ABBA lip-synced "Waterloo". During their performance, subtitles appear onscreen saying: "Right now Abba is lip syncing ... it's not their fault ... the tracks didn't arrive from Sweden." Lorne Michaels did not want them on the show but NBC executive Dick Ebersol insisted.
John Belushi proposed the Sam Peckinpah sketch for Candice Bergen/Esther Phillips (1975) one week earlier, but it was delayed.
The original broadcast date of this episode was musical guest Anni-Frid Lyngstad's thirtieth birthday.