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My favorite season from my adolescence is the 1995-1996 one, right after they cleaned house (basically keeping Norm MacDonald and Tim Meadows and getting rid of everyone else-- plus one more season from Mark McKinney and David Spade, and David Koechner and Nancy Walls' only seasons).

I thought the show was really well written and had a lot of good sketches; they took many more chances than the old cast and writers had been, and it paid off. The season finale (Jim Carrey / Soundgarden) is one of my favorite episodes.

Unfortunately, the next year they were already in decline again.