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The Best SNL Docuseries Episode Is Obviously ‘More Cowbell’
This four-part Peacock show has a fever, and we bet you can guess what the only prescription for it is.
The docuseries walks us through the path the sketch took to getting on the air — how it got shelved before making it into the episode Walken hosted, how badly it went over during dress rehearsal — and occasionally dips into cliché as it attempts to explain its impact. (As the docuseries explains, Ferrell took Dickinson’s name from the credits on a Blue Oyster Cult CD without realizing he was only involved in producing a remastered version of the track, not the original.) Theoretically, it’s possible to absorb some of the tidbits shared in the “More Cowbell” episode simply by doing a little internet research: on Wikipedia, in this oral history of the song by GQ, or in this interview with Blue Oyster Cult co-founder Donald “Buck Dharma” Roeser published here at Vulture.
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