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Season 1

  • S01E01 Lettuce

    • December 3, 2005
    • NBC

    In what is revealed to be a commercial for the vegetable, two friends (Will Forte, Andy Samberg) discuss the death of an unnamed friend while taking large bites out of heads of lettuce. Written and filmed in November 2005 and originally cut from dress rehearsal of the Eva Longoria episode.

  • S01E02 Lazy Sunday

    • December 17, 2005
    • NBC

    Chris Parnell and Samberg rhyme about The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, cupcakes, Mr. Pibb, Red Vines, Matthew Perry, and a host of other products. The short became a viral video online. Music produced by Jorma Taccone.

  • S01E03 Young Chuck Norris

    • January 21, 2006
    • NBC

    A Chuck Norris fan (Jason Sudeikis) sings a ballad for him with an accompanying music video. In this video, Chuck Norris is played by Andy Samberg. Also there are cameos of Jorma Taccone as a man being robbed and then punched by Chuck Norris, Fred Armisen as a man robbing a woman and Amy Poehler as the woman being robbed.

  • S01E04 The Tangent

    • February 4, 2006
    • NBC

    Joel (Fred Armisen) rambles endlessly about a restaurant he visited to his friend Liz (Kristen Wiig) at first, and becomes so involved in the story, he fails to notice that he is discovered by talent scouts (Bill Hader, Parnell), stars in a movie with Scarlett Johansson, becomes a national phenomenon and then loses it all when his movie flops at the box office. Brian Williams, MTV correspondent Gideon Yago, and Conan O'Brien also make cameos.

  • S01E05 Close Talkers

    • February 4, 2006
    • NBC

    Two old friends from school (Forte, Steve Martin) meet up after years apart, greeting each other loudly while standing with their faces only an inch apart.

  • S01E06 Natalie's Rap

    • March 4, 2006
    • NBC

    Natalie Portman is interviewed about her life and responds with a rap proving she is a "badass bitch", poking fun at her clean and intellectual image. She slaps Seth Meyers and throws a chair at Parnell. Samberg appears dressed as Flavor Flav. Music produced by Jorma Taccone and Asa Taccone, and mixed by Ben Lovett.

  • S01E07 Doppleganger

    • March 11, 2006
    • NBC

    Meyers, Forte, and Samberg are on a lunch break and start to notice that each one has a doppelgänger nearby. After Meyers and Forte say that a large bum (Horatio Sanz) is Samberg's doppelgänger, they kill the real Samberg in an evil twin scenario.

  • S01E08 Laser Cats!

    • April 15, 2006
    • NBC

    In a frame story, Hader and Samberg pitch their new ultra low-budget Digital Short, Laser Cats! to SNL executive producer Lorne Michaels. In the Laser Cats! short itself (a short within a short), Hader and Samberg play the heroes Nitro and Admiral Spaceship in a post-nuclear war world in which cats can shoot lasers from their mouths and are used as weapons. They are saving the princess (Lindsay Lohan) from the evil Robotron (Will Forte). Rachel Dratch makes an appearance, disguising herself as the princess/Lohan. Jorma Taccone appears in the opening credits for Laser Cats! Fred Armisen also makes a cameo. Laser Cats! is shot in the SNL offices (this is done with intended obviousity, as the short is supposed to be "low-budget").

  • S01E09 My Testicles

    • May 6, 2006
    • NBC

    Friends in the early 1990s (Kenan Thompson, Forte, and Parnell) discuss the music video by pop stars Ariel (Andy Samberg) and Efrim (Tom Hanks), where we see the lyrics consist of constantly begging for their testicles not to be harmed, in a parody of Right Said Fred's "I'm Too Sexy" and C+C Music Factory's "Gonna Make You Sweat". Also, Fred Armisen plays the guitar player, Jorma Taccone appears as a backup dancer, and Amy Poehler and Maya Rudolph are women in the video.

  • S01E10 Peyote

    • May 13, 2006
    • NBC

    An apparent suicide jumper (Samberg) is negotiated with by a man on a bullhorn (Forte). After a bit of dialogue, it is revealed that the "jumper" is safely on the ground and the man with the bullhorn is mere inches away from him. This is revealed to be a commercial for peyote.

  • S01E11 Andy Walking

    • May 20, 2006
    • NBC

    Samberg asks factual questions of passers-by outside NBC Studios in the style of the Jay Leno bit Jaywalking, instead laughing off correct answers as false. John Lutz (a then writer for SNL) makes a cameo as a man walking that Andy ridicules.

