Saturday Night Live (season 15)

• A special celebrating the 15th anniversary of the show. A long list of cast members, guest hosts and other special people stop by to honor the show's anniversary
• Prince^[1] and Paul Simon perform. Musical vintage clips include memorable performances from David Bowie and Elvis Costello.^[1]
• John Belushi and Gilda Radner received a tribute in the special.

• Young performed "Rockin' in the Free World," "The Needle and the Damage Done" and "No More."

• Marked the first appearance of Myers' "Lothar of The Hill People" sketch.

• John Goodman's first of thirteen appearances as host of the show.

Aaron Neville

• A sketch titled "Attack of the Masturbating Zombies", written by Conan O'Brien, led to advertisers pulling out of the show. The sketch itself was barred from being rerun on NBC, Comedy Central, and E! airings.

• Chapman performs "Give Me One Reason," which wouldn't be released until 1995.

• Maury Povich cameos during the monologue
• Ed O'Neill is the first cast member from a FOX TV show (Married...With Children) to host SNL.
• According to IMDb, Kirsten Dunst appeared in this episode as the girl in the Bizilady commercial.

Andrae Crouch

Sandra Crouch

Kool Moe Dee

Big Daddy Kane

Melle Mel

Quincy D III

Siedah Garrett

Al Jarreau

Take 6

• This broadcast has ten musical guests, far and away an SNL record (though most of them were uncredited).
• Much like Jack Burns, episode host Quincy Jones went on to produce the FOX sketch show MADtv in 1995, which, like Fridays, has been compared favorably (and unfavorably) to SNL.
• Some reruns of this episode include a sketch where Quincy Jones and Phil Hartman play a psychiatrist and a patient respectively who speak-sing about their problems.
• Quincy Jones' monologue for this episode consisted of a performance of Dizzy Gillespie's "Manteca" by an expanded SNL Band. Jones bluffed an introduction that it was a tune he wrote to celebrate the release of Nelson Mandela from prison.

• Aerosmith played themselves on the popular sketch "Wayne's World," in which they perform the theme song. Tom Hanks plays their roadie.

• Fred Savage is the first host to have been born after SNL premiered on television.
• Neil Patrick Harris (back when he was on Doogie Howser, MD) was originally scheduled to host, but was dropped in favor of Savage. Harris makes light of this fact when he hosted in 2009 (season 34).

• The B-52's performed "Cosmic Thing" and "Channel Z."
• David Spade and Rob Schneider first credits as writers.
• This episode featured David Spade's first appearance, as an extra. This season was his first as a writer, and he would not become a cast member until the next season.

Julee Cruise

• Sinéad O'Connor was originally scheduled as the musical guest, but pulled out in protest against the controversial host, Andrew Dice Clay. O'Connor subsequently appeared at the beginning of Season 16.
• SNL castmember Nora Dunn would also protest and did not appear in the episode due to Clay's profane jokes about women.
• The musical segment featuring the Spanic Boys is not shown in syndication.
• Rob Schneider makes his first appearance in a minor role.

• This is Nora Dunn and Jon Lovitz's final episode as cast members.