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Live, from New York, It's Saturday night!!!

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Thanks.  It's really great to be here in New York, the greatest city in the world.  What a great week it's been.  The cast are great and a little bit crazy.... Ok, I'm actually writing this on a Sunday afternoon in a coffee shop in Northampton, MA.  But this blog will explore the recurring characters of SNL and sort out if any of them can fit in the TVCU or are they all stuck in Skitlandia. I'm going to abandon my normal timeline for this one, and cover each recurring character one at a time. So we have a great blog for you.  The  The Hong Kong Cavaliers are here.  So stick around.  We'll be right back. 1975–1976 SNL WEEKEND UPDATE--SNL Weekend Update is in.   Here is a list of all the Weekeend Update recurring characters.     Of those listed, note that Father Guido Sarducci is in the TVCU through appearances on other shows and movies.  One example is Casper, which also featured Ray Stanz of the Ghost...

YOU CAN DO IT!!! THE ADAM SANDLER UNIVERSE

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This blog will be different than any I've done before.  I'm going to focus on one actor's works, and create timelines for each reality they occur in.  Let's see how it works out.  Most of Sandler's works occur in one main universe, which isn't the TVCU.  I dub it the Adam Sandler Universe aka the You Can Do It Universe.  It's a universe where most of his works are connected due to cameos of secondary characters from his other films. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ADAM SANDLER UNIVERSE: 1996--HAPPY GILMORE--This is the first of the films that take place in the Adam Sandler Universe, though it actually doesn't come in until later.  This is the first of Adam Sandler's films that would introduce a recurring character that would appear in later films.  Adam Sandler, though just for fun, has actually established his own shared universe based on recurring characters.  In...