When NBC syndicated this episode, part of the telephone numbers used in the opening radio station sketch were bleeped out even though they all had the 555 prefix and therefore were not valid phone numbers.
Gilda Radner's character, Candy Slice (who performed the song "Gimmie Mick"), was a parody of rock singer Patti Smith.
Dan Aykroyd played Rod Serling in the sketch parodying The Twilight Zone (1959). He later played the Passenger and the Ambulance Driver in Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983).