Saturday Night Live (season 23) - Episodes

The initial 1996 Olympics bombing suspect Richard Jewell makes a guest appearance, where, in a highly publicized sketch, he punches Janet Reno (played by Will Ferrell) in the gut, with Reno responding, "Same time next week?". Jewell also appeared alongside Norm Macdonald on Weekend Update.

Oasis performs "Don't Go Away" and "Acquiesce."

This episode marked the first appearance of Mango.

Guest appearance by Eric Dickerson.

Chevy Chase and Chris Rock have cameo appearances in the cold opening and monologue.

Chicago news anchor and reporter Bill Kurtis along with George Wendt and Mike Ditka appear in a short film showing the lives of the "Bill Swerski's Superfans" after their run on SNL.

Jane's Addiction performs "Jane Says."

During the monologue, writer and future cast member Tina Fey makes a brief appearance as an audience member.

Metallica performs "Fuel" and "The Memory Remains," the latter of which featured Marianne Faithfull on additional vocals.

Lane's The Lion King co-star, Ernie Sabella, makes a cameo appearance during the monologue, in which both sing a few bars of "Hakuna Matata."

Hunt's As Good as It Gets co-star Jack Nicholson makes a cameo appearance during the monologue and in a "Roxbury Guys" sketch.

Todd Hundley, Scott Rolen, Mark Wohlers, Marty Cordova, Jeff Fassero, Gregg Jefferies, Mark Grudzielanek, Rondell White, Todd Zeile, Russ Davis, Cliff Floyd, David Howard, Mike Sweeney and Gerald Williams make an appearance in one sketch.

This episode features Norm Macdonald's last appearance as Weekend Update anchor.

Ben Folds Five performs "Brick."

During the "Tiger Beat's Ultra Super Duper Dreamy Love Show" sketch, Norm Macdonald's fake mustache comes loose and begins to fall off. In response, he ad-libs "This is not a real mustache" and removes it completely. He continues to ad-lib about buying it off a man on the street.

Dan Aykroyd cameos in this episode, reprising two of his popular recurring characters, Elwood Blues from The Blues Brothers (during the monologue) and Irwin Mainway from "Consumer Probe" (in the Judge Judy sketch). He also impersonates Bob Dole in the cold opening. Aykroyd performs "Lookin' For a Fox."

Robert Duvall makes a guest appearance in two sketches, one of which is the game show parody "Who's More Grizzled?" where he tells the game show host (played by Norm Macdonald) that he doesn't like him. In a bit of an in-joke, Norm replies, "Yeah, I get that a lot."

In the cold open, writer and future cast member Tina Fey appears as Kathleen Willey on Larry King Live.

Norm Macdonald makes his final appearance as a cast member in this episode.

This episode features a number of guest appearances including writer Tina Fey, John Hurt, Didi Conn, Lewis H. Lapham, and Natasha Henstridge.

Jason Alexander, Whoopi Goldberg, Gilbert Gottfried, and Molly Ringwald lend their voices in the animated TV Funhouse segment.

Guest appearance by Bob Hoskins.

Saturday TV Funhouse "Fun with Real Audio" cartoon – about Tom Snyder being obsessed with Dolly Parton – was written by Robert Smigel, Smigel's wife, Michelle, and Stephen Colbert.

Tenacious D appears as a special guest.

Guest appearance by John Goodman.

Jim Breuer's final episode as a cast member.