Saturday Night Live (TV Series) Heather Locklear/Janet Jackson (1994) User Reviews

Funny and sexy memorable "SNL" episode!

[blanbrn · 8/10 · 22 January 2022]

This "SNL" episode from May. 14, 1994 episode 20 and the season 19 finale was one of the better one's as it was funny and sexy and very memorable. It featured the beautiful and sexy TV screen queen Heather Locklear at a time when she was on top of the world with her Amanda fame from the great super classic "Melrose Place". Even on this episode a parody is done of Mike Myers and his Wayne character visiting the set of Melrose and dealing with Locklear's cold and wicked Amanda character. Phil Hartman is also funny in the episode, yet most memorable is a bar scene involving Kevin Nealon as Heather leads him on across the way, with a little bit of a fourplay like flirt! As she stares him down and guzzles a glass of beer down while making a pig nose and after spilling the alcohol down her black dress outfit, Heather removes her sexy black strapless bra and throws it at Nealon! Wow so sexy and memorable! That scene made it a watch for any Heather Locklear fan, overall one of the better "SNL" episodes done at a time when Heather's popularity was ruling at an all time high!

SNL '94: Heather Locklear/Janet Jackson

[BenTramerLives78 · 10/10 · 14 October 2020]

The season 19 finale of Saturday Night Live was hosted by Heather Locklear (Melrose Place) and the musical guest was Janet Jackson. The show begins with the Coffee Talk sketch featuring Mike Myers and host Locklear. It's a pretty decent opener to one of the greatest episodes of the season. Locklear's monologue is one of the best of the entire series. She plays up the bad girl persona of her character Amanda from Melrose Place, and we get a nice little cameo from Jay Leno who was the host of the Tonight Show at that time. After the monologue there is a parody of the Meow Mix commercials that aired throughout the 90s but instead of cat food, the commercial is for a hair ball remover. It's a pretty good fake commercial. The next sketch is a very memorable Wayne's World bit where Wayne dreams he is in Melrose Place. Chris Farley plays Jake, Julia Sweeney plays Jo, Adam Sandler plays Billy and Melanie Hutsell plays Allison. This is one of my favorite sketches. Up next is a sketch called Hot Button where Locklear plays a host of a political news program and this sketch also features Tim Meadows as Clarence Thomas and Phil Hartman as Ted Kennedy. Hot Button is a short but hilarious sketch in which Clarence Thomas and Ted Kennedy are supposed to be having a serious discussion about the Paula Jones sexual assault scandal but instead the men make sexual jokes towards Locklear. In my opinion the first Janet Jackson performance isn't all that good. She performs "Throb" with a bunch of dancers onstage. The Weekend Update with Kevin Nelson for this week's episode has a funny segment where Norm Macdonald plays a homophobe who keeps freaking out thinking Kevin Nealon keeps moving closer and closer to him as he is speaking. Adam Sandler also appears with guitar and sings a funny but odd joke song about being in love with his mother. After Update is another one of my all time favorite sketches with Locklear and Nealon in which Locklear flirts with Nealon at a bar. She blows him a kiss, so he blows one back and then she does a funny thing with her nose and makes a pig noise so he does the same thing back. She keeps doing funny things that he echoes back. He even kisses Norm Macdonald twice, which is especially funny after that Update segment. It's one of the sketches I remembered most from the 90s when I watched the episode as it aired on Comedy Central. Norm returns for the next sketch in which he plays Andy Rooney from 60s Minutes. It's ok but just filler really. Norm's Rooney is pretty good though. The following sketch, Time Savers, is definitely not filler. Locklear plays a infomercial host or HSN type of host and Mike Myers is trying to sell his pasta maker. Locklear's character begins making offensive remarks about the Holocaust, the Japanese and Puerto Ricans. What follows is a bunch of hilarious calls from viewers of the infomercial. The next sketch is an odd one and probably my least favorite of this episode. Rob Schneider plays the Orgasm guy and we see what is supposed to be a French show in which Orgasm guy and his French cousin, who also has the same problem, appear and both have orgasms. This sketch to me just wasn't funny, it was really weird. The best part was listening to Norm Macdonald speaking French, because Norm Macdonald doing anything is funny to me. Janet Jackson's second performance of the night is "Any Time, Any Place". It's a slow jam and she sits in a chair while singing it. It's not a bad song. After Janet we see Phil Hartman who introduces us to the "Saturday Night Live Family Singers" which includes Spade and Sandler's Gap girls, Myer's Coffee Talk character and Tim Meadows as Ike Turner.

In my opinion, this is one of the best episodes in SNL History. This was when Heather Locklear was on top of the world and she was a terrific host. The musical performances weren't all that great and I could've done without Orgasm Guy, but overall a great episode from a great era of SNL.