The Boston Teens

The Boston Teens

The Boston Teens are characters featured in a large number of sketches in the American television show "Saturday Night Live".

Denise "Zazu" McDonough (Rachel Dratch) and Pat Sullivan or "Sully" (Jimmy Fallon) are a pair of Lexington, Massachusetts teenagers in love. The sketches are presented in the format of home video footage filmed by their unseen friend, Tommy. They have a torrid relationship, often arguing and making up in the same sentence. A prime example of this is Denise's tendency to say, "You're retarded," to which Sully replies, "You are" and immediately starts making out with her. Denise and Sully are featured in all twelve sketches. Frankie Hilbert (Horatio Sanz), a long-haired, bespectacled burnout, features in all but the first. In one episode, Justin Timberlake plays Denise's younger brother, a pyromaniac who has inadvertently provided the family with a large sum of money after being molested by a priest. Donnie Bartalotti, played by non-cast member Ben Affleck, appeared three times (though there were plans for more appearances). In the final Boston Teens sketch, he gets married to Michael Smith or "Smitty", played by Seth Meyers, as a response to Massachusetts' recent legalization gay marriage.

The characters are very devoted fans of the Boston Red Sox, and use the name of former star shortstop Nomar Garciaparra as a catchphrase, though with a highly affected Boston accent, pronounced as "Nomah!" Garciaparra makes a cameo appearance in one of the sketches.

The characters have their roots in a sketch called "Wicked" (an intensifier in the New England dialect, as in the expression "Wicked awesome!") performed at Chicago's Second City by Rachel Dratch and Tina Fey, playing an early version of the Denise character and her mother (or "mutha").

Episodes in which The Boston Teens appear

* November 13, 1999: host Garth Brooks
* December 11, 1999: host Danny DeVito
* February 19, 2000: host Ben Affleck (Affleck's first time in The Boston Teens, though he was supposed to have hosted the night that Danny DeVito hosted, above)
* May 13, 2000: host Britney Spears
* October 14, 2000: host Kate Hudson (featuring a cameo by Nomar Garciaparra)
* March 10, 2001: host Conan O'Brien (Affleck returns for a cameo)
* November 10, 2001: host Gwyneth Paltrow
* March 2, 2002: host Jonny Moseley
* October 5, 2002: host Matt Damon (Affleck had hoped to cameo in this episode, but could not)
* April 5, 2003: host Bernie Mac
* October 11, 2003: host Justin Timberlake
* March 13, 2004: host Ben Affleck

ee also

* Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches

References

* [http://snl.jt.org/group.php?i=11 The Boston Teens at the "SNL" archives]


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