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[[File:Frank Zappa Saturday Night Live.jpg|500px|thumb|right|Frank Zappa during the ''Night on Freak Mountain'' sketch, with Laraine Newman and Dan Aykroyd.]] | [[File:Frank Zappa Saturday Night Live.jpg|500px|thumb|right|Frank Zappa during the ''Night on Freak Mountain'' sketch, with Laraine Newman and Dan Aykroyd.]] | ||
| − | '''A Night On Freak Mountain''' is a 9:45 min. long | + | '''A Night On Freak Mountain''' is a 9:45 min. long ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' sketch, performed [[78/10/21 Saturday Night Live NBC|on Dec. 12th, 1978]]. The title is a pun on Modest Mussorgsky's composition ''A Night On Bald Mountain''. |
The ''Night on Freak Mountain'' sketch involves Frank Zappa getting lost on Freak Mountain, when his car is stuck in a mud slide. He then meets a bunch of [[hippies]] (played by Dan Aykroyd and Laraine Newman) who want him to get stoned with him. Paul Schaffer also turns up, playing the character Don Kirshner. <ref>https://www.onesnladay.com/2018/10/08/october-21-1978-frank-zappa-s4-e3/</ref> | The ''Night on Freak Mountain'' sketch involves Frank Zappa getting lost on Freak Mountain, when his car is stuck in a mud slide. He then meets a bunch of [[hippies]] (played by Dan Aykroyd and Laraine Newman) who want him to get stoned with him. Paul Schaffer also turns up, playing the character Don Kirshner. <ref>https://www.onesnladay.com/2018/10/08/october-21-1978-frank-zappa-s4-e3/</ref> | ||
Latest revision as of 08:02, 26 June 2026
A Night On Freak Mountain is a 9:45 min. long Saturday Night Live sketch, performed on Dec. 12th, 1978. The title is a pun on Modest Mussorgsky's composition A Night On Bald Mountain.
The Night on Freak Mountain sketch involves Frank Zappa getting lost on Freak Mountain, when his car is stuck in a mud slide. He then meets a bunch of hippies (played by Dan Aykroyd and Laraine Newman) who want him to get stoned with him. Paul Schaffer also turns up, playing the character Don Kirshner. [1]
Joel Hodgson credited the "homemade aesthetic" of the deliberately low-budget special effects of his own co-created show Mystery Science Theater 3000 partially to the Night On Freak Mountain sketch:"The example that comes to mind is an SNL sketch from the seventies, when Frank Zappa was the musical guest. It was called “Night on Freak Mountain” and at a certain point they cut to a pretty crude model – which was supposed to be an exterior shot of Freak Mountain – and right away everyone in the studio audience laughed. I found it so charming, funny and real.". [2]