  • SPECIAL 0x1 Apocalypto - An SNL Movie Trailer Re-Cut

    • December 9, 2006

    The trailer for Mel Gibson's film Apocalypto is newly subtitled, implying that the Jews destroyed the Maya civilization, in reference to Gibson's anti-semitic remarks in 2006.

  • SPECIAL 0x2 Sloths!

    • February 10, 2007

    A Staten Island Zoo worker (Wiig) introduces Staten Island Tech High School student's crude and vile documentary on sloths before previewing it herself.

Season 2

  • S02E01 Cubicle Fight

    • September 30, 2006
    • NBC

    New office employee Gary (Hader) gets into a fight to the death with incumbent cubicle holder Steve (Dane Cook). Sudeikis appears as the boss and Samberg, Forte, Armisen, Thompson, Poehler and Wiig are other employees cheering on the fight.

  • S02E02 Harpoon Man

    • October 21, 2006
    • NBC

    Harpoon Man (John C. Reilly), a suave action hero and parody of Shaft, tracks down an insulting announcer dressed as a whale (Samberg), who is narrating his life in a theme song. There are appearances by Jorma Taccone, who plays a man getting robbed, and Bill Hader, who plays the man robbing Taccone.

  • S02E03 Pep Talk

    • December 9, 2006
    • NBC

    A fast food boss (Armisen) gives his employees (Forte, Matthew Fox, Poehler, Samberg, Thompson) a pep talk and has trouble controlling his anger until one of his employees (Forte) comes in late. It originally was scheduled to air on the episode hosted by Matthew Fox (which explains his appearance), but ended up airing on the following episode hosted by Annette Bening.

  • S02E04 Dick in a Box

    • December 16, 2006
    • NBC

    A Christmas song about two men (Justin Timberlake and Samberg) giving their lovers (Kristen Wiig and Maya Rudolph) a box with their genitalia inside as presents, in a style reminiscent of early 1990s R&B sex ballads made popular by acts such as Bell Biv Devoe, Color Me Badd, and R. Kelly. Won a 2007 Creative Arts Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Music and Lyrics. Music created in part by Asa Taccone, Jorma Taccone and Katreese Barnes. It was the first official single from The Lonely Island's debut album, Incredibad.

  • S02E05 Laser Cats! 2

    • January 13, 2007
    • NBC

    In the same frame-story format, Hader and Samberg apologize to Lorne Michaels for the original Laser Cats! claiming to understand where they went wrong: not enough politics. They then introduce Laser Cats! 2, based on the same premise, now set in the Iraq War which has gone nuclear and caused the feline mutations. This time, Dr. Scientist (Jake Gyllenhaal) has stolen the cure that turns Laser Cats back into regular cats. Jorma Taccone appears in the opening credits for Laser Cats! 2 (Which is the same as Laser Cats!), and Fred Armisen and Amy Poehler are the scientists who created the cure.

  • S02E06 Nurse Nancy

    • January 20, 2007
    • NBC

    Scott Garbaciak (Samberg) is the multi-role star in a commercial for the fictional film Nurse Nancy, in parody of Eddie Murphy films such as Norbit and The Nutty Professor.

  • S02E07 Body Fuzion

    • February 3, 2007
    • NBC

    Drew Barrymore is Desiree, host of a 1986 sexually suggestive, low-impact, high-result exercise video Body Fuzion, with "her friends" Donna, Michelle, and Donna M. (Rudolph, Wiig, and Poehler respectively).

  • S02E08 Andy Popping Into Frame

    • February 10, 2007
    • NBC

    Samberg quietly pops into view as the camera routinely cuts to different locations and landmarks. Forte begins doing the same, before being forced out by Samberg at gunpoint. Samberg wears his "Andy" shirt from the failed sketch show Awesometown created by The Lonely Island.

  • S02E09 Business Meeting

    • February 24, 2007
    • NBC

    A corporate executive (Rainn Wilson) leads a meeting to take ideas on how to save his failing company, and hears suggestions from an increasingly bizarre set of employees, including a gigantic turkey sub and Arcade Fire. Upon reaching the end of the meeting, Wilson receives a phone call, seemingly informing him that the office building is about to be blown up. Then, the office building explodes, killing all of them inside. Amy Poehler, Bill Hader, Jason Sudeikis, Kristen Wiig, Will Forte, Darrell Hammond, Fred Armisen, Maya Rudolph and Andy Samberg all play employees of Wilson's, and Kenan Thompson plays a water guy.

