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Saturday Night Live Season 8 Episodes
Season 8 Episode Guide
20 Episodes 1982 - 1983
Episode 1
Chevy Chase/Queen
Sat, Sep 25, 198290 mins
The host for the episode is Chevy Chase (his third appearance as host), and the musical guest is Queen. The skits for this episode are as follows: Chevy Chase announces from a TV screen that because of a missed flight, he will have to host the show via satellite from California. He prepares to begin the first skit, but a stagehand accidentally knocks over his TV. For his opening monologue, Chevy speaks from a broken TV at the foot of the stage. Angry young artist and poet Tyrone Green displays his hatred of white people through his art at a gallery packed with white art connoisseurs. Joe Piscopo confesses his love for Rose Kennedy and asks her to marry him. John Hinckley announces his campaign for the presidency from his hospital cell. A mystery show presents a scene about a woman being accosted by a land shark that turns out to be on a video screen. Inventor Ron Popiel presents the Galactic Prophylactic, made of rubber and steel and guaranteed to last for fifty years. David Letterman presents a film shot by his dog and interviews Gumby. For the Weekend Update, Brad Hall reports on Reagan sending the Maureens to Lebanon, the NFL player's strike, and a new celebrity sperm bank, then phones up Secretary of the Interior James Watt to insult him. Father Andrew Titus angrily criticizes the new Reader's Digest condensed bible. Chevy claims to be reporting live from Beirut, but is revealed to be on the set of The Tonight Show in Burbank. An expose takes a serious look at a young man addicted to video games. Siskel and Ebert review the episode already in progress, praising Eddie Murphy but skewering Chevy. PTC Club prophet April May June praises Jesus while a faith healer performs miracles in the audience. Queen performs "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" and "Under Pressure".
Episode 2
Louis Gossett Jr/George Thorogood & The Destroyers
Sat, Oct 2, 198290 mins
Oscar winning actor Louis Gossett Jr. hosts this 1982 episode featuring a cameo by Mr. T. Selected sketches include: "Sex Therapy", "Mr. and Mrs. T Bloody Mary Mix", "Donahue" and the Commercial Parody "Don't Hitch-Hike". For clearances reasons, episodes have been edited from their original version.
Episode 3
Ron Howard/The Clash
Sat, Oct 9, 198290 mins
Sketches include "Bureau of Weights and Measures," "Opie's Back," "Velvet Jones Romance Novels," "Whiners Want a Baby," a guest performance by Harry Anderson, "In Search of Francis the Talking Mule" (film), "Focus on Film," "Reagan Visits Carter, 1980," "America is Turning Gay," "Sylvester School of Speech Therapy," "Hooker Explanation," and "Nukes Are For Kooks." The Clash performed "Straight To Hell" and "Should I Stay or Should I Go."
Episode 4
Howard Hesseman/Men at Work
Sat, Oct 23, 198290 mins
Howard Hessmann. Sketches include "Killing Time," "The Girls of SNL," "John Delorean," "Good Morning America," "Closet Heterosexual," "Marvin and Celeste in the Caribbean," "Naked Corpse Funeral," "Uncle Teddy's Little Theatre," and "The Amazing Ronco Answer Book." Men at Work performed "Who Can It Be Now" and "Down Under."
Episode 5
Michael Keaton/The New Joe Jackson Band
Sat, Oct 30, 198290 mins
"The Interesting Four, A Sense of Fear, Thank You, Ron Reagan, Snookie, Bill Smith Cares, Topol The Idiot, Nutty President, Pumpkin" were the sketches and "Steppin Out" and "Another World" Were the musical selections.
Episode 6
Robert Blake/Kenny Loggins
Sat, Nov 13, 198290 mins
"The Merv Griffin Show, Space Shuttle, PBS, Tyrone Goes Reggae, Masterful Theatre, Viewer Letter, DTV" Were the sketches and "Heart to Heart, and I Gotta Try" Were the musical numbers.
