SNL Lampoons TSA
 

Hope somebody gets the video posted somewhere, but the new SNL season kicked off with them nailing TSA. Good to see when they even start making fun of the really goofy "security" procedures. Maybe people outside of the frequent traveller will start to see the silliness.

I just watched the SNL skit. What a riot!! ^ ^ :D Very funny and probably not far from the truth.

I especially loved Maya Rudolphs character asking why our nuclear power plants aren't protected. And the supervisor's response saying to keep the questions about airplanes.

Please, someone post here if they can find it on YouTube or elsewhere. Would love to see it.

Sounds to me like Hawley and Chertoff may have finally jerked the public around one too many times. I guess FlyerTalk is just very avant garde in that we've been lampooning the TSA for a long time.

Very close to the truth.

A lot of the items brought up on FT made their way into the skit.

i missed... but i am looking forward to see the rerun.
any idea if it would repeat anytime soon?

Someone will probably put it up on YouTube by Monday.

Since it was part of the sketch, I'm am curious if you have a turkey sandwich with more than 3 oz. of mustard on it, will it be allowed? I was wondering if writing on the baggies was going to show up but it didn't.

I dont see any mustard ;)

or
(the pack said it was 2oz when i put it on)

The last thing I want is to derail the thread but just as a point of reference nuclear plants are very well protected both inside and out. I worked at one a visited several between '82 and '98. From a nuclear safety standpoint I would have no problem building my house right next to one. From a terrorist standpoint almost anything else is an easier target.

So what if my partner and i both bring on 3 ounces then we'd have six ounces...

They need to put a skit on about what happens at the checkpoints. A lot of fun that can be made of the TSA and of passengers. :)

To clarify the SNL skit. They said chemical plants and not nuclear plants.

Who knew? The TSA has a sense of humor. I bring you:

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drifting OT, sorry, but load up a piper cub with explosives and ram the nuclear plant. Just a variation on the car bomb technique which they use so effectively in the Middle East.

That's why the TSA spokesperson on SNL wanted to avoid those questions and focus on how xraying shoes can blocking 4 oz toothpaste tubes makes us safer.

Did they say "think of the children" on the SNL skit?