Saturday Night Live Season 7 Episode 4

Dick Ebersol prohibited several gross-out pieces Michael O'Donoghue had commissioned, among them: "Grand Guignol White House," in which the Reagan family cannibalized Jane Fonda after hacking her to pieces; Pleasence playing an aging sophisticate dining with an attractive young woman (Ebersole), who, unbeknownst to her, is draining blood out of her arm and filling it into their wine bottle; and a Nazi death camp commander's alleged "excuse" for slaughtering Jews. Despite the omissions, this episode is generally considered to have some of the darkest humor in the show's history.

One other sketch that was originally written for the show was the Michael O'Donoghue penned "Silverman in the Bunker" sketch, a short film treating Fred Silverman's final days as NBC President a la Adolf Hitler. The sketch was pulled after Silverman threatened to sue. O'Donoghue complained to the press about the film being cut, which he said featured his most brilliant writing, which in turn led to his firing from the show two months later.