Saturday Night Live Transcripts
Season 1: Episode 2
75b: Paul Simon / Art Garfunkel, Randy Newman, Phoebe Snow, Jesse Dixon Singers
Up Against the Wallpaper
Written by: Michael O’Donoghue
… Jerry Rubin
Jerry Rubin: The 1960s, a time of change, a time ofsharing, a time of growth. Hi, I’m former Yippieleader Jerry Rubin and I lived those years with you,burning draft cards, liberating the administrationbuilding, and, of course, scrawling revolutionaryslogans on the walls in spray paint. Now, the BerkeleyCollection has captured those colorful years, and thegrafitti that tells it like it was, on thesepre-trimmed, pre-pasted rolls of durabledecorator-approved wallpaper, perfect for your den orrecreation area. Join me in a protest march downMemory Lane with the pattern we call “The Dissident.”
[Rubin unrolls some wallpaper as we hear a protestchant (“The streets belong to the people! Smash thestate!” etc.) and dissolve to an image of the pattern:yellow grafitti on a red brick wall. Panning down, weread such slogans as: AVENGE ATTICA; SMASH THE STATE;Property is Theft; Hands Off Tim Leary; The streetsbelong to the people; WHITE PANTHERS; BRING THE BOYSHOME! (with BOYS crossed out and replaced by WAR);VIVA LA HUELGA!; BLACK POWER; BURN BABY BURN; STOP THETRIAL!; LEGALIZE ABORTION; Rome wasn’t destroyed in aday; S.D.S.; ON TO CHICAGO; OFF THE PIG!; STRIKE!;SUPPORT THE NLF; THE-RIGHT-TOO-BEAR-ARMS; DAYS OF RAGEOct 8-11; DEATH TO U.S. IMPERIALIST WARMONGERS, etc.Then, we dissolve back to Jerry Rubin.]Jerry Rubin: Too heavy for you? I understand. Perhaps”The Peacemaker” is more your bag.
Jerry Rubin: But no matter where your head is at,being free turns everyone on, right? That’s why wechose this fit-any-mood freedom motif for our bordersand trim. We call it “The Digger.”
[Rubin unrolls another, still mellower pattern ofwallpaper as we hear an instrumental version “BornFree” and dissolve to an image of the pattern: puce ona pink background. Panning across, we read suchslogans as: free Huey!; FREE FORT DIX 38; FREE ERIKAHUGGINS; FREE THE CATONSVILLE 9; FREE JOHN SINCLAIR;FREE THE BOSTON FIVE; free the seattle 7!; FREE DavidHilliard; FREE THE PANTHERS!; FREE BOBBY SEALE; FREELOVE; FREE ANGELA DAVIS; FREE THE MC 9; free themilwaukee 14; FREE THE CHICAGO 8 (with 8 crossed outand replaced by 7); FREE THE SEATTLE SEVEN, etc. [Abruptly, some yellow paint splatters across the image.]Jerry Rubin: Oops! No hassle! [A hand, clutching awhite rag reaches in and wipes off the mess easily.]This wallpaper is vinyl-acrylic-coated to make itscuff and stain resistant. Wipes clean with a dampcloth. [Dissolve back to Jerry Rubin] Isn’t this outof sight? So take it from me, Jerry Rubin, when I say,[raises his fist in a power salute] “Up against thewallpaper, [bleep]!”
Female Announcer: The Berkeley Collection by Chemstro.
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