Saturday Night Live (TV Series)

Steve Martin/The Blues Brothers (1978)

Steve Martin: Self - Host, Various

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• Theodoric of York : Well, I'll do everything humanly possible. But unfortunately, we barbers are not gods. You know, medicine is not an exact science, but we're learning all the time. Why... why just fifty years ago, we would have thought your daughter's illness was brought on by demonic possession or witchcraft.

  [Joan laughs at this] 

  Theodoric of York : But nowadays we know that Isabelle is suffering from an imbalance of bodily humors, perhaps caused by a toad or a small dwarf living in her stomach.

• Joan : [after her daughter die from too much bloodletting]  You charlatan! You killed my children, just like you killed the rest of my family! Why don't you admit it! You don't know what you're doing!

  Theodoric of York : [turning toward the camera]  Wait a minute. Perhaps she's right. Perhaps I've been wrong to blindly follow the medical traditions and superstitions of the past centuries. Maybe we barbers should test those assumptions analytically, through experimentation and a... "scientific method". Perhaps this scientific method could be extended to other fields of learning: the natural sciences, art, architecture, uh, navigation! Perhaps I could lead the way to a new age, an age of rebirth, a Renaissance!

  Theodoric of York : [after pausing for a moment]  Naaaaahhh!