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Season 7 Plot

Season 7 of Saturday Night Live Digital Shorts continues the trend of combining offbeat humor with catchy songs, often featuring The Lonely Island at the helm of some of the most memorable sketches. Highlights include the viral hit "Jack Sparrow," featuring Michael Bolton, and "The Golden Rule," both of which mix absurd scenarios with star-studded cameos. This season solidifies the Digital Shorts as a cultural force, with their blend of sharp wit, catchy tunes, and bizarre humor continuing to captivate audiences.

SNL Digital Shorts Season 7 aired on October 1st, 2011.

Season 7 Episodes

1. Stomp

October 1st, 20113 min

Two cops (Hader and Samberg) bored at work find music in everyday life (parody of Stomp).

2. V-Necks

October 8th, 20113 min

At a clothing store, a man (Samberg) is unconvinced that the V-neck shirt he is trying on is for him, despite his girlfriend's (Pedrad) assurances.

3. Drake Interview

October 15th, 20113 min

Andy conducts several short and increasingly bizarre interviews with actor-singer Drake.

4. Wish It Would Rain

November 12th, 20113 min

A depressed singer (Samberg) sings about how his girlfriend left him for another man (Armisen).

5. Seducing Women Through Chess

November 19th, 20113 min

In an early '80s-style instructional video, a nerdy man dressed like Carl Sagan (Samberg) shows viewers how to seduce women by playing chess, but the first two women (played by Nasim Pedrad and Abby Elliott) beat him.

6. Batman

December 3rd, 20113 min

Commissioner Gordon (Steve Buscemi) keeps getting stalked by Batman (Samberg). Paul Brittain and Kristen Wiig appears as Aquaman and the Riddler respectively.

7. Best Friends

December 10th, 20113 min

Katy Perry and Samberg become best friends, then meet up with a "handsome drug addict" (Matt Damon) and "brilliant lunatic" (Val Kilmer) who want to be best friends too.

8. Convoluted Jerry

January 7th, 20123 min

A fake commercial for a CD collection featuring Convoluted Jerry (Andy Samberg), a singer whose lyrics are wordy and confusing, with songs including "Quit not Being My Lover," "Backwards Day" and "Jerry Explains the Movie Inception".

9. Afros

March 3rd, 20123 min

A man (Samberg) and woman (Wiig) dressed in '70s-style clothing declare their love for each other in song. As the camera pulls back we can see that they are connected by their shared enormous afro.

10. Tennis Balls

March 10th, 20123 min

To test the effects of stress on the human heart, a man (Jonah Hill) is hit repeatedly in the testicles by tennis balls fired from a tennis ball machine.

11. Laser Cats 7

April 14th, 20123 min

Despite Lorne Michaels' objections, Hader and Samberg show him the latest Laser Cats short – this time directed by Steven Spielberg (appearing as both himself and a "Hitchcockian" cameo in the short), which contains many references to his films, including E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Raiders of the Lost Ark. Host Josh Brolin appears as a "Space Nazi."

12. Gotye Backstage

April 14th, 20123 min

Samberg and Taran Killam visit Gotye in his dressing room, then stalk him by appearing in nothing but body paint and black wigs (as seen in the "Somebody That I Used To Know" music video).

13. 100th Short

May 12th, 20123 min

The Lonely Island celebrate their 100th Digital Short by revisiting many digital short favorite characters, clips from previous Digital Shorts, and fresh footage from numerous celebrities.

14. Lazy Sunday 2

May 19th, 20123 min

Samberg and Parnell do another "Lazy Sunday" rap for Sister Act: The Musical.

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Season 7

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Oct 1, 2011
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Sep 26, 2009
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Sep 13, 2008
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Sep 29, 2007
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Sep 30, 2006
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Dec 3, 2005
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Dec 9, 2006