Set the TiVo! (Well, Maybe…)

Overnight this weekend (late Saturday night, early Sunday morn), NBC is rerunning a Saturday Night Live from November 9, 1985 hosted by Madonna, with musical guests Simple Minds. This was the season where the cast included Randy Quaid, Joan Cusack, Anthony Michael Hall, Jon Lovitz, Dennis Miller and others, and I don't recall this episode as being that wonderful. The highlight was probably the water tank card trick by special guests Penn and Teller.

Also, next week, the E! Channel's SNL reruns include the 1992 episode hosted by Nicolas Cage. This is the one that includes the sketch I mentioned here wherein Mr. Cage, who just named his kid Kal-El, plays an expectant father rejecting proposed baby names because they'll cause his kid to get beaten up. It runs Tuesday night at either 10 PM or 1 AM depending on what time zone you're in.