The Wicker Breakdown:

1. This week's show started with The Ladies Man where this week host, Leone Phelps, experienced the side effects of Viagra after expressed his excitement over the new drug while explaining the “scientific” benefits and decided to give it a shot for recreational purposes. To get the full effect he then tried to turn himself on with a picture of Delta Burke and then us a picture of Sally Jessy Raphael to calm himself down only to find his plan to calm down didn’t work. Of course, with this being the opening sketch, it also led to the announcement of, “Live from New York…”
2. Matthew Broderick then officially opened the show with a monolog about it’s been ten years since he last hosted the show and then gave us a quick update on his life, including the fact that he just wrapped up working on the latest Godzilla. This Godzilla mention led Tracy Morgan and Jim Breuer to interrupt in order to ask questions about their favorite film franchise while also annoying our host with their impersonations of the radiated lizard monster.
3. We then got a fake ad for Flex Speed Stick which was a deodorant that not only killed odor but was also filled users with steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs that turned them into Incredible Hulk-style monsters due to the mood swings that were part of the products side effects.
4. The was followed by another parody of The View where once again, the cast impersonated the gaggle of daytime talk show hosts who talked over one another while they discussed the topics of the day. Viagra was the main topic of the intro and then they brought in Matthew Broderick as George Stephanopolous who was there to promote his book but it seemed all of the Viagra talk at the top of the show had all of the women turned on so they mainly focused on sex. As usual, the only part that I really liked was how Tracy Morgan, as Starr Jones, ended every bickering outburst with a crazy proclamation that usually worked as the opposite of a humble brag even though she blurted her boasts out so casually.
5. The Zimmermans then returned for another installment of Chris Kattan and Cheri Oteri as an oversexed couple who go way too far with the public displays of affection, this time with Matthew Broderick and Molly Shannon as their disturbed dinner guests.
6. This was followed by another installment of Pretty Living where Ana Gasteyer as the host interviewed Molly Shannon’s crazy “joyologist” character name Helen Madden, whose catchphrase is, “I love it, I love it, I love it.” I like the character but whenever she’s on it’s the character that gets the laughs over the content, making it kind of hard to describe without it sounding like a bore. During this visit, we met her new boyfriend played by Matthew Broderick but as I just said, other than the funny character choices there wasn’t much more to the sketch.
7. This was followed by a fake ad for Viagra where they interviewed men on the street about the new drug and man interviewed seemed annoyed that anyone would have the nerve to even ask if they needed the boner pill.
8. Once again, Colin Quinn gave us the news. This week was an all Colin week with no guest and just him reading the news. Once again, I think he is the best anchor so far when it comes to delivering the news alone and he’s only been the head anchor for half of the season.
9. Natalie Merchant then took to the stage to perform Kind And Generous.
10. The Celine Dion Show then returned for another installment where once again Cheri Oteri played the Canadian diva who took delight in upstaging the divas she had on as her guests which this week was a panel made up of Molly Shannon as Shania Twain, Cheri Oteri as Mariah Carey and Matthew Broderick as Gloria Estefan.
11. We then got parody C-SPAN coverage of the British Parliament where Prime Minister Tony Blair, as played by Matthew Broderick, answered questions from Parliament about recent U.K. issues. Other than Will Ferrell’s obsession with the Teletubbies, it was hard to tell if some of the jokes were based on real British news or if they were just making fun of Parliament in general since it’s hard enough to keep up with American issues after so much passage of time.
12. Prom Limo was a sketch where Matthew Broderick and Cheri Oteri rented a limo with Will Ferrell and Molly Shannon for their double date to the prom. Of course, they all end up standing through the sunroof where they waved at passers-by and celebrated while singing a song about the prom. After a while a low overpass appeared, knocking off Ferrell’s head.
13. Tenacious D then took to the stage to perform both The History of Tenacious D and the song Double Team back to back.
14. Comic Minds was a comedy profile show where Matthew Broderick played the host who profiled Orbit and Larry played by Will Ferrell and Tracy Morgan who were supposed to be the Cheech and Chong of PCP-based comedy. We also got to hear a couple of clips from their album which was just the two of them acting freaked out while on the high powered drug.
15. Finally, Matthew Broderick closed the show by thanking the audience and saying his goodnights.

