I clearly remember watching (live) the Franken and Davis bit where Davis admitted they were gay lovers and the bit ended with Franken shooting himself. That was super dark even for then, and I was around 10 years old (why was I up that late anyway?)

HA!

Nobody expects the- well, you know.

Ah, Charlies Rocket's f-bomb. They actually did one more show after that, and then the plug was pulled. Rocket's career never really recovered from that, but it's hard to blame just him; it might have slightly sped up the process, but they were all going to get fired anyway.

No, she was credited as a featured player. She would have, no doubt, appeared in a few more episodes if a writers' strike hadn't abruptly ended the season. For the full story of that il-fated season check out:

The Star Wars audition bits were great. Spacey's Walken and Jack Lemmon were especially good.

Metcalf was in one, count 'em, one episode. Season 6 was a crazy season, wasn't it?

I added him to the list for that reason. He left SNL in 1995, and since at least 2003 he's been strictly political. Air America started in 2004, and he became a Senator in 2009. Many people only know him for his politics.

True on all counts. What I've noticed is that the 84-85 season is reasonably well remembered (mostly for Short, Guest, and Crystal) and 85-86 season is generally forgotten. And it was strange because, as you pointed out, with the Hollywood actors they tried to fit a bunch of square pegs into round holes, a failure on…

I'm an Al-Quaid. (Sounds like a terrorist group or a cool drug from the 70's, doesn't it?)

I know, it was completely establishment when it started in 1975. It was sponsored by Winston Cigarettes and Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer, if I'm not mistaken.

I still love my fun list of "Did you know these people were on SNL?" (It probably won't surprise many people around here)

Actually, Kevin Spacey hosted that episode. The cold open had Cleese and Palin do a new mildly funny bit about the then-new TV ratings system. Towards the end of the show they did the parrot sketch, which wasn't as sad as it could've been to me because at least they did an original bit at the top of the show.

I've always assumed that New Orleans was just The French Quarter.

They occasionally hold a function called Marty's something.

Well, at least the dialogue is sharp:

New Orleans, The Big Easy, Sweet Lady Gumbo, Old… Swampy.

Not surprising if his last sitcom ,¡Rob!, is any indication (who at CBS greenlighted that shit?)

You might remember him from such driver's ed films as Alice's Adventures Through The Windshield Glass and The Decapitation of Larry Leadfoot.

Beth Cahill?