The core premise of the show allowed for tremendous variety in presentation, but unlike Monty Python, which often would cut from one sketch to another without any resolution, the SCTV format required television style bridges.

In addition, a common theme of the show's humor was to introduce a sketch with a " straight man " character caught in a ridiculous premise, then turn the sketch around by making the premise turn out to be correct.

The premise of the SNL sketch is that Walken is a " suave ladies ' man " who in reality can't say or do anything to keep women from giving him the cold shoulder, typically due to a number of perverse actions that often border on sexual predation.

The status of this sketch premise as synonymous with the series, and arguably Dom Joly's eventual boredom with it, was reflected in the final episode, where it served as the final sketch.

The premise of the sketch is then laid out thus:

The show's title — and a basic summary of its premise — had previously appeared as a one-time gag in a " Wake of the Week " sketch on CODCO.

The show's premise was derived from a sketch from The State called " The Mr. and Former Mrs. Laupin Variety Program ", and the show featured many people who were a part of the comedy troupe.

The other common sketch theme was a game show with an odd premise, such as “ Plant or Animal ”, where an audience member was asked to attribute a few seconds-long recording to either an animal or Robert Plant.

The basic premise of all mystery stories is that the distinction between good and bad coincides with the distinction between legal and illegal.

What was missing in the Governor's argument, as in so many similar arguments, was a premise which would enable one to make the ethical leap from what might be militarily desirable to what is right.

The possibility, as he asserted, that the Russians may get ahead of us or come closer to us because of their tests does not supply the needed ethical premise -- unless, of course, we have unwittingly become so brutalized that nuclear superiority is now taken as a moral demand.

This was expressed by Korzybski's most famous premise, " the map is not the territory ".

Note that this premise uses the phrase " is not ", a form of " to be "; this and many other examples show that he did not intend to abandon " to be " as such.

An axiom is a premise or starting point of reasoning.

As classically conceived, an axiom is a premise so evident as to be accepted as true without controversy.

Here the premise is that any observer continually tries to improve the predictability and compressibility of the observations by discovering regularities such as repetitions and symmetries and fractal self-similarity.

Pop singer Pat Boone appeared on one episode as himself, with the premise that he hailed from the same area of the country as the Clampetts, though Boone is a native of Jacksonville, Florida.

Bidding is based on the premise that the lowest contract available to bidders starts with the proposition to take seven tricks, i. e. one cannot contract to make less than seven tricks.

The premise of the show is that a group of people live together in a large house, isolated from the outside world.

The return from exile is the theological premise of prophet's visions in chapters 1-6.

Unlike similar constructed languages like aUI, Blissymbolics was conceived as a purely visual, speech-less language, on the premise that “ interlinguistic communication is mainly carried on by reading and writing ”.

The basic premise of the transactional model of communication is that individuals are simultaneously engaging in the sending and receiving of messages.

The premise of mainstream cognitive behavioral therapy is that changing maladaptive thinking leads to change in affect and in behavior but recent variants emphasize changes in one's relationship to maladaptive thinking rather than changes in thinking itself.

The basic premise of all of these is that something caused the Universe to exist, and this First Cause must be God.

Secondly, the premise of causality has been arrived at via a posteriori ( inductive ) reasoning, which is dependent on experience.

This is rather different to the modern version known in Wicca, though they have the same premise, that of the rules given by a great Mother Goddess to her faithful.

Even though the three processes mentioned above proved to be equivalent, the fundamental premise behind the thesis — the notion of what it means for a function to be effectively calculable — is " a somewhat vague intuitive one ".

" The contention is that this is a syllogistic inference, for it appears to require the extra premise: " Whatever has the property of thinking, exists ", a premise Descartes did not justify.

In fact, he conceded that there would indeed be an extra premise needed, but denied that the cogito is a syllogism ( see below ).

His instruction was based on the premise that Buddhist ideology is eternal, and that Buddha would send emanations to complete the missions he had initiated.

* Hack ( comedy ), a joke, or premise for a joke, that is considered obvious, frequently used, and / or stolen.