  • S02E10 United Way

    • March 24, 2007
    • NBC

    Super Bowl MVP Peyton Manning takes time out to be a mentor to kids, but ends up being physically, mentally, and verbally abusive to them (a parody of his public service announcements for the United Way during 2001–05).

  • S02E11 Dear Sister

    • April 14, 2007
    • NBC

    In a spoof of The O.C. episode "The Dearly Beloved", a man (Hader) writes a letter to his sister, he is shot by his friend (Samberg), leading to a series of overly dramatic, slow-motion shootings set to "Hide and Seek" by Imogen Heap, including their roommate (Shia LaBeouf), the sister (Wiig), and two police officers (Sudeikis, Armisen).

  • S02E12 Roy Rules!

    • April 21, 2007
    • NBC

    Samberg performs a rhyme about how much he likes his brother in-law named Roy (SNL writer Bryan Tucker).

  • S02E13 Talking Dog

    • May 19, 2007
    • NBC

    While meeting the owner of an apartment he's about to rent (Zach Braff), a man (Samberg) is shocked to find out that the owner's dog can not only talk (with the voice of SNL writer Jorma Taccone), but has fallen in love with him. Later he finds out that the dog was using him to get a plate of ham. The owner implies that this happens regularly, but the dog convinces the man that it's still something more, and the man ends up french kissing the dog.

  • SPECIAL 0x3 Virgania Horsen's Hot Air Balloon Rides

    • February 23, 2008

    A fake commercial about a woman (Kristen Wiig) offering free hot air balloon rides to combat the long lines and intrusive searches at airports.

Season 3

  • S03E01 Iran So Far

    • September 29, 2007
    • NBC

    Samberg sings a love song for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (Armisen), along with Adam Levine from Maroon 5, sampling "Avril 14th" by Aphex Twin. Jake Gyllenhaal has a cameo.

  • S03E02 People Getting Punched Just Before Eating

    • October 13, 2007
    • NBC

    Samberg punches people who are about to eat, then gleefully dances afterwards; victims include Forte, Armisen, Sudeikis, Taccone, host Jon Bon Jovi, and Taylor Hawkins and Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters. The punched victims then become zombies and do the Zombie Dance. After the dance and just underneath Samberg's head has the quote "Believe in Your Dreams". The short shares the style of Andy Popping Into Frame.

  • S03E03 Brian Diaries

    • November 3, 2007
    • NBC

    Brian Williams describes a day in his life, including watching footage of himself, meditating while the disembodied head of Bono praises him, and dropping pennies on Al Roker and Matt Lauer from the NBC building.

  • S03E04 Grandkids in the Movies

    • February 23, 2008
    • NBC

    An old man presents films which have his grandsons (Hader and Samberg) digitally inserted in order to help old people be more comfortable with today's films. Features clips from the films No Country for Old Men, Michael Clayton, Juno, Transformers (referred to as "The Transforming Robots"), and There Will Be Blood.

  • S03E05 The Mirror

    • March 1, 2008
    • NBC

    A girl (Ellen Page) wakes up from a nightmare and begins seeing a zombie (Samberg) in her bathroom mirror, which turns out to be the nightmare of the zombie, a wolf man (Forte), and a woman named Debbie (Wiig) who is married to Dracula (Sudeikis). After several nightmares, the camera returns to Page waking up from a nightmare, and as the short ends, the zombie pops up at her bedside.

  • S03E06 Hero Song

    • March 8, 2008
    • NBC

    An apparently wealthy man (Samberg) sings about crime infecting the city, then turns into a superhero (à la Batman) and tries to save a woman (Amy Adams) from being mugged, only to have the mugger (Sudeikis) beat the superhero to death.

  • S03E07 Andy's Dad

    • March 15, 2008
    • NBC

    Jonah Hill confesses to Samberg about how he has fallen in love with his father, Ben Samberg (played by longtime SNL writer Jim Downey). Hader also confesses the same thing.

  • S03E08 Laser Cats! 3D

    • April 5, 2008
    • NBC

    Samberg and Hader interrupt Lorne Michaels' dinner with Christopher Dodd (appearing as himself) to attempt to pitch Laser Cats! again, this time with a scene enhanced by 3D glasses. The plot revolves around a ban on all laser cats and a battle against the corrupt Mayor Top-Hat (Thompson). Christopher Walken appears as a general.

