'Wasn't That Special' Season Three Clips Package

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Here are some of the materials we discuss throughout the Season Three episode:

The Festrunk Brothers - “Computer Dates”

Steve Martin: “King Tut”

Theodoric of York

The Olympia Restaurant

The Nerds: Prom

“Sex in Cinema” with Hugh Hefner

Coneheads Family Feud

When Chevy Chase returned to host, he and Bill Murray famously fought behind the scenes, just as Chase was about to go on and do the monologue. Chase discussed it with Howard Stern in 2008:

Lorne Michaels described the fight on the Fly on the Wall podcast:

Aykroyd and Martin revived the Festrunk characters a decade ago on a “Dating Game”-type sketch:

Dan Aykroyd discusses the Blues Brothers with Dan Rather:

Paul Shaeffer discusses the advent of the Blues Brothers and how he got to SNL:

Buck Henry discusses John Belushi’s Samurai sketches:

Actress Emma Stone does her Roseanne Roseannadanna impersonation on the SNL 40th Anniversary Special:

In 1984, columnist Bob Greene caught up with Miskel Spillman, the 81-year-old winner of the “Anyone Can Host SNL” contest:

In 1978, Rolling Stone’s Kurt Loder wrote about Chicago’s Billy Goat Tavern, the inspiration for the Olympia Restaurant sketches:

1978 was the “year of the catchphrase” on television: