeah, in fact, I'm a double agent! Yeah, that's it! Why, I'm so important, they have two of me! Yeah! And, eh, and they sent him to Atlantic City to uh.. to see if there was any gambling going on. Yeah. And they still don't know.

  Laura : But it, it looks just like you!

  Tommy Flanagan : Oh, no, no.. that's black and white! I'm in color!

  Margaret : Oh! Well, that explains everything!