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Are you ready for change?

By Michelle Malkin  •  February 19, 2008 10:04 PM

For those of you nauseated by all the “change” blather on TV right now, here’s an oldie but goodie from Saturday Night Live: The First Citiwide Change Bank…

Transcript:

[ SUPER: "When you do only one thing, you do it better" ]

Customer #1: I needed to take the bus, but all I had was a five-dollar bill. I stopped by First Citiwide, and they were able to give me four singles and four quarters.

[ SUPER: "At First Citiwide Change Bank, We just make change" ]

Bank Representative: We will work with the customer to give that customer the change that he or she needs. If you come to us with a twenty-dollar bill, we can give you two tens, we can give you four fives - we can give you a ten and two fives. We will work with you.

Customer #2: I went to my First Citiwide branch to change a fifty. I guess I was in kind of a hurry, and I asked for a twenty, a ten, and two fives. Their computers picked up my mistake right away, and I got the correct change.

[ SUPER: "Correct Change" ]

Bank Representative: We have been in this business a long time. With our experience, we’re gonna have ideas for change combinations that probably haven’t occurred to you. If you have a fifty-dollar bill, we can give you fifty singles. [ SUPER: "We can give you fifty singles" ] We can give you forty-nine singles and ten dimes. We can give you twenty-five twos. Come talk to us. [ SUPER: "We can give you twenty-five twos" ] We are not going to give you change that you don’t want. If you come to us with a hundred-dollar bill, we’re not going to give you two-thousand nickels.. [ SUPER: "We're not going to give you two thousand nickels" ] - unless that meets your particular change needs. We will give you.. the change.. equal to.. the amount of money.. that you want change for!

[ SUPER: "At First Citiwide Change Bank, Our business is making change" ]

Bank Representative: That’s what we do.

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  1. #1
    On February 19th, 2008 at 10:07 pm, zorro said:

    Oh man, still laughing! That was a goot one.

  2. #2
    On February 19th, 2008 at 10:10 pm, John Ansell said:

    Wait, don’t bother me now. I’m waiting to see if I can get a free car, free insurance for said car, a free home with homeowners insurance. I’m getting a whole bunch of goodies.

    All my taxes finally coming back with a return.

    I’m hoping for a free jet too. Oh, and I’ll need another boat for a security blanket. I also want a chicken in every pot. A bottomless glass of beer and no responsibility.

    I know Obama is related to Cheney, but is Santa on that family tree too?

  3. #3
    On February 19th, 2008 at 10:11 pm, magicarb said:

    Waiting for Obama to channel Lou Rawls:

    {spoken}
    You know, there was a time when, if someone told you to do somethin’, you did it. Bam! Right on! No questions asked.
    It was “Yes, sir” and “Yes, mam”. You never said no. You know? Huh.
    But, you know, things are changing nowadays. It’s a new day, babies.
    Folks want to take their own lives into their hands and make their own choices. No longer do they wanna go along with
    the program ’cause everybody say it’s right. You know what I mean?
    Let me tell ya what I’m talkin’ about, ya see, ’cause…

  4. #4
    On February 19th, 2008 at 10:12 pm, granite said:

    Yep.
    I remember that one.
    Rosanne was in that one, if I’m not mistaken.
    My wife and I still use that one to mock lame commercials!

  5. #5
    On February 19th, 2008 at 10:14 pm, BOB said:

    Change is great. The politicians don’t have to say anything specific and everyone thinks the change they want is the one that’s being promised. It makes almost no one mad and a whole lot of people happy.

    Got Change?

  6. #6
    On February 19th, 2008 at 10:23 pm, madchef said:

    That’s all we are going to have is change.
    Obambi say’s we have to move America forward. The national debt is $9 T dollars now, he will make it $19 T if he has his way.

  7. #7
    On February 19th, 2008 at 10:29 pm, DesertLover said:

    Change for the sake of change is not change at all … it is only denying whatever the current course is without any direction for a new course …

    To paraphrase Aretha Franklin’s “Chain of Fools”:

    Change, change, change, change, change, change,
    Change, change, change, change for fools

    Wake up people … we are talking about 2 empty suits, one of each gender, which offer no substance …

    Platitudes … slogans … talking points … socialist agendas … defeatist attitudes … isolationists …

    Is that what you want? …

    I for one do not and will do all I can to make damned sure that is not what my kids and grandkids have to look forward to …

  8. #8
    On February 19th, 2008 at 10:34 pm, meatpieandtatters said:

    Crock Bolorama’s change we can believe in line is as empty as his rhetoric. Hollow.

  9. #9
    On February 19th, 2008 at 10:37 pm, whysoangry said:

    How does one give the same “Change” speech over and over, and nobody cares?!?

  10. #10
    On February 19th, 2008 at 10:53 pm, DarkKnight said:

    On February 19th, 2008 at 10:34 pm, meatpieandtatters said:
    Crock Bolorama’s change we can believe in line is as empty as his rhetoric.

    Hollow.

    McCain’s was so much better.

    Right……

    McCain speech highlights:

    “Holiday from history…”

    “Putting trust in government, not in the people”

    Etc. Etc.

  11. #11
    On February 19th, 2008 at 10:54 pm, purplepeep said:

    whysoangry said:
    How does one give the same “Change” speech over and over, and nobody cares?!?

    Remeber Kodos’ campaign speech from “The Simpsons”?

