In her memoir, "My Mother Was Nuts", Penny Marshall, who was in a relationship with Rob Reiner at the time but had not had her big break on Laverne & Shirley (1976) recounts that Lorne Michaels wanted her to co-host with Reiner but she didn't understand why he wanted to include her.
The original broadcast of this show ran long and has no good nights segment. When the show was rerun in 1978, a credit scroll ran over a montage of the bumpers used in the show right after the Bees sketch
First ever SNL impersonation parody ever - Lynette Alice "Squeaky" Fromme (member of Manson family), played by Laraine Newman in this episode.
Denny Dillon and her comedy partner Mark Hampton make a guest appearance five years before Dillon becomes a regular.
Contrary to popular belief, Joe Cocker does not appear in this episode. John Belushi does a dead-on impersonation of the British singer performing the Beatles' "With a Little Help from My Friends". The real Joe Cocker instead, would appear as musical guest on Eric Idle/Joe Cocker/Stuff (1976) (the host was Eric Idle), making a duet with his impersonator Belushi while singing "Feeling Alright", and on Sid Caesar/Joe Cocker/Jennifer Warnes (1983) (the host was Sid Caesar).