Saturday Night Live/Jennifer Aniston/Sting

Jennifer Aniston/Sting
Season 25, Episode 6
Airdate	November 20, 1999
Production Number	1123
Written by	Tina Fey (head writer) Kevin Brennan Robert Carlock Jerry Collins Steven Cragg Tony Daro Ali Farahnakian Tina Fey Hugh Fink Richard Francese Tim Herlihy Steve Higgins Adam McKay Dennis McNicholas Lorne Michaels Paula Pell J.J. Philbin Matt Piedmont Michael Schur T. Sean Shannon Andrew Steele Scott Wainio Cindy Caponera (additional sketch)
Directed by	Beth McCarthy Miller
← 25x05 Garth Brooks/Chris Gaines	25x07 → Christina Ricci/Beck
Saturday Night Live — Season Twenty-Five

Jennifer Aniston/Sting is the sixth episode of the twenty-fifth season of Saturday Night Live and the four hundred and seventy-third episode overall.

Guest Stars: Jennifer Aniston (Host), Sting (Musical Guest)

Special Guests: John Carpenter (Himself)

Episode Breakdown

• Donald Trump for President: From his casino in Las Vegas, Donald Trump announces his candidacy for president to fulfill the fourth of his five junior high school "Things I Need to Do": 1.) "Make a million bucks"; 2.) "Buy a kick-ass private jet"; 3.) "Sleep with foxy blondes"; 4.) "Become president" and 5.) "Build world's tallest building on Mars." Trump introduces his running mate, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? winner John Carpenter (Carpenter), who, just as he did when he won his million, calls his dad to say he doesn't need his help to start the show.
• Jennifer Aniston's Monologue: Aniston starts to take questions, all of which are about Friends and her boyfriend Brad Pitt, who is in London to promote Fight Club. Aniston gets fed up with the creepy questions and leaves the stage, where she starts a Fight Club fight with Shannon. Oteri, Gasteyer and Dratch join the Fight Club.
• Pretty Living - The Woundology Institute for Self Esteem: Gayle Gleason's guest, "joyologist" Helen Madden, has become happier since attending the Woundology Institute for Self Esteem. Helen introduces the married couple (Aniston & Sting) who founded the institute, but the wife is visibly upset by her fake English husband's friendliness with female clients such as Helen.
• Nick Burns, Your Company's Computer Guy - Screensaver: The first employee (Kattan) Nick Burns helps has a problem with an e-mail attachment, so Nick belittles him but fixes it. The second (Sanz) has printing problems, but Nick also fixes it quickly while insulting his weight and intelligence. The third (Aniston) has a problem which Nick expects to be easy, but he is almost stumped. Then he realizes the problem is with her screensaver and heaps abuse on her.
• Wayne Porter: Wayne Porter (Parnell) runs for re-election as leader of the deserted tropical island where he and other survivors crashed eight years ago. Porter reminds voters how he "killed the fat guy."
• Privolin for Genital Herpes: A business woman (Aniston) pisses off her coworkers (Ferrell, Meadows, Gasteyer & Dratch) when she repeatedly interrupts their business meeting to do an ad for a herpes medication.
• Mr. Peepers - Sex and the City: In a Sex and the City parody, Carrie (Aniston) leaves her costars (Gasteyer, Oteri & Shannon) when she meets her new lover, Mr. Peepers, at a nightclub.
• Weekend Update
  • Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush tries to discuss his autobiography, but he is coked out of his mind.
  • Quinn and Morgan discuss "Jesse Jackson's protest of the expulsion of seven Black students from a Decatur, IL high school," but subtitles reveal what each commentator really thinks.
• Brand New Day: Sting song.
• Street Urchins: At Christmas, a wealthy man (Parnell) purchases two authentic 19th century British street urchins (Aniston & Dratch) as decorations for his lawn to impress his guests (Kattan, Gasteyer & Hammond). The charmed guests invite the urchins inside, but they are disgusted when the urchins sing about the diseases they have and sing about stabbing strangers and beheading whores.
• Kim Plunkett: In response to Porter's earlier ad, his opponent Kim Plunkett (Ferrell), who has been driven to madness by drinking seawater, runs an ad in which he promises to kill and eat everyone on the island.
• Pokémon: Two suburban parents (Aniston & Hammond) are angry when they learn their son has traded his best Pokémon card for useless crap, but they are enraged when they learn he's not a Pokémon fan.
• Desert Rose: Sting song.
• Roberta: A family (Aniston, Gasteyer & Hammond) are made uncomfortable during their Thanksgiving dinner when the father (Parnell) is bullied into inviting a socially inept and annoying coworker (Oteri) to spend the holiday with them.

Notes

"Live from New York, It's Saturday Night!"

• John Carpenter as himself.

Music

• Brand New Day, performed by Sting: The final, tenth, title track off Sting's album Brand New Day, released on September 28, 1999.

• Mambo No. 5, performed by Lou Bega: Background music in the Mr. Peepers sketch, as Carrie takes Mr. Peepers back to her apartment. Released as the first track of Bega's album A Little Bit of Mambo in August 1999, it became the ubiquitous #1 single on the Billboard charts for six weeks, but it would prove to be the only hit off the album and (as of November 2006) for Bega.

• Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing, performed by Chris Isaak: Background music in the Mr. Peepers sketch, as Carrie and Mr. Peepers make out in front of a mirror. Although first released in 1995 on the album Forever Blue, it was only a moderate hit until the summer of 1999, when it featured prominently in the soundtrack of Stanley Kubrick's final film, Eyes Wide Shut, which this sketch parodies.

• Desert Rose, performed by Sting: The second track and first to be released as a single from Brand New Day.

Trivia

The Show

• Five of Five: With this episode, Jennifer Aniston became the fifth and last of the six cast members of Friends to host SNL during the hit sitcom's run. She followed Courteney Cox, David Schwimmer, Lisa Kudrow and Matthew Perry. Only Matt LeBlanc never hosted the show during the run of Friends (and in fact, as of November 2006, he has never hosted the show, although he had his own Friends spinoff, Joey, on NBC).

Allusions and References

• Eyes Wide Shut: During the Mr. Peepers sketch, when Carrie from Sex and the City has Mr. Peepers at her apartment, there is a scene in which Mr. Peepers stares into the mirror, and Carrie walks up behind him and starts making out with him. The scene is shot with a yellow filter as Chris Isaak's Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing plays in the background. This is a parody-within-a-parody of the most famous scene from the 1999 film, directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring Tom Cruise and then-wife Nicole Kidman. The famous shot of Cruise walking up behind a naked Kidman and making out with her, in a yellow filter as the song played, was used in most of the marketing for the film.