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The Coneheads was a recurring Sketch on '' Saturday Night Live '' featuring a family of Extraterrestrial s with cone-shaped heads, from the planet "Remulak," posing in the Suburb an United States as Immigrant s from France . The sketch, which was featured in the show from 1975 until 1980 , starred Dan Aykroyd as the father Beldar, Jane Curtin as the mother Prymaat and Laraine Newman as daughter Connie. Much humor derived from the Coneheads' use of over-technical dialogue, such as referring to food as "consumables" and saying "I summon you" to ask to speak to another person. The somewhat popular term " Parental Unit " came from the sketches. They engaged in strange behaviors, such as rubbing their cones together as a sign of affection, at which point a bizarre, Theremin -like noise is emitted, presumably from the cones themselves. The concept was turned into a movie, '' Coneheads '', in 1993 , with Aykroyd and Curtin reprising their roles. Michelle Burke played Connie this time out. SEE ALSO |
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