October 30, 1976, John Belushi accidentally gashed Buck Henry on the forehead with a sword during one of his samurai sketches ("Samurai Stockbroker"). Henry had to wear a bandage for the remainder of the show. The rest of the cast also wore bandages on their foreheads for the rest of the show, as a running gag.
On November 9, 1985, magicians Penn & Teller appeared on the show, performing their infamous Water Tank Trick for the first time. Unknown to anybody at the time of the act, Teller's mechanism had failed, leaving him locked under water for over ten minutes with an almost fatally low air supply. It wasn't until after Marc Garland unlocked the tank that anyone knew that anything had gone wrong.
When Gwyneth Paltrow hosted in 2001, a TV Funhouse cartoon featuring Michael Jackson was aired. The cartoon featured numerous comical attempts by Jackson to come in contact with young boys. It was only shown on the East Coast, while on the West Coast, a cartoon featuring Pat Robertson hosting the 700 Club and showing a fake cartoon called Harry the Embryonic Cell. The reason for the substitution was not announced, but the Michael Jackson cartoon can be seen on the Internet, while most SNL fan sites have no trace of the Pat Robertson cartoon.
