Saturday Night Live · season 2, episode 34 · Saturday, December 11, 1976 Host: Candice Bergen (3rd time). Musical guest: Frank Zappa with Don Pardo as "The Slime". • Frank Zappa performs "I'm the Slime" (with Don Pardo), "The Purple Lagoon" (with John Belushi in character as Samurai Futaba who carries out a call and response with Frank Zappa's band), and "Peaches en Regalia". He also appeared in "The Killer Trees" sketch. • First appearance of Irwin Mainway. • During the "Right to Extreme Stupidity" sketch, Candice Bergen slips up and addresses Gilda Radner's character as Fern, which is actually the name of Bergen's character. While Bergen is reduced to spontaneous laughter, Radner responds by inverting the sketch's premise ("We can't all be brainy like Fern here!"). • Candice Bergen and the cast perform "Let's Kill Gary Gilmore for Christmas". • The show ends with Candice Bergen ad-libbing a closing and the cast ice skating around Rockefeller Plaza. • Truman Capote was originally set to host this episode but had to bow out due to illness. Wiki link