  • S03E09 Daiquiri Girl

    • April 12, 2008
    • NBC

    Samberg appears in an amateur, early-90s music video about a girl who loves to drink daiquiris. Meanwhile, text scrolls up the screen explaining that the producers apologize for airing the video because a certain musical guest (Gnarls Barkley) failed to appear for the shooting of a digital short, despite an agreement to do otherwise.

  • S03E10 The Best Look in the World

    • May 10, 2008
    • NBC

    Samberg and host Shia LaBeouf sing a high-energy country song for an infomercial about Samberg's new dress shirt, black socks, no pants look (the best look in the world). Armisen, Forte, Thompson, Sudeikis, and Hader all appear as people following the trend (a dad, a husband, two cops, and an illiterate genie).

  • S03E11 Japanese Office

    • May 17, 2008
    • NBC

    Ricky Gervais presents a clip from a Japanese show that was his inspiration for The Office, featuring Japanese versions of Michael (Steve Carell), Dwight (Hader), Jim (Sudeikis), Pam (Wiig), and Stanley (Thompson). Also, Darrell Hammond plays Regis Philbin in a tampon commercial. At the end of the episode, Gervais comments "It's funny 'cause it's racist".

  • SPECIAL 0x4 Giraffes!

    • November 1, 2008

    A sequel to the "Sloths" video, only with Jason Sudeikis as the head of the Staten Island Zoo instead of Kristen Wiig. The same students create a video that proclaims giraffes are from outer space and will destroy mankind.

Season 4

  • S04E01 Space Olympics

    • September 13, 2008
    • NBC

    n the year 3022, an alien (Andy Samberg) sings about the Space Olympics, a sporting event on a distant planet where athletes from all over the universe compete for gold medals until budget cuts result in some serious problems.

  • S04E02 Hey!

    • September 20, 2008
    • NBC

    Sarah (Kristen Wiig) meets a mysterious man (James Franco) at a party who repeatedly mentions his tiny ding-dong. Creeped out, Sarah runs off, but talk of his small penis attracts another "woman"

  • S04E03 Extreme Activities Challenge

    • October 4, 2008
    • NBC

    Samberg and Wiig compete in nonsensical activities, from arm wrestling to human ATM. Forte is the pathetic referee, Thompson is an ATM customer, and Anne Hathaway appears when Samberg wins the "become Jane" (Austen) challenge.

  • S04E04 Jam the Vote

    • October 23, 2008
    • NBC

    Samberg walks around New York City asking people if they're registered to vote, which Wiig's character points out had ended two weeks prior.

  • S04E05 Ras Trent

    • October 25, 2008
    • NBC

    Samberg plays a college student legalist who has converted to Rastafarianism, who sings boastfully (and stereotypically) about the culture, while being aware that he's not fit for it when he walks by a group of actual Rastas. Wiig and Wilson appear in the short as backup singers; the actual backup vocals were recorded by Joanna Newsom and Maya Rudolph. Music produced by Sly & Robbie.

  • S04E06 Everyone's A Critic

    • November 15, 2008
    • NBC

    In a clip from Paul Rudd's new movie, Samberg romantically paints him nude and then Rudd returns the favor (A parody of the film Titanic). While selling the painting at an auction, it is shown to be so graphic that everyone who sees it begins convulsing violently, vomiting, bleeding from the eyes, and committing violent acts of suicide. Fred Armisen appears as the auctioneer, Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig as Indiana Jones and Marion Ravenwood respectively (parodying the ending of Raiders of the Lost Ark), and Casey Wilson as the interviewer.

  • S04E07 Virgania Horsen's Pony Express

    • December 6, 2008
    • NBC

    Kristen Wiig reprises her role as Virgania Horsen in a crudely made commercial for her new business, which consists of mail delivery by horse. (The first short featuring Wiig in this role, Virgania Horsen’s Hot Air Balloon Rides, originally aired on February 23, 2008 without the official "An SNL Digital Short" title card.)

  • S04E08 Jizz in My Pants

    • December 6, 2008
    • NBC

    The first single from The Lonely Island’s debut album “INCREDIBAD”. Features guest appearances by Molly Sims, Jamie Lynn Sigler, and Justin Timberlake.

  • S04E09 Cookies

    • December 13, 2008
    • NBC

    A corporate executive (Hugh Laurie) announces to the department heads that things are not going well and drastic steps may need to be taken.

