It’s not unusual for Alabama to find its way into Saturday Night Live’s line of fire, but five of the state’s political officials have managed to become full-fledged characters on the show in the five decades it has been on the air.

That frequency, however, has risen in recent years, as Alabama has offered up easier targets, and it shows no signs of slowing. Before the weekend variety show takes another whack at Alabama’s elected officials, let’s review and rank our favorites.

For our purposes here, we’ll stick to politicians and public officials. Sorry, Charles Barkley. If you want to make the list, you’ll have to run for governor.

5. John Belushi as George Wallace

It’s fitting that an original cast member would portray the original Alabama politician on SNL. Unfortunately, I can’t find any surviving clips and this show aired when I was still a fetus. You can read an account of it here. We’ll have to infer that Belushi’s portrayal lacked the cross-generational stickiness of Dan Aykroyd’s Jimmy Carter or Phil Hartman’s Ronald Reagan. But if anyone does come across the Wallace bit in an online archive, send it our way and I’ll give it due reconsideration.

4. Mickey Day as Roy Moore

2017 was a political high (or low?) for Alabama on SNL. The special election candidacy of Roy Moore led to the first Democrat elected to the U.S. Senate since Howell Heflin. The trouble for Mickey Day was the weirdness of Moore himself put him beyond parody. This skit followed a campaign appearance where Moore waved a handgun on stage. And then, of course, was all the things uncovered by the Washington Post. Ultimately, Day’s portrayal depends more on Moore’s odd dress-up for the campaign appearance than on any of the former chief justice’s mannerisms or political stance. Also, he had to share the scene with Alabama’s biggest recurring SNL character.

3. Scarlett Johansson as Katie Britt

When Sen. Katie Britt bombed her State of the Union rebuttal, it was a given she would be fodder for the show’s cold open. The only question was who would play her. The odds on favorite was Kristen Wiig being called out of SNL retirement, but when the show went live the camera cut to a favorite guest actor and SNL spouse. From the now-notorious kitchen, Scarlett Johansson delivered what Britt couldn’t — good acting from a well-written script.

“Kitchens are where families have the hard conversations, like the one we’ll have tomorrow about how mommy freaked out the entire country,” Johansson’s Britt said.

Johansson’s performance was only half of what makes this bit worthy of second place. The writers did their work here, incorporating into the scene news that had broken just hours before — that Britt had implied Bided was responsible for a sex-trafficking horror story from 20 years before when George W. Bush had been president.

“And rest assured, every detail about it is real — except the year, where it took place and who was president when it happened,” she said.

2. Kate McKinnon as Jeff Sessions

Kate McKinnon’s Jeff Sessions is a favorite of many, mostly for her unyielding weirdness. As Alabama’s fallen-up U.S. attorney general, Sessions became a recurring character on the show, appearing when least expected and stealing scenes from others. “You’re a weird little dude, Jeff,” Robert De Niro’s Robert Mueller says after setting the elf-like Sessions free.

Yes, he was.

1. Chris Farley as Howell Heflin

If you want a sense for how long Joe Biden has been around in American politics, remember Kevin Nealon was impersonating the then-senator more than 30 years ago in this parody of the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings. Those proceedings were an inflection point in American politics and a window into the boys’ club known as the United States Senate. The SNL cold didn’t have to amplify the tone or content much, and the skit now stands out, first, for how salacious it was and, second, for how many SNL stars took part.

But pause the video on YouTube and you can see the one place that gets replayed the most — when the late Chris Farley takes his turn as Alabama Sen. Howell Heflin.

Heflin’s colleagues nicknamed him “the buffalo” for his habit of scratching himself (yes, down there) while speaking before the U.S. Senate, and he once mistook his wife’s underwear for a handkerchief he later used to wipe his brow on the Senate floor.

Farley’s part in the skit is only a couple of lines long, but he weaponizes Heflin’s folksy drawl and awkward facial expressions perfectly. This actor and this character were made for each other.