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During the Eddie Murphy years, Saturday Night Live had an iconic skit that can best be called “Who Shot Buckwheat?”  In a spoof of the media culture that glorifies murderers and assassins, it examined why John David Stutts shot Buckwheat.

The question was put to an acquaintance of Stutts if he could believe that Stutts shot Buckwheat. The friend said, “Oh, yes, that is all he ever talked about. He told me once that ‘I am going to grow up and shoot Buckwheat’. And he did.”

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