  • S04E10 Doogie Howser Theme

    • January 10, 2009
    • NBC

    Neil Patrick Harris and the Doogie Symphony Orchestra present, the Doogie Howser Theme Song.

  • S04E11 A Couple of Homies

    • January 17, 2009
    • NBC

    Samberg and Fred Armisen casually talk in a break room while Forte sings about every little thing that they're doing (giving each other a high five, reading magazines, drinking soda, and wearing dresses). At the end, it's revealed to actually be a commercial for the D.A.R.E. program. It was originally cut from the Ben Affleck dress rehearsal.

  • S04E12 Laser Cats! 4-Ever!

    • January 31, 2009
    • NBC

    A "half human, half Laser Cat, half RoboCop" named Cyber-Face (Kenan Thompson) is presented to a group of scientists by their colleague (Will Forte) but quickly goes haywire. Admiral Spaceship (Samberg) and Nitro (Hader) intervene to put an end to its killing spree, and are shocked to find out that Cyber-Face is Admiral Spaceship's estranged father (Martin) right before he is gunned down by police officers.

  • S04E13 I'm on a Boat

    • February 7, 2009
    • NBC

    Samberg wins a prize from a cereal box for a boat trip for three people and selects Schaffer and, to Taccone's surprise and dismay, T-Pain to join him.

  • S04E14 Property of the Queen

    • February 14, 2009
    • NBC

    Samberg blackmails the Jonas Brothers with a videotape of them as an '80s band called Property of the Queen. Samberg ultimately wants to know how they stayed young for 25 years and it is revealed that the wizard featured in one of their music videos (Bill Hader) kept them young. Kenan Thompson, Will Forte, and Bobby Moynihan appear as band members.

  • S04E15 Party Guys

    • March 14, 2009
    • NBC

    Samberg and Hader are at a party where everyone and everything is a literal representation of a slang term.

  • S04E16 Like a Boss

    • April 4, 2009
    • NBC

    During a performance review conducted by episode host Seth Rogen, Samberg raps about his typical day as the boss of a large company.

  • S04E17 Motherlover

    • May 9, 2009
    • NBC

    Five months after the events of "Dick in a Box," Samberg and Timberlake's characters (who have just been released from prison) sing about special gifts for Mother's Day, with Susan Sarandon and Patricia Clarkson appearing as their mothers.

  • SPECIAL 0x5 Palin 2012 - An SNL Movie Trailer Re-Cut

    • November 21, 2009

    In another installment of An SNL Movie Trailer Re-Cut, the trailer for the disaster film 2012 is changed into a political horror about Sarah Palin's possible election as U.S. President that year.

Season 5

  • S05E01 The Date

    • September 26, 2009
    • NBC

    A man (Forte) with a strained voice discusses his life commanding a SWAT team and raising lambs for slaughter with an increasingly fascinated date (Megan Fox).

  • S05E02 Megan's Roommate

    • September 26, 2009
    • NBC

    Andy Samberg and Megan Fox head to her place for a movie night, only to find her roommate, Optimus Prime (Bobby Moynihan), sitting on the couch. Optimus threatens Andy until Bumblebee

  • S05E03 Threw It On The Ground

    • October 3, 2009
    • NBC

    A beatnik (Samberg) performs slam poetry about how he fights "the system" by throwing objects on the ground.

  • S05E04 Brenda & Shaun

    • October 10, 2009
    • NBC

    A 1990s commercial for two amateur laser magicians (played by Fred Armisen and episode host Drew Barrymore).

  • S05E05 Firelight

    • November 7, 2009
    • NBC

    In this parody of the movie adaptation of Twilight, a high school girl (played by host and musical guest Taylor Swift) falls for Frankenstein's monster (played by Bill Hader).

  • S05E06 Get Out!

    • November 14, 2009
    • NBC

    A man (Armisen) keeps barging in on his roommate (Samberg) sitting on the toilet – even when Armisen is at the gym, on an elevator, and walking outside of Studio 8H at 30 Rockefeller Center.

  • S05E07 Two Worlds Collide

    • November 21, 2009
    • NBC

    Two crazy big stars from opposite worlds ’bout to set this track on fire.

  • S05E08 Shy Ronnie

    • December 5, 2009
    • NBC

    Rihanna and a redheaded nerd named Shy Ronnie (Samberg) perform an uplifting song for a classroom full of children, but the song is ruined by Shy Ronnie's weak singing (and bladder control).

