By the end of it, though, almost everyone was just plain tired of “Cats.” New Yorkers loved to make fun of what had become a tourist trap and a bit of a cliché. People across the country who had seen years worth of TV commercials promoting the “the magic of ‘Cats’” had tuned out. We wished then that we could rid the bombardment of its theme song, “Memory,” from our collective memories and poke that signature, ubiquitous yellow kitty eyeball once and for all.
And that’s the heart of what the SNL skit poked fun at: Even the people working backstage on the musical were bored out of their damned minds.