The Wicker Breakdown:

1. This week's show started with a parody of The X-Files where Will Ferrell as Janet Reno dropped by to check in on her FBI Agent Fox Mulder and went on to proclaim her love after pretending to be an undercover whistleblower who Mulder thought was a man. The rest of the sketch revolved about Mulder politely trying to turn Reno down. This was followed a quick moment where Reno attack the real Scully when she incidentally entered the room. There was also a quick moment with the mysterious smoking man but I never really got into the X-Files so I didn’t get the joke other than Reno gave up on Mulder in exchange for his nemesis. With this being the opening sketch, it eventually led to the announcement of, “Live from New York…”
2. David Duchovny then officially opened the show with a monolog he first lied about it being his first time in New York that admitted he was actually from the city and was just lying because of his nerves. He then attempted to perform a song in an attempt to get over his nerves. He had a cheapy guitar in hand and a story about how he had strong memories of his dad buying it for him. When he started to strum the strings, it was obvious that he wasn’t really playing but that didn’t really matter because he quickly dropped his pick into the hole behind the string. After struggling to get the pick back for a few seconds he broke the guitar in a fit of rage while yelling how much he hated his dad. The shattered guitar freed the pick which led Duchovny to happily continue the song while strumming the air and throwing to the first non-opening sketch of the night.
3. The Spartan Cheerleaders for another segment where this time the cheerleaders got to train at a cheerleading camp hosted by the real Paula Abdul and with David Duchovny as the camp leader who also joined in on the cheers. This was one of those rare Spartan sketches where the Ferrell’s and Oteri’s cheerleading antics were actually encouraged to the point where Duchovny and Abdul joined their two-person team in order to fulfill the four-member requirement in order to officially compete.
4. TV Funhouse also returned with another installment of The Ambiguously Gay Duo where we got to see more from the inside of their Fortress Of Solitude to find even more hints of their sexual proclivities.
5. This was followed by another Celebrity Jeopardy segment where this week Will Ferrell as Alex Trebek struggle to wrangle David Duchovny as Jeff Goldblum, Molly Shannon as Minnie Driver and Darrell Hammond as Sean Connery as they did anything but answer the extra simple Celebrity Jeopardy questions.
6. Puff Daddy & Jimmy Page then took to the stage to perform Come With Me. 
7. Once again, Colin Quinn gave us the news. This week, Tracy Morgan dropped in as his character Dominican Lou to discuss the Kenneth Starr investigation of Bill Clinton since Lou was a superintendent and had a similar experience in his line of work even though that we quickly learn that the similarities weren’t that similar at all and Lou just wanted to get back at his competition live on the air. Ana Gasteyer also stopped by as her folk singing/comedian character, Cinder Calhoun who sang a song called Unshackle My Leg in protest of pantyhose.
8. Mango also got another segment where this time Chris Kattan’s mini male stripper character hypnotized David Duchovny with his male stripper moves after saving Mango following a suicidal jump from a bridge.
9. This was followed by another parody of Oprah where Tim Meadows played the bread-loving host in order to reunite Goat Boy with his long-lost brother who was played by David Duchovny and was named Goat Boy #2. Since the two Goat Boys were both cloned they were technically more than twins and instantly hit it off and even playfully started to butt heads.
10. This was followed by a fake ad for Interbank which was a parody of a travelers checks ad that promised to not only replace any money that may be stolen while on vacation but they would also send in a SWAT-style team in order to get revenge.
11. From The Earth To The Area Around The Earth was a sketch that provided parody coverage of the least eventful space shuttle mission that was so routine that it barely struck any public interest at all.
12. The Go-Lords also got another installment where this week the religious superhero couple took on James Cameron who planned to rule the world with his newly developed Leonardo DiCaprio clones.
13. The Lost Deep Thoughts wound down the night with another installment where this time Jack Handey pondered a mouse trap style device that would trap babies without killing them but would keep them in the same position until they could be removed.
14. Finally, David Duchovny closed the show by thanking the audience and saying his goodnights.

SNL: SEASON TWENTY-THREE SUMMARY