#STAR WARS BEACH MOVIE#

The song’s opening lines, “ Star Wars / Nothing but Star Wars / Gimme those Star Wars / Don’t let them end!” remain the most iconic part of sketch, but Murray’s scream at seeing pianist Paul Shaffer dressed in a Darth Vader mask and fist-pump to celebrate his seventh winter at the Powder Room are equally terrific. Toward the end of lounge singer Nick Winters’s second sketch, Bill Murray’s beloved crooner character launches into his version of John Williams’s Star Wars theme.

“Nick Winters at the Powder Room,” January 28, 1978 Working with Joel Navaroli of, we collected all 19 sketches that represent the shared history of Star Wars and Saturday Night Live. In recent seasons, the tradition has continued with SNL getting the stars of The Force Awakens and Solo: A Star Wars Story to parody themselves.

#STAR WARS BEACH MOVIE#

Since SNL first lampooned the movie with Bill Murray’s lounge singer in season three, the show and films have aged like siblings, celebrating anniversaries and reunions, enduring the highs of acclaim and forgettable lows, and all the while remaining cultural institutions for generations of fans. The original Star Wars hit theaters just a few days after Saturday Night Live wrapped its second season in 1977, and it became the highest-grossing film of all time the following year. We have updated it to include SNL’s subsequent Star Wars sketches. Update May 8, 2018: This post was originally published in December 2015, as part of Vulture’s Star Wars Countdown. Photo: Al Levine/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images Bill Murray as Frankie Avalon, Tom Davis as surfer, Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia, Laraine Newman as Sandie during “Beach Blanket Bimbo from Outer Space.”

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