SUNDAY MORNING LIVE: Justin Timberlake Joins the 'SNL' Five-Timers Club With Help from the Motherlovers, Stefon and Two Wild and Crazy Guys

Welcome to Edition No. 16 of Sunday Morning Live, Popculturology's look at the latest episode of Saturday Night Live. All of your questions about the Justin Timberlake-hosted episode will be answered after the jump.

How'd Timberlake do?



"How'd Timberlake do?" Not to be harsh, but that's a dumb question, Sunday Morning Live. With this being the multihypenate's fifth time hosting SNL, we all knew that Timberlake would deliver a show that would stand as the best so far of Season 38. He didn't disappoint. In his monologue, Timberlake even acknowledged the fact that with every time he's hosted SNL, the hype has gotten bigger and bigger, remarking that there was the possibility he would "let everyone down thanks to incredibly high expectations. Thanks, Internet." Thankfully, he didn't let us down.

The bulk of Timberlake's monologue was devoted to celebrating his entrance into SNL's prestigious Five-Timers Club, the group of celebrities who have hosted the show at least five times (or, in Paul Simon's case, hosted and performed). With Steve Martin as his guide, Timberlake was served drinks by Dan Aykroyd (just the bartender since he's only hosted once), was confused by Chevy Chase's relationship with the show ("Are you guys friends or not?" "Exactly.") and got to watch Bobby Moynihan and Taran Killam fight to the death for Alec Baldwin, Tom Hanks and Candice Bergen's entertainment.


Timberlake has a lot of classic sketches — which ones did they bring back?



During the week leading up to this episode, there had been reports of the Lonely Island guys being seen around SNL, but the show decided to shake things up for Timberlake this time. Instead of having his and Andy Samberg's Dick in a Box characters appear in another Digital Short, they were featured as contestants on the game show It's a Date. Their opponents for Vanessa Bayer's character? Moynihan's regular guy ... and Two Wild and Crazy Guys, Aykroyd and Martin themselves. I don't know where to even begin when explaining the awesomeness of this sketch. It's a Date took everything we love about the Dick in a Box characters and delivered it in quick bursts of genius. When asked how their date with Bayer's character would go, Timberlake closed out their singing response with, "Both of us railing on your butt. Romance." Thanks to these guys, we now know that "Girls can’t get pregnant in the summertime. That’s a known fact."


Justin Timberlake - Bring It On Down 2... by IdolxMuzic

It wouldn't be a Timberlake-hosted SNL without seeing the actor/singer in a ridiculous costume while modifying a bunch of popular songs to promote his character's cause. In the tradition of Omeletteville and Homelessville, Timberlake brought us on down to Veganville. I'm going to start using the line "Check it, carne asada."


Did Timberlake break out any new stuff?

To kick of the show, SNL had Timberlake play Elton John hired by Venezuela to perform at Hugo Chavez's funeral. With the disclaimer that "Everything in this song is true," Timberlake and SNL tore into almost every ridiculous thing Chavez ever did, all to the tune of Candle in the Wind. Like with the Veganville sketch, the cold open isn't available online.



At about 12:30 a.m., SNL took a turn toward the obscene, running sketches about Caligula, dating a girl with a penis and pornstars peddling champagne. The Tales of Sober Caligula focused on Caligula attempting to step away from his days as an alcoholic and a sex addict ... but that cute sex pig makes it so difficult ...



I loved Maine Justice when they did it for Jamie Foxx's episode, but I don't think SNL focused enough on the ridiculous concept of the sketch for Timberlake's episode. Part of the fun the last time was watching the straight man try to figure out how he wound up in this bizarre Louisiana-esque town in Maine. Samberg played the straight man in this sketch, but didn't really have much to do. I found it odd that Samberg played this part while the majority of the SNL cast that wasn't Moynihan or Hader disappeared this episode.


Anything else worth talking about this episode?



It's not often that Bill Hader's Stefon shows up for Weekend Update and isn't the highlight of an episode of SNL, but with Timberlake dominating the episode, Stefon's latest bout of advice is just one small part of a great show. Stefon's pursuit of Seth Meyers continued this weekend, with his response to Seth telling him that he was "taking my serious girlfriend to Mexico" for spring break being "To kill her?"



This one was another callback to Foxx's episode. Bayer and Cecily Strong played two former pornstars trying to make a few bucks by horribly promoting a product, this time choosing Moet and Chandon Champagne. SNL saved this one for last, and I'm sure lines like "I got banged into a sink hole. But a mole person banged me back up" and "Magnum cum loudly" played a big part in that.


So no Digital Short this week. Any other good shorts and commercials?



"100% effective at getting that swag on." Enough said.



Another entry in sketches that SNL had to wait to air until the end of the episode due to their raciness, Timberlake, Nasim Pedrad and Keenan Thompson starred in a trailer for a fake romantic comedy called She's Got a D!%k. I don't really have to explain the premise of this one, do I?


Any other cool guests?



Despite the fact that Timberlake will be on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon every night this upcoming week, Jimmy Fallon didn't appear in Timberlake's episode of SNL. Jay-Z, however, did find time to swing by.


What's next?

SNL is back on April 6 with Melissa McCarthy hosting and Phoenix as the musical guests.


Previous editions of Sunday Morning Live

March 3, 2013: Kevin Hart
Feb. 17, 2013: Christoph Waltz
Feb. 10, 2013: Justin Bieber
Jan. 27, 2013: Adam Levine
Jan. 20, 2013: Jennifer Lawrence
Dec. 16, 2012: Martin Short
Dec. 9, 2012: Jamie Foxx
Nov. 18, 2012: Jeremy Renner
Nov. 11, 2012: Anne Hathaway
Nov. 4, 2012: Louis C.K.
Oct. 21, 2012: Bruno Mars
Oct. 14, 2012: Christina Applegate
Oct. 7, 2012: Daniel Craig
Sept. 23, 2012: Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Sept. 16, 2012: Seth MacFarlane