The Best of Saturday Night Live: The Mr. Bill Collection

5/7/2022

Starting out as a series of short films on "Saturday Night Live" in the late 1970's and early 1980's, "The Mr. Bill Show" was a funny one-joke idea that was milked repeatedly. Here, in a forty-eight minute marathon, a little goes a long way, but I was still laughing enough. Created and produced by Walter Williams, "The Mr. Bill Show" featured a red-shirted clay figure named Mr. Bill, and his dog Spot. His "friend" was Mr. Hands, a pair of human hands who would usually end up hurting Mr. Bill and Spot, or naively bringing in Mr. Bill's archenemy Sluggo, a sour, dark figure who really was out to hurt our hero and his dog. Such mild fare like Mr. Bill going to New York City to see the sights, or going to the theater, usually meant lots of clay carnage, with tag lines like "oh, no!," "he's