Tuesday, March 2, 2021

Season 2 (76-77)


September 18, 1976-Lily Tomlin

*big-shot host arrives with entourage intending to do the show without rehearsal

-Debate '76- Gerald Ford (CHC) & Jimmy Carter (DAA) discuss the issues

-eccentric Tess DiSenzo (host) chats with a real estate salesman (GAM)

-Women In Literature- Elna Sullivan's (LAN) journal entries lack depth


September 25, 1976-Norman Lear

*with GIR's help, hospitalized CHC simulates a fall via phone

-Jimmy Carter (DAA) says his lusty heart preserves Democratic tradition

-The Snakehandling O'Sheas- host's sitcom about a family with odd traits

-Joseph Franklin (DAA) describes the effects of metric time conversion

-divorce lawyer (JOB) abuses (GIR) while coaching her testimony

-Henry Kissinger (JOB) uses song while dealing Rhodesian negotiations


October 2, 1976-Eric Idle

*hospitalized CHC phones SNL to confront his impostor (Richard Belzer)

-(DAA) & (GIR) choose their future baby's traits with doctor's (host) help

-KLOG deejay (DAA) switches personas to match station's AM & FM formats

-host's British words disrupt sketch about Killer Bees at swine flu center

-druggist (DAA) plugs syringe-based Epifix for super-fast headache relief

-Allied spies (host) & (DAA) make plans at a Nazi hangout during WWII

-Dragnet- (host) & Joe Friday (DAA) investigate crimes in women's clothing

-Pets & Petting- (host) shows how to feed people food to goldfish during Jacques Cousteau show

-Cufflinks Of The Gods?- (LAN) displays evidence of alien cosmic existence


October 16, 1976-Karen Black

*JOB dumps recovering CHC out of his wheelchair

-Baba Wawa (GIR) At Large- Indira Gandhi (LAN) defends antidemocratic policies

-Debate '76- Gerald Ford (CHC) & Jimmy Carter (DAA) inspire reluctance

-truth in advertising laws allow Green Cross claim of cancer-free cupcakes

-Love Russian Style- stressed Catherine the Great (host) mates with horse lover

-high school nerd (DAA) reunites with cheerleader (JAC) at a lunch counter


October 23, 1976-Steve Martin

*disgruntled Yankee (CHC) hangs manager (DAA) after World Series loss

-Speak Out For Milk- CHC says too much during multiple takes for ad

-Jeopardy! 1999- contestants' questions provide a glimpse of the future

-the Fido-Flex digital watch dog is the only canine that can tell the time

-DAA welcomes poet (host) among other wild performers in a beatnik bar

-Looks At Books- (host) gives results of research into abstinence & sports

-Ted Baxter's (host) Drano-in-coffee prank kills Mary Richards (LAN)

-Mysteries in Medicine- elaborate diet plan involves fake Eskimo (JOB)


October 30, 1976-Buck Henry

*trick-or-treating Land Shark (CHC) gets (GIR) on Halloween

-Samurai Stockbroker- Futaba (JOB) makes Mr. Dantley (host) worried about his investments

-Not For First Ladies Only- Baba Wawa (GIR) queries Betty Ford (JAC) & Rosalynn Carter (LAN)

-Debate '76- Jimmy Carter (DAA) & Gerald Ford (CHC) compete in beauty pageant

-the Super Bat-O-Matic '77 is the witch's aid for blending magic potions

-The OintMENt- a search for the real parents of devil child Damian (JOB)


November 13, 1976-Dick Cavett

*(GAM) hits his TV when Chroma-Trak girl (GIR)'s colors are reproduced wrong

-Richard Nixon (DAA) tried to pin Watergate on John Dean (host)

-Crossroads- communication breakdown is caused by (JOB)'s desire to drop out

-How Things Work- (host) explains to JAC how pressure groups work

-grandparent Bees (JOB) & (LAN) recall overcoming past discrimination


November 20, 1976-Paul Simon

*host says hi to CHC on his way into studio & Lorne Michaels bargains with George Harrison [real]

-Baba Wawa (GIR) At Large- Henry Kissinger (JOB) talks about his career

-The Twilite Zone- three starlets (JAC) (LAN) (GIR) are trapped in a hotel room

-Billy Paul (host) fights for civil rights in an ice cream parlor

-Tomorrow- it's clear that Tom Snyder (DAA) has no idea who host is


November 27, 1976-Jodie Foster

*upset GIR tells viewers that she won't be in much of tonight's show

-Wendy (host) doesn't believe in Bee Peter Pan (LAN) or Tinkerbee (JOB)