  • S05E09 Tizzle Wizzle Show

    • December 19, 2009
    • NBC

    James Franco guest stars on a children's show about wearing "jammies," and performs the "jammy shuffle."

  • S05E10 Booty Call

    • January 9, 2010
    • NBC

    Alicia Keys' late night booty call doesn't work out because the callee (Andy Samberg) is in the middle of an intervention for his friend

  • S05E11 James Cameron's Laser Cats 5

    • January 16, 2010
    • NBC

    Samberg and Hader once again try to persuade Lorne Michaels with another Laser Cats! movie with some "help" from James Cameron (appearing as himself).

  • S05E12 The Curse

    • January 30, 2010
    • NBC

    In a loose parody of Sam Raimi's Drag Me to Hell, a young businessman (Samberg) is cursed by a homeless shaman (Fred Armisen) to be haunted by a sexy, shirtless saxophonist named Sergio (played by host Jon Hamm) after stepping on the shaman's dreamcatcher and not paying for it.

  • S05E13 Flags of the World

    • February 27, 2010
    • NBC

    Samberg raps about the many different flags of the world, including the American flag, "Spain-ish" flag, "We Love Betty White" flag (referring to the campaign on Facebook to get her to host the show), "No You Didn't" flag, and a "Black Flag" based on the band of the same name. Episode host Jennifer Lopez makes a cameo.

  • S05E14 Zach Drops By the Set

    • March 6, 2010
    • NBC

    Zach Galifianakis shows up on the sets of various NBC shows (with fictional scenes and archival footage) either talking to the actors, or just standing in the background, finishing with a clip from a 1984 SNL episode hosted by Robin Williams showing a bearded child (supposedly Galifianakis) and the words: "Zack Galifianakis: on TV for over 30 years."

  • S05E15 Boombox

    • March 13, 2010
    • NBC

    A music video for the song "Boombox" featuring Samberg and Julian Casablancas.

  • S05E16 The Other Man

    • April 17, 2010
    • NBC

    A man named Kyle (Ryan Phillippe) keeps knocking on his loved ones' (ex-girlfriend, best friend, parents, etc.) doors to find that they are romantically involved with a man with a bizarre European accent (Samberg).

  • S05E17 Cherry Battle

    • April 24, 2010
    • NBC

    Gabourey Sidibe and Andy Samberg (dressed in kimono) spit cherries at each other in rapid succession, catching the ones the other throws.

  • S05E18 Golden Girls Theme

    • May 8, 2010
    • NBC

    Samberg shows Betty White how grateful the entire SNL cast is to have her host by having the cast and guest stars (Rachel Dratch, Tina Fey, Ana Gasteyer, Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph, and Molly Shannon) sing the theme song from The Golden Girls.

  • S05E19 Great Day

    • May 15, 2010
    • NBC

    An unemployed cocaine addict named Dennis (Samberg) goes on drug binge while singing an elaborately choreographed Disneyesque musical-theater number about how it is going to be a great day.

Season 6

  • S06E01 Boogerman

    • September 26, 2010
    • NBC

    Katy Perry sings at an Academy Awards-like ceremony the theme song from the fictional superhero film Boogerman (played by Peter Sarsgaard). Features most of the cast including episode host Amy Poehler.

  • S06E02 Rescue Dogs 3D App

    • October 2, 2010
    • NBC

    A man (Samberg) tries to call 911 to report a home invasion on his iPhone using the app "911 Emergency," but is bombarded with ads for the movie Rescue Dogs 3D.

  • S06E03 Relaxation Therapy

    • October 9, 2010
    • NBC

    A man (Samberg) is the subject of a bizarre therapy session conducted by his psychiatrist (played by episode host Jane Lynch) who inserts herself in his self-conscious images of peace and tranquility.

  • S06E04 I Broke My Arm

    • October 23, 2010
    • NBC

    An accident-prone high school girl (Emma Stone) trying to show off her casts continuously breaks bones when she slips and falls, blaming spilled grape jelly until it comes to life (Andy Samberg) and sets the record straight.

  • S06E05 Shy Ronnie 2: Ronnie and Clyde

    • October 30, 2010
    • NBC

    Shy Ronnie (Samberg) and Clyde (Rihanna) team up for a second time to rob a bank. Unfortunately, Ronnie's social awkwardness puts the heist in jeopardy and forces Clyde to do most of the work.

