December 13, 1986 Season 12 episode
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| Episode | 220 |
| Season Episode | 7 |
| Host | Steve Guttenberg |
| Musical Guest(s) | The Pretenders |
| Song(s) performed by Musical Guest(s) |
"Don't Get Me Wrong" "How Much Did You Get for Your Soul?" |
| Previous Episode December 6, 1986 |
Next Episode December 20, 1986 |
The 7th episode of Season 12 and the 220th episode of Saturday Night Live, hosted by actor Steve Guttenberg, star of the four Police Academy franchise, as well as the hit films Cocoon, Three Men and a Baby and its sequel Three Men and a Little Lady, Diner, The Bedroom Window, The Big Green, and Short Circuit, with musical guest The Pretenders. Buster Poindexter sits in with the Saturday Night Live Band. Special guest appearance by Penn & Teller. It premiered on December 13, 1986.
This is the first time The Pretenders are the musical guests on SNL, and this is also the only time hosting for Steve Guttenberg.
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Cold Open Sketch Pre-recorded Weekend Update Music Performance Other
| Title | Image | Summary |
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| Iranian National Assembly | Mr. Rafsan-Jani (Jon Lovitz) testifies about his part in the arms-for-hostages deal to a committee of mullahs trying to get to the bottom of Infidelscam. | |
| Opening Montage | ||
| Monologue by Steven Guttenberg | Despite his success as an actor, Steve Guttenberg still wasn’t cool at his high school reunion, so he makes up for it by playing “War” on sousaphone with the SNL Band. | |
| McSooshi | Fast food employees and customers hand-jive to celebrate the Japanese delicacy’s arrival. | |
| Derek Stevens | A marketing expert (Kevin Nealon) advises Derek Stevens (Dana Carvey) that death is the best thing he can do to boost his flagging sales. | |
| Blind Man | A gay man (Steve Guttenberg) repeatedly tries to fool a blind man (Jon Lovitz) into sleeping with him. | |
| The Pretenders performs "Don't Ge Me Wrong" | ||
| Sideshow of the Stars | ||
| Weekend Update with Dennis Miller | Dennis Miller has another decent run of jokes tonight (loved his comment about Geraldo Rivera being to journalism what Lt. William Calley was to thatched huts); he also gets a fun little segment about taking a cardboard cutout of himself to Washington. Nora Dunn’s sex kitten character Babette returns for the first time this season to talk about how the United States can repair relations with France. Dunn is good as usual, but this seems too similar to the commentary she did back in April. | |
| Movie Talk | Don (Phil Hartman) and Marge (Jan Hooks) try to impress their daughter’s (Victoria Jackson) date Steve Guttenberg with their movie knowledge. | |
| Guest Performance: Penn & Teller | Penn & Teller perform The World’s Most Expensive Card Trick using computers and the Spectacolor screen in Times Square. | |
| The Back Page | A 1930s newsroom devotes itself to the more mundane stories of the day. | |
| The Pretenders performs "How Much Did You Get for Your Soul?" | Marge (Jan Hooks) remembers who she was trying to talk about with Steve earlier and he introduces The Pretenders' second performance. | |
| Casting Director | Auditioning actress (Victoria Jackson) misinterprets a casting director’s (Kevin Nealon) body language as he talks on the phone. | |
| Bob Roberts | Reactionary folk singer (Tim Robbins) is the voice of the conservative 80’s generation. | |
| Al-Anon | Father’s (Phil Hartman) over-the-top holiday enthusiasm could be a sign of something other than Christmas spirit. | |
| Buster Pointdexter and Chrissie Hynde performs "Rockin' Good Way" with G.E. Smith and the Saturday Night Live Band | Buster Poindexter and Chrissie Hynde duet on a playful cover of the Brook Benton / Dinah Washington hit; Hynde seems to be having a lot of fun here. | |
| Goodnights | Steve Guttenberg thanks America for watching and says this week has been “a joy and a real treat”. Teller dances with Victoria Jackson, Jan Hooks dances with Buster Poindexter, and Nora Dunn dances with A. Whitney Brown. |
| Preceded by: December 6, 1986 |
Saturday Night Live episode | Followed by: December 20, 1986 |