Gerald Rudolph "Jerry" Ford, Jr. (born Leslie Lynch King, Jr.; July 14, 1913 – December 26, 2006) was the 38th President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977, and the 40th Vice President of the United States serving from 1973 to 1974. As the first person appointed to the vice-presidency under the terms of the 25th Amendment (after Spiro Agnew had resigned), when he became President upon Richard Nixon's resignation on August 9, 1974, he became the only President of the United States who was never elected President nor Vice-President by the Electoral College. Before ascending to the vice-presidency, Ford served nearly 25 years as the Representative from Michigan's 5th congressional district, eight of them as the Republican Minority Leader.
As President, Ford signed the Helsinki Accords, marking a move toward détente in the Cold War. With the conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam nine months into his presidency, U.S. involvement in Vietnam essentially ended. Domestically, Ford presided over arguably the weakest economy since the Great Depression, with growing inflation and a recession during his tenure. One of his more controversial acts was to grant a presidential pardon to President Richard Nixon for his role in the Watergate scandal. During Ford's incumbency, foreign policy was characterized in procedural terms by the increased role Congress began to play, and by the corresponding curb on the powers of the President. In 1976, Ford narrowly defeated Ronald Reagan for the Republican nomination, but lost the presidential election to Democrat Jimmy Carter.
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States (1977–1981) and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office. Before he became President, Carter served as a U.S. Naval officer, was a peanut farmer, served two terms as a Georgia State Senator and one as Governor of Georgia (1971–1975).
During Carter's term as President, two new cabinet-level departments were created: the Department of Energy and the Department of Education. He established a national energy policy that included conservation, price control, and new technology. In foreign affairs, Carter pursued the Camp David Accords, the Panama Canal Treaties, the second round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT II), and returned the Panama Canal Zone to Panama. Throughout his career, Carter strongly emphasized human rights. He took office during a period of international stagflation, which persisted throughout his term. The end of his presidential tenure was marked by the 1979–1981 Iran hostage crisis, the 1979 energy crisis, the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (at the end of 1979), 1980 Summer Olympics boycott by the United States of the Moscow Olympics and the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens.
Plot
Saturday Night Live celebrates the 2008 Presidential Election with a best of clip show featuring some of the best sketches about the election. Sketches include Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton talking about the presidential nomination Katie Couric interviewing Sarah Palin, Hillary Clintong talking about the nomination process, Bill Clinton giving a non-endorsement of Obama on Weekend Update, George W. Bush giving an endorsement to McCain and Palin, the 2008 vice presidential debate between Biden and Palin, the CNN Univision Democratic Debate 2008, the town hall debate between Obama and McCain, and a montage of best moments. The special also features political comedy from SNL's history including Carter giving drug advise, Ronal Reagan mastermind, Perot and Stockdale in a car, a Michael Dukakis advertisement with puppets, a debate between Bush and Dukakis, and a debate with Gerald Ford. John McCain and Sarah Palin also appear.
Keywords: sketch-comedy, u.s.-president
Gumby: I am Gumby, dammit!
Gumby: What's Christmas without the kids, huh? Kids, wanna hear Gumby tell you a Christmas story?::Kids: Yeah!::Gumby: Then gather around and keep your damn mouths shut. Here's a little story, it's called, "The Night After Christmas". "It was the day after Christmas, the world was peaceful and calm. Santa Claus had been delivering toys all night and his back hurt him so. He was very tired so he went to his kitchen and fixed himself a cup of Swiss Miss Hot Chocolate. Just then an elf named Fred came up and said, 'Excuse me, St. Nick, can I have a sip of your hot chocolate?' Santa went crazy. He grabbed the elf and tore his lungs out. The end." Merry Christmas, boys and girls. You like that?::Little Girl: You're mean, Mr. Gumby. I was on the Andy Williams Christmas show and he was nice.::Gumby: Oh, you want Andy Williams? Come on. Let's go. You wanna be on the Andy Williams Christmas Special? Andy Williams is a nice man? Well listen to me, Kid, Andy is in Los Angeles. That's about 800 miles. Start walking! [Slams the door] About 20 minutes in the freezing cold, she'll be begging to be on the Gumby special.
