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Oct 12, 2019 · Then, on Dec. 15, 1984, when Murphy came back to host the show, Alfalfa spotted Buckwheat in a newspaper picture of a crowd at a New York Giants football game. Alfalfa tracked him down, and we ...
Dec 22, 2019 · The Masked Singer. Moments after returning to “Mister Robinson’s Neighborhood,” Saturday Night Live host Eddie Murphy slipped back into Buckwheat’s suspenders, reprising that beloved role ...
Mar 12, 2023 · Dennis Perkins Published: March 12, 2023. YouTube. In the end, it was Eddie Murphy who murdered Buckwheat. OK, so the Saturday Night Live superstar had help in assassinating one of his most ...
- Dennis Perkins
Buckwheat was a wildly popular Eddie Murphy impression based on Billie Thomas' character of the same name in Hal Roach's "Our Gang" shorts of the 1930s and 40s (popularized on television as The Little Rascals). Murphy did many different sketches with the character, some involving some other Little Rascals characters (like Mary Gross's also popular Alfalfa and Joe Piscopo's Froggy). Playing off ...
Mar 12, 2020 · On March 12, 1983, Saturday Night Live made the surprising decision to kill off one of its most popular characters, Eddie Murphy’s Buckwheat. This grown-up version of the Our Gang character made ...
- Corey Irwin
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Dec 22, 2019 · Moments after returning to "Mister Robinson's Neighborhood," Saturday Night Live host Eddie Murphy slipped back into Buckwheat's suspenders, reprising that beloved role more than four decades ...
Dec 20, 2019 · Revisit Eddie Murphy's best 'Saturday Night Live' characters, from Buckwheat to Mr. Robinson, before the comedian returns to host 'SNL' Dec. 21.
