Dana Carvey ‘still mystified’ by love for ‘Choppin’ Broccoli’ sketch

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1. It highlights some pop song lyrics that present themselves as intense and serious, but the actual words are rediculous.

   “Someone left my cake out in the rain, and I…don’t…think that I can take it, cause it took so long to bake it, and I’ll never have that recipe agaaaaaaaain, oh noooooo.”

2. I am in my 40’s and was shown this by my parents and my kids have also seen it.

   With no context for listeners I can be guilty of a random “Paradiiiiiiiiiiise”

3. I was singing it last week while making a frittata.

4. Because it is ridiculous

5. I’m always singing it

6. I think it’s because the audience heard Broccoli and thought he was going to pivot to his George Bush Sr. impression, so it got an initial reaction and then it immediately subverted the expectation so it was funnier.

7. It comes up regularly

8. My mom loved this and would always quote it when I was a kid. I’m 40.

9. ^(me too Dana… me too)

10. Pretty sure he did the skit before he was on the show. It might’ve even been his audition.

11. Broccoli was me, broccoli was you, broccoli was the world.

12. “Chopping broccoli” was code for smoking weed when I was a teenager.

13. His Joe Biden is pretty damn funny.

14. Because👏Phil👏Hartman👏is 👏in👏it.

15. The [Broccoli Mandate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broccoli_mandate) bullshit from the US Supreme Court.

16. Yup every time choppin Broc-co-leee

17. With the current hairstyle favored by teen influencer & high school boys, I find myself singing this whenever I see them. I also call them Broccolini when there’s a bunch of them in a group…

18. He did some other song on the skit. Something about new beginnings…

19. I love it so much

20. I sing this every time my wife asks me to chop broccoli

21. I sing it every time I cook broccoli. No lie.

22. It was Phil Hartman biting his hand with sadness

23. I never knew it was a sketch, I remember it from his standup.

24. Sigourney Weavers face during that skit just made it even funnier

25. Because it’s simply funny.