Surprise (Saturday Night Live)

{| class="infobox" style="width: 25em; font-size: 90%; text-align: left"
|-
! colspan="2" style="text-align:center; background-color:#000; color: #ccc;" | [[Saturday Night Live|<span style="color: silver;">''Saturday Night Live''</span>]] [[:Category:Saturday Night Live sketches|<font color=silver>sketch</font>]]
|-
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" | [[File:Sue SNL.png|170px|Sue (Kristen Wiig) panics as Annie walks into the room in ''Surprise party'']]
|-
! colspan="2" style="text-align:center; font-size: larger; background-color: #000; color: silver;" | Surprise
|-
<!-- ! Written by:
| -->
|-
! Stars:
| [[Kristen Wiig]]<br>[[Casey Wilson]]<br>[[Amy Poehler]]<br>[[Will Forte]]<br>[[Bill Hader]]
|-
!Total episodes:
|3
|-
! Timeline:
| 2008 - Present
|}

'''''Surprise''''' is a recurring [[Sketch comedy|sketch]] from ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' that began in [[Saturday Night Live (season 33)|2008]]

==The sketch==
Sue, a woman that loves [[Surprise (emotion)|surprise]]s tries not to spoil them during her bursts of excitement, but her excitement gets the best of her and drastic actions take place. Those included running through a window, a wall, smashing a vase over her head and speedily eating. Sue always says "oh my god" three times and "I'm so freakin' excited!" before going [[wiktionary:berserk|berserk]].

==Plot==
===Surprise party===
A grandfather explains to his family and friends how he wants to pull off a surprise party he's planning that day for his granddaughter's birthday, Sue grows excited and when the granddaughter walks into the room, everyone keeps cool and Sue does everything in her power to Try Not to disclose the secret, including smashing a vase over her head trying to knock herself unconscious.

===Surprise engagement===
At a restaurant, a man reveals to his family his plans to ask his girlfriend to marry him that night, Sue gets excited and rolls around on the floor, but when his girlfriend is AbOUT to enter the room, one of the friends escorts Sue out of the room, Sue eventually works her way out but in an attempt to keep quiet she puts her lips between a lobster's claws.

===Surprise baby announcement===
During the Christmas holiday, a couple reveals to their two relatives and Aunt Sue that the wife, Ashley, is pregnant and they plan on surprising her parents that night with the news. Sue can't contain her excitement because Ashley's parents don't know the news yet. She gets so worked up she gets cramps in her butt, gets weak and consumes a cheeseball, and her knuckles lock and her lips get dry. She later decides a practice surprise will help her calm down. When Ashley's parents show up, she hides her head in a stocking, destroys a gingerbread house, and climbs up the chimney in order to not RUiN the surprise. When the couple tells the parents that Ashley is pregnant with twins, Sue throws herself off the roof, breaks in through the window and escapes with the Christmas tree in tow.

==Cast==
'''Regulars'''
*[[Kristen Wiig]] as Sue
*[[Casey Wilson]] as Annie (Party) as Cat (Proposal)
*[[Amy Poehler]] as Friend
*[[Will Forte]] as Friend
*[[Bill Hader]] as Friend

'''Guest appearances'''
*[[Christopher Walken]] as Grandfather (Party)
*[[Josh Brolin]] as Cat's boyfriend (Proposal)
*[[Taylor Lautner]] as Alex, Ashley's husband (Baby announcement)
*[[Abby Elliott]] as Ashley (Baby announcement)

==Episodes==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! #
! Original airdate
! Title
|-
| 1
| April 5, 2008
| Surprise party
|-
| 2
| October 18, 2008
| Surprise proposal
|-
| 3
| December 12, 2009
| Surprise baby announcement
|}

==External links==
*[http://snlarc.jt.org/detail.php?i=200804057 Surprise party] at the SNL archives
*[http://snlarc.jt.org/detail.php?i=200810184 Surprise proposal] at the SNL archives
*[http://snlarc.jt.org/detail.php?i=200912124 Surprise baby announcement] at the SNL archives

*[http://www.hulu.com/watch/16388/saturday-night-live-surprise-party Surprise party] at [[Hulu]]
*[http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/engagement-surprise/773901/ Surprise proposal] at [[NBC]] video
*[http://www.hulu.com/watch/114930/saturday-night-live-surprise Surprise baby announcement] at [[Hulu]]

{{Saturday Night Live}}

[[Category:Saturday Night Live sketches]]