-host shows how Rovco's big Puberty Helper bag prevents teen trauma

-airport security guard (LAN) detains metal-loaded (DAA)

-Don Pardo, The First 50 Years- (DAA) narrates Don Pardo's life history

-smitten (host) has a chat with junior high biology teacher (DAA)

-(JAC) reveals to her husband (GAM) that she's not black


December 11, 1976-Candice Bergen

*home from prison, Patty Hearst (GIR) spends the evening with her family

-DAA sells Santi-Wrap as protection from unhygienic Santas like (JOB)

-Consumer Probe- Irwin Mainway (DAA) defends some unsafe children's toys

-Fern's (host) friend Lisa (GIR) supports the right to extreme stupidity

-the new FX-70 cheese slicer resembles a Polaroid camera

-The Killer Trees- (DAA) & (JOB) search for the bloodthirsty arbor

-host announces the Adopt JOB For Christmas Contest as he has nowhere to go




January 15, 1977-Ralph Nader

*safety hazards at Studio 8H dampen host's attempt to lighten his image

-(BIM) starts badmouthing his grandson while waiting for his call

-(BIM) directs the dress rehearsal for a televised execution

-host dreams of Jimmy Carter (DAA) planning a Confederate takeover

-host "tests" party dolls during a magazine reporter's (GAM) visit

-aliens Beldar (DAA) & Prymaat (JAC) Conehead have adapted to Earth life

-Youth Ask The Questions- students give host unimportant questions


January 22, 1977-Ruth Gordon

*prospect of drug cutoff makes injured JOB well enough to do SNL

-Emily Litella (GIR) & sister Essie (host) discuss issues of the day

-Tomorrow- Dino De Laurentiis (JOB) talks to Tom Snyder (DAA) about the King Kong remake

-(DAA) identifies truly Crazy Frank as source of Crazy Ernie's low prices

-Little Old Ladies Of The Night- elderly (host) becomes a hooker

-a girl (GIR) asks her babysitter (host) some questions about sex

-projector repairman (GAM) observes dying Howard Hughes' (LAN) obsessions

-anthropologist's (host) breast-filled footage excites E. Buzz Miller (DAA)


January 29, 1977-Fran Tarkenton

*JOB coaches host & cast on what to do during tonight's show

-(DAA) pitches Rovco's multi-purpose Swiss Army Gun

-Secret Service agents (BIM) & (DAA) help Amy Carter (LAN) cheat on a quiz

-Black Perspective- host confirms stereotypes about blacks as quarterbacks

-(BIM) & (JAC) get great food & domestic strife at an in-house restaurant

-host gets strength he needs from sugar-frosted Anabolic Steroids cereal

-host says "thanks to Community Appeal, drug-fazed JOB is working"

-with JOB's coaching, host does a hotel room sketch with LAN

-French Liquid- the new perfume gives different scents to different women

-Rhonda Weiss (GIR) & credit card employee Barbara (JAC) one-up each other


February 26, 1977-Steve Martin

*the cast is unhappy that host's success has gone to his head

-IRS agent (host) asks Coneheads (DAA) (JAC) (LAN) some questions about their tax returns

-Celebrity Weightlifting- Russian (JOB) defeats Jackie Onassis (GIR)

-the pages of Dr. Breadloaf's (GIR) Quickloss Diet Book are the meals

-doctor (host) tries to "accidentally" pull the plug on comatose boy (JOB)

-Hollywood Bingo- (host) consumes game show with celebrity introductions

-Roots II- accounts of more oppressed ancestors of Alex Haley (GAM) are told

-on a blind date, (host) & (GIR) discover they have plenty in common


March 12, 1977-Sissy Spacek

*sudden death of director Dave Wilson prompts castmember eulogies

-Burger Master makes your sandwich how you want it since no request is too odd

-Ask President Carter- (DAA) has the answers for all callers' questions

-ex-con nanny (GAM) tells Amy Carter (host) a scandalous bedtime story

-How Your Children Grow- JAC interviews quintlexia sufferer (BIM)

-JOB announces that he's leaving show business to train for the decathlon

-terminally cute women (host), (GIR) & (LAN) suffer from Gidget's Disease

-argument of white trash couple (JOB) & (host) is prompted by impotence

-Bad Playhouse- Leonard Pinth-Garnell (DAA) presents The Millkeeper


March 19, 1977-Broderick Crawford

*Rhonda Weiss (GIR) & Rhondettes sing "Goodbye Saccharine"

