Dave Wilson | Schmitt's Gay Beer / 1991 [TV (SNL) Episode]

gay pool party

by Douglas Messerli

 

Jim Downey (head writer with Adam Sandler as a regular contributor) Dave Wilson (director) Schmitt’s Gay Beer / 1991 [TV (SNL) Episode]

 

In season 17, Chris Farley and Adam Sandler meet up in a new house-sitting job that Sandler has just obtained. Farley is not at all impressed, describing the house as “a dump.”

    “Just wait until you see the pool,” argues Sandler. The two enter the backyard, which at least has flowers, but a totally empty pool.

     Sandler turns the spigot and suddenly, with  the Van Halen song “Beautiful Girls,” they are suddenly transported into gay heaven as a quintet of well-tanned muscle-bound swimmers rise from the fresh blue waters with the effortlessness of a scene from an Esther Williams musical, Farley and Sandler, their dreams come true, their prayers finally answered.

    The swimming muscle boys suggest, “You two look like you need to get wet,” and within moments they and an entire party of others have come together to celebrate the pool party and Schmitt’s Gay Beer, bottles of which they toss to one another, as they show of their tiny bikinis, crotches, and colorful swimwear.

 

     I recall seeing this on the original premier, being almost startled with the audacity of the Saturday Night Live skit. In the original they used the Van Halen song, but on all tapes from Saturday Night Live it is now drowned out by the theme music for the show itself, blocking the original far more satiric piece.

 

Los Angeles, July 1, 2024 | Reprinted from My Queer Cinema blog.