Me and my family have been quoting this scene for so many years I actually forgot where exactly I saw it. The WHA HOPPENED! and I DONT THINK SOO! We have been quoting this for so long it's hilarious
This is one of my favourite comedy scenes of all time. I could have watched an entire series about Mike Lafontaine. Such a great and believable character.
"Put him in a cell with a long hose on him" refers to how cops would beat men brought to jail with a hard rubber hose during the Civil Rights and Anti-Vietnam War movements in the 1960s. Those hoses hurt like hell, especially if you'd been blasted by cold water. _That's_ why the folkies hated that joke. IRL, Fred had lived in Chicago, so he knew what went down in 1968 to create that joke. Chris probably gave him one direction: to introduce himself in character and talk about how he was the manager of The New Main Street Singers. Fred improvised everything he said here. What a smart man and a brilliant improviser. RIP, Fred.
Okay, wow! My appreciation for Fred Willard has gone up tenfold because I didn’t realise he gave a fair bit of meme material from this moment alone. What a GOAT!