Frank Sinatra: I know your many wonderful, marvelous friends in the world of animation. Now they could not be here tonight, but I bring you the greetings in song. [Singing] Flintstones, meet the Flinstones/You're a hip, stone-age family. Hey, Barney, I'm talking Bedrock/When who knew from a Christmas tree/We'll have a good time/A Yabba Dooby-Doo time/We'll have a gay, it's a groovy time! Wilma!
Frank Sinatra: [Singing] Ha ha ha ha ha/Ha ha ha ha ha, it's the Woody Woodpecker song. I'm laughing/Ha ha ha ha ha/Pecker song. Alright, alright, cut the cartoon crap. It's Christmas.
Gumby: Merry Christmas everybody. And to my producer, my director, my manager and my lawyer, Happy Hanukkah, boys!
Santa: What's up with me? What's down with you and what's under with him? He wants a bike, she wants a dolly and I want you to get out of my face before I smack you with a stocking full of D-cell batteries.
Dad: You guys should have a better screening process for hiring Santas. You can start with the urine tests.::Santa: Sir, where am I supposed to get work? You gonna hire a man looking for work who just did 12 years for home invasion and murder?
Boy: Daddy, is Santa going to jail?::Dad: No, Son, he's not really Santa.::Boy: Is there no Santa?::Santa: See that, Sir? Now you got a kid who thinks there's no Santa. You happy?::Dad: I'd rather have him believe in no Santa, than in a Santa who does 12 years for home invasion and murder.::Santa: Sir, yes it's true, I've done time. But when you think about it, what does Santa do every year than committ a form of home invasion? A very loving and generous form of home invasion, yes, but still home invasion. And as for murder, well I can't think of any good reason to justify that.
Dad: My kid used to love Santa. He saw that Tim Allen movie 10 times.::Santa: Kid, I did time with Tim Allen. He's always been real people, bro, but he ain't no Santa Claus.
Plot
Topper Harley is found working as an odd-job-man in a monastery. The CIA wants him to lead a rescue mission into Iraq, to rescue the last rescue team, who went in to rescue the last rescue team who... who went in to rescue hostages left behind after Desert Storm. The President is Tug Benson, who also likes to be in on the action. Basically, it's a send-up of all the big shoot-em-up Rambo/Robocop/T2/Commando-type movies.
Keywords: accidental-death, ak-47, bare-chested-male, bow-and-arrow, character-shouts-"geronimo", clothes-ripping, comic-violence, coward, crushed-head, crushed-to-death
Just Deux it.
The mother of all sequels!
Grab your guns! It's Hot Shots Part Deux!
News Anchorman: In an emotional address at the state capitol Nebraska Governor, Paul Burmaster made a public apology for his state being so flat.
Topper Harley: Of all the missions in all the jungles you had to walk into this one.
Topper Harley: [after Ramada has been shot] For a moment there, I thought you were...::Ramada Rodham Hayman: Gabriella Sabatini? I get that all the time. It must be the nose.
Harbinger: Thank you, Topper. I can kill again! You've given me a reason to live.
Harbinger: War... it's fantastic!
Saddam Hussein: Now I will kill you until you die from it!
Ramada Rodham Hayman: I had to come. It was a sequel.
[Addressing a roomful of Japanese businessmen]::President Thomas 'Tug' Benson: It seems like only yesterday I was strafing so many of your homes. Here I am today, begging you not to make such good cars.
Topper Harley: These men have taken a supreme vow of celibacy, like their fathers, and their fathers before them...
President Thomas 'Tug' Benson: Cookie?::Col. Denton Walters: No, thank you, sir.::President Thomas 'Tug' Benson: Young lady?::Michelle Rodham Huddleston: No, thank you, sir.::President Thomas 'Tug' Benson: No, I was just offering him a young lady.