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Saturday Night Live Goes After Scientology, Clearly

L. Ron must be writhing in his space pod. Just after the hugely successful HBO documentary Going Clear exhumed the myriad mysteries and terrifying truths of Scientology (much of which had been speculation up to this point), Saturday Night Live produced a Scientology video of their own — er, excuse me: a Neurotology video. With the faded visual quality of a VHS cassette left on a car dashboard and tracking lines scrolling across the screen like the all-watching eye of Xenu, the Neurotology promotion video depicts the ecstasy, and insanity, of a “billion-year contract” in three short minutes.

SNL Goes After Scientology, Clearly