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The President Of The United States
Chevy Chase debuts his impression of Gerald R. Ford, as the accident-prone president stumbles his way through a speech he delivers directly to the "Saturday Night Live" audience.
Monologue by Candice Bergen
As Candice Bergen, SNL's first woman host, tells the audience about tonight's great show, a bee (John Belushi) appears on stage and grabs her hand. Chevy Chase approaches to swat the bee with a newspaper, but Candice objects, despite her allergies. Naturally, Chevy swats the bee anyway.
Ambassador Training Institute
A commercial spokesman (Andrew Duncan) explains how you can apply to become a U.S. ambassador for a foreign country, aptly mixing work with play.
CIA Records
At the disheveled offices of the CIA, an employee (Dan Aykroyd) can't seem to find the career criminal file belonging to Garrett Morris.
Jaws II
In this film spoof, the "cleverest species of them all" - the Land Shark (Chevy Chase) terrorizes young woman in their homes, luring them to the door by pretending to deliver flowers and Candygrams. Matt Hooper (John Belushi) and Sheriff Brody (Dan Aykroyd) survey the bodily damages.
Esther Phillips Performs
Esther Phillips Performs "What a Difference a Day Makes".
Weekend Update With Chevy Chase
First episode in which Chevy Chase says his classic line "I'm Chevy Chase, and you're not." Chase also makes faces behind congresswoman Jane Curtin's back as she delivers an editorial reply against federal aid to New York City. As a public service to viewers who have difficulty hearing, Garrett Morris, the headmaster of the New York School for the Hard-of-Hearing, repeats the evening's top story.
Long-Distance
As he makes a long-distance call to his mother, a gay man reminisces about the joy's of dressing in her clothes. After all, it's "the next best thing to being her."
Chanel
With her face leaning against the bottle, French actress Catherine Deneuve (Bergen) endorses the perfume that helps her cope with her own fame.
Andy Kaufman
Andy Kaufman enters as his Foreign Man character. He attempts to tell a joke, perform impressions, dance and sing, but he bombs so terribly that he wishes the cameras weren't rolling. After breaking into a nervous crying fit, he plays the bongos to the audience's delight.
Insecurities
Candice Bergen and Gilda Radner discuss their insecurities, prior to introducing this week's film by Albert Brooks.
NBC Super Season
Albert Brooks gives us a look at some mid-season replacement shows waiting to be broadcast on NBC - the dramatic "Medical Season", the wild comedy sex farce "The Three Of Us", and the racially-tense "Black Vet."
Attractive
Chevy Chase and girlfriend Jaqueline Carlin don't need to use products to be attractive to one another.
Trans American Airlines
A sadistic gentleman (Michael O'Donoghue) crank calls the receptionist (Laraine Newman) for Trans American Airlines.
Practical Jokes
Reporting from a third world country, Candice Bergen plays practical jokes on its leader (John Belushi) during a controversial interview.
Black Perspective
Garrett Morris interviews Jane Curtin, a white woman who passes herself off as am expert black female authoress.
Pong
With only the Pong game screen in view as they play, Al Franken and Tom Davis discuss bringing the Al's girlfriend home to meet his parents for Thanksgiving.
Esther Phillips Performs
Esther Phillips Performs "I Can Stand a Little Rain".
Goodbyes
Trivia[]
Only Garrett Morris, Laraine Newman, Michael O'Donoghue, and Gilda Radner were credited for this episode due to a malfunction in the control room.
This was the last episode Michael O'Donoghue was credited as a performer in. Though, as the show's original head writer, he would continue to write for the show through the season, and make several appearances throughout the show, and would remain as head writer until his departure from the show in 1978.
This was the first episode that the cast members join the host onstage for the goodbyes.
Not only Candice Bergen was the first woman host, but the first person to host twice.