In a sketch from last night's Saturday Night Live, the cast member Andrew Dismukes played a suburban husband who threw a successful dinner party. As he basked in the company of his friends, he proposed a sweet, well-intentioned idea. 'Guys,' he said. 'Am I crazy' We should do this, like, every Sunday!' Instead of agreeing, however, his friends reacted with a mix of confusion and discomfort, leading him to gesticulate desperately: 'This! Us! Sunday Supper, every week!' As he repeated 'Sunday Supper,' the anodyne phrase eventually became funny through sheer force of desperation. Unfortunately for Dismukes's character, the inconvenient demands of grown-up life make such commitments hard to stick with. One friend (Sarah Sherman) raised the difficulties of securing a babysitter ('Those teens drive a hard bargain'); another (Ashley Padilla) noted that she and her husband usually had dinner with her parents on Sunday. In response, Dismukes's character quietly cycled from disappointment to...
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