Sketches include “Seduction”, “McDonnell-Rand”, “The Five Beatles”, “Cooking With Monkey”, “Nude Beach”, “The Thumper Family”, “Learning To Feel”, “Laurie Has A Story”, “Hollywood Salute”, and “Baby”. The Sugarcubes perform “Birthday” and “Motorcrash”.

Sketches include “Pumping Up With Hans & Franz”, “First Citywide Change Bank I”, “ABC Campaign 88”, “Mr. Short Term Memory”, “Girl Watchers”, “Jew, Not A Jew”, “Big” and “The Pat Stevens Show”. Keith Richards performs “Take It So Hard” and “Struggle”.

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.