    “My fellow Americans. As a young boy, I dreamed of being a baseball, but
    tonight I say, we must move forward, not backward, upward not forward,
    and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom.”

  12. #12
    On February 19th, 2008 at 11:04 pm, ajmontana said:

    I’m all for change,
    1)MAKE THE PAR 5′S 30 YARDS CLOSER.
    2)COLDER BEER
    3)THE BEVERAGE CART GIRL TO WEAR SHORT SHORTS.

  13. #13
    On February 19th, 2008 at 11:27 pm, chapoutier said:

    PLAGERISM!!!!

    I made this joke over a month ago. I am sad to say that MM has not properly attributed me.

    When your blog is all full of words, they should be your own.

  14. #14
    On February 19th, 2008 at 11:30 pm, rightisright said:

    I like change…good change…the world is always going to change…politicians preach change every election cycle…change, change dis change dat but nuttin’ every seems to change. I want change that is real change…making people proud of the change we’ve made…now there’s a load for ya.
    Political change= bull$i!!
    The only way to make change is get da bums out of office…that would be a good change.

  15. #15
    On February 19th, 2008 at 11:31 pm, Paul-Cincy said:

    Michelle, that bit has been a favorite in my family, and curiously, I’ve thought of it too when Obama keeps talking about “change”. The funniest line is the last, “All the time our customers ask us, how do you make money doing this. The answer is simple — Volume”. If I asked Obama how he’s going to pay for all his new social programs, he might say, “The answer is simple — Hope”.

  16. #16
    On February 19th, 2008 at 11:38 pm, rightisright said:

    February 19th, 2008 at 11:31 pm, Paul-Cincy

    Volumes of hope and then a whole lot of taxes…lord help us all.

  17. #17
    On February 19th, 2008 at 11:48 pm, radio relay said:

    I’m waiting for Obama, to offer 40 acres and a mule…

  18. #18
    On February 20th, 2008 at 12:19 am, ThackerAgency said:

    HA! That was a good one.

    Obama can keep the change. I want to maintain the country and its position as the one country people around the world consider paradise. I don’t want to change away from being the ONLY superpower in the world. I don’t want to change away from a society and economy where everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed.

    He can keep the change for himself and his own life and family.

  19. #19
    On February 20th, 2008 at 1:46 am, Snooper said:

    I am still suffering from Electile Dysfunction but this soothed me.

  20. #20
    On February 20th, 2008 at 2:15 am, 29Victor said:

    Classic.

    Phil Hartman was sent by God. NewsRadio was the greatest show ever.

    I recently found out that Andy Dick was at least partially responsible for Phil’s death (at least according to John Lovitz).

    There is a great interview here about it. It’s Dennis Miller interviewing John Lovitz about what led him to smash Andy’s head into a bar.

  21. #21
    On February 20th, 2008 at 4:06 am, graysonret said:

    I have the feeling that, in a couple of years, I’ll be switching from my bank to McDonalds. By the time the government finishes taxing my paycheck, I’ll have just enough left to cash it at McDonalds for a “happy meal”.

  22. #22
    On February 20th, 2008 at 4:44 am, Thunderbird 1 said:

    Bless you, Michelle, for posting that. And may God be with the children of the late, great Phil Hartman, one of the single greatest talents to ever grace SNL.

  23. #23
    On February 20th, 2008 at 8:28 am, Ron Rockstar said:

    On February 19th, 2008 at 11:27 pm, chapoutier said:
    PLAGERISM!!!!

    I made this joke over a month ago. I am sad to say that MM has not properly attributed me.

    When your blog is all full of words, they should be your own.

    chapoutier, your link (that doesn’t work) takes folks to wonkette. What does that have to do with Michelle Malkin?

  24. #24
    On February 20th, 2008 at 9:36 am, chapoutier said:

    ROn,
    If you look in the comments section for that piece, I made a similar joke about the Change bank skit back in early February. My commnet here was a thinly- veiled (or so I thought) jab at the whole Obama plagiarism story. Poor execution I guess.

  25. #25
    On February 20th, 2008 at 9:36 am, BOB said:

    On February 20th, 2008 at 4:06 am, graysonret said:
    I have the feeling that, in a couple of years, I’ll be switching from my bank to McDonalds. By the time the government finishes taxing my paycheck, I’ll have just enough left to cash it at McDonalds for a “happy meal”.

    But when Obama is elected every meal will be a happy meal.

    The poor will no longer be disturbed by the sight of rich people, we will all be poor, ending the envy and class warfare that has been going on for so many years.

    Illegal immigration will cease, cause nobody will want to come here.

    Their will be no wars because no one will fight.

    Can’t you see the utopia ahead of us?

  26. #26
    On February 20th, 2008 at 9:51 am, terrig said:

    Thanks for the morning funny!

  27. #27
    On February 20th, 2008 at 9:54 am, Barry F. said:

    On February 19th, 2008 at 11:48 pm, radio relay said:

    I’m waiting for Obama, to offer 40 acres and a mule…

    Well, they are the part of the jackass. I’m sure they can throw some eminent domain in there too to get the land. ;-)

  28. #28
    On February 20th, 2008 at 9:56 am, Boomer said:

    Never hurts to start the day with a morning laugh. Thanks Michelle!

  29. #29
    On February 20th, 2008 at 4:16 pm, graysonret said:

    Radio Relay, “Chicken in every pot” is what you’ll probably hear.

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