The Wicker Breakdown:

1. This week's show started with A Special Address From The Secretary Of The Treasury where once again Will Forte portrayed Timothy Geithner to outline the results of a 50-question bank stress test to make sure that they could responsibly handle the bailout money coming in from the government. The test in question seemed more like it was designed so that even the biggest idiot couldn’t fail yet we learned how most of the bigger banks still struggled to meet the fifty percentile target. We then heard a few sample questions which, of course, led to the announcement of, “Live from New York…”

2. Justin Timberlake then officially opened the show by sharing his shock that this was his third time as a host. This sharing of shock triggered performance where our host sang about how much he loved being a regular as he danced around with the cast on a route that went backstage where the crew and other show personnel joined in as well.

3. This was followed by a fake ad for the Mom Celebrity Translator which was a handheld device that aided tech-savvy youth in their efforts to decipher which well-known celebrity it is who their mothers are trying to describe with their un-hip old people terms.

4. Target Greatland then returned for another installment of Kristen Wiig as an extremely enthusiastic Target employee who will still drop what she’s doing mid-transaction whenever she sees a great deal. This time, Justin Timberlake joined the scene as Wiig’s annoying friend, Peg who just added to the customer’s frustration.

5. Immigrants was a sketch that featured several cast members as an Irish immigrant family as they enter America. While waiting the family started to share how they are excited they were to begin their American Dreams to provide a better life for their great-great-grandchildren to come. Well, everyone but Justin Timberlake, whose character’s American Dream was to one day, raise his great-great-grandchild to live the American way as an unjustifiably popular, self-centered, arrogant little prick, while clearly describing his future self.

6. We then got another SNL Digital Short called Mother Lovers which was a music video/follow up to the last Timberlake Samberg collaboration, Dick In A Box, where again, the song’s title says it all.

7. Plasticville was another installment of Justin Timberlake’s mascot themed sketches where Will Forte played a guy dressed as a barbell, trying to persuade passersby into a gym. Justin Timberlake then arrived on the scene as a gigantic bag of silicone to promote the Plasticville Plastic Surgery Center which led to a mascot song and dance off.

8. Ciara then took to the stage with Justin Timberlake to perform Love Sex Magic.

9. Once again, Seth Meyers gave us the news. This week, Bill Hader returned as Elliott Spitzer along with Fred Armisen as David Paterson in order to debate who was the better between these two at being the worst at their jobs. The real Chris Pine and Zachery Quinto also stopped by to promote their new Star Trek movie by defending the movie’s new direction to the old fans. As hard as they tried, the old school fans in the audience just could not be pleased, until Leonard Nimoy joined the scene to endorse the film. (Clip 2)

10. The Barry Gibb Talk Show brought back Jimmy Fallon to reprise his role as Barry Gibb to have Justin Timberlake as his brother/sidekick and say nothing while Barry issued insane threats to his political guest, just like every other sketch from this series, especially after Fallon left the show and started to perform the role as a special guest.

11. Pirates was a sketch that referenced the Somali pirates that were big in the news at the time, where the Somalian sea terrorists accidentally receive a shipment of Disney props in place of real weapons that they had ordered. Meanwhile, several pirate characters from Disney received the real guns which sent some on a killing spree in the process of discovering that their weapons were actually real.

12. Ciara then returned to the stage alone to perform Never Ever.

13. Finally, Justin Timberlake closed the show by thanking the audience and saying his goodnights.

The Wicker Breakdown:

1. This week's show started with a sketch called Cheney In Makeup took place in the makeup department of Meet The Press just prior to an interview with Darrell Hammond as Dick Cheney. After a bit, Will Ferrell reprised his role as George W. Bush in order to sneak into the room to confront Cheney and demand answers, “NOW” since he was no longer afraid of the Vice Monster being that the two were no longer in office. Dick Cheney pretty much just blew the ex-President off while sticking to his statement, “I have no regrets,” but Bush refused to back down. Unfortunately, this was just a sketch so either way, we wouldn’t have gotten an answer, but we did get the typical opening announcement of, “Live from New York…”

2. Will Ferrell then officially opened the show with a monolog about how he was happy to host the season finale. He then shared how his new one-man show where he played President Bush was a huge hit and even nominated for several awards. This got him talking about his rise to fame and how he started out doing dramas on stage and wasn’t even known as a funny guy. After a rundown of a couple of his early roles, he performed a piece from a play that he wrote called The Wishful Dreams Of Danny O’Neil.

3. We then got a repeat of the Wade Blasingame: Attorney-At-Law ad that originally aired multiple time back when Will Ferrell was still on the show and featured him as an attorney who was in favor of suing dogs in cases where they may break human laws. Throughout the ad, Chris Parnell acted out what it would look like if a human committed the many crimes that our pooches do on the regular.

4. The Lawrence Welk Show had Will Ferrell on as Ted Netter who was an old-timey singer who enjoyed singing and dancing with his musical sisters as played by Casey Wilson, Michaela Watkin, and Abby Elliott but was a bit freaked out by their fourth sister Denise, which is the actual name of Kristen Wiig’s tiny-handed, high-foreheaded, singing character.

5. Celebrity Jeopardy then returned for more fun and games with Will Ferrell as Alex Trebek, where this time his annoying celebrity guests where Kristen Wiig as Kathie Lee Gifford, Tom Hanks as himself, and what Celebrity Jeopardy would be complete without Darrell Hammond as Sean Connery. Toward the end of the sketch, Norm MacDonald crashed the game show as Burt Reynolds to add to Trebek’s stress.

6. Inside The NBA showed us parody coverage of a basketball game where Kenan Thompson portrayed Charles Barkley who kept getting caught up by Will Ferrell who kept popping up in the corner of the screen as a marketing ploy to promote a fictional show called Mark.

7. Green Day then took to the stage to perform Know Your Enemy.

8. Once again, Seth Meyers gave us the news. This week, Amy Poehler returned to play a game of Really!?! with Seth about the fact that Barack Obama was denied an honorary degree from Arizona State University because he had accomplished enough to earn it. Will Ferrell also returned as Harry Caray’s ghost to offer his comments on Manny Ramirez who recently busted for steroids.

9. Funeral Remembrances had Jason Sudeikis as a priest who was flummoxed by all the interruptions made by family members during a funeral service. This seemed to be connected to the sketch from earlier in the year where Sudeikis played a wedding emcee who kept getting interrupted by guests who kept wanting to give toasts.

10. Green Day then took to the stage to perform 21 Guns.

11. Goodnight, Saigon had Will Ferrell out having drinks with friends when he got struck by an unexplained flashback to the Vietnam War despite the fact that he was way too young to have been able to serve at the time. That didn’t stop him from breaking into the titular Billy Joel song that he seemed to think was about his wartime experience.

12. Finally, Will Ferrell closed the show by thanking the audience and saying his goodnights.

SNL: SEASON THIRTY-FOUR SUMMARY