5. The Nerds (Bill Murray and Gilda Radner)
After Chevy Chase left the show in 1976, NBC quickly hired Bill Murray to take his place. At first, he was off to a rocky start, with many people feeling he was a poor replacement for Chase. Eventually though, he found his niche and became one of the most famous SNL alumni of all time. One of his biggest hits on the show was his character Todd DiLaMuca, who was slowly and surely romancing Gilda Radner's character Lisa Loopner. The main appeal of this skit was how well Murray and Radner played off each other, frequently going off script in attempts to make the other break character on live television (they were actually romantically involved off screen, thus helping their chemistry considerably). So why would this make for a good movie, seeing as the highlight of the skits were their attempts to crack each other up? In a movie, they'd scrap the take and try it again. Primarily, it's the story. Many SNL movies are sorely lacking in story development, whereas The Nerds skit came back so many times that we saw Todd and Lisa start when they had no interest in each other, when they went on their first date, and much further into their relationship. They've pretty much got all the material for the movie right there.