October 11, 1986 Season 12 episode
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| Episode | 214 |
| Season Episode | 1 |
| Host | Sigourney Weaver |
| Musical Guest(s) | Buster Poindexter |
| Song(s) performed by Musical Guest(s) |
"Oh Me, Oh My" "Baby, It's Cold Outside" "Fool For You" "Smack Dab in the Middle" |
| Previous Episode May 24, 1986 (Season 11) |
Next Episode October 18, 1986 |
The season premiere of Season 12 and the 214th episode of Saturday Night Live. It premiered on October 11, 1986. It was hosted by actress Sigourney Weaver, star of Ghostbusters and the sequel Ghostbusters II and Avatar 2 with special guests Buster Poindexter and Christopher Durang. This was Sigourney Weaver's hosting debut on the show.
This is Dana Carvey, Phil Hartman, Jan Hooks, Victoria Jackson and Kevin Nealon’s first episode as cast members. This was a cast overhaul for the show, as the only returning cast members from the previous season were Jon Lovitz, Dennis Miller, Nora Dunn, and featured player/writer A. Whitney Brown.
Cast[]
Repertory Players[]
- Dana Carvey (First Appearance)
- Nora Dunn
- Phil Hartman (First Appearance)
- Jan Hooks (First Appearance)
- Victoria Jackson (First Appearance)
- Jon Lovitz
- Dennis Miller
Featured Players[]
- A. Whitney Brown
- Kevin Nealon (First Appearance)
Cameo by Madonna
Sketches[]
Cold Open Sketch Pre-recorded Weekend Update Music Performance Other
| Title | Image | Summary |
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| It Was All A Dream | Madonna reads a statement from NBC about last year’s entire season. | |
| Opening Montage | With a new cast in place, a new montage was made for season 12, which remained in use for season 13. It began with cast members fleeing something not shown, and showed repertory cast members in video clips, and featured players in stills. No titles were shown with cast names. The music remained the same from season 11. For the first time, the SNL Band is credited in the montage, and the host is the last person credited in the intro, a tradiiton that continues to this day. | |
| Monologue by Sigourney Weaver | Hosting for the first time, Sigourney Weaver introduces her friend Christopher Durang and talks about how he encouraged her in her career. They plan to sing a Brecht opera tonight; director Paul Miller panics and cuts to commercial. | |
| General Dynamics | Defense contractor’s commercial features a young couple’s jeans ad-style sexy conversation. | |
| Church Chat | First appearances of Dana Carvey, Phil Hartman and Jan Hooks as cast members. Pious Chuch Lady Enid Strict (Dana Carvey) scolds Christopher Durang, Sally Kellerman (Jan Hooks), and Ann Landers (Nora Dunn) before trying to interview Zuul (Sigourney Weaver). | |
| Quiz Masters | Psychic Lane Maxwell (Dana Carvey) has an unfair advantage over fellow contestant Marge Keister (Jan Hooks). | |
| Mr. Subliminal | First appearances of Victoria Jackson and Kevin Nealon as cast members. Advertising executive Phil Maloney (Kevin Nealon) uses his subliminal techniques in the real world. | |
| The Amazing Alexander | Identical audience testimonials all state that the hypnotist’s Broadway show is “much better than Cats”. | |
| Comeback | Has-been rocker Derek Stevens (Dana Carvey) hasn’t finished his demo in time for a record company meeting, so he performs his new songs live. | |
| Weekend Update with Dennis Miller | in Iceland with daughter Scarlett, Victoria Jackson didn’t cover Reykjavik summit
A. Whitney Brown doubts the Reykjavik summit will yield any significant treaties.|in Iceland with daughter Scarlett, Victoria Jackson didn’t cover Reykjavik summit A. Whitney Brown doubts the Reykjavik summit will yield any significant treaties. | |
| Sigourney Weaver and Buster Pointdexter performed "Baby It's Cold Outside" | ||
| Hef-Tea Teabags | Sarah Ferguson (Sigourney Weaver) prefers the giant taste of their jumbo-sized teabags. | |
| Alienses | Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) and the marines fire on an alien intruder, who turns out to be E.T. | |
| Ten Weeks in Jail | NYPD Deputy Commissioner Craig W. Doyle (Phil Hartman) announces the city’s tough new anti-murder legislation. | |
| Buster Pointdexter performed "Fool For You" with Soozie Tyrell, G.E. Smith and the Saturday Night Live Band | ||
| Girlfriends | Two-timing Tommy Flanagan (Jon Lovitz) is confronted by both his girlfriends (Nora Dunn and Sigourney Weaver). | |
| Band Shot | ||
| Brecht/Rogers Medley | Sigourney Weaver and Christopher Durang perform a Das Lusitania Songspiel take on Mahagony. | |
| Goodnights | Weaver thanked the "great audience" and tells them not to forget Half-Moon Street where she naked. |
Trivia[]
- This was also Paul Miller's first episode as director.
- Al Franken was credited for the last episode of Season 11, and would return to the writing staff to make occasional uncredited appearances over the next two years, before being credited again during season 14 in 1988.
- This is the first episode of the third generation of SNL, with a whole new cast, who would all stay on the show for years to come, and who would all, slowly leave the show year by year.
- Lastly, starting with this episode, Cheryl Hardwick (one of the band's original members from 1975-1980), has officially rejoined the band is it's co-musical director alongside G.E. Smith, and Hardwick is reinstated as band pianiest, after having providing special musical material throughout the previous season.
| Preceded by: May 24, 1986 |
Saturday Night Live episode | Followed by: October 18, 1986 |