Lisa Loopner was a recurring character on American sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live played by Gilda Radner. The sketch was usually set in the Loopner household, where the awkward and goofy Lisa and her mother Mrs. Loopner (Jane Curtin) lived. Lisa's father, Mr. Loopner, died some years ago because he was born without a spine, but he had some claim to fame as the original inventor of the slinky.
Lisa's equally nerdy friend and inamorata, Todd diLamuca (played by Bill Murray), would come over and the two would revel in corny jokes and jabs at each other; many a time after Todd would make a joke or jab, Lisa would say, "That's so funny, I forgot to laugh!" Todd would often give Lisa noogies by getting her in a headlock and knocking her on the top of the head, and making fun of her flat chest ("Hey, you'd better put something on those mosquito bites so they don't get infected."). Lisa often called Todd "pizza face." Todd's original last name was laBounta, but it was changed for legal reasons.
Lisa's favorite composer is Marvin Hamlisch. (Radner's 1979 one-woman show, Gilda Live, featured a skit depicting Lisa at a school recital playing Hamlisch's "The Way We Were" on the piano.)
Notable guest stars have been Michael Palin who played Mr. Brighton, Lisa's piano teacher with an uncontrollable libido, who appeared in two Nerds sketches, Buck Henry who played Todd's father, Marshall, and Steve Martin, who played Todd's rival Chas the Spaz.
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