Saturday Night Live Transcripts
Season 31: Episode 18
05r: Julia Louis-Dreyfus / Paul Simon
Parallel Universe Address from President Gore
written by: Kristin Gore
Narrator
Steve Higgins (voice only)
Announcer
Don Pardo (voice only)
Al Gore
(Fade in)
(Star Wars style music plays as the narrator speaks)
(A long shot of Planet Earth)
Narrator: Scientists have long speculated that infinite parallel worlds exist on different planes of the world we know. In these earths, history has taken different paths.
(A shot of a dinosaur walking around a big city with humans walking around as well)
On one, dinosaurs and man co-exist.
(A shot of a Russian astronaut planting a Russian flag on the moon)
On another, the Russians were the first men to walk on the moon.
(A shot of Clay Aiken celebrating his American Idol win)
On another still, Clay Aiken defeated Ruben Studdard.
(A long shot of Planet Earth)
Now join us as we travel through the fabric of time and space to visit one of mysteries. One of these parallel earths!
(The President Of The United States Seal)
Announcer: And now a message from the President of the United States of America.
(Pan to Al Gore sitting at this desk in the Oval Office, addressing the nation)
President Al Gore: Good evening, my fellow Americans. In 2000, when you overwhelmingly made the decision to elect me as your 43rd President, I knew the road ahead would be difficult. We have accomplished so much, yet challenges lie ahead. In the last six years, we have been able to stop global warming. No one could have predicted the negative results of this. Glaciers that once were melting are now on the attack. As you know, these renegade glaciers have already captured parts of upper Michigan and northern Maine. But I assure you; we will not let the glaciers win. Right now in the second week of May 2006, we are facing perhaps the worst gas crisis in history. We have way-too much gasoline! Gas is down to nineteen cents a gallon and the oil companies are hurting. I know that I am partly to blame, by insisting that cars run on trash. I am therefore proposing a federal bail-out to our oil companies because hey, if it were the other way around, you know the oil companies would help us.
On a positive note, we worked hard to save welfare, fix social security and of course, provide the universal health care we all enjoy today. But all this came at a high cost. As I speak, the gigantic National Budget Surplus is down to a perilously low 11 trillion dollars. And don’t get any ideas! That money is staying in the very successful lock-box. We’re not touching it! Of course, we could give economic aid to China or lend money to the Saudis again, but right now, we are already so loved by everyone in the world that American tourists can’t even go over to Europe anymore without getting hugged. There are some of you would like to spend our money on some made-up war we could make up. To you I say, ‘what part of lock-box don’t you understand?’ What if there’s a hurricane or a tornado? Unlikely I know, because of the anti-hurricane and tornado machine I was instrumental in helping to develop but what if? What if the scientists are right and one of those giant glaciers hits Boston? That’s why we have the lock-box. As for immigration, solving it came at a heavy cost and I personally regret the loss of California. However, the new Mexifornian economy is strong and El Presidente Schwarzenegger is doing a great job.
There have been some setbacks. Unfortunately, the confirmation process for Supreme Court Justice Michael Moore was bitter and divisive. However, I couldn’t be more proud of how the House and Senate pulled together to confirm the nomination of Chief Justice George Clooney. Baseball, our national pastime still lies under a shadow of steroid accusations. But I have faith in Baseball Commissioner George W. Bush when he says, ‘we will find the steroid users if we have to tap every phone in America.’ In 2001, when I came into office, our national security was the most important issue. The threat of terrorism was real. Who knew that six years later, Afghanistan would be the most popular spring break destination, that Six Flags Tehran is the fastest growing amusement park in the Middle East and the scariest thing we Americas have to fear is LIVE FROM NEW YORK, ITS SATURDAY NIGHT!
Submitted by: Mark Jennings Reese II
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