The basic premise of the strip was expanded to include that Dicky's father now owned a joke shop, explaining where he got all these jokes from.

The premise of the song came from a joke told by the child of a friend of Wooley's ; Wooley finished composing it within an hour.

Although he began work in 2004 on Oregon-themed songs and briefly considered releasing a Rhode Island 7 ", Stevens has since not released another album focused on a state, saying in a November 2009 interview with Paste that " the whole premise was such a joke ," and telling Andrew Purcell of The Guardian in October 2009 " I have no qualms about admitting fifty states project was a promotional gimmick.

This even extends to undermining the implied premise, expected by those that are familiar with elephant jokes, that an elephant joke is automatically illogical, or even involves elephants at all.

The film's title and premise are a joke referring to the character of Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock Holmes ' older brother, who was by both of their estimates a good deal smarter than Sherlock.

Individualism makes the individual its focus and so starts " with the fundamental premise that the human individual is of primary importance in the struggle for liberation.

1935's Hoi Polloi utilized the Pygmalion premise of a stuffy professor waging a bet that he can transform the uncultured trio into refined gentlemen ; the plotline worked so well that it was reused twice, as Half-Wits Holiday and Pies and Guys.

A sorites is a form of argument in which a series of incomplete syllogisms is so arranged that the predicate of each premise forms the subject of the next until the subject of the first is joined with the predicate of the last in the conclusion.

Race had already been established as a premise for exclusion among the colonial parliaments, so the main question for debate was who exactly the new Commonwealth ought to exclude, with the Labor Party rejecting Britain's calls to placate the populations of its non-white colonies and allow " aboriginal natives of Asia, Africa, or the islands thereof ".

* Equivocation consists in employing the same word in two or more senses, e. g. in a syllogism, the middle term being used in one sense in the major and another in the minor premise, so that in fact there are four not three terms.

The example's first premise is false – there are people who eat steak and are not quarterbacks – but the conclusion must be true, so long as the premises are true ( i. e. it is impossible for the premises to be true and the conclusion false ).

Kramer stated later that the principal actors believed so strongly in the premise that they agreed to act in the project even before seeing the script.

For example, Washington, D. C. had 5, 000 " traffic " cameras installed under this premise, and then after they were all in place, networked them all together and then granted access to the Metropolitan Police Department, so they could perform " day-to-day monitoring ".

This was done so that first-time viewers would instantly understand the premise.

The film's premise features a band of pre-teens who live in the " Goon Docks " neighborhood of Astoria, Oregon attempting to save their homes from demolition, and in doing so, discover an old Spanish map that leads them on an adventure to unearth the long-lost fortune of One-Eyed Willie, a legendary 17th-century pirate.

The Tortoise continues to accept each hypothetical premise once Achilles writes it down, but denies that the conclusion necessarily follows, since each time it denies the hypothetical that if all the premises written down so far are true, Z must be true:

All of the sequels repeated the premise of the original, so the filmmakers made tweaks to provide freshness.

Many Krofft shows have similar plots involving children accidentally trapped in other worlds, but Land of the Lost is the Kroffts ' most serious treatment of the premise ... especially in the first season, slightly less so in the second, and considerably less so in the third.

Nordau developed from this premise a critique of modern art, explained as the work of those so corrupted and enfeebled by modern life that they have lost the self-control needed to produce coherent works.

Texas Monthly takes as its premise that Texas began as a distinctive place and remains so.

He also warned that Copts who visited Jerusalem would face excommunication on the premise that there was " no pilgrimage duty in Christianity and it is not a religious pillar, so since this visit can do harm to our national cause and the Muslim and Christian people then we better not visit Jerusalem.

( Newman has said that if he had realised he would get so many sequels out of the premise, he would have saved Kolchak up for a story set in the character's native 1970s.

So I enjoyed Witherspoon and the local color, but I am so very tired of the underlying premise.

On another occasion, he escorted Rabbi Shlomo Wolbe out of his house under the premise that he too had to go out so that the younger mashgiach would not be embarrassed to have Rabbi Dessler accompanying him.

The premise was to bring non-conditioned outside air directly in front of the hood so that this was the air exhausted to the outside.