  • S06E06 What Was That?

    • November 13, 2010
    • NBC

    In this "SNL Digital Short," winners of a Model U.N. competition (Andy Samberg) and Arcade Fire encourage the General Assembly to dance for world peace.

  • S06E07 Party at Mr. Bernard's

    • December 4, 2010
    • NBC

    A parody of the movie Weekend at Bernie's, in which two men (Hader and Samberg) find the corpse of their boss (played by episode host Robert De Niro) and attempt to make him look alive during a party at his beach house.

  • S06E08 Stumblin'

    • December 11, 2010
    • NBC

    A parody of the Dolly Parton song 9 to 5, throughout which Andy Samberg and episode host Paul Rudd stumble throughout the city. Musical guest Paul McCartney and celebrity chef Mario Batali appear in the short as well.

  • S06E09 I Just Had Sex

    • December 18, 2010
    • NBC

    Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, and rapper Akon celebrate just having had sex with women (Blake Lively and Jessica Alba respectively), despite the fact that the women found the sex to be mediocre.

  • S06E10 Andy and Pee-Wee's Night Out

    • January 15, 2011
    • NBC

    Samberg has some shots with none other than Pee Wee Herman (Paul Reubens). After beating Anderson Cooper (who appears as himself) over the head with a chair, Samberg and Pee-Wee are caught by the police, to which they escape by hitting the officer with a chair

  • S06E11 The Creep

    • January 29, 2011
    • NBC

    The Lonely Island and Nicki Minaj pose as middle aged stalkers and rap about the latest dance craze (The Creep).

  • S06E12 The Roommate

    • February 5, 2011
    • NBC

    A movie trailer parodying its namesake, in which a college student (Justin Bieber) believes his increasingly bizarre and obsessive roommate (Samberg) is planning to kill him.

  • S06E13 Beastly Parody

    • March 5, 2011
    • NBC

    A handsome high school student obsessed with his good looks (Samberg, portraying Gene Hackman as the protagonist) is cursed by a witch (Nasim Pedrad), who transforms him into the same nerd that Samberg played in the previous Digital Short The Roommate.

  • S06E14 Zach Looks for a New Assistant

    • March 12, 2011
    • NBC

    Zach Galifianakis interviews young children as possible candidates for being his assistant.

  • S06E15 Laser Cats: The Musical

    • April 2, 2011
    • NBC

    Hader and Samberg again use a celebrity (Tom Hanks) to pitch a new Laser Cats film to Lorne Michaels; this time, a musical version which includes parodies of Cats and Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.

  • S06E16 Helen Mirren's Magic Bosom

    • April 9, 2011
    • NBC

    Nasim wants to be inspired, so she finds Helen Mirren in her dressing room, where Pedrad dreams she is in "Helen Mirren's Titties", a place beyond space and time, and a sequence of shots involving happy things like two leaders shaking hands, flowers, etc.

  • S06E17 Jack Sparrow

    • May 7, 2011
    • NBC

    A music video for the song of the same name from The Lonely Island's Turtleneck and Chain album featuring Michael Bolton, who writes and performs a "big, sexy hook" for a new hip-hop track that The Lonely Island are recording.

  • S06E18 3-Way (The Golden Rule)

    • May 21, 2011
    • NBC

    The "Dick in a Box" and "Motherlover" characters (Timberlake and Samberg) return in a song about how any sexual contact between them does not count as a homosexual act, as long as there is also a female (Lady Gaga) involved.

Season 7

  • S07E01 Stomp

    • October 1, 2011
    • NBC

    Two cops (Hader and Samberg) bored at work find music in everyday life (parody of Stomp).

  • S07E02 V-Necks

    • October 8, 2011
    • NBC

    At a clothing store, a man (Samberg) is unconvinced that the V-neck shirt he is trying on is for him, despite his girlfriend's (Pedrad) assurances.

  • S07E03 Drake Interview

    • October 15, 2011
    • NBC

    Andy conducts several short and increasingly bizarre interviews with actor-singer Drake.

  • S07E04 Wish It Would Rain

    • November 12, 2011
    • NBC

    A depressed singer (Samberg) sings about how his girlfriend left him for another man (Armisen).

  • S07E05 Seducing Women Through Chess

    • November 19, 2011
    • NBC

    In an early '80s-style instructional video, a nerdy man dressed like Carl Sagan (Samberg) shows viewers how to seduce women by playing chess, but the first two women (played by Nasim Pedrad and Abby Elliott) beat him.

