Executive producer Dick Ebersol was disappointed with this episode and held a meeting with the cast to discuss their performance. Michael O'Donoghue barged into the meeting uninvited to yell at the cast. He was fired a month later.
Seth Green revealed in Tell The Truth Or Eat The Nasty Food (ft. Seth Green) (2022) that he considered meeting Bill Murray the rudest celebrity interaction he'd ever had. According to Green, Murray told Green to get out of "his" (Murray's) chair. Green, who was sitting on the arm of a large empty sofa, refused. Irritated, Murray picked Green up by the ankles and dropped him in a nearby trash can. Eddie Murphy and Tim Kazurinsky later had to coax a distraught Green out from his dressing room in order to go on with the show.
During SNL Newsbreak, Eddie Murphy plays both a young version of Muhammad Ali (recorded earlier) and an older version (performed live), the second version while wearing extensive makeup. In the sketch that followed Newsbreak, "Designer Fairy Tales", Murphy played a male model, but the makeup people were unable to remove all of his prosthetics in time, and he is visible uncomfortable about the way he appears.
For the sketch "At Home with the Psychos", writer Michael O'Donoghue had the prop department design a prop that was supposed to be a "blow hole". But NBC's Standards & Practices refused to allow it on because the prop looked like a vagina.