Sketches include “Pumping Up With Hans & Franz”, “Big Red”, “Sex Tonight”, “Scrooge II”, “Mexican Bandit”, “The Bastard Battalion”, "Buddy Precisely” and “Guardian Angels”. The Bangles perform “In Your Room” and “Hazy Shade of Winter”.

When the Writer’s Guild of America went on strike in March 1988, the Winter Olympics had just finished, both the Republican and Democratic primaries were underway, and Saturday Night Live was in the middle of its 13th season. Despite the anticlimactic finish to the year (Judge Reinhold / 10,000 Maniacs), the show was continuing its resurgence.