Episode 7
Drew Barrymore/Squeeze
Sat, Nov 20, 198290 mins
"The Web, E.T., Vote For Andy, Whiners, Should Andy Kaufman be allowed on SNL?, Voting So Far, Brain Surgery, Oklahoma, Dressing Room, Vote For Any, My Friend Zeus, single" Musical numbers "Annie Get Your Gun and Pulling Mussels"
Episode 8
The Smothers Brothers/Laura Branigan
Sat, Dec 4, 198290 mins
Sketches include"The Tonight Show, Thank you, Thank You Ron Reagan, Ledge, Rubbers, If You were a homosexual, who would you find attractive?, truck driving women, TV, Pudge and Solomon, Magic Act, The Inside Story, Handsome Men with big noses." Musical numbers were "Gloria and Living a Lie"
Episode 9
Eddie Murphy/Lionel Richie
Sat, Dec 11, 198290 mins
Sketches include "Rubik's Grenade, Merry Christmas, Dammit!, Clysler-Prymouth, I Came, I Saw, I Came Again, Haram Scarem, Herpes Gone Bananas, Joy of Christmas, A Special Christmas Message." Musical numbers were "You Are and Truly"
Episode 10
Lily Tomlin
Sat, Jan 22, 198390 mins
Sketches include "Judith Goes Shopping, Ernestine's House Call, Speaking as a Woman, Natural Resources, Edith Ann and Friends, Pudge and Solomon, Next Week, Tess In The Balcony, Fantasy, The Irish Radio Hour, Coffees of the world and The Web"
Episode 11
Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas/The Bus Boys
Sat, Jan 29, 198390 mins
Sketches include "McKenzie Brothers, Whiners, I'll be the Judge of that, Hitchcock Hygiene, Guy talk, Porta-Dish, Hell Bent For Glory, Rent Ed McMahon, Five Minutes to reflect, The Biological watch, Don't HItch-Hike" Musical numbers were "The Boys are back in town, and New Shoes."
Episode 12
Sid Caesar/Joe Cocker/Jennifer Warnes
Sat, Feb 5, 198390 mins
Sketches include "Funeral in a cab, Whiners, Who do you hate? Hotel, Crime and Self-Punishment, Saturday Night News Extra, A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney." Musical numbers were "Up Where We Belong and Seven Days".
Episode 13
Howard Hesseman/Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Sat, Feb 19, 198390 mins
Sketches include "Sleepy Boy 2000, Gas Station, Mad Magazine Theater, West Heaven, The A-Team, Holiday Inn, My Date with Dion, The Laughing Buddha, The Khaddaffi Look." Musical numbers were "Change of Heart and The Waiting."
Episode 14
Beau and Jeff Bridges/Randy Newman
Sat, Feb 26, 198390 mins
Sketches included "Texxon, Pimple, Rick's Cafe, Cheap Hunt, Battered Husband, Saundra's House of Massage, Guy Crazy." Musical numbers "I Love L.A., and Real Emotional Girl."
Episode 15
Bruce Dern/Leon Redbone
Sat, Mar 12, 198390 mins
Sketches include "Buckwheat Jeans, Donny and Marie St. Patrick's Day Special, Special Report, The Home for Disgusting Practices, The Buckwheat Story, Gumbys, Old Jew Beer, Old Negro Beer, Veggie Burgers, Old Chinaman Beer, Jerry Lewis School of Manners, Songwriters." Musical numbers "Sweet Sue, When you Wish Upon a star, and I ain't got nobody."
Episode 16
Robert Guilaume/Duran Duran
Sat, Mar 19, 198390 mins
Sketches include "Buckwheat Dead, Clysler-Preymouth, Motown Upon the Swanee River, Heil Hits, The Mrs. T Birthday Special, I Married a Monkey, Oil is Us, Pudge and Solomon and Wrong Number." Musical numbers were"Hungry Like The Wolf, Girls on Film."
Episode 17
Joan Rivers/Musical Youth
Sat, Apr 9, 198390 mins
Sketches include "Whiners, The David Susskind Show, The Enquirer, Joan vs. Joan, Oscars, Calvin Klein Jeans, Old Age Home, Club Doolittle, Stand-up, Caribbean Gyno." Musical number "Pass the Dutchie, Never Gonna Give You Up."
Episode 18
Susan Saint James/Michael McDonald
Sat, Apr 16, 198390 mins
Sketches include "The Exercises of Love, Sit on it, Tootsie cosmetics, Texxon, The Ladies Room, Our Generation, Takin' Care of Business, dung in the oval office, killing time, Magic Fish." Musical numbers include "If That's What It Takes, I Can't Let Go Now."
Episode 19
Stevie Wonder
Sat, May 7, 198390 mins
The host and musical guest for this episode is Stevie Wonder. The sequences are: "VD", a Kannon AE-1 photo camera ad (its slogan "so simple, anyone can use it"), Eddie Murphy plays a Stevie Wonder Impersonator, Adolf Hitler writes his own diaries before he takes his own life, a pseudo-biopic of Stevie Wonder, Dion's, Cotton Land and The Hunchback Boy. Wonder performs "Fingertips", "Overjoyed" and "Go Home".
Episode 20
Mayor Ed Koch/Kevin Rowland & Dexy's Midnight Runners
Sat, May 14, 198390 mins
Sketches include "What's the most disgusting thing you've seen in New York?, Mister Robinson's Neighborhood, LEdge, The Enquirer, Bald No More, Whiners, Late Night With David Letterman, Birthday A Go-Go." Musical numbers were "Come On, Eileen, The Celtic Soul Brothers."
