During the "Flogging" sketch, Paul Shaffer accidentally says "fucking" instead of "flogging" making him the first person to say the word on the show. But the censors did not catch it and the word remained in the reruns.
Carrie Fisher, who was in a relationship with Paul Simon at the time, can be spotted as an extra (with no lines) in The Biggest Leprechaun sketch.
This was the 100th episode of the regular series.
The medieval band sketch is a spoof of the infamous "Troggs Tapes," a bootleg recording made of the band The Troggs during a studio session in which lead singer Reg Presley kept cursing at drummer Ronnie Bond for not being able to play at the timing he wanted.
Mobil Oil's public relations chief Herb Schmerz took offense to Ralph Nader's Weekend Update commentary and demanded equal time to respond. But he declined a rebuttal written by SNL's writers.