This is the first time only 5 of the Not Ready for Prime Time Players star in an episode. John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd left after the end of the fourth season. However the episode has about a dozen guest comedians, some of which are not credited.
In the David Susskind Show sketch, Jane Curtin's character is named after Saturday Night's associate producer Audrey Peart Dickman.
This is the first episode in which the band is on stage with the cast and thanked by the host at the end of the show--a tradition that lives on to this day.