The Schoeners
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The Schoeners, also known as the Art Dealers, is a recurring sketch on Saturday Night Live. It features Fred Armisen and Maya Rudolph as Nuni and Nüni Schoener, respectively. It also features Chris Parnell as Tato, their very strange "maid". The Schoeners are quirky and irritatingly avant-garde art dealers who always have strange, post-modern furniture in their home, such as a very wet chair in the shape of a tongue. They act like it's normal furniture, and are often baffled by observers' confusion at it. Also, they act as though having roughly the same name (and the same name as their children) is very normal.
When the new significant other of one of their children meets them, they can't pronounce the Schoeners' names correctly. This "significant other" usually has a very normal name such as Jeff or Susan, which the Schoeners are terribly unable to pronounce correctly, spouting random attempts at pronunciation that sound nothing like the actual names. (They once misinterpreted "Pamela" as "Baronon" and "Harpelo" and, at another time, they attempted to pronounce "Jeff" as "Gwarf", or "Doyland"). The sketches often feature Tato bringing them what might seem like normal food but in very odd ways of eating it or preparing it; such as rice ground up into a paste, a "meat" capsule, hair replaced by cotton candy, or melted blueberry ice-cream that was fed by Tato to the Nunis via a tube that Tato would suck the ice-cream into, and then blow out into the Nuni's mouths, with little success.
[edit] Appearances
- January 15, 2005. Topher Grace/The Killers
- March 12, 2005. David Spade/Jack Johnson
- May 14, 2005. Will Ferrell/Queens of the Stone Age
- March 4, 2006. Natalie Portman/Fall Out Boy
- February 24, 2007. Rainn Wilson/Arcade Fire. Also appeared together with Rain Wilson for commercials for that episode.
[edit] References
- [[1]]Sketch featuring Natalie Portman
- [[2]]Snl.jt.org
- [[3]]Maya Rudolph biography (Nooni)
- [[4]]Fred Armisen biography (Nuni)
- [[5]] Sketch featuring Topher Grace
