Land Shark (this time played by Bobby Moynihan), who again attempts to eat Fey. Curtin and Poehler work to free Fey from the shark's jaws as the sketch closes. Influence The concept reportedly derives from the Monty Python's Flying Circus' sketch "Burglar/Encyclopedia Salesman". References in popular culture Though the Land Shark character appeared only irregularly on Saturday Night Live, it has entered the American cultural zeitgeist. References to a "land shark" (often preceded by the word "candygram") can be found in movies, print, video games, and other places. Often it is spelled as a solid compound, that is, as one word. In many forms of fiction, it is used as a name or nickname to a land-dwelling monster similar in appearance, temperament, or appetite to a shark. Jimmy Buffett's 1979 song "Fins" is based on the concept of "sharks that live on the land" preying on young women; in this case, the land sharks are in fact pick-up artists swarming in resort towns. Land Shark Lager was later named after the Buffett song. BMW featured the Land Shark (taken whole cloth from the original skit) in a commercial for the Z4 in 2003. In the 1993 movie Striking Distance, Bruce Willis' character says "Landshark" shortly before knocking out a drug dealer on a boat. In the computer game Warcraft III, the unit quotes for the Goblin Sappers include "Candygram", "Package for (mumble)", and "Flowers for (mumble)". In a 1989 episode of Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers titled "A Case of Stage Blight", an alligator with theatrical ambitions named "Sewernose de Bergerac" attempts to get an actor named Dudley to open the door to his dressing room with announcements of "Flowers", "Candygram", and finally "Singing telegram". The members of professional wrestling team D-Generation X announced themselves as a "candygram" and "land shark" as they attempted to get Jonathan Coachman to open a locked door on the October 2, 2006 episode of RAW. In the video game Sins of the Fathers, protagonist Gabriel Knight attempts to gain access to a character's home by using various door-to-door sales tactics. When none of these are successful, he shouts "Landshark!" — to which the resident replies, apparently mistaking which SNL character actually played the creature in question, "You are no Bill Murray." In the 2000 video game Escape from Monkey Island, protagonist Guybrush Threepwood yells "Landshark!" when he sees shark jaw bones on an island