Saturday Night Live: the videos Hacker News recommends
Not the channel's most viewed videos: the ones HN commenters kept linking with real commentary. The top pick, "Don't Buy Stuff - Saturday Night Live", hN posts it as a favorite comic summary of debt avoidance and spending discipline, and as a joke in buy-now-pay-later threads.
- 2 HN recommenders 2 months 2016–2026comedy videoHN posts it as a favorite comic summary of debt avoidance and spending discipline, and as a joke in buy-now-pay-later threads.
- 1 HN recommenders 1 months 2017–2022comedy videoHN brings it up as a joke and as design inspiration for voice assistants for seniors.
- cited 4× 0 months 2021–2024comedy videoUsed as shorthand for the arrogant, dismissive tech support person in jokes and comparisons.
- cited 3× 0 months 2017–2026comedy videoHN commenters mostly invoke it as a joke when discussing meetings, management and workplace absurdity.
- cited 5× 0 months 2019–2024comedy videoUsed as a joke reference for products with absurd warnings and disclaimers.
- cited 6× 0 months 2024–2026comedy videoHN only uses it as a joke reference in unrelated threads.
- cited 5× 0 months 2022–2024comedy videoHN uses it as a joke reference whenever a business loses money per transaction and says it will make it up in volume.
- cited 3× 0 months 2017–2022comedy videoUsed as a joke or as an example of why workplace rules and dating dynamics are funny and relatable.
- cited 5× 0 months 2019–2025comedy videoUsed as a funny reference for realistic expectations about travel and whether it fixes your life.
- cited 4× 0 months 2019–2022comedy videoHN mostly drops it as a joke in threads about vans, van life or career failure.
- cited 4× 0 months 2019–2025comedy videoUsed mainly as a reference for how contemporaries viewed Reagan's presidency, and occasionally as a joke.
- cited 3× 0 months 2019–2022comedy videoBrought up as a joke in threads about doping and athletic performance.
- cited 9× 0 months 2021–2026comedy videoPosted as a joke in threads about typefaces and typography.
- cited 3× 0 months 2023–2024comedy videoCited in debates about slurs, censorship and platform moderation as proof such content has long existed on YouTube.
Questions
Which Saturday Night Live video does Hacker News recommend most?
Don't Buy Stuff - Saturday Night Live: recommended in 2 different months by 2 HN users between 2016 and 2026.
Is this every Saturday Night Live video?
No. Only videos that at least three different HN users linked, in at least three different months, with at least a sentence of their own commentary. That filter is what makes the list useful.
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