-Samurai Hit Man- Futaba (JOB) will pose as Benihana chef to carry out contract

-Mel's Hide Heaven- (DAA) supplies the cow, you make your own clothes

-Lucy (GIR) gets a job putting whipped cream on nuclear warheads

-Highway Patrol- Jack Kerouac (JOB) in DWI Siamese twin hostage situation

-Baba Wawa (GIR) At Large- an interview with Godzilla (JOB) in his L.A. home

-Richard Nixon (DAA) wants J. Edgar Hoover (host) to support police force


March 26, 1977-Jack Burns

*JOB refuses to say SNL's opening line until his demands are met

-Larry (JOB) & Bobbi (GIR) Farber have Coneheads (DAA) (JAC) (LAN) over for dinner

-(host) performs a militaristic wedding service for Marines (DAA) & (JAC)

-Eliot Ness (DAA) & Untouchables take over India from Indira Gandhi (LAN)

-old-fashioned pharmacist (DAA) prescribes leeches to (BIM) & (GIR)

-The Story Of The Squatters- crouching early Americans settle the frontier

-host blows suicidal businessman sketch by doing his jump without ducking

-Ask Big Daddy- Idi Amin (GAM) ignores massacres of citizens to callers

-Ricardo Montalban (DAA) tells how Pantygrams send messages via underwear

-drunk, washed-up comedy writer (host) approaches JAC & GIR in a bar


April 9, 1977-Julian Bond

*Emily Litella's (GIR) new love makes her feel like a "national" woman

-Black Perspective- GAM & host on IQ differences among & within the races

-host & Andrew Young (GAM) remind Jimmy Carter (DAA) of campaign promises

-Dr. X, Family Counsellor (DAA) assesses catatonic Colleen (GIR)

-(host) uses Right On Afro Lustre, the hairspray in a fist-shaped canister

-Great Moments In Motown- a musical group adopts hand gestures & dancing

-deranged announcer taunts a little girl (GIR) as she eats Creeley's Soup

-Bad Cinema- Truman Capote (JOB) & others review "ooh-la-la! les legs!"

-the Farbers (JOB) (GIR) try to convince host of their neighborhood's racial tolerance


April 16, 1977-Elliott Gould

*Leonid Brezhnev (JOB) moves NBC Olympic coverage into Tonight Show spot

-Merkon (GAM) arrives from Remulak to check on Coneheads' (DAA) (JAC) (LAN) progress

-You've Come A Long Way, Buddy- men talk about men's issues

-at a resort, lounge singer Nick Summers (BIM) works unresponsive crowd

-United Face Bank- Joan Crawford (JAC) requests donations for the faceless

-automated teller machine enforces (GAM) & (BIM) to pointless security tests

-restaurant of Jason (DAA) & Sunset (LAN) serves animals that died of natural causes


April 23, 1977-Eric Idle

*Irishman (BIM) confesses when British soldier (host) threatens potato torture

-The Nixon (DAA) Interviews- David Frost (host) gets little good material

-Heavy Wit Championship- in the ring, (host) & (JOB) try to get laughs

-The Battle of Britain- low-budget British war film has simple flashbacks

-Plain Talk- (host) & (DAA) understand each other's nonsense sentences

-flight attendant Sherry (LAN) accommodates demands of gun-carrying passengers


May 14, 1977-Shelley Duvall

*after fight clip prevents Bee sketch, the female castmembers hassle host

-(DAA)'s disguise isn't as good as those of his fellow bank robbers

-Ricardo Montalban (DAA), Cesar Romero (JOB) & Fernando Lamas (BIM) need help identifying each other

-Elvis (JOB) plays aspiring Shakespearean actor in Viva Las Vegas II

-Baba Wawa (GIR) At Large- Richard Burton (BIM) on his ex-wife Elizabeth Taylor

-Bad Ballet- Leonard Pinth-Garnell (DAA) dances with mistreated birds in "Swan"

-Night Of The Moonies- cult members overwhelm deprogrammers (DAA) & (GAM)

-(DAA)'s van obsession surpasses his wife's (host) need for a Streisand album


May 21, 1977-Buck Henry

*Jimmy Carter (DAA) generates electricity to broadcast energy message

-Samurai B.M.O.C.- Futaba's (JOB) bad grades threaten his graduation

-showering Richard Herkiman (BIM) interviews his wife (GIR) & her lover (host)

-Coneheads (DAA) (JAC) (LAN) fly Chrysler Building to Remulak to meet with Kuldroth (JOB)

-at her bridal shower, Rhonda Weiss (GIR) comments on the gifts she receives

-How Your Children Grow- (host) & punctuator patient (GIR) condition JAC

-Charles Lindbergh (host) flies across the inky deeps of the icy Atlantic

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