![]() Dan Aykroyd also mentioned in an interview that he drew inspiration from the film This Island Earth where the very tall foreheads of the aliens go largely unnoticed by humans. When the neighbors bring a dessert coffee ring to a dinner invitation, Beldar, who takes it to be an edible senso-ring, grabs it and shouts, "No! Not in front of the young ones!"ĭan Aykroyd said he was inspired to create the Coneheads by marijuana consumption and based the characters' appearance on the Moai, the mysterious and ancient stone statues of Easter Island, which have similarly conical heads, and the people of the land of Points from Harry Nilsson's fable The Point!. They also consume substances and items inedible to Earthlings, such as cleaning fluid, pencil shavings, and fiberglass insulation.Ĭoneheads have sex by rubbing their cones together and placing "senso-rings" over them. ![]() ![]() On the 1977 Halloween episode (October 29), a neighbor complains about their choice of trick-or-treat handouts: beer and fried eggs. They drink entire six-packs of beer at once, and smoke whole packs of cigarettes at a time. The Coneheads have much larger appetites than Earthlings, eating large amounts of food during meals (which they identify by another one of their catchphrases, "consuming mass quantities"). They use the word "Mebs!" as an expletive when highly upset. They will say "Maintain low tones!" (one of their catchphrases) when voices rise in heated family discussions. The adults refer to Connie as "the young one" and themselves as her "parental units". They refer to food as "consumables", and say "I summon you" when asking to speak to another person. Their speech is characterized by the failure to understand idioms used by native English speakers, and their unnecessarily formal use of the language. The Coneheads speak in a very fast, nasal monotone. Beldar gives his family a cover story to explain their strange behavior by saying that they are "from France". Connie is assimilating with Earthlings through association with her peers at school, and some family stress is caused by her desire to live as a typical Earth teenager. ![]() Beldar states his occupation as "timekeeper of Remulak" this means he is a spy tasked with alerting his home planet to the optimum time for an invasion of Earth, which he fails to do. Beldar and Prymaat sometimes use the pseudonyms Fred and Joyce. The father's name is Beldar his wife is Prymaat, and their teenage daughter is Connie. Their distinguishing feature is the tops of their heads, shaped like large, bald cones. The Coneheads are natives of the planet Remulak, stranded on Earth. In 1993, they appeared in a feature film. They are portrayed by Dan Aykroyd as father Beldar, Jane Curtin as mother Prymaat, and Laraine Newman as daughter Connie. They first appeared on the Januepisode hosted by Ralph Nader (episode 35: season 2 episode 11). The Coneheads are a fictional family of extraterrestrials with bald conical heads, created for a series of recurring sketches on Saturday Night Live (SNL). For other uses, see Conehead (disambiguation). For the insects named "conehead", see Conocephalus, Copiphorini, and Protura. For the 1993 feature film, see Coneheads (film).
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