The host for the episode is Eric Idle (his third appearance), and the musical guest is Kate Bush. The skits for this episode are as follows: The telepsychic takes questions from callers about the future, giving each one the same answer. Julia Child demonstrates how to prepare a roast chicken and proceeds to slice her hand open and bleed to death in the studio. A game show host explains the convoluted rules of the show using sound effects. During the Weekend Update, Jane Curtain reports on serial killers, Christmas shopping and the Nobel Peace Prize, Bill Murray interviews Valerie Harper who claims her show was canceled because of anti-Semitism, after which Jane proposes a grass-roots movement to build support for ERA by withholding oral sex. Father Guido Sarducci relates his experiences at a nude wrestling club. A studio manager is waiting for a drugged-out punk rocker to show up for a recording while her handlers try to keep everyone patient and high. Joan Face interviews Irwin Mainway regarding the shoddy and dangerous products his company makes. Apache chief Cochise attends a rhetoric class at Oxford where he gets frustrated with the inanity of the professor's lecture. Kate Bush performs 'The Man With The Child In His Eyes' and 'Them Heavy People'.
The film was shot entirely on location in the New York/New Jersey area at the request of star Susan Sarandon due to her well-known and publicized policy of filming projects close to home during the school year in order to be close to her children and not to disrupt their routine.
Jake:
You're gonna move over, and you're gonna steer the fuckin' car!
Charlotte:
Okay.
Jake:
Look, I'm not one of your kids, lady, so don't try and lecture me.
Charlotte:
[interrupting] Oh, I haven't got any kids.
Jake:
What? You said that...
Charlotte:
Well I lied. After my miscarriage I couldn't have any.
[beat]
Charlotte:
I lie to myself sometimes. I pretend I have kids. I pretend what they would be like...
[beat]
Charlotte:
I've never told that to anyone before.
Jake:
I didn't mean any of those things I said.
Charlotte:
I know.
Jake:
So c'mere.
Charlotte:
Why should I?
Jake:
Cause I wanna dance.
[they kiss]
Charlotte:
[they move onto the double bed. Charlotte reaches down between her and Jake. She pulls out the gun that was in Jake's pocket. Sighs] Ok.