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Season 3 » Episode #08 - Mrs. Miskel Spillman/Elvis Costello and the Attractions

Saturday Night Live - 03x08 Mrs. Miskel Spillman/Elvis Costello and the Attractions

Summary: Live From New York, It's...John Belushi Sketches include ""America's Oldest Living Doper," "Meat Wagon Toy Ambulance," "Dating the Self-Conscious & Extremely Obnoxious," "Gift of the Magi," "Starsky and Hutch," "The Al Franken and Tom Davis Show," "E. Buzz Miller's Art Classics," "College Students Home For Christmas," "Drunken Santa," "Madame Butterfly"

Who appeared in this episode?

Guest Stars:

Various	played by Miskel Spillman
Herself - Host	played by Miskel Spillman
Himself - Musical Guest	played by Elvis Costello
Himself	played by Al Franken
Himself	played by Tom Davis
Mr. Mike	played by Michael O'Donoghue
Weekend Update Anchor	played by Dan Aykroyd
Various	played by John Belushi

Episode Quotes

Weekend Update Anchor: I'm Dan Aykroyd and I eat, sleep and snort news, if you catch my drift.
Weekend Update Anchor: And I'm Jane Curtin, and I catch your drift, Dan.

Laraine Newman: Well, I think it's really exciting to have an 80-year-old grandmother host the show.
John Belushi: What if she forgets her lines?
Laraine Newman: Don't worry, she won't. You know, you should be this together when you're 80 as Mrs. Spillman is.
John Belushi: Don't worry, I'll probably be dead by 30.

Himself - Musical Guest: [to band] Hold it! Hold it! Hold it!

Himself - Musical Guest: [to audience] I'm terribly sorry. There's no reason to play this song here. Ready? One, two, three, four!

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Trivia

In the sketch before the opening, Laraine Newman says to John Belushi that she bets he won't be as together when he is 80 as is the contestant host grandmother Miskel Spillman. Belushi replies, "Don't worry, I'll be dead by 30." He was only off by three years.
Elvis Costello's drummer, Pete Thomas, wears a shirt saying "Thanks Malc", during their performance. This is a reference to the Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren, who got them to fill in for the absent Sex Pistols.
Elvis Costello was told he couldn't perform his song "Radio, Radio" on the show because his record company wanted him to perform a different song off his new album. However, as he performed the beginning of his song "Less Than Zero", he stopped after a few bars and immediately launched into the supposedly banned song.
Miskel Spillman was an elderly housewife who entered the "Anyone Can Host" contest in which a viewer would be allowed to host the show. She was one of five finalists chosen by the producers. The viewers were invited to vote for the winner. Mrs. Spillman won by a wide margin.
The Sex Pistols were scheduled to appear as the musical guest but had to cancel due to visa problems. They were replaced at the last minute by Elvis Costello.