  • S07E06 Batman

    • December 3, 2011
    • NBC

    Commissioner Gordon (Steve Buscemi) keeps getting stalked by Batman (Samberg). Paul Brittain and Kristen Wiig appears as Aquaman and the Riddler respectively.

  • S07E07 Best Friends

    • December 10, 2011
    • NBC

    Katy Perry and Samberg become best friends, then meet up with a "handsome drug addict" (Matt Damon) and "brilliant lunatic" (Val Kilmer) who want to be best friends too.

  • S07E08 Convoluted Jerry

    • January 7, 2012
    • NBC

    A fake commercial for a CD collection featuring Convoluted Jerry (Andy Samberg), a singer whose lyrics are wordy and confusing, with songs including "Quit not Being My Lover," "Backwards Day" and "Jerry Explains the Movie Inception".

  • S07E09 Afros

    • March 3, 2012
    • NBC

    A man (Samberg) and woman (Wiig) dressed in '70s-style clothing declare their love for each other in song. As the camera pulls back we can see that they are connected by their shared enormous afro.

  • S07E10 Tennis Balls

    • March 10, 2012
    • NBC

    To test the effects of stress on the human heart, a man (Jonah Hill) is hit repeatedly in the testicles by tennis balls fired from a tennis ball machine.

  • S07E11 Laser Cats 7

    • April 14, 2012
    • NBC

    Despite Lorne Michaels' objections, Hader and Samberg show him the latest Laser Cats short – this time directed by Steven Spielberg (appearing as both himself and a "Hitchcockian" cameo in the short), which contains many references to his films, including E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Raiders of the Lost Ark. Host Josh Brolin appears as a "Space Nazi."

  • S07E12 Gotye Backstage

    • April 14, 2012
    • NBC

    Samberg and Taran Killam visit Gotye in his dressing room, then stalk him by appearing in nothing but body paint and black wigs (as seen in the "Somebody That I Used To Know" music video).

  • S07E13 100th Short

    • May 12, 2012
    • NBC

    The Lonely Island celebrate their 100th Digital Short by revisiting many digital short favorite characters, clips from previous Digital Shorts, and fresh footage from numerous celebrities.

  • S07E14 Lazy Sunday 2

    • May 19, 2012
    • NBC

    Samberg and Parnell do another "Lazy Sunday" rap for Sister Act: The Musical.

Season 8

  • S08E01 YOLO

    • January 26, 2013
    • NBC

    The Lonely Island, Adam Levine, and Kendrick Lamar sing about the virtues of staying safe in daily life (flipping the intended meaning of YOLO with "You Ought to Look Out"), and become increasingly paranoid of everything. Danny McBride cameos as a man attempting to do cocaine in a nightclub.

Season 9

  • S09E01 When Will the Bass Drop?

    • May 17, 2014
    • NBC

    In a parody of stereotypical electronic dance music performers, the DJ Davvincii performs a number of unrelated activities rather than actually mixing music.

  • S09E02 Hugs

    • May 17, 2014
    • NBC

    The Lonely Island and Pharrell sing about how their hugs are the best.

Season 10

  • S10E01 That's When You Break

    • February 15, 2015
    • NBC

    Andy Samberg and Adam Sandler sing about times when people broke character on the show.

Season 11

  • S11E01 Finest Girl (Bin Laden Song)

    • May 21, 2016
    • NBC

    Conner4real (Samberg) sings about having sex with a girl like the execution of Osama bin Laden. This is a song written for The Lonely Island's comedy film Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping.

Season 12

  • S12E01 Natalie's Rap 2

    • February 3, 2018
    • NBC

    A sequel to the original Natalie's Rap from Season 31, Natalie Portman is interviewed by Beck Bennett, to which she responds with a rap about motherhood and the Star Wars prequels (holding Alex Moffat at gunpoint while dressed as her character Padme Amidala). At the end, she impales Bennett's head with a Time's Up pin and throws him out of the window. Andy Samberg appears as his character, Carl, from the first short (with his scenes filmed in Los Angeles outside the ArcLight Hollywood). The day after the episode aired, The Lonely Island confirmed that they wrote the sketch.

Season 13

  • S13E01 Sushi Glory Hole

    • October 5, 2024
    • NBC

    Two business men (Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer) give a presentation to investors (Maya Rudolph, Bowen Yang, Kenan Thompson) about their idea.