SNL Transcripts: Candice Bergen: 12/20/75: Mel’s Char Palace

 Saturday Night Live Transcripts


  Season 1: Episode 8

75h: Candice Bergen / Martha Reeves, The Stylistics

Mel’s Char Palace

Mel…..Dan Aykroyd
Mrs. Mel…..Gilda Radner

Mel: Hi! I’m Mel, for Mel’s Char Palace! Where you find your own cow! You cut your own steaks! You select your cow from over 200 head! You stun it! You cut it! You charbroil it! You.. cut.. your own steaks! We give you the saw! You cut your own sirloins, tips, blades, and roasts! You find it! You stun it! You cut it! As big and as thick as you want it! Only at Mel’s Char Palace! Our saws are light! Here’s Mrs. Mel!

[ Mrs. Mel walks up gripping a chainsaw ]

Show ’em how to work the saw!

[ Mrs. Mel lets the chainsaw rip ]

Yeah, she does it, you can, too, at Mel’s Char Palace, 217 Paramus!

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