Is He Saying "Food Fight In The Parking Lot"?

I laughed so hard watching this skit on Saturday Night Live last night, partially because I could really relate to loving early 1980's hardcore punk and then realizing that makes me as old as the people on stage performing it. Like the bald old grey-haired man in the Mick Fleetwood ponytail and tie-dyed shirt still holding up the "peace" fingers and grooving to the Grateful Dead, my musical generation has become that very thing. Not to mention the fact that both drummer Dave Grohl and Fred Armisen were in 80's punk bands themselves (Fred was the drummer in Trenchmouth, who I think might have stayed over my house once while on tour, but I can't remember).



I was also curious if the way this skit ended was also a tribute to the time when Fear played on Saturday Night Live back in 1981 and the band was abruptly cut off because the producers were panicking that a riot was breaking out in the audience, having never seen people moshing before (John Belushi was a big fan of Fear and pulled some strings to get them booked). Hulu sort of cuts the ending to the above clip off a little at the end, but it fades out similarly, while Armisen is still talking, kind of like Lee Ving and the now-infamous Fear incident.


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For those whippersnappers who don't remember the Fear incident, here's the whole thing as it aired, and the sudden cut to commercial.

By the way, the kid who grabs the microphone and yells "NEW YORK SUCKS!" was Ian Mackaye of Minor Threat and then later Embrace and Fugazi.

A backstage report on the Fear incident on SNL.