Season 25 / Episode 5
Garth Brooks
November 13, 1999 · Musical guest: Chris Gaines
Running order
The show.
- 01
NBC Special Report
Cold open - 02
Monologue
Monologue - 03
Today Is Never Yesterday
Live sketch - 04
The Smurfs
Pre-tape - 05
Hickory Farms
Live sketch - 06
Backstage
Live sketch - 07
Great Moments in Corporate History
Live sketch - 08
Express Flowers
Live sketch - 09
Weekend Update
- At the deskThe Millennium: Part Three: Man of the Millennium
- At the deskMolly Shannon: The World Is Crazy!!!
Weekend Update - 10
"Way Of The Girl"
Musical performance - 11
Dressing Room
Live sketch - 12
Lucifer Songs
Live sketch - 13
Wilson's
Live sketch - 14
Royal Deluxe II
Live sketch - 15
WXLU
Live sketch - 16
Goodnights
Goodnights
Notable moments.
The Boston Teens debut
The Garth Brooks episode introduces the recurring Boston Teens sketch.
Source ↗Garth Brooks performs as Chris Gaines
Garth Brooks hosts under his own name and serves as musical guest in his Chris Gaines persona.
Source ↗Broadcast note
Segment 1 — NBC Special Report: The "Live from New York" portion is archive footage from the 10.04.1997 cold opening.
Source ↗Broadcast note
Segment 8 — Express Flowers: After Garth Brooks flubs one of his lines, he begins repeating it and ad-libs "I wanna get this right, you know?"
Source ↗Broadcast note
Segment 11 — Dressing Room: This sketch is replaced with the dress rehearsal version in reruns.
Source ↗Broadcast note
Segment 15 — WXLU: At the beginning of this sketch, Tim Meadows says "Alright everybody, settle down now", a reference